shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site

shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter

shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist

shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time

ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done

What a thrill…

@Rob all the new builds in my town for years now are cubes with what looks like a gloom-grey shipping container dumped on top. Rows and rows of the dismal dumps.

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@chu/117612538012567273

In order to optimize, it is necessary to decrease variety. Resilience is a function of variety. To optimize is, necessarily, to decrease resiliency. This is, unfortunately, simply a mathematical property of reality.

It is not simply that these systems are authoritarian, it's also that they are simply less viable. Diversity is life and monoculture is death.

belle and andy :)

who’s this blue haired chick? she seems familiar, but I just can’t place her…

@mastodonmigration @richardgrant The Democratic base by and large doesn't care who the leaders are. What they care about are RESULTS, the results Democrats promised to get elected. Otherwise, those voters will be gone in two years.

@lrhodes mushrooms. Let's just talk about mycelium and fungi and all the things that provide the earth with regenerative nutrients

@dbat You're welcome!

I still have some excellent feeds in my feedreader, & Mike Sass's linkdumps have been giving me a lot recently...

@msbellows @oatmeal True, but it is not going to. We have 56 seats. Fetterman's hope was that he would wield power in a closely balanced Senate, and that is not the reality. He will be primaried in 2028, so he won't be here in the next Congress.

@_elena I've got Mint on several laptops. They're e Apple though...

@alina@girldick.gay my mum worked in a supermarket

@dtm About the same for me from Doylestown.

@futurebird In undergraduate I took a class on Cryptography, and during my grad I took a Statistical Physics class. I earned the s**t out of those Cs.

Why? I dunno. I think the challenge was part of it... it was hard, and that made it interesting. The teachers were also clearly enthusiastic about their subjects.

A large part of it was also that the challenges they were presenting were not rote... I remember getting the feeling that the teachers were pushing me to grow, and that it was not just busywork.

The final feature is that both of the classes were on the periphery of my main area of CS. That definitely helped with the ego hit.

It looks like Rider is free for commercial use! Kind of sucks that there aren’t many other good alternatives for .NET IDEs though. The Jetbrains one is also the only proper one that is cross-platform (Visual Studio does not support Mac or Linux)

I don’t program in .NET though, I’m a Python guy, which has lots of nice options for code editors and IDEs 😁 (many other languages are in a similar boat too!)

@_elena

https://distrochooser.de/

The Holy Pilgrimage of the Shareholders

@Jonathan Of course!

@jollysea GSV Modern Monetary Theory

Man, I don't even. Silicon Valley is so fucking weird