Notices by mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social), page 3

If we think of code as a tool for expressing a collective understanding of a shared problem in a way that’s culturally durable - and sure, maybe I’m the only person who does, fine - then containerization works against a collective social goal while accepting a dependency on corporate cloud provisioning.

Taking that argument a small step further gives me, at least, this observation: containerization counts as complying in advance.

https://mastodon.social/@benpocalypse/115486177681182527

@cks it’s fundamentally an argument that understanding is cheap enough to think of as disposable.

I have a version of this in a drawer somewhere that’s was always running and sat on a backpack strap.

Walking through public spaces like malls was always kind of great. It’s like projecting an ambient glitch field.

https://mastodon.social/@maltman23/115475706125937161

An interesting upcoming law in Canada (edit: Ontario) that will change the tone of the hiring process quite a bit on January 1st, including obligations to disclose the expected compensation range and inform interviewees of the job's vacancy status and interview results within 45 days.

https://devrylaw.ca/upcoming-requirements-for-job-postings-starting-january-1-2026/

@manualdousuario It is free to use, if you would like to make translations you are welcome to.

People used to argue, straight faced with sincerely held good intentions, that you couldn't trust free software or wikipedia, because who would you call if it breaks? You don't really know where it all comes from!

But the answer is "people". The answer was always people, and no matter what you've heard from governments, media outlets or corporations, people are far more trustworthy than the average government or the typical media outlet or any corporation.

Bet on people who bet on people.

"Hi, its me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology

@whitequark Yeah, I'm just thinking that whatever can be made incremental should be. The first bite at the problem will have to be a big one.

@whitequark If you preload the remote with an rsync-type process, maybe you skip the "send everything over" part, or at least do it a bit at a time as you work?

@whitequark A friend of mine once described me as "occasionally useful, in the same way an occasional table is a table."

@whitequark Have you considered leveraging 304-not-modified to speed up incremental compilation?

I don't believe in the dead internet theory but I definitely think facebook and twitter are necrotic and need to be amputated.

The Government of Canada is taking a survey about "defining the next chapter of Canada’s AI leadership”.

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-consultations/help-define-next-chapter-canadas-ai-leadership

These were my answers. I’m sure they’re excitingly career-limiting, and who knows if they’ll change any outcome of anything, but sufficiently advanced spite is indistinguishable from imagining Sisyphus happy.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/24/pattern-recognition-and-repetition/

Eventually, everyone who manages any community has to make this decision.

Microsoft is rolling out Copilot For Gaming to Win11 machines silently and on by default, so if any of you are excited about having screenshots of any adult-themed games you might enjoy being silently sent to the same company that owns LinkedIn now would be an excellent time to demand privacy legislation and join a union.

https://doublepulsar.com/microsoft-builds-on-recall-with-gaming-copilot-fails-basic-privacy-tests-52988576bcc8

@Ashedryden if you’re still on Win11, you’re getting a Gaming Copilot silently and turned on by default. @GossiTheDog was mentioning it earlier today.

You know you've achieved decentralized fediverse nirvana when you're only finding out US-East-1 is down from the memetic background radiation.

Millions of people in the streets and not a single ICE vehicle with a bottle of coke in the tank?

Sure, the law might not have caught up to this yet. But this is, in any way that matters, mail fraud.

https://abc7news.com/post/gofundme-created-14-million-donation-pages-nonprofits-bay-area-organizations-had-no-clue/18013410/

I don’t spend a lot of time on here telling you all how smart my kids are but today I was talking with my son about the idea of a “Third Place” and he mentioned how all these “coming of age” stories he’s read have kids meeting or hanging out at “the mall”, and what a weird, totally alien idea that is to him and his friends. “Did they even have places you could sit down or not buy anything then? None of us have money.”