@[email protected] "Object", "fizz", "buzz" are amongst my top "banned" terms in programming.As in if I am ever formally recognized as queen of all (I am queen of all, but you know how it is with nation states and recognizing things) they will be instantly banned from any spec or example problem

@DakkiReads and one important point to note here is that typescript is literally a microsoft project. so when lots of Very Special Boys make a point to say "your language is archaic if it doesn't support typescript, here's my half-assed sketch" and they all mysteriously shut up when the maintainer says "here are two ways we could do this", i never know how much of it is a literal influence campaign from a monopolistic competitor vs just incredible obtuseness

@[email protected] I really wish I had the patience to develop this skill… and the faith that it wouldn’t just be ignored. Which means the skill is probably worth developing so that I can deploy it when I think it’ll workboooooo I just wanna tell corporations to fuck off though(But seriously, that is an important skill)

agree with some of the takes about botsin.space shutting down but not others. mastodon is intentionally hard to run for the same reason it doesn't have a real spec: because that makes website boy and budding website boy usurpers more powerful. software in fact can be made easier to run if you care about building a community around it and not using it for personal power

@hipsterelectronoh serranos are great. they look a lot like jalapeños, but a bit smaller and less likely to be curved. thinner walls and seeds and everything. easy to mistake for a baby jalapeno if you don't know about them.flavor-wise, they're less bell peppery and earthy than jalapeno. brighter/sharper/fresher, if that makes sense. compliments lime really well. other than latin american cuisines, only common usage I know of is that a lot of sushi restaurants in the US will pair them with yellowtail fish... not sure how that came about, but it works haha! i'm able to find them in most grocery stores.heat is between jalapeño and habanero, which can be a wide range. def a very notable increase from jals. i can usually just chomp into a raw jalapeño no problem, but more often not with serranos.

@hipsterelectron If he wanted a site called X, he could have made it for a lot cheaper than buying Twitter. The first step towards having a site called X is not: buying a site called something other than X.It’s like buying a private island and sinking it so you can have your own empty patch of sea.And then the fanboys are like omg he’s disrupting maritime law

@[email protected] @[email protected] not any moral purpose anyway. They're really great for people who want to sow disinformation, doubt, or just to make a haystack around a needle.

@BenAveling @aud @hipsterelectron "originality" defined as "has this block of text or close to it ever been uttered by humans" is not really a useful measure of anything though. The exact same statement in 2 different contexts can have wildly divergent meanings. (Ex: the first person to say "good luck" sarcastically was imo making an original statement even though many presumably had said the words prior.)Determining non-trivial originality of text requires more inputs than the text itself

@ireneista @hipsterelectron @adrienne PGPs file format was Fine until it needed 13 different extensions to keep up with developments in cryptography

"gave proof through the night" sounds like mathematical sex

@[email protected] oh jesus, yeah, I totally forgot about this. Yeah. "after long deliberation and co-design sessions" == "the industry wanted this goal and it took us a while to figure out how to sell it"

important to note that there's a reason a free software movement with real solidarity using tech in concert with others is unpopular it's because it would be very radical and it wouldn't make us the center of the universe anymore. we'd have to listen and to care.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] no surprise that tech companies seem to love hunting down and firing anyone who signs anything deriding military contracts. It doubt it falls under the narrow auspices of labor organising (although it really should; mind you, these companies union bust all the fucking time, so I’m not sure it would matter anyway), but is in effect a demand by an organised group of laborers about how their output is used and I’m sure the companies view it that way.

@dragon church calculus would be a little funny though like please take the integral of the crusades

@[email protected] yeah it's like I said in https://privacy.thenexus.today/swf-and-the-meta-elephant/"Meta has a well-documented track record of sabotaging interoperability initiatives with open networks (as Facebook helped Google to do with XMPP and as WhatsApp is currently doing with Matrix). So why should the Fediverse expect them to follow through on their vague promises about openness and interoperability?To be clear, lying and malicius compliance are only the tip of the iceberg..... But even just looking at the malicious compliance and lying, it's not a question of if Meta screws over their "partners" in ActivityPub Fediverse, but when and how. They've had a good run so far milking their tiny incremental gestures of compatibility to get positive press. Once that dries up, they might well conclude that the ActivityPub Fediverse no longer helps them with what they hoped to accomplish, and turn their attention elsewhere – just like Google (and Facebook) did with XMPP. Or, who knows, maybe they'll find it more useful to manipulate and coopt their Fediverse allies into helping Meta try to weasel their way around regulations. Time will tell!"

has anyone made a pun yet on how "AI" usage in science is written to appeal to science fiction and also creates literal science fiction as in fictional science

@[email protected] (or in one case, literally "nitpick" something they did that happened to show up as visible in the code preview of your PR because they're clearly barely reading it).

@[email protected] how to bake in bias, the old fashioned way. just like grandma used to do when she was ranting about minorities.

my body is a machine that converts ideas into vaporware

@[email protected] yesssssssss