jgerrish

I used to have a philosophy of, "what happens if my kid screws up worse than me?"

What world would they find themselves in?

I don't smoke regularly, but if my kids did, could they get a healthier alternative?

What if they fell into heroin?

It would be terrifying, but could they be safe?

I no longer can make that argument. I'm susceptible to the taxation attack. Ten years ago I would have gladly paid all the taxes for my kids and a dozen others. But as some have pointed out, I don't make enough money.

It's a good conservative argument, I can't pay for that.

So, I'm sorry, I can no longer take part in this discussion.

You're right, abstinence is better, because unlike the responsible conservatives who are paying for necessary services like education, I can't help as much.

I'm so sorry. I wanted to pay more. We could have had scientific discussions on risks of food grade propylene glycol or something. Would it make a good hair gel? Sorry, some light-hearted kidding.

My new dream is to not ever have to engage in this discussion again. Because the idea of others wasting time in this divisive acidic discussion is sadder. Thank you.

I wonder, just speaking blindly, how many emerging artists were able to utilize blockchain technologies to reach a market they wouldn't have.

I never took part in the NFT wave. It was, of course, a tulip bubble, it married high-tech and artist in the most horrible way possible. Tsk tsk tsk.

Exploration, browsing, search and discovery are powerful things.

S&L, FDIC, 10k, subprime lending, etc.

I don't see why all countries would outlaw "crypto".

I hate that term for it's semantic shift, but that kind of rebellious tribalism fueled this drum beat.

Each class of cryptocurrency technologies, institutions and securities has an analog in the list above. And each will lead to new protections. Maybe Big Brokerage will invest at most X% in cryptocurrencies but not ones repackaged into NFTs.

Etc.

This isn't a bull market, or a bear. To borrow a perhaps racist or outdated term, it's a Buffalo market, and regulators are at the buffet.

Cryptoanarchism seems to be a deliberately designed red herring in this article (or socially agreed upon warning).

It doesn't escape the main thesis, that computers are physical devices that rely on rules.

It's refreshing. I'm smashing my head with the ongoing Monkey Pox Holmes Rahe Stress train wreck, and discord in US cities. And here's an essay that raises questions on Philosophy of Mind. What if you believe in a Physicalist or Machine Functionalism Theory of mind? Then are we just as ruthless as computers?

What if you have a Magical Random Banana? Does that let you escape the ruthlessness? What if you don't trust your magical banana?

Ahh, the fix the "technical support" gambit. Good PR, connects with a sizable subset of the target.

Susceptible to damage by inkjet cartridge DMCA attack.

Replace by "email support", nobody likes spam, much harder to defend. They've been softening up people with the anti-social media work, so it's palatable.

Good catch! I really am sorry if that's damaging or condescending, it's meant as a golden rule thing.

  how does your personal wealth in this industry

The Living Computer Museum in Seattle is closing down. Paul Allen's estate, who gave so much money and built several Seattle organizations, seems to be focusing money elsewhere.

Like Bill Gates philanthropy, I assume they believe focusing resources towards vaccines and other general population philanthropic investments is more important.

The Living Computer Museum was unique. I remember especially they had a room set up like an old 80s living room with an Atari VCS 2600, and a window looking outside. It wasn't important in the sense of "progress", but it provided a shared historical perspective.

I hope whatever takes its place is cool.

I'm tired of moving.

  I mean I get it and as a web developer I'm probably more part of the problem than the solution.

Ironic Humblebrag? The developer tools and consoles built into browsers are in some ways a return to the Smalltalk and LISP Machine development ideals I've read about, if you consider the Internet the machine.

I wonder if diff is considered a "reverse engineering tool"

I wonder if User-Agent "spoofing" is a "work around".

That's what they do, you focus on one level, the magicians use misdirection.

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out."

Slow golf clap.

This is not a criticism of Twitter. There are issues with these platforms and different values, but social media gives untold millions a voice, and the alternative is a monopoly.

We need some more "complicated" and "complex" characters. We need more "underdogs".

It's not a bottom up thing necessarily, although individuals have no choice in that game-theory scenario if they want to succeed. It was a top-level design decision.

Sorry.

Mercy me, that's some mighty smart incentive centered design you done schemed up.

It's great that your co-habitant was able to open a bank account. Given fees, including credit union (low) minimums or activity rules, it's risky with an unsteady income stream.

To spend time worrying about this is time that will never be returned. And it continues for many as trust is asked for.

Yay stress. There was a lot of yelling outside today, my eye hurts.

I don't have a good space to learn in.

I've been stuck in Egg Hell for years, and old cookbooks and Good Eats (which is so great and engaging on so many other topics).

And it was the Internet that just now added more votes for pre-boil and peel-ability.

Cool Internet, Cool.

Ooh, we could write a ML app to categorize plates and precious china and recommend a way to pack your dishwasher and like even provide house-dependent subsets of recommended packing (collect bonus points!) and this is so fucking magical!

Am I missing the point?

Cool.

OS level code, realistic discussion of issues and approaches.

Thanks for the contribution.

Like, this is amazing. As an accomplishment, very cool, I'd be proud.

But you're right, is somebody's finger or faulty data on the scales?

Because that's how you get a bumper bowling world laser light show clown world instead of life.

The metaphor isn't perfect, and cuts several ways, but it's what my mind came up with.

Loved Sierra growing up.

Of course, on reflection that California 70s hot tub startup culture with Atari and what not was probably a hotbed of sexual harassment.

