@JennyFluff The really sad thing is, slop like this actually grew out of an earlier valuable cultural practice: of reimplementing the Insufferable Neighbouring University's ideas on local hardware. There were hundreds of slightly differrent implementations of both Algol and Fortran compilers, for example, but these weren't slop in the same sense — that's just how porting used to be done. Language standardisation was, for a while, seen as an effort to make these slightly different variants to behave similarly enough to offer a degree of source-level portability for application programs.

But the rise of copyrighting software in the eighties converted this valuable cultural practice from porting good ideas into rewriting code for copyright avoidance's sake, and that incentivised bad-and-cheap rewrites. Another example of #CapitalismRuinsEverything .

Free Games & Accessories! At Amazon's Expense

UPDATE: ALL THE AMAZON FREEBIES ARE SPOKEN FOR! SORRY!There are free games at the bottom of this ... stick with me. As everyone knows, Amazon.com is at best a lousy business partner and more often a hostile adversary for small businesses that have to work with it. Without going into the details, I'll just say that their bait and switch on a Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) promotion has cost us a huge bunch of money, and I only get gaslighting and runaround trying to get extra charges refunded. Same on a recent bill for hundreds of dollars of storage/shipping fees, where Amazon claimed products weighing a few ounces were 72 lbs for no apparent reason. Anyhow, I'm sick of it. I'm removing everything of ours from Amazon's FBA program. But the money-grabbing continues on our way out the door. In addition to all the other fees, WE HAVE TO PAY to have our removed FBA inventory sent back to us. We can also ask them to destroy it, but that is THE VERY SAME FEE as having it returned to us. Also, the return fee is based on the weight of each individual item returned; if they charge a fee of $X to return one item, then having 30 returned is $30X. Now here's where my min-maxing heart leaps ... inexplicably, I can CHANGE THE RETURN ADDRESS FOR EACH of the manual returns. That means I can send each individual item wherever I want, and the cost to me is the same as if Amazon just carried it all to their dumpster. SO HERE'S THE FREE GAMES PART: I'd like to send each of those games/accessories to a different gamer somewhere in the USA, in full compliance with Amazon's rules and policies. Free to you! While supplies last. We've got some board games, card games, Replay Workshop accessories like condition markers and movement trays... Amazon will take its sweet time on actually delivering it, but if you e-mail me your mailing address anywhere in the USA, I will send you some free Atlas Games product. Send it by the end of Jan 2026, and feel free to mention the sort of thing you'd be interested in (or, conversely, what of our catalog you already own), but I make no promises. I'd just like to see these things go to gamers rather than be destroyed. And if you feel like giving us a review somewhere, that's great, but no obligation. -John Nephew Disgruntled Atlas Games Co-Owner

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People Are OVER Rap Music… and We All Know Why

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I went to the store to pick up two items. Even though they had both in stock, I only purchased one. Why? Because the second was locked in a cabinet.

I understand locking high value items like video games or electronics, and age restricted items like alcohol, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to wait around for an overworked and underpaid staff member to come unlock the cabinet for laundry detergent.

Which corporate suit thought that was a good idea?

#CapitalismRuinsEverything #FuckCapitalism

Time to leave those corporate hell.

#Freedom
#CapitalismRuinsEverything

Via > @nixCraft 🔗 https://mastodon.social/users/nixCraft/statuses/114942290803533008
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UK users of Reddit, X, Insta, FB, Bluesky, TikTok, and many other popular platforms are now facing problems. They are being forced to verify their age using government issued IDs and a selfie. All of these for-profit corporations may use this information further for profit or may not even store user information securely. […]

Generative AI wouldnt be such a “threat” if capitalism didn’t already ruin the idea of just doing things for a passion instead of profit, but instead of realizing this most people just endlessly debate about how it is or isnt “stealing”….

As if we didn’t already learn this lesson 2 decades ago #COPYINGISNOTTHEFT

There are other problems with LLMs, but to get mad at them for “stealing” is hypocritical and ignores the actual root of the problem which is that capitalism is ruining Art and everything else by making it only about how much profit you can derive from it.

#CAPITALISMRUINSEVERYTHING

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“No you can't take it
No you can't take it
No you can't take that away from me
No you can't take it
No you can't take it
No you can't take that away from me

Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.”

—Trent Reznor, Head Like a Hole

2/3

#Music #NIN #TrentReznor #Antifa #CapitalismRuinsEverything

Been in a NIN mood.

“God money I'll do anything for you.
God money just tell me what you want me to.
God money nail me up against the wall.
God money don't want everything he wants it all.”

—Trent Reznor, Head Like a Hole

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#Music #NIN #TrentReznor #Antifa #CapitalismRuinsEverything

“Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.

God money's not looking for the cure.
God money's not concerned with the sick amongst the pure.
God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
God money's not one to choose

You know who you are.”

—Trent Reznor, Head Like a Hole

3/3

#Music #NIN #TrentReznor #Antifa #CapitalismRuinsEverything