The Cuuuuube @ Cube6392 @beehaw.org

Six sided devops engineer and baseball fan

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Its not great in the United States because our roads frequently wind you up in rural zones that no local maintainers are obsessively maintaining

Not when you're already on an annual contract with Microsoft and the majority of your company's employees are nontechnical

Messaging platforms are so hard to replace since there's a social traction aspect. I can pick out the most secure and private messaging service, and then have no one to message on it

I love logseq conceptually but constantly use org-roam because logseq is prone to performance breakdowns on my hardware

The hardware is expensive, the licensing is expensive, the hardware requires accessories you don't from other companies (dongles, so many dongles), and everything they do is hostile to repairs. Are there any aspects in which they offer a high value proposition?

Petty. The meme says petty

Good ol' stop and frisk. It doesn't prevent crime and it let's bastard cops be bastards

One of my favorite articles about that last part is "I am not a maker"

Google hasn't understood the internet for a long time. They created an excellent search algorithm by treating the internet as a single information system that warranted analysis and indexing for convenient traversal.

These days that's not... Something they're interested in anymore. The goal is to collect user data for targeting advertising and resale. Their core product is still the search bar, sure, but that's just a hook to reel you in. They'll attach whatever buzzword to it it takes to keep it in the zeitgeist. "Ai" is hot right now so that's the buzzword.

I don't get the impression technical competency is something Google values anymore...

There's an issue at play here that I think we're not confronting enough. America has been on a steady march of deregulating in the name of corporate greed. Some of the most functional countries in the world are also the ones with the strongest regulatory bodies (granted they're also largely petrochemical profiteers, I do have criticisms even of countries that I think are doing better than the US) because there's a presumption built into the system that if left unchecked, the forces of greed will violate the liberties of the populace. Its not a coincidence that the only countries that faced major Y2K bug issues were the UK and the US. Germany, Nordic countries, and Benelux countries all ALSO faced this bug, but in those countries the consequences for fucking up banking data was fines. In the US and UK, the consequences were someone might sue in civil court. Much less scary for banking institutions so they continuously acted like the problem was someone else's problem until the last minute.

My point is this: regulations work. We have case studies in other countries that they work. We don't implement them not because they don't work but because they require long view systems change and the political system we live in doesn't encourage thinking long term. Political funding efforts encourage thinking of policy in 2-6 year terms instead of the actual 30 year time frames it requires to plan them. Its much easier to pull a quick grift with political power weakening the overall system than it is to FIX the system. It incentivizes corruption. THAT is the issue that needs addressing and one we should really be trying to assess what the Benelux countries are doing so well

Seems made up tbh

Been taking a ton of notes about information systems. Trying to make my work do information systems better

Write your manifestos

They used the long tentacle arms to quickly thwip through the jungle

Sound pollution! It was assumed trees couldn't process air fast enough to matter where you put them in relation to air pollution. But trees have proven to be some of the cheapest and most effective sound barriers, especially since people tend to like them better than the big concrete walls we were putting up in the 90s. They also help with erosion control thanks to their root systems

So much of it stems from just getting angry that someone else is progressing while they're stuck in traffic. Yes, the segregated bike lanes and mass transit will improve thoroughfares for car traffic, but motorists seeing cyclists, pedestrians, and trains get ahead of them just get angry

Its the casualness. Gay men talk about gay sex the same way straight men talk about straight sex: clumsily, and frequently.

"Straight" men talking about gay sex talk about gay sex how romantic novelists talk about sex: detailed, florid, and full of euphemisms that someone paint an even more detailed portrait

That's new and well warranted from when I joined

And they wonder why internet pirates so often act like they're trying to preserve dying media. Its because they've created an environment where that's true. If I want to watch a version of the original star wars trilogy without a bunch of wibbly wobbly CGI bullshit, do you know how hard that is?

The vast majority of internet pirates aren't unreasonable scoundrels fueled by hatred of media, they're usually people who love media and analysis and see that the current system doesn't actually benefit the people making the stories we love and doesn't preserve those stories once produced

I have a bi ex who broke up with me because she knew her lesbian friend group would ostracize her for dating a man. The queer community can be incredibly discriminatory against the bi part of itself