mawhrin

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

…to “it's OUR TIME NOW”, cf. the most recent two blogs from david heinemeier hansson, palmer fucking luckey in recent nixos thing etc. etc.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

indeed, but that “90% of my code is now from ai” piece is even sadder than the rest.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

seems like armin ronacher (originally of the flask, jinja & co fame) has also fallen into the vibecoding rabbit hole; which is generally a pity.

a good thing that the pallets projects are now independent from him (and if you build python clis, plubum is anyway much, much better than click).

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

spotify, which is a step away in the software catalogue of any distribution that includes flatpak.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

there's plenty to read; an incomplete list of authors just off the top of my head: nnedi okorafor, ann leckie, martha wells, kate elliott, annalee newitz, sarah gailey, malka older, sarah jane anders…

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

we did. we contain these in the “sneerclub” area.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

take care and step carefully. there's a moment where the stress from working for a company with goals that counter your personal ethics is going to be hard to bear, and the worst thing you can do then is to change your value system to reduce the cognitive dissonance.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

david heinemeier hanson of the ruby on rails fame decided to post a white supremacist screed with a side of transphobia because now he doesn't need to pretend anything anymore. it's not surprising, he was heading this way for a while, but seeing the naked apology of fascism is still shocking for me.

any reasonable open source project he participates in should immediately cut ties with the fucker. (i'm not holding my breath waiting, though.)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

oh, and let's entirely ignore “consider phlebas”…

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“let me be really brave and unique: let's imagine culture is how the azadians (or veppers, or the affront, or even the gfcf…) see them. let's ignore the basic fact that this misconception is the main reason why culture's opponents, ultimately, lose. i am very intelligent.”

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“i have a theoretical doctorate in medicine”.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

he's claiming he is taking no llm money with exception of specific cases, but he does accept api credits and access to early releases, which aren't payments only when you think of payments in extremely narrow sense of real money being exchanged.

this would in no way stand if he were, say, a journalist.

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