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Save me from all the IPFS evangelists jumping on the NixOS storage issues to shill their favourite toy without thinking for a moment about the availability requirements

So Mozilla is just straight-up running ads on MDN now.

When are we all gonna stop pretending that they're any meaningfully different from other companies?

really dislike the prevalence of the phrase "cargo cult" in tech circles, i've seen it a few times recently and it gets on my nerves.

if you've never thought about this before: it's a white supremacist pejorative implying that indigenous folks are backward and foolish.

in the shrek universe if kitty softpaws was a stray cat while also being a talking cat, is it the norm for talking cats to literally be owned and kept as pets

Honestly "no one got killed, there was no drone, there was no AI, there was no actual simulation, it was all a role-playing scenario run by someone *not even in the Air Force*" is exactly the pratfall I needed this week, what a clownshow

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a33gj/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-in-usaf-simulated-test

also "he, she, or whatever" isn't as progressive as you think it is

Lang zal die leven! Over neutrale voornaamwoorden in het Nederlands.

https://langzaldieleven.nl/

#genderneutraal

It's a lot colder today than it was yesterday; The weather is homophobic

"Hundreds of malicious packages [so obscure that almost noone installed them] found on <package registry>" really is the new way for security companies to score some cheap PR, huh

I had a very interesting convo with an older non-tech person about centralized vs. decentralized social media because I told them one of my interests was independent social media when they asked.

They brought up BlueSky and asked my opinion, which I gave, and then they asked me specifically about the challenge of moderation and safety in the decentralized space.

From there, we had an extended convo about those issues, with me using my history with PV, the lessons I learned, and how I'm applying them to my projects.

It's the first time in a while someone interrogated my thoughts who wasn't involved in the tech industry, so I used it as an opportunity to practice explaining with as little tech speak as possible.

In the end, they were impressed with my context of the challenges of decentralized social media because I made it easy to understand, so they felt like they could make a contribution to the convo despite not having my technical background.

We didn't agree on everything but found common ground because we understood the core of the problem.

It was very encouraging.

i'm watching the people make games investigation about disco elysium and all i can surmise is that this is capitalism working exactly how it was designed.

a "good" product was made via the stolen exploitation of artists and the IP will continue to be an avenue of exploitation of new artists that are ignorant and just want to be apart of a cool project they can say they helped make.

this is always the financially successful path of art within capitalism. this is nowhere near the first time.