Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@Guerin @aral @schratze (For automated testing and static typing, the business argument is basically that they achieve workable results with a minimal upfront training investment and minimal human-to-human coordination, and that they easily scale up to large monolithic teams; none of which is actually relevant outside of business development)

@Guerin @aral @schratze Many of these problems are widely viewed as "well, that's just how software is" or even as best practices (eg. a heavy focus on automated testing or static typing), even though when you *really* start looking into it, you would discover that they are not in fact the optimal solution for software *in general*, they just make a lot of business sense in a commercial environment.

@Guerin @aral @redstarfish@social.linux.pizza @schratze Speaking from experience in a slightly different context (software that's designed for businesses vs. software that's designed for humans/communities), it is *incredibly* difficult to untangle all of the implicit assumptions that have gone into a piece of software, let alone remove them without ending up in perpetual bikesheds. You are often better off starting from scratch.

Like, there's an incredible amount of problems and suboptimal design choices in widely-used software and libraries that can be traced back to "money favours business-oriented development", but it's almost impossible to spot them all, let alone explain to other people (unfamiliar with the topic) why they're a problem.

@darius @ckie I think it depends a lot on context and presentation. In this case though, I'd definitely say that "you have ended up on my timeline. i will now show you nix" is a needlessly smug way to go about it. The whole thing would read very different if it were introduced as "maybe Nix would be an option? as it works out-of-the-box there" instead, for example.

(With the understanding that you'd only need Nix here and not NixOS)

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev This is not that surprising, considering that any means or understanding of genuine community building has been violently hammered out of 'western' culture, and therefore "affiliating with a corporate Brand" is the closest thing to community-building that most people still have available to them

@f0x I think you have a case of academic kink

@rune @schratze Yeah it's just bad UI design. Some buttons *do* remember the press and queue it up for when the vehicle stops, and that causes way less issues.

@TakeV Almost certainly nowhere near as much as is spent on unnecessary *work*, such as nearly all analytics, marketing and advertising related work.

@f0x bleep bloop

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev And of course "stranger danger" itself has historically mostly been a conservative political hobbyhorse rather than a genuine significant risk...

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev The bigger problem with that 'education' IMO is that "who" was always defined as fellow humans, not exploitative corporations, who it was apparently totes fine to send your blood sample to