sjm

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Hobbies: long walks on the beach, externalising tacit knowledge, dismantling power structures.

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websitehttps://sjm.codes
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sjmJan 14, 2023
NaeOct 13, 2022

I don't know who needs to hear this but

The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders

The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders

The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders

The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders

Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services

Capitalism is a disease

sjmJan 6, 2023
Show threadunlofl [Promoted Toot]Jan 4, 2023

@alasaarela @django Bro, VCs literally are the overlords people are talking about when they say "corporate overlords." A decent part of fedi will simply block servers that operate like this. VC expects a ROI when possible, which in the long term directly opposes the interests of their own users, and users whose data they handle. Even if they start nice, they're incapable of staying nice after gaining market share.

The old "embrace extend extinguish" is still a threat, and we know it.

sjmJan 2, 2023
Harald GrunskyDec 31, 2022
Show threadsjmDec 31, 2022
@dweaver

I find it really easy to get bogged down in thinking about it and not just trying something tbh. That's why I was trying to prioritise getting it working. I figured if I wrote a load of code and it didn't work that's something i've learned and can try again later, but if I just think about it I won't know. I think that's sometimes where i've been going wrong with side projects. There's other things that i've also gone wrong with but it's hard to know if it's generally useful stuff or just stuff for me
Show threadsjmDec 31, 2022
@dweaver

I made some progress the last day or two on getting my head around Elixir. Made a little cli app for managing projects in a very me-specific way.

I've had to do some horrible workarounds to get it working, but I've tried to focus on just getting it working.

One horrible workaround: wrapping the `mix run` starter script in a shell script that `cd`s into the repo directory and runs it, because ecto doesn't work with eshell scripts and I couldn't get distillery to build it.
sjmDec 30, 2022
has anyone tried the upgrade path from pleroma to akkoma? i'm interested in how smooth it is, because akkoma's website makes it look very smooth

#pleroma #akkoma
sjmDec 29, 2022
phoenix🐧🏕🏞🚀🍝Dec 27, 2022

Intel introduces subscription based features in some of it's processors and I can't express how much I dislike this. It's disgusting. This is DRM on a new level with all of it's problem being attached in your freaking CPU.

I see that this will be mostly used in cloud service providers to bounce some extra costs off to the users.

Still we need to not allow this from ever being a success, if we want to have our own stuff that we own and control.

Fuck this bullshit.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/ondemand/overview.html

Intel On Demand

Intel On Demand offers flexible consumption capabilities and the ability to scale performance and capacity in response to real-time demand.

Intel
sjmDec 29, 2022
Mike WDec 29, 2022

I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!

✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.

✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.

✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default

✔️ I want the country to own it.

sjmDec 29, 2022
Eithiriel DeMeré 🏴🏳️‍🌈Dec 28, 2022
sjmDec 27, 2022
Nelson MinarDec 27, 2022

Every morning I load up Mastodon or Tusky and see the newest messages. Then I scroll down and press "load more" 5-20 times to page in all the messages until I see one I remember. Then I slowly scroll back up, reading in time order. It's bad UX.

Every social media feed product is like this (except RSS readers). I want to read everything, in time order. Why is that so hard?