Happy “Still Subscribe To This Thing Superstitiously Even Though I Have Apple Music Because I Don’t Want Anything To Happen To My Music Library” Day to all who celebrate
Also known as “Apple Designer Isn’t Sure Where That Email Template Is Actually Stored On The Server And We Don’t Want Anything To Happen To The Other Emails So How About We Just Leave It For Now” Day
Sometimes I think about how much media will be forever lost in decades to come because everything is now on streaming platforms that delete things on a whim instead of physical media.
@Gargron It's a different sort of loss of media, previously the large risks were degrading physical media with vinegar syndrome and sticky shed syndrome along with bitrot, discrot and other terrible issues. Now if something is exclusively streaming only, then it's down to the whims of one company taking it away.
Was reminded recently that Discord has taken nearly $1 billion in VC cash: https://tracxn.com/d/companies/discord/__5rlLgsamoGCjo5gATenpy383J_jyBToAQkMl2B_f99w
No judgment if you've already built a community there, but everyone really needs to treat it as a ticking time bomb. It's already failed its users many times over; it's just a question of when those failures will escalate beyond even the most indifferent user's tolerance. Every community deserves better. Good alternatives are a survival imperative.
@_benui@jplebreton Why are the best things we have as alternatives are just things from the distant past? Are we that afraid of innovation being usurped by VCs and greed? Maybe we're just so nostalgic for the past ways that we can't conceive of other things though they were horribly flawed even at the time.
Not specifically a question aimed at you, more a general sentiment regarding the web's own little retvrn movement.
So i got this phone because it's a different color than the ones I already have lol, but it also has a very old firmware that allows me to scan all the channels and not just a couple
And it's working now, passes all tests, it had issues with cold soldering before and it was barely working
@feditips I'd move to another instance for sure, just that there's so many issues and caveats that come with moving that I'm honestly put off the idea. Portability remains a problem for Mastodon and it's hard to encourage moving when doing so is like leaving several boxes of your possessions at your old place.
Y'all remember the Wild West that was the early internet? So, after Napster got shut down, file sharing didn't stop, you know what it did? That's right kids, let's say it all together: DECENTRALIZED! This protected those sites from being sued and shut down. It's interesting to once again be moving around in decentralized networks again 20+ years later. The past and the future are colliding in such interesting ways.
@RickiTarr I was thinking more about at the time how much I disliked having to use multiple places to go grab my ill-gotten gains. Yknow, if I could find it and didn't have multiple grabs fail or find they were mislabelled or find I just got a virus. I don't miss that but decentralisation for file sharing was good, same reason we still use torrents. Social networking? Different but no reason it couldn't work.
When people say shit like “But if we had UBI people would just sit at home and smoke weed all day!”, like. Okay? Dope. What the fuck do you do at work that is really creating more value than smoking weed at home all day. You make the lights on the box at your desk turn on and off for a living, what’s the difference? Having a barbecue creates more real value than your entire job ever has
@danirabbit I'd love to be able to do a job merely because it'd be fun to try it out, even the menial labour stuff. That's the sort of thing that'd be enjoyable without concerns of getting enough pay, new fun experiences and even some miserable ones but I can't say those who have done many varied jobs have uninteresting lives, at least not from my experience.
Dr Peter Gleick, a co-founder of the California-based Pacific Institute, said Murdoch was responsible for pushing “decades of dangerous #climate misinformation and denial to millions of people”.
“His distortions have influenced policymakers and the public and wasted critical time that should have been spent slowing the climate crises we now see all around us....
“When our history is written, and the final roster of climate villains is posted, #Murdoch will be at the top.” https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/23/rupert-murdoch-climate-change-denial
@Green_Footballs While no books were burned they do know about the connotations of book burning, it's like shooting Bud Light cans where the symbology is the message. It's a threat of future action.
“I’m not innocent, I broke the law and deserve to pay for my crime. However, I’m still a human. They even have warnings on the radio ... but we sit here and fry.”
@TexasObserver The cruelty is the point. To those running the prison, the humans within are undeserving and will happily sentence them to death extrajudicially through pure indifference.
Proposal: stop saying stuff like "we're destroying the planet" and change it to "they're destroying the planet", to pivot away from self blame when most of us don't have the power to change things and definitely would if we could, and towards laying the blame squarely on the elites propping up the fossil fuel industry so we can focus our collective anger on those actually responsible
@eniko But that'd get in the way of the self-flagellation and treating our species as a monolith. No, those 0.1% who are actively going to destroy everything with or without our contribution to it are untouchable so it'd be easier to turn on each other or simply lay down and lament how terrible we humans are.