Posts by technomancy@icosahedron.website
(DIR) Post #ARkjDMYL2Rv0heZo6y by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-01-18T00:27:44Z
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@veer66 @skinnylatte costco sells a hot sauce collection here that has a sriracha that's mostly vinegar and is labeled "chinese" and it makes me want to yell
(DIR) Post #ARkqBVEuTDJEkCY784 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-01-18T02:06:03Z
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@loke @veer66 @skinnylatte Sriracha is named after a town in Thailand; it's possible to trademark location names, but it's very difficultmore common is protected regional designations, but most Sriracha is produced and sold on in the US by a company founded by a Vietnamese mantheir bottle has a lot of Chinese writing on it, which is probably why Costco got ... confused
(DIR) Post #ARm1QPmKLjnwnxS9D6 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-01-18T16:25:48Z
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@veer66 finally they did something good! (by accident)
(DIR) Post #AS0L1WBk6C2uk2BZA1 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-01-24T22:05:34Z
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@cwebber I'm not sure where I picked it up but I've started using "user empowerment" more recently as I feel it focuses more directly on addressing the power imbalance in the status quousers of proprietary software don't necessarily *feel* "unfree" but they can more readily identify the fact that they have been disempowered(and because "freedom" is teetering on the edge of semantic satiation in a lot of contexts)
(DIR) Post #AS0L1Zd9IkkdPu1znM by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-01-25T04:48:22Z
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@jfred @aeva @cwebber right; I guess I should have been clearer; I'm not using the term "user empowerment" as a synonym for "software freedom", I'm using it to move beyond the goals of the FSF to things that really matterpart of why I like the term is that it points to how the FSF's focus on license above all else is small-minded and myopic, exactly as you point out
(DIR) Post #AS1rn8NRK6xQU1MjFA by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-01-26T04:59:24Z
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@SpindleyQ the loss of Hypercard taught me to hate Apple which is an important lesson many people have forgottenFlash only taught me to hate Adobe, which is basic 101-level stuff that everyone already knows
(DIR) Post #ASDWw8mFRFUZBpwSie by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-01-31T19:23:56Z
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everything in this article is obvious if you've been following the trend of worker organizing in tech the past few years, but it's notable because it's literally the only piece of reporting I've seen so far that actually goes beyond credulously repeating CEOs' talking points to examine what's really going onit's not about the economy, it's about reminding workers that they work at the pleasure of the bosses and putting fear back into the equationhttps://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-01-30/column-how-big-tech-is-using-mass-layoffs-to-bring-workers-to-heel
(DIR) Post #ASFIoz1RIPGisYW5R2 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-01T19:39:37Z
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@futt did you read the article?
(DIR) Post #ASFKEitNzNBCKuaT8y by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-01T20:07:31Z
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@futt you're right about those two examples; they were built on garbage foundations and have obviously been doomed for a long time, and there are a lot of other VC-backed companies in the same boat by count of companiesbut by count of workers they're a drop in the bucket, and the big established, profitable companies are using this as a screen to try to bring us back to a time when they could treat workers badly
(DIR) Post #ASHcewD3HkmqevM6bI by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-01T22:18:48Z
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@rysiek we moved the Fennel programming language off microsoft github to sourcehut in 2020 and have no regrets; it's been much better for us, especially the CIhttps://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/fennelI haven't used github for any new projects since 2015 or so but I had a bunch of things left around on there until last year when I finally moved everything off
(DIR) Post #ASNKlX6qNB80c4CrGi by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-05T16:52:16Z
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@veer66 in my mind 1.6.7 is what you install from apt by accident, 1.8.2 is what you actually meant to use, and 1.9.0 is what you hope for soon
(DIR) Post #ASPy7uLmveKbapmCci by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-06T21:22:43Z
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it occurs to me there may be some people on this webbed site who are unaware of the greatest forum thread of all time, where bodybuilding.com users get in a heated argument about how many days there are in a weekhttps://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751
(DIR) Post #ASe4qGcIxIMlSWMpuK by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-13T17:50:04Z
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@skinnylatte a lot of the armchair-anthropologist white people analysis I've heard tries to make a link between the influence of deep-seated confucian thinking and being ok with authoritarianism but I'm kind of suspicious of this analysis as it seems a bit too tidy or simplistic; what do you think?
(DIR) Post #ASfxeVxZm1c6CsgZ1c by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-14T16:03:38Z
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@veer66 I think it's because functions are a lot more natural to use in Scheme because it's a lisp-1 but in a lisp-2 you need funcall which makes you more likely to prefer macrosat least, that's how it feels when I use elisp, which is the closest thing to CL that I know
(DIR) Post #ASfyDAYNM1Lzx2QHbM by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-14T16:25:55Z
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how long before we get nostalgic for the good old days when search results contained actual useful information instead of neural network output
(DIR) Post #ASgc98JFkeDG03ynYm by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-14T23:13:56Z
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this interview with the Mozilla CEO is really baffling to mehttps://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23598344/mozilla-firefox-ceo-mitchell-baker-microsoft-edge-bing-google-apple-aifirst off she talks about how Mozilla isn't really anti-microsoft or anti-big-tech, which ... uh, what? and then not very long after that she's talking about how Mozilla has always been anti-tracking... how do you reconcile that? how out of touch do you have to be to think you can be anti-tracking without being anti-big-techlater it gets worse:> Q: Do you think that you have to build generative AI products into Firefox to take advantage of that disruptive moment?> A: Well, at some level the answer is yes, because that’s the new technology.everything she says on this topic is a tremendous nothingburger of meaninglessness; we have to invest in this because it's new, even if we have no idea what it's for or why it would be helpfulthe silicon valley brainworms really show no mercy
(DIR) Post #ASgc99u9ovKKwoFmim by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-14T23:17:53Z
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(obviously I still use firefox; the people leading the development of the alternative browser engines have the same brain worms even more so but ... oof)
(DIR) Post #ASgeE7ixYTS9XaVkOG by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-15T00:03:23Z
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@frog oh shit; that sucksI use the version from debian which has the tracking and other anti-features stripped outanyway if your point was that there's no such thing as a good web browser vendor, you won't find an argument from me
(DIR) Post #ASi6jhb9DZzXeafBL6 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-15T17:24:17Z
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@otyugh @sef I understand it's easy to fix for myself; it's more that I'm embarrassed that my operating system gives such a bad experience for new usersI have come to expect better from them
(DIR) Post #ASuyf3QCNW3nJNIGhM by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2023-02-21T21:36:13Z
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*describing a piano* well see; it's a mechanical keyboard that uses non-clicky, linear switches, but it's got this really unique row-staggered key arrangement where the upper row omits a bunch of keysthe layout takes a lot of getting used to; VERY different from Qwerty, but at the same time also different from Colemak; technically it's a distinct kind of chording system, probably most similar to a steno?anyway I'm going to try running it as my daily driver for a day or two next week to put it thru the paces since it sounds like a lot of people really like it; will let you know how that goes!