This year the Dwarf Fortress Gladiator Tournament is being run over on the Bay 12 Forum. Come join and have fun reading about your poor gladiator and their struggles. Signups are open until July 5th, 15:00 GMT, but please sign up as soon as you can, since it can take a little while to get on the forum even if I'm monitoring it...
Ad companies can't handle the idea that people don't want to be hit with ads every 5 minutes. "Well, it's just BAD ads"... no, it's having my experience constantly interrupted.
I'd been using Reddit for 6 years; thousands of hours. All gone, in a quick(ish) running of a script. And once it's gone, it's gone. Link rot is gonna be so much bigger soon. And everything that represents a mark on the platform from me will be gone....
So I deleted all my posts and comments 4 days ago now, and they have stayed deleted. I'm thinking if you leave your account active for a while afterwards, it doesn't trigger the "undelete" action, if it was ever a real thing. It was highly possible that peoples stuff they thought was being undeleted, was actually just the result of more private subreddits being opened back up. Content you have in a private subreddit will NOT be deleted, as it can't be accessed.
I reviewed the Reddit app at 1* because it honestly is a steaming pile of shit sorry excuse for an app, especially considering how long it's been in this state now without any improvement.
Reddit: You can't be private, people need to see the content, reopen or else!
TIHI: No.
Reddit: Fine, mods are gone and we've reopened the community. People who want to be mods speak up
Crickets: Cricket noises
Reddit: This sub is unmoderated, so it's now banned so nobody can see it
So... Reddit just reclosed the sub they said MUST be open.
Blaming anybody for profiting off Reddit without Reddit gettinga cut, when Reddit is looking to profit off of user content, without giving the users a cut.
I think the most I've had was around 150-200? Guy was a hunter, so of course he had a lot just from that, but also defending against giant crows and the odd siege here or there.
I’m a massive sci fi fan and played the ever loving shit out of Star Citizen for a while there. Loved the 6 degrees of freedom and the capability to be a person or a starship....
@ernest how do I report a Magazin on kbin.social ? There is a usere called "ps" who is posting to his own "antiwoke" Magazin on kbin.social. Please remove this and dont give them a chance to etablish them self on kbin.social. When I report his stuff it will go to him because he is the moderator of the magazin? Seems like a...
Yeah, I'm at 7. With kbin still being actively worked on, basically still a prototype, and then just being exhausted from full stack web development all day, my desire to make something cool that may disappear in a month is just really low.
...but most people with any shred of empathy would be pushing for that in his shoes.
Empathy? In late-stage capitalism? 😏
I mean, so... I'm a software engineer who used to specialize in automation. I ended up having a crisis of conscience decades back, realizing that I was putting people out of work. "Hey, good job on that project, our client can afford to let 30 people go now!" never really felt like great praise to me. It actually felt really really shitty knowing the work I was doing was making it possible for the "nobility" to further gain back control of the "serfs".
I figured that the only way this could ever benefit society as a whole instead of shareholders and owners would be if we moved more to a society with things like UBI, with perhaps the people who end up getting something extra being the ones who actually DO the dirty jobs and provide actual worth to society, instead of becoming obscenely wealthy at the expense of empathy and good human spirit. Unfortunately, at least here in the states, anything that smacks of "socialism" automatically equals dictatorship (glossing over that capitalism offers just as many examples of being abused by the "ruling" class). So there's the whole zeitgeist to battle against before the comfortable and less-informed majority will even listen to anything that's in their best interest.
As you say, interesting times indeed. I'm not hopeful that we'll see that sort of shift in my lifetime however, sigh....
I definitely feel frustrated and saddened that people don't realise how much power they have to end this bullshit. All of these problems only work if the populous is compliant with it and complicit in it.
So much this! But many never realize it. It's so sad though how many people are well-adjusted to such a sick society.
an ecosystem predicted to collapse in the 2090s owing to the creeping rise of a single source of stress, such as global temperatures, could, in a worst-case scenario, collapse in the 2030s once we factor in other issues like extreme rainfall, pollution, or a sudden spike in natural resource use....
