l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org
- 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
@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.
l'empathie mécanique
boosted
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!
Best application of ChatGPT so far
@opentechlab couldn't care less for users wanting "instant engagement" indiscriminately, not finding it here and leaving for the old/next dopamine treadmill. Influencers, engagers, and the growthhackers can go hug each other to death.
directed by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss
l'empathie mécanique
boosted
Thinking about going on the Internet? Want to take a surf on the information superhighway? If so, you'll need a "fursona". Fursonas help keep us protected while we're connected! The harsh radiation of cyberspace can be perilous to human flesh, but with a Fursona you don't have to worry
@isagalaev Aaaand... it's a coup
@LadyDragonfly "Didn't need money for a while."
@exa yes, and overrated too
l'empathie mécanique
boosted
2010: Reddit is the new Digg.
2023: Reddit is the new Digg.
@shapr In don't think incremental typing makes it. Especially with the whole sea of untyped code in the ecosystem around.
l'empathie mécanique
boosted
@darius I think about the NHS digital. design standards all the time, where the standard is functionally "your target audience is a fifteen-year-old for whom english is a second language. They're using a 6 year old android phone that's been handed down twice, and they are sitting in an hospital emergency waiting room trying to look up information in the middle of the the most terrifying night they have ever had. Your site must work for that person, at that moment."
https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/standards-for-web-products#using-valid-html
Dreamlog babbling
The previous one was more close and more nasty, in a blackmirroresque way.
It was about proliferation of generative models and commercial companies eager to fullfil any request for text, images, music, games etc regardless of the theme.
No editor in the loop to guide the generation according to their own tastes in art. It all feels like a median mishmash of the source material without any integration, interpretation, and/or "reimagining". Which it really is, being an high dimensional interpolation of source material.
It's like watching an endless stream of clumsily targeted banners/commercials, or browsing a mobile games catalogue infested by 1.47 dollar match3 clones from match3 sweatshop.
I've read/seen a fair amount of generated stuff, and this incident seems to cement in the nausea associated with this kind of "content" 
Dreamlog babbling
Whoa, another "future" dream. Two civilizations have put brakes on expansion before they find solution to, basically, finiteness of resources.
One of them is running (which I inhabit there) a simulation of a Babylon 5 character which is doing research, having guests from outside and forks.
Despite expansion being forbidden (they have immense resources available in their borders already) one of the civs have found some glitches which it exploits to sneak out their borders and slowly tilt the balance in their favor. Maybe the others doing the same, but the economics readouts say that they're slowly decaying, not just falling behind.
And then the simulated dude found killed in it's home by a feral intruder.
(Here I was catapulted back into RL with a pang of sadness)
l'empathie mécanique
boosted
Activity Pub? Like, there's coloring books and shit to do while you drink? I'm in.
@reidrac@social.sdf.org I agree, let's have fun while it lasts. Shit like this happened and will happen again.
Let's focus on fun part and don't dunk on people who made it possible.
@reidrac@social.sdf.org @trinsec It was "subscribe with your reader", gradually (then all at once) replaced by follow/share "buttons" (trackers, actually).
I too use a reader now and it was helpful with staying away from Twitter. But lots of content ended up locked under spywalls. Old-school blogs are fine, but new services make feeds as an afterthought, if ever.
The XMPP situation is somewhat different, I think. The platforms leveraged their out of band notification channels to provide an illusion of real-time delivery on mobile devices. And then the network effects happened. XMPP made some extensions on the end. But it was too little, too late.
The Fediverse is not forever, at least not in its current form. ActivityPub is but a waypoint before another protocol crops up and we will walk away again. Pack light and let them have the dusty husks of uncool.
And so I'm okay with @dansup and @Gargron signing whatever they want to sign and talking about whatever they want to talk in the valley of the shadow of greed.
- 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
