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Oh that's an interesting approach. It's a _very_ paired ...

2024-09-09T05:45:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…2r9a
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Oh that's an interesting approach. It's a _very_ paired down version that uses its own conceits but borrows from AP's base design. Then they've answered a variety of questions canonically for themselves that AP punted on.

Not mutually intelligible with AP (AP would have no idea what to do with https://versia.pub/entities/follow-accept for example), but not difficult to bridge either (which seems to be their approach).

Erlend Sogge Heggen (npub1hfw…4jg3)

Yes random text message, I am sure that your claim to be ...

2024-09-01T04:27:16Z

Yes random text message, I am sure that your claim to be representing the Colorado Government and directing me to a DNS entry that:

1. Was registered yesterday.
2. In Peru.
3. Connecting to an IP address in Russia.

Is completely legit and 100% definitely from the Colorado government.

Me: "Sure, I'll take your cider." Barkeep: "Turns ...

2024-08-30T23:02:48Z

Me: "Sure, I'll take your cider."

Barkeep: "Turns out we just rotated to a different one, would you still like it? <provides sample>"

Me: "Oh! This is good! Yes please"

<time passes>

Me: "Huh, what brand did you say?"

Barkeep: "hmmm, I think it is wild cider, but let me check"

Barkeep, coming back: "so, uh, it is wild cider, and it is supposed to be served in 4 oz glasses. I'm not going to charge you anything different, but you should probably know it is 8%"

That is, in fact, good to know

Why is Harris the only one who gets referred to as a cop? I never ...

2024-08-23T23:47:31Z

Why is Harris the only one who gets referred to as a cop?

I never heard the term applied to Lieberman, for all of his problems. Nor to Beshear, nor Shapiro. Never heard it applied to Tom Udall, when he was around, either. Gov Abbott gets rightly criticized for a lot of things, but I don't think I've ever heard someone call him a cop?

Why does Harris get that description when others who have served as attorney general don't?

Like sure, agent of the state, but why _just_ her?

#politics

Emelia (@npub1ecs…u4wq) has been doing great work on mastodon ...

2024-08-16T16:45:56Z

Emelia (Emelia 👸🏻 (npub1ecs…u4wq)) has been doing great work on mastodon for a long, long time and is absolutely someone worth supporting:

https://support.thisismissem.social
https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/112972522302926968

"But they…" Okay, and you don't understand how ...

2024-08-14T17:02:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…6sg2
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"But they…"

Okay, and you don't understand how transphobia is not just about you? That it contributes to dehumanization of others outside of the scope of your disagreement?

That dehumanizing contributes to a _culture_ of dehumanization that is currently a very, very real threat to many of us? That there are overarching _systemic_ and _societal_ issues at play outside of your own feelings?

Go challenge them to a duel or whatever. Don't misgender them.

You are saying that our basic humanity is contingent on whether ...

2024-08-14T15:56:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…par7
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You are saying that our basic humanity is contingent on whether _you_ _like_ _us_.

Which is absolute BS.

I despise Caitlyn Jenner and Blair White. I don't deliberately misgender either of them or treat misgendering of them as a "well I hate them so it is okay." Doing so would be _transphobia_.

So if you see this in your orbit you need to be calling this out, or calling the person who is doing it in, or you are complicit.

Period. Full stop.

If you deliberately misgender someone and think it is okay ...

2024-08-14T15:46:33Z

If you deliberately misgender someone and think it is okay because you don't like them, or because they hurt you, or any other reason:

That. Is. Transphobia.

I don't know why this is hard for people.

That. Is. Transphobia.

If you see this and you are in the person's trusted orbit and you _don't_ call it out or call them in (even privately) that is also transphobia.

Having trans friends or trans people who agree with you does not obviate this in any way, shape, or form.

It is dehumanizing.

One toxic manager—including tech leads, project managers, ...

2024-08-04T05:45:48Z

One toxic manager—including tech leads, project managers, etc—causes significant harm to the people around them and below them.

They destroy people's lives, derail careers, and can kill companies before anyone who doesn't report to them knows what is happening.

One is all it takes.

But companies pretty much always and very consistently side with the person who has power. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, giving them grace, and providing second chances.

