Post AlP203RBKNxE4XHEa8 by jpaskaruk@growers.social
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(DIR) Post #AlP1zmKAxBFUzsrtnk by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T13:59:56Z
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Geeks love C, the way Maverick loves jets. Apt metaphor - C has no guardrails and you can murder your hardware, even, if you write something bad enough.It's dangerous to have no guardrails, but also kinda fun; you can do things nobody's seen, maybe.Many humans chafe at guardrails, because they want to seem daring. Or sometimes, because the guardrails are not actually there for safety, but to gatekeep, or to monopolize a finite resource.There is a raw honesty, though, to C.1/?
(DIR) Post #AlP1zmtcpNbalpSD3Y by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:03:57Z
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2/?The dangerous novelty of C carries through to the Linux kernel, which runs on it, and GNU/Linux is likewise a somewhat trepidacious, let's call it, OS to run.And we geeks like that, too. It enables us to do exploits, in hats of various shades. Occasionally, something nobody's seen yet.We always, consciously or unconsciously, contrast it with Windows, which has many, many guardrails. Guardrails that we chafe at and complain about, AND which have always been abused to monopolize desktops.
(DIR) Post #AlP1zruACo0UIwkD5c by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:08:11Z
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3/?Mastodon compares similarly to X-Twit and others; here, we celebrate the lack of filters imposed from above, and believe it makes our minds more free, less influenced, more able to discern truth from fiction, to be here, than to be on those other sites.But along with that freedom, rarely do we talk about the fact that we have also removed the guardrails from this system.The Linux-Fediverse comparison is a correct one, is what I'm saying. Here you can do cool stuff, and also bad stuff.
(DIR) Post #AlP1ztcro5MLdsfQPI by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:11:12Z
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4/?And so, we should not be puzzled when black voices tell us that their experience here is worse than at the "nazi bar" or the other, supposedly bad, corporate sites.We are all free, but we have removed the guardrails, and also, we are still very, very white here.I don't know the statistics, and I doubt we could get accurate ones. But aside from one or two high profile black accounts, most of the faces I see in the top left are either white, or a cartoon.Dots should be filling in, rn.
(DIR) Post #AlP1zvOlDVGR8i5BhI by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:14:54Z
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5/?Basically, my fellow white people, we need to know ourselves better, if we want this experiment to succeed.Because here in North America, anyways, we don't get a better society for ourselves, if we don't create a better society for the people who do not look like us, or speak like us, but possibly sell us delicious food or awesome music.Too many of us are still subject to our most venal motivations, and it comes through in everything we do and say.
(DIR) Post #AlP1zxUVR733d6mnvk by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:23:14Z
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6/?My brain keeps wanting to expand on the ways that this need for self-knowledge goes so much farther than whether you wear a "White Dudes For Kamala" hat if American, or put a sign out indicating who you're voting for.I have a bandmate that voted NDP in the last election, he says, but when I was out delivering lawn signs, declined to have me place one outside his home.This started as a talk about C, and there's a C-word for that.Or perhaps he just doesn't know himself all that well.
(DIR) Post #AlP1zzVHxArXs7ASQa by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:27:33Z
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7/?Lately I'm back driving gravel trucks. It's a hot, hard, dirty job, and I have given myself two minor and lingering injuries already, which is just how it goes.Long hours, and having tasted the Developer lifestyle and paycheques, not good pay, and there is no work-life balance through the week - I wake up and start getting ready, I come home and hopefully get prepared for the next day and I go to bed.My coworkers are pretty unhappy single dudes, and when are they gonna meet a wife?
(DIR) Post #AlP201ds0EuoVJCL56 by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:30:45Z
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8/?And yet, when politics came up a few weeks ago, every one of them cannot wait to vote for Poilievre. The hatred - hate - for Trudeau was astonishing, and if I had not already prepared myself for it, I would not have been able to keep smiling through it, after I got my licks of reality in:$10M real estate portfolio - he will do nothing about housing costs while profiting from them.He's never had a real job.And yet, if the trucker contingent had its way, he's our next PM.
(DIR) Post #AlP203RBKNxE4XHEa8 by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:33:26Z
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9/?You would think that these people would want to vote for a party that seeks economic justice, such that we could all work an 8-hour day, go home and either find a family or spend time with the one I've got.@lakelaur does an amazing job at being a trucker wife, but mostly, we live a life that precludes families, because we are away, all the time.And truth is, a lot of us are pretty nice guys, but if you subject anyone to this level of pressure that they can't escape...
(DIR) Post #AlP205XdVMJ0b8JPv6 by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:38:30Z
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10/?Anyways, these guys are so busy hoovering the hustle gas while choking on road dust and diesel fumes, they seem completely unable to wrap their heads around the idea that all it would take is one strike to bring such justice to ourselves - evenings hanging out at the bar and meeting a wife or playing with our kids.Who doesn't want that?But they've chosen junior high contempt over grown-up self-regard. I'm rambling.
(DIR) Post #AlP207Zpw9FouXMCcy by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:45:37Z
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11/11 I hopeThe point I set out to make was about #Mastodon .We can have all the dangerous freedom we want, that's free, but if we do not establish some *guardrails* based on making this a space for all, we will end up being as relevant as IRC is today.As a starting point, follow @mekkaokereke because he is the best voice for white people to *start* hearing. His patience amazes me.Read everything, talk as little as you can. You might actually gain some self-knowledge.
(DIR) Post #AlP209fw8RK1Q2E6Pg by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:50:30Z
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12/11***Canadians tooFirst thing, we are not less of anything that the Americans are, other than wealthy. They did some rhetorical trickery to redefine themselves as separate from Colonialist project - specifically, they did some cutbacks and made it a straight-up racist project.Got rid of things like the Colonialist rhetoric of "white man's burden" responsibility for the "child like" colonized; instead, Americans have "superpredators" and ungrateful n-words who were blessed by abduction.
(DIR) Post #AlP20BbOyGsnOY7Vce by jpaskaruk@growers.social
2024-07-27T14:56:15Z
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Made it all the way to here? Have a little Jazz with your knowledge of self.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0D0LI53ALA#Music #US3 #KnowledgeOfSelf