Software developer by day, insomniac by night.

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I think it’d be hard not to get cynical when in such a situation. It’s why it’s so important to amplify the voices of marginalised people and bring them into the fold, they have needs as a society we need to see to them. It really shouldn’t be that hard. Unfortunately a lot of people don’t realise that being healthy and able-bodied is a temporary state, and at some point or other we’re all going to need some form of support.

    We all benefit from ensuring it’s there.


  • Mm. You’re describing someone very dear to me, because of whom I wear an n95 mask every day.

    People you describe fight an uphill battle, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. They can ask for accommodations, but a lot of people won’t meet them. Meetings can be held digitally, of course, and one can advocate for oneself digitally as well. In time they can hope to win allies, and with them also get advocates that are willing to help amplify their voice.

    I’m sorry, but I don’t have any good solutions. The world is neither kind or fair, the best we can hope for is to build communities with people that empathise and see us.

    I wish you the very best.








  • Are you sure that’s what they’re trying to do?

    I often see people waving away the incremental enshittification of social systems in my country by saying “at least it’s not like the U.S.” but to me that’s burying the bar.

    China and the USA are both run by nasty regimes, they suck in different ways (albeit increasingly less so), but you couldn’t pay me to live in either place.

    Apples to oranges, but since they’re both rotted what virtue is there in accepting either one?




  • A couple of weeks ago I rebooted into Windows for the first time in well over 8 months, as I needed to use a piece of software I don’t have on Linux (it’s available, I’m just refusing to pay for it and no alternative method has materialised), and getting anything done was incredibly frustrating.

    First everything had to update, and I was forced to log in to a bunch of stuff. My web browser spontaneously vanished, as did Discord. No idea why. Opening Explorer consistently took several seconds because it always decided to poll my external drive before displaying anything, even if I didn’t do shit in my external drive.

    Explorer being slow applies on my work PC too, and I have to use Windows on that. Every day I wonder how it’d be to put Linux on it.

    Nautilus just opens the moment I click on it. Always.





  • Minimum wages aren’t necessarily a thing you must have, provided unions are strong in the labour market. We don’t have a legally mandated minimum wage here in Sweden, but it only works because CLAs are so common and the unions are constantly working on it. If people start slacking and stop actively working within unions, or the capitalist asswipes keep trying to undermine the Swedish labour market model, that shit’s going to fall apart quickly.

    Musk and his garbage car company for example is one of the most recent occurrences of a company trying its best to undermine the Swedish model. There’s a strike that’s been going on since 2023 because of it. The strategy is essentially just enshittification; offer good terms and wages until the unions are weakened, then throw it all out, run over your workers and there’ll be no recourse since the unions are gone.

    I think the only argument against legally mandated minimum wages that I’ve heard that I personally think hold water is that politicians are notoriously slow at changing things so you might end up with a minimum wage that remains the same for 20-30 years. That said, I feel like that’s easily solved if you have an institution that is assigned to keep track of the general expenses a person has on a year to year basis, and base a minimum wage on that. That’s not to say I think minimum wage should be subsistence minimum, it should meet and exceed that, because the stress that comes with living on subsistence minimum isn’t sustainable.

    Having previously worked at a company without a CLA I can safely say I’ll never do that again. Sure it was a lovely place to work at, but having the same salary several years in a row really sucked. At my current company we get the union negotiated yearly increases, plus potential bonuses if you meet (or exceed) your development goals.