People tend to have a mental model where a system is stable until disturbed, far more often than they have one where the system is balanced because it is constantly intervened with.

The latter is a more useful approach to thinking about complex systems.

Especially in the light of Zuckerberg's recent behaviour, please consider using Signal, it's actually good and a pretty easy replacement for Whatsapp

https://signal.org

To everyone who dismissed Pixelfed because it lacked a mobile app:

Great news - we now have an official app, and true to our values, it's fully open source.

The wait is over.

Welcome to a new chapter of mobile friendly, decentralized photo sharing.

Agreed with everything @kevinriggle wrote here. Another angle on this to try with people who simply do not understand what software engineering •is•: “What’s the impact on the other 7/8?”

AI can generate code fast. Often it’s correct. Often it’s not, but close. Often it’s totally wrong. Often it’s •close• to correct and even appears to work, but has subtle errors that must be corrected and may be hard to detect.

1/ https://ioc.exchange/@kevinriggle/113641234199724146

lol i feel like fosstodon people lack self-awareness, for some reason

but anyway, thanks for affirming my point for me in the most absurd way possible