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There are worse mistakes than accepting senior engineer: there’s management.
I’ll give you my IWW card when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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Some folks don’t work shows and it shows 😜

Today is the 11,067th day of Eternal September (en.wikipedia.org)

Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning around 1993 when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL followed with their Usenet...

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Sometimes the downvotes are just baffling 🤷‍♂️

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One trick is to tell them stories that don’t go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they call Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. “Give me five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah! The important thing was, that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.

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Also, don’t underestimate the incompetence/lack of care that some of these companies may have. Just because they could reduce costs by flagging unresponsive numbers doesn’t mean they necessarily will.

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I wonder how that breaks down in terms of numbers of users. The largest instances seem to have federated, and they’re the ones that cost the most to run, and Meta has vast amounts of disposable income. I worry Meta will fund some of them in exchange for influence.

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For all I know Meta or X or Reddit already control or outright own one or more instances. I don’t hang out wherever the fediverse admins hang out, so I don’t have any tea to spill.

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This tactic works with great regularity. If it works, Biden will look like he’s helping to his low-information voting base, without significantly restraining Israel.

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This is a Security Council resolution, which has more teeth than a General Assembly one.

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Thirteen years a political prisoner so far.

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Reject productivity fetishism, whether it comes from capitalist ideology or the Protestant work ethic or wherever.

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Some instances know their embrace, extend, extinguish history and some don’t.

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What is your definition of win? Market share? Are you thinking in capitalist terms?

Nobody is forcing those people to use Facebook, and they are welcome to come here whenever they like.

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  • Embrace: Join the fediverse with your existing user base that dwarfs the fediverse’s existing user base, and with infinitely more money.
  • Extend: Use your size, in terms of users and capital, to steer the direction of the ActivityPub fediverse standard to your advantage and your competitors’ disadvantage. You see everyone else as a competitor because you are a corporation seeking to monopolize the user base for profit.
  • Extinguish: See what Google did to XMPP for a concrete example.
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We know what Meta is, and we know our history, so we know Meta’s goal is to destroy the fediverse. Federating with Meta is not likely to yield your desired outcomes.

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For those unaware of Google’s latest web browser malarkey: Web Environment Integrity

EFF/Cory Doctorow/Jacob Hoffman-Andrews: Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say

Google is adding code to Chrome that will send tamper-proof information about your operating system and other software, and share it with websites. Google says this will reduce ad fraud. In practice, it reduces your control over your own computer, and is likely to mean that some websites will block access for everyone who’s not using an “approved” operating system and browser. It also raises the barrier to entry for new browsers, something Google employees acknowledged in an unofficial explainer for the new feature, Web Environment Integrity (WEI).

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The same way we prevented any of that up ’till now: by doing our own thing on our own terms.

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Lemmy was built by and for people who like Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism morality plays.

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This guy’s prose has a how do you do, fellow kids vibe.

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This is the best do you know who I am foot-mouth I’ve seen in many a year 😂 github.com/dessalines

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Keep simping, you might land a job there yet!

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You’re describing the ideal you want in a perfectly spherical fediverse in a vacuum. You have to consider the very real labor and server costs needed to maintain & moderate an instance that gets flooded by the content of corporate juggernauts.

Put simply, if you make people choose

We have chosen; that’s why we’re here. Others are welcome to make the same choice when they’re ready.

Congress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO (thehill.com)

Congress has approved legislation that would prevent any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without approval from the Senate or an Act of Congress. The measure, spearheaded by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), was included in the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which passed out of...

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That’s nice. Anyway, death to NATO nato-cool

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I like the end of the Global North’s neocolonialism.

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Proletarian democracy.

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I may or may not care whether the code gets integrated into a proprietary network project, depending on the particular FOSS project. If it’s some general purpose command line widget, for instance, I would probably prefer not to restrict its usage in that context. If it were a long-running back-end online service project like MongoDB, though, that would be a different story, because that’s the kind of thing AGPL was created for.

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GNU licenses aren’t about denying people from making money, they’re about ensuring that they share their code changes with everyone. AGPL was created to solve a new edge case concerning SaaS companies like AWS, Azure, Google, Alibaba, etc.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/297769f0-bfa7-42a8-b013-f76846f7d27f.jpeg

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Nobody on c/socialism is interested in a debating the abolition of private ownership of the means of production. Those are table stakes.

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Requisite Futurama bit.

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Nobody’s impressed by your goalpost moving, because everyone knows what you originally meant by “The only thing worse than capitalism is the hate boner lemmies have for it.”

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Apple will now require a court order or search warrant to give push notification data to law enforcement in a shift from the previous practice of accepting a subpoena to hand over data.

A subpeana is a court order so that’s clear as mud.

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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)

In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...

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The European Union is an antidemocratic corporate cartel.

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No, I huff Marxist economist and ex-Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis’ farts.

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The World Economic Forum

Letter by Academics Across the Globe Raises Concerns Over the ICC’s Inaction on Gaza (peoplesdispatch.org)

At least 184 scholars, lawyers, and experts of international law and politics have expressed grave concerns over the integrity of the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in a joint letter on December 6....

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InterNATOtional Criminal Court, more like. If they accomplish nothing else, these academics might at least further discredit the legitimacy of the ICC.

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TAXES!

Teach a fish class consciousness and he’ll stop misplacing blame for his problems.

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If congressional review is optional then it never had teeth in the first place.

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Of course not. The occupied have a legal right to struggle against their occupiers “by all available means, including armed struggle”.

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That is the explanation I was given, but these days I think that’s more of a rationalization than an explanation. Closer to the truth, I think, is that those are the countries that came out of WWII the victors, and so they wrote the rules.

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Gazpacho is chilled; if that isn’t cool enough I’ll eat my sombrero.

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I think these are very good questions that are difficult to adequately address here, because I think they deserve book-length, historical materialist answers.

Edit: Anyone who thinks grants are innocuous didn’t learn the lessons from Real Genius.

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I wonder where the consensus on depressive realism is today, or if the verdict is still out.

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Reuters: Suez Canal traffic uninterrupted after ship suffers fault- canal authority

A container ship collided with a floating bridge in the eastern lane of the Suez Canal on Wednesday but the passage of ships through the waterway would not be interrupted, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said.

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The Daily Express is garbage.

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There’s an associated fediverse deep dive report, Annex 5: Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF).
I posted about it two months ago:

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