Notices by Thommy (thomasjwebb@mastodon.social)

@fesshole lol plenty of atheists like religious music. There are also Christians, Jews and Muslims who like Satanic black metal.

@cwebber do you have a writeup expanding on “datacenters are an anti-pattern” because this is 100% how I feel. I’m not fighting over AI. I’m still fighting over the cloud. Society has badly fumbled the fact that everyone has incredible computing power in their pocket. We’ve already been wasting electricity on idle servers and inefficient high level code. I’ve been - and am - part of the problem, moving functionality to the cloud for business reasons I hate.

RE: https://autistics.life/@SecondUniverse/116511688888639653

This perfectly illustrates the bad calculus in NHS's paternalism. They would rather a thousand women regret having children if that prevents one from regretting being sterilized. The same lopsided logic behind their disproportionate "concerns" about detransition causing them to torment trans residents of UK.

lgbt domains are expensive. So I'm going to get rid of these:

genderqueer.lgbt
genderfluid.lgbt

If anyone on the fediverse who seems reputable to me, I'll sell it at huge discount or even free, depending on what you will doing with it. The only catch is your registrar will probably charge you a lot to renew it. I'm trying to save up money for laser hair removal and part of that is cutting needless expenses like this.

@gabrielesvelto I think it also just speaks ill of the craft of coding. Most code is trash and end users are unaware of how bad it really is (they just know that everything is unreliable but not the specific why). So it's frankly easier to replace most coders. If the code is going to be shitty anyway, might as well be shitty and fast. With art, it's at least always directly scrutinized by consumers.

@futurebird @aaron.rupar I honestly think part of this is almost a defense mechanism. These commentators are knee-deep in all the reasons to panic, and they just don't want to be in that mental state, so they imagine that Trump, however much they hate him, knows what he's doing.

@cwebber It's pretty simple. If it's like a compiler, then why do you check in the output? And with all the work put into making compilers more efficient (not just making the *output* more efficient), why does it take so long and require an internet connection?

@dalias imagine if someone working for a company did this but to proprietary code. My worry from the jump has been that it becomes a murky area where we have expansive definition of fair use for me (big corp.), narrow definition for thee (oss dev).

@dansup I'm also finding that UI is one of the areas where LLMs seem to work well, but then again it's also an area where no code tools can simply do the work for you. I think the explosion in vibe coding among non-devs kinda signifies that we devs dropped the ball in terms of making things accessible through simpler means. The general public shouldn't have to pay Anthropic to make a website for them. It should be as easy and free as Geocities was.

@gamingonlinux this is the way AI features for end-users should be, optional and on-device (or you specify the provider if not, for the chat panel).

@fesshole kinda relatable

The tech industry is full of stupid CEOs who were once brilliant programmers. It's very much an office nerd culture thing to think that "the wrong people are in charge" and to not understand that it's power itself that makes competence impossible.

One of the tangential things mentioned in Graeber and Wengrow's Dawn of Everything that stuck with me was the mention that it's common throughout time and space for people to not necessarily like their own family and to form other identities unrelated to blood relation, sometimes spanning entire continents. Found family isn't a new thing and neither is having complex, overlapping identities. Something to keep in mind if you're guilted by "tradition" into spending time with family you don't like.

@xenotar I love how in the end, neither of the parents who fought for custody got to have him in a sense.

Italy also has interesting rules for last names. Apparently they have a streamlined way for men at least to go by their mother's last name. My great-grandfather didn't formally do that, but at some point after moving to the US, he decided to use his mother's last name without undergoing any legal name change process.

@dalias @carnage4life it's no accident that one of the scariest social medias is nextdoor.

@fesshole I'm sure he ate mujadara.

@inthehands this is very much my reasoning for why I don't fully buy that cis het people exist. I mean practically speaking they do and they're the majority, but the ideals might not actually describe anyone.

I think even if you were to try clustering things, it would be multiple clusters, not one big cluster around the means of all the parameters.

Adjustable seats is a great metaphor for freedom in general. You can't paternalistically design society for everyone even if you wanted to.

@JessTheUnstill yeah I totally agree with this. I liked the old school philosophy of making sure that your oss package can `./configure && make` on any OS ever, but the dockerization of everything has resulted in devs getting lazy about this. It's even reduced the amount of help I'm able to find when googling when something doesn't work. What really sucks is when a server project's official recommendation is to just run their official docker (especially when I'm trying to run in a freebsd jail).

@skinnylatte oftentimes their prices are ridiculous but Brooklyn Film Camera perhaps

@fesshole I would totally tell my wife if I noticed that because I'm weird.