I'll check it out. I see a lot of no agenda social folks on my feed, and they all seem to have their head screwed on straight.
It's a neat idea, but I'd be concerned because if you ever used one of these in an industrial design, you're personally on the hook if anything big ever goes wrong.
"So let me get this straight... Instead of using a real PLC, you decided to use a hobbyist computer?"
"So let me get this straight... Instead of using a real PLC, you decided to use a hobbyist computer?"
How many people knew that the rate of change of arctic snow cover in November was at a 56 year high predicting one of the coldest winters on record? The story was true, but not talked about because it went against the official narrative.
How many people knew that in late 2021 there were already supply chain issues regarding European natural gas? The story was true, but not talked about because it went against the official narrative.
How many people knew in March 2020 that we were going to face massive stagflation as a result of basic economic theory that's taught in every university? The story was true, but not talked about because it went against the official narrative.
We have a huge problem. The narrative is more important than the truth, and so people aren't being given information to make predictive decisions, so everything is a surprise nobody could have predicted -- except it isn't a surprise, we had the information, but our decadent leaders used powers they are not supposed to have to silence facts that don't match the narrative they want to push.
The next big thing appears to be food insecurity. There are lots of stories that seem to push towards that idea, but nobody is talking about it because it goes against the narrative.
This is turning into an existential threat to individuals. When there's questions about food, shelter, protection from the elements, security against people who want to hurt you, you're at the base of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and high minded ideals go out the window.
How many people knew that in late 2021 there were already supply chain issues regarding European natural gas? The story was true, but not talked about because it went against the official narrative.
How many people knew in March 2020 that we were going to face massive stagflation as a result of basic economic theory that's taught in every university? The story was true, but not talked about because it went against the official narrative.
We have a huge problem. The narrative is more important than the truth, and so people aren't being given information to make predictive decisions, so everything is a surprise nobody could have predicted -- except it isn't a surprise, we had the information, but our decadent leaders used powers they are not supposed to have to silence facts that don't match the narrative they want to push.
The next big thing appears to be food insecurity. There are lots of stories that seem to push towards that idea, but nobody is talking about it because it goes against the narrative.
This is turning into an existential threat to individuals. When there's questions about food, shelter, protection from the elements, security against people who want to hurt you, you're at the base of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and high minded ideals go out the window.
You're correct, but that doesn't help when what you need is that stuff you got bored of making.
All companies that knew how to build things period. We had China and Russia to do that for us -- oh shi
There's literally nothing Musk could do to stop it, Tesla is the biggest bubble on earth. Once the market changed it was inevitable it would drop because there's no reason it was as high as it was.
There's a lot of people calling for "more sustainable" decisions to be codified into the law. The idea is it'll help reduce energy usage. Sounds nice but reality doesn't stop at intended effects.
We have generations of people who are already priced out of home ownership forever and are well on their way to not being able to rent either, this seems like it'll just make that even worse.
We're going to have a stratified class system where at the top you'll have the rich who are not just materially better off but considered morally superior because they can afford the latest whizbang environmentalism, and everyone else who don't have anything material to their name and are also considered monsters morally because they're forced to subsist using that horrible inefficient ancient stuff that's been grandfathered in for years.
I mean -- more than we already do.
This isn't good. When you disenfranchise generations of people like that, that's where you get populism. Presently populism is a four letter word among the left, so guess where you end up sending everyone?
We're on a freight train barrelling towards a future where people specifically reject everything that's being pushed right now because it is so decadent and divorced from reality. People who are barely able to get the basics of life are being told they're rich and they're evil for not using their "riches" to save the world, and if nothing changes the next step looks pretty scary for anyone with the slightest inclination towards any of this sort of thing.
We have generations of people who are already priced out of home ownership forever and are well on their way to not being able to rent either, this seems like it'll just make that even worse.
We're going to have a stratified class system where at the top you'll have the rich who are not just materially better off but considered morally superior because they can afford the latest whizbang environmentalism, and everyone else who don't have anything material to their name and are also considered monsters morally because they're forced to subsist using that horrible inefficient ancient stuff that's been grandfathered in for years.
I mean -- more than we already do.
This isn't good. When you disenfranchise generations of people like that, that's where you get populism. Presently populism is a four letter word among the left, so guess where you end up sending everyone?
