@duane and this highlights a flaw with our open source ecosystem, and people before me have pointed out the dangers in a system that depends on private wealth to sustain it.
Really am at the point where I want certain people (particularly from some certain sets of demographics, it seems) to stop enforcing their desire that Everything Be Very Serious.
If your anarchism says I can't dream and talk about a potential future while I'm getting shit done because it "scares people off," I don't want anything to do with it.
Are you an adult and want to have a plush animal to cuddle but you’ve been taught that you can’t because “that’s for children”?
Screw that! Go get yourself the biggest, squishiest plush of your dreams. Nobody can stop you.
And if anyone tries to give you a hard time for it, that really sounds like it’s their problem.
Here's what I think of when I see (white) liberals/leftists pushing the notion that addressing economics & class issues will drive out prejudice and fascism:
2 of my 3 siblings left our family's working class origins behind when they got solid middle class jobs that employed them until retirement. They lead comfortable lives for much of their adulthood.
And yet, they never stopped being racist assholes. They never let go of their sexism. They never stopped seeing queer people as defective.
github, angry
The absolute fucking gall of #Github to claim in their celebratory blogpost that actually, *they* are responsible for "developers no longer just being people building software for tech companies", and that they are "always putting developers first" in the same line as where they bring up Copilot.
Fuck you, Github. Sincerely, go fuck yourself. We were here before you, and this isn't your fucking achievement to claim. You *co-opted* the FOSS community, you didn't fucking create it.
(This is the post in question, by the way: https://github.blog/2023-01-25-100-million-developers-and-counting/)
I'd like to see more fediverse things that make use of the fact that it's a federated system where anything that follows an API can interact, rather than just trying to recreate an experience from a different, commercial website
A silly custom fediverse idea: a server with a fictional bus you can board (by replying to certain posts and then following the account - you have to board the bus for the request to be approved). You then can see posts about different bus stops, and can get off at different points and explore (follow new accounts you previously couldn't)
With an open activitypub API I feel like you could do some cool interactive fiction things
github, angry
The absolute fucking gall of #Github to claim in their celebratory blogpost that actually, *they* are responsible for "developers no longer just being people building software for tech companies", and that they are "always putting developers first" in the same line as where they bring up Copilot.
Fuck you, Github. Sincerely, go fuck yourself. We were here before you, and this isn't your fucking achievement to claim. You *co-opted* the FOSS community, you didn't fucking create it.
(This is the post in question, by the way: https://github.blog/2023-01-25-100-million-developers-and-counting/)
I tried to get them to voluntarily stop, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to recommend a #Fediblock against flockingbird.social
They are scraping post content and making it searchable
*Edit:* It will be difficult if not impossible to block them, because they are evidently getting their content from the hashtag timeline API of botsin.space
@david@mstdn.ything.xyz @aurynn @maegul
if it's possible, someone *will* do it, eh? Nah, I reject that.
I think your point was to say "it is difficult or impossible to entirely prevent on a technical level", and I totally agree there.
But, man, there are so many basic fuckin' accessibility projects that haven't "just magically happened" because they're possible. Things get built because people care enough to build them. It's hard to look at what you said and not be bitter as fuck, and this is as someone who spends time building accessibility tools, but wanting more.
Being toxic to toxic developers saps the 'caring' out of their project and drains their energy, which usually shuts them down. It isn't a 100% solution, but it's pretty dang effective and requires no changes to code.
Free Advertising Update (see thread): between emails, DMs and replies on this thread I've had somewhere between 33 and 38 people ask for advertising, and I've put 33 ads up (some weren't a good fit or had bugs that firefox didn't like).
The recurring theme is that all these sites are WEIRD
I'd forgotten how WEIRD was the realm of the personal hobby website
It is truly wonderful browsing these sites and I will generate a full page of them for you all soon
racism, YouTube
For those that don't know or won't watch the video, starting in the late 1950s, bipoc people in the Palm Springs area who could afford the more expensive homes outside of redlined neighborhoods, were living in an area known as Section 14, and were hastily evicted from their homes purchased by development corporations. Some people even would go to work and come home to their house bulldozed over.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.