Mastodawn

“We undermine not only unions, but every aspect of the worker's life: AirBnB spikes rents, Uber disenfranchises drivers, a thousand streaming services reinvent cable, Amazon fucks everybody, and so on. Despite any niche expertise, these are companies made possible by software, by the lending of software labor to capitalist ends.”

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/software_from_another_world.html

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Francis Fish Jul 26, 2021

Aral Balkan Jul 26, 2021

“The hacker ethos once championed as a method of subverting prevailing power has become at last its greatest lieutenant … I am not hoping for programmers to organize as a class, not anytime soon – you dudebro losers haven't got the guts – but good software simply won't be possible until we accomplish at least that much. There will never be the time or money to satisfy the guarantees our ethics require until we demand them with all the power we possess.”

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/software_from_another_world.html

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Francis Fish Jul 22, 2021

Developer Memes Jul 21, 2021

"My code works, I don’t know why"

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Francis Fish Jul 22, 2021

Oooh

vim

"1p

then

https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Remembering_previous_deletes/yanks

Remembering previous deletes/yanks

Say you delete a paragraph with the command d} and you intend to paste that paragraph into another file. So you edit the other file with :e other.txt and you scroll down to where you want to paste the original paragraph. But then you accidentally delete or yank some text. Now typing p simply pastes the text that you just deleted or yanked. Fortunately, Vim remembers previous deletes/yanks in the numbered registers. You can enter the command :reg to list all the registers. If the text you want is

Francis Fish Jul 21, 2021

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Aral Balkan Jul 21, 2021

“Bezos’ 62-mile-high jaunt comes the same day as reports that an Amazon warehouse worker miscarried after being denied pregnancy accommodations while others are forced to piss in bottles to meet daily quotas.

Fuck. This. Guy.”

https://www.inkl.com/news/we-take-no-pleasure-in-reporting-that-jeff-bezos-has-returned-to-earth?share=vBXpZvczxXz

We take no pleasure in reporting that Jeff Bezos has returned to Earth

Blue Origin's inaugural space flight with a human crew including the former Amazon CEO was a huge success... for them,…

Francis Fish Jul 21, 2021

"Oh your work bought you a Macbook, hur hur they really like to give you toys"

Fucksake - they're the industry standard and I have a very effective workflow using one. The cost of me makes the cost of a Macbook trivial if it makes me even a little more effective.

Although, MacOS - nice
Macbook - lack places to plug stuff in beginning to get on my nerves

I don't care how thin or light it is (after a certain point). It needs to be functional.

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