Lady @Lady@cat.family

this isn’t like, a particularly principled stance, because ultimately i think that the bulk of the ethical responsibility for computers lies at the feet of the people providing the computers, and not at the feet of some randos who wrote a software library that someone else decided to run on the computers, but also, no i do not want to make those software platforms i disagree with strongly on a philosophical level Better

honestly i’ve found bugs or at least Problems in ruby or rails or whatever before and come up with workarounds but i will never submit a patch upstream because do you realize what people use rails to Do

@packetcat “eggs”

X·M·L was right to mandate that lesthan be written < everywhere

parsing is just so much more complicated when you can't tell immediately if a curly brace is opening an object or just a literal curly brace in a string

i want a data interchange format like Json but which doesn't allow meaningful markup characters inside quoted strings. does this exist. i mean aside from X·M·L

buddy you don’t even own the thing you wrote; you let everyone make their own copy for free

programmers will literally think that just because they wrote the operating manual that they own the machine

i wonder if there is anything which can be learned from all this

similarly, the part where tolkien was bad was the part where he was an englishman riffing on other cultures he had no personal stake in

the part where tolkien was good was the part where he was an englishman riffing on english culture and its antecedents

i’m invisible today (took a vacation day from work)

@noracodes anyway i’ll add that the baha’i calandar of 19 months with 19 days gives 361 non⹀intercalary days total, so really we are all being conned by the illusory prestige of bases 8/10/12

@noracodes i WANT to be using <https://www.ladys.computer/calendar/>, but calendars don’t have much utility beyond scheduling rest days or worship, and i can’t do the first under capitalism and haven’t yet figured out the second

until that gets fixed we can probably realistically never have things like webrings again