My parents don't believe in climate change because of their religion, which means they will NEVER change their minds.
"Well, the earth is only about 6000 years old, so all those numbers are meaningless because they're based on false assumptions...."
I tried telling them, "You believe in God, well, he gave you a brain, don't you think he wanted you to use it and maybe not take a couple thousand year old story so literally?" They weren't happy.
Personality i would pick Bernie Sanders but he's unfortunately too old now but i would love a President that isn't crazy enough and would focus on just getting the Nation healed from the Craziness that happened.
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Hmmm. Is your squad setup to not wear their uniforms when off duty? I usually have mine set to ALWAYS wear their uniform, cutting down on things like that (also them all trying to equip when I really need them combat ready).
[Official] Dwarf Fortress 50.09 Released (www.bay12forums.com)
Release notes for 50.09 (June 28, 2023):...
[Official] Dwarf Fortress Gladiator Tournament VIII (www.bay12forums.com)
This year the Dwarf Fortress Gladiator Tournament is being run over on the Bay 12 Forum. Come join and have fun reading about your poor gladiator and their struggles. Signups are open until July 5th, 15:00 GMT, but please sign up as soon as you can, since it can take a little while to get on the forum even if I'm monitoring it...
OC Porn Historically Decides Tech Adoption... Fediverse?
Historically, porn has organically decided which platform or formats become dominant. It's incredibly anti-censorship, but walks many fine lines....
YouTube could be testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking (www.androidauthority.com)
Wiping my Reddit account as we speak as the 30th begins to roll on in. Anyone struck by nostalgia?
I'd been using Reddit for 6 years; thousands of hours. All gone, in a quick(ish) running of a script. And once it's gone, it's gone. Link rot is gonna be so much bigger soon. And everything that represents a mark on the platform from me will be gone....
Reddit plagued with 1-star App Store reviews over API debacle as users search for 0-star button (9to5mac.com)
This is a great idea. Let's get as many one-star reviews up there as we can!...
r/TIHI has been banned for being unmoderated. (old.reddit.com)
Google distances itself from planned drag performance after employee petition (www.cnbc.com)
This is absolutely on brand. Can't trust these companies to do what's right.
Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes (www.phoronix.com)
OC What's the most kills you've ever seen on one of your dudes?
Looking for a spaceship/sci fi game to play. Any thoughts?
I’m a massive sci fi fan and played the ever loving shit out of Star Citizen for a while there. Loved the 6 degrees of freedom and the capability to be a person or a starship....
"Antiwoke" magazin on kbin.social posting bullshit like "how to end Wokeness" and "Time to reject the extrem trans lobby harming our society" How to report ? he is the moderator of that magazin. (calckey.social)
@ernest how do I report a Magazin on kbin.social ? There is a usere called "ps" who is posting to his own "antiwoke" Magazin on kbin.social. Please remove this and dont give them a chance to etablish them self on kbin.social. When I report his stuff it will go to him because he is the moderator of the magazin? Seems like a...
Why is no one decorating their magazines?
Why is no one using CSS to make their magazine's visual appearances more unique? That was the main draw of old Reddit for me....
Even gta can be wholesome
The North American Spez, in his native habitat.
Users Have Had It With Reddit...But Are Powerless (www.youtube.com)
A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian (amp.theguardian.com)
Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media (catvalente.substack.com)
This is an article by Cat Valente during the Twitter Migration, discussing the cycle of enschittification and the history of social media....
Why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected (phys.org)
an ecosystem predicted to collapse in the 2090s owing to the creeping rise of a single source of stress, such as global temperatures, could, in a worst-case scenario, collapse in the 2030s once we factor in other issues like extreme rainfall, pollution, or a sudden spike in natural resource use....
Aside from Trump or Biden, Who do you wanna see as the President of the United States of America?
Personality i would pick Bernie Sanders but he's unfortunately too old now but i would love a President that isn't crazy enough and would focus on just getting the Nation healed from the Craziness that happened.
OC Dwarf Fortress Questions Thread
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