Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

The "reinventing trains" crowd when seeing a bus:

> hurhurhur yeah and maybe also connect those "pods" to be more efficient, oh and maybe also put them on some kind of tracks so that they don't need separate drivers.

It's peak internet activism when the loudest proponents of the mode of transportation based entirely on the economy of scale don't understand the economy of scale.

@icedquinn @arcana if "the people" were capable of rational cooperation, they'd buy more expensive better built products instead of getting duped by cheaper shit that breaks and costs them more in the long run, and so force the producers to optimise for excellent engineering or get pushed out of the market.

As per usual, it's the fault of societal inability to cooperate, and so systems based more on cooperation than on the market would therefore do even worse.

@dany_57987 @nixCraft tracker blockers can sometimes be overzealous and break things with false positives. I assume that if Firefox took that stance, it's likely one of those cases.

@lucy and that's why they're forcing big tech to adapt common standards like USB-C and open their ecosystems to alternative app stores, which among other things "enable piracy and malware"? The EU isn't the American government.

@nixCraft usually it's there. At least where I live. It's a red flag if it isn't, nobody wants to waste time going on interviews for a job that's gonna later offer them peanuts, and thankfully people in this industry usually can be picky.

Where I live there's a website for IT that straight-up requires declaring the salary, among other no-bullshit data points. That's where we search first.

@Hyolobrika none, so that doesn't say much

@hyolo on a side note, does anyone know if people can see that I've added them to a list? xD

@hyolo I have a "Crap opinions" list for people who sometimes post cool stuff but also sometimes post political opinions so retarded reading them actively makes me depressed. I look at it only when I feel I have some hope for humanity to spare.

For all the others there are always filters and mutes.

@icedquinn implying that addictive features don't actively hinder the children's willingness to spend time with their parents instead of being farmed on facebook 20 hours a day. Sure, you can force them to do stuff, but they have free will and generally don't react to being forced to do something by loving it.

@Hyolobrika freelancers are basically one-person companies, including legally if they earn a living wage. No idea how much that costs though, never was one or hired one.

@Hyolobrika if you wanna pay for it to get fixed those are basically your options though. Unless you don't count hiring a freelancer as being a customer.

@Hyolobrika yeah, and what if that doesn't have to be a donation, but rather people exchanging money for goods and services? Maybe they could even pay full-time developers for this, killing two birds with one stone and giving someone a cool job. Weird that nobody thought about doing this.