I like the idea of contributing to something built by users.

oh shit

They know, but don’t see the value in the effort.

I listen to the music in the techno and EDM communities here on Lemmy. It seems like an ok approach.

We don’t notice technologies that quietly solve the problem they were intended to solve. I’ve never seen a rage post about light switches. Or wrenches. Or locks. Or pencils.

AI, and a lot of the technologies we complain about, are business models that prioritize value to the producer over value to the buyer or user. They aren’t technology per se, so much as a shoddy product wrapped in unrealistic promises.

Time for some NERD PRIDE

You’d think, wouldn’t you? I suspect it’s because we’re mostly middle aged (or older) so we’re not playing TTRPGs any more. But I am! And I demand posts!

I’ve tried to post a few things in the TTRPG communities and they rarely get many comments. It’s disheartening.

gotta be triangles

Developers wanted to build and deploy apps to end user machines. The round trip for page loads was lousy for usability.

Java applets were too shitty. Flash was too janky and hard to work with. So Mozilla started adding JavaScript as a hack. It filled a need.

a barrier-to-entry that makes it difficult to develop new browsers,

It definitely adds a barrier to entry, but JavaScript was really perfected in chromium, which is a different codebase from the folks who proposed and built js to begin with.

I’m not saying JavaScript is good, but it fills a need.

Our reality feels superficial and degenerate.

I suspect it was ever thus. As long as wars are far away they won’t seem real.

The 15th Federated will remember our sacrifice at the Battle of the Erie. As long as there’s a Fifteenth, we’ll live on. o7

Cyberpunk is a critique and warning about hypercapitalism with cool aesthetics and technology. Somehow we ended up with zero aesthetics, meh technology, and we’re far down the road to actual factual shit down your throat hypercapitalism.

I always try to end depressing comments with something positive, but I can’t think of anything. Hug your favourites, and good luck in the Climate Wars.

Same boat. Somehow, the magic is gone.

TIL Lemmy feels strongly about the right to repair and modern manufacturing practices.

Okay, I already knew. It’s on brand for whatever it is we are.

They are now.

In a recent series of experiments, we paid people a few dollars to unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X. After a month, they reported feeling 23% less animosity towards other political groups. In fact, their experience was so positive that nearly half the people declined to refollow those hostile accounts after the study was over. And those who maintain their healthier newsfeed reported less animosity a full 11 months after the study.

Twitter got a lot better when I unfollowed the peeps whose tweets I hated. But it also got boring, so I stopped using it (this was loooong before Trump, Elon, etc).

There’s probably a lesson there.

Cloudflare’s customers probably wouldn’t be on board with that. Google’s properties provide a tonne of traffic to businesses. Doing anything to put that in jeopardy would probably have many of Cloudflare’s customers looking for a new provider.

It just seems like dude is suffering from Not invented here and wants to reinvent the wheel. The only reason anyone noticed is because a tech b-lister is involved.