@stopmakingthatbigface find the worst of both worlds in teaching yourself emacs lisp or vimscript and start coding by immersing yourself in IDE discourse

born 2 lurk local forced 2 study

@stopmakingthatbigface omg hi penny

@nchprgmng 🎉🎉🎉🎉 that's so exciting!!!

@limepot As A Large Language Model, I Am

Unable to create a java front end developer (entry level) job listing

Meta meta is by far the best, most coherent content warning I've ever produced

@limepot Not sure if this is better or worse than facebook making you send them your driver's license

@april Rust has a high enough barrier to entry that makes just doing a project in it to learn pretty hard, but also you don't learn a programming language by reading books so how

@strypey In case you haven't already seen it, I'm referring to their latest financial update, which is a sad but entertaining read: https://cohost.org/staff/post/1690393-h1-2023-financial-up

@oct2pus Yeah, there's a lot of problems with the fediverse and while it's good to be aware of them, this shit manages to just work without being abjectly evil and that's a pretty big accomplishment in social media

@jonny @oct2pus yeah, I always find it really shocking hearing about how much companies pay to run their internet services. Like obviously I've never trafficked over a hundred thousand users but whenever I do run services their cost is basically negligible

@oct2pus Profitable? Definite no. Sustainable? maybe in the context of virtually free energy and money, both of which are fundamentally unsustainable in their own right…

Definitely the saddest/most off-putting part of that post to me was the admonition that they kinda could still make this work, assuming they were able to sextuple their user count. Especially coming from a culture that I always found to be more adverse to the notion of infinite growth.

Fediverse-style small, interconnected communities seems to be the answer, and I feel like in spite of the challenges over the years, we have repeatedly demonstrated that, and god damn it really feels like nobody wants to hear us out lol. Not even many notable instance admins these days

Even if you never read "The Dawn of Everything" by Davids Graeber and Wengrow, at least take this to heart:

What you learned about human prehistory was most likely a lie. There was no linear progression from hunter/gatherer to farmer to city dweller to modern human. Our ancient ancestors were just as creative as we are. They didn't wait until 5,000 years ago to figure out agriculture. They invented it and discarded it when it didn't suit them, over and over again. They built cities and abandoned them quickly or centuries later, over and over again. They invented and discarded socialism and despotism, many times over. And there's no correlation between mode of production vs. political freedom. The idea of a linear progression was invented by 18th century Europeans who were feeling defensive about the inequality in their societies as compared to those of indigenous Americans.

@oct2pus Yeah, I feel like I remember there being some kind of drama about them claiming to want to be a coop and then not, but I can't find anything on that so maybe I'm misremembering. Either way, there are paths to success for non-profit, community-orientated software projects, and it feels a lot like they're acting like a community and behaving like a company.

The people at ASSC seem super cool, but like, this is why we run our social media websites on shitty laptops over residential internet

@oct2pus In case you haven't already seen it, by far the most entertaining, albeit depressing financial statement I've ever read:

https://cohost.org/staff/post/1690393-h1-2023-financial-up