Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

inverting the idea of “lone wolf” programming

a monolithic application programmed by a single organization where compatibility is enforced by the application/test suite breaking if someone pushes an incompatible change: that’s isolated

a dozen people all working on their own codebases and projects where the fruits of the ecosystem are only attainable if everyone agrees to the same sets of basic principles and interfaces, despite a lack of any real technological means of enforcing them: that’s social

open source in the sense of big collaborations can be good

but open source in the sense of a collection of small, individual takes on various problems is better, if you can just get the people to agree on a shared interface for communicating between those programs

planned on spending thanksgiving finishing up some technical debt work on this library so i can start building things with it instead

wound up taking a detour and refactoring several parts that i previously had considered completed

that’s ok

@esther@strangeobject.space idk i’m not a god; my job isn’t to judge whether people are going to heaven or hell, it’s to make the earth a better place

do u think bickering about whether Musk is “responsible” will get us there? how? in my judgment, the emperical evidence leans the other way

it’s saturday

come listen to some japanese jazz

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nT0vcdxq0qpcqT3UUiLXqVnjYe5LQ_BtQ

@esther@strangeobject.space @Reb@strangeobject.space to the contrary, i think portraying a group of super-powerful and influential people as solely responsible for the design and outcome of a system is a normalizing force intended at masking the avenues for the rest of us to change it

Elon Musk would LOVE to believe that he is the architect of the current situation, when in fact he is a pawn of a powerful system perpetuating itself irrespective of his wishes. he is not in control; we are. the system exists because WE lack the strength and will to change it. we must acquire that strength through solidarity. organizing is the first priority

@jdp23 @joepie91 a WARNING is that once you turn on federation, it becomes increasingly dicey to turn it off

if you shut down your server for a long enough period of time, softwares might assume it is gone. then when you bring it back up, they might refuse to talk to it no matter what you do (to prevent domain hijacking). so it's probably best to keep what you have up and running until you have a tested replacement ready that you can swap in

@jdp23 @joepie91 the detail which would prevent this is the signing of the posts for things like secure fetch

theoretically, if you can keep the keys and signatures the same when switching software, nobody will know

if you live in a state where your institution still can claim copyright over your work even though you are doing it on your own time and on your own device and they aren’t paying you, i am sorry

happy “programming on your own device on your own time without your institution being able to claim copyright over your work because they aren’t paying you” day, to those who celebrate

@Satsuma in any case this is a moment of zen because the disconnect between what the presumed reader thinks forums are and what the writer thinks forums are shatters the illusion that there is any kind of broad understanding what webforum culture was or what made it great

if people are calling reddit a forum that's saying something

@Satsuma u are too young to understand (moment of zen is a feature at the end of the daily show which highlights something from the media which is cringe [it’s “zen” because it is intended to jar you into epiphany regarding the limits of rationality as a frame for understanding the world, but that’s neither here nor there])

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they’re using this as evidence to debunk the conspiracy theory that jan 6th rioters were provoked by the f·b·i but uhhh it’s kind of concerning in its own right

« Most of the federal informants who have emerged from criminal cases related to Jan. 6 were not tasked by their handlers with spying on right-wing subjects — let alone with seeking to entrap Trump supporters into storming the Capitol. They were mostly far-right figures who were recruited by the F.B.I. to report on their adversaries in the far-left antifa movement. »

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