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- Experimental PPC-related (and hosted) instance — now with ✨snac2✨, so I hope it won't be down 90% of time 😏
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It's not unique to software development — people are being treated the same way: as mass-produced goods. And from the point of cost-efficiency it might even make sense: skilled specialist doesn't cost cheap, they don't grow on trees and they might have their own opinion that you at least have to take it into account. Replacing him/her with five less skilled on the surface might cost more, but it's easier to find them and if they happen to not play along, you can easily replace each of them with another — just like the old one. Under this angle, investing into tools that would make these guys even more cost-efficient (cheaper) makes perfect sense.
Most left wing movements don't seem to realise that unions and other such tools don't really fix that — they are still being treated as replaceable cog wheels, it's just now every box of these cog wheels would come with extra conditions. Some even go and work for the likes of Google — with the intent of improving it (attempts at futile as with girls from "I can fix her" memes), eventually they become parts the system themselves — but with all money made in the process it's not too shabby anymore, admitting that you were wrong or that you have given up on the other hand — still hard. That is how a lot of people become more conservative I think: no important realisation happens, just a posteriori rationalisation that they aren't bad people.
Most people are fine with mass-produced goods on personal level: indeed, why sharpen your tools — when you can always get a replacement? And with all this progress happening, that something probably got even better since your got your last one. Then they start wondering why are they being treated like cattle by the likes of Microsoft, or Lenovo, or Apple? Because you are still buying that shit! You have choice — go get something from a smaller company and pay with money out of your wallet and with your time by contributing, to be treated differently. But no… Again, mass-produced thing being immediately cheaper doesn't defeat the shortcomings that might become evident later.
Again, most don't even think about it: "The system isn't broken, it just doesn't work they way I want it to — because it's unaware of the issue, just give me the button to let it know, gimme-gimme-gimme!"
I've always been lucky to be surrounded with the people who were into DIY or handmade stuff, but I have never valued it until I realised there might be longer term consequences of this, much less obvious than immediate cost-efficiency. Dealing with mass-produced goods ruins the sense of ownership and treating yourself as a replaceable cog wheel ruins the sense of autonomy — uncle Ted was exactly right about that. That's what struck me the most when I've been re-reading Industrial Society during COVID lock downs.
A lot of people can't imagine existing outside of the system and some of them got completely unable accomplishing even the most basic things on their own. That had severe consequences for the mental health of the society.
As for multitasking and having shorter attention span, if I was into that I could probably come up with a good conspiracy that it's being done on purpose — but I just don't believe that someone clever first came up with this and then was able to carry it out so immaculately — people are too incompetent for this. I think it's just a natural order of things and it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Actually, not having to multitask nowadays is rather a privilege, dealing with all the information and stream of microscopic events happening at an extremely rapid pace might make you paranoid and eventually will drive you to insanity. To protect your mental health you have to give up some of the control, "slide" — but of course it gets exploited and with giving up control you often get sold things that might be outright harmful to you. In addition to that, not willing to play along, even if you are just asking to give you time to think, is often treated as aggressive behaviour by the society. Sadly, not many are able to stand their ground when peer pressure comes into play — and doing so if often even discouraged. This is wrong!
Not playing along is okay: be it the "popular" crowd or the less popular. Some manual labour every now and then isn't boring and lame — it feels refreshing and when you see the result, it feels good. Making your own things and repairing old ones instead of buying new and shiny is great — and it has more to do with preserving nature than using the water you've boiled eggs in to make coffee 😏
Maybe I was just lacking perspective earlier, but to me it looks like there is progress here — on Fedi and on Gemini there are a lot of people like that. But maybe I'm just becoming one of those survivalist dudes, who dig their own bunkers, myself and I have found my crowd 🤪
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It's not unique to software development — people are being treated the same way: as mass-produced goods. And from the point of cost-efficiency it might even make sense: skilled specialist doesn't cost cheap, they don't grow on trees and they might have their own opinion that you at least have to take it into account. Replacing him/her with five less skilled on the surface might cost more, but it's easier to find them and if they happen to not play along, you can easily replace each of them with another — just like the old one. Under this angle, investing into tools that would make these guys even more cost-efficient (cheaper) makes perfect sense.
Most left wing movements don't seem to realise that unions and other such tools don't really fix that — they are still being treated as replaceable cog wheels, it's just now every box of these cog wheels would come with extra conditions. Some even go and work for the likes of Google — with the intent of improving it (attempts at futile as with girls from "I can fix her" memes), eventually they become parts the system themselves — but with all money made in the process it's not too shabby anymore, admitting that you were wrong or that you have given up on the other hand — still hard. That is how a lot of people become more conservative I think: no important realisation happens, just a posteriori rationalisation that they aren't bad people.
Most people are fine with mass-produced goods on personal level: indeed, why sharpen your tools — when you can always get a replacement? And with all this progress happening, that something probably got even better since your got your last one. Then they start wondering why are they being treated like cattle by the likes of Microsoft, or Lenovo, or Apple? Because you are still buying that shit! You have choice — go get something from a smaller company and pay with money out of your wallet and with your time by contributing, to be treated differently. But no… Again, mass-produced thing being immediately cheaper doesn't defeat the shortcomings that might become evident later.
