Snot Flickerman

There’s video oriented communities, just like on reddit.

Otherwise, yeah, exactly. The whole reason I enjoyed the reddit communities was reading not watching or listening.

I agree, which is why I emphasized “mostly.” Apple still has an ad-wing. They just don’t rely on it almost exclusively for income, like Google. Ads are basically the only profitable arm of Google. Apple has an incredibly strong hardware wing with sales that justify it, allowing them to treat ads secondarily.

As I said at the end, the real issue is that ads shouldn’t be allowed at the OS-level and similarly an OS should be neutral and not collecting data. It’s there to be used by the user not to be dictated how the user uses by the company, as it is increasingly becoming.

Unless you physically own your hardware and connection, all of this is moot anyway.

Any time you’re spinning up an instance on cloud-hosted solutions, you’re by it’s very nature putting everything on someone else’s physical property.

This is an issue I wish was discussed more, because Federation helps ameliorate certain problems with the modern internet, but it doesn’t address how much of the physical hardware and networking infrastructure is privately owned and operated.

Development Process: “How do we make the most money?”

Post-Launch Priorities: “Surprisingly, more money.”

As horrible as it is, that they should follow Apple’s lead.

I know people rag (for good reason!) on Apple for all the dongles and the hardware lock-in…

But dedication to selling extra hardware that’s overpriced and getting people locked into your hardware ecosystem so they keep buying your products has allowed Apple to mostly avoid having to succumb to the same business model of harvesting and selling data. (once again, mostly)

As much as that sucks in a lot of ways, companies do need to make money somewhere, and realistically, I’d be happier with companies making actual products rather than placing another roadblock to using their already existing digital services with either ads or a paywall.

Will it work for every company? No, especially not startups, who are not in a market position to fight against an entrenched Apple.

However both Microsoft and Google make hardware, and they could choose to focus on hardware as opposed to selling ads, but I think ads is “just easier” in a lot of ways for them, compared to actually needing to make quality products people want to use. (Part of the reason is it is hard to get individuals to pay for an OS, while you will always have advertisers willing to spend a buck)

Also, in general, I would advise against the push for everything to be Software as a Service. My OS doesn’t need to be a service that I pay for. An OS should be a neutral party to running services. It shouldn’t be the service itself. The “service” an OS is providing is already given by dint of being an Operating System, and by making it a subscription, you’ve actually just taken away the benefit of that service and hidden it behind a monthly paywall. It’s disgusting and pathetic and painfully obviously a money-grab. Shame on you, Microsoft, for considering it. And shame on you, Google, for pioneering an OS that makes money through ads, which set the stage for all of this.

Personal opinion, I think ads should be banned at the OS-level. It’s a serious conflict-of-interest. OS-level “advertising IDs” should also be illegal.

He’s in his seventies, so this isn’t that surprising, but I do hope he is doing okay.

You have secret super powers that allow you to shapeshift and be the “spitting image” of anyone else, but it literally requires you to essentially spit slimy goo out of your mouth to cover yourself with to make it work.

I mean, it was under the radar to begin with. It wasn’t on any main google channels, it was mostly only discussed by the developers who handled the project.

The only reason people know about this to begin with is because there were fortunately a lot of people paying attention. I remember the first time I saw anything about it was on HackerNews and it was straight from the dev. Maybe it was even just the github. Either way, it was not advertised in any major way other than not outright being hidden.

When it originally hit, I remember arguments about how its “just a few developers,” and “we’ll wait until it actually ends up in chrome” and so on. The whole point was that it was still relatively early on in development and was just at proposal stage. This thankfully went from obscure developer news to big worldwide general tech news and Google backed down… for now.

We can be thankful developers with consciences are paying attention, in the meantime.

These, if I am correct, were the original links on HackerNews from around 4 months ago. Not exactly major advertising blitz from Google or anything, mostly wonky/technical documents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999 / https://chromestatus.com/feature/5796524191121408

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305 / https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity

Holly brings three decades of invaluable experience in nonprofit management, having served as a consultant, director of development, executive director, and board member for numerous organizations. Notably, she founded the nonprofit organization Artists United, dedicated to empowering individual artists and fostering collaboration across artistic disciplines for the collective good. Additionally, Holly served as the Executive Director of the BioBricks Foundation, an international, open-source biotechnology nonprofit.

I guess her actual career credentials don’t matter?

No wonder so many women consider tech spaces inhospitable to them.

I rarely see the same cynicism applied to men in tech who believe dumb shit like trickle-down economics.

Bouncing… For Karl!

Terraria Fishing Intensifies

Arguably, it should have appealed to me. Ernest Cline is barely 10 years my senior and loved most of the same things I did. I’m just not such a self-important schmuck that I think that means it’s the best art in history.

WEI is only as dead as public perception lets it be. They already replaced it with a “more palatable” version of the same thing.

They will save the idea and repackage it and release it later to much less fanfare. It was only because people were paying attention that it got caught this time. WEI didn’t have a ton of Google backing media. It was mostly commits to chromium development with people taking note of them.

Ready Player One was ridiculously overhyped.

It ultimately permanently dates itself by pushing the media from the authors youth as the most important media in history and far more memorable than anything that came after. The author cannot imagine anything better and chooses not to.

Like the Fallout series it suffers from an “end of history” trope where society, culture, and art become static and unmoving, moored in a certain aesthetic and time period, despite time firmly marching on.

In the original Borderlands, you can jump on to the heads of NPCs and other Player Characters.

Once you are on top of someones head, you’ll sort of keep bouncing up and down, you can’t really “stand” on their head.

We used to keep a stopwatch and see how long one of us could bounce for, before falling off. It’s been so long I don’t even recall our best record.

However, it was one of the dumbest and funnest things we ever got up to in Borderlands.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

-Upton Sinclair

That isn’t just funny, that’s dedication.

21 and 24 would be proud.

Also doubles as a Jerry Seinfeld costume.

In college a buddy of mine went as “that bad dream where you forgot to wear pants” and had a nice dress shirt and blazer coupled with tighty whities hidden underneath an oversize pair of boxer shorts. Also dress socks and shoes. Was a well recieved costume.

Hi-Fi Rush just consistently reminds me how comically bad I am at rhythm games. I love the game, but man I got burnt out because even though they made it “easier” for folks with no rhythm like myself, it’s still tough if you just can’t match the beat.

I am some kind of masochist though, because in the past I beat both Parappa the Rapper and UmJammer Lammy.