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@witchescauldron We are taught about charity instead of mutual aid.

In charity, we give with a disparity of power. As we give, we humiliate the recipient and we set ourselves up as saints.

In mutual aid, we are a community helping ourselves with dignity. We are equal. We help out of mutual responsibility.

Most social tech projects are set as charities; mostly because mutual aid is poorly known and understand

@jgoerzen @aral
while letsencrypt is frictionless, i'm still pissed that _for decades_ cacert.org wasn't "good enough" to be included in browsers (cf. point 2).

all of a sudden some big tech builds let's encrypt and that's totally peachy to include. my guess is that in the end it's about control (cf. point 3).

why on earth should i trust silicon valley more than some random folks on the net?

@niclas
> Everything can be made very bad, but it seems (to me) that code generators (incl my own) are extra prone to making life worse.

they certainly have to be build with great care :)

> And if you put the generated code in the superclass(es), then why not create those manually as a solid abstraction, designed for inheritance (also not trivial).

as you've written, manually writing things sometimes just isn't feasible. if one ends up doing a lot c&p, codegen is the cleaner solution imho.

> In general, the problem isn't technology, the problem is people. Solving "people problems" with "technology solutions" is what we programmers do, and equally perplexed when it didn't help.

agreed!

@spinneria @Data
anders lautende zahlen haben noch keinen guten dikta, äh demokraten abgehalten!

Свіжа (січень 2022) публікація в найпрестижнішому науковому журналі Nature
"Існуючі полімераза-специфічні Т-клітини призводять до абортивного серонегативного SARS-CoV-2"

Суть: антитіла не повинні бути єдиним показником імунітету, оскільки деякі люди мають імунітет без антитіл (і можуть ніколи не отримати їх до COVID) через наявність перехресних захисних Т-клітин від інших коронавірусних інфекцій.

nature.com/articles/s41586-021

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

@niclas yeah, the generated code has to be sensible of course. this isn't often the case, but that's not a problem of codegen but by the generating tools writing out a mess :)

i think an easy way to deal with manual changes for generated code is - if the generated code permits that - to use subclasses (or whatever serves that purpose) with the generated ones as superclass.

in any case, i don't think that generated code is worse to debug than magic runtime stuff like SQL-query builders etc. :)

If you think that every interaction, relationship, and motive for doing some is transactional and economic in nature, I'm sorry, but the Capitalism worms have eaten your brain.

@niclas @mangeurdenuage diesel is at ~1.60€ here and it sucks. it sure feels like someone is tightening the thumbscrews (protip: probably not putin even if media tells you that..)

i'll never understand what issue people have with code generation if the code is properly formatted. no runtime magic to debug. it's all there to read, which is a damn nice feature imho.

Right. UK. People are going to be sacked if they don’t comply with full Covid vaccination. I am warning people now: First it was mandates for staff in social care. Then frontline NHS staff. I predict next it will be all NHS workers. Then all citizens. Then physical restrictions for those who don’t comply - the beginning of second class citizenship (already started). Then fines for those who don’t comply (see Austria) and prison for those who don’t or can’t pay them. Then further loss of rights (access to healthcare, other jobs, benefits). Then mandates for the flu vaccine. Then mandates for something else pharmaceutical companies want to push on the population, a market of millions. The heat is being turned up bit by bit but the water is getting hotter. Even if you agree with the Covid vaccine mandate, next time you might have doubts about the medical intervention being mandated. Or you might get a frightening reaction to the 7th, 8th, 9th Covid booster and eventually want to stop or at least have a break but now it’s you who can’t get an exemption.

There are HUGE profits to be made from millions of captive consumers who must submit to an irreversible medical intervention by law for the first time in our history. Do we really think nobody would work towards that financial golden goose? It is a terrible precedent. Respect for the physical bodily boundary is a fundamental principle of medical ethics. It is a precious protection from the medical profession being allowed or instructed by others to do things to your body that you don’t want. We throw this principle away at our peril. We shouldn’t be throwing this right and protection away. Not for this disease. Not for any disease. We will not get it back easily. We are at a frightening fork in the road.

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