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@Daojoan I wouldn't be surprised if it's partly strategic. If they can shape and direct the narrative and even the questions we raise to focus on issues within the tech-will-solve-everything paradigm, there's less to fight. We're indebted to people like Timnit Gebru for bringing the fight to them anyway.

I like how we’re debating AI ethics while we’re still figuring out which humans get to have rights

before someone tells me there is a setting. yeah I know there is a setting, but it's on by default, and it turned itself back on without my permission.

@selfsame Almost as if class war is being waged whether we engage in it or not. 🤔

@BigEatie @programming #Erlang as he needs concurrency, scalability, and high-availability in a functional system without trying a mix of different languages and stuff like k8s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCqqkGUsNxo

This reinforces my feeling that the agile sprint culture is a threat to your brain.

There are times I can't recall what I or we did 2 weeks ago. I would read the code out loud during pair session saying "so the dev seems to have implemented this thing and we need to figure it out how to reuse it".

That's not how you should feel about your own work.

@owasow It's all a tax write-off. They don't care. It's not real money.

In the light of current concerns about insect populations, perhaps it is time to bring out this excellence illustration again

I wish I would've discovered the BEAM 10 years go.

#erlang #elixir

Another week, another letter telling me about a “privacy event” (aka data breach).

Here's a simple way to fix this problem: legislation that says every customer who's affected gets a check for $100. No more of this check-your-credit weak sauce - instead, a real cost for to the business.

If you have data on 100 million customers, paying out $10 BILLION is a hell of an incentive to keep your fucking data protected.

Or better yet, maybe it's not worth $100 to store it in the first place…

An old witty paraphrasing of Arthur C Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" when applied to the maxim "never attribute to malice that which can be explained as incompetence"

"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".

AI will force people to disconnect and meet in person to avoid all the deepfakes popping up everywhere. #irony

@pid_eins what the hell are you talking about https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/ this is 2011 right after secure boot came out, and also there's tons of early motherboards that made user key enrollment impossible and to this day Microsoft have an unfair control over the whole thing. why else would you need to get shims signed by them?

@typeswitch Honestly I rather have this than some doxygen badly rendering on mobile, saying things like "Factory for ElementManager" for classes named "ElementManagerFactory" as documentation to figure out why my application segfaults again

@are0h there are existing forks (eg, glitch, which is mentioned in the blog post). Why not work with one of those, instead of starting another project?

To put it another way, what problems do those forks have that make that impractical, and how will you address them?

In surveillance capitalism, web browses you.

@mcc I find it funny that modern computers (and tablets and phones) have all this GPU power and they end up with UIs that look like they were designed in Applesoft BASIC.