Ok clearly it’s not literally about making CDs and people saying “just make your own streaming service” are both missing the point and vastly over estimating the capacity of the average person.

The important part that’s largely missing from today’s music environment is the personal touch and investment. Many people, as the author says, just comfortably coast through an algorithmic smoothie of familiar music. That is inferior to a friend saying “I made you this mix” and then you actually listen to it, attentively, more than once.

It doesn’t have to be a CD. It can be a zip file. But the intention and focus was important.

I’m an outlier in that I never let “the algorithm” choose what plays. Sometimes I still make mixes for friends, though lately they’ve just been a collection of links. That process of choosing is meaningful. My friend still listens to the mix I made for them when their job laid them off, sometimes.

All code going to the main branch must have a corresponding pull request reviewed and approved by someone with knowledge of the codebase. You really shouldn’t have the front end guy approving backend code.

Ai doesn’t count as a code review.

At my previous job, the policy also said you were supposed to actually check out the code and run it locally. Found a lot of bugs and issues that way.

At my current job, it’s often a rubber stamp. I’ve seen things like “that’s too many parenthesis. This won’t run” sail through. This is bad.

There should also be automated tests and checks.

A long time ago a director told me “software engineers are the most sensitive people on the planet” and I think he was right. Some people just can’t take feedback. They take something like “please sort your imports. We agreed to use isort last week” as a personal attack.

I feel like a lot of companies don’t do things the good way not because the good way is hard, or the bad way is cheaper, but because management is stupid. Stupid or sometimes apathetic.

This is a horrible idea and everyone involved in its conception and implementation should be barred from working in technology ever again.

I’ve been saying that for years. Now I have about 250 albums drm-free on Bandcamp. A good chunk of that money went to the people making the music, too.

I know there are people out there paying a subscription to Spotify who listen to the same dozen albums over and over, too.

People assume it’s all terminal all the time. I haven’t needed to open the terminal for months. It starts up. With the GUI I open the browser. Maybe steam, too. Do stuff. Shut down.

The problem is capitalism. Specifically, the consolidation of power in a small number of decision makers.

Break up the big companies. Stop letting them do mergers and acquisitions. You don’t even have to do something radical like dismantling capitalism entirely.

Maybe, if was cheap. Dislike Google and Apple.

Don’t care so much about games on the phone as like GPS, texting, ad blocking in the browser.

How did this get normalized?

The average user doesn’t know or understand technical details, and don’t believe they have any power to change anything

Also capitalism means a small number of assholes make most of the decisions for reasons that benefit them

I don’t understand why you’d want an AI browser to begin with. Most web tasks aren’t hard.

I hate the AI thing in confluence. Stop asking me to improve writing or summarize. I know how to read and write.

GitHub and similar tools show PR diffs in the browser.

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don’t give chainsaws out to children. We don’t use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that’s not a big reveal.

Seems fair. Was a pretty big fuck up. Might deter others from making similar fuck ups.

That was always a bad idea and feeds my mild Cassandra complex.

No government should be relying on private platforms like that.

The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds.

Yes. They are stupid and don’t deserve their huge paychecks.

They could’ve done basically nothing. Maybe security updates. And they would’ve had a decent brand that kept bringing in money. Their leadership is worse than doing nothing. A dog would make a better ceo.

I like the idea. I don’t want to use facebook or similar, but that’s where stuff like “BuyNothing” is most active.

Unfortunately, I don’t know much about self hosting (beyond what I’ve picked up working in software development) so I don’t see myself running one of these myself. I’d probably use it if it came to my neck of the woods (NYC)

This experience helps users quickly understand content

They really think we’re stupid. Unfortunately, they may be mostly right.

Platforms could moderate their content. They choose not to.

Most developers I’ve looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.

I often would skim the script in the browser, but a. This post shows that’s not fool proof and b. a sufficiently sophisticated malicious script would fool a casual read