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there's a term for appropriating the struggle of an oppressed group the way you just did, but I can't remember what it is. Anyway - I feel like you're assuming everyone is talking about you when we're not... If we don't like something that you like, you can just mind your own business...?

If there's a post about someone doing something bad, and people talk about how bad it is, but you think it's good, are we all supposed to stop talking about it because you showed up?

People who lived without all the convenience and comforts of our modern lives existed so everything's fine, no need to progress further. Pack it in folks, we're stopping progress here, it's not perfect but it's better than it ancestors had so our complaints are invalid.

Also sexy aliens

I know you didn't ask for this rant, but that's ok, it's not meant to be directed at you. This is an open -carry ranting state, and this is rant is legal even though it's unregistered because it's from the Internet.

It is shitty to rule - setting aside corruption and greed, and imagining a world where leaders were just and smart and altruistic, etc - even then - ruling will lead to mistakes and failures and horrific results. That's.. unfortunately kind of natural.

But holding that leadership accountable - that's normal too. That's how you remind them what a fuck up is, and what horrific means. Our protests against their failures in leadership are there to right the ship. Our voices are a vital part of the plan.

(And, yeah, obviously things are weighted a little (a lot) unfairly due to greed and corruption - but that's not the point. The point is: when something is wrong, it's wrong. When leaders do wrong, you yell at them. That's how you tell them what wrong is.)

To say that we (the USA) can't be criticized because "omg leadership is hard" is making excuses - and if you stop telling them what wrong is, they're going to start to forget.

Many oligarchs is better than a single oligarch. In true capitalist fashion, they are sociopathically self interested and their undermining of each other can occasionally benefit the rest of us.

And one time they almost got into a ring to fight, which was pretty funny.

please let us make bad choices and don't talk about why they're bad

What's the deal with nixos? I keep seeing people who love it, but from a quick Google I didn't really get what was so exciting about it.

That's so weird, I thought everyone had already heard about neovim. Why are people still using vs code?

Now that vim has consumed the corpse of the emacs vs vim debate, it has only grown larger, and more ravenous

Fwiw I used to live in a mostly-glass building in Chicago and the sun the winter made it so that we basically never turned the heat on. Summer heat, on the other hand - we needed A/C

Edit: I suppose it's probably relevant that while the outside was glass, the inside was concrete....

Fwiw the guy who made Brave is the same guy who who wrote JavaScript. He created Firefox too iirc, but was booted by Mozilla for being loudly and publicly homophobic.

I haven't heard anything about him being a pedophile, however.

(It's probably worth mentioning: he wrote JavaScript over the course of 10 days in 1995, iirc. Over literally the next 28 years, JS has been developed and maintained by everyone but Eich - so if you're weirded out by the fact that Eich wrote JS, he really did very little of it. If all we had was his version of it, it would be nowhere near as prevalent as it is today. JavaScript is still garbage, but at least it's our garbage.)

I'm not sure what that means. Open source telemetry is still telemetry.

Bill Gates was and still is a shady piece of shit. Microsoft is a lot better without him - but that's a low bar.

Personally what bothers me is that they're starting to treat developers as users, the same as they treat Grandpa's operating system, or Beth in accounting's office suite: make everything "easy" and "intuitive" and "helpful". I became a developer because I got tired of my computers getting in my way, so now I make them do what I want. I don't want or need an intuitive, helpful interface. If you're going to make a tool for me to use, just make the tool do that thing and that's it.

I've mostly moved on from GitHub, only using it for little pushes because the green dots look good for prospective employers.

Edit: for those if you unfamiliar with how he's been a piece of shit specifically recently: he is the primary reason why covid vaccines weren't open-sourced. Poor countries were forced to live or die based on the generosity of wealthy nations (and the infrastructure around that generosity), rather than enabling them to buy it from less expensive sources, or even make it themselves.

Not only is that just shitty on its face, let's not forget that a pandemic somewhere is a pandemic everywhere; the fact that he prolonged covid in poor countries (resulting in the death of thousands if not hundreds of thousands), he kept it from fading in wealthy countries, too (resulting in the death of thousands if not hundreds of thousands).

Gates's battle to protect "intellectual property rights" (read: take but don't give) has been a life-long thing for him, literally since childhood. His viciously selfish tactics have produced great success for him, but it's a despicable kind of success... And having "retired" and amassed more money than he could possibly spend, you'd think he could just sit back and let the rest of us get on with it, but no - that's not how his level of selfishness works - it's insatiable.

I remember that moment. It was like, halfway through the sentence he was like, "I don't want the world to have a clip of me saying 'shame on me,' what do I do..." I wonder if he ever figured it out. Because what you don't do, is what he did, just kinda stammer and stumble in a much more clippable way.

I think that just means you weren't part of the test group.

I was part of it. It's not that ad blockers don't work - they still work fine. YouTube just doesn't load the content; it's a full screen modal telling you to disable it.

When it happened to me, I was able to just open the link in a private window and it loaded fine - ive_never_seen_this_man_before_in_my_life.jpg - but that may have just been because it was a test; if they roll this out to everyone everywhere I'm guessing that wouldn't work.

The other thing that worked was yt-dlp ... Hopefully that won't be impacted by the adblock prohibition... That also gets around workplace filters (at my work anyway).

Still do. To be clear, I'm talking about the human species, not like moths or turtles or something. Smart phones are pretty common, actually.

Gin is closer to gif than gift?

It's the children who are wrong, all three billion of them. The only ones who are right are me and my friends. We don't have any justification or valid argument, we're just right because we say we are.

That's you. That's what you sound like.

Also who said it's a proper noun

Why? He has no linguistic expertise, and he didn't have the perspective of the format's popularity when he made that decree. And his decision was based on intentionally infringing on copyright. And it intentionally goes against the intuitive pronunciation. And the term "gif" now even refers to files that aren't even .gif - it's way past him.

This may sound harsh, and I want to acknowledge that he did something really awesome - but the Jif pronunciation will not survive once he, as a person, is forgotten. But the format will. It's not his anymore.

Is that supposed to be an argument? That there are two ways to pronounce the letter g? I was actually already aware of that - even before I'd ever heard of gifs.