Notices by tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)

@suricrasia I'm not a fan of Java but Lucene is actually pretty impressive from what I've seen

this interview with the Mozilla CEO is really baffling to me

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23598344/mozilla-firefox-ceo-mitchell-baker-microsoft-edge-bing-google-apple-ai

first off she talks about how Mozilla isn't really anti-microsoft or anti-big-tech, which ... uh, what? and then not very long after that she's talking about how Mozilla has always been anti-tracking... how do you reconcile that? how out of touch do you have to be to think you can be anti-tracking without being anti-big-tech

later it gets worse:

> Q: Do you think that you have to build generative AI products into Firefox to take advantage of that disruptive moment?

> A: Well, at some level the answer is yes, because that’s the new technology.

everything she says on this topic is a tremendous nothingburger of meaninglessness; we have to invest in this because it's new, even if we have no idea what it's for or why it would be helpful

the silicon valley brainworms really show no mercy

@rysiek we moved the Fennel programming language off microsoft github to sourcehut in 2020 and have no regrets; it's been much better for us, especially the CI

https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/fennel

I haven't used github for any new projects since 2015 or so but I had a bunch of things left around on there until last year when I finally moved everything off

everything in this article is obvious if you've been following the trend of worker organizing in tech the past few years, but it's notable because it's literally the only piece of reporting I've seen so far that actually goes beyond credulously repeating CEOs' talking points to examine what's really going on

it's not about the economy, it's about reminding workers that they work at the pleasure of the bosses and putting fear back into the equation

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-01-30/column-how-big-tech-is-using-mass-layoffs-to-bring-workers-to-heel

@futt did you read the article?

signal is threatening to take away all the features unless I "upgrade" to a worse version that removes a feature I use every day

but yeah tell me more about the liberatory nature of open source, sure

@mntmn is it going to ship with a reflective internal display, or is that just a prototype quirk?