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Cake day: February 15th, 2024

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  • Yeah. Just how it goes unfortunately. Consumer buy-in is vastly underrepresented in the technology world. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc have all leveraged customer and community laziness to push the boundaries without much blowback. If Elon’s tenure over twitter/xitter shows anything, it’s that.


  • There’s a lot of businesses, organizations, companies, Devlopers, and etc that use it as home base. Want to follow what x, y, and z indie dev is up to working on the sequel to your favorite game? Guess what, they didn’t want to roll a website and social media activitly works against cross posting compatibility so they’re just on Twitter. Want to follow an account that only sends something out when a internet service goes offline, and be notified about it? Better hope they thought out a open alternative because almost exclusively the companies I’ve worked with update these matters on their Twitter. I’ve even had their Twitter inform me of issues before their own status.company.com pages (frankly egregious but alas). The cesspool definitely exists, but as a tool/town hall Twitter had won. It’s a mere shadow of it’s former self in this regard nowadays since king elongate the fucked took over, but the after affects as well as the hole in the market remain.






  • Just pondering the difference between something that is practically inescapable in a finite human lifespan vs something that is surely escapable given a removal of that metric. Merely the first thought I had when enjoying the art, no point to be made of it… More mumblings of a idle fool/thinker?





  • That’s lovely. When is the last time you bought an electronic device made entirely of silicon including no capacitors, thermal past, electric motors for fans, etc, etc? Electronics may seem permanent, and yes they have an amazing shelf life, but chips do in fact degrade (see solid state ssds), and you’re held back by your weakest link.



  • Like a lot of markets big companies engage with, cloud services were operated at near loss levels for years. It’s only when they had a sufficiently vendor locked and invested user base that they started cranking the costs, especially in areas you wouldn’t otherwise notice. There’s a reason everything is micro billed, and it’s not to make it easier to lower costs on your end.