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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Yeah but most of these errors don’t even give out a uuid that could be used to relate the error to logs to be resolved by someone.

    Not that that someone exists anyway. Let’s face it the entire industry is a massive joke and a pile of shit and with AI coming fast and hard soon you won’t even get the privilege of venting to a call center person about it.

    You’ll vent to some made-up chatbot named veeblezorp and he will give you an impromptu therapy session about the state of the world. Your computer/tablet/phone/app still won’t work properly and veeblezorp will try to get you through the stages of grief about that.

    Just unplug it and don’t plug it back in again. Go for a walk. Play with the dog. Hug your children. Stop buying crap online that scales up infinitely to take new customers (and their dollars) but is forever stuck at the sub-garage startup level when it comes to support.





  • Also like solar wind and water power also involve science? As do coal plants? So like, really WTF are we even talking about with science “functioning”?

    Edit: Seems like this is just the potato version of the “science is what’s true whether or not you believe it” quote applied to policy…which actually doesn’t work.

    It doesn’t matter whether or not nuclear plants are possible if humans don’t build them. The science backing them existing is meaningless.





  • Honestly lemmy specifically is good enough to scratch my Reddit itch. We may not be able to post our way out of fascism, but we can certainly post our way out of the centralized, enshittified platforms like Reddit where we came from.

    I think it’s more difficult in applications where you want or have to bring a lot of friends to make the apps useful, but in the case of lemmy specifically if there’s a baseline level of activity that’s enough to fulfill 90% of what i used Reddit for (i.e. snarky memes and random back and forths with relative strangers).


  • It didn’t have to be this way; in a different kind of society it could have been a boon to everyone.

    Please continue to espouse this viewpoint even under serious argument from those opposing it. Technology isn’t inevitably shit. There are other types of software we can write, and other types of technology we can develop that isn’t the result of some sweaty CTO hovering over our shoulders demanding that we make the world shittier for the sake of the shareholders.

    We have to imagine the worlds we could’ve created through better choices. We have to imagine that we can change the course of things.


  • The overwhelming majority of software ever written is fucking terrible and causes more problems than it solves.

    Since software is easily copiable and mutable, that small sliver of good software gets replicated all over the place and serves as a foundation for other software, both good – and at the risk of repeating myself – and mostly bad.

    People would be better off considering new tech as the tool it is rather than seeing every piece of software as inherently better than the thing it replaces.