Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@gabrielesvelto There are plenty of community driven projects that aren't systemd. systemd is outright hostile to the free and open source communities, that many GNU/Linux distribution have switched to it is a a bit problem.

I realize that fatigue comes when you have to re-read code you never really liked so your brain wiped most memories of it

@robpike

In his "Design of Design" book, Brooks defines "style" something like "micro-decisions taken consistently"

That is a very important insight which most programmers do not get to until they have done a lot of damage.

new blog post: FSF disposition
https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2024-06-17-fsf-disposition.en.html

@ian I mean I think people would be pro-copyright if copyright wasn't really broken. I imagine few people really believe if someone makes something and sells it, someone else should be able to immediately buy one copy, change the name on the front, and then sell hundreds of them to others. It's just copyright law has been overextended to ridiculous proportions.

@ian plus it spews lies everywhere! Then other LLMs are gonna get trained on those bullshit sources and repeat them. Informational microplastics

Have you ever had an experience like, you're walking down the street, there's a piece of litter, and you kind of like, kick it by accident, your foot grazes it, and suddenly you feel a compulsion to pick it up and put it in a trash can? This is litter, it wasn't your problem, but then you accidentally touched it and it Became your problem, somehow the act of touching it tagged it as "yours" and now the superego says you're obligated to deal with it?

That's what open source contribution is like

LLM = Largely Lifted Mediocrity

@bremner Home is temporary, David, for we are mere mortals

what the heck does it mean for an *app* to be down? I'm puzzled.

A little over a 10yrs ago, it looked like Spain’s beloved ritual of an afternoon nap after lunch would be abolished to align work days & productivity with the rest of Europe. It didn’t happen.

One University of London study found that taking a short daytime nap delays the brain shrinkage that comes with aging. Another study from researchers at the Berkeley, found that taking an hour-long nap helped improve students’ ability to learn & perform better on tests.

#siesta

https://time.com/6988059/how-people-relax-around-the-world/

@SecurityWriter @mozilla Sounds like… *checks notes* … Mozilla being Mozilla?

I remember the wise words of their one-time head of public policy to me: “Why are you holding us to such a higher standard? We’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”