Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

I can’t believe we made AI and used it for capitalism instead of making robot girls real

A Ubisoft Game Is At The Center Of A Fight To Stop Online Game Shutdowns
https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-the-crew-accursed-farms-stop-killing-games-1851385068?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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the mind of the #indiedev is dangerous
(from a post on X but I modified the image)

1980's
🐁 *holding ice against crotch* Dad, how come girl's bikes don't have the bollock-mashing bar
🐺 no need for it lad, they've got nae bollocks
🐁
🐺 not much point putting a bollock masher if there's nae bollocks to mash is there
🐺 be a bloody waste of money

2020's
🐀 *holding ice against crotch* Dad, why
🐁 You know, I asked my dad this when I was your age, and his answer doesn't really fit in this decade. You probably know a couple of girls with bollocks. Maybe a boy with no bollocks. Either way, girls with bollocks get to ride the bikes without the bollock-mashing bar, and boys with no bollocks can ride the bollock masher, in a lot of ways it's a more enlightened time
🐀 Dad what
🐁 I mean these days girls can ride the bollock mashing bikes too
🐁 So can non-binary folk, bollocks or no
🐀 dad
🐁 Anyway times change is what I'm saying
🐁 The important thing is squashing the bollocks
🐀
🐁 Flat

If you learned you were autistic later in life, how did that affect you? Please explain if comfortable. #AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

Yo sigo pensando lo mismo que el primer día que se anunció: Threads no es más que un intento rápido de captar a la gente que se iba de twitter, y les era más rápido montarlo con un protocolo ya existente y libre de patentes que hacer el suyo de cero. Y de paso lo de federar les aleja un poco de alguna demanda por monopolio. No creo que haya más que eso detrás.

El mismo nombre de Threads es reciclado, Instagram ya sacó un clon de snapchat llamado así en 2019 y lo chaparon en 2021...

Apparently, they lost a guy.

Reminder: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Good news: in the first week of March, a #RightToRepair bill, which had been in the making for several years, passed the legislature in Oregon. As we can only repair technology relying on software if the user is free to do so, the right to repair and software freedom go hand in hand. https://u.fsf.org/43j https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/fight-to-repair

wrote some code just to feel something #pico8

@nonfedimemes

Ah yes, the four currently known states of matter. Gender fluid, gender solid, gender gas & gender plasma

Google collected browsing data of users who used Chrome in incognito mode, and used it to sell ads.

"Google has made itself an unaccountable trove of information so detailed and expansive that George Orwell could never have dreamed it."
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1242019127/google-incognito-mode-settlement-search-history

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 1,1948

See, _that's_ an April Fools joke I enjoy. Not making fun at the expense of someone, just being a bit cheeky and weird.

Bonus points for immediately resolving the weirdness instead of leaving people confused, for linking to an explanation of the in-joke (xkcd 624), and for adding a queer-friendly spin to it.

Well done, @Codeberg. 💜

Raffle prize art~

I fired up #Picotron this morning and saw something new in the code editor! 😱
Guess it was only unlimited tokens during the introductory price period..? 👀
#Pico8 #WhatDayIsThis #YesImGoingToHellForThis

Open source development is a pretty good argument for implementing UBI.