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anyway, "world standards day", to celebrate international standards, was on october the 14th
unless you're in america, in which case it's next week, the 14th of november
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congratulations to everyone who repeated "don't write your own crypto", you have inadvertently trained hundreds of chatbots to refuse a rather dangerous request  @tef Now we just need to publish lots of posts that repeat "Don't program at all" in various phrasings. @tef When someone says something like this, I always think about what will happen when the original maintainers of the current cryptography libraries retire or die. *Someone* will have to maintain them, and with no skills to maintain crypto libraries, we might have problems. i know i'm old but i've learned what the front end devs are up to now and i'm both yelling at the cloud and telling the kids to get off my lawn it amazes me that "please show me all the posts in the order they were made in" now takes three different types of per-request billing to run in the cloud ps blaming "human error" for catastrophic systems failures is like blaming gravity for buildings falling over  
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the problem i have with "enshittification", other than it's a word that sounds like a doctor who fan swearing is that people talk about it being a property of companies, as if one day the ceo work up transformed into a capitalist when "enshittification" is a property of the system. you go public. you're beholden to shareholder value, activist investors, and buyouts not to be all "the purpose of a system is what it does" here but, y'know i do find it funny that there's a distinct group of people tut-tutting the internet archive, "didn't they know they'd get sued" moments after going "wow, this old dos game is on the internet archive" my point being: the archive has always erred on the side of preservation and access in the murky grey areas of intellectual property and copyright that and it's very funny to hear people go "be gay, do crimes, except run an emergency online library during global lockdowns" i'm sure i'll regret posting this to mastodon because even when i make an obvious joke with wry social commentary someone will try to explain it back to me, despite knowing full well "if the internet archive avoided anything that could warrant legal issues from the outset, the internet archive wouldn't archive the internet from the outset" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT A HIGHLY ESTEEMED DEED, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BEING A PLACE OF HONOR, FITNESS FOR COMMEMORATION, AND ANYTHING OF VALUE   "we pay location based salaries, to adjust for cost of living" so, you pay disabled people more? "no" what about single parents? "also no" what about people who've paid off their mortgage, they get less, right? "as if" ok, so you adjust the cost of living adjustments, right? "maybe we will. if it goes down" "we just worked out the lowest we can pay people in any area and remain competitive" it just feels more like location specific wage theft people are explaining to me "there's other forms of wage theft" i'm aware! i'm also told some of the forms of wage theft are illegal, which although rarely prosecuted for, they aren't the sort of wage theft that you find emblazoned on a job listing well, except for the classic red flag of "we expect you to work unpaid overtime, regularly" |
@tef If only the American celebration of "standards day" had been on November 5th.
@tef the wonderful thing about standards is that there’s so many of them
@tef missed opportunity. It should be October the 11th and November the 10th.