I’m conflicted.

Making those poor bastards work 12 hour days, 6 days per week for small money is pretty fucked.

Sending them to somewhere that may be a death camp is worse tho.

Feels like the article set up a false dichotomy.

You’re going to have to prioritise.

Find changes that:

Save a decent amount of money Are low risk Don’t take too long to do Can be easily backed-out of

Also, turn off chat heads. Such obvious engagement bait.

There are probably a variety of mindsets that will do it.

For me, I think it was just really wanting to get away from being under the boot. Get away from the walled gardens. Like that feeling after using LinkedIn, except for the OS. Hearing the call of freedom, authenticity and humanity.

Increasing amounts of code running on my computer and in the online services I use will be written by generative AI.

Emphasis added by me.

Thing is, it’s not black and white most of the time - usually a developer is using Gen AI as an assistant in some capacity. There are a wide range of ways to do that with really big differences in how firmly their hand remains on the wheel of where things are going. Only in the most extreme “vibe coding” scenario would it be fair to characterize the code as “written by AI”.

There reaches a point somewhere on the spectrum of dependency on AI where quality would suffer and developer capacity-building would be stunted. Where that point is, is a more productive question than a binary Yes or No to all AI.

Yeah there’s really no coming back from this. He could go to work at Testa 14 days per week and it wouldn’t make any difference. That brand is toast.

It’s refreshing to see a major publication just flatly stating that he’s a fascist.

Prices are set by supply and demand, not by sellers thinking the market can bear it. If a baker raises their prices then eaters can just go to a different baker.

If demand increases because fewer people are struggling AND supply can’t increase at the same rate then yes there could be price increases. But it’s because of the demand, not just because the sellers want it.

In the case of housing where supply can’t increase very quickly, yeah rents could go up a bit. So there needs to be plenty of new social housing built by the government alongside UBI, to supply enough to meet demand.

Some other inflationary effects could be counteracted by taxing the shit out of the rich.

UBI at nation-state scale wouldn’t happen in isolation, there would be various other policies happening at the same time.

I heard you like spreadsheets so I put a spreadsheet in your game so you can spreadsheet while you game

“Do you regularly watch videos by Jordan Peterson?” kinda needs to become one of those before-first-date screening questions.

Cool, but now SSH into a remote server and then try to open nano. It doesn’t.

After using it for 3 weeks I concluded that as Kitty breaks the fundamentals all the nice shiny isn’t worth it.

That’s pretty cool. Lots of potential for richer warnings than a beep on the right or left too, like a voice saying “a bike is Infront of you, move right 2 feet”.

Elon Musk, the de facto head of DOGE, lowered expectations of the group’s savings from $1 trillion to $150 billion by the end of the fiscal year.

So, a failure even on their own terms.

This idea is quite similar to what Bluesky is doing, with “Labels” https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation.

We’d need some way to crowdsource the verification and validity of the labels so people can’t just put low-quality or abusive labels everywhere.

It could potentially reduce the amount of work moderators need to do because spam would be labelled as such by anyone and if a few others also label it the same then it would reach a threshold where the label becomes active.

Does anyone have experience with this way of moderating content on Bluesky? How well does it work in practice?

That was more interesting than 18 downvotes. Thanks!

Surely the best way to end all wars is to win them all. /s

It is against the Geneva Convention to use POWs for propaganda.

Yes and $29.95 for unlimited years. No subscription.

Imagine you want to write a competitor to PostgreSQL and you start out by importing SQLite into your project and building on top of that. To you it seems like a good idea because you’ve never written a DB app before and the only DB you’ve ever seen before is SQLite. You’ll get a prototype real fast but you’ll never build a PostgreSQL equivalent because you never learned the foundational knowledge of how a DB works and because SQLite forecloses all the pathways you need to get there.

Same thing.

Because outsourcing your core business processes is a bad idea. A fediverse app that relies on a library to do all the fediverse stuff is going to have a bad time. Not straight away, but eventually.