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@wallhackio @monorail a variation with Falco as the captain. “god, what a week.” “captain, it’s tuesday”

i almost hope she doesn’t have an editor (in the sense of writing) because that would be an embarrassing miss fur them. but also i think she might need an editor

i agree with her ideological bias, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a pretty clear example imo of ideological bias distorting her read of the article in question

honestly the latest angela collier video stands out to me as kind of weird and uncomfurtable, because the entire purremise of the video, the point she is trying to make, is that a guy “getting warned about pressing the delete button and then being shocked it deleted things” stands as an effective warning about what AI does to your brain

but like

that’s literally just not a fair reading of what the article said happened. he toggled a data collection opt out button and without warning lost all his data. that’s a VERY diffurent thing from what she said he said was happening. it’s imo a pretty blatant example of Collier’s (correct) bias in action: she misread the article in such a misleading way that it made her find the character to be much more ridiculous looking than you can actually say. the blatant ignoring of a warning simply did not happen. that ruins the entire point of the video

it’s a bad video?

@vaporeon_ ime “programmer” as a job title is extremely rare; the only time i think i’ve ever seen a job listing with that title was fur a job that seemed like all you do is grunt work to implement somebody else’s ideas

i’m really not exactly sure what the diffurence is between a software “developer” and “engineer” are other than that the latter title seems to have a higher upside on pay, and maybe more involvement in design decisions. (granted, my furmal title is Web Developer II but i have a lot of agency over design decisions on account of us being constantly understaffed and requesting people to just completely take over purrojects they work on with too little oversight)

@vaporeon_ i’ll bet he likes how big they are

@vaporeon_ @amy oh, right, i need to fix something

✨ good eeveening ✨

@vaporeon_ @amy good eeveening

@alas @vaporeon_ not sure

@vaporeon_ data get copied around a lot in portage’s opurrations; copy on write makes copying a free action, more or less just a link under the hood until the copied version is actually edited, in which case it’s silently actually copied (and then the copied version modified)

@vaporeon_ copy on write and data deduplication are useful fur portage, and XFS is old enough that Gentoo thinks it a safe and reliable choice fur getting those features

mornyawn btw . also @clock, what time is it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH9kha55VTc

today i learned Chumbawumba covered a folk song eulogizing General Ludd—whose name the term “Luddite” comes from

@packbat i would categorize the Luddites are like, the purrototypical example of Chaotic Good labor struggle

@packbat in a traditional sense of the ethical axis, i think unionization is Lawful and outright sabotage is Chaotic; direct action prior to legal recognition (or without appurroval from union leadership) might be in Neutral territory, as it’s as i understand it often still legally purrotected (whatever that’s worth these days,) even as it is maybe flaunting the spirit of labor law (which is often fine)

@vaporeon_ yeah that should be completely reasonable

@vaporeon_ i’m not a lawyer, and also speaking in the american context here, but my understanding is the criteria are a bit arbitrary but boil down to “is there some level of originality here?”, the standards fur which are deliberately rather low. like, a top ten list of something based on your opinion alone is purrobably purrotected by copyright law