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Personally, I think it’s weird that a giant tech monopoly (Google) gets a pass for indexing the Fediverse, but if a hobbyist wants to build Fediverse search, they are looked upon with suspicion.
This makes no sense.
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we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
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Said it earlier, but I want to say it again.
If you are copying Google after, I dunno, 2008, or Facebook after 2012, or Netflix after 2016…
You are not copying a successful technology company. You are copying a gigantic corporation that makes most of its money through inertia, lobbying, and monopoly power.
Google didn’t use Kubernetes when it was a wee little search engine. Facebook didn’t use React until after it wanted to own the entire web.
You probably don’t need them either.
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I now feel less guilty about having so many interlibrary loan books shipped back and forth across California just for me
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Not sure who needs to hear this today, but remember, your local public library benefits from being used! Usage statistics are how librarians argue for funding! By using this shared service more, you are making it BETTER for everyone else!
It's the glory of the commons, not the tragedy of the commons. Go to the library!!!
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Trying #HaikuOS for the first time in several years. It remains faster and cleaner than any other modern OS, and I'm excited to see ports of #RSSGuard, #Remmina, and #Qutebrowser. For me, biggest issues affecting casual use are lack of support for VPN, Nextcloud, and Bitwarden. SSH tunneling and web apps for Nextcloud and Bitwarden might get me far enough!
@qqmrichter #Zig ? From what I see, it gives you a lot of control on low-level details. Or does Ada's "bureaucracy" make it more reliable even if compared to Zig and not C? Do you mean Ada95 or the fancier follow-ups with contracts, etc.?
Tooling should be a non-issue if the comparision is with C/C++ !
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If you want to build a solution that lasts, make sure to tell everyone, “This is a temporary workaround.”
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watching the #GlamorousToolkit demos makes me want to implement an #emacs #lisp bytecode VM in #pharo #smalltalk
@strypey
> difficult to keep mobiles usable after a couple of years
Yeah. Even if we could dual-boot a phone into a slower-over-time Android and, say, #postmarketOS , and run Android for occasional apps, Android bloat means a lot of wasted storage, to the extent another OS couldn't be accommodated.
If PotP could live with postmarketOS, it would be an improvement - mobile devices have good hardware, great on power consumption!
@dalias @futurebird
@qqmrichter I am not sure apps or side projects should be in low-level languages like #Ada.
Great language (I had to dabble in VHDL which derives from it), but "just" a better low-level language - all the attention to engineering aspects helps but doesn't elevate it. Maybe Torvalds should have tried to do Linux in it in the 90's.
#Freepascal is surprisingly good; e.g. #GodotEngine . But also too low-level.
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high effort: learn how to format json requests to have afanasy run as a render farm for AI generated shit
low effort: just slap gnu parallel at it and walk off
low effort: just slap gnu parallel at it and walk off
@icedquinn beware, ChatGPT might ;-)
@rhosyn ah, self-awareness. Sentient AI too will get there, I guess. What would it say?
@hq1 but none of the other episodes are humdingers like the first 3, which 3 I found incredible. Making a good video story is difficult!
@siderea
didn't say Apple was in this discussion, more of "is it making tech more accessible than the G". It is possible to fit user needs and then exploit them.
@dalias @strypey
> not sure which posts referred to
yeah, what I recalled isn't explicit in that post
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/109404186032703244
but it sounded like you saw PotP use tech without hangups (unlike PotD)
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@dalias
> a way for tech folk to feel superior
That danger is there, it is tempting mind-candy. But
@siderea does seem to be talking about big tech depriving people of a clear view of tech possibilities.
@strypey had thoughts on this, that "People of the Phone" view tech as just another convenience.
Somehow, we blame Google for how it made Android but not Apple for how it made iOS. Did Apple do it right, as it claims?
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@adamgreenfield Okay. If you take your dislike as grounds not to do it then you have foreclosed all discussion of demographics defined by traits the people in them don't know they share. It becomes impossible to make novel observations about the conditions of people's lives or point out injustices they labor under.
I mean this gently, but I must bring this to your attention: something I have observed is that college-educated people often respond hostilely to any discussion of the life conditions of people who aren't college-educated - which is to say any conversation which risks exposing the class privileges of the college educated - and raise objections on specious grounds, such as that the terms of distinction are offensive or that by observing what the unprivileged do not get we are insulting them by insinuating that they aren't capable of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, to shut down discussion about social class.
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@siderea @futurebird I'm on the fence about whether this claim is accurate or whether it's a narrative for tech folks to feel superior to everyone else.
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@futurebird There's a reason Google Search sucks that most people don't know about. (Actually I think there's several, but one that is not remotely on the radar of people like the sort on Mastodon is...)
There is a profound class divide in internet users. Originally this was framed "digital haves and have nots". While that is still there, it has been eclipsed by another dichotomy it's morphed into: People of the Desktop and People of the Phone.
People of the Desktop are people who learned to use the internet on an "actual computer". This population winds up understanding the internet very differently than the other. The socioeconomic factors of who gets access to desktop/laptop computers mean that this is also a filter for other things like likelihood to have a college education and being comfortable with abstractions.
People of the Desktop tend to retain access to desktops, because they find phones wanting, and know what they're missing.
People of the Phone don't.
