I apparently need to migrate to a new instance in the next day and I just... don't know if it's worth the hassle
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Bios are hard. I'm just some nerd. Games, tech, dice, music, audio, "legal herbs", and mental health. I still stream on Twitch once in a blue moon.
"Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!"
"Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!"
Effin' Birds
Oh.
Fun to log on and see the instance I'm on may shut down sometime soon-ish.
Honestly, instance volatility is the absolute worst part of the fediverse design ethos.
You're literally giving your users no sense of stability and reliability as part of your core design.
Maybe social media itself needs to fucking die.
Robert McNeesThis is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.
Derek Powazek 🐐The core problem with all social software is that it winds up being run by people who love software more than people.
James GleickOnce again Ted Chiang has it exactly right. The immediate danger from #AI is not that it will become sentient and do whatever it wants. The danger is that it will do what it’s being designed to do: help rich corporations destroy the working class in pursuit of ever-greater profits and thus concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands.
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
The biggest problem with Discord's idea to get rid of discriminators is that it causes IMMEDIATE issues.
Username conflicts have to be resolved somehow, and people need to post updates everywhere they advertise their account to reflect new changes.
Updating the discriminators to be alphanumeric (if it's a scalability issue) is a far easier fix that causes no immediate conflicts and is backwards compatible with the existing system, making it a non-issue for users.
Why the hell is this so hard?