People tried to bring more content through bridges. Mastodonians promptly started crying about how it literally puts peoples lifes in danger. Some still have #nobridge tags in their profiles to this day, thinking it matters somehow in an open network.

Nothing? Im as pessimistic as it gets, but it has provided traction for at least 3 competing decentralized alternatives.

… is the most upvoted stackoverflow answer.

Superman himself is invulnerable, the rest of the world isn’t

Go watch The Boys!

The value of an art piece is always subjective. The price (closest thing we have to the objective value) is determined by the buyers.

What other mechanism would there be? A committee? That’s a bit nazi for my taste. A popular vote? Look at the election results to see why that might be a bad idea.

The theme is a bit touchy these days, especially in certain small country in eastern europe, where the new minister started to cut subsidies to the art she considers unworthy, obscene and politicized, in favor of art reflecting so called traditional values and national identity. The mere existence of the ministry of culture, established with the most noble goal of supporting art, creates this kind of potential vulnerability.

What are the capitalists doing to prevent you from expressing artistically?

It’s an excellent thin client as well. I’ve played the second half of death stranding through the free tier of Geforce Now.

You are right my brother in arms, let’s overthrow the cooks! Enough with their bullshit already! Free burgers for everyone! Burgers to the people! People’s burgers!

When thoughts like this trouble me, I simply realize how awesome it is that you can simply summon a burger using the magic box in your pocket. What a great time to be alive!

If my grandma wanted a burger at my age, she would have to wake up early in the morning to catch a good spot in queue in front of the butcher shop.

The Lust series is pretty good. It’s a horror game similar to Amnesia or Penumbra, except you’re infiltrating a sex cult.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170820/Lust_from_Beyond_Prologue/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1401680/Lust_from_Beyond_Scarlet/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/523650/Lust_for_Darkness/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1035120/Lust_from_Beyond/

edit: … and yes, after I bought these, steam has bombarded me with the most ridiculous erotic game suggestions for months!

I host 2 ejabberd servers. One casual, federated, the other one standalone, for work.

• Conversations is a decent android client that supports modern XMPP standards
• Dino on the desktop. It just happen to support the same subset of standards as Conversations, so they work pretty well together.

For Mastodon, I’m using an Akkoma instance hosted by a frind of mine

• Tusky works pretty well with it. There were certain annoying bugs when I combined the official Mastodon app with Akkoma.

Every once in a while I try Matrix, but each time I try to log in, Synapse is is fucked in a different way. I have to scrap it up and start from the ground up some day.

• Only the element based clients so far, because every alternative lack certain features.

I’m a big fan of Nostr, because of one particular feature - You control your identity without having to selfhost a server. The network seems to be occupied by the christian-carnivore-bitcoin-conservatives so far, therefor it’s pretty bland when it comes to content.

• Amethyst on Android
• Gossip on the desktop. This one requires a certain knowledge of the protocol. Each action needs to be manually triggered.

For some special use cases I have Signal, but most of the time, Telegram is the best the average person can do to meet me in the middle.

We hate the AI and proof of work, yet DEMAND someone to moderate our inboxes. For free.

• an average lemming

Pidgin was decent, but remember Miranda? The community around it was fantastic. The plugin system was an absolute blast. Not only there were plugins for any communication network you could think of, the UX was fully customizable.

At one point, somebody even bothered to implement the ICQ flash animations. There has not been anything like it ever since.

If a communication software has terms of service, run away!

Sure. Let’s protect the proper culture. Like Fast and Furious 10, or the 60th marvel superhero movie rehash :P

Wasn’t the new motherboard released even before the OLED?

If a vendor strangely insist on not working on a new product, it’s lying.

In this case it’s obvious, considering we already got 2 minor revisions of steamdeck HW.

I was honestly surprised by win11. The last time I’ve daily driven a windows machine was the dark ages of 8.1. My expectations were pretty low thanks to the hate people spewed about it online.

What I got was a preinstalled SSH client, easy to install SSH server, customizable terminal app with tabs and nice features related to WSL, The WSL itself! Easy to install and switch between different distros, notepad remembers unsaved work, and it finally has tabs! Explorer? Tabs! Media playback? Windows finally got the media control widget, like a normal OS! A lot of small quality of life bits I was used to on my linux desktop. They’re even working on finally deprecating that mess of a control panel!

The only thing that botheres me, is that the UI is clearly being designed by someone with a football field sized monitor. Luckily scaling it back down is still possible. The same thing plagues gnome as well as some commercial prodiucts I use.

Steam provides it’s own linux userspace runtime. The game developers just target that to avoid the problem you describe.

The only thing worse than public voting is public voting that’s falsely advertised as private.