While they destroy.

Harm reduction is about reducing harm. One of these yahoos ...

2024-07-31T10:34:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…arsg
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Harm reduction is about reducing harm.

One of these yahoos claimed that "instead of voting" we should "form unions."

Which. Uh.

I'm a big proponent of everyone unionizing, but:

1. Do you realize how many ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE HARDER unionizing will be under a Trump administration?

2. Do you realize what the difference of _scale_ is between unionizing your workplace and showing up to vote?

Yes, do unionize. Absolutely.

But also vote.

Positions I have actually seen people take in the last week on ...

2024-07-31T10:30:15Z

Positions I have actually seen people take in the last week on here:

1. Harm reduction doesn't count because not everyone is saved.

2. Harm reduction is privileged because how sad that you suffer a fraction of the harm you "gleefully inflict on others."

3. Harm reduction doesn't count because there's more work to do.

Next time someone comes in with "no one is saying" I have a stack of these to throw at them.

I just.

am so.

tired.

Something important that @npub1g90…r22m is talking about here: ...

2024-07-30T09:15:47Z

Something important that Paul Cantrell (npub1g90…r22m) is talking about here:

It's going beyond blocklists.

There are so many things we can do that aren't blocklists, and certainly aren't consensus blocklists.

Quarantine is such an obvious and simple step and a time honored tradition for tackling these sorts of problems.

As is a keyword embargo: require moderator review before posts with certain keywords make it through from people who aren't being followed, or equivalents thereof.
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112872266316450280

I'm wondering how much processing systems naïvely do to ...

2024-06-12T15:33:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…lpgk
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I'm wondering how much processing systems naïvely do to understand the result here.

If I provide a link to a 10 MB object do you have safeties in place?

Does it traverse? If so that has lots of exciting edge cases.

If it refers into a loop will it catch that?

etc.

For those who are playing at home, two questions across a few ...

2024-06-12T08:09:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…t20d
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For those who are playing at home, two questions across a few examples should illustrate the frustration:

Q1. What should happen?
Q2. What do you think _would_ happen with implementations today?

Scenarios.

S1. Replying to two separate posts.
S2. Replying to itself.
S3. Providing a Link object reference.
S4. Providing a Link*
S5. Providing an Actor.
S6. Providing an Activity.

What actually happens isn't a mystery but it isn't pretty: https://funfedi.dev/support_tables/generated/in_reply_to/

Ugggggghhhhhh. Whhyyyyyy. I know I've ranted about this ...

2024-06-12T08:03:33Z

Ugggggghhhhhh. Whhyyyyyy.

I know I've ranted about this before, but still, looking at it tonight and just… why.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams

Mustards: "I can take 2 years to eliminate from a ...

2024-05-30T20:25:22Z

Mustards: "I can take 2 years to eliminate from a pasture!"
Kochia: "I take 3!"
Thistles: "We can take 5+ years!"

Bindweed and Russian Knapweed, speaking together: "Amateurs! AMATEURS!"

Time to do some light reading on this flight. We'll see how ...

2024-05-30T18:30:00Z

Time to do some light reading on this flight. We'll see how far I get before I need to take a break and switch over to something less… substantive.

It's also relatively common for people to think that things ...

2024-05-30T16:09:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…ecgx
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It's also relatively common for people to think that things are a performance consideration because they don't understand them.

Like the number of situations I've seen Guice be the source of a performance problem? I can basically count on one hand and usually a) it's a misconfiguration and b) it's rectified with like two lines of code.

But the number of times I've seen developers _blame_ Guice? Many, many more times.

I've talked about this here before, but in general: Java ...

2024-05-30T16:06:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…7r2f
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I've talked about this here before, but in general: Java performance advice is just so often… horridly wrong. Like you can still find pieces of advice that date back to pre Java 1.4 days.

But this doesn't mean that there aren't performance considerations, it's just that they are almost never the performance considerations that people think of when they think of how to tune java or debug performance issues.

The outdated (or just flat incorrect) advice is often worse than no advice at all.

Especially because so much has changed between the LTS releases ...

2024-05-30T16:03:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…mf08
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Especially because so much has changed between the LTS releases that it's worth revisiting every so often.

