at least all those state actors will have to fight it out to control my system

and i have an excuse for poor application performance

oh such hope

in a week IntegerThatTracksOneThingForOnePurpose will be an object tracking 30% of the game state and mutated in 15 places without ever being renamed

mate this is not the place for this

it’s hard work! I struggle with it myself, everyday

here’s a secret, though: you’re good, actually, even if you don’t Do Thing. I will believe this for you, even if your brain won’t

if neither works then you might as well be kind to yourself, ne

oh

“Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful, 2002

Ethics aside, piracy is illegal, and most service providers include a clause that you can’t do illegal shit with their service. Even utilities providers aren’t immune to “we live in a society with, like, laws and stuff”. Taking them out of private companies’ hands won’t do anything about that.

And kiwifarms aren’t doing piracy, harming (maybe) the profit margin of some megacorp. They’re enabling and encouraging the harm of other vulnerable people, up to their deaths. If your electricty provider has an acceptable use policy that contains “don’t use the electricity we give you to hunt and kill your enemies” and you Do That, again and again, they’re within their rights (and arguably, ethically obligated) to stop you electrocuting people with the electricty they distribute.

Don’t like it? Get it changed at the right level. Lobby for the decriminalization of electrocution^W copyrighted materials distribution, or whatever. Shouting “ISPs can’t do that!!!” while people die doesn’t stop people dying.

This isn’t “Hurricane Electric haet kiwifarms”; this is KF abusing the service HE provides to the detriment of both society at large and other members of the Internet ecosystem.

I’m with HE on this one. KF is absolutely against their ToS, and if the various middle providers between HE and KF aren’t going to step in, they’re within their rights to drop that traffic.

At this level the Internet is still somewhat decentralized. KF can continue to find other hosts and ISPs that condone their horror, and said providers and peers have the right to drop them for being terrible. KF could build a datacenter, register their own ASN, negotiate peering agreements, broadcast routes, and other providers could still refuse to peer with them. I think this is good, actually.

but what about The Slippery Slope? next conservatives will be making ISPs take down vulnerable minorities! shouldn’t legislation be handling this?

The conservative folks are already attacking LGBTQ+ and any other minorities they want via legislation. Why would anyone think this is a good argument?

where doing it man

were MAKING THIS HAPEN

i used to just_post

i low key miss it

it was truly the only good subreddit

post post post i wanna see ur posts

hebhob

hatdug

whoa whoa whoa

how can we have a flamewar if youre going to be all reasonable like that

oh i never considered that reading of the quote

i read it as more: complaints about a language, particularly the amount of complaints, don’t mean it is a Bad Language that should be dropped in favor of something else

in fact the complaints validate that the language is being used by people, and that is imo a decent proxy metric for the usefulness of the language

so please complain about your languages’ shortcomings! i hate so many things about terraform / sh / python / golang / java and will gladly rant at length, and then go right back to using them

except groovy

fuck groovy

have you ever tried to recreate a simple shell pipeline in Python

youre right

thats what sed is for

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

– Bjarne Stroustrup

i mean

i picked blahaj as my main and have felt vindicated in that choice repeatedly

the admins moderation and federation stances are solid imo

and they know what theyre doing on the technical front too so i dont expect downtime to be a concern

valid

thank you for the first civil and kind disagreement i have had on social media since

well

probably ever 💖