Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@numist packaging is rarely appreciated right up until its the most important thing. Then it's the centre of attention for 10 minutes, then ignored. Like everything is

@codinghorror the heat death of the universe is inevitable but I don't think it should feature in our career plans.

We put round pizza in a square box and eat it in triangles.

@mhoye @dodgytheories it's honestly a genius FAANG tactic to sponsor open source that handicaps any small business that tries to adopt it

Download Dynebolic 4.0.0 Beta, and help hunt the bugs!

🔗 https://dynebolic.org 👈🏾

@Adam_Cadmon1 @Oggie @HeavenlyPossum @Adam_Cadmon1 @Oggie @HeavenlyPossum I think there's a certain ingrained memory of colonial era looking-aghast at the "rude and uncivil nature of the barbarous [insert other culture here]" going on. So much self-congratulation at the wonders of our own modern existence that we must (serious faces everyone, it's a faux humble moment) remember that, but for the grace of God, there we would be too. Etc, etc. Also present in renaissance scholars looking down very long noses at the middle ages, and so on. In short, I reckon it's an old falsehood.

The idea of human beings as rational utility-maximizing particles with insatiable hedonic desires is very much the product of an ideological project to justify capitalism as “natural” and has virtually no relationship to how actual human beings live but a lot of people have genuinely internalized it.

Trying to derive “human nature” by observing people under capitalist modernity is like looking at a bored, depressed wolf obsessively pacing a circle in a tiny zoo enclosure and concluding that this is “wolf nature.”

Another great meeting this week! Check out our Matrix or mailing list for how to attend next week: sandstorm.org/community

Jake released vagrant-spk 1.2.

He also helped a user to resurrect an old proprietary app that hasn't been built for a long time. We saw a demo of it.

We also discussed in general how distribution of proprietary apps might work for a business.

On that note: We're starting a mailing list for businesses that use sandstorm. If you'd like to join, reach out to @ocdtrekkie

Sometimes work on old legacy code feels like

"Ah time to make dinner. Oh wait there is a leak in the kitchen, I better re-roof the house first."

Vendor support person: “you’ll see a slider in your account that enables us to access your data for the purposes of troubleshooting, please enable that and you can disable it when we are done.”

Me: “ok, done.”

Support: “great thank you, I am now able to look at your data so give me one second. I am looking now.”

Me: “Cool. By the way I actually didn’t do the slider because I guessed it probably didn’t do anything.”

.oO I can't make up my mind on whether Pacino is a good name for an AI system. AI Pacino looks great and familiar in a sans-serif font, but it's also a little off, which is just as expected of shitterbots

The thing about that "the papers will disappear if the journals do" article is that they wont and the only reason is piracy.

@charlesroper python devs will appreciate the increased readability of the tab

@CatHat

I'm telling you as someone autistic that you don't own autism.

The most impressive thing about the Steam Deck is that they built a portable Linux device that can be reliably woken from sleep

In the same way as "the cloud is just someone else's computer" - "AI decisions are just someone else's prejudices".

@frescosecco

> "Add 'tests' (for want of a better name,..."

It turns out that vscode-icons (my preferred icon set) recognises the name 'integration' and gives it a nice testing icon. Sold.

integration/suites
integration/helpers/assertions
integration/helpers/fixtures
integration/runner (potentially)

There might be material for a blog post in this.