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• Post #4406603

  does anybody have a favorite logo of any sort that involves a globe or realistic rendition of the Earth, especially if the agenda it glorifies is a horrifying one? we have started a collection

• Post #4380032

  it has characteristics of a multilevel marketing scheme for some reason, that only hit us yesterday (the value of "it" is left as an exercise to the reader)

• Post #4379746

  thesis: the sun is hot antithesis: the sun goes away at night pyrokinesis: it doesn't have to

• Post #4072616

  @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @paninid@mastodon.world this happens gradually, one person at a time, one issue at a time, over many years

• Post #4055899

  huh. we are finally actually getting somewhere in Caves of Qud. it's a hard game, which we like.

• Post #3994852

  we get annoyed at this claim we see going around, that the only way to make free software sustainable is to turn it back into capitalism

• Post #3897181

  the "baby boom" lasted from roughly the end of WW2 in the 1940s, into the early 1960s. it happened because the entire world had been pouring all its resources into the war, and with the war over, people were excited about the future again and could afford to buy houses, raise families, etc.

• Post #3592333

  we dreamed that we were configuring an endless graph of objects each of which added behavior to the others, but no matter how many abstraction layers we created, it would never do what we wanted

• Post #3539135

  there how do people who aren't used to reading other people's source do this, heh

• Post #3539134

  anyway now that we've read the source of like five layers deep of our transitive dependencies, we have verified that this is a "simple" matter of making sure the appropriate library path is findable at runtime, which of course by default in nix it isn't

• Post #3484246

  somebody on here a couple months ago did some 3D re-creations of classic Trapper Keeper covers does anybody remember who? we would like to use one as a wallpaper...

• Post #3394581

  we haven't fleshed out this argument properly yet, so maybe it's a mistake to mention it, but we feel like public news aggregation is inherently bound up with control in its goals, and should be avoided

• Post #3358792

  Butterflies, in order to show off to birds that they are unpalatable or toxic, evolved iridescence dozens of separate times. relatable

• Post #3093435

  follower demographic survey! what was the first videogame that gave you gender feelings by asking about it?

• Post #2968134

  it should be illegal to describe a promotion as "buy one get one free" if it costs more than buying one just saying

• Post #2527313

  that thing when a cat sits on you and suddenly the questionable posture choice you hadn't consciously considered, becomes binding on you for the next ten minutes

• Post #2469341

  we're honestly against quote-posts as a feature yes, we remember how on twitter they were often used to hold power accountable they were also often used to harm people. that was, perhaps, their primary use. please notice how "power" is not here on the fediverse in the first place

• Post #2443246

  Dungeons and Dragons was originally a terminate-and-stay-resident, which was a type of program for Microsoft DOS that modified the behavior of DOS

• Post #2405792

  you are in a maze of twisty little heap pointers, all alike

• Post #2306059

  what's the equivalent of an art show for.... things that are meant to stick around and continue to have a positive effect on the world around them, rather than being made for just one specific event

• Post #2306056

  "text generation"

• Post #2284859

  we would be very different people today if the free software movement had not made it very clear, from the beginning, that penniless children are not only welcome in it, but core to the ethos it was a huge part of our life growing up it makes us absolutely furious that anyone wants to pull the ladder up after them. how dare

• Post #2062109

  when Intel introduced a cpuid instruction, around 1998 or so there was a debate on the Linux kernel mailing list as to whether Linux should provide a way to call that instruction you know, because of its potential uses for surveillance and how that was sharply at odds with the idea of computers being owned by their users

• Post #2036728

  a lot of research on the efficacy and cognitive effects of generative language models is just, uh, bad science https://www.404media.co/nature-retracts-paper-on-the-benefits-of-chatgpt-in-education/ from what we've seen (we try to dig into these things with our friends when we have time), that's true kind of regardless of whether the authors think they're making a statement for or against the things. lots of statistical sloppiness and conclusions that the methodology can't suppor...

• Post #1772780

  "please direct your dissent into channels where the public can't see it nor know what response it gets", said nobody who deserves the public trust

• Post #1771912

  the annoying thing about showing government IDs as a prerequisite to publishing software is it's a bar that all the most dangerous threat actors have no trouble meeting, either because they buy access to someone else's account or because they are a state actor and can just forge ID and get away with it. but at the same time it's a bar that is impossible to meet for anyone publishing software that genuinely criticizes power towards a political end and is concerned about reprisal for...

• Post #1765002

  honestly we refuse to stop publishing our creative work (mostly code). yes, we realize it will be immediately stolen. we refuse to give up on our ideal, even so.

• Post #1759898

  so hey we're looking for work, preferably in a non-profit, but given the historical moment we're at, we're open to for-profit if it's doing something socially positive we have a strong background in information privacy (ex-Google). we have years of non-profit governance experience. we've been coding intensely since early childhood and, depending how you count, have nearly 40 years of experience at that. we also have experience managing other programmers. anyone know of any...

• Post #1739987

  we're so ridiculously tired... today was a lot, so, that's fine and all, we don't feel bad about it but

• Post #1605215

  many congratulations to the people of Hungary. victories like this are worth celebrating.