Definitely agree, but some people remain ignorant of that part of history, so you gotta use fiction to let them know that art mimics reality and that supposed fictional dystopias are here if you look close enough, and will absolutely be here if we don’t realize it soon
Cyberpunk corporate wars becoming reality.
You laugh but it just enables private militaries aka private police
I remember over a decade ago when I was upset I couldn’t get photoshop working on my installation of Ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron. I remember when I couldn’t play the games my friends were playing on Ubuntu and had to switch over to windows. I remember there was just audacity for audio editing on Linux and gimp for photo editing.
Now I have krita which is better than the photoshop I cut my teeth on (6 beta, 7, 8, and then up to like cs3). Audour which is so much better than cool edit pro 3.0 and audition. I can play my games, the best dev tools are on Linux, and nearly everything is open source.
Just a small reminder that Linux is absolutely thriving right now. It’s so cool to see! Gimp has always been there and it is still getting better and better!
Now if valve would just hurry up and start making phones!
When that happens I will be excited:) I’d be excited for WebKit to get more love
Like it or not, we have neural nets to thank for this, apparently protein stuff is taking off because of it
I guess fascists just need to walk around in packs of 11 to win
It’s best not to humanize corporations, especially as the arbiters of morality and ethics. It’s simply a calculated risk on Apples part. I don’t mean to be a negative Nancy and all “nothing good happens” it’s just we can’t keep letting corporations get away with being brands you can “trust” when we have all the evidence necessary to assume they are not trustworthy, just profit-seeking.
I did not have as many times as I wanted. I had one chance per question, no re takes. What’s fucking hilarious is my reference was more important than the fucking screener. I got fired by a company for budget concerns supposedly but not on bad terms and this company contracts with them and apparently the hiring manager called my former engineering manager and I got a good word so to the top I went. Fucking hate the stain of AI.
HireVue is a thing. I just took one being a software engineer interviewing
One more thing for me to add that I just found a bit interesting after thinking about it:
People pay $70 for glorified movies in video game format. I know I just wanted to see the story of Knights of the Old Republic more than anything when I was a little kid and playing it. Not diminishing anything about games, I’m just talking about the market economics now haha, I know these are games and we can’t just say $70 for this vs $20 for a 1.5h movie, but there is absolutely a market incentive for these types of films to be made. They are cheap alternatives (and better for the environment) to video game movies. Think high quality actual plays of story rich video games.
People love the stories of MGS as well, and that series might as well be just be a movie , I “watched” all of metal gear solid on YouTube because I don’t have a PlayStation growing up. I would love for an eevee version of all of those cutscenes, and I’m sure others would and probably pay for that—I’d throw $10 at that I think instead of having to play through all of it now that I’m in my 30s
/rant lol
I’d put that as a feature request honestly, they’ll probably add that in at some point
I’m just doing a bit of research (I’m also not the guy you were replying to :p), but I found the developer is really just one person seemingly (the only registered person I could find for the company representing Revolt [based in the UK]) and that is Pawel Makles. He’s also listed as the data controller of all of your data https://revolt.chat/legal/privacy
My concern at first glance is this guy is only 21 years old (born 2003). I don’t think the dev seems too shady from this quick look, but being only 21 with a bunch of private data doesn’t seem too stable imo.
I’ve been watching machinema since I was a wee lad in the 2000s with halo 2 being peak for me. I am so pumped the tech is there for full length feature films! This is like the opposite effect for me, I want “cheaper” methods of making what matters: the story and the narrative using cinematic language. Very glad eevee is getting recognized. Whether it’s hand drawn or rendered in a billion dollar engine that took 50 years to render one frame or with realtime 3d, I don’t care. I just want it to be easy for a kid to say “I have a story to tell and I want it on a screen” and be able to do that without weird criticism like “you did it with the wrong tools”
I start something, see how boring, hard or daunting it is or just make one tiny mistake, and then immediately move on to another thing. Rinse repeat until I fall asleep.
People on Lemmy… refusing to speak up?? :P
I’m an anarchist and most anarchists I know of are not the silent type :D
I’ve been using mastodon for nearly a decade now. The major thing I think is missing from ActivityPub is a decentralized/federated way of doing auth. The ideal for me in ActivityPub is having a profile/DID service provider that you then can attach to services. This would theoretically be like having just a federated identity (or however many identities you want) that you can then go to a lemmy instance or mastodon instance etc and “log in with federated ID” like log in with Google but not dependent on a corporation.
Auth and identity in general is definitely the biggest hurdle with ActivityPub. Right now it’s a bunch of distinct and non-tied profiles, which isn’t necessarily bad, but many people would like an easier way of doing this. Instead of saying “which lemmy do I want to join” it’s just “which identity service do I want?” and then go to and use any mastodon or lemmy or Pixelfed service with that single account. There’s many ways to do this, but it’s definitely possible (in theory, right now there isn’t a spec for this afaik, we just have DIDs and those are very very very young specs.
I’m just saying, because someone is a scientist absolutely does not absolve them of human fallibility. I just don’t like the take of “because scientist, therefore smart or wise” and that’s not true, they’re just (hopefully) educated and credible in their one specific field and nothing else. I wouldn’t blindly trust a scientist’s choice of social network. It makes no sense. I’d instead trust their education on their specific field.
Look at Linux’s popularity over the years decades. I’ve used it since I was 10 years old twenty years ago. It is absolutely climbing. FOSS hasn’t even peaked yet lol
Never meet your heroes. If a scientist is human, they’re as fallible as any other. Just like some teachers aren’t there because they’re passionate. Some legitimately are bad if you ever had parent teacher conferences. Not passion nor intelligence saves you from making poor choices
I remember when armed Pinkertons were sent to a normal guys house by a corporation for having a few pieces of paper with stolen artwork on them only a year ago.
Some guy got some magic the gathering cards early so wizards of the coast did what any reasonable group of people would do and violently intimidated the guy until he gave up his goods.