@djsundog how had i never heard of this movie (pump up the volume, that is)

@ifixcoinops i can't just be allowed to *type* with *keys* on these things and haven't been able to for like a decade, but at least they've advanced to the point where it's physically impossible to plug headphones in at the same time as you charge the fucking battery.

@ifixcoinops nothing is a more perfect encapsulation of this than the the thing where they won't stop trying to make foldable screens happen so you can have... a black square, i guess?

just give me a fucking keyboard, you cowards!!!

@ifixcoinops a billion person hours of engineering time getting rid of headphone jacks and buttons because, they assure you, patting your head like you're a recalcitrant toddler, water might get inside your black rectangle.

meanwhile: i know what if we put a hinge down the middle of the combo display and only allowed input device?

@baldur

> How would you design your app if you are worried that an authoritarian state might seize all of your user's data and work?

at some level, the only way to protect these things is not to store them in the first place. "store nothing" is of course unrealistic for many practitioners (though it certainly guides my sense of whether i actually want to work on software)...

@brion @technomancy (this is just my "reviews & annotation should be modeled in the vcs" rant again plus my "holy shit does git's interface suck" rant again i guess.)

@brion

(i don't think federation at the forge / review tool level is exactly what i *want*, but it seems like it could be a reasonable way to spackle over parts of what feel to me like the core problem:

we have an effective monopolist in the code forge space because acceding to total centralization was the easiest way for users to get a bunch of stuff that the allegedly-distributed VCS's data model & interface can't accommodate, even though it's super useful stuff.)
@technomancy

@technomancy i'm curious about the vibe of an actual shared gitea instance. a solo one has been nice enough, but aside from linking people to my published code there's not *that* much utility in a code forge no one else is using...

@technomancy (this is why i keep hoping for federation in gitea, but at any rate i maybe should give things like codeberg a look.)

@mhoye @zwol it feels like the "build the web in" part sort of happened ages back with other goals and the web is just so poisoned that of course advertising was going to leak into it sooner or later? that may not really be a good model, it might just be way more that adtech is inescapable in any commercial product one way or another at this point, but still.

it's probably a sign of my deep failings as a human being that i can only hate the prototypical (but also extremely actual) Dude Talking a Mile a Minute Over a Long Suffering Acquaintance at the Coffee Shop more with each passing year.

it's always a different dude, but he is very much the same dude.

about 50% of the reason people inaccurately think i'm shy and retiring is a mortal fear of becoming this man.

@garbados yeah, i remember the allure of why's poignant guide and whatnot, and i remember feeling at one time that ruby would be a natural place for me to drift from perl, but i don't think time has been kind to a lot of the specific ways ruby culture thought it was humanizing programming.

@garbados until programmers learn to treat the implementation as one of the actually-important interfaces for other humans, and how to do that without accidentally building torture devices, it's gonna be ever thus.

(also i guess: ruby seems unusually rich in temptations to cleverness.)

@penguin42 i first experienced it as the next even more stupid and bad thing after KPIs (which, to be clear, were also stupid and bad), but i think it's been kicking around the biz jargon process jockeying brainspace i'm personally aware of for maybe a decade or so?

google didn't originate it, but is to blame for a lot of its current popularity.

OKRs are still extremely stupid and bad.

@kelbot @jgoerzen there was recently a bit of movement again around federation support in gitea specifically, which is an appealing idea.

i know git-ssb is a thing - git over scuttlebutt. i'm not sure how practical it is.

@jgoerzen @kelbot @forgefed sidebar: as best i can remember, gitea is a fork of gogs.

@somarasu @brainblasted that'll go nicely alongside their ownership of software development.