Again, most don't even think about it: "The system isn't broken, it just doesn't work they way I want it to — because it's unaware of the issue, just give me the button to let it know, gimme-gimme-gimme!"
I've always been lucky to be surrounded with the people who were into DIY or handmade stuff, but I have never valued it until I realised there might be longer term consequences of this, much less obvious than immediate cost-efficiency. Dealing with mass-produced goods ruins the sense of ownership and treating yourself as a replaceable cog wheel ruins the sense of autonomy — uncle Ted was exactly right about that. That's what struck me the most when I've been re-reading Industrial Society during COVID lock downs.
A lot of people can't imagine existing outside of the system and some of them got completely unable accomplishing even the most basic things on their own. That had severe consequences for the mental health of the society.
As for multitasking and having shorter attention span, if I was into that I could probably come up with a good conspiracy that it's being done on purpose — but I just don't believe that someone clever first came up with this and then was able to carry it out so immaculately — people are too incompetent for this. I think it's just a natural order of things and it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Actually, not having to multitask nowadays is rather a privilege, dealing with all the information and stream of microscopic events happening at an extremely rapid pace might make you paranoid and eventually will drive you to insanity. To protect your mental health you have to give up some of the control, "slide" — but of course it gets exploited and with giving up control you often get sold things that might be outright harmful to you. In addition to that, not willing to play along, even if you are just asking to give you time to think, is often treated as aggressive behaviour by the society. Sadly, not many are able to stand their ground when peer pressure comes into play — and doing so if often even discouraged. This is wrong!
Not playing along is okay: be it the "popular" crowd or the less popular. Some manual labour every now and then isn't boring and lame — it feels refreshing and when you see the result, it feels good. Making your own things and repairing old ones instead of buying new and shiny is great — and it has more to do with preserving nature than using the water you've boiled eggs in to make coffee 😏
Maybe I was just lacking perspective earlier, but to me it looks like there is progress here — on Fedi and on Gemini there are a lot of people like that. But maybe I'm just becoming one of those survivalist dudes, who dig their own bunkers, myself and I have found my crowd 🤪
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1/ Two more incidents have been reported of Russians being fined or denounced for association with the colours of blue and yellow – Ukraine's national colours. They include a journalist who was denounced for being photographed in a yellow jacket against a blue sky. ⬇️
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And no don't give me your usual anti-capitalist response, unlike in China this isn't even to protect their business — YouTube doesn't show ads to Russians and doesn't pay Russians who post their videos since 2022, they are doing this even after the prosecution of their own employees in Russia. In this case it's censorship for the sake of censorship, there are no commercial interest involved, at least no obvious ones. There might still be less obvious 😏
This company is true evil!
Imagine some entity that you consider absolute evil (most would probably think of their own government or something with three letters in its name😉).
You did? Google would probably cooperate with them willingly!
YouTube has begun blocking opposition content at the request of the Russian authorities: https://www.agents.media/youtube-has-begun-blocking-opposition-content-at-the-request-of-the-russian-authorities/
"Opposition content" in this context is Russian language videos on military service evasion!
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NOW HIRING
Looking for extremely religious shia Muslim leader with long term experience in oppression at large scale.
Must be pro hanging, torture, and oppression of women, and willing to do shady deals with Russia.
The ideal candidate sees no difference between religion and politics. Popularity not required.
To apply please contact your nearest Iranian embassy.
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🇮🇷 Iranian media has confirmed the death of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, aged 63, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian following a helicopter crash in the country's mountainous province of East Azerbaijan.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-426c6f4ae2dd1f0801c73875bb696f48
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Cross-platform native C executables? Sweet.
"Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable."
https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
#c #gcc #clang #polyglot #posix #crossplatform #cosmocc #libc #linux #windows #mac #macos #netbsd #bios
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Fedivision 2024
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most underrated text editor: micro
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I do use syntax highlighting, but mine is still rather tame and I'm fine without it, to me it's more like "If it's there — why not?"
And I'm not really into color diversity myself, I even use Dark Reader to tone the colors down in Firefox. And yet, monochrome doesn't have to be black and white, I for one use shades of gray and greenish yellow 🤷
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I do use syntax highlighting, but mine is still rather tame and I'm fine without it, to me it's more like "If it's there — why not?"
And I'm not really into color diversity myself, I even use Dark Reader to tone the colors down in Firefox. And yet, monochrome doesn't have to be black and white, I for one use shades of gray and greenish yellow 🤷
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Also excellent tips for parents. Let your children be lost for a bit! Leave room for them to grow and accomplish things!
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The http://matrix.org homeserver has been struggling with load over the last 24h (thanks perhaps to Slack for driving users our way: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/slack-defends-default-opt-in-for-ai-training-on-chats-amid-user-outrage/) - we're working on fixing performance. Folks on other homeservers are of course unaffected. Apologies for the inconvenience. https://status.matrix.org is tracking the incident.
- Experimental PPC-related (and hosted) instance — now with ✨snac2✨, so I hope it won't be down 90% of time 😏
- https://nosh0b10.m0xEE.Net/m0xEE
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Just in case: DMs/PMs simply don't exist on this instance as concept — don't use them, use the other instance if you absolutely have to, or send an email to any address at m0xEE.Net or .Com or .Org, but I prefer keep most communication public.
Joined Nov 2020
