Yes, but we have to do better than normal. We need to improve things beyond just criminal liability and beyond just the previous status quo.

Despite firebrand progressives winning Senate seats by healthy margins in states like Michigan and Minnesota, an adviser for the centrist think tank Third Way told the Financial Times that the “majority-makers were mainstream and centre-left Democrats.” The empirical argument here is that moderate candidates were both more numerous and overperformed their progressive counterparts who also won.

There it is, like clockwork: “the progressives didn’t win by enough, it’s not a winning strategy”

Only tangentially related, but this reminds me of an interaction I had here on Lemmy. I was talking about my pure bash, brain-made CLI app that pushes files between Google Compute head nodes and Google Storage buckets, but does some additional fuckery with bash strings to serve as a crude git. Basically, the app manipulates a string that represents a bucket, and then uses the appropriate gcloud command with that string.

Someone was extremely concerned about the security of my app, how I should do an AI code review, and that only good programmers use all the tools available to them. I told them that I only want my code to be reviewed by humans. They said it was wild that someone would decline a security review. I told them that if there’s a security issue with my app, they’ll have to take it up with Google.

In my experience, Linux only allows you to do 1 incredibly stupid thing at a time. Remove sudo? Cool. Remove apt? You betcha. Remove apt AND sudo? You’re fucking nuts, I ain’t doing that

He’s speechless too

I really like Endless Sky!

It’s an open source PC game, but there’s an open source mod for phones on F-Droid.

Edit: i almost forgot the best part! Because the game play relies on text files in a certain format, the PC story mods work with the phone game!

“we’ll keep sports fair and protect little girls by exposing themselves to adults”

Fucking brilliant.

The presidents of international unions are not the ones negotiating contracts. That would be the bargaining committee, and some staff from the union local.

I’ve been organizing unions for years. I’ve never once met a union staffer that wanted private healthcare over public healthcare to maintain bargaining power. Unions bargain healthcare because we have to, not because it’s a bargaining chip. If private healthcare dies, that creates substantially more bargaining power for workers.

Yes, that was a common gag on the show

All must praise the 9s, for Prod is a fickle mistress, and hell hath no fury like a server scorned

Any critical security vulnerabilities will be the fault of Google. This app is a glorified filepusher manipulating bash strings into standard path structures for google buckets.

Edit: to describe more precisely, it’s a bunch of bash functions that manipulate a bash string for the commands gcloud storage ls and gcloud storage cp. It has some useful functionality beyond that, such as tracking projects and project versions for collaborative purposes, but this is a mask on top of existing commands.

I only want the code reviewed by people. That’s not the same thing as passing on a review.

I’ll pass on the AI review. I’ll QA my work myself, thanks.

It is with great pride that I can say that a GCP-HPC pure-bash application I’ve been working is completely AI free.

For the interested, it’s something I was working on while bored at work has been blessed as good use of time for the benefit of our dry lab. I’m hoping to be allowed to open source it. It’s basically a git-like interface between GCP head nodes and GCP buckets

Homie is caked

I refuse to buy a phone without a headphone jack. They already stole our IR blaster, I refuse to let them take more

Just once I wish someone had the spine to talk back.

Maybe so, but at least I’m not sundowning

Eyyy, fellow APIcalypse refugee