@icst @nuko I'm probably naive in thinking that regulatory bodies are largely good, especially in engineering fields when many of those rules and regulations were written in blood of past failures. I can't remember anything big happening from major software errors since heartbleed, which led people to start fuzz testing. Did anything happen after the Crowdstrike fiasco? What about xz?

@icst @nuko If they wanted to get rid of it, which I probably largely agree with you that it was just the US trying to project its soft power, it is still probably a better idea and a little more responsible to wind it down and not take a sledgehammer to it

@nuko @icst to me, someone with nowhere near the intelligence in computer "science" as these posts, I see software "engineering" never really taking off because a lot of so called engineers are still in the "move fast and break things" mentality (see: the All In podcast if you want to tear your ears off) which is fine when you're working on reinventing the bus or a public park for VC money, but works terribly when there are actual rules that need to be in place, especially dealing with people's wellbeing or immutable things like *the laws of physics*.
Correctness is usually taken for granted in software because for many software cases as long as A does B everything in between doesn't really matter, which cannot be said for something as complex as a skyscraper or an aeroplane. That's also why there are so many rules, regulations and inspections (one could argue especially with buildings there are too many but this is beyond the scope of this post): because something made incorrect _will kill people_, something usually seen as being bad.

To get a little political the culmination of the software "breaking things is ok actually as long as it gets fixed" mentality is all of the shit that got yanked by DOGE during the ketamine binges in DC. What exactly are all of the after effects caused by flushing USAID or the CFPB down the toilet? No one will know for a long while because governments are, by design, **slow as shit**. Was it smart to fire people doing actually useful things if you can just rehire them? If they're supremely talented, they probably already found a better job doing something else for more and you just lost someone important. Was it smart to immediately yank the funding of every single NIH study because it had a word that could be tangentially related to DEI instead of painstakingly going through each study and actually getting rid of the DEI ones? (opinions on DEI are irrelevant) Probably not, some studies can't just be arbitrarily started and stopped because someone running grep said so.

I don't think Peter Thiel is the Antichrist because the Antichrist is supposed to be likeable

@icst yes, I have a little arm machine running some 3.x linux and I was trying to find a way to remap the controller input (an evdev device) because the mapping is very, very wrong. Turns out the virtual uoutput device just gets ignored by the system and that's where I gave up entirely

@nuko now that edge is chrome with Microsoft's coat of paint on top it's even more funny

@wertimer yes

@mischievoustomato already did

I got all of the compiling to work and it's on the little embedded device turns out the software built into this thing does not believe in virtual input devices so it is finally time to commit suicide

The rust part was ok now the C part absolutely refuses to let me do anything

there are fewer things that piss me off more than the C programming language

lord help me I need to cross compile rust

@benis_redux @grumbulon probably some 2000s show no one remembers

@grumbulon @rinbot I removed it from the folder

@mint @cassidyclown turns out that soapbox does both the HEAD and the GET because ?????? as I can see by a different gleasoma instance which seems redundant to me

@mint @cassidyclown gleasonware strikes again

@mint @cassidyclown weird because that did a HEAD and not a GET like all the other *omas, but facebook crawled my robots.txt not long after that

@grumbulon the milf magnet strikes again

@waifu political unrest because it turns out politicians are corrupt, something that has been true everywhere since the dawn of man

@bajax https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spending-ai-data-centers-massive-150110727.html nothing wrong here