Promising news from Unity about walking back (some?) of their recent dubious decisions. I'm very interested to read an analysis on this to see what didn't get walked back.
https://blog.unity.com/news/open-letter-on-runtime-fee
"Content” is an absolute abstraction, shedding everything specific about the objects it references. All meaning (and everything that goes beyond the most literal output, the most simplistic view on a created artifact) is stripped. No longer are people writers or filmmakers or musicians or whatever: They are “content creators " - @tante
Thanks for gracefully pinpointing my dissonance towards the term "content creator".
Anyways we can talk about if computers are secretly people after you do something about the alarmingly prolific right wing extremist movement by religious fundamentalists and neo nazis to strip away the personhood of people like me (and anyone else)!
If all you seem to care about is the personhood of some proprietary cloud service, I have significant doubts about your priorities and reservations about continuing to interact with you.
With all the handwringing over what if ai was people, I think it's telling that when people use neural nets to fuzz hard computer science problems, the neural net can't teach the alleged novel method discovered. "Learning" is a vacuous concept here, because nothing new is known by anyone, human or computer! I've got a markov chain to sell you.
Vandaag, de 14e dag van de #A12 blokkade op rij. De fossiele subsidies zijn er nog steeds, dus morgen zijn we weer terug want het is keihard nodig. Iedere dag, 12:00 uur.
Meedoen? