2026-04-04T13:06:56Z https://yabu.me Glyph https://yabu.me/npub16y8yvp4qyfg03ljv5ahvcz0l3l9ggkmry6fszeek5a0x5gtgvd4q0pd455 https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/023/457/original/ad501ceca43dd473.png https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/023/457/original/ad501ceca43dd473.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqarlsyynqynsyrn3themxdd5y2ccvzwrg05pt9t300pexqxtv9wgzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5vugp2v Nodding so vigorously that it hurts at <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> &#39;s latest, particularly the bit about how nobody hates capitalism more than a capitalist <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/06/computer-says-huh/#invisible-handcuffs">https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/06/computer-says-huh/#invisible-handcuffs</a> 2025-09-08T04:17:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfmytnhtzl3qy0hrqcq3rguute8l56999ug09rczz5mzruqlef5ygzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k57skdhu lolsob <a href="https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115143746779397257">https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115143746779397257</a> 2025-09-04T04:22:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9ds6nmkyj648p6kmcyks42ykmzqzcmfqmjt54h9v4jtr3zm7r2kszyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5vwq2gn If you are a member of Github&#39;s &#34;maintainers&#34; community (AFAIK this is invite-only but I suspect many folks here are likely to be included) please also register your displeasure here: <a href="https://github.com/community/maintainers/discussions/594">https://github.com/community/maintainers/discussions/594</a><br/><br/>Boosts appreciated assuming you are a Software Person whose followers also have above-average likelihood of being there 2025-09-04T03:14:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswezh4p7dlnjfzjzc7eqkjfa2sxlferas9s4x9nmupgqnz9fep5xqzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k54aw0ug In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2slun970m63geq237k4zq75fed5g94qgn3dgjhwlun7yd8vswhmqczjr6n'>nevent1q…jr6n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>flatpak… works? you&#39;re tricking me. this is a trick 2025-08-26T03:40:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy38zmefcgkpufmer8hku9zfsks3jg7nvzetutcyudvjwwhy23tcqzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5v7u2p3 Should I do some long-form writing about the relative merits of ActivityPub and ATproto (and the ideological positions of their adherent factions), as I have been able to understand them thus far?<br/><br/>I have felt for a while like there is a lot of noise on this topic, and obviously after this weekend that feeling has intensified, but I&#39;d really like a read on whether y&#39;all would think that my contribution would cut through it or add to it. 2025-08-25T16:27:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrc4y00plylx6asevt795n0c524xahkmqrtwlxmmspyfd0qp2ckxgzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5mtkkcu I have learned various useful things about Bluesky today and I appreciate everyone who engaged with me about it. Still somewhat frustratingly far from understanding *exactly* how certain things work, but I think I have an idea for future attempts at Discourse:<br/><br/>Maybe let&#39;s stop talking about whether something is &#34;truly decentralized&#34; or not, and instead talk about specific characteristics of either the software or its deployment, and just try to be as specific as possible. 2025-08-24T04:44:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspzcv04xrp5chc74nqewwjjsvj6fef2tqz2luz5ptw84qealdg5kqzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5eglevg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2rpz38kee5z4mqypduy0f9cslv8a4a3rxqujzl9lcyzkz60as4hg0c7ea4'>nevent1q…7ea4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>seriously considering using obsidian after this 2025-08-19T02:37:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8mharmgwtlg75qfvrltqy6pnxahh3sflqgjwm9h3g3qr3rwl3m2czyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5w7se4x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv7vleyfadyr2005fm3dpp7h38lke6d8hndea3datfzat5tcghsfqxp6j64'>nevent1q…6j64</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the fact that the vendors are all hyperventilating on their blogs, telling me that everyone is doing it, that the time for discussion is over, it&#39;s the FUTURE, can&#39;t you SEE it&#39;s the FUTURE, if you don&#39;t buy it NOW you&#39;ll be OBSOLETE, just a DINOSAUR, EMBRACE IT OR DIE, BECOME A COLLABORATOR!!! NOW!! BEFORE OUR Q4 EARNINGS REPORT! PLEASE! is not doing a lot to convince me that my impression that it is actually garbage is _wrong_, this is not the sales pitch I usually get for _good_ products 2025-08-08T00:11:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqyc4vql9zslp692ulpvf468ynw4lry7ekkkt2p6h2jwytw80yyrqzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5nrzt6r Hello corporate executives. Who do you think open source maintainers and developers find more inspiring, and more compelling to follow? Some empty suit who inherited control of the crown jewels of source control by virtue of their position at Microsoft, or the author of Curl? Carefully consider your comms strategy accordingly. