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Cake day: December 16th, 2023

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  • There’s a weird implicit conservancy in tech circles around the dictatorial nature of corporate leadership.

    It stems from this weird externalization of corporate decision making that just turns everything that happens at large companies into the machinations of the unknowable machine of capital.

    “Of course they were fired, they protested in a way that disrupted the business, if the business is disrupted the machine must correct itself, and it did so by releasing the corporate anti-bodies of leadership to fire the disruptive element. Thus the machine is corrected. This is all logically sound, and thus impervious to moral inquisition.”



  • It’s cause Epic/McKesson has complete control over the EMR world so everything has to work with them to some degree.

    GNU health is great but I haven’t seen where it could support the massive amount of legal and monetary hoops that Epic and co have to jump through as well.

    For some reason there just isn’t a lot of volunteer efforts/space for open source development in the healthcare world.


  • This feels like the same kind of issue mesa just had around the zlib update breaking downstream user programs (viewperf). If there are significant downstream issues for users you shouldn’t upgrade, even if that is the end goal.

    Projects that are big and important get old and bloated because they need to try and span legacy issues alongside their attempts at newer paradigms. It’s just kind of the natural lifecycle of these projects.




  • crawls out of gnu logo-shaped hole

    I use icecat and it’s pretty nice, main issue is you have to manually approve all JavaScript scripts and cross-site requests manually, so it makes visiting almost any website for the first time a pain in the ass.

    Luckily most stuff is concentrated to a few sites and I use private frontends liberally so it’s not a huge pain.

    Slinks back into free software hole


  • I switched to guix and haven’t looked back.

    Mostly because:

    1. I like the idea of functional package managers
    2. I like guix’s dedication to making every package buildable from source (thus the no non-libre code rule)
    3. I like the expressiveness of scheme vs Nix’s package description language

    Guix is the smoothest time I’ve ever built packages for a distro before (well outside arch). Which is good because there’s a lot of out of date and unadded packages for potential.