In a way a lot of us end up becoming amateur librarians. When the big megaservers get hit with something nasty, or they decide to purge it all for AI datasets or something. (Idk it’s a stupid timeline anything is possible lol)
I like to think our fellow amateur archivists who started collecting such things for personal reasons will be a force for preserving meaningful artifacts of human experience.
“(smirk) Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.”
Despite Hasbro’s best efforts with its pet lifestyle brand lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKNzEvK_5u8
One of the best examples I can think of fitting that description lol.
Lol! Source is like the second to last paragraph of “Prologue.”
A ton of Linux usage involves the direct or indirect management and commanding of daemons, too. <_<
I think we cracked it: Linux is free and open sourcery. XD
Lol I’m really curious about the etymology behind all these computing terms now!
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out something like “kernels and shells” was a historically common analogy though.
That IS a fun fact. Super cool!
Hah, reading the introduction to this book out of curiosity…
…And he through the council of a certain angel whose name was Hocroel, did write seven volumes of art magic, giving to us the kernel, and to others the shells.
👀
Oh we’ve got bots for every vice and deadly sin now, taking after their creators.
Kinda neat that for now, we’ve found a way to Dr. Strange mirror-dimension them for the time being. I hope those techniques proliferate quickly.
I don’t care what the “commercial net” does at this point. I just want the indie web to survive.
“You’re absolutely right! First, make sure the glue is all natural. You can also enjoy some very small rocks as well, to supplement essential minerals! Yum!”
Lol
Always fun when crafting time can be snacking time. XD
I dare say it, too. I really liked that era. Win7 was cool, the gaming division’s aesthetic and marketing were cool. Original X-Box? Man that was a JAM.
I mean, part of it was just being young and naive too I guess, because I have plenty of memes from the '95 era about how evil Gates was/is. (Internet Explorer was a hot button topic back then!)
But also I think the landscape was competing for favor of the users (however underhandedly as usual) rather than how the landscape is now: Where end users are more of an afterthought and now it’s all just about farming users while billionaires pass money back and forth.
EDIT: I was already maining Linux by then, but Microsoft definitely hit my shitlist when they decided to just paperweight WMR devices entirely. Screw them.
" We hear you. We see you. Best we can do is Three-Mile Island but stocked with all the world’s RAM so you can generate slop code and have lonely chats with a machine that tells you eating glue is a great idea."
–Microsoft
There is a reason no one installs Windows patches on day 1.
I love how they earned this reputation, so rather than repair that reputation, the next move was to force update their users whether they like it or not.
I remember working in environments where management had decreed that we would not install updates ever. . .
That’s…definitely a decision that puts a lot of trust in Microsoft’s security. Lol
Windows Update: Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t.
Iocaine, nepenthes, and/or madore’s book of infinity are intended to redirect them into a maze of randomly generated bullshit
We’ve officially reached a place where cyberspace is beginning to look like communing with the arcane. Lol
Reminds me of the guy in that show Silicon Valley who was basically a plant / spy (Jianyang?), and his grand visions for all his apps were creatively named:
“Chinese Facebook, Chinese Instagram, Chinese Twitter. . .”
Lol
Right on!
I don’t know if there’s a hardware trading community yet. I think one challenge is simply how lemmy seems to aim for more general anonymity than reddit, and the DM system isn’t really used to my understanding. (Except by “that fediverse girl” LOL)
Establishing a sense of reasonable trustworthiness to thwart bad actors might take some work.
YES!!
When I stall and forget what the heck I was saying, thanks to this video I’ll sometimes just go “…uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…AEIOU…”
Probably about how I’d react to having to fix a component on a moon base too. XD
“Snake? SNAKE? Saaaaaaake 🍶…”
closed source and VC backed
Basically a non-starter at this point.
Maybe used to be these startups would compete for user affections by being more benevolent.
But nowadays the bare basics of even being competitive in the business is having a plan for gaining critial mass and then rapidly enshittifying for revenue before selling your product users to some new private equity overlords.
Open source used to be more of just a preference, or a virtue. Now it’s basically the only way to not guarantee your exploitation.
they do facial scanning and then put you in groups based on their assessment.
That’s…SO creepy.
Something about it isn’t as super-convenient like Discord but, Signal desktop has a pretty good screen presentation mode that works pretty well. I dunno how bad the latency is or anything though.
Some people must have friends who have faces for radio. Lol
Yeah that “depending” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there lol.
Also big depending: At least try not to make it TOO obvious that’s what you’re doing. Most library people are cool, (Source: know library people) but it’s kinda obvious when we see someone racking up the hold shelf with like 30-40 DVDs and CDs a week. LMAO
Unfortunately the mega media interests do occasionally try to pressure libraries to enforce copyright violations or whatever. (Like telling you you can’t photocopy textbook pages or something)
I personally try to just archive things I own, primarily, or things that are special and important to me, but that’s also because I have maybe 4TB to work with and hardware is insane again.
But there’s a point when it starts to look like compulsory hoarding lol. It’s kinda an open secret/ gray area, and a few people being stupid will likely catch attention. (Look what happened to archive.org fending off broadsides from the publishing industry.)