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18+ cafkafk, 1 month ago to NixOS

#nix #nixos the nix foundation has at this point become irredeemably cringe, do you know some better places in the nix community to donate than the foundation, something that isn't like military contractor sympathetic right wingers?

Rhodium103, 3 months ago to random

"Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man."

TomF, 4 months ago to random

Loved this video on vocal fry and how it's not as new and trendy as some moaning people think. The whole thing is great, but this bit particularly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yL2GezneU&t=744s

SwiftOnSecurity, 4 months ago to random

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thomasfuchs, 5 months ago to random

If you use Substack, move to another platform.

If you subscribe to something on it, pressure the authors to move to another platform. If they don’t, cancel your subscription.

Substack refuses to stop financing Nazis.

paulbiggar, 5 months ago to random

I wrote about the genocide in Palestine, and how tech has been silent and complicit.

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

malcircuit, 5 months ago to random

Internet civility tip:

95% of shit people post was never intended by them to be an "argument". This isn't a debate club where you need to systematically dismantle every incorrect opinion that crosses your path.

Some people (me) get very annoyed when they're shooting the shit with their computer friends and some rando drops in to post a wall of text about how this minor thing you said in passing is wrong and here's why.

I don't care.

If I wanted to know, I'd ask.

freakazoid, 7 months ago to random

"Oh but our business wouldn't grow if we couldn't violate people's privacy" doesn't mean you get to violate people's privacy. It means you don't have a business.

apoorvaj, 7 months ago to random

GPU Driven Rendering is coming to Unity! https://forum.unity.com/threads/gpu-driven-rendering-in-unity.1502702/

TomF, 7 months ago to random

If there's one thing I've learned, it's always listen to Laura.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM5iJevGnzI

zeux, 7 months ago to random

So much of the recent engine performance discussion is vibes based and it’s just bewildering.

Performance needs to be measured, not theorized about. Benchmarks + detailed breakdowns give data, that competent engineering teams can run with to make things better.

If you haven’t benchmarked a workload or something very similar, just assume you don’t know it’s performance characteristics instead of making incoherent claims.

hmans, 8 months ago to random

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I didn't expect to find something even more stupid this morning after of last week's shittery, but here's Unity continuing to drop the ball because they literally can't help themselves.

MonoGame, 8 months ago to opensource

We are pleased to share our future plans.....
#MonoGame #XNA #OpenSource

badlogic, 8 months ago to random

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

purplepadma, 8 months ago to random

malwaretech, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that track your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.

mjg59, 9 months ago to random

Remember that free software licenses are irrevocable - even if a vendor changes a project to a non-free license, the older versions continue to exist as free software. So while we should absolutely criticise vendors who take the work of others and make it non-free, we should also bear in mind that they gifted us the earlier versions in the first place, and cannot take that away again.

wilfredh, 9 months ago to random

Running a package manager host for a popular language is really expensive. TIL that Python costs several million dollars per year!

rygorous, 9 months ago to random

TREEBEARD sees a roll of TOILET PAPER and looks at it, half fascinated, half horrified.

TREEBEARD: Excuse me, but what is this?
ARAGORN: It's a roll of... paper
T: What is "paper"?
A: It is this material made of cellulose from wood pulp and such.
T: ...
A: shuffles awkwardly
T: (desperately trying to make conversation) So what do you use it for?
A: shuffling intensifies

kissane, 9 months ago to Futurology

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

#meta

mentallyalex, 9 months ago to random

Oh my god this is amazing.

Over 100 trans men enter Miss Italy pageant after organiser says only “women from birth” allowed

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/over-100-trans-men-enter-132230515.html

:blobcatchefkiss:

thesiswhisperer, 10 months ago to random

I decided to publish my new blog post out of cycle, for obvious reasons: the enshittification of social media https://thesiswhisperer.com/2023/07/10/academicenshittification/

joshmillard, 10 months ago to random

I want to add sone context (or really subtract some inferred context) from my recent toots about corporate social media: I’m saying this stuff on mastodon as someone who likes masto but it’s not masto evangelism. My argument is not “…so everyone should join the fediverse.” I don’t want half a billion people here. I don’t want half a billion people in any one place. That’s too much. It doesn’t work.

Masto is fine, it isn’t gonna replace Twitter, I don’t want it to, and it’s not overtly scummy.

Praxismapper, 10 months ago to random

At some point, I will remember that I don't have to make a cutting-edge, never before seen game. That its ok to just do a common thing my way and enjoy that much of it.

Thats probably not today but I'm keeping that on my todo list.

Are0h, 10 months ago to random

Hey fedi.

Let's try not to be dickheads to the newcomers this time around, ok?