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If you're the kind of person who thinks this way chances are your website is unpleasant enough that I'd do without your content entirely if the AI summary wasn't available.

Don't publish things if you don't want them published.

Get real yourself.

Yes although mostly over VOIP. Voice calls aren't actually very complex though of you prefer using those directly.

Substack seems to have done an incredible job allowing people to monetize their blogs. Maybe Substack themselves aren't profitable but the authors certainly seem to be doing well.

As someone who's subscribed to a lot of substacks the thing that brought me there was the availability of asynchronous reading (mail, rss newsletters.) I'm sure I'm not alone in disliking the actual site itself.

Yeah it might be better to think of booleans as "the smallest possible integer type" and use enums (or whatever your language has) to represent more meaningful data.

Although it always depends on what exactly you're really doing.

We're not "too important." All a union would do is create extra problems for us.

There are two possibilities:

a) This is a large scale administrative coordination problem

b) We don't need as many software engineers.

Under (a) unionizing just adds more administrators and exacerbates the problem, under (b) unions are ineffective and just shaft new grads or if they manage to be effective, kills your employer (and then no one has a job.)

You can't just administrate away reality. The reason SWEs don't have unions is because most of us (unlike blue collar labor) are intelligent enough to understand this. I think additionally there was something to be said about factory work where the workers really were fungible and it was capital intensive, software development is almost the polar opposite where there's no capital and the value is the theory the programmers have in their head making them a lot less fungible.

Finally we do have legal tools like the GPL which do actually give us a lot of negotiating power. If you work on GPL software you can actually just tell your employer "behave or we'll take our ball and leave" if they do something stupid.

Why would we? they're all so bland, moderated and corporate you might as well just hang out online. Everyone's so very "professional" and "polite" it's a complete waste of time.

Desktop Linux works very nicely on smartphones actually provided all the drivers are there. I lived with a PinePhone running FVWM on Xorg for a couple years and if the hardware didn't crumble away I'd still be using it today.

No need to "build a complete from-scratch alternative OS" when that was already done 30 years ago.

Right the only way to actually use immigration that way is essentially slaves and that has other economic (not to mention horrible moral) problems.

Immigration at that scale is completely indistinguishable from invasion.

At small scales you can have them give up their culture and assimilate but at replacement scales you just turn your country into a third world country. That's completely unacceptable.

IMO most people should have a VPS even if you don't need it for tunneling. Living without having a place to just leave services/files is very hard and often "free" services will hold your data hostage to manipulate your behavior which is annoying on a good day.

Maintainers and contributors have overlapping but subtly different responsibilities AFAIK.

Maintainers are the ones responsible in the end for the state of the repo while contributors suggest changes.

Actually that does sound like an improvement, I hadn't considered the need for trusted publishers interacting directly with the blockchain making smart contracts more meaningful.

How is this an improvement over just publishing the data on the web so we can wget it? Which is how it works now.

I figured out in my teens that I program and do math way better if I have daily exercise walks. I'm surprised people don't notice that.

Yes. The whole idea is very flawed. It would be good if we got rid of it entirely but most people can't mentally/emotionally/financially handle that so we end up with a lot of bad compromises.

We did that by making walking practically useless instead as many people here point out ~every week.

Perhaps a better way to phrase that would be "beyond what they're doing now." Most popular hosted LLMs already refuse to complete explanations for suicide.

When something pretty clearly isn't working I don't think the answer is more of it.

I love the idea of an internet connected thermostat running an open source micropython environment.

No one outside of HongKong ever seems to want to sell devices like that though. I don't know if it's a culture thing or what.

The problem is there's no way to build anything like a safety rail here. If you had it your way teens, likely everyone else too wouldn't be allowed to use computers at all without some kind of certification.

You know last time I was laid off, and this time too actually, I haven't figured out where these social safety nets are. I could have really used it last time too, that was a significant struggle.

I don't think it's actually intended to be helpful and probably needs to go away.

My understanding is that they're not even guaranteed to be unique.

They key part, as usual, will be figuring out how to sell the service to people who thought ChatGPT would have been enough.

What? How does it being later in time justify OS vendors shipping malware?

The free software movement is the set of social norms people are looking for.

Sounds like they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

They're not nearly as bad as income tax which would have to be raised if we didn't do tariffs.

At least tariffs tax consumption rather than production. Taxing production/income is horribly evil and in better times (such as when the country was founded) people who insisted on it would have been shot.

Sure, put the emergency hotline on the internet. It already is very special and doesn't use the phone network the way other voice calls do.

Just kill the phone. It's a terrible anachronism. If you insist on voice you can attach an ogg/mp3 file to your email.