"If we do this correctly — if the next phase of how we congregate and communicate online is built for humans and not advertisers — there won’t be a new titanic company to rival Meta or a platform with eye-poppingly huge numbers like Facebook
"What we’ll get instead is something much bigger: an entirely new infrastructure for our online lives that no company or platform controls”
WTF is point in digital safe spaces, if all it does is remove progressive voices from reaching the malleable middleground who are constantly bombarded with RWing bullshit.
Perhaps it's time the #Fedi manned up, put on it's big boy pants, & talked more often about how to also be a force for good in society?
Not just a pleasant cul-de-sac bubble to hide out in & only talk to people who agree.
A tak serio, to nie wiem - zastanowię się nad tym za tydzień, gdy podsumuję mój rok czytelniczy. Nie wiem, czy nie będzie to "Zaginiony metal" Sandersona, ale pewnie znajdzie się coś jeszcze lepszego.
Tomorrow, 2023-12-20, at 1930 UTC, Edsko and I will do the final #Haskell Unfolder episode of the year 2023. This time, we're going to take a bit more time and talk about "circular programs", i.e., programs that depend on their own result.
#Fascism isn’t an ancient relic or an outdated term; it has returned as a living, breathing process transforming and weaponizing the state against its people.
Few remain from the generation that watched the #ideology take hold and mutate and unfold its horrors the first time, and without that living memory, we are challenged to explain what fascism was and how it worked.
Old-growth forests sequester much more carbon than younger forests.
It makes more sense to focus on not cutting down trees rather than planting new trees since it takes two to three decades for trees to reach full maturity, if they survive.
We just want to say thank you so much to MacStories and their readers/members who provided such an honorable award. It definitely came as a shock! Also thanks to all of our customers who stuck with us through this tough year. We have a lot of great things coming up in the pipeline and wanted to share a quick teaser image of what's coming soon.
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@Bankizo Getting close to true though: software is finished not when there isn't more work to do, but when nobody cares to maintain it. X11 isn't completely unmaintained, but it is getting close.
@drewdevault That is why I supported wayland from the beginning when it barely had any code at all: the people behind it knew what the real problems with X11 were from experience. there were several other attempts to replace X11 before then, but the X11 maintainers who understood the real problems said those wouldn't fix anything.
#Bremen - Warum #Innenstadt und #Wissenschaft zukünftig zusammen gedacht werden - Fachgespräch zur Bedeutung der Ansiedlung wissenschaftlicher Einrichtungen im Centrum