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)
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.
Don't be *that* person when the shit hits the fan
I've read multiple times that Reddit 1.0 was written in Lisp. I didn't realize the source is public.
It's amazing. You can read the whole thing in one sitting. Even an undergrad could. It's like the essence of a…Reddit.
We took a wrong turn w/ software.
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0
> Total mass of 3,291 kg (GPUs only;
3 tons of low-grade computronium for lease: https://andromedacluster.com/
re: life tips of how not to die
One of the reasons I stopped making client apps for corporate platforms is because "filling in the gaps" of someone else's platform usually resolves itself poorly. Either the platform holder fills in the gap, they decide the gap goes against their corporate interests, or the gap is itself meaningless and nobody wants a fix for it.
For any young devs out there making a client app for some corpo's API, I strongly recommend not doing that, except for fun projects or things that get you headlines.
LLMs doing that "garbage in - garbage out" thing...
https://nitter.it/goodside/status/1666982386683334656
(... and the "garbage" is you)
Toots as he pleases.