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@bagder/114982251881556993">https://mastodon.social/@bagder/114982251881556993</a> 2025-08-07T00:04:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs98d3pfy94n8mz92mt4ng968mtfmey9lj24txaeqme78afx2hd4jszyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k56d0es6 OK so I have finally purchased a cable tester and hopefully this will help me deal with the morass of &#34;???&#34; USB cables floating around my home. But… does anyone sell USB-capability stickers? 90% of these which don&#39;t have their own integrated badging are just going to be USB-2 cables of course but for the 10-20% which turn out to be 3.x, 4.x (20/40/80), or maybe even unbadged Thunderbolt of some stripe, I don&#39;t want to have to hand-write every one 2025-07-27T17:56:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs97n6zsya5u3d7wuaq6jv9htaq6e0qc4n8hhmstn767qcvdprs5tszyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5k3s864 if you&#39;re a unix-y person who writes software that reads and writes from places in a user&#39;s home directory, and you want to do something mac-adjacent, the correct idiom for paths in ~/Library/Application Support, ~/Library/Caches, etc is a reversed domain name. e.g. the way Pip does it, ~/Library/Caches/Pip, is wrong. The correct directory name would be ~/Library/Caches/io.pypa.pip 2025-06-25T19:49:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv08cep5r64l6xmxw3prhark69243caud2w08rhnw7mqwm5ekvuqqzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5rtgczd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy5q8zv6vdl27dt7kkn5sgjhdyf9psk7mzmpq3jrkhcux9ppj66zgvq95cc'>nevent1q…95cc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>might be time for a re-watch of &#34;how to be hopeless&#34; 2025-06-17T06:16:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspfr5j28ywpqvhudxv8a28qck2dpqcxqvedlvfmlln6n7djc9aqqqzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5ltun26 after 25 years of a career of trying and mostly failing to make the world a better place with software it is truly soul-wrenchingly exhausting to watch a substantial plurality of the entire software industry decide that actually, it is more lucrative and easier to make the world worse instead 2025-06-17T05:17:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrmxfd9vfs3mwl3sq7qhvvacvzvts8w8dyqepgdpe40vlufsurnpqzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5t4aktn Shitty people, shitty values, shitty culture. <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hafxlnw235qrcil2lpohp2ly/post/3lr5q6dqynk2e">https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hafxlnw235qrcil2lpohp2ly/post/3lr5q6dqynk2e</a> #USPol 2025-06-09T07:07:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdu9e68jqanjt7ksmm48ax4j7eydf5mf9v7jwdzmcgcvw3c542fegzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5r4zsds The technology doesn&#39;t work. It *feels* like it works, so they keep doing science to see whether it does or it doesn&#39;t. But when you look at it with science instead of vibes, it just doesn&#39;t. <a href="https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/">https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/</a> 2025-05-28T06:14:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyncfyl5deudfpqetw32e9zsurqtscszxr45lkt922qrwu0t6kweczyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5qxxw72 Once again I am asking what are these things actually good for <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/glyf.bsky.social/post/3lnjrqdyzl22i">https://bsky.app/profile/glyf.bsky.social/post/3lnjrqdyzl22i</a> 2025-04-24T03:57:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszzw8qtgzw0df90nnz7gvq533qs57r3dwe2lx9xexyh8a77y777eczyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5z2dxz4 Watching this shit rolling out while watching the Fediverse&#39;s MAU gently decline month over month on FediDB and every Bsky stat estimate showing explosive growth is just depressing. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@grishka/114348720237318718">https://mastodon.social/@grishka/114348720237318718</a> 2025-04-16T19:27:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs25kjl5msrx5ulq9r7dfzysvxsc7ttqejke9rq7w464plrpjdcetczyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5q4zj03 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2w9zvjy4plm59pn3z8hpvew8h75fvanvzvqau85dfx73hxzu2m9sq379sm'>nevent1q…79sm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I will be mad later, deliberately keeping an excessively open mind for this exercise. (I have both principled and practical misgivings here but I don&#39;t want to calcify into just believing bias-confirming myths because I don&#39;t have any way to check.) 