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#showerthoughts

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To paraphrase someone way smarter than I am:
Bitching about politics, the economy, the weather, etc. is the background noise of a group of people with no internal crisis imminent.

As irritating as it can be sometimes, to look at the Fediverse and see a demonstration of the direction this world is apparently headed and why that is wrong, I don't find that alarming in its own right.

I will shit myself if the crickets ever stop chirping suddenly.

#ShowerThoughts: When you're talking to someone in a crowded place, the white noise of other people's conversations makes a kind of cone of silence around you. Keeping every groups conversation relatively private. This is why it's so unnerving when there's a momentary silence, and you suddenly find you're the only one talking.

Is there some way we could use this principle in social software? Encrypting private chats using other private chats as entropy?

Does anyone else type slower on a machine with high latency for whatever reason (e.g. it's a host across the Pacific)?

I find myself typing slower to kind of match its cadence, I assume to make the delay between pressing a key and seeing it echoed to the terminal.

Software dependencies are subject to Brandolini's law (a.k.a the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle), which states:

"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."

However, I also find that in any software project, the amount of effort needed to get rid of an external dependency is an order of magnitude bigger than it took to add it.

Conclusion: most software is largely made of bullshit.