Notices by FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop), page 3

@BeAware I'm not talking about retconning. For one thing, I've not seen anything significant that conflicts with the games. I'm curious what endings they've selected as canonical, but that's not really my focus.

It does strike me, on a moment's reflection, that we are led to sympathize with the three (four?) protagonists, and if they can work out things between them, maybe there can be a good and satisfying outcome.

I'm just worried about more despair in an era of despair.

I've watched five episodes of #Fallout so far, and seen some spoilers. It's striking me that they've assumed canonical endings for the games that would lead to the most conflict. There were two candidates for "good guy" factions, but the NCR has apparently been broken, and we've returned to the original vision of the Brotherhood of Steel as isolationist and violently intolerant. Plus the Enclave is back, as well as Vault-Tec.

What worries me is how this will connect to, "War never changes", and, "Everyone wants to save the world, they just disagree about how."

We've set up for either despondent cynicism, or at best, some sort of last minute plea for pacifism.

It worries me somewhat, how this may play out, given the global threat of fascism and the weakness of resistance to it, and how fascists revel in cynical despair.

And how Fallout fans include some of the best and the worst people around.

@aral Why are you attacking people who confronted their employer and lost their jobs? They did what we need far more people to do.

@thomasfuchs @mos_8502 Radioactive isotopes were once a new technology. They have some important and useful applications. However, adding them to children's breakfast cereal would be a terrible idea, it will not give any of them superpowers now or ever, and you can't justify adding radioactive isotopes to children's breakfast cereal with the argument that there's no stopping the implementation of new technology.

@gwynnion "Oh, I suppose you'd prefer fascists getting elected?"

Funny, when Trump was president, I saw a lot of liberal city mayors deploying paramilitaries against people demanding an end to police murder of Black people, and not so much as thanking the antifascists who confronted fascists and drove them off the streets with only solidarity and their bare hands.

But thank you very fucking much for slightly reducing my student loan payments. Wow, liberals, you've really got our backs.

@shalf @aral I've kind of assumed that CCC is big and influential enough that it probably has some flaws mixed in with the good it's done.

@silverwizard We don't have quite that much, and also, I think they're using the RAM for something.

Fun today so far: I've had to explain to an engineer that I cannot create a 1500 GB partition on a 900 GB SSD.

Day two: there are now two engineers asking me to do this on two different systems.

One asked if I can create a tmpfs and add that storage to a partition.

@ntnsndr :ivoted: :TwinPines:

@ntnsndr Outer and inner bailey. Nice.

@kaia Move fast and break things.

@aral @baldur In my limited experience of each, writing code feels astonishingly like writing text. And I've been told the most important part of creative writing is the process of revision. You revise and revise and revise. That's where you spend most of your time.

@silverwizard The thing is, from where I sit, literally, there are dozens of giant data centers under construction. The LLM isn't like NFTs, a speculative bubble involving a few rich dumbasses. All the major software companies and hardware companies are totally committed to LLM and "AI" development.

@silverwizard The only way I can see the project surviving is if the remaining Firefox developers follow the examples of MariaDB and LibreOffice anf, as a group, create a new fork, or perhaps reinforce an existing fork.

Even then, best case, it's going to be a niche product for at least a few years, locked out of many commercial and government websites.

But it might survive the inevitable collapse of the LLM bubble, so maybe it would work.

@silverwizard From what I understand, Firefox's usage rate is so low that the only reason it can be used on the Web at all is hard-won anti-monopoly policies and an outspoken minority of tech workers who demand support for it. And that's grown extremely thin, and Mozilla's management seems determined to eliminate that support.

Google effectively controls the WWW, and I think we need to be thinking about retreat.

OMFG. The next section after that discusses GKE, yet another layer of abstraction to manage the Kubernetes management tools.

This is described as "efficient" three times in three minutes.

Nominally this is a series of courses on using Python for automation. The original problem, supposedly, was making sure you had the libraries available for your Python script.

@saddestrobots It's the fifth course of a series of six on Coursera. This course started by talking about how a developer might bundle code in a Docker image, and then said a Python developer, apparently as an afterthought. It was a very confusing presentation and didn't even explain how to use a Docker image.

The other courses in the series were at least quick introductions to practical skills. I think this one is basically advertising Google's cloud services.