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CancerMancer

@CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works

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CancerMancer ,

I have unironically been preaching the powers of text and JSON, and have some converts. Universal compatibility is great.

CancerMancer ,

Microsoft made mod organizers not work?

CancerMancer ,

In the first paragraph of JSON5's site:

It is not intended to be used for machine-to-machine communication.

YAML is not supported by a lot of enterprise software (example: Azure pipelines supports it but Power Automate does not). JSON, XML, CSV, or failing that Text are the safe bets. We use a few options for reading or building presentation layers quickly. Ultimately the idea is to move data around in a way that is friendly to our current and future applications.

CancerMancer ,

Well this is why I'm asking, it does seem to work for my 100% Linux friend.

CancerMancer ,

Having been the guy in an org shouting not to do something only for it to come back to us this way, the finger-pointing that begins is nuts. Often the people who tried to stop the "feature" from rolling out are the first to get blamed for it being shit.

Classic CYA, make sure everything you said is in writing somewhere.

CancerMancer ,

I remember the "works best on IE" warnings of old, looks like we might be heading back there.

CancerMancer ,

I don't want a dumb phone but I would 100% take a phone with a back that isn't glass, high repairability, and full control over the OS. Make it THICC and put a big battery too.

CancerMancer ,

Not EU so I'll have to wait. It cost me around $40 USD in shipping and taxes just to import a damn Pinecil to Canada, my country is ridiculous.

CancerMancer ,

Wow they really did find a way to make it worse. Impressive.

CancerMancer ,

From what I understand about phone design, it allows for the smallest possible design that can still do NFC and wireless charging, while keeping that premium feel.

I don't give a damn about premium feel, I just want a no-nonsense phone that does what it's fucking supposed to while still being serviceable.

CancerMancer ,

An idea for the fediverse and beyond: maybe we should be setting up instances with copyleft licences for all content posted to them. I actually don’t mind if you wanna use my comments to make an LLM. It could be useful. But give me (and all the other people who contributed to it) the LLM for free, like we gave it to you. And let us use it for our benefit, not just yours.

This seems like a very fair and reasonable way to deal with the issue.

CancerMancer ,

Child predators have recidivism rates of 10-35% depending on which studies you're reading. Each one of those assaults is a potentially life-altering trauma induced in a child. Exactly how many should someone be able to do before we consider they're not going to be rehabilitated?

CancerMancer ,

Yes, which is why my question isn't just rhetorical. How many is too many? You could make a case for 1 (if you believe the crime is too heinous), or 2 (if you believe in second chances), or 3+ even. But where do you draw the line and accept someone isn't going to stop?

CancerMancer ,

It's not just about the assault that happened, it's also about the risk of considerable harm in the future. Killing someone for one act of sexual predation is going to be considered extreme by many but not all people. But what happens after the second or third times? How many is too many?

CancerMancer ,

But should the state be in the business of executing such people?

Honestly I've always felt this was the strongest argument against a death penalty. That said the argument carries nearly the same weight for life imprisonment, and still some for the act of imprisonment at all. We continue to trust juries of fools to judge people to this day, but that is still unfortunately more palatable than giving the right to someone to unilaterally choose your jury.

I'm onboard with a culture of reform and education for convicts because it works, but I also recognize some people cannot be reformed and keeping them imprisoned is needlessly dangerous for many parties. There needs to be a line where we accept someone is too far gone.

CancerMancer ,

JavaScript has the Node.js community in it and that just says it all really.

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    CancerMancer ,

    The plan for me is to go full-time Linux once I'm forced to move off Win10. I already use it a lot but I'm waiting on a few holdouts.

    CancerMancer ,

    Enshittification. Naming your enemy is the first step and we already have a name, use it.

    CancerMancer ,

    Thanks for the point about the forums. I get why people use Discord: the things it is designed for it does reasonably well. The problem is people using it in ways it isn't made for, like forums or wikis. If your documentation, issue tracking, or patch notes are done via Discord, please stop for fuck's sake. There are much better options for this and you can even webhook them into Discord if you insist on it, but stop using Discord to replace forums.

