Post A3I816oQdvmC3dwrGC by cjd@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #A3I7MYo9eRmZ0mU8no by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2021-01-16T09:36:45Z
       
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       – Where’s your easy-to-use, plug-and-play, ethical alternative to these toxic trillion-dollar products?– Thanks for asking. We’ve been paying out of pocket for years to work on it. Fancy giving us a few million to speed it up?– No.– How about a few thousand so we don’t starve?– No.– So, is it ready yet?
       
 (DIR) Post #A3I816oQdvmC3dwrGC by cjd@mastodon.social
       2021-01-16T09:45:08Z
       
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       @aral My experience has been that the UI is about as much effort as the code itself, and UX is a black hole for soaking up time and effort since it encompases both clarity of purpose and correctness of code.
       
 (DIR) Post #A3I81igxo8NrXUkQts by ganska@mastodon.se
       2021-01-16T09:52:46Z
       
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       @cjd @aral  i find the implication that software in general does not require clarity of purpose both amusing and terrifying
       
 (DIR) Post #A3KJHmCrznBUsvS0Ce by silmathoron@floss.social
       2021-01-16T12:43:53Z
       
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       @aral I seem to remember you mentioned something about giving a last chance to applying to a grant not so long ago... did you get any (good) news about that?
       
 (DIR) Post #A3KJHmkBztq6YH2c8u by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2021-01-17T10:40:01Z
       
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       @silmathoron Nope. Computer said no. https://twitter.com/aral/status/1349677232340537344
       
 (DIR) Post #A3KJHn092abFLkVM0W by g@fed.giorgiocomai.eu
       2021-01-17T11:06:44.179064Z
       
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       @aral @silmathoron such a pain... If you have a startup idea with basically zero realistic chanche of working, combined with some unethic business model, you are still much more likely to get public funding than if you propose something that is "only" made for the public good.Even worse, in some EU-funded projects one must include some disfunctional idea that maybe maybe maybe will bring in some money that can be used to demonstrate one thinks of "sustainability". These mostly do not work, so it's mostly just a tax to the gods of business, in which you must demonstrate to have faith... In practice, one has to throw away, say, 10% of project budget to do something completely useless but that "looks like businness".It's the cost of ideology. Either way, I still believe that public funding should eventually become the main source of support for "small web" core technologies and a different approach to platforms more in general.
       
 (DIR) Post #A3L4xsdVB14GplUC4u by bignose@social.chinwag.org
       2021-01-16T10:13:56Z
       
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       @aral - So, we never paid a cent for the incumbent platform, and that's been here for ages. *they* never ask me for money, they just keep providing the slick convenient platform.- Right, that's 'cause they keep getting billions of dollars to maintain it. Every year. Want to kick some in so we can move fast like that?- No. Why don't you just get money the same way they do?- Remember how you asked for us to do this ethically?
       
 (DIR) Post #A3L8gziE0vt3fqtnIu by silmathoron@floss.social
       2021-01-17T10:52:07Z
       
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       @aralSad 😔
       
 (DIR) Post #A3L8gzuzFU5yJQrzCC by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2021-01-17T11:05:50Z
       
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       @silmathoron Wasn’t expecting anything else. If we’d pitched them a cryptocurrency get rich quick scheme we’d be rolling in the dough right now. *smh*