“We undermine not only unions, but every aspect of the worker's life: AirBnB spikes rents, Uber disenfranchises drivers, a thousand streaming services reinvent cable, Amazon fucks everybody, and so on. Despite any niche expertise, these are companies made possible by software, by the lending of software labor to capitalist ends.”
https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/software_from_another_world.html
“The hacker ethos once championed as a method of subverting prevailing power has become at last its greatest lieutenant … I am not hoping for programmers to organize as a class, not anytime soon – you dudebro losers haven't got the guts – but good software simply won't be possible until we accomplish at least that much. There will never be the time or money to satisfy the guarantees our ethics require until we demand them with all the power we possess.”
https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/software_from_another_world.html
“Bezos’ 62-mile-high jaunt comes the same day as reports that an Amazon warehouse worker miscarried after being denied pregnancy accommodations while others are forced to piss in bottles to meet daily quotas.
Fuck. This. Guy.”
"Oh your work bought you a Macbook, hur hur they really like to give you toys"
Fucksake - they're the industry standard and I have a very effective workflow using one. The cost of me makes the cost of a Macbook trivial if it makes me even a little more effective.
Although, MacOS - nice
Macbook - lack places to plug stuff in beginning to get on my nerves
I don't care how thin or light it is (after a certain point). It needs to be functional.
One trick is to launch the CLI from the Docker desktop so you can crib the command to get a shell that works properly
I found this about a week ago and I'm still installing stuff it mentions
https://betterprogramming.pub/boost-your-command-line-productivity-with-fuzzy-finder-985aa162ba5d
@dheadshot @rustygopher No, it doesn’t mean that because there is nothing inherent in JS that “isn’t good for privacy” or runs badly on older machines. On the contrary, keeping your secrets on the client (which you control) *requires JS* and requires that all logic runs on the client and that the server (which you don’t control) is as dumb as possible and never has your secrets. Sadly this generic dogma about “JS is dangerous” is perpetuated by folks like the FSF and it’s both wrong and harmful.
Perhaps the weirdest thing I’ve seen in a while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XzqCUbiPc4
Welcome to the anti-dystopian collection Brighter Future, volume 1. It's the first three parts of what was originally a projected six novella venture where I wrote on various themes set in the near future, looking at how people escaped the ecocide and built a fairer world where everybody got fed, educated and housed.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B097TJ4LNV
Rather not buy from Amazon? Slightly out of date version here.
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