That’s why I believe its worthwhile to put out reminders for other sides, too. ;-)

I concur ❤️ Technology is a complicated thing, and making the whole stack work for humanity is a full team effort.

I think both are necessary, and I don’t think “automatic solution to all problems” is the bar for something to be worth pursuing. I also don’t think that you have to start with one or the other; progress in one domain makes progress in the other domain easier, and they can and should work in parallel. I just happen to be more on the software side so that’s where my mind naturally defaults.

But yes, generally agree we need decentralized, de-corporatized hardware as well as the software to operate it.

What if, instead of swapping out American tech barons for European tech barons, the free people of the world decided that critical software needs to be free and open source in order to be verifiably secure? What if we all decided to make our governments make free software and just… everybody share?

What if that?

I think the superscript makes it cuter. Not sure how to escape the ^ without adding spaces. I found some alternative ears though:

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Source:
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One of the reasons I don’t play the newer mario karts much is I find the levels hard to parse visually. They just cram so much stuff into every frame. I don’t mind having plainer tracks to drive around on if the driving and interactions feel good.

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New polymarket bet: in what year does the first king (or queen or dictator) of earth ascend the throne, plunging the earth into a centuries-long dark age of techno-totalitarian dystopia? If you can predict the exact day you get a 5x multiplier applied to your winnings.

I’m gonna guess July 4, 2029

From the title I assumed it was a discussion critical of Thiel, and he had pressured the festival to remove it. Really did not expect that Thiel was presenting, and therefore presumably chose that title. I wonder if he was planning to do his supervillain monologue explaining how he has finally assumed direct control of enough world governments to declare himself King of Earth at that conference.

Crouch + kitty paws.

There are good reasons for hiding a paper trail. Specifically in a self-hosting community, I understand operators wanting to hide their particular technical details from those who would wish to target them. This can be government agencies who like to arrest or kill dissidents, or freelance assholes who just like to attack queer infra where they can. I don’t think deleting posts is particularly effective, and the privacy concerns would be better addressed with a safe alt or a burner account, but I get why some people do it. Privacy is hard and when the stakes are high, people tend to over-secure rather than risk under-securing.

I have mixed feelings on post deletion. On the one hand, historical technical forum conversations are an incredibly valuable resource, and /c/selfhosted is a technical community. The value comes from having a history in context, and deleting part of the context damages the whole and makes the whole corpus less useful overall. It also allows incorrect or outdated information to fester when there isn’t a strong historical context that can be referenced.

On the other hand, people are right to be concerned about leaving large tracts of text available on the open internet, where it can be scraped, profiled, and possibly de-anonymized. I am very sympathetic to those who delete out of concerns for their own privacy, and I don’t know what a good solution is.

Maybe a compromise would be (on user “delete”) to leave the contents of a post intact, but simply delete the username from the post, and the post from the user’s history? Deletion on the fediverse is a bit of a sham anyway, and it would leave valuable discussions intact for other users.

Yep. Actually ran the rollout for Cursor at my last job, right before I got laid off lmao. I trained a bunch of devs on what do and what not to do. A bunch of my recent interviews have incorporated variations of the question “Do you think you could manage an LLM orchestration that would replace our junior devs?” and, I could but I don’t think I can muster the enthusiasm for it that people are looking for. Maybe that’s why I haven’t made it through the interview gauntlet. So much senior hiring right now seems to be looking for people to be the scapegoat for LLM bullshit and I ain’t looking for that kinda work.

That’s me with pistachios. Once it became possible to buy them pre-shelled I knew I was in financial trouble because I can eat them non-stop. I need the shells to rate-limit myself.

I admire the chemistry geeks, that stuff always makes my head spin.

Probably because I accidentally made chlorine gas.

I have been in software for 20 years and I never had trouble finding work until this past year. All of a sudden it’s a lot harder. I’m just one data point but this time feels different for me. The job market feels a lot more disjointed and full of spoofs and fake listings.

“People are not happy,” one senior House Democrat told Axios, “that she is making people take this vote.”

One anonymous Democrat is the source for the title. Reminder that Axios got borged into the Cox media empire in '22. They are not to be taken seriously. This is just FUD.

They just like them. Kinda like how gamecocks love games.

There’s little evidence that Tinkerbell or similar fairies exist, so I can only conclude that we’re below the existential belief threshold for fairies. Probably below threshold for Rule of Law too, at least in pockets… I wonder if the fairy threshold is similarly localized, or a universal ratio of unbelieving:believing consciousnesses. Maybe a strong enough localized belief in fairies can spontaneously instantiate them, but only for a small fraction of a second before the thought changes and the fairies slip back into the void of nonbeing.

What a look. I kind of can’t take my eyes off her.

Rule of Law is like Tinkerbell: it exists if enough people believe in it.