moonshadow

@moonshadow@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is kinda the same process amazon itself went through back in the day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "feel" gender?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My take on this is pretty simple, and manages to alienate tradwifes and transbians alike: gender is a social construct, and like most social constructs worth freeing yourself from. “Assigned” is a key word here, no one is born with an inherent gender to be right or wrong. Sex is a separate concept entirely, currently immutable and relevant only in the context of reproduction. Being the best you you can be (and defining what that means) is a lifelong process with no shortcuts or easy answers. Allowing a false dichotomy between hard tough exploiter and soft pretty resource to shape your very sense of self is a tragic waste of the miracle of experience. That perspective is useful only to this sick society’s goal of total extraction, not our human need to love and be loved

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Females, am I right fellas?

  Smells kinda like reddit in here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Merry pissmist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orange man good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Genius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you get carried away with the corn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck yeah they have. Cheaper power during peak production is still very much a thing though, as it should be imo. Slurp up that juice as it pours in!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine was kinda that we do if we could adjust our patterns and habits a little bit to live with the world as it is vs imposing ourselves on it. Forcing “companies” (read corpos) to do something other than maximize extraction is a big part of that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …they should charge at work during peak solar and run their homes off their car batteries at night. That’s where you were going, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We all know art is hard, artists gotta starve

  The real deal will always be there and never be easy. Fuck “content”, fuck entertainment, fuck packaging yourself for sale. To know and be known is the most human thing there is. Genuine self-expression was never commercially viable and isn’t going anywhere as long as there are two people to engage with one another. That’s art. It’s not something you can be “good with LLMs” at, no matter how technically proficient their output

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not interested in arguing and have already shared my experience, hope you have a nice rest of your day. From their perspective, “texting” most people just quit working and someone had to “fix” it by switching them back to their phone’s default sms client. It’s pretty clear you haven’t been tech support for an elder, a lot of people aren’t aware of these things or making real decisions about them at all. Texting at all is a big ask, they need help looking at/sending pictures, a separate app is way too much friction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a screenshot handy, but it was very clearly communicated through both colour and iconography whether or not a conversation was encrypted. For people who still couldn’t tell, like my elderly relatives, removing sms support meant they went from 10% encrypted communications back to zero and forced the rest of us to expose ourselves again to stay in touch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deku SMS (on fdroid) is nice to use and all, but I’m not really sure how “ethical and pro-privacy” can apply to an sms client

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt their reasoning was disingenuous and that supporting sms had been a massive driver of adoption, a lot of “normal” people used it as a default messenger on the advice of the nerds in their lives without any idea what signal or sms were. Removing that support was a significant rugpull and measurably detrimental to their stated goal of private communication as a default

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to, pulling that was their biggest mistake since requiring a phone number and made me trust them a lot less

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Paid hype is a red flag imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking the difficult questions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Magic good for dog. Make dog smarter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the exact opposite position… hoarding bits on the cheap, all I need is ram and psu but ram now costs more than I paid for everything else put together and scavenging sources have dried up completely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if you want it to be! This feels like a breakthrough :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “you find what you look for”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “all a pissing contest gets you is covered in piss”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread mold⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The nose knows, I’m pretty sure this is what it’s for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “petty sure” is right, try another round of edits if you really can’t find anything better to do. The day I start to care how many internet points I’m getting hopefully there’s a friend nearby to log me off. Need to quit engaging with you before I do work up some “hatred” to turn on someone. Zero beef with the guy I was actually talking to, but you kinda suck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’m just a little more pessimistic at this point, don’t actually know the specifics of their financials but assumed github had been operating at a loss the whole time. That’s pretty typical for startup stuff in general and especially so for “free” services, if it seems too good to be true it probably is type thing. I see forgejo’s transparency and ideological commitment to open source as a defense against that type of behaviour cropping up in the future, hence “feature not bug”. Like you said, it’d be trivial to host your private repositories elsewhere or for someone to spin up their own paid instance for commercial use. I’d be a little suspicious of what was keeping the lights on if someone directly replicated github’s model because, well… look how it’s going!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure I was having a normal conversation with someone and you splashed in to call me out for something without a whole lot of thought. There’s no “threat”, none of this is that serious, I wish you peace and introspection

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone might spin that up, but it feels unlikely. Github was always kinda subsidized as a power play on MS’s part, and now that it’s well established enough they’re squeezing it for ROI. An instance that doesn’t need your donations still needs resources to perpetuate itself from somewhere, I’d personally rather depend on infrastructure that was transparent about that (whether paid or donation based) than be treated as the product

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My brother in christ that’s the exact line I was referring to, what else in the wide world of reading comprehension do you think I was talking about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’d my other comment go? Editorial censorship takes this from “a really bad idea” to a super fucked up attempt at poisoning this beautiful place with the worship of wealth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I have considered, though, is making parts of it open source, and keeping only the “secret sauce” proprietary. The open source parts would be stuff that could be used to build similar software for other niches of the same target industry, whereas the super specific niche stuff and all the regulation compliance stuff (much of which is just for that one niche anyway - other niches have different regulations) would be proprietary.

  This seems perfectly reasonable and I wish you the best of luck. Just don’t expect anyone to provide the infrastructure for your proprietary secret sauce for free!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was somewhat facetious and self-aggrandizing, “cracking” something isn’t always possible or necessary. If your service was unique/useful enough, I would contribute to reverse engineering enough of that backend to replicate its functionality. More likely I’d just refuse to use it and support open alternatives

  Unsolicited advice though, giving stuff away generates a huge amount of goodwill that can be way more useful and rewarding than revenue. Contributors instead of employees, love instead of money, place and purpose instead of points in your bank account. I’m not wealthy by any means, but I’m comfortable enough and haven’t had to buy a laptop since high school