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BREAKING: $GERM (GermanCorp) redacts undisclosed NFTs as consequence of undisclosed outcry #BreakingNews

@fesshole Hospitality is such a lonely word. Why are you even inviting people in?

@LordCaramac there is a great book - “bloodlands: Europe between hitler and stalin”

@aslakr @techokami @glyph @gemelen Hm. Maybe we're on a logarithmic scale

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@dlakelan I don't know if the community that was into this has moved onto something better now.

@dlakelan MiniKanren and MicroKanren were a big deal in logic programming about ten years ago. They're not so much functional programming languages as *concepts* for a very, very simple prolog like language, so simple you could plausibly implement it yourself as a DSL inside another language of your choice. Which means you can use it for the logic part only, and the parts that are hard in Prolog can be done in the host language. It looked cool but I never got the hang of it.

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

Enshittification started as soon as owners of popular sites realized they can’t keep everything free for long, they felt it was time to make money. And begin getting rid of content deemed hostile to advertisers and corporate sponsors.

AI can reveal your location from a single photo. Vision‑Language Models can determine where any given photo is taken without using any GPS data. What does that means for your privacy? It can lead to covert surveillance, doxxing, discriminatory policing, and profiling https://pvcy.org/geo

We need to find a way to tell the story of the communities in tech who are not these douchebags. Plenty of people in Silicon Valley are building inclusive companies for the right reasons - but they're under-supported and under-heard compared to this arsenal of canoes. https://www.404media.co/silicon-valley-podcast-hosts-try-to-understand-why-regular-people-are-mad/

@marxjohnson fun fact: hexels are to pixels, what hexes are to pixies

Hey, any german queers who wanna befriend a shy german trans girl who really needs friends and guidance?

Alternatively, are there any instances that might be willing to take her in?

yes, assuming you are there for a discussion and not entertainment.

most folks are on reddit for entertainment, let’s not kid ourselves. very tiny sliver of the users were there for discussion.

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@panic Any news on Nova 15? It's been months! Just a day before my subscription will be renewed I'm wondering if another year of Nova updates is still worth it with just a few releases ahead. Also: any news on Transmit 6?

Reddit admins repeatedly asked mods how to make like for them better. And then repeatedly ignored almost every single answer they got, rolling out features nobody wanted and taking away things people used. It was the years and years and years of putting in hours and hours of time working against the enshittification that made me tired, and then it was the stupid fucking over-reaching AI moderation that caused me to leave after my accounts started being banned for no good reason with appeals failing.

It took far too long for them to drive me away, as I know it did for a lot of others.