due to company reorganization and a recent IPO, we are now 4 independent contractor dwarves and an LLM

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

The true test of a person's character is what he they do when no one is watching.

with no apologies to john wooden

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

oof ouch my bones

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew

A batch of pot-au-feu was claimed by one writer to be maintained as a perpetual stew in Perpignan from the 15th century until World War II, when it ran out of ingredients to keep the stew going due to the German occupation.

[...]

Notable examples include beef and goat noodle soup served by Wattana Panich in Bangkok, Thailand, which has been cooking for over 49 years as of 2024, and oden broth from Otafuku in Asakusa, Japan, which has served the same broth daily since 1945.

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“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?

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. They could register their own ASN, 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 you 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

holy hell

gandalf the greybeard

encino man > george of the jungle

and i will fight anyone who disagrees

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--the number of people actually using the language to Do Things--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 💖

TIL about IzzyOnDroid's repo; thanks!

when those users find out a instance largely made up of queer folk defederated with their instance don’t you think they’d be more likely to make an account on another instance and bring the hate here?

I can't think why that would be the case. Bigots gonna bigot. I think they're likely to harass queer people because we exist, and anything that makes that harder (e.g. defederating instances that protect them) is good actually.

"Don't feed the trolls" never really worked, it just meant they continued to exist without opposition.

unless the admin is supportive of that behavior it would make more sense to give them a chance to deal with that on their own

I disagree. Harmful, bigoted content is already being posted there. Defederating now protects this community from being exposed to it.

If the admin is responsive and deals with the issue, we can always federate with them at that point.

gods i love this place 💖

a+ username would giggle quietly to myself again

My issue is not with the individuals portrayed, but with the community, the framing, and the instance's administration. My understanding is that the blahaj admins have similar issues.

But sure, have fun arguing with the strawman you've constructed.

The point of federated instances is that they can make their own decisions around federation, moderation, administration, etc.

This post is not intended for negotiating and arguing about this decision. This is the admins of this instance letting members know of a decision they've made. If you're a member here, cool, this affects you. It's not going to change, though, so if you don't like it there's plenty of other instances that will continue to federate with lemmynsfw.

If you're not a member, this doesn't affect you, and your opinion is literally just noise here. Feel free to start a post decrying the prudish, authoritarian stance of the blahaj admins and espousing your need to allow CSAM adjacent material literally anywhere else.

thank you 💖

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