Notices by Eaton (eaton@phire.place), page 5

@kouhai @ireneista @megmac I was just thinking that — the image is flashy but the summary can be really valuable

@yvonnezlam …that is… amazing? Horrifying? On brand? All of the above

@sillyCoelophysis obviously the solution is to deprecate compassion

@ireneista Ahhh, that's a good point RE chats/discords etc where the "footprint" of previews is more disruptive. At least on slack, IIRC users have the option to collapse rather than expand link previews, but it can also be configured on an instance label

“By adopting and murdering children every week, a sufficiently lazy employee could create an infinite vacation machine” is the most amazing synthesis of HR bullshit and First Principles Engineering Brain I have ever witnessed. No notes.

Source: https://stallman-report.org/

@exchgr True, mostly I was just thinking about that "payoff in tax cuts/weak labor/etc" as a kind of extractive goal, which looks like a payoff unless you care about the long term stability of the system (aka cultivation)

"easier" if you ignore the actual health of the system, etc

@ireneista …And 3) it allows any others who share the link to 'inherit' the useful middle-ground from 2).

@ireneista My view is that this provide-metadata approach to promotion is the best possible approach.

1) It doesn't demand that anyone consume (since most clients allow hiding/controlling display of said metadata)
2) If done meaningfully, it provides the potentially-interested with a middle ground of information (‘i wrote a thing' versus 'here is a taste of this thing' versus 'read this whole thing’) that is helpful when making decisions about what to spend time digesting

@exchgr Turns out, extraction is much easier than cultivation

@mb21 What's there right now is a thing slice of the stuff that matched a single topical tag in the big combined repository of text + work artifacts I'm pulling together. I COULD just blog, but why blog when I could over-architect

@mb21 Right *now* I don't, but terrifyingly the site as it currently stands is just a light skeleton of the ~15k+ pages and permutations I'll probably have up eventually, lol.

@simon For all the amazing power of the underlying semantic pattern engines underneath LLMs, it feels like people are absolutely determined to treat them as something much, much deeper. The end result is, like, doing your taxes with a combination of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies cards and help from a cold-reading psychic

@mb21 oh man, my templates are a friggin’ mess, I’ll get that fixed, thank you! Lol

@mcc @xgranade @jalefkowit @glyph YESSSSS hypertalk

Okay, anyone else watching Carol At The End Of The World? I’ve got some FEELINGS.

@mcc @jalefkowit @karenmcgrane lol

Years back I did a talk titled "easy beats open," talking about the way devs (myself included) tend to assume that “insufficient hackability" is the barrier keeping everyone from doing amazing things.

@jalefkowit Exactly. “If it's easy to build X with Y, but someone only wants X, you need to rethink your case for Y”

@mcc @jalefkowit DO NOT GET ME STARTED I am literally going to be doing a keynote talk with @karenmcgrane about the problems that component/block page building leaves on users' doorsteps, which is not quite related but GRRRAR etc http://eaton.fyi/talks/buried-in-blocks/

I think one of the bits that's often overlooked is how important CPanel's early inclusion of WordPress was, at a time when almost every cheap shared hosting account was “Here, have a CPanel login”