chidgey

sy, 11 months ago to random

'The problem with, say, Meta, is only partially that Mark Zuckerberg is personally monumentally unsuited to serving as the unelected, unaccountable permanent social media czar for three billion people.

The real problem is that no one should have that job. That job shouldn’t exist. We don’t need to find a better Mark Zuckerberg.

We need to abolish Mark Zuckerberg.'

great stuff from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

james, 11 months ago to random

My highlight of the day: someone responded to @adam thinking that he works for Podnews. Now, there's an idea...

krparadis, 11 months ago to classicalmusic

So finally making an #introduction post.

I play the bassoon and compose and arrange music. I'm also probably the person that helps your parents with their tech, especially of the Apple kind.
My heritage is French Canadian with a little Polish thrown in for the crazy. I'm working on bettering my French again but understand more than I can say.

A few things that I love or find interesting:
#ClassicalMusic
#Music
#Soundtrack
#Bassoon
#Coffee
#FountainPen
#VideoGames
#Composing
#Apple
#Genealogy
#tech
#coding
#hobonichi

chartier, 11 months ago to random

The company that

• Ran a secret, illegal, manipulative psychological experiment on hundreds of thousands of users
• Has documented proof of working to put competitors out of business
• Literally shopped our data around to other companies, including direct messages
• Conspired to manipulate a presidential election
• Has been proven to support or at least turn a blind eye to genocide

But ooh hey shiny new app let’s sign up

I don’t understand people. I just fucking don’t.

scottaw, 11 months ago to random

Is This the Show? Ep 2: Your Closet’s Bigger Than Mine

https://isthistheshow.cyou/2023/07/04/2/

@Ronnie guest hosts with @chidgey and me on episode 2 of Is This the Show?

Gte, 11 months ago to random

People keep explaining game porting to me and it occurred to me that most people don’t know my background. I just looked it up and I shipped my first boxed PC OpenGL game, with an engine I wrote from scratch, twenty years ago this July. I picked GL at the time, despite DX3 being the industry favoured, because it was cross platform. And, for some time, had the game running on the MacOS of 2003. I’ve kept abreast of this stuff and while not still an expert do know my stuff.

yogthos, 11 months ago to random

U.S. dollar’s share of global foreign exchange reserves has fallen from 73% to 58% over the last two decades. Taking into account, the currency exchange rates, dollar’s actual share is 47%.

https://archive.ph/Tx3gU