Stuff I found on the Internet
"The long-term popularity of any given tool for software development is proportional to how much labour arbitrage it enables. The more effective it is at enabling labour arbitrage, the more funding and adoption it gets from management."
"A list of projects that pledged not to use AI or are disrupting it."
effective techniques!
interesting tour of Inform's innards, for reference and reading later
"Omarchy is a fascist project that normalizes fascist thinking for everyone entering that community (even unknowingly). The baseline has to be not to use that system. And as people who believe in human rights and dignity, in community and a tech world that can be better we need to oppose Omarchy. Need to make sure it gets no seat at any table."
"If you are refusing genAI in games, you need to refuse it from us too. You need to pressure the C-suite on how code is being written. You need to interview programmers. You need to refuse to cede even an inch of ground. You need to grab your hammer, and knock that wedge right back out."
nothing you wouldn't guess but still nice to have it all laid out
"This attempt to reframe people who are leveraging the cultural-economic weight of an international trillions-dollar spending spree as somehow disadvantaged is an active reframing that one doesn't need to buy into or admit through the door. "AI" Booster positions are bought and paid for and forced into every space with the backing of the most overpowered corporations and professional clout networks that have ever existed. Pushing back against it is what involves sticking out your neck."
"There are so many ways to carve out a path to where we’re trying to go and I love how the one you picked tells me about you."
a helpful list
"It may come as an uncomfortable surprise to discover that everything in the known world is actually made up, including this license."
"Besides unconventional rickrolls and other trolling, this has no practical applications: there's no way to add timing information, so playback is entirely dependent on network delay." absolute arcane wizardry
"For a human-fork gestalt, this is a prohibitive amount of chilli."
"Everything you see is the result of elevating people who value and build things based on growth. LLMs offer so many promises to those who don’t want to build anything of value — a way to seem like you’re 'investing in American infrastructure,' a way to be sinophobic, a way to crush workers, a way to pretend like you care about the future... all wrapped in a tool that can give you enough facts to pretend you know anything safe in the knowledge that most people are trained to believe somebody who sounds smart."
"The morally serious position is not do not impose costs. The morally serious position is impose costs on people attempting to end democratic governance, because failing to impose those costs will result in democratic governance ending. The alternative is losing the country to a movement that will not extend to you the courtesy you are extending to them."
"Console only- no x11 or Wayland, no desktop getting in my way."
good iso keyboard layout, for reference, even if the specifics aren't for me
good statement, very direct, cc0/public domain
"Have you ever wanted to host a server at home or in your office, but you can’t because the ISP won’t give you static IPs? This guide is for you."
"The mediocre 'journalists' covering Jason’s downfall are vultures. His death was a breaking news event in the New York Times, Guardian and BBC—publications, I can personally attest, which have ignored the work of many brilliant Blackademics in recent months, but which will giddily announce their deaths."