CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@zkat thats surrendering the idea of what software should be to the worst actors though, large corporations want software to be irresponsible so its normal for things to fail and not directly their fault, shit like spaceflight computers and most earlier computer engineering id actually say qualifies as such without being 'stolen valor' or what have you, calling it that is succumbing to the lowered standard companies are trying to get away with rather than pointing out correctly that theyre dragging our expectations down to their profit margins so nobody ever even gets the idea of holding them accountable for shit software because 'software is just like this'

Fedi instance wars over territorry, though id prefer pran joining cross instances alliances and doing something to fight there

Fedi Instance layer over OSM for self assigning regional instances

@winter thats utterly delightful, is it meant in a nursing sense?

@xgranade repeating a point i've seen mentioned elsewhere its important we also do something with that disagreement like as an example continuing the culture of helping each other as it pertains to programming because presumably at some point it'll stop being pushed this hard and we are back to requiring this culture to continue after instead of it being lost knowledge that we never get back to

@elilla have you read the ancillary series? deeply enjoy how they interact with language, nontranslatable contexts and cultural nuance