Beware the IDEs of March!
If you really need to write any code on Sunday, please do it in Notepad or vi or ed. Remember to leave Vim, Emacs, VSCode, and Visual Studio off.
Also, don't import any Caesar cipher libraries into your code on Sunday. Even rot13 could get a little fgnool, if you know what I mean.
I've found a new webcomic to read: Laika's Comet.
https://laikascomet.tumblr.com/ and https://laikascomet.the-comic.org/
It's a post-apocalypse story in which the world recovering is somehow in many ways better than the world destroyed.
Good news for our trans friends:
The European Court of Justice on Thursday ruled that European Union nations must provide transgender citizens with identification documents reflecting their "lived gender" rather than their gender at birth.
To translate this for non-EU people, it's the equivalent of the US supreme court (the ECJ here) ruling that states (the EU Member States here) must respect people's gender choices.
Source: https://www.euractiv.com/news/gender-changes-must-be-recognised-across-borders-eu-top-court-rules/
… which is short-sighted and loses track of the whole user empowerment goal that free software is supposedly about.
But the “economic” incentives are here.
It’s already tempting notably for smallish projects to resort to genAI:
https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/116132543248503962
But I think a race to the bottom has started in #FreeSoftware, with this rationale: if “we” don’t use genAI in our project, then we will lose to the competition, whether free slopware or proprietary.
@Phorm There are schools of thought that embrace the burrito supreme being, and there are schools of thought rejecting it as the burrito supreme being eaten.
One is magnificent, the other is delicious.
Doctorow discourse
Jesus fucking Christ, Cory, this is patently ridiculous.
He doesn't engage with Audre Lorde's actual intention & meaning. No, he brings up a Black woman thinker/writer/activist, assures us he knows how "smart" she was, & then dismisses her words out of hand without even superficial engagement by using a cute little analogy.
I'm not trying to nitpick: that is some real colonizer bullshit.
@mavica_again I had to look this up because I thought you meant energetic laundry detergent and yes.
But now that I refreshed my memory, still yes.
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