hazel @hazel@is.nota.live

i’m glad bloomberg got eviscerated in the debate last night

coerced consent is not consent.
consent is freely given or it is not consent.
using power, economic or otherwise, to manufacture consent is not consent.

Every single local tech job is either

A) Totally outside of my field
B) Clearly a fucking scam
C) Some hyper evil megacorp like BAE

open source is unpopular and inaccessible because a lot of projects still refuse to make official binary builds available, forcing you to either compile from source yourself or look for unofficial builds

i really like this part

the year is 2030. we've finally killed off that sun microsystems programming language, you don't get popups asking to update it anymore. they even built a tomb for it so people could pay their respects, but nobody goes. real programmers don't like java's crypt

Forgot to post these here too, lol

Happy Valentine's Day, gamers

bad: Welcome to the world of POKÉMON! Are you a BOY or a GIRL?

better: Welcome to the world of POKÉMON! What are your pronouns?

ideal: Welcome to the world of POKÉMON! Are you a HUMAN or are you a POKÉMON?

the same people who understand why toll roads are bad will find it inconceivable to treat software as public infrastructure. profiteering software is always architecturally worse than a non-profiteering architecture, but sure, let’s do yet another startup trying to monetize clicks 🙃