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……snrk

iykyk. this comment is sublime

just came across a wild banger:

(An aside — In their official docs, Apple refers to the menu bar always in lowercase, because it’s just a menu bar. The ‘desktop’ is the same way. This is interesting, because we live in an era where everything is a branded product whose name is a proper noun– see the Dock– and we are not allowed to merely use things, we are forced to experience using them and you legally can’t ‘experience’ a regular ‘ol noun. Everybody knows it’s gotta be a proper noun in order to be experienced. The Las Vegas Demon Orb Experience. The Microsoft Windows Desktop Experience. The ESPN Experience Brought To You By Sports Gambling. The 6th Street Hostel Bathroom Experience. But our friends “menu bar” and “desktop” are just two things, average, normal, unobtrusive. This says something about how the people who created these things thought about them.)

I learned yesterday that Helsinki’s uni is also on the list: prompts not only tolerated, but encouraged

been starting to wonder whether these are like the google etc plays there: “suuuuure you can get a sweetheart deal for our systems” [5y later and much storage on the expensive rentabox] “hey btw we’re renewing prices, your contracts are going up 400%. oh and also taking data out of the system is $20/TB. just..in case you wanted to try”

we can mock the orange man and his dancing circus of pliant sycophants and wannabe successors without having to become complicit propagators of their bullshit

besides, a good novel joke has wit and nuance. maybe a dash of historical insight. why on earth would I want to go to the averaging-everything-prior machine if I wanted something new?

I ran across it when it was still pitching "cozy twitter", but rapidly also saw that a lot of that was driven by some of the homesteader and natalist types. then after a few rounds of looking into some histories and bigger posters, started backing away... can imagine it's more mask-off now

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please enjoy the calibre dev repeatedly stepping on rakes that smack him in the face when multiple computer security professionals showed him 10+(!) severe vulnerabilities in a setuid root mount program nobody asked for that he implemented for frankly fucked personal reasons over the strong objections of his own community

I'd heard of these but never looked into it (hadn't needed to), opened now and saw who the bug was reported by. imagine getting that report from that source and then your first answer is to start arguing

double up that multiple distros going back older than that report have had support for automatic user mount systems (and that calibre could've just used that)... goddamn

recently I ran into the term "outsider programming" and I really like it as a frame for the kind of inexpert contributors (driveby or otherwise) that you get in a project like calibre, people who just trying to make their own little thing work as best they can - you could look at e.g. the code for the dedrm plugin if you want some examples of this. but then you also get whatever the fuck goyal is doing here, which is ..... far the other way

do you want to try again, but making your own post this time?

Heh yeah, “infrastructure” in the same way that moneyed bayfuckers are “builders”

It is also a useful study in just how little they fucking by get about how anything works, and what models of reasoning they apply to what they perceive. Depressing, but useful

The result is, in technical terms, four pictures of a schoolgirl waifu in fetishwear.

I try to avoid having to even see the outputs of these fucking systems, but you just made me realize that there's going to be more than a few of them that will "leak" (read: preferentially deliver, by way of training focus) the kinks of its particular owner. I mean it's already happening for the textual replies on twitter, soothing felon's ever so bruised ego. the chance of it not Shipping beyond that is pretty damn zero :|

god I hate all of this

what the shit is this post

hi please hate this article headline with me