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Anyone notice that Cory Doctorow's writing style is "gemini compatible"?
Separately in CEO watch: John Riccitiello might be a PoS, but you have to look at it in context now that Unity has to shrink their workforce. You could argue he shouldn't have ever hired those folks in the first place, but a company that's growing is a company which hires.
I didn't even think it was possible to discriminate against old white guys but Bobby Kotick has a way to make even that impossible happen.
Vale John Pilger. Dealing with scoundrels has become a bit harder in 2024. You did the business. Have a happy afterlife, and for the rest of us mere mortals, Happy New Year.
In my limited understanding, both Kafka and Twain wrote fiction, but one is a writer and the other a philosopher ???
Kind of strange how everyone is building apps on top of Gemini, when the idea of partially to use appropriate protocols to solve appropriate problems.
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Windows. I had a spacious 2gb download quota and merely connecting it to a Windows device used it all up, no indication, no way to stop it. How is this remotely acceptable in society?
Well cop28 looks to be a massive failure. What now?
I made an eastern religion joke earlier so I'm on the hook. Enlightenment is not descriptive. It doesn't "call for" things. You can't just read a blurb about enlightenment and become it. You need to walk the path. The separation of the spiritual and physical is a personal realisation on the path. Being able to see it intuitively is the goal, not to say "let's just forget the physical world".
These philosophies are very useful in the information revolution, and many of these concepts show up unchanged in the modern world. Enlightenment as I see it is similar to the idea that information itself is the primary substrate of the economy. A 3d printer will print anything, the file matters more.
Regarding metadata: I just sent an XMPP message between a cloaked account and a non cloaked account. I'm kicking myself. It might be nothing, or it might link those two accounts inextricably.
Regarding the "good enough" posts
I'm generally a fan of "good enough" but I'm currently in the spiritual home of good enough, and it is not all roses. You tend to spend a lot of time busy waiting while trying to get things done. My view is that you can look at resilience in 2 ways: things which are easy to fix but always an inch away from breaking, and things which just last a long time. They are both valid.
ok listen to me Buddhists. If individuality is a fiction then explain bee allergies.
Everything has been going slightly wrong for the last few weeks. Not enough to break anything but enough to not be able to mark anything as "complete". Just the third 80% of the work left over because of things going wrong but 95% of it working. Now I'm here thinking which of these leftover things should I action? Feeling pretty burned out and raw from all the work I've done but also the work left over.
I noticed today that my "external memory" (personal memory that is augmented with computers, not computer memory) doesn't really work with Lagrange. Most tools sort of connect into free desktop's "tracker" framework, and while Firefox is an "exception" there are still special case integrations for it. From bookmarks to text to links, it all connects up. The reason is because the web is given this exalted status among the computer. A good example is the Electron app. Not really an app but also sort of an app? Wikipedia can be downloaded but it's still "web" links.
I don't know what happened but Lagrange kept dying on startup. Eventually figured out it was probably the bookmarks. Lucky stroke I had no internet access and I configured everything again. should have just disabled internet to start with
no matter which way you slice it, setting up raid is expensive. the drives are dear.
Alexa purchase a dueling fates novelty car horn.
if they pronounced "neom" like they pronounce "meow" would that make you more positive towards it?
The total annihilation ost goes hard.
when you are listening to a song thinking it sounds amazing but then you realise you're listening at 2x speed.
Many people here are off the big web entirely. I'm not but I would say the spell is broken. The addiction is gone. I heard Bo Burnham's "All eyes on me" again and it sounded like a eulogy. I felt sick, every word reflecting a past I was party to. I know what he's saying. I know what it means, and that shames me. But I also feel free of it.
I'm catching up on the gemini reading and finally got to the wearing dresses discussion. I must say I'm off the opinion that dresses are like capes in that they can get caught in heavy machinery. No capes, no dresses. Why not just wear loose shorts?
Every time I read "Station" I think of Bill and Ted.
I love eggcorns, and found one via textmonger. Unsure if intentional given his play on / with words: "Grant it" for "granted". A very California preppy read I think. Not sure if it's my new favorite but but definitely up there.
Something I've noticed in social media is how arguments in the large turn into arguments in the small. Like how women will say "I won't do emotional labor for you" as though the response will be "great point honey, let's end capitalism". The argument is in the large: capitalism requires the free physical labor of women ➡ capitalism is expanding into the social realm ➡ it must also exploit the emotional labour of women.
Regarding note taking: especially in the context of summarising books; if you're not aware of "second brain" then it's worth looking up. Additionally, it's often worth adding automation to digital second brains, and a parseable format like Norg maybe invaluable and have a high ceiling for that automation contrasted to Markdown.
Something I noticed: despite being its own little corner, gemini is still the internet, and the only way to be anonymous on gemini is through other people hosting services that one can connect to anonymously. Self hosting means identifying through DNS. However, despite being somewhat invisible, the law still applies to those hosting these platforms. That means the anonymity is conditional. Proper anonymity requires p2p data transfers.