Dojan

Their current interim CEO previously worked at AirBNB. I’ve a hard time trusting the judgement of someone who’d help upend various housing markets across the globe.

I knew that the bloody AirBNB CEO was a bad sign of more to come. Mozilla is dead.

C#. Since I’m a .NET developer it’s the stack I’m most familiar with.

Honestly I kind of like the idea of a front end with as little JS as possible.

Yeah, I also feel like it’s fairly recent.

I recently started poking with Vue, For the most part when it comes to webapps I’ve mostly worked with React, Blazor, and a touch of Svelte. The linter is so aggressive. I start defining a method and it instantly goes “IT DOESN’T RETURN ANYTHING!!”

Okay, thanks! I literally just defined the return type!

Visual Studio: PROPERTY DOESN’T EXIST ON TYPE!! NOTHING EXISTS ANYMORE!!! REALITY HAS COLLAPSED!

Me: What? I haven’t even touched that class, let me check.

Visual Studio: Oops, nevermind, héhé 🙃

It’s no different from GPT knowing the plot of Aliens or who played the main role in Matilda.

It’s seen enough code to recognise the pattern, it knows an author name goes in there, and Phil Nash is likely a prolific enough author that it just plopped his name in there. It’s not intelligence, just patterns.

That looks really sleek! I always liked how smooth an experience KDE was back when I used it.

Interesting! There’s a particular type of fabric I cannot stand, and every time I think of it I get the sensation of touching it. Doing my best to not fling my phone away.

Possibly.

You’d be one hell of a schmoozer as you’d know exactly what to say to people to connect with them.

I dunno. You’d know exactly what it looks and smells like too, and what it’d feel like on your tongue. Depends on how vivid your imagination is.

I can’t visualise things, but when people ask me to “visualise an apple” I can feel the waxy exterior, the crispness (or gumminess of an old apple), the slightly floral scent before you bite into it, what it sounds like, etc.

Can’t fucking visualise it to save my life though.

Oh you don’t want to know exactly how many pubes your grandmother shed in her lifetime? You don’t care to know what the sewage of tasted like in London on Sunday, the 16th of July 1882? You don’t burn with desire to learn what it feels like to get your viscera torn out by a hungry lion?

Weak!

At that point just go for omniscience.

Conceptually this is really cool, but the hole punch is oddly misaligned on my Pixel 6, so I can’t imagine it looking good.

I feel like talk about Wayland being the next big thing, “coming soon” began back when I was using Linux as my daily driver over ten years ago.

It’s still not widely used?

Well yeah, I only meant it sounds like a similar idea, I’d be surprised if it was powered by docker.

Sounds a bit like docker and its containers?

That is a good point. Thank you for the correction!

A lot changed after Satya Nadella took the helm. The modern .NET platform is really quite nice, and MS does a lot of FOSS open source work.

Obviously it’s good to be sceptical, they’re a large corporation and all they want is money, they’re not our friends. They’re just not as draconian as they were in the 90s and the 00s.