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- Monad m
- m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
- Previously
- https://mastodon.social/@dpwiz
- Making games
- https://haskell-game.dev
- Games made
- https://icrbow.itch.io
Toots as he pleases.
Joined Apr 2022
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internet meta
Sorry I keep meta posting today and this is kind of a repeat of what I posted a week or two ago about Twitter and Reddit:
It doesn't matter if you have another website to go to. These sites will die.
If you are on Twitter and don't like the alternatives? Twitter dies anyway.
If you are on Reddit and don't like the alternatives? Reddit dies anyway.
If you are on Cohost and don't like the alternatives? Cohost dies anyway.
This is about money, people. These are businesses. And they're businesses all in financial peril. You could have NO other website to go to, NO alternatives, and they'd still die.
So telling me "well I don't see you offering any better options!" doesn't matter! Sometimes there aren't even better options! It still dies whether you like that or not! You don't need another website you like to go to for Twitter to die because Elon is trying his damnedest to crash it into the ground. It dies no matter what. It dies whether you want it to die or not. How much you like it doesn't matter. How much you don't like being on other sites doesn't matter. It's a business. It dies when they pull the plug. And that's usually related to whether or not it's making money.
Fedi isn't immune to this either, if my admins say tomorrow "we're done paying for this, it costs too much, we're done", I can't say "well I don't see you providing me somewhere else to go!" Doesn't matter! They don't have to offer you a replacement to turn the switch off! But it's a much larger issue with social media run by companies, because companies can only pay employees if they can afford it.
This isn't the same as saying that you can't be upset about it. You can be upset that you don't have anywhere else to go. You can be upset that you liked the site you were on. But upset or not doesn't have any bearing on "will this site survive". I don't have to offer you a solution to where you go from Cohost or Twitter or Reddit to tell you that they won't survive. I am not responsible for fixing that problem, in fact I don't think anyone can fix that problem. I can't make them not run at a loss forever, I think it's not financially feasible in the first place and the only thing that can happen is they die. It's absurd to say I can't point this out because I'm not offering you a new website to use that makes you happy.
@charliejane @angusm @annaleen Asteroid risks is somewhat addressed. Nothing particularly nasty is expected for a good while.
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/topics/neos/index.html
@joshuafoust @charliejane How did you measure the pressure difference?
I think the amount of effort poured into climate change dwarfs the whatever AInotkillingeveryoneism funding by a few orders of magnitude.
@charliejane Here's some hopium for you that made me a bit calmer yesterday:
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/dont-be-a-doomer
Here's the TLDR about CC:
> In other words, climate change is definitely going to be a bumpy ride for the planet, and it’s not yet certain that we’ll defeat it in time to save ourselves from major harm. But recent progress is extremely encouraging.
TLDR: "You have none of it."
@wlach Unauthenticated SMTP all over again. The service can't be considered "stable" until it got seriously exploited by spammers/griefers and successfully defended. Or busted.
(The Fedeiverse is yet to pass this "great filter", btw.)
@wlach OTOH it merely exposes the fragility of the services and the same "ship now, fix later" mentality that precipitates those hype cycles.
@acegikmo You can't rotate in 0D, can you?
@omgubuntu Will you rename to wtf?! ubuntu anytime soon?
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@cwebber Seems like every private platform is trying to one-up each other on just how enshittified they can be. I'm glad I have a safe place here to watch it all from.
@Fionnbharr Contraction would do no good. Getting back into caves would only breed suffering from all-natural causes and then extinction from a perfectly natural catastrophe (100% certified human-free!).
There's a coordination problem, all right. But if we manage to climb out of the cradle on the bottom of our gravity well, then there's abundance for everyone, free and clean.
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Periodic reminder:
Marginalized people don't owe you shit.
Let them find joy in twerking in public at 4 am if they want to.
Let them laugh about stupid memes and spinning their skirts.
Let them post thirst traps even if you think it's kinda cringe.
Let them talk in uwu and wear fursuits.
Let them use neopronouns and have a gender that takes 2000 words to describe.
Let them wear their leather to Pride, or dress in exaggerated drag or dress in outfits that most people their age don't wear.
We're in a boiling world, in an end stage capitalist christofascist hellscape, and the forces who hate us ain't going to care how much we try to conform: they want us dead.
If you think less of someone because they're finding joy in an utterly harmless activity, that says far more about how you're a pathetic piece of shit than it does about them.
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x Don’t Make Me Tap The Sign (GSV, Plate class)
#SciFiFri #Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifibooks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
@amiloradovsky idk, they look pretty tight-knit at occasional appearances in my feeds
@suppi@fosstodon.org because you care 
@amiloradovsky Zuckerberg et al
@amiloradovsky looks like the Zucks have it all.
@boilingsteam [x] From you
Almost never see it elsewhere. But I don't actually care about a Windows device.
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I'm proud to announce that a Wesnoth has turned 20 years old! Starting with version 0.1 tagged on June 18th 2003, Wesnoth has grown with the help of hundreds of volunteers continually improving all aspects of the game. And while admittedly Wesnoth is no longer at the peak of its popularity, there are still many developers, translators, add-on authors, moderators, and players helping to keep Wesnoth going strong. Thank you everyone for all your work, and here's to another 20 years of Wesnoth!
- Monad m
- m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
- Previously
- https://mastodon.social/@dpwiz
- Making games
- https://haskell-game.dev
- Games made
- https://icrbow.itch.io
Toots as he pleases.
Joined Apr 2022