I should give my "How I learned to stop worrying and love the ...

2024-05-30T16:01:34Z

I should give my "How I learned to stop worrying and love the JIT" (not my original title, but someone suggested it and I'm stealing it) talk again.

I also need to do a followup "Fear and Loathing in HotSpot" talk about "things you are seeing as problems, why they exist, and how to address them."

Like I've now seen "no one said not to vote for harm ...

2024-05-30T08:13:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…ljhp
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Like I've now seen "no one said not to vote for harm reduction" said in a thread with someone who _advocates not voting_ in that exact same thread.

This "no one said…" line is extremely tired.

"No one said not to do harm reduction" Except I have ...

2024-05-30T08:10:54Z

"No one said not to do harm reduction"

Except I have multiple examples of people doing exactly that.

Come on, this isn't particularly difficult to find.

"Harm reduction is just reformism" No, ...

2024-05-30T02:47:12Z

"Harm reduction is just reformism"

No, "reformism"—or whatever particular brand of "rebuild society" you are for—is about what you are doing with the other 365 days out of the year and how you are looking to drive change.

Harm reduction is about reducing harm in the meantime.

Girlfriend is describing #EchoesOfThePlumGrove to me, my ...

2024-05-29T22:52:34Z

Girlfriend is describing #EchoesOfThePlumGrove to me, my response:

"So it's like a hybrid of Stardew Valley and Don't Starve as if written by Paradox Games?"

"Person who won't do anything claims that the problem is ...

2024-05-29T22:26:43Z

"Person who won't do anything claims that the problem is no one else will do the only things they approve of, film at 11."

I present: The "praxis" of those who proclaim "but ...

2024-05-29T22:23:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…nqxn
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I present: The "praxis" of those who proclaim "but both sides are bad and we should do something else." Grey on black pixels, 2024.

You are being given an almost literal example of a trolly problem ...

2024-05-29T20:44:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…rr45
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You are being given an almost literal example of a trolly problem and a bunch of people have decided that the solution is to sit on their hands and whine about how they can't change how trains work.

Like, seriously now. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DEFINITION OF HARM ...

2024-05-29T20:37:36Z

Like, seriously now. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DEFINITION OF HARM REDUCTION IS?

"Harm reduction" is providing clean needles. It's making sure they don't trip while walking through the fire. It's providing a less harmful drug so that they don't self medicate with the more harmful drug.

It is not generally "putting out the fire."

Now. Again. Harm reduction is not sufficient, but it's not _meant_ to be sufficient. It is a way of reducing harm in the meantime.
https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/112526283353648297

That is _literally the definition of harm reduction_ wtf. "I ...

2024-05-29T20:33:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…lqan
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That is _literally the definition of harm reduction_ wtf. "I can reduce my probability of tripping when I walk into the fire or I can increase the risk of tripping" could be _used as an example of harm reduction_.

If you want to go do illegal solutions then go do illegal solutions

In the meantime, there's harm reduction. Harm reduction isn't the end of the road, it's not the only thing you should do, it's a strategy so that you _reduce the harm in the meantime_

Neal Stidham (npub1pgs…q6t3) Shoq 🌿 (npub10cf…fmxr)

This is the kind of thing that I mean when I talk about harm ...

2024-05-29T20:30:28Z

This is the kind of thing that I mean when I talk about harm reduction.

Harm reduction is about _reduction of harm going forward_. People seem to have gotten it into their heads somehow that "harm reduction" means "reducing the harm that has already happened."

That has _never_ been the definition, yet here we are.
https://mastodon.social/@shoq/112513633430716776

"None of the potential harm reduction Biden voters promised ...

2024-05-29T20:25:03Z

"None of the potential harm reduction Biden voters promised me before has come to pass"

On what planet do you spend most of your time? How's the weather there?

Me: "I think this alert is a false positive for us. There may ...

2024-05-28T23:39:54Z

Me: "I think this alert is a false positive for us. There may be a real issue, but it is directing it to the wrong group and we can't do anything about it."

Coworker: "I'm not sure I'd characterize it as a false positive given that it identified a real issue."

Me: "I'm not disputing that there is also a false **negative** involved as well."

"I miss the old internet, when the cruel people were ...

