Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

What I had hoped for: a modest return of blogging and RSS.
What the internet got: indie content behind Substack paywalls.

The solution to the riddle? Grep setup does a test call searching for ^Copyright in a known file. In older versions of fish, however, the caret is used to redirect stderr unless the filename is quoted, which it isn't. Fish offered an opt-in starting win 3.0, offered an opt-out in 3.3 and finally disabled this in 3.5. I'm using 3.0.2 so once I realized what the problem is, I could opt-in to this feature. Finally the curse of the random Copyright files appears to be broken!

There is big difference between Google pointing you at a set of pages (which you can then go read, compare, and evaluate), and Google giving you an answer synthesized from pages it has scraped.

In the former case, you’re the one determining what is true. In the latter, you’re relying on Google’s algorithms to a) understand language, and b) determine truth.

The fact is, neither Google, LLMs, or “AI” have any ability to do any of those, nor are they even close to it. https://fedia.social/notes/9k8wbwdjnawy0860

“incentivized stock option” feels like a miss when “Schrödinger’s compensation” was right there

Props to the Chief GNUisance Dr Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, and creator of the philosophical scaffolding of software freedoms and copyleft.

Without his work, we wouldn't even have this decentralised space - powered 100% by Free Code (so far) - to argue about whether he deserves props. Arguably the net as we know it could not exist.

https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-against-richard-stallman.html

#RichardStallman #RMS #ChiefGNUisance #GNU #GNUProject #FSF #SoftwareFreedom #copyleft

@fzer0 @pierstoval That won't work during sunshine hours though. Fortunately this is easily solved by making the hole much bigger.

Anyway, the reason I bring up Downfall is that I was trying to think of simple but roughly accurate model of the way market economies work. One with a colourful, physical model, so that examples of economic activity could even be demonstrated on it for a web video.

Downfall seems perfect.

(2/?)

#economics #EconomicModels

c++ users keep whining about not having RAII in zig, meanwhile I'm striving to eliminate all forms of non-batched destruction from my codebases. good luck doing that in c++

@hotdogsladies I like using this for high fives, but the Apple computer company seems to think it means prayer. This inexplicably is a high five: 🙌

C’mon, Siri, that’s jazz hands. (The keyboard recommends this: 👐. There are too many emojis and they’re usually too small to read. I am not a crank.)

I'm like 85% sure that there are no "software engineers" in Starfleet. There's a lesson in that, if it's true.

Otherwords is a beautiful name for a #forth implementation

If jobs were paid according to how difficult and unpleasant they were divided by how neccessary they were for societal functioning, what would be the highest paying job?

There should be a reverse Indiana Jones film where a South American tribe sneaks into the Vatican, steals some relics, and gets away on a boat while a bunch of men in golden robes shake their fists and shout their strange language.

We released Tomb 2.10 with bugfixes, Argon2 support against password brute forcing and a shiny new website https://dyne.org/software/tomb

my internet connected for no reason baby night light is currently offline due to an aws outage. of the two things it could do when offline, someone picked "not be a light"

People who bang on about what an economic basketcase #Venezuela is thanks to Chavizmo, might need to be reminded that as of 2009;

"Argentina and Brazil paid off their entire IMF debt; soon, with the help of Venezuela’s petrodollars, so had the rest of Latin America. (Between 2003 and 2007, Latin America’s total debt to the IMF declined by 98.4 percent. They basically owe nothing.)"

#DavidGraeber

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-neoliberalism

#IMF #ThirdWordDebt #HugoChavez

"...the U.S. Treasury [and] the IMF, fixed on a policy that under no circumstances were such debts to be written off. This was, I should note, a major departure from previous economic orthodoxy, which took it for granted that those who lend money are assuming a certain risk. It showcases, in fact, a crucial element of neoliberalism: that, while the poor are to be held accountable for poor economic decisions (real or imagined), the rich must never be."

David Graeber

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-neoliberalism

You know what I'd really like? Notifications categorised by "temperature".

Say I get a reply from a ranter whose misinformed post I do eventually want to correct. I want to rate their post (or the whole thread) as "hot", so all their posts in that thread (or all posts in the thread) are moved to a separate list of "hot" notifications. That way I can continue to browse and respond to "warm" or "cold" replies, without having more ranting shoved in my face if I'm not in the mood.

#FediverseIdeas

There are two types of software:

1) software that is not configurable and thus it never quite works right, and

2) software that is configurable and thus it never quite works right.