Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

"Nah, surely someone else will sponsor the project. We certainly don't want to. We never did. It's still here and works well after decades, which proves us right."

/ almost every company

#deltatauri is ready for testing.

https://support.delta.chat/t/help-test-the-tauri-pre-release/3827

DeltaTauri is basically #deltachat_desktop , but using #tauri instead of electron.
Full Blogpost will follow soon.

I cannot overstate how much I hate the short character limits on most instances here. It does not make people post short, concise messages (as if brevity is even a thing I’d want to optimise for) it makes people post essays as sequences of 47 toots. Which then all appear in my timeline. In reverse order.

it's highly ironic that the "AI" evangelists constantly repeat that people who hate it are out of touch. they're implying that people don't like it because they don't understand it, when my experience has been people who hate "AI" seem to have a far firmer grasp on how it actually works than the evangelists

edit: reclaiming my notifications by muting this ✌

I don't use LLMs because I actually like programming. And the way some AI proponents describe programming, you'd think they hate it and want to do as little of it as they possibly can.

@not2b @siracusa I wrote Perl for 13 years. I learned discipline. If you treated your code as more than a disposable one-off, you made it readable, converted the punctuation salad into verbose equivalents. By the time I stopped using Perl, I had a toolchain and project initiation process that was easy to set up and made testing and packaging effortless.

Trying to do the same in Python has basically been a nightmare. Just a swirling vortex of endless infrastructure, churn for the sake of churn.

@jon_newby i've been online continuously since 1994. I can absolutely assure you that in all real world practice, the concept of a "filter bubble" was invented by the annoying dickheads to try to get you not to block them.

@vga256 To be fair, that was a pretty contrived example - We could have created a new class inheriting from string and added our method. It was mostly demonstrating the use of the browser.

Something else wild - you can search for methods by providing the receiver of a message, and what the answer to that message should be - it will find a selector (a message, or method if you will) that returns what you are looking for. It's so...different

@scott that's awesome. liking it already.

i don't think people realize just how much ptsd there is to recover from after decades of c/c++. i'm still trying to forget the word class and trying to understand things in terms of prototypes and clones

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
-David Graeber
#anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #communist #communism #socialist #socialism #socialecology #solarpunk #SolarPunkSunday #DavidGraeber

I literally live more like a "solarpunk" than any of these people and will never call myself one. Turns out DIY just became a commodity for techies and hobbie crafters that want to feel cool. Most of these people are just stoked to become a small power plant for the grid rather than down gear to their needs whatsoever. DIY used to be about a rejection of consumerism and comodification just to become a consumable commodity. Solarpunk is a product based on anti-production principles, and you fucking bought it. DIY was about buying less and doing more, now its about buying more and doing less with the aesthetics of anti-consumerism, and you fucking bought it.
#solarpunk #solarpunksunday

that report is a collection of twisted projections by a well-known addict to erotic drawings of teens and children

you shouldn't give credence to everything you read on the internet

especially to attacks on people who stand against powerful economic interests

CC: @dash_jackson@lemmy.ca