2024-05-28T18:11:05Z

"I miss the old internet, when the cruel people were contained to one or two websites I could ignore"

What internet would that be, exactly?

It certainly wasn't any internet I've been on, and I've been around since the 1990s.

This "nostalgia for the 'heyday of the internet'" almost always seems to be rooted in these rose-colored glasses about how things were.

I won't argue about whether things are better or worse overall, but this idea that the internet was somehow _nicer_ is weird to me.

Pet peeve "Happy memorial day." -.-

2024-05-27T20:13:59Z

Pet peeve "Happy memorial day."

-.-

Just in general I see saying "oh btw there's a whisper ...

2024-05-26T20:35:17Z

Just in general I see saying "oh btw there's a whisper network you aren't apart of and no I won't invite you, but there are actively unsafe situations I'm aware of that you should be cautious of, no I won't even tell you the genre of concern so that you can ask relevant questions" to be… at best in poor taste.

Like, look. I get that you don't want to name names. You can ...

2024-05-26T20:25:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…0emd
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Like, look. I get that you don't want to name names.

You can mention the group. Or vaguebook about your experience so that people know what to ask or listen for (see what I'm doing here?) You can say "DM me for details." You can say "I'd be cautious around <entities> run by <org> and make sure you ask about trust and safety considerations." Even "here are some questions you can ask"

But this "there's a whisper network, you aren't in it, but be careful! predators are out there! " is not helpful

You can let people know the group without letting people know ...

2024-05-26T19:48:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…u8f4
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You can let people know the group without letting people know specifics. You can give people guidance on which questions to ask. You can give people a category of problem that you are talking about.

This whole "THERE'S SOMEONE OUT THERE WHO MIGHT (or might not) HURT YOU AND I KNOW DETAILS BUT I WON'T SHARE THEM" is entirely too common and it is actively harmful.

It also encourages "vibe checks," which I have strong negative opinions about.

What are they supposed to be looking for?

"We can't communicate openly for Reasons™" Great, ...

2024-05-26T19:45:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…9ny2
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"We can't communicate openly for Reasons™"

Great, fantastic. But saying "SO BE CAREFUL BECAUSE AN ABUSER (who I won't mention) IS OUT THERE SOMEWHERE (that I know but won't state)" is the opposite of helpful.

Being vague about specific harmful experiences with groups who ...

2024-05-26T19:44:23Z

Being vague about specific harmful experiences with groups who you won't name and just advising people to "be cautious" is the opposite of helpful and further propagates the problems of the culture of silence around these topics. In this essay I will…

If everything else wasn't sufficient: After seeing what ...

2024-05-26T16:58:44Z

If everything else wasn't sufficient: After seeing what happened to tooters and my own previous experience with communities disappearing overnight, I'm _extremely_ disinclined to move servers even if another one would be a better "fit" and _especially_ if that server is not fairly significantly sized.

I've done the "my community might disappear tomorrow" dance for entirely too long (1990s) and I don't particularly want to invest the time or the energy into worrying about it any longer.

Like so. ...

2024-05-26T15:59:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…r4m6
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Like so.

Meeting from last week. Manager: "Are you available for a ...

2024-05-26T15:56:48Z

Meeting from last week.

Manager: "Are you available for a conversation tomorrow? I know it will be very early for you."

Me: "…is it a capital-C Conversation?"

Manager: "…a what?"

Me: "Does it involve HR or is it about my performance in some way?"

Manager: "OH! No!!! I'm getting feedback about the recent reorg from various senior people and I'd like you involved, that's all."

Me: "whew. Okay. Had me concerned there for a second. Yes. I can be available early for that."

But, and this is a core theme that I think it is easy to miss ...

2024-05-26T15:45:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…7r6k
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But, and this is a core theme that I think it is easy to miss (and something that Asato Asato called out): This isn't just "this is all doom and gloom." There are legitimate light moments, legitimate moments of fun, they humanize—effectively—the people.

They show that these are kids. They have light moments, they play, and yet they know (or learn) what this is.

Sometimes when stories use kids like this it feels cheap. In this case it feels purposeful.

It's a damning indictment of society

Sometimes stories _use_ the horrors of war. They don't flinch ...

