I have an eidetic memory, so, I use it as a journal.

I did, in fact! I bought Immich for $100, and you know what? I don’t regret a god damn thing. It has been a stellar replacement for Google Photos, which was an app I depended on every day for, God, like 10 years now?

I don’t even understand that. The still-thriving, 30-year history of video game warez really says otherwise.

Just speaking as someone in the field, you would be surprised at how many IT decisions happen the way they do because nobody wants to be the one who gets called when an ornery geriatric complains that LibreOffice doesn’t have the ‘mail merge’ button in the right place.

The old saying goes, “nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco.”

I would consider it a privilege to live long enough to see the EU invest in and adopt FOSS software as a matter of national security.

Like all things FOSS & Libre, when a place as large as Europe benefits from the investment, so too do all of us benefit in kind.

It is the natural order of things; programmers love to program so much that they will do it for free, independent of any profit motive. We only see programmers charging money for their work because you basically need to sell something to survive in our Bootstrappist hellscape. Improving material conditions wouldn’t just make life better for everyone, it would also result in better, newer software, delivered faster.

Something something of the deed

Homie is really out here playing devil’s advocate on behalf of cancer.

I want to believe you’re right, but in a world where AI can fully replace human labor, that will likely also apply to the areas of mass surveillance and military suppression.

Imo, one of the scariest and most frustrating developments in robotics in the past 50 years is the ability to process billions of text and voice conversations, all at once, 24/7. Things really take a different tone when all of a sudden the US Government can find it feasible to listen to all of us, every time.

I swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia. Seems like Boomers everywhere will stop at nothing to bring back the world of their parents that they never experienced.

Just look at how much of Russia’s foreign policy is basically “damn, remember when we were the USSR?”

“Well, wants to send me and people like me to a concentration camp, but I do hate gay people sooooooooooooooooooo”