Yep. There are actually lots of socialist candidates running in local and downballot elections. The DSA, as an example, had around an 86% win rate in the 2022 cycle and conditions are looking favorable to keep the snowball rolling. It’s just that the overwhelming majority of these races aren’t high profile like Mamdani’s was, so you don’t hear much about them.

Microsoft’s ability to run everything that they touch into the ground is truly impressive.

Nutritionally speaking, there’s not much problem to doing that. Meal timings do impact your circadian rhythms, so it can be beneficial to keep a consistent schedule, but outside of that, just make sure that your macros and micros are met so that you don’t end up malnourished. Socially speaking, our meals are times to congregate with friends and family and everyone following their own meal schedules could make that more difficult. As we’re in a time period where meatworld social spaces are dwindling, that might not be a desirable trade-off. Personally, I’m not dependent on the social aspect of food, so I just eat to fuel my exercise regimen. Breakfast and lunch are the planned meals while everything else is in response to hunger.

That’s a cringe and spineless move to see from systemd.

Yes. It is pretty much exactly how we would do software development.

Now there’s the featureset that you wanna see from an application like GIMP. 💪

Been using RSS again since ditching corporate social media. The sites with full text RSS feeds are especially nice, since reading it in your feed reader means not getting subjected to the endless stream of popups and nag-screen bullshit, which is increasingly important with the proliferation of frontend frameworks like React that won’t load any content without first enabling JS for the site.

Yeah, it’s off to a strong start. The cast still has their chemistry, it’s still funny, and it still walks the line between being funny and hitting you in the feels. I do think that Turk and JD’s goofball humor works less now that they’re older though, but there’s plenty of other stuff going on such that it doesn’t really matter. I’m hooked and will continue watching.

I have such mixed feelings going into this one. The original Scrubs was great and the season 8 finale was an excellent send-off for this show. They’re also bringing back a lot of the original talent for this, but reboots usually suck. I’ll watch it, but I hope that they exceed my expectations.

Ah good, this was one of the few GTK apps that I couldn’t get rid of.

Somewhat. Programming is just writing step-by-step instructions for computers, which is something that little kids can do. Where small children will run into problems is anything involving abstract reasoning, since those faculties don’t develop until around age 12. So while kids could easily handle something like (+ 1 2), they would struggle with:

(define (add x y)
    (+ x y))

So just be sure to keep that in mind while showing them stuff and it should go fine.

The future is probably going to be:

• Whitelist federation models with invite-only instances.
• Anubis and similar software being a base requirement for operation.
• Getting creative with stuff like picture-based logic puzzles as a type of captcha.
• A retreat into less publicly visible spaces like chat apps that you can only get access to through networking.

Yeah, and with the corporate culture that MBAs bring with them, they also tend to make everything as boring and sterile as possible since any degree of fun and personality could be seen as off-putting to a hypothetical person.

Hm, hopefully Discord takes awhile to enshittify. Sounds like the current solutions need time to polish up.

I did find out recently that the team behind the Element Matrix client made Element Call and integrated it into their apps recently, but I’ve never used it personally. Have you used it? How was it?

They definitely got the Discord aesthetic down. Unfortunately, it seems to be both self-hostable and unfederated, which means that the userbase is going to be split up between a bunch of small and quiet instances with no convenient way to interact with the larger ecosystem. Their FAQ suggests that while it’s not in the roadmap currently, they’re still open to the idea, so maybe we should let them know that this would be a desirable thing.

Oh? When did they change that?

And so the hell-loop continues. Matrix seems like the closest successor, but having used it for awhile I would describe the experience as janky-but-workable. Signal’s good, but requires a phone number. I hear that Mumble’s good, but it’s overly focused on VoIP. Hopefully the alternatives polish themselves up before the enshittification gets too bad.

I use what’s packaged in my distro’s repositories, unless I need a specific version, or the software isn’t packaged at all.

Ah, whoops. I block JS and didn’t notice that. Here’s an archive. I did a quick search and didn’t see any articles that mention what kind of visas they have.