travislf

@travislf@techhub.social

http://travislf.com • Dad, Software Engineer, VueJS, Typescript, Learning Ukulele, he/him

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travislf, to Economics

The end goal of AI is the conversion of capital into rent.

The work of billions of laborers, alive and dead, converted into an infinitely reproduceable service that generates wealth simply through its ownership.

It is the ultimate triumph of Rent vs Capital.

travislf,

@cy

Not exactly.

Here’s an example:

Songwriter signs a contract with a label.
Songs they make by the sweat of their brow earn themselves and the label money. This is Capital.

The label now owns the digital rights to the songs written by the songwriter and Spotify can pay the label for each time the song is played. This is Rent.

One pays as the result of production, the other pays as the result of ownership.

StillIRise1963, to random
@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world avatar

Never thought I'd need to say this, but FUCK SNOOP.🙄

travislf,

@StillIRise1963

This feels like if Green Day suddenly turned around and started warming up to the idea of another 4 years of Trump.

The wealthy really do turn on a dime if they think it will benefit them.

travislf, to react

Does anyone else find the ubiquity of a bit depressing?

DavidDarnes, to random
@DavidDarnes@mastodon.design avatar

Has anyone enjoyed using Storybook without being the person installing it?

travislf,

@DavidDarnes

This scares me a bit.

i’m currently building a frontend monorepo for my company with a new component design library that uses storybook to fill a few roles:

  1. Component lib documentation using the autodoc extension that combines stories with jsdoc info from the components themselves.

  2. Component testing (using stbk as a test runner)

  3. Low-hanging fruit WCAG 2.1 compliance

  4. Theming testing (several products using the components are whitelabel solutions that need to look good for very different brands)

So far it’s filling that need well, but now this post has me worried I’ve added a pain point to the system. Tell me more about the pain. I haven’t been doing this all that long.

travislf, to Israel

My tax dollars are being spent to help this foreign military beat this poet and rob and traumatize his family. For christ’s sake he has kids and they took their clothes…

This is not a war. this is not a conflict, it’s a genocide and a robbery. Any state that attacks poets and journalists and cuts off civilian communication is not a state i wish to give the sweat of my brow to.

What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike Turn off the lights in every room / sit in the inner hallway of the house / away from the windows / stay away from the stove / stop thinking about making black tea / have a bottle of water nearby / big enough to cool down / children's fear / get a child's kindergarten backpack and stuff / tiny toys and whatever amount of money there is / and the ID cards / and photos of late grandparents, aunts, or uncles / and the grandparents' wedding invitation that's been kept for a long time / and if you are a farmer, you should put some strawberry seeds / in one pocket / and some soil from / the balcony flowerpot in the other / and hold on tight / to whatever number there was / on the cake / from the last birthday. Mosab Abu Toha

whknott, to scifi

Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for November 11th, 2023

Write a single toot reply #SciFi story about this image.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #SFF #freewrite #MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStory #SmallStories #FlashFiction #mastoArt

travislf,

@whknott

Perin’s cheeks were red from the climb as he paused to get his bearings. The thick oil-cloud air emanating from the decaying fusion core of the Elder Quaternary made him feel like coughing with every puffing breath.

The distant frigate groaned overhead like a giant beast longing to be freed from its prison—its ancient alloys protesting against each slow pulsing movement of the echinulatum frond. The thick, ever-expanding network of growth covering the moon’s surface had robbed it from the sky generations ago.

Perin had heard of frond expeditions that had attempted to reach the ancient frigate, but echinulatum grows soft at that altitude, and climbing becomes nearly impossible. Down here on the surface, the lattice was much more reliable.

The tencom squawked to life with a crackling adolescent voice, “Stars, ‘Rin! If you stand there long enough you’ll sink! You scared?”

