not far off, sadly

I recently read a lovely short story about this: https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

tinfoil hat on: discord is a company based in the USA, the USA administration saw those teenagers in Nepal supposedly organise a revolt/revolution over discord, sees the inhabitants of Minneapolis organizing against ICE on Signal, and wants to preemptively know which of their citizens are using discord with which accounts in case any of them start organizing on discord.

time for hardcore shuffle to make a comeback?

and to ensure that artists can afford the necessities, add universal basic inco… OK shit I’m at it again.

It’s “funny” how it always seems to come down to this people shouldn’t need to make someone else richer just to survive…

Pretty easy to sum up in 1-2 sentences…

Then by all means, give them your 1-2 sentences per DE so that they “only” need to include them!

Frankly, I think it’s a lot harder than you’re making it out to be, especially over such a large range of DEs. Not that the suggestion is without merit, just that the assumed difficulty of making it work as intended (i.e. actually helping a new Linux user pick the “right” desktop environment for them) seems underestimated.

Maybe Cinnamon can get away with “it’s like windows 95”, but Gnome and i3 are quite different from anything the target audience has ever experienced.

Something something when a metric becomes a target something something it ceases to be a useful metric. Only in this case the metric is fungible and can be traded for almost anything else in the world. No wonder it became the target.

The older I get, the more I think Tolkien and Herbert had it right (despite disagreeing with much of their politics); gift economies, subsistence farming, and self-reliance are the way to go to prevent us from destroying ourselves.

Then I guess it’s time to put “AI” (actually 3 if-statements in a trench coat) into all my software projects so they can legally jailbreak corporate software!

I don’t know what the exact genre name is but Opeth’s Eternal Rains Will Come comes to mind

We might finally get a triumvirate of generalist, centrist instances!

…or .world will crash, burn, and implode

Speaking of which, nice username

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though I’m not sure I get the “train” bit

Good for them! I’m not surprised yet still disappointed by the spokesperson’s comments.

Damn, and anthropic is supposed to be the least shitty of the western LLM actors.

Having never played a battlefield game, having last played COD when MW2 released: good! Not every game in the same genre needs to play the same way, and I suspect it’s healthier this way for the “soldier shooter” genre to propose different kinds of experiences.

Haven’t gotten through the entire protocol description yet, but so far it seems closer to DMs on a social network than digital letters.

Neat, but maybe we should just do email-over-activitypub then…

I’m not sure if you explicitly want an RFC-style description (i.e. follows https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119 for MUST vs SHOULD vs etc) or if you are using RFC as a colloquial term for the technical details of the protocol.

In case of the latter, the “protocol” link at the top resolves to this GitHub repo: https://github.com/Open-Email/MailHTTPS-Protocol

Damn, thanks for linking that report. I have appreciated devault’s work for almost a decade, this is a good reminder that just because someone’s public actions align with my values does not automatically mean they are infallible nor should they be canonized.

Eleventh is a static site generator. You run it once, then straight up serve the files it output.

Server-side rendering is like running eleventy for each incoming webrequest (albeit only for the requested page(s) instead of the whole site).

It gives me no pleasure to learn that the business imitating japanese idol agencies was abusing their position and financials in relation to their “talent”.

“scaled” and “Top - 6 Hours” are pretty decent at surfacing meaningful … well, maybe not conversation but engagement at least.