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

Honestly, the "I could never go back to writing code without Copilot, it's so repetitive" is not a glowing review of Copilot, so much as it is a scathing indictment of how hard we've collectively failed at teaching and accommodating (communal) code reuse practices, also on a tooling support level

Ik kan er nog steeds niet helemaal bij dat de Instagram-account van de ziekenhuisapotheek hier, "bosschepillekesjbz" heet

(The problem with SSL/TLS specifically is that if you even *allow* plaintext or broken-SSL connections, this immediately makes *everybody* vulnerable to downgrade attacks, even if they are using a device/browser/etc. that supports a modern and safe TLS stack)

I wonder, has anyone built some sort of proxy yet to be able to access modern-TLS-using sites with old unmaintained devices?

Like, the "let's build sites so they work on all browsers" is fun and all, and is largely either unproblematic or a positive thing, but sending everyone's traffic over the internet in plaintext or over broken SSL is... extremely not it

Y'all are aware that "abolishing Section 230 would break the internet" is industry propaganda, yeah?

It's used as a defense for maintaining Section 230 exactly as it is today - distracting from the possibility of, for example, amending it to more tightly constrain when a provider is protected.

In the EU, for example, we have the "mere conduit" condition - it means that you are only protected from legal liability if you pass the content through as-is, without meddling in eg. who gets to see it, or what the content itself is.

This protects genuine ISPs and other 'neutral' service providers (and in fact encourages them to remain neutral!), while it *doesn't* protect corporations like Facebook who very clearly optimize the displayed content for their own benefit (anger -> engagement -> profit).

This isn't a *perfect* solution either (under a small handful of circumstances it can discourage moderation), but as you can see from me posting this, it hasn't broken the internet, nor e-mail, nor anything else really.

Something like this is entirely possible in the US, too. But not as long as people rabidly defend Section 230 *in its current form* by repeating the (*technically* true but implicitly misleading) claim that "abolishing it would break the internet".

Ah yes, Carmack "told [Kroese] that he shouldn't be so provocative" with BasedCon. Of course that's the best he could do.

It's not like he could've *demanded* this, under threat of not headlining the event. That would require privilege, and of course Carmack has none of that.

/s

("Intentionally provocative" sure is a choice of euphemism for "fascist", too. Something something nazis at a table.)

Reminder that "you should pay people" is *only* a progressive stance in the context of capitalist power dynamics; in the context of interactions with peers or comrades, it is just a classist demand that excludes the poor from participation

So apparently my kidney disease means that I'm straight-up unable to get disability insurance as a freelancer, and so I'm basically fucked if I ever cannot work anymore.

Fucking neolibs

In addition to funny pills, nifty pills, angry pills, baking soda, and styrofoam, I now also have shitty powder

Why yes, I *do* assign punny names to my medication so that I don't forget which ones to take when