rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
Random thought of the day: amongst a group of iPhone users, lightening cables in a good condition are a fungible commodity
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“GitHub Copilot – Productivity Boon or Considered Harmful?”
“What I’ve noticed is that the developers who copy and paste a lot tend to pick things up slower – if ever.” https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2021/09/02/github-copilot-productivity-boon-or-considered-harmful/
@Parienve sure sounds like it
@freemo it’s not, I was just looking at Apple’s IP webpage and saw that they own the .apple TLD, and became reminded how much power big tech has. Like, this goes way beyond traditional trademark law…
Nobody can make a website with the address grannysmith.apple — why? Because a company that makes computers says so. Simply absurd.
I’d love to apply for Drew DeVault’s vacancy to work on FOSS, just got to get myself in a financially stable position first. Totally get the financial constraints, I just think it’s brilliant that he’s willing and able to support such work! https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-08-23-work-at-sourcehut/
@trinsec most people don’t though, and cans are super easy to recycle
@alan oh really? Cool
@pleiades well… yeah, but that’s just wishful thinking unfortunately
Why is water always sold in plastic bottles and not in a can? Would be so much better for the environment…
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People talk about "releasing" software, stop doing that!
Software raised in captivity cannot survive in the wild! Feral software is also a big threat to digital biodiversity. Do not release software.
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re: carbon pol
Now, I will say: there's reasons why I think individual action isn't sufficient (but it's absolutely necessary!).
But, my point is, that's not because of something silly like 100 companies being the vast majority of the problem and just stopping those emitters being enough to solve the problem... because they're not the majority of emissions, their billions of customers are.
But, my point is, that's not because of something silly like 100 companies being the vast majority of the problem and just stopping those emitters being enough to solve the problem... because they're not the majority of emissions, their billions of customers are.
When I do ctrl-c after deciding not to run a shell command, I’m surprised it’s not a general practice for shells to strike through the never-executed command, especially given such stylistic adjustments were possibly even back in the day of teletypes
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Happy 109 anniversary to this little nugget of an article. We've known what the problem is for over a century.
The reason I’m anti-big-corporate isn’t because I’m against people working for some collective goal, but because there are selfish people in this world and they are attracted to big-corporations like moths to a flame
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ok I know I post a lot about the npm dependency mess but this one is truly in a league of its own https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/empty-npm-package-has-over-700-000-downloads-heres-why/
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coding in javascript feels like living in america. everything is broken or abandoned or melting or owned by like two companies and a bunch of barnacles and scammers
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