He snickered, clicked off the crackling device and started towards the distant frond.

ayo, to random
@ayo@ayco.io avatar

I wonder if the “hero” terminology in website design is because of Angular’s Tour of Heroes tutorial… I’ve no clue where that started.

travislf,

@ayo

I’ve heard the term “hero” used in newsprint to refer to the image behind or below the masthead, but I’m not sure if the use of it predates webpages, or if it was more recently co-opted.

kissane, to random
@kissane@mas.to avatar

Exceptionally good news for Poland, so relieved.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/poland-election-coaliiton-1.6997607

travislf,

@kissane Hell yeah! Way to go, Poland!

StillIRise1963, to random
@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world avatar

The penalty for shutting the government down should be 1 month without salary for each day it's closed.

travislf,

@StillIRise1963 the only issue I could see arising from this would be that it could be used as a weapon by wealthy members of Congress against those members who are not wealthy.

That being said, it is infuriating. We need a solution.

StillIRise1963, to random
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How is it possible to be distracted from the extinction of the human race? Seriously.🙄

travislf,

@StillIRise1963

I guess technically every organism will overconsume and overpopulate until they’re put in check by some other environmental factor, either scarcity, or disease, or predators.

It just turns out that the human organism can make such a vast variety of environments livable thanks to their ingenuity, that they literally will break a planet before their overgrowth is checked.

It’s just shocking that with all this fantastic ingenuity we can’t FUCKING STOP BREAKING THE PLANET.

mia, to CSS
@mia@front-end.social avatar

The only way to 'avoid the cascade' is by not writing . Every web style, no matter how or where we write it, participates in the cascade.

CSS wouldn't even be possible without a cascade of some kind. Since it's possible to write conflicting styles, browsers need some way to resolve those conflicts. That's all the cascade is.

We can imagine different rules for that process – what we have now wasn't the original proposal, & we've made updates recently – but there has to be something.

travislf,

@mia

Now I want to write a website that uses CSS but everything is position: absolute just to be cheeky.

But that punchline isn’t worth the pain 😅

travislf, to javascript

Hey folks, I could use some advice.

I’m about to start a new frontend leadership position at a company. They want someone to come in and have strong opinions on the way things should be.

This is fine, and I have no qualms with being opinionated and establishing guidelines, but it will be my first time doing so on my own. What I want to hear about are your failures, your war stories about how decisions you (or those in frontend leadership positions) made that caused issues down the road that may not have been foreseen.

TL:DR—What should frontend leads avoid doing?

travislf,

@schizanon

HAH!

enoch, to random

“State Farm Halts Home-Insurance Sales in California”

So typical. They’re happy to take your money when that’s all they’re doing but if they have to actually use it to help you they’re out.

travislf,

@StillIRise1963 @goodthinking @kroltanz @enoch

I like to think it starts locally. I’ve been reading The New State by Mary Parker Follett recently. Her ideas surrounding interconnected federated community centers that enact political change starting at the neighborhood level is a strong one.

Also her focus on education as the antithesis of fascism, and how education on holding back that tide must be in every part of your growing up life, be it at school, or at play, or with family. It should all be viewed as education for maintaining your democracy against the constant onslaught of fascism.

The only downside is the time and effort it takes to make something like it happen on a national or global scale. With so many resources already in the wrong hands, you need un-apathetic engaged communities.

travislf, to random

Many folks have been taught about “The Tragedy of The Commons” in school. But what most folks don’t know is that it was complete bunk written by a white nationalist and eugenicist to justify colonization and genocide.

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/01/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-how-ecofascism-was-smuggled-into-mainstream-thought/

Commons can be successful. Many long-standing and successful commons exist. Many were studied by Nobel Prize-winning Political Scientist Elinor Ostram, who codified 8 principles for how commons can be governed sustainably and equitably in a community.

https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons

I’d really like for folks to stop using the term “tragedy of the commons” that assumes inevitable failure, and start calling them what they are. Commons with improper governance or “Failed commons”.

#socialism #economics

travislf, to random

This article is amazing. Wish I had learned more of this in school.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413

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