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What the ruling class calls "progress" is not inevitable! 🎉

As far as I am aware (please correct me if I'm wrong), this is the first rebuke these sidewalk vehicle companies have received from any municipal government. Hopefully the first of many.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/10/logan-square-wicker-park-neighbors-say-no-to-more-delivery-robots/

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I get mad
whenever I see
the autonomous delivery robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o1c1MJb_Oc

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Want to get these sidewalk vehicles out of your city? Organize! All it has taken to get to this point in Chicago is some guy registering a domain name, making a Google Form, and spreading it around. https://nosidewalkbots.org/

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we had to go to work, had to pay our rent and our bills, and no matter how often we wondered before "how did people just let Hitler come to power?" we learned the answer, by having to work for the people who want him to, by having to pay rent to the people who want him to, by spending our waking lives making profits for and paying the very people who plan to destroy us, by not having the time or the energy to fight something so banal to this world as a fascist takeover.

https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/work-will-set-you-free/

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'For those of us in the West, we must make sure that the world does not return to normal. We cannot be lulled back to sleep by the temporary cessation of air strikes while the occupation continues. Israel cannot continue as if it did not commit the gravest crime of our generation. The hundreds of thousands of martyred and maimed Palestinians demand justice that cannot be denied.'

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/9/celebrate-the-ceasefire-but-dont-forget-gaza-survived-on-its-own

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Oh no I have encountered a Google build system

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The built static library is 79 MB!

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I hate build systems. That's why I make them work.

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I'm looking for a job writing code that isn't evil. I'm looking for remote work hiring for US timezones. I have 10 years experience, primarily with crossplatform (Linux/Windows/macOS, but especially Linux) desktop applications in C++ and Rust. Recently I've been getting into embedded MCU programming. I'd like to focus on Rust, but am willing to touch C++ and/or C for money. My website has a list of projects I've worked on: https://be.place/code

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Cloud storage? You mean the sky?

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Looking at the sky feels good. Would recommend.

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@aeva out the window. Or get outside and look up

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@be all i see outside is dark

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@be buncha state lawmakers don't want to get reelected apparently 😡

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A telltale sign of an overhyped fad that won't last long is that its proponents loudly proclaim its inevitability.

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This applies to settler colonies as well as technologies.

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@be nations and borders in general

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If the government tells you to change your clock, you don't have to listen. Or you could forget your clock and look at the sun.

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@be looks at the sun
burns eyeballs off
This works.

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I was curious what a "legacy-free codebase" means, and, turns out, it means using Gtkmm3 🙃 Hard to take someone seriously who proclaims their codebase "legacy-free" and hasn't updated to the next major version of one of their biggest dependencies in over 4 years.

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@aeva yeah... why is that so important to place it on the front page of your website??? It's not even a library; it's an application. As a user, if it works, I don't really care what it's made with.

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@be maybe it's a warning so users know to expect that updates will just break shit for no reason with no warning

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Don't mind me, just repeatedly force pushing my branches until the commits are perfect

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Today I learned that Linux has a maximum length that an argument to a command can be.

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@Doomed_Daniel basically, if you're gonna allow fork, this level of COW is table stakes

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@rygorous good point

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Welcome to the fascist future, where the rich gentrify city blocks then turn them into gated communities with private rent-a-cops

https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/11/19/ukrainian-village-residents-urge-neighbors-to-help-fund-private-security-patrol/

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@aeva @be suddenly reminded I have a bottle of Malort in my cabinet for "special" occasions.

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@prettygood @be like home surgery!

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Freedom -1: the freedom to not use a computer