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I should have guessed, but I honestly had no idea people in quantities thought the billionaire NVIDIA CEO who dresses like a shop in Caesar’s Palace and is making sure nobody can upgrade their gaming PC is a cool dude who we should defend enthusiastically on the internet.
@hacks4pancakes WHOMST among us hasn't been catfished by China while winding up the global economy like a fuse wrapped around a bucket of nitroglycerin
@Vordus making a visual novel in RPGMaker is definitely less gross than making one in Godot that just tries to emulate Ren'Py, or (shudder) in Unity
@ben IIRC the biggest problem with Ren'py is that it's hard to port it to consoles. Not that that should matter to the average user. Basically the solutions available are extremely hacky.
Apparently the switch version of Slay The Princess really struggles.
When people ask why I refuse to eat sausages I explain that I used to work in a sausage making factory. People joke about lips and arseholes but that not the problem. The problem was that some of the meat was just so old when it got to us. It stank really bad.
Been pretty behind with uploading video stuff. Here's the timelapse for the patch of flowers I made at the beginning of October https://spectra.video/w/gHh9TbJptE7J1Mpz7g5Dox
And a timelapse for the crab castle from October 11th (without the tweaks from the 15th) https://spectra.video/w/v8pqeoAc7XupcNueGs8Qes
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
Even if size does become a problem (SufferringFromSuccess.meme), we can always defederate a smaller Lemmy/Piefed network and call it Fedi Classic.
(c) programmers are predisposed to convincing others that programming is too complicated for "normal people" as a means of job security and achieving social status; computer manufacturers and their software-making friends are predisposed to a marketing message that states: computers are too difficult for normal people, so buy this new machine/software, which is finally the computer/software that normal people can use! together both sides form a kind of mutual ratchet imo
@aparrish agreed, although I would also analyze the teaching of programming. I always use compare with symbolic differentiation and integration of mathematical functions.
I learned symbolic differentiation easily; it's mostly a straightforward process. However, I struggle with integration as it seems like learning to identify so many patterns that are much more complex.
As they are "opposite" processes I feel they compare well with understanding execution and programming.
📰 Lees nu ons interview met het team achter de NL-Wallet app. We duiken diep in de achterliggende technieken en de bestuurlijke inbedding van het project.
wao.
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
i used to think the powerful part of "programming language" was the "programming" part. but now i think its actually the "language" part. like, sure, programming changes what's on the computer, but language changes your idea of what's even real
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You’re basically emphasizing my point. Reddit started as a subreddit meritocracy. Any and all subreddits could have content on the front page, so long as said content received sufficient upvotes. However, atheists are the most hated religious minority in the U.S., so their content had to be suppressed to cater to commercial interests. It’s viewpoint suppression to cater to the lucrative majority.
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It’s a lot quieter, so feel free to contribute or… it stays quiet :)
Lemmy is only one part of the Fediverse, Mastodon is there as well
look around and enjoy
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Remember to thank all the community moderators and admins that tirelessly take the spammy, horrible and bot posts out to the trash for us, so we can have this nice space without being overrun by the trash!
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I’m new to the Fediverse, and so far I’m loving 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.
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CLOSE THE DOOR we’re hot boxing the place
❯ cargo run -q -- self-test
Test 1 / 6: pkg.test_decide_curl... ok
Test 2 / 6: pkg.test_decide_faked_browser... ok
Test 3 / 6: pkg.test_decide_known_bot... ok
Test 4 / 6: pkg.test_decide_poisoned_url... ok
Test 5 / 6: pkg.test_output... ok
Test 6 / 6: pkg.test_report... ok
Ran 6 tests, 6 succeeded, 0 failed
I have enough stuff implemented that I can implement the Three Ifs in a Trenchcoat (almost, I can't read ai.robots.txt yet).
OOof, ok. Roto dependencies are a little trickier than I expected.
I noticed something:
People who have traveled a lot tend to judge less.
Claude can now join video calls as an active, visible teammate in Anthropic’s latest push to reinvent white collar jobs beyond coding
https://fortune.com/2026/11/10/anthropic-launches-office-knowledge-worker-product-launch-ahead-of-ipo/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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