Oliver Lowe @ otl @lemmy.sdf.org

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This sounds similar in spirit to me, but I did make a career out of it. If you don't mind me asking, what is your career? You can also email me; see "Contact" at http://www.olowe.co

Getting old, "broken" computers running Linux was the first thing when I was about 11 or 12 years old. Then:

1. needing a way to keep them running
2. wanting ways to make running them easier
3. wanting those ways to be easier/simpler

Often this involved programming. Eventually I found out that companies pay money for this kind of thing.

But now I'm finding it difficult to find work which aligns with those original values. Getting paid means delivering what people will pay for, not necessarily solving problems. What got me into programming is probably what will get me out of it (profesionally, anyway).

Now I do convoluted shit by hand and not knowing I'm gonna fuck it up ;)

I won't speak for the OP, but yes it is a fair question about the automatic red-flag. There are characteristics of software described as cloud-native that are considered undesirable by some.

These could range from things as high level as an objection to how projects are funded, down to things like distaste for code complexity required to support opaque HTTP APIs over standardised protocols.

Ah yes good point. Fingers crossed.

Maybe there's some IP address ranges to try block?

It's difficult because, for example, blocking the addresses OpenAI's crawlers use may inadvertently block addresses from Azure used by Bing or whatever.

Looks like that will happen later. From Mozilla's original article:

Following a period of testing, these packages will become available on the beta, esr, and release branches of Firefox.

CNCF projects themselves are indeed FOSS, but "the cloud" as it is most commonly interacted with, by tech workers, are enormous collections of closed-source systems run by Amazon, Google or Microsoft (all under antitrust investigation either now or in the past).

I'm still super confused by this user's posts lol. I get that (some? most?) of it is satire... but then why all social media engagement farming hashtag nonsense? Or is this all part of the satire...?

Good to see development effort going towards actual Firefox and not those random Mozilla products that I can't keep track of

how can a writer be so ignorant.

They probably know exactly what they're doing. Singling out Japan makes for a "better" headline to a mostly North American audience.

It's also a bit of a clever headline. Compare the original headline and this one: "All major automakers continue to produce sports cars". Both headlines could technically be true.

But the original headline lets you get away with stirring up some emotion e.g. "Japan alone is keeping the sportscar industry afloat, European, American manufacturers don't care, sportscars are dying". Life, death: strong words! It's misleading and shitty journalism.

What products are the sides really wanting to trade? Are they after our dirt?

Seems so. I found this article from DFAT much more informative: https://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/negotiations/aeufta/australia-european-union-fta-fact-sheet

[...] and this is a huge project.

This makes me skeptical too. I'd be interested to hear about smaller projects to replace some creaky system relying on the output of some long-gone contractor's overengineered software being faxed around.

Those projects have no cool name and are probably really hard to get funding for. But sometimes I can't help but feel that might be more effective than these "big bang" projects.

For me, mpv writes a bunch of debugging info to stderr when playing something. Have you seen this output? Can you try running it from the command-line (if you haven't already)?

A listicle? What is this, 2008? Get with the times. Give us a TikTok video with recycled ideas.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.

-- Ken Thompson

Isn't the Slack/Electron resource utilisation screenshot enough to prove an important point?

For most people: no.

They work around it. They buy new hardware and they're not sure why. There's massive business in selling people new computers (I'm including smartphones here).

For most in the tech industry: no.

Their job depends on them not understanding and/or not caring about this stuff. If they did care and acted on it, they risk losing a job to the next person who is happy to go "yes, sir", write more shit, and add it to the pile.

I wonder if their compositors would be laggy and bloated with features, too?

I suppose it’s a call to arms - the intended audience is those who are familiar with all those acronyms. It’s meant to ignite a fire in the belly to spur individual action against the proposed Chat Control legislation.

I know what you mean though. The reality of “resisting” is actually kinda messy. Using all the mentioned tooling is exhausting. Much like I don’t think that consumer recycling is going to save humanity, I don’t think that if everyone “made the little effort required to secure their data and their communications” it would end crazy proposals like Chat Control. TLS is so common now (in HTTPS) and WhatsApp (implementing e2ee) is incredibly popular. Yet here we are.

The article briefly mentions open-source software. To me this is where I see more private & secure by design stuff like you mention. I'm happy that things like Lemmy exist making countermeasures like 3rd party cookie blocking sand URL cleansing irrelevant.