Hey now… Modern science has grown to where we now understand that we are an entire nervous system driving a meat puppet.
Hey now… Modern science has grown to where we now understand that we are an entire nervous system driving a meat puppet.
Google is pulling shenanigans with Chrome through it’s inbuilt ad tracking and web integrity.
Agreed on convenience being enough for most people. Unity isn’t going anywhere. They are priced above Unreal now but they have the market share to justify it. There are a million other game engines with newer approaches than “coke and pepsi” but they take more work and there’s less community to pull from. There are just so many assets and abilities pre built in those game engines that allow a young developer to be productive. If you don’t need all of that then you have a wide pick of frameworks to apply your code chops to. I’d love for Godot to become Dr Pepper but it’s got a long way to go for even that slot. If unity had done this in a year or two from now it might be a different story but it takes a long time to reach a status like Blender, and even Blender isn’t the go-to for industry professionals. I love LibreOffice but I’ve never worked at a company that is willing to tolerate those little rough edges.
Twitter is still the centralized place for a mainstream figure/organization to engage from. They have all researched mastodon and the like, opened accounts, and can’t get the same engagement. It takes people more work to find their accounts in other places and most lay-users just aren’t going to put in the effort. They’re only in it for the lulz. This may reach a critical mass someday like with myspace but any alternative still needs a central point to funnel them to. Reddit doesn’t benefit from centralization the same way and I think Lemmy/ap will scratch the itch for major topics, but it’s still harder to grow smaller communities that aren’t risa.
Blizzard has been being blizzard for years, that’s not just a 2023 thing!
I wish it was different. We all hate nodding to authority. But there’s a certain momentum that carries with popularity and they can surf that on their enshittification for years to come.
I was absolutely arguing the wrong side of that, sorry. I didn’t realize landfill emissions don’t stay in the ground.
https://www.epa.gov/lmop/basic-information-about-landfill-gas
I hadn’t heard that take before… very interesting to learn of the influence Boeing has on NASA.
And where are the bioreactors located? What would happen to that carbon if it weren’t collected by the reactors?
I agree its better than mined gas, it falls under the 3Rs, but it’s still taking carbon from the ground and releasing it into the atmosphere.
In the grand scheme of things the deus ex machina of fusion is the only long term solution.
Wouldn’t it have been completely written and shot by now? Are vfx workers in on the strike? I assume so and support that, but I think this particular title is past being held up by writers and actors.
At that link:
Are you looking for the new Fairphone 5? It is not yet available in your market.
Which seemed to stay on the rails for many decades…but with a global capitalist economy there is currently no authority which can keep multinational corpo’s and billionaires on the rails. They live between the rules of any one country.
I find that for most people who do it intensely it’s a calling, whereas others are new to it and surprised how simple and easy it is to contribute. Don’t overthink how to make the best impact, just schedule some time and search online for groups. For those looking to dip a toe in:
Trash pickup days are a great casual entry point. It’s a good mix of “people are the worst” and “I helped”. It’s not that there’s some volunteering culture that gatekeeps, but less organized groups will suck in an infinite amount of your free time because the potential work is never done. More developed organizations often have casual days for newcomers.
Tornado cleanup has been a next step though obviously disaster specific (America ofc). I suppose any disaster cleanup is equivalent. We’re not a religious family but in America we found that churches were the rally points for cleanup efforts… Which led to a lot of junk mail later.
Soup kitchens & food distribution to homeless in colder months is an easy way to contribute some help to people who are immediately in need without committing to community service as a lifestyle.
I’m curious what queer Eastern values are unconventional to queer Western values? I assume her views are common to queer Chinese.
As in: fuck you Google, you’re never going to be able to monetize this in any way and don’t include it in your search results.
I’m sure Google is happy to put up with the small minority of people with private videos for their own use because they still get metadata from the uploads and plays.
WTF, that’s your takeaway? She was one of the few voices warning us about security risks from the inside. Her point is that social media has one weapon: the streisand effect… But when instead there is silence then it is known there will be no accountability. The government will be emboldened by this. It wasn’t a metaphor, she thinks they will really kill her now if she tweets more, and less people like her will be willing to post in the future.
Inevitably these discussions lead back to Nixon and his various paranoias.
PWAs are great. Half the apps in app stores are just packaged browsers, we should take away the need for that bloat…using the engine of your choice would be a bonus. Plus they create the option of skipping app stores entirely, which is another step away from the Google/Apple oligopoly.