    CancerMancer ,

    A few open-source projects I follow use it as their main community tool and it sucks.

    I don't mind my friend groups using it because it's just for ephemeral chats and gaming anyway, but I want to know why these other communities think it's appropriate.

    CancerMancer ,

    What is up with WhatsApp all over the place? It's a demonstrably inferior experience to damn near any alternative at this point.

    CancerMancer ,

    Needs a license for larger concurrent user counts, which is probably why it fell off in favour of Mumble and then Discord.

    CancerMancer ,

    "RTFM" but the manual has been out of date for years? Hell yeah keep it old school.

    CancerMancer ,

    Honestly I would appreciate if they banned phone manufacturers from forcing Facebook, X, and other bullshit onto your phone. Making people go out and get it is one of the many intended barriers.

    CancerMancer ,

    The majority of people don't understand the harms of social media even while living through them. That said social media is the majority of the problem, so just give us the ability to lock it down for our kids and that would work for me. Plenty of other good uses for smartphones.

    CancerMancer ,

    "What could the overwhelmingly technically skilled audience of Lemmy possibly know about electronics repair and embedded programming?"

    Huh I wonder where the downvotes are coming.

    CancerMancer ,

    How do you know the manufacturer-supplied module is doing the work it's supposed to without being able to verify it yourself? Boeing aircraft are having similar problems; if an industry that regulated is having issues, what is going to stop vehicle manufacturers from doing the same?

    Give us the diagnostic tools and the parts. Operating with zero trust and verifying everything before and after install is the only way to be sure.

    how can something be so courageous and yet so true (slrpnk.net)

    Edit: Jesus Christ, people. If you buy a $150 Thinkpad made by slave labor instead of a $1,200 MacBook made by slave labor, you're still supporting a capitalist economy based on slave labor. We all do. We have no choice. The number of smug liberals in the comments saying "well I buy a cheap used laptop" or "well I buy coffee...

    CancerMancer , (edited )

    An Apple laptop is just a totally inappropriate amount of money spent on a laptop for the overwhelming majority of use cases.

    If you really want to smash capitalism buy used gear and run Linux

    Edit: OP's edit about no ethical consumption is true in the strictest sense, but there are degrees of both consumption and morality and Apple is one of the worst companies on the planet with respect to both. Apple uses its money to very actively attack worthy causes like Right to Repair, throws their immense weight around to enforce monopolies, and just generally is an active detriment to society in the long-term.

    Yes I know much of that doesn't matter under a non-capitalist production and labour model but OP's point is that this is the world we live in at the moment and that's exactly what I'm commenting on: you can make things suck less by not supporting this garbage wherever possible. Better yet, actively support advocacy organizations like those backing Right to Repair.

    CancerMancer ,

    Seeing so many responses like this to the edit makes me happy. This is the intellectually consistent position imo: if you're going to take the position that "this is the world we live in" (which is valid) then you must also accept that there are degrees of consumption and actively choosing one of the worst ones without a strong rationale is less moral.

    CancerMancer ,

    too bulky

    It's often hard to judge the level of privilege someone has but today you've made it real easy.

    CancerMancer ,

    On the other hand producing a smaller variety of modular devices means you need less people overall supporting the same level of industry. Making designs open source and parts available means devices can be made to last longer than they previously did, requiring less manufacturing in the long-term. While I'm not sure where the equilibrium between this and other factors comes down, it ultimately leads to better working conditions and better devices so I'll take it.

    CancerMancer ,

    Just needs the Che shirt for that chef's kiss

    CancerMancer ,

    I agree, that comic is bullshit. Acknowledging that the world we live in isn't the one we want but that we can make a garbage system less garbage is absolutely valid. There are initiatives like Right to Repair that bring us closer to our goals while also actively making the existing system suck less, so why not take the money you would have spent on Apple products and put it towards the cause instead?

