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  • The feedback loops that local funding creates are vicious too:

    desirable neighborhood -> higher prices -> more taxes -> better funded school -> desirable neighborhood (for families)

    undesirable neighborhood -> low prices and no population increase -> worse funded school -> undesirable for families

    As you said, next to one another. By sheer luck I happened to live in an apartment building that somehow belonged to a rich school district. Next building over was in the poor school district.



  • Edit: Author says GenAI was not used for code, see below.

    Original comment, observing signs of GenAI project:

    What’s up with these brand-new “Discord alternatives” being cranked out en masse? Would be easier to contribute to XMPP or Matrix IMO.

    Initial commit 14,203 files changed +2872320

    AI? Or “i worked on this for 10 years and uploaded just now”? /s

    Overabundance of emojis in description. Probably AI.

    Would be cool to see if anyone manages to get it running.

    Were you able to run it yourself? What.


  • This always gets brought up, and is the chicken-and-egg problem, but only sort of.

    Supporting software designed for different platforms is not the phone’s responsibility. It should be the government and bank developers’ responsibility to build software for platforms their citizens and customers use.

    Android and Apple do not jump through hoops to run Windows desktop software, for example, and the notion is kind of absurd to begin with. Yet this argument is used for Linux smartphones all the time.

    Some of this also applies to people without phone / with dumbphone.



  • This reads as vaguely anti-intellectualist.

    I can’t imaging writing code by myself again

    I don’t want to bother with readability, quality, or efficiency. Taking time to think is pointless.

    The less polished and coherent something is, the more value I assign to it.

    Taking time to organize and write my thoughts is pointless. There are plenty of unpolished, incoherent ramblings on the internet, many with ill intent, that should not be given any value. (Yes, I understand that was not the intended meaning, but author should proofread)


  • They have been heading in government-corporate direction for a while now. Good for them, yet from a perspective of a small server hoster, everything is more complicated now for no good reason.

    (Official ESS requires Kubernetes and a dozen subdomains, third-party auth service is required to even register a plain username+password account, calls are all over the place between Element, Element X and web client)


  • Front page:

    • Am I an asshole?
    • Am I overreacting?
    • Ragebait of all sorts.
    • Pop culture.

    Logged in, in a few dozen smaller subreddits:

    • Chat, am I cooked?
    • Same question as was asked yesterday. And the day before. Illiteracy.
    • Is this good? (Screenshot of cheapest Amazon garbage you could find)
    • AM I GONNA DIE? (from soldering fumes)
    • We built this with AI
    • And my favorite “I want something like (popular proprietary app), but free, open source, easy to use, and same number of users. Why hasn’t anyone made this?!”