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@technomancy I swear one day I'll shake this bad habit.

Why do I even go to the orange website

Thinking of my relationship with #debian and #Emacs:

I actually started using Debian because I thought it was the only way to use Emacs because I thought it was the only way to use \(\LaTeX\) to write my math homework.

That was quite the freshman joke that my upperclassmen played on me at the math department: giving me a lifelong Debian addiction.

@katnjiapus @puniko @TicklishHoneyBee @matrixsasuke Y'all are lovely and I enjoy the mews, but why am I getting pinged by this thread?

I do not envy the #Godot devs right now.

I used to be heavily invested in GNU #Octave, a free #Matlab replacement. That was a bit of a more ambitious goal, because Godot isn't trying to be exactly like Unity, but Octave is trying to be exactly like Matlab. The overall problem, however, is similar.

It's a difficult, mostly thankless task. Users don't care what it takes to make it look exactly like what it's supposed to be replacing. Photoshop users going to the GNU IMP, Matlab users going to Octave, Maya users going to Blender, Chrome users going to Firefox... they all want the same thing: basically the same software, but without the fees, restrictions, or anti-user misfeatures. It is extremely draining to continuously disappoint people who aren't getting exactly the same software but without paying for it.

A few users will offer donations, but never enough to rival the budget of the software they're fleeing from. Nowadays there's better infrastructure to collect from these benevolent donors and get a steady income than when I was working on Octave. This offers some hope.

All this to say: if you're migrating to better, less enshittified software, donate if you can. If you cannot, then at least try to be kind and considerate of the smaller, more grassroots organisation and individuals that are trying to give you a comparable experience with no strings attached. :)

Okay, I guess everyone is telling me to do the sensible thing, but I'm super-nervous about the company at the last stage and I really want that job. I'm bracing myself for the likely event of a rejection (because almost all interview processes end in a rejection), but I think I'll feel worse about the rejection if I don't feel like I did everything I could to get that job.

Soviet mathematicians Sobolev, Lyapunov and Kitov on "cybernetics", what today we are mostly calling "AI", "ML", or "data science":

> Foreign reactionary philosophers and writers strive to use cybernetics, like any new scientific field, in their class interests. By intensively advertising and often exaggerating the statements of individual cybernetic scientists concerning the achievements and prospects of the development of automation, reactionary journalists and writers carry out a direct order from the capitalists to inspire ordinary people to consider their own inferiority, about the possibility of replacing ordinary workers with mechanical robots and thus they seek to reduce the activity of the working masses in the fight against capitalist exploitation.

> We must resolutely expose this manifestation of a hostile ideology. Automation in a socialist society serves to facilitate and increase human productivity.

- The Main Features of Cybernetics, 1955

I am so tempted to do this at my next interview.

I can't believe that Rust has made xkcd 303 relevant for me again.

So that's a no for working at Spotify, then.

#JobSeeking #Spotify #Canada

#CRT gang

@technomancy I've got some self-compiled packages that might break, also, maybe some games downloaded from GOG/itchio.

Okay, I put it off long enough (and thank god I have the option to put it off).

It is time to upgrade #Debian.

Let's see...

https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/

I'm amused someone's bothered to add a Wiktionary entry for it.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification

I'm also amused that people are going from Reddit to Discord. Both are currently undergoing this process.

Alright, let me see, is there already a #lemmy instance I like, or do I start my own?

I've repaired my dishwasher so much that I am thinking I should probably already christen it with a nice name.

Like Old Rupert or something.

I'm waiting to receive like four NES items in the mail and the excitement to see which one gets first is reminding me of being a kid looking forward to Christmas.

Physical media gives me a silly sense of anticipation and joy.

So I just learned that people on #Bluesky are calling their toots "skeets", and you guys thought "toot" was an uncomfortable word?

Aw crap we're getting quote toots? How?

Aeris's name is Aeris, and Aerith is a dumb nonsensical interlingual retcon. Asking mostly monolingual Japanese speakers which homophone-to-them spelling to use is like asking mostly monolingual English speakers what kanji to use to spell a name.

Aeris sounds cooler, Aerith sounds lispy.

You cannot change my mind.

OMG, wifi-enabled NES cartridge, I WANT!

It's a smash-like battle game on the NES that has extra hardware to GO ONLINE??

#NES #NESdev #SuperTiltBro

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brokestudio/super-tilt-bro-new-online-nes-game