Notices by D Dino (garbados@toot.cat)

i guess the american dream is getting totally smashed by oppression and then finding the oppressor has a use for you

yang is right that we need a new framework for tech but that framework is post-capitalist guilds 👍👍👍

everyone is working really hard to talk about the kurds without talking about the kurds

money is just permission from rich people

@GreenandBlack sits next to Money Dollars

@TheGibson Gibsonian Academy of the Computationally Haunted

el problema es el capitalismo

@GreenandBlack @emsenn @kittybecca there at the summit of mount oppression stands the conservative christian gamer man, oppressed by all he surveys,,

centrists, 2016: it's fine. he'll probably tack to the center so he doesn't get impeached.

centrists, 2019: my god. there's going to be a revolution.

"who wants to debug forever?!" i cry out, laptop high above my head, as i lead the new programmers down to the surface of the bug homeworld

crows love the rain. they hop around in the puddles

so i mentioned working on a library for working with activitypub servers a few days ago and writing it has been going well so i figured i’d share what it is and where it’s at.

the library is called (tentatively) “activitysearch” and it operates around the model of a single actor. an actor has an associated database (pouchdb) where it stores any data it downloads about the actor — but it need’s that actor’s permission to get the necessary creds. it is not a tool for checking out other people on the fediverse. it is a tool for working with your own data.

the data it downloads is then indexed so you can make queries against it without hitting the network, queries like, “who am i following whose instance has disappeared?” or “where’s that toot i fav’d about crows?” i have a rudimentary text-search algorithm i use to build a search index but it’s not really professional-grade like lucene, just something useful enough for general purposes.

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*chewing on a computer* mmm data

it's funny how clear people are about the nature of poverty when they've gone through it. but rich people treat it like a vacation, and even when they see the wretched ignorance and villainy of wealth, they still valorize poverty as something inherently noble, as though being made powerless and invisible by wealthy people were important and good actually. that dynamic is WILD like there's this firewall in their brains that says "what can i do with a hundred million dollars? well, obviously, nothing worthwhile"

michael p soft had a stained glass window in his bedroom as a child. after he invented the computer, he named its first operating system "window" after it. when he made window 2, he named it "windows". 95 years later, michael p soft made windows 95 and created the tekken industry. he is also responsible for mindecrafte

we cannot simply end poverty just because there is enough for everyone. that would take some amount of work, which i refuse to be a part of,,

you see, a humane society would never work because -- and this is a very complex point -- it would be difficult

the moment you open up firefox on lubuntu on a machine you had to literally tape back together and handing it back to the owner who expected to have to spend a month's rent in money they haven't got, like seeing someone get their car back in working order for nothing after seeing it totalled

@MCtheCat i’m of the opinion that the US has never really been a democracy — its mandate has only ever come from politically specific subsets of its actual stakeholders, rather than all of the people — so it’s hard for me to critique democracy on the basis of the state’s failures