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Reading this, I feel less offended (really, I don't understand the use of that word in politics) and more scared and threatened. I'm a :sparkles: gender minority :sparkles: so poli…

As an addition to your request, I'd recommend reading some philosophy. If you want left-leaning, you can jump straight in with Marx, Foucault, and Judith Butler (some of my favorit…

So... it's a GUI package manager with extra steps?

The above x100. Technology isn't a cheat code for a hard problem, it's just another tool. When we assume that tech fixes everything with no further research, everyone gets a lot wo…

I can see how somebody would go down this line of reasoning, but I wouldn't. It requires too many steps when compared with my personal alternative: literally just some paper, an em…

Are there any more differences with qute? I've found the best solution to the web being broken is to use as little of the web as possible, but qute was the closest I think I came t…

I'd go one step further in that analysis. Why does it feel that large companies are the most representative to the people (like me) claiming that consumption under capitalism is un…

Are the produced mechanisms really the same when the incentives change? That's not really something I can quite get myself to believe. The incentives in free software, in my limite…

Honestly I think this opens up a really interesting discussion in open source. I know this is satire, but bear with me. If I see a project, and I get curious about its test results…

Came here to say this. I also want to add that there are no solutions with the West's current consumption habits. If we all switch to electric cars today, oil might be doing okay, …

Ah, I see how I communicated that poorly - it's not that the meetings aren't there, it's that they're oriented towards production.

I do not expect this to be a popular opinion, but I am slightly entertained reading this from more of a Marxist perspective. > We used to make things. Now we have meetings. Well, o…

It might not be fair to assume that OSHA, etc, and the NSA, etc, operate under the same agenda. Some industries do have standards for tech. HIPAA, for instance, sets some minimum e…

I personally tried this for a few weeks: I set my clocks to GMT, and converted everyone else's silly little timezones into one unambiguous number. All I accomplished was memorizing…

We can't keep pretending that our justice system is utilitarian. It's so very clearly not about helping those that commit crimes improve themselves. If it was, we wouldn't be punis…

If nothing else, that README is fantastic!

Company A exclusively utilizes a small set of domain-specific SaaS products to store literally everything . There is nothing of importance on local machines. They are essentially t…

Some of the examples given wouldn't even run, as far as I know. Copilot writing Haskell/Rust/ would probably just fail to compile. I know very, very little about AI, but, like the …

But if a human isn't messing with the code, the code doesn't matter - what the bot does to the code matters. And if the bot can handle bad code in a way humans can't, that means so…

This seems like a false equivalency between a given individual and the state: I can ask what weapons I'm allowed to have without asking what weapons the state is allowed to have.

What's your argument here? That working towards something perfect is inherently a waste of effort? It should not need to be pointed out that trying to change things for the better …

Why is the police department the one working to make the police department obsolete? That seems like mistake number one if we're going to try to demilitarize the police.

The Liberal state has a monopoly on violence: whatever their violence is, like throwing someone into prison, is by nature justified in the eyes of the state.

First off: no, that is not the abolish the police argument. The argument for police abolition is as part of a massive restructuring of how we think about crime, not how we think ab…