We're on a freight train barrelling towards a future where people specifically reject everything that's being pushed right now because it is so decadent and divorced from reality. People who are barely able to get the basics of life are being told they're rich and they're evil for not using their "riches" to save the world, and if nothing changes the next step looks pretty scary for anyone with the slightest inclination towards any of this sort of thing.
Not just for communication platforms, either. For many many things, if you don't control it, it isn't yours. You might have found the perfect little program for part of your workflow but oops it's an online app from Google and it's now in the Google graveyard. You might have found the perfect free to use 3d tool, but oops they got bought out and now it's $1000 a year to keep using it. You might have found the perfect iot device for your home but oops, it relies on a third party server and the company went out of business so now you have to throw all the equipment you bought away.
Nope. Won't happen.
Big tech sites becomes so because they can make overwhelming amounts of money. Even stuff like crypto which is decentralized is popular because people think they can make money. By contrast, decentralized social media costs money.
The mastodon/pleroma/soapbox/misskey/friendica side of the fediverse has hit a critical mass where there's enough users for many purposes anyway. I follow 600 people, and there are times that my feed is just flashing by so fast I can't even keep up. There's enough users of enough different types that different mutually exclusive communities can form and it's fine.
The peertube side and the lemmy/lotide side both really need more users to hit that critical mass, unfortunately.
Big tech sites becomes so because they can make overwhelming amounts of money. Even stuff like crypto which is decentralized is popular because people think they can make money. By contrast, decentralized social media costs money.
The mastodon/pleroma/soapbox/misskey/friendica side of the fediverse has hit a critical mass where there's enough users for many purposes anyway. I follow 600 people, and there are times that my feed is just flashing by so fast I can't even keep up. There's enough users of enough different types that different mutually exclusive communities can form and it's fine.
The peertube side and the lemmy/lotide side both really need more users to hit that critical mass, unfortunately.
https://archive.vn/sxLR0
Netflix in talks with Metallica about how to best protect its brand after threatening to sue customers and whine about not getting enough money.
"We've tried doubling the price, that should've done it but these stupid people keep paying! Then we added advertisements, and now we've got to figure out how to make sure everyone jealously protects their password like Gollum protects the one ring!" Netflix said in a statement
Netflix in talks with Metallica about how to best protect its brand after threatening to sue customers and whine about not getting enough money.
"We've tried doubling the price, that should've done it but these stupid people keep paying! Then we added advertisements, and now we've got to figure out how to make sure everyone jealously protects their password like Gollum protects the one ring!" Netflix said in a statement
Made it further down the island. Sleeping only works for 1 hour before an "enemy arrives", but a few steps and the enemy is no longer in range, so I don't know where they're spawning. Found this gap in the gaps, so presumably you could swim to the island from here.
This didn't quite seem right, so I ended up doing some console stuff and ended up on the island proper, but I don't know if this is the wrong island (it shouldn't be, the map seems to suggest it's the right one) or if it's just degraded because I walked from Sentinel.
There was one landmark I could count on, there's a big rock formation near the western edge of the island. Can't miss it, and the likelihood of two different islands having the same strange rock formation on the exact spot doesn't make any sense.
So there we go, I did make it to the island. It was basically uninhabited except for a standard dungeon I didn't talk much about because it was after the console shenanigans, but it seems the most interesting things about the island were because the game never really expected anyone to take hours going over the ocean from the south to see this little place.
This didn't quite seem right, so I ended up doing some console stuff and ended up on the island proper, but I don't know if this is the wrong island (it shouldn't be, the map seems to suggest it's the right one) or if it's just degraded because I walked from Sentinel.
There was one landmark I could count on, there's a big rock formation near the western edge of the island. Can't miss it, and the likelihood of two different islands having the same strange rock formation on the exact spot doesn't make any sense.
So there we go, I did make it to the island. It was basically uninhabited except for a standard dungeon I didn't talk much about because it was after the console shenanigans, but it seems the most interesting things about the island were because the game never really expected anyone to take hours going over the ocean from the south to see this little place.
No, that was arena. Daggerfall does have a map. It was procedurally generated at Bethesda when they were making it, but it's all in the game. Copy that I'm using even adds a bunch of stuff like roads and different encounters so there's a benefit to walking between cities yourself instead of fast traveling.