since Moore's law ended in 2005, more than 80% of programmers currently working have never worked under a situation where hardware performance increased better than linearly over time.

a couple important points:
1) the number of professional programmers doubles every 5 years, so at any given time half of all pro developers have less than 5 years experience.
2) 1970 is the point at which brogrammers began to outnumber the first generation (who were largely serious engineers, & designed every worthwhile idea in CS).
3) most of that first generation retired around 1995.

this is why tech is like Scarfolk, collectively reliving the 70s every 5 years.

I look forward to the future of Jeopardy, when it's Alex Trebeck in front of a green screen, reading off a notecard inbetween sobs to four copies of Watson.

GET RICH QUICK by running a piece of open source software on a rented machine for free and hoping some of your users will volunteer to support you on patreon because you had to quit your job to do admin work full-time and also pay other full-time admins.

@ajroach42 @jk (5) As a result, anybody who can knock together a web page thinks they can support a million users, and the people who need to support a million users believe them, and the idea of "supporting a million users" decays to the point where they de-facto succeed (because nobody else does any better). It's bad for everybody, not least beginners who don't know how to improve.

@ajroach42 @duck57
I would say:
Most FOSS is DIY, but the mindshare when people think of FOSS is not DIY projects.

90%+ of open source software is something one person wrote in an afternoon and slapped a license on, and fewer than ten other people run it and they've all made their own modifications.

The remaining 10% is massive sprawling incomprehensible messes like GIMP or anything owned by Apache. But since everybody uses those, we think of them first.

Continuing my rant from earlier today:

We're living in an environment where having the primary way you interact with a system or application be via a browser is considered acceptable and natural.

I would like to begin transitioning to an environment where social pressure gets people to feel slightly ashamed of doing things the hard way unless doing them the hard way is the point. Step one is that writing a web app is embarassing unless it's done ironically.

@aeonofdiscord @h @Gargron
He's a hyper-patriotic vigilante & the kind of person who annoys the whole infosec sector by accusing them of treason for doing their job. I haven't seen any evidence that he's anything but a skiddie, aside from his big mouth.

He got some press for shitting on Snowden/Manning/etc. a few years ago.

2016-2017 is a particularly tough cookie for discordians & fellow travelers, because we were defeated with our own weapons and saw those weapons used toward ends we thought them inherently incompatible with. It was a big wakeup call for anybody who thought that culture jamming and (old-style) trolling would inevitably lead toward greater civil liberties even if wielded by authoritarians.

The message is: weapons don't care about the pure intentions of their wielders.

I literally just realized that recordings are called footage because celluloid film is measured in feet

@bmt
Guy Fawkes literally thought bombing parliament would make it more likely for England to be governed by the Pope. But, I would make the argument that there was a lot of religious terrorism going on in Europe in general during that period, regardless of brand loyalty.

Both sides wanted hereditary absolutist monarchy; both wanted a religious basis; it's just a matter of whether or not they wanted a return of the old catholic lineage monarchs.

There's a special altered state of consciousness that comes from spending all day in bed reading Robert Anton Wilson and not drinking enough fluids. A kind of Dad Joke of the Soul.