ethicalsmacker

Fair enough. It's hard to imagine a worse DMV, but anything is possible!

Well, it couldn't make the DMV any worse.

insert cocaine joke

This kind of activity is exactly what I hate about Github and the new and unimproved "open source community".

No one cares you updated your vimrc file. Nobody wants to see another "awesome list" in a code repository. Nobody cares about that cool project you started over a weekend and haven't touched in three years.

Your commits are not important.

We have become so narcissistic. We are now coding with the kardashians.

Odd to me, I have always been the "fun parent" the kids wants to play with constantly. My wife probably feels like he does, but she basks in it because it's finally time for her to be alone and recharge.

I thought "minimal job board" was like, minimal UI, simple and clean. I didn't know it meant very few jobs.

The thing that pushed me over the edge was browsing personal sites I found via http://wiby.me/

I was reading fairly old gamedev, emulation and other blogs. The content and spirit of them made me realize how things have come along since and depressed me. Said fuck it.

Neither require sharing publicly (ie, blog). Other than for the vanity/upvotes/etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

The data isn't always accurate. Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it's not happening often. Your perception isn't always correct.

Anecdote, I spent some time wandering around east palo alto (at the time, was the murder capital). It didn't feel particularly bad, but the data said otherwise.

You can't trust random people's perception of safety. You can't trust the data either.

One of my last memories in SF was around 4th and King where I watched a man steal from Walgreens, grab a person's handbag and run past a police officer and down the street.

The officer didn't do anything and shrugged when the Walgreens employees were asking for his help.

edit: by the way, this was around afternoon/lunch time in broad daylight.

I used to blog and quit (pulled all of my content from the web). I still have a landing page, which serves as a general "This is who I am, I'm a real person" because I have a business and people Google my name.

I couldn't find a good reason to continue publishing content for everyone to read. I also gave up on the open source community at the same time.

The idea of "giving back" to the community is gone. The open source (and open knowledge) web is gone. People (and companies/ML models) take/pilfer/plagiarize/rehash/profit from your contributions and you get squat in return. I decided to no longer take part in it.

I can write on my own, privately. I can share and link to content with private links. I don't need the vanity, opportunities or monetization (ie, peanuts).

There are some good thoughts in there, but it fails to answer the actual question. Why publish a blog? Sure, writing has benefits. You don't need a blog to write. You don't need a blog to make your own content linkable.

The only nuggets in there are "vanity", "monetization" and "possible opportunities" which are all pretty bad reasons to publish a blog.

Kind of upset they didn't leverage a corny phrase like "the buck stops here".

Music with no vocals (classical, chiptune, etc) can work pretty well as long as you don't go down the rabbit hole of "finding music to listen to" every 15 minutes.

Dang that's a lot of karma!

The simplest guide to NNs I have ever read is this one: http://www.ai-junkie.com/ann/evolved/nnt1.html

It's an old site and guide, but probably still the easiest to understand if you're coming from a programming background.

I built my own "music streamer" for this. Basically takes any folder as an argument and recursively goes down and sucks up all music files and serves them via a web interface with the standard player controls and UI you would expect. Does everything I ever wanted and more.

Why did I do it? Kind of stupid actually. I wanted to listen to the same music that I listen to on my laptop, but on my phone. Overkill? Probably, but 100% cool.

Opposite for me-- music causes daydreaming and other issues.

I'm much better off with ear plugs and silence. No more looking for music to listen to, watching random videos or day dreaming.

Ear plugs to drown out sound. Don't use headphones. Stay as unconnected as you can from the machine (no Youtube/music/etc).

I didn't enjoy stepping over human feces when walking down the street every day, carefully dodging used needles on the sidewalks or watching homeless people piss or shit in front of Starbucks at ~11AM but to each their own.

Even then it's not worth it. When I was commuting to and from the city for work there would be 1-2 suicide attempts (or successes) every month and train delays for hours. I don't imagine that got any better after Covid...

Sounds like SF to me. It has never been "nice". I was commuting to and from work there for over a year back in ~2015 and it was hell then.

I interviewed around 2017 in SF and it was so bad I didn't dare walk back to the station (caught an Uber instead). It's a terrible place.

No one is saying the behavior is acceptable.

I'm thinking if I were a company, I'd be pretty keen on replacing humans with AI as soon as possible.

I thought this was going to be about TempleOS. I got excited for a minute!

The timing of this post is a bit uncanny.

I left Github last week (removed all of my repositories) and made contributions private. I went further and removed all public mirrors on my personal site (along with all writing and projects on my site).

I have been growing tired of the open source community in general and with a particular distaste for the Github community (and company as a whole).

I won't get into all of my grievances and experiences simply because it doesn't matter and nothing will change.

I decided to focus on creating things for myself. I don't need your stars, green check marks, crappy pull requests and endless issues. Maybe some day I will find the spark to open my personal site back up, but it feels unlikely.

This is interesting. You can exchange or even purchase stolen or breached data to confirm its authenticity or access your own data (see haveibeenpwned). You can also leverage the data to find its origins, leaker, etc.

You cant handle other materials to find the perpetrators?

5 million files is a lot of files. You could back up windows several times over and that’s saying a lot.

What normal user has millions of typical data laying around? Not many, if any.

You got me, node modules would. But who puts node modules in google drive? I wish google ill but even I wouldn’t wish that on them.

Because even a zero byte file consumes space and if you give people the option someone will create several petabytes of zero byte files.