@nprofile1q... ‘no easy answers’ actually there are very easy answers it’s just that Labour doesn’t like them.

@nprofile1q... It seems to me that they're still overlooking a number of candidates on the left of the party who'd been sidelined by Starmer (Long-Bailey comes to mind). Although of course I don't know whether they themselves want to stand either.

Agreed completely though that this is not a Green problem to solve. Concerning if Labour have no other acceptable candidates within the PLP but it's their job to find one, not other parties' job to stand aside to give them one.

If there had been a formal agreement with actual commitments by Labour that'd be a different matter. But of course Burnham can't even really make promises because he can't be sure he'd become leader even if he wins the by-election.

@nprofile1q... Is Burnham even the least-bad candidate? He's the only candidate who's put himself forwards so far but he's given no reason to think he'd be a noticeable improvement over Starmer.

Streeting would unquestionably be worse if he ran (he might as well not bother though). Miliband has been listed as a possibility and while he has problems I don't see that he's any worse than Burnham. Ditto Rayner.

I see so many people (especially on Bluesky) fawning over Burnham though. (And it's not even guaranteed that he's eligible as a candidate yet!)

@nprofile1q... when I tried it about a year back it seemed to work pretty well — as well as Linux at least. I stopped because I needed better suspend support, not because of anything Wayland-specific.

@nprofile1q... what is the point of this?

even more worthless than the usual “AI” bullshit

@nprofile1q... Yeah, I’ve felt the same way about Thatcher: it’s all very well to joke about ‘ding dong the witch is dead’ and everything, but her death didn’t fix anything, and at that point she was long retired — it would be different if her death had prevented active harm, perhaps.

And yet of course the harm is always systemic. If Thatcher had died in office someone just as bad would have taken over. If Trump died now, probably the same. So I think you’re right that the only thing to hope for is their survival long enough to face consequences.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... god that description alone is incredibly fucking bleak. no real band in history has ever describe itself in this way. if it was written by a human it would be a human who didn’t actually know anything about metal music but had had it described to them (or perhaps any music, or maybe even the entirety of human experience).

@nprofile1q... is this related to the ‘I care about outcomes more than process’ nonsense? (where they ignore that the outcomes are also bad.)

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Tbh I feel like a lot of people would have been happy to overlook the use of an LLM just for spellchecking, but Doctorow himself blew it out of proportion, imagined a massive backlash before one had even happened, and pre-emptively doubled down on it by smearing the criticism as 'purity culture'.

@nprofile1q... Yeah, I’ve noticed a distinct drop in quality since coworkers started using LLMs.

It’s hard to be sure, because it’s made me judge every PR more harshly anyway. But I notice some distinct patterns, like specifying default values unnecessarily.

And usually a failure to notice appropriate opportunities for abstraction (because hey, the LLM is so good at boilerplate that we don’t need to worry about that any more, right?)

We had a couple of big PRs of ‘nice-to-have’ features that were too low-priority ever to get done. Vibecoding meant they were initially written in a couple of hours — but then they took literal weeks of back and forth in code review to get them into a tolerable state.