why not embrace fashtech! they’ve got: - terrible Fisher-Price CSS - the most toxic part of the Wayland ecosystem, and that’s saying something - the worst part of the X11 ecosystem, and that’s saying something - suckless tools and they all fucking suck - corporate control over the packages you wrote, for your own protection - distributed functional programming that doesn’t function or distribute

it’s fucked how every time I use a tool that calls itself opinionated, the opinions are always some annoying dev’s terrible defaults that they want to make into an industry standard and not anything of value, like how transphobes can fuck off forever if your priorities include dictating code formatting and exclude keeping bigots out of your project, your priorities are fucked

I can refuse to pay $80-$100 for games longer than your studio can remain solvent

so the founder of the federated blogging platform Ghost is one of the AI bros that’s tricked themselves into thinking the slop machine makes them 10x more productive in spite of all evidence to the contrary if your site’s built on Ghost, it might be worth checking how much of the code you’re relying on is slopcoded https://john.onolan.org/.ghost/activitypub/note/751e39e3-365e-4398-830b-7cdf7ceb2882 edit: since Ghost links don’t seem to work properly, it’s John’s post in this thread

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I feel like a chihuahua complaining about small yappy dogs, but why in the fuck is an obsession with lambda calculus such a red flag now (this isn’t a subtoot about any of the CS researchers I follow that do good work in lambda calculus, but their fans have an above average probability of being weird fascist freaks) (also a note to the lambda calculus fans who aren’t weird fascist freaks: yes I know, me too, see also the joke about chihuahuas complaining about small yappy dogs above)

the state of infosec: - it’s insecure, it can’t be secure, it isn’t even a good idea - here’s evidence of wrongdoing that stops just short of being a smoking gun - the people who make it have admitted it’s not secure - “nah that’s just FUD”