2024-05-26T15:40:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…egn3
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Sometimes stories _use_ the horrors of war. They don't flinch from it, but it isn't about that. That's the backdrop so that they can tell their story about hope or remembrance or friendship or love. So that they can pull you along with the tragedy and loss.

This story uses the light elements to make its point about racism, genocide, and war.

The anime does in some ways a better job of using those light elements to draw you along while not losing the point. The light novel is relentless.

The first season of the #EightySix anime does this, but the book ...

2024-05-26T15:34:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…mv0t
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The first season of the #EightySix anime does this, but the book grinds the point in. Behind the anime aesthetic, the sci fi elements, and the cute imagery the story is not only deathly serious, but deathly serious to a purpose. The war, the racism, the genocide is all done with a real world analog and the book wants you to understand what it is doing.

The book repeatedly references All Quiet on the Western Front and it isn't just for show. This is an anti-war novel, underscored in triplicate.

At least the first book of #EightySix (Asato ...

2024-05-26T15:29:51Z

At least the first book of #EightySix (Asato Asato/安里アサト) is a masterclass in talking about the limits of being the privileged savior. The limits of your ability, of your experience, of your _capability_ to empathize

Again and again it drives its point home:

That when you have privilege you cannot "give up that privilege." You always have it, and you _cannot_ understand what those who do not have it go through

About how prejudice is systemic and genocidal, and how the system propagates itself

I want the hide and go seek version of #windtrace back ;_; Not ...

2024-05-26T07:19:03Z

I want the hide and go seek version of #windtrace back ;_;

Not this Dead By Daylight nonsense.

#genshin

Oh good, one of my least favorite presentation patterns: ...

2024-05-23T16:23:32Z

Oh good, one of my least favorite presentation patterns: "here's a video of a bunch of random people saying what $foo 'means' to them, usually using low-quality microphones and no sound editing to speak of."

This doesn't mean that we don't work to fix our language, ...

2024-05-23T05:44:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…8d95
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This doesn't mean that we don't work to fix our language, but it does mean that we need to be aware of the context a word or phrase exists in and the cultural intersections that go along with it.

We just aren't trying to move someone necessarily "away from an imperfect form" and "toward a perfect form that we decided on fifteen minutes ago." Instead there is a cultural gap, there is a matter of identity, and humanity (and all of nature) likes to defy categorization every chance it gets.

Converging on perfect, non-problematic language: 1. Isn't ...

2024-05-23T05:22:07Z

Converging on perfect, non-problematic language:

1. Isn't possible.

2. Erases a lot of identity in the margins.

3. Will not fix oppression. Especially when your target audience are the group that uses that label.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

The Owl House is absolutely amazing, start to finish.

2024-05-23T05:16:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…s5sc
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The Owl House is absolutely amazing, start to finish.

One of those things that's worth keeping in the back of your ...

2024-05-23T03:15:42Z

One of those things that's worth keeping in the back of your mind:

Things tend to change at the orders of magnitude.

What you need at 99% reliability is not the same thing you need at 99.9% reliability is not the same thing that you need at 99.99998% reliability.

So when you see people confidently assert that "let's just throw a neural network at it" you should immediately be asking "what is the cost of a failure."

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/on-self-driving-waymo-is-playing-chess-while-tesla-plays-checkers/

Cis people sitting with each other and saying "protect trans ...

2024-05-23T01:05:36Z

Cis people sitting with each other and saying "protect trans kids" to each other and then undermining that in every interaction with a trans person or in any opportunity to actually support trans people is…

…well, it's definitely a thing.

I was at a Native fundraiser awhile back and they had a _very_ ...

2024-05-23T01:02:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…aajg
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I was at a Native fundraiser awhile back and they had a _very_ powerful land acknowledgement at the front, but part of what made it powerful was their statement about how "this can feel useless, sometimes, or like it is the only thing that it is done" and their reflection on "what it means to us to be doing this."

It wasn't colonizers doing it pro-forma for other colonizers.

Sam (npub1fvh…sedu)

I don't have the power to make the US Congress functional, or ...

2024-05-22T06:35:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…2r4a
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I don't have the power to make the US Congress functional, or the SCOTUS not terrible, or get the EU to move more quickly, so what are the concrete actions I can take?

