a lobsters is mad that a middling Perl project gets upvotes just because it's "braincoded"
https://lobste.rs/s/bu1a84/i_brain_coded_static_image_gallery_few#c_um9usd
By "openwashing" I mean the posts about AT protocol are running cover for Bluesky, the company. It's basically reinforcing their narrative that if you don't like what they're doing, "just" start your own PDS. By focussing on the technical nitty-gritty, these posts ignore the structures in place keeping Bluesky in the dominant position.
An analogy, Bitcoin code is also open, but 1% of coin owners own like 90% of the coins. I'm not making any excuses for BTC here, but I seem to remember a bunch of similar articles breathlessly explaining how BTC "solves the Byzantine generals problem" while totally ignoring the ownership profile.
Is it just me or does it feel there's a concerted effort to boost the AT protocol in tech venues? Maybe I'm paranoid but it does feel like a bit of openwashing going on.
Bluesky wanted to be Nazi Twitter, then Elon purchased Twitter and stole their market.
I think I read Starship Troopers before I saw the movie, because a small scene reveals that Johnny Rico is of Phillipine descent (his mother tongue is Tagalog) and I remember wondering if that would be part of the movie. Samuel R Delany mentions that scene as something that made him felt included in SF.
I was very young when I read it but even then I could read it as proto-fascist (or rather military-authoritarian, a bit like cod-Roman Republic)
Because the Terminator franchise is from Hollywood, the heroic resisters to SkyNet are Americans. Someone didn't watch the movies very well.
OFC the OG Terminator was a scary foreign man with a pronounced accent...
ffs Andrew Lee's Joseon has a space on soj.ooo
jfc
Thanks for taking the time to expand
Interesting to note that apparently Anduril is very bad at their job. Their shit doesnt even work properly.
doesn't matter if you can grift USGOV for money
suckless is what opened the door to an entire subculture of fascist racist FOSS enjoyers to me, a door I sincerely wished had stayed closed
ok plz explain what "waffles" means in this context
I have stock firefox on mac and the first 2 tiles on the new tab are sponsored