JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
3d ago
I remember when the whole federation hype started, the most popular discussions had been along the lines of "how do I block server X?" and "how do I block everyone who doesn't block server X?". I lost interest to it about that time, and I don't think it got better since.
JarJarJedi
3d ago
Wasn't my experience. I mean, tech has been always kind of leaning leftwise, but aggressive wokeness and Nazi-calling was not common, people usually behaved professionally even if they disagreed politically. The idea that you can't use certain library/platform/software or go to a conference because it's "Nazi" was not common. Something like what Mozilla or GNOME are now would be completely alien in early 2000s when it all started. It began to turn sour with CoC wars, and then it got progressively worse (pun intended) but I remember the period where the cancel culture was already rampant around but the tech was still relatively unaffected. It couldn't last and it didn't.
JarJarJedi
4d ago
I expect that now, after Dems have won the elections, "affordability crisis" will be only ever mentioned when it is necessary to push some legislation through the feeble resistance of Republicans in the Congress (and of course when criticizing Trump). I find the idea that somebody up there cares whether I can afford certain house (or any housing at all) hopelessly naive. Somebody is always buying those houses. We're nowhere at the point where the market is frozen because nobody can afford any housing. Heck, even in California the housing market is pretty lively - I have absolutely no idea who those people who can afford it are, but the empiric fact is they exist, and there's enough of them to support the market. So why would anybody worry about anything?
JarJarJedi
4d ago
I don't know, I am hearing about federation for decades now, and I have never found any use of it. I'm still using RSS/Atom, but it's not true federation. I can not remember any true federated site that I had any use for.
JarJarJedi
4d ago
Yes, but also no. I mean, Reddit in general is 99% full of garbage. But there are some quite nice niche communities. If subreddit system did not exist, the garbage would envelop everything and the communities would not survive. But since each subreddit pretty much can exist in its own bubble and ignore what is happening outside it, it can survive. I don't think we really need it here at this stage, but I am very glad it exists on Reddit.
JarJarJedi
4d ago
Those used to be called B&D languages.
Unfortunately, a lot of this goes around lately, and now it's in tech too. People seriously calling others Nazi for using a wrong Linux distro or a wrong window manager. I guess whichever tiny bits of virtue signaling still left unharvested must be harvested.
JarJarJedi
4d ago
I have yet to see a website where it would matter. I mean, there are many workloads where pure bit shuffling speed matters. A lot of them run in real world on JVM which has GC, and it doesn't present a significant barrier (note that not having GC does not mean you just get free speedup - some code still needs to do memory management, and maybe your personal homebrew code is more efficient than decades of dedicated work by people writing VMs. Or maybe not). But these workloads tend not to be websites. For the website, it's network speed, I/O latency, memory, caching. But very rarely having GC is any serious consideration.
JarJarJedi
5d ago
I'm in the middle of dong a pretty gigantic revamp to the Motte codebase
Don't tell me you're rewriting it in Rust?
For me, the solution is communities so niche nobody is really interested in brigading them, and that attract mods who really care about the subject, not clout or wokeness or anything else. I don't know, maybe it not always works, but for like half-dozen ones I am interested in, they survive. I'm a bit sad the place they survive on is Reddit, but I am glad they exist nonetheless.
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