Notices by mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)

Some part of the global sentiment around the United States has to do with the fact that Americans are now enjoying the same grade of government they’ve forced on plenty of other countries whose democratically elected leadership was inconvenient to their preferred economic hegemonies.

What is fascism, if not imperialism turned inwards? If democracy abroad is so inconvenient to your economy that it needs to be undermined, sabotaged or destroyed, how much do you really need it at home?

100 billion dollars. End-world-hunger-five-times-over money, on whatever you want to call this.

https://aftermath.site/meta-horizons-sucks-so-much-shit-we-could-wipe-out-medical-debt-for-100-billion

“Cache hits” as in whatever is the most popular thing in the cache at any moment, here it is. Tune in tonight for the biggest retro computing cache hits of the 90s, here’s a DWORD straight from the SunOS 4.2 libc syscall top ten, coming to you live from KPSR. [glitchcore noises start]

Redoing tile grout and silicone sealant around the house while also trying to solve computer problems has let me to the conclusion that sand belongs only on beaches. That is its home. Putting it anywhere else - floors, bathtubs, calculation machines, underpants, anywhere - was all a mistake. The sand should be free and uncontained. Sandboxes are a sin in any context.

The blast radius of a toxic contributor in an open source project is mostly invisible.

If you're a community leader you need to understand that for every prominent developer loudly driven out there were hundreds, maybe thousands of people who could have done great work, who could have been your next generation, looking at how your people treat people, at the bar your community has set for decency or dignity, silently taking their talents elsewhere, that you didn't see.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/113997316251666553

@cwebber I hunger.

"So much for the tolerant left."

I remember when people would tell me, you have to buy software from the large software companies or it will probably break and be terrible.

Today, it’s like, Google property? Microsoft invested? V.v.sus. The software lives in a self-hosted machine named for a pun on some obscure kink, the developer is a furry, the logo is two furries, it’s gpl’ed and if you do five minutes of due diligence you’re going to see all of their politics and most of their butt? I will trust this software with my life.

I believe that an under-appreciated barrier to getting people onto Linux is that every Linux installer I'm aware of is 100% destructive.

Installers never let you save anything. The question never comes up. Everything you had on that laptop, pictures, documents, bookmarks, all of it is permanently, unrecoverably gone.

And I suspect the mindset around the FOSSY willingness to do this - to pave it flat and start over - is also a barrier to fedi adoption.

You get the sense that even that one dude from McKinsey they keep chained up in the basement is running out of steam.

I've seen @are0h talk about working to build a safer Fediverse but somehow (to my embarassment) not seen the gofundme link until today.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-social-media

I'm going to kick in a few bucks momentarily, and I hope you'll join me. Collective safety and mutualist community protection are the future we want, and we can have that future if we support the people building it.

0:00 - "...today we're talking about Hype, specifically a myth we've heard that the feature will be pay-to-play."

[30 seconds pass]

0:35 - "we're currently testing the option to pay to Hype videos in some locales on Android devices. Viewers who use this option can give even more points to a single video giving it a better chance to make it onto the leaderboard."

Don't worry, poor people! You can have three free clicks per week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OssXl1Qr3I

TIL that if you double park in (I think) Istanbul, they roll up a truck that cantilevers your car onto it's back and takes off with it in about 20 seconds.

My personal theory is that the other thing that Elon bought when he bought Twitter was the DMs of everyone in government.

@gvwilson But I think the situation might be worse than many people realize because of Github Actions.

Tell me: can you test your software without Github? Can you ship a new release without it? How dependent are you on Github Actions, really?

Can you build your software at all?

Are you sure?

My friend @gvwilson points us to this story of when SourceForge came close to disappearing: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.2874

... and in the comments he notes corectly that while you get to keep your code if your Github access goes away, your issue history and your community are, just like that, gone.

Alberta is proposing to build a hundred billion dollar data center to support an industry that is currently in a price-reduction and specialization race.

https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/31/1916254/openais-o3-mini-faster-cheaper-ai-that-fact-checks-itself

It’s not one of the thing in life worth a ton of complaints but one of the most pointless things I have to do once or twice a day is click a button in my car agreeing that I should watch the road when drive every time I turn it on.

Absolutely wild that you can deanonymize developers via the compiled binaries.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.08546v1

If you're having a set of opinions about asking DeepSeek about Tianamen Square, try asking ChatGPT about pseudoephedrine.