2025-03-21T03:55:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2w9zvjy4plm59pn3z8hpvew8h75fvanvzvqau85dfx73hxzu2m9szyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5pagcu4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgwavwfys7g6qlptp352v9twv9g789yjv4xqt6qqcs5hhvmfzq6jsga8dvp'>nevent1q…8dvp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>how does copilot track licensing / provenance? 2025-03-21T03:54:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfl8ztqcpkly0g28rfxhl2yu6r7mul2eq87uupuxs7ypvwlmv5xxczyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k50nlzpv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspudlk87cex47az2e9wpfgq89ztj9gejl3dxlvl8nl6hd74xkvxdgnp63rq'>nevent1q…63rq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>but also it&#39;s hard to find precise, technically-correct terminology that captures these vibes properly 2024-09-07T22:57:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspudlk87cex47az2e9wpfgq89ztj9gejl3dxlvl8nl6hd74xkvxdgzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k574cunf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv4jqquy53703mzn90rdjeulzhhzk9g4f7u6ag88l7yetl4lamc5srhpy4z'>nevent1q…py4z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yes that was kinda my point, there&#39;s no such thing as a &#34;compiled&#34; language, and rust actually does have a runtime, I mean, they even have a page in the documentation about it <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/runtime.html">https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/runtime.html</a> 2024-09-07T22:57:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8l8s580n5z4448kd8pr234j7ac0nyjkjgz9248354pt850yx7m2gzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k50ks5tx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqujwkv9zyhhr3tljgknxlcu207qt2hhl55jwpl6yp34q3cwdjxgsv9u0d9'>nevent1q…u0d9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>interesting that &#34;compiled&#34; and &#34;with a runtime&#34; are the opposite ends of the spectrum here :). (I get what you&#39;re saying, but it is _possible_ to do this with Python, and a real shame that &#34;rewrite in a different language&#34; is actually an easier path than just using existing tooling) 2024-09-07T22:53:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsts76fmrla0exrdcwnddddxxjqq6zeyeply7ylgpmjw3hlsdjyfyqzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k578zxgk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf2ygjft982q5apd35erf5e52ntcdjuht443ra8v89vk9me3c8r8cqu38ek'>nevent1q…38ek</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah I get that this is a tough line to walk. I am still over there too for a complex mix of reasons, although I don’t use it much any more. And sometimes I log in and the horrors on display shock the conscience in exactly the way you just felt. I just want to scream at somebody.<br/><br/>On the other hand, gamergate was a decade ago, so it’s not like it was all sunshine and roses when I was over there regularly. The floor was just tilted to a less obvious degree. 2024-08-05T16:40:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs23zu4dvnh5nk62esy4hdy26uhrd6y4cky3rr9xlkravelfl8atkgzyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k5ru5gzg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvnau97a7xf22pu3l3xzzqfrtmeznvp7np36xzz39m6v63fvk2ffcq7amvz'>nevent1q…amvz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>like I also still think that on balance the tradeoffs of the Fediverse are far better but listen to any Black user of both platforms and they will tell you racist abuse is worse here, as well as some clear structural reasons why that’s not an accident, it is due to designed properties of the system. It’s not a pure win. 2024-08-05T16:30:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvnau97a7xf22pu3l3xzzqfrtmeznvp7np36xzz39m6v63fvk2ffczyrgsu3sx5q39p787fjnkanqfl78u4pzmvvnfxqt8x6n4u63pdp3k56q7er9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqvddxdja5dnkahzc4zmwa5qd4wnd62uwh0u2594vj0uxl550g5ggjq6dpc'>nevent1q…6dpc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>while I understand the desire to keep up the pressure to divest from the mechanism of fascist propagandizing, I think it is important to keep that pressure gentle and empathetic. Consider: you and I both live in the USA, a country whose crimes *vastly* exceed the troubling dalliances of Twitter as a platform. Twitter has advocated for torture but the good old US of A has actually *done* it. So why are we still here? Cost of moving is high, no alternative is perfect. Same as for Twitter. 2024-08-05T16:27:26Z