Metal Mutton ๐ค๐ @SteelWool@computerfairi.es
- Age
- Early 30s
- pronouns
- they/he
๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ณโ๐ Nonbinary Mexican on the autism spectrum that does hobby gamedev.
๐ I'm an adult and posts may be NSFW. Do not interact if you're a minor.
Joined Dec 2022
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Cohost's financial update is a poster child for what I and others have been saying for a long time now: the internet won't survive without decentralization. You can't just make the next Twitter or Reddit or Tumblr. That's a joke. Cohost was against decentralization but they've now learned why centralization isn't feasible: only massive corporations with infinite VC can afford it, and they hemorrhage that money and close eventually too.
The internet is too expensive to work this way and it won't long term. We just got complacent while there was enough VC to go around. It's pets dot com again. It doesn't last.
And this isn't even about AP/fedi, while I like fedi this is true with or without it. We have to go back to having websites. Not The(tm) website for whatever, but lots of them. If you don't want to go to more than one? Too bad, it's how things will be regardless. Having One website isn't sustainable for corporations and isn't even vaguely feasible for little guys.
You have to have lots of websites. I can run a small community for a bit of my entertainment budget for the month or donations from a handful of users who like what I'm running. You can run a mastodon instance for a small crowd for very little. You can run a website off an old laptop laying around. You cannot run a 130k user site and pay you and your friends $94k a year to run it. It's not sustainable. I wish it was. It isn't. Sites have to stay small, and there have to be enough of them spread out to spread out the financial load to hobbyist levels. Sorry that you can't make a living running a site for your friends to hang out on, but it's just how the math works out. Reddit can't make money doing it, Twitter can't make money doing it, Patreon can't...they only survive on being Huge Corporations Who Can Bleed Money. You can replicate bleeding money on a small scale all you want but I wouldn't advise it. You can however run a forum for your friends for the cost of Netflix or whatever.
Got the address of my nearest recycling center so I can get started with cleaning up the place around here!
No idea what I'm gonna do with all the old electronics, though. I'd ideally like to repair them and donate them or something.
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Some goals I'd like to achieve sometime soon:
-Have a healthy, consistent sleep schedule.
-Have a healthier, less sedentary lifestyle.
-Switch primarily to open source software on my personal computer, OS included.
-Be more involved in my local communities (LGBT+, software, etc but in my native language).
-Contribute to an open source project.
There's gonna be a pride event in my city this Saturday. I'd like to participate, but crowds make me uneasy...
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whenever someone I don't know emails me a pitch for using AI to improve my business I mark it as spam so they can participate in a useful form of machine learning
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Iโm a little cranky, short and stout,
Here is my clenched hand, here is my pout,
When my temperโs boiling, here me shout!
Have a cookie and sort it out ๐ต
I want to replace my plastic reusable bottle with, idk, a stainless steel one. Maybe get a few for my family as well
Starfield looks interesting but no way my computer can run that game! It doesn't even meet the minimum RAM requirement!
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Finished another solitaire; this time it's about making forks in your card stacks to help with managing the whole mess
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People seem to really have bought into the capitalist version of open source where software is still a product that requires support and marketing and a roadmap and exists to serve a user community separate and apart from the project.
But a whole lot of open source is really just a sharing economy. Itโs devs doing something they found useful and deciding to share it rather than hoard it. Those devs donโt owe anyone extra labor just because they chose to share.
I spent the weekend working on a maze generation algorithm for PICO-8 and now what I want to make is an AI that maps the maze and finds an optional route to the goal
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minecraft modders inventing advanced JVM hijacking utilities for the sole purpose of adding cat ears to a block video game
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the existence of toothpaste
implies the existence of toothcopy
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I've been using #linux exclusively since January. No PCs (not even for my daily job) runs Windows anymore.
I have a single thing that I miss *a lot* and it's *Paint.net*. I loved that editor and I can't find anything in that league worth enough.
Does anybody know of a similar tool on Linux?
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It was worth it to upgrade from LGBTQ to LGBTQ+, great premium content.
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me: *alt-tabs out of a game*
windows: oh dear god what is happening hurrghghgh
*my monitor flickers wildly for ten seconds*
*all of my desktop icons are rearranged*
*every single window I have open is pushed into a tiny pixel in the corner of my screen*
*everything is 640x480*
*HDR turns on for some reason*
*my hard drive starts formatting itself*
*my headphones blast dial-up noises in my ear*
*my keyboard catches on fire*
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On May 6, 1933, Nazi stormtroopers (Sturmbteilung) broke into this library, looted the building, killed at least one of the occupants, and hauled the majority of its books outside for a public book burning in the streets of the Opernplatz. Joseph Goebbels gave a speech to 40,000 people about "protecting our nation's children".
The photo has become an icon of Nazi German brutality and fascism. It is shown in school textbooks worldwide above the caption "Nazi book burnings, 1933". It is often published in news stories and social media whenever the subject of banning books arises.
What is not often mentioned in those stories is the SUBJECT of the burned books. The building was the Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The first of its kind, dedicated to studying trans people and trans identities, and performing gender confirming surgery for a number of patients. And the books that were burned were trans histories and trans patient records.
Remember, they came for trans people first.
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"So I started decompiling LEGO Island..."
https://youtu.be/MToTEqoVv3I
