Ironically, luddites against space exploration in this era call for the dismantling of a titanic field of science that is both directly and indirectly responsible for the very device from which they shart out their oh-so-learned opinions to the rest of the world.

Follow Creators, Not Platforms

It’s interpreted.

Ironically, due the nature of the language used in their complaint and its similarity to psychological operations conducted by COINTELPRO, @OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml seems “shallow and politically motivated”.

I agree with your sentiment, but I’m compelled to point out that their “billions” is in the valuation of the preferred shares of the corporations they control. If they were to sell to get their billions in cash, the value of their portfolio that analysts purport they have would plummet to pennies on the dollar and very quickly.

Billionaires take out loans using their appraised assets as collateral when they need a couple tens of hundreds of millions in cash.

These billionaires’ egos literally write checks their bodies can’t cash with tacit approval from the Fed and SEC.

It is.

“Dumb” people who don’t demonstrate their stupidity loudly are of average intelligence.

“Mediocrity” (sort of) implies “middling”, etymologically, which is what most people are. Average.

Reminds me of some lyrics by the Foo Fighters, “There goes my hero; he’s ordinary.”

What’s the reasoning behind it?

We crave validation from others and ourselves by being considered “rare” or capable of creating “rarity” in an ocean of mediocrity and banality to justify our state, choices, and attitudes. We consider “rarity” as inherently valuable and a virtue to aspire to.

Helix for terminal has been fantastic; I like GUIs so for me Zed is my “S-Tier”.

Yes, Zed allows you to turn off the Agentic LLM integration off in settings.json:

{
  "disable_ai": true
}

Let’s just go full boar bore hypothetical:

Is everyone in commercial software development finally saying, “Fuck it, we’ll run the shit ourselves”?

I’m an infrastructure and devops noob here; take my words with a grain of salt.

I need GPU clusters with ECC VRAM for research and found it’s cheaper to just have my own high-ish performance compute in my own office I paid for once than pay AWS/Azure/GCS/etc forever or at least everytime I want to train a custom DNN model. Sometimes I use Linode but it’s for monitoring. But I can run shit at will and I have data sovereignty.

Has the paradigm shifted back to developing and serving things in-house now that big tech vendor-lock/tie-ins have so many dark patterns that scalability isn’t cost-effective with them? Or is it just my own pipe dream?