Damn shame. I'm not saying the Sierra crew was like that. I just felt it was worth noting.

Still, a great collection of cultural artifacts that contribute to our shared history. I'd rather be diving in than talking about separating the art from the artist.

I understand my view is different, but I want to build what half of these people built.

Traps, noise, abusive environments.

Then the clock. I'll keep saying it unfortunately :(.

I like the cut of your jib, 8-bit man.

The VICE integration with DAP sounds like a great and fun project to introduce people to the world of embedded development. Cool work.

Don't worry peeps, RISC-V softcore porn killed the Wintel marriage.

Hahaha, my sides are splitting! Hahaha!

And the future is open-source firmware.

The catch (of the day)? Strong trademark protection and certification to be included in the global supply chain.

Print that out and trace it on your ass Mr. Stallman.

Hahaha. I'm sad.

> I don't understand why hiring in academia is so weird.

You were "discriminated" against too? Oh wow, we have something in common.

As a bonus researchers, we can discuss the hidden costs the bitterness this breeds on those around us. Neat!

Or everytime a topic like this comes up, we make a conscious effort not to engage. We put in real cognitive time to search for alternative discussion avenues. Dang, each of those precious minutes adds up. It's a real cost. Because these issues come up every fucking day, and some don't have to put in that real time. There could have been an alternate world where this wasn't needed.

What's today's hot topic?

Oh hey, sand sifting through fingers. We get it da Vinci.

Obviously I love the tie in, obviously our shared pajama nostalgic moment is ending and we're sad. But some of us already understand thematic elements and the... pressure.. just plays different.

  Safe your 500 bucks per hour. A lawyer will not do anything

Sigh, I think I understand this statement. A warning to patent holders or a call to let it all burn down. A clever appeal to class divisions. I can't work through all the implications.

But I do know the "enemy" of my "enemy" is not necessarily my "friend".

I've seen the nightmare of the next Internet. Whether it's micropayments for digital stamps, or slowly refilling quotas, or hard hierarchical controls, it's more power to central authority.

I know I'll never win this argument.

The Internet will keep fracturing and normal citizens will get more frustrated. There will be a change. But just like the hatred of social media, lurking underneath it is an insatiable thirst for power.

  I think we'd do well to provide the option to use open protocols when possible.

Of course, the PR copy just writes itself, doesn't it? AD administrators, Apple and Google, banks and everyone else can benefit from context aware authorization.

If the state of your phone is stolen or "compromised", you want immediate Peace of Mind.

Even if it's just misplaced, having that kind of flexibility is just great.

  Somewhere in the middle are those who don’t like changes, but aren’t bothered enough about it to jump ship.

Interesting and deliberate choice of words. There are also a lot more people in the middle who appreciate the design choices of systemd but hate the way it was forced on the community.

I know Covid is divisive, but it really is relevant.

So many of us agreed with cases like Zucht v. King in the past. Public schools were a great example of a critical institution where vaccination is so important. Polio is such a great example of science winning.

And education.

And yes, obviously some needed the force of legal backing. But the drama now is unbelievable.

But Covid, like systemd, feels different. It feels more like they didn't rely on educating people, but wanted to test their control capabilities.

It completely changes the relationship with the Linux community. And it indicates it's not a one-off event, but a pattern in how they see people.

Of course, you need to swallow your pride, not shoot yourself in the foot, and accept it without complaining.

It's just, after a lot of things like this, it begins to feel like a really different thing, something much darker you wouldn't want to put others through.

It changes the relationship. Not just among big distro companies, but among citizens. And not in a good way. In a way that really is uncomfortable.

Manjaro is a great distribution. I love the team. It's fucking Disney's fucking Small World over there, right? People from all over the world coming together to build something together that we can all enjoy. The amount of work and dedication is inspiring.

And they provide several pre-built distro releases that provide great defaults. The i3 background alone has been a great help. Just a small thing that continues the philosophy behind the Arch wiki on education and help.

But I am wary of pacman update speed. Even with a "fast-track" rule, I only seem to get updates every couple weeks. Then it's a page-long dump of packages. I've tried multiple mirrors.

Probably some innocuous committee design decision of course. Or overworked testing team. There are reasons.

So I wander once again.

Man, imagine you were a kid getting one of these for the first time, like a Nintendo or Apple. I can't imagine the magical feeling. I really can't.

Great article.

I'm happy developers have the ability to build and work on things they love. And create something fun.

But, at the same time, endless warnings about the seriousness of toys becoming monster businesses would be more believable if aborting companies and anti-trust wasn't still a shitshow a century after the big trusts.

This isn't the author's fault, but mixing "Let's have a conversation on Big Tech." with warnings about havoc seems disingenuous at best.

We understand that organizations are these complex things that take over everything and shit everywhere. And at the same time build things that make you smile and facilitate community.

We don't as citizens have all the tools to manage that without drama.

You're right, jQuery alone, even when it was all the rage, wasn't enough for a frontend application.

Backbone, Marionette, eventually Angular and all the rest were huge improvements. You needed a message passing / routing framework, and the new frameworks have consolidated that and improved on it.

Older developers are sometimes more conservative. Sorry. And age leads to cognitive decline. Reality is reality. I'm an older engineer, and even if things are stacked against me, I'm ok with that. It's a consequence of the brutal shift in cultural education around the craft. I hope more creative individuals flourish.

Still, the original post might inspire realignment of bug fixing incentives.