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khm@khm@hj.9fs.net (2026-09-22 01:32:57)
the first time I heard this phrase (in computer-nerd context) I started grilling the speaker, only to discover that it just means what HPC has been calling 'stateless' for twenty or more years.  while 'stateless' is also a bit of a misnomer, it gets across the idea that you don't depend on the configuration state of a give node, and it manages to do so without invoking weird cult messaging about the treatment of animals.

I swear to god k8s is just ten-years-out-of-date HPC with more json and toxic masculinity
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MaddieM4@MaddieM4@raphus.social (2026-09-22 01:36:10)
@khm @dalias As someone who has found k8s impenetrable to the point of an implied *intentional* opacity, like as in "to deceive and grift people into thinking there's more to it than there is", this helps me better understand my intuitive disdain for the murky shapes in the darkness *below* that opacity. It's shit-wrapped-shit, innit?

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khm@khm@hj.9fs.net (2026-09-22 01:43:00)
that's been my experience!  most forms of mimetic engineering are, but when the focus of your techincal idolatry is a rotten organization that can only solve problems via money, the results are going to be extra tangy

CC: @dalias@hachyderm.io