aburtchI like @pluralistic ‘s writing because he can succinctly summarize exactly what’s happening with tech today.
Jasper Riedel
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psfsoftware is a mirror that reflects the times and the environment it was created in.
this is why much software created in the 1970s counterculture was joyful and humanistic, and why much software created in the 2020s capitalistic hellscape is soul-crushing malware (adware, spyware).
#retrocomputing can mean celebrating hardware limitations and creative coding, but it can also mean celebrating personal computing - computers that are tools for liberation - bicycles for the mind, not cattle trains to the slop farm.
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦one would think that “do you prefer personal convenience over avoiding the use of tools produced by a company closely collaborating with a concentration camp administration” is not a hard question.
@Daojoan has your account been compromised? This feels out of character.... There's no such thing as ethical AI. There's no such thing as "good" big tech.
@lurnoise Laika in the top left ❤️
Ada Worcester 🏳️⚧️If you don’t like programming, I invite you to do something else with your time instead of promoting the machine that lets you not do it. Some people actually like it, you jerks.
Lucie / minutefor whoever needs to hear this: you're not alone. i'm not vibecoding any of the software i write. i'm writing it by hand, but i've leveled up my emacs with eglot/lsp. i'm modernizing my stacks and use languages with excellent compilers. i think about how to do more with less. i'm trying to combine the best human-written libraries and modules and assemble them with minimal boilerplate. i enjoy reading your manuals and references. i believe in robust, secure, human-written software.
mccBy the way, if you go to https://github.com/claude and "block this user", every Github repo you visit containing code credited to Claude will actually have a warning sigil
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