Unions are a concrete step that many people have the ability to take and one that can help.

Think that there is no effective action and we're all doomed to a Malthusian ending?

Then how do you respond to that, because that is the one thing you _can_ control: your response.

JackieM (npub1l0v…sv7r)

The fundamental assertion that the value of the labor will drop ...

2024-05-22T06:24:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…7sgd
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The fundamental assertion that the value of the labor will drop to zero I think is a fundamental flaw.

Good luck to them with that theory of labor value. They've been pushing this idea since at least the late 1980s that the "next big thing" would "eliminate" the need for software engineers

Could this be it? Could this finally be it after forty years?

Maybe! But I'm not holding my breath, and in the meantime the question is "what actions can we take in this moment"

JackieM (npub1l0v…sv7r)

If you want to fight back there are a handful of predominant ...

2024-05-22T06:08:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…z2v3
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If you want to fight back there are a handful of predominant methods, depending on which theory of power.

Unions are the most practical and the most in your day-to-day control. The others are things like political solutions, which both take time and tend to be out of your average person's hands in a way that unions are not.

Will they always work? Absolutely not. On the other hand: they already have today for this exact problem in the software industry.

JackieM (npub1l0v…sv7r)

They think that because it has already been done. The WGA being ...

2024-05-22T05:54:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…4dc6
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They think that because it has already been done. The WGA being one example. In tech it's already happened as well: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-11/microsoft-agrees-to-union-contract-terms-governing-its-use-of-ai

Then there is the book Blood in the Machine.

JackieM (npub1l0v…sv7r)

The #RustLang "Rust by Example" is absolutely brilliant. ...

2024-05-22T02:28:08Z

The #RustLang "Rust by Example" is absolutely brilliant. Mad props.

They _will_ try. It being a terrible idea doesn't mean that ...

2024-05-22T02:18:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…g5th
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They _will_ try. It being a terrible idea doesn't mean that they won't try. It ultimately being doomed to failure doesn't mean they won't try. They've been pushing this narrative for _years_, waiting for a moment when they could try to find a justification to cut our numbers or our pay.

So they will try.

Go unionize. That's your only way of resisting them trying.

But.

Our skills will still be valuable on the other side when they eventually figure out that this doesn't work.

"But you will be using AI in…" Possibly! I don't ...

2024-05-22T02:12:28Z

"But you will be using AI in…"

Possibly! I don't dispute that it may happen! I've seen a lot of thoughts in that direction for other technologies that never panned out, but I've also seen it go the other way.

Finding a _use_ for the generative AI tools in the development process won't surprise me. Especially if the cost comes down.

What I balk at are _replacement_ narratives or the idea that somehow it will invalidate human engineers.

Also: you should _unionize_ to fight them trying.

"we have this language that can express something precisely ...

2024-05-21T16:00:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…jxxp
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"we have this language that can express something precisely and even in some cases provably. We do need specialists who can think in terms of the problem, however, and deconstruct the ideas so that they can be worked on. Especially because you are never clear in your ideas."

"Okay, but what if we just had the execs say whatever [nonsense] ideas in English and software [that we can't understand or deconstruct] _generated_ it, what then, huh?"

Part of my frustration with #ActivityPub and one of the things I ...

2024-05-16T15:43:48Z

Part of my frustration with #ActivityPub and one of the things I find baffling giving everything else in it: the lack of tools for backpressure.

Backpressure is fundamental in building reliable distributed systems (c.f., Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods). From a C2S perspective I get why it wouldn't need to be specified, but from a S2S _federated_ protocol perspective its absence is frustrating.

All that it says is to take care not to overwhelm _others_ and a bit on rate limits

* #Kink belongs at #pride * Cops do not. * #Ace and #Aro belong ...

2023-05-19T04:00:46Z

* #Kink belongs at #pride

* Cops do not.

* #Ace and #Aro belong under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. They have not universally historically been included under the "A," but they have _always_ been there (sometimes under the A, sometimes under the B, but they've been there).

* #Queer is a reclaimed slur. As is "gay" and many of our other terms.

* Yes I am "not #gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you." (/magneto was right/insert the culturally appropriate variant here).