The people that use Google today did not move to Google back then. They came along after Google conquored the browser market.
Just like way back when, “The Internet” was Internet Explorer, today it’s Chrome. And until we can convince people to abandon that, then it’s an up-a-sheer-cliff battle.
The Internet today is propped up by the people who do not lament that it has turned into 5 websites in a trench coat, but who actively kick up a fit at the idea that it could or should be anything more varied or complicated than that.
The political cycle is not 10 months long. Or 24. Or 48.
If you want change, you need to be involved in pushing over a large number of heavy objects over a long period of time. No one candidate, no one election, is going to change anything.
Because your damn country isn’t “descending into fascism”, it’s been bathing in it for centuries, and every time there’s someone trying to lift y’all kicking and screaming out of it just a little bit, the totalitarians crop up to try and self-destruct it all. Then, suddenly, a bunch of you come out of the woodwork to declare that it’s better to blow it all up, actually, than to do literally anything to stop it, because you believe there should be a quick and easy solution, and everyone else around you is just an idiot for not seeing it.
But you only believe that because you’re some kind of self-important, hubris-huffing sucker.
With Howl of the Wild released, the wider community seems to be turning its attentions to Player Core 2 now. The new hotness is “what do you expect from {class} in PC2?”...
It’s been so frustrating seeing people on YouTube and wherever who have spent the past 18 months “spotlighting” and “advocating for playing” other systems climb all over each other to praise this move. A move that does nothing but tell 3rd party publishers that they can safely go back to ignoring Shadowrun, Pathfinder, and OSR games.
It’s probably better to just search the Archives of Nethys. That should have links to most of the buried rules sitting beneath whatever you’re looking for.
Now why am I on Lemmy? Because in my opinion, it’s the first step towards a mainstream Fedivers! Mastodon … [isn’t] very widespread, but when you see the number of people active in Lemmy communities, it’s really impressive!
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Mastodon has an order of magnitude more active users than Lemmy - and the whole rest of the Fediverse - if not two orders of magnitude.
Lemmy’s a great platform, but Reddit is already the niche social media site among the mainstream, and the kind if niche interest forums that ultimately built Reddit just haven’t reached critical mass here yet, and that means Reddit remains very sticky. Pile on people being kind of uncomfortable with the local namespaces for both users and communities, and I don’t know that Lemmy’s really the killer platform for the 'verse.
Fediverse adotion is going to be a collective effort. Loops has a good chance of attracting people. It would be nice if Mastodon would actually use a standard ActivityPub implementation so it played nicer with neighbours. And microblogger discovering something other than Mastodon would be nice.
But it’s not going to be just one platform. If it is, then the fediverse idea has totally failed.
The philanthropist behind the University of Manitoba’s largest-ever personal donation — $30 million — has denounced a speech made by a valedictorian for medicine grads and admonished the university for letting it happen....
The philanthropic model exists so that the rich can wield influence over society unmoderated by pesky things like public will. The threat of not getting more money is significant.
It’d feel better if I was paid the full value of my labour, and if the ownership didn’t keep trying to hamstring the people trying to do good with products I help make by locking them behind weirder and weirder licenses.
The insect glue, produced from edible oils, was inspired by plants such as sundews that use the strategy to capture their prey. A key advantage of physical pesticides over toxic pesticides is that pests are highly unlikely to evolve resistance, as this would require them to develop much larger and stronger bodies, while bigger...
I’ve watched chunks of society freak out over everything from basic food ingredients to vaccines because they contained polysyllabic words that people decried as “chemicals”.
And I’ve spent my whole damn life listening to people abuse the word “theory” until the the Christofascists and neo-nazis managed to become mainstream.
People abuse technical words with a purpose. Don’t play apologetics for them because you believe their understanding of words is more nuanced than they are.
Hi, my name is Khan and I am the person behind Devabhumi. I am of Indian origin, and I have always been interested in non-European rpg settings. There is such a treasure trove of untapped stories, monsters, and legends in Indian Culture, which can provide fresh and unique content for your campaigns. Devabhumi is a high fantasy...
do AI tools understand such a license text and evaluate if they can or cannot use the material?
So, this is the fun part: AI tools don’t auto-ingest material to process it. The developers choose the materials to feed into the models.
And while the tech bros can understand your licenses, they don’t give a flying fuck, because they think they’ll be billionaires beyond consequences by the time anyone discovers that their work in particular has been ripped off.
ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down (www.pcmag.com)
ICQ will stop working on June 26. It’s encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company....
PaizoCon Presentation Recaps
The-Magic-Sword from, like, all of the other Pathfinder forums was live-recapping the PaizoCon presentations. Linking them below:...
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)
Reminder... (lemmy.world)
Expectations for Player Core 2?
With Howl of the Wild released, the wider community seems to be turning its attentions to Player Core 2 now. The new hotness is “what do you expect from {class} in PC2?”...
"Pipe" (lemmy.world)
Dungeons & Dragons will release its 2024 ruleset under a Creative Commons licence (www.dicebreaker.com)
Goodbye Reddit, Hello Lemmy!
Today I deleted my Reddit account....
Philanthropist who gave $30M to U Manitoba condemns 'hateful' valedictory speech, university for allowing it (www.cbc.ca)
The philanthropist behind the University of Manitoba’s largest-ever personal donation — $30 million — has denounced a speech made by a valedictorian for medicine grads and admonished the university for letting it happen....
New research places the sun's magnetic field close to the surface, upending decades of theories (www.engadget.com)
Elders [Alex Krokus] (lemmy.world)
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"I like being helpful and productive!" (lemmus.org)
Angry Little Girls by Lela Lee for May 20, 2024.
Replace Torrenting with Usenet
Hi,...
Former Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers Suggests Religion Is Used To Manipulate People (wisportsheroics.com)
Where do I find game demakes?
Unsure if this is the right community but here goes,...
Sticky trick: new glue spray kills plant pests without chemicals (www.theguardian.com)
The insect glue, produced from edible oils, was inspired by plants such as sundews that use the strategy to capture their prey. A key advantage of physical pesticides over toxic pesticides is that pests are highly unlikely to evolve resistance, as this would require them to develop much larger and stronger bodies, while bigger...
Look man I just wanted to play an actual dragon (pawb.social)
Meme based on this homebrew...
New Errata Released (paizo.com)
Paizo Design Manager Michael Sayre just dropped some long-awaited errata on us, marking a return to the 2022 plan of regular errata updates....
I’m making a Pathfinder setting inspired by Ancient India! (ttrpg.network)
Hi, my name is Khan and I am the person behind Devabhumi. I am of Indian origin, and I have always been interested in non-European rpg settings. There is such a treasure trove of untapped stories, monsters, and legends in Indian Culture, which can provide fresh and unique content for your campaigns. Devabhumi is a high fantasy...
Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” (www.theverge.com)