I demand a primitive cave drawing. Otherwise, it didn’t happen

The kind of hard hitting journalism we need in these times…

Seriously, you beat me to it. All I know is that I’m not tangling with the Voodoo Boys.

start rant/

Ah yes, dansup, aka the Fediverse superstar who cranks out such hits as “VAGUE FEATURE is Coming Soon”, and “The rarely updated official app for Pixelfed/Loops is going to get updated soon!”. Both of those are from the album" I insist on gatekeeping outside developers from contributing".

I’ve interacted with him as a fellow developer of the same stack he uses, and I have always appreciated where his heart is at regarding the fedi. But, the track record of quality work suffers from chasing shiny objects, and absolute spaghetti code.

Also, I’m going to be blunt in saying this; he apes existing ideas (insta, TikTok), gives them a quasi corpo social platform facade with the goal to be welcoming to the refugees who jump the fences.

This SSO thing is the antithesis of decentralization and the spirit of digital sovereignty. Literally handing Google more user data for the sake of fedi adoption via SSO is mind boggling. How many people here left big tech because of the blatant surveillance state that’s been built?

I keep trying to support his work, but I’m killing my Pixelfed and Loops accounts.

/rant

Damn, this guy seems all about the healthy lifestyle.

Gaslighting. Pure And simple. Which, is and has always been, one of the most disgusting tactics an abuser deploys for self-serving reasons.

I fucking hate Medium almost as much as I hate the tech industry’s disregard to earning our consent through honesty.

Or user privacy.

Or valuing their own workers.

Or how to respectfully be a part of the F/OSS ecosystem.

Or humanity’s desire to not live in a pollution stream from their AI processing centers (they’re not really “data centers”).

Or that we all wish LinkedIn would self-destruct under the weight of its own bullshit, and magically blink itself out of existence.

I’m out of the loop on that one.

Oh no, I did some math and I realized I’ll forever be a big dummy for not participating in this once in a lifetime moment…

I’ll never know what it’s like to throw $20+ at a shitty streaming platform that’s hyping a videogame trailer that was made by a union busting game studio. I’ll need to choose between giving up $80 worth of groceries for the base game, or I’ll need to give up $100 worth of food for the full game since they paywalled additional content.

All in all, that’s over a hundred dollars in the hole.

Fuck.

That.

Hey, try out OnlyOffice if you need something that can handle word docs that have style/layout breakage. It’s also open source and most distros have it in their repo. It feels like a well polished piece of software.

People need to police their neighborhoods. Using AI as the touchpoint for routing emergencies sends a really clear message; the cops aren’t prioritizing the public safety aspect of their job. But then again, acab exists because they’ve always prioritized the power of the state and the financially connected.

Literally any and all of them. I dropped Google services in 2017.

Holy shit… I don’t want this to be the new normal.

I’m not.

Sad 8-track noises intensify

And? What fucks are there left to give about a publically malicious/murderous government buying a publically malicious company which publically destroys their creatives ability to stay alive in this capitalist shitscape?

I want the heart and soul of those studios (the creatives) to create a tsunami of indie studios to revive the long lost connection between the gamers and the makers.

We have to support indie devs if we want gaming to be better for all involved.

Thanks for this. I should have known it’d be somewhere like that.

Never knew about Esperanto, but that was fun to learn about.

Damn, didn’t know he was all kinky like that

Thanks. It’s the only swipe enabled keyboard I’ve found for my degoogled phone. They have their own F-Droid repo as well

https://keyboard.futo.tech/