    CancerMancer ,

    If you ever decide to open that door, install Ventoy on a USB stick and then copy a few different Linux distributions' ISOs onto said stick. You can try them all out easily and without risk that way, it's pretty cool.

    CancerMancer ,

    You are of course giving money to someone who likely has already purchased another laptop, indirectly supporting their consumerism, but I mean it's still one less new laptop and one less landfill item, it's definitely among the lesser evils.

    Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed (mastodon.social)

    For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

    CancerMancer ,

    This is a by-the-book and extremely predictable case of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

    CancerMancer ,

    Will Meta embrace-extend-extinguish the ActivityPub protocol?
    There are comparisons to be made between Meta adopting ActivityPub for its new social media platform and Meta adopting XMPP for its Messenger service a decade ago. There was a time when users of Facebook and users of Google Talk were able to chat with each other and with people from self-hosted XMPP servers, before each platform was locked down into the silos we know today. What would stop that from repeating? Well, even if Threads abandoned ActivityPub down the line, where we would end up is exactly where we are now. XMPP did not exist on its own outside of nerd circles, while ActivityPub enjoys the support and brand recognition of Mastodon.

    That is a stunning display of naïveté.

    CancerMancer ,

    Unfortunately some people do not want to acknowledge that our large businesses are downright evil. For those who doubt this, consider the pharmaceutical companies that raised insulin prices up to hundreds of dollars a month. They did not give a single shit that people would die, so long as they increased profit from their captive audience. If big business doesn't even care whether you live or die, why would they care about the much smaller stakes involved in the federated ActivityPub space?

    CancerMancer ,

    Posting videos as answers to questions can be useful, but in this case it might pay to summarize.

    CancerMancer ,

    That would be pretty cool actually. Some gun ranges already do this kind of thing but only on the premises.

    CancerMancer ,

    Sweden and Canada have pretty high rates of gun ownership and don't have this problem. That said American school shootings are not as common as they are made out to be, there has been a lot of statistical fudging to make it look so much worse than it is.

    What all three countries do have are problems with gangs and they're only getting worse as poverty drives people to crime. America has it worse because it has more poverty, but we will all catch up soon enough.

    CancerMancer ,

    Gangs illegally acquiring their guns is how it works everywhere, even in the USA.

    CancerMancer ,

    Audiophile equipment is just magic crystal bullshit for pseudointellectuals.

    CancerMancer ,

    Wikipedia information is often made up of media reports and paid studies so we're already there.

    CancerMancer ,

    Imagine it's post-2001 and George Bush is saying we need to take away Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). You hear there is a controversy around this topic, so you look it up on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia article may not even mention the controversy because it came from "fringe sources" or unreliable media, instead its rules mean they only share the message from approved media sources, and that means the article says Iraq definitely has WMDs and something must be done.

    This is how it works now, and always had.

    When I was in college in the second half of the 2000s, we were banned from using Wikipedia as a source due to the way it is built. Many complained but given how many controversies Wikipedia has found itself involved in which includes paid editors, state actors, only being able to use biased journalistic coverage to construct articles, refusing to use other media sources such as established bloggers...

    Trusting Wikipedia at any point was the mistake. It's not even the Wikimedia foundation that is the issue, it's the structure of the site. If no approved journalists will speak the truth, your article will be nothing but lies and Wikipedia editors will dutifully write those lies down and lock down the article if you attempt to correct them using sources they personally dislike.

    CancerMancer ,

    Many of the editors are themselves neoliberal American cultural imperialists and proud of it. The issue isn't direct control so much as an army of useful idiots.

    CancerMancer ,

    I suspect you mean Conservapedia. It is exactly what it sounds like: a shitty right-wing rag.

    On the flipside is RationalWiki, which is basically neoliberal Americentric "reality has a liberal bias" made manifest. It's also pretty shit.

    CancerMancer ,

    These systems being as slow and shitty as they are should be illegal. Responsive controls or fuck off.

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