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@pkw @rml Yes, but. Types are important part of *programming*.

@amiloradovsky idk, they look pretty tight-knit at occasional appearances in my feeds

@boilingsteam [x] From you

Almost never see it elsewhere. But I don't actually care about a Windows device.

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!

@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.

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

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.

@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."

digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digit

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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" :blobcatnauseated:

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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)

Activity Pub? Like, there's coloring books and shit to do while you drink? I'm in.

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