Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

Good news, everyone! After a few minutes of Google searching, I have found an article that justifies the self destructive behavior I am currently engaging in! I am now awarding myself this medal, because I deserve it 🥇

started looking into squeak/smalltalk and it's just amazing!
there's this tool called method finder which let's you type in arguments and what you expect them to produce and it lists you all possible methods that could have produced the result.
#smalltalk #squeak

Most open source projects are understaffed, especially given their relevance within the whole software ecosystem.

For projects such as k8s it's of course even worse because their target audience is basically Google/Amazon etc (if you are a normal company it's probably a massive overhead for you) who outsource that relevant work hoping the community likes to work for free while learning the skills Google/Amazon/etc need.

Software complexity is a scam by big tech.

https://mastodon.social/@tcurdt/111839427860786689

​Capitalism is remaking the world on the basis of two spatial models: The airport & the camp. Airports act as securitized spaces of circulation & consumption for the wealthy & well-documented. The camp is abandoned & at times has war waged upon it, serving as a resource & a dump.

For my next class on AI I'm considering only allowing students to submit papers written by ChatGPT, giving grades based on how well they're able to hack/prompt the machine to produce interesting theory. I imagine some students will cheat and do some of the writing on their own.

The reason human rights can appear to be universally embraced yet never be enforced lies precisely in the fact that who is registered as human remains eminently negotiable.

@futurebird

I moved here from Reddit rather than the birdsite, so my experiences may not be quite what you're looking for, but I started out with an introduction and hashtags.

I followed a few hashtags, and then followed some of the Fedifolk using those regularly.

Then, I started visiting the feeds of boosted Fedifolk.

It's taken a wee while to get a feed that I love browsing, but I don't mind that. I love this self-curation thing.

Hope this helps!

@MisuseCase @plexus @daveliepmann Isn’t that ever a telling example? It used to be that you *could* repair a car without engaging the services of a mechanic with authorized diagnostics tools and certified parts from the sole supplier.

I’s not fine that we’re being forced into a world where spreadsheets not only are not offered, but cannot be written.

@daveliepmann I don't think spreadsheets could be invented today. "It's too complicated. Users won't understand. Who would buy this?" Instead of lifting peopled up towards general computing, we have dumbed computers down to cater for 7 second attention spans. We have A/B tested our way into stupidity.

@nano I’ve been thinking this exactly for years! Computers don’t need to get better… software does!

@jalefkowit You can keep your skills current or you can write a little web app. I'm not sure you can do both.

You run a #FreeSoftware project? This is your occasional reminder to move away from #Discord and #Slack and other #Platforms.

As convenient as they seem, every "platform" is a #WalledGarden. They can and will pull the rug from under you any time it's in their interest, without regard for yours.

Migrate your community to systems under community control. Before it becomes a crisis.

https://en.osm.town/@amapanda/111771768413699746

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms #DataSovereignty #SelfHosted

It's like how we ask athletes to be superhuman and when they get caught doping we commence the ritual of pearl clutching and performative teary-eyed mea culpas. What did we think was happening? It's called publish-or-perish. We explicitly judge academics based on how much they publish. Of course ambitious people take risks to juice those numbers -- that's like the definition of ambition.

@amcewen @gilest we used to be able to publish stuff by dragging files into a folder called "Public" (or public_html on some Unix systems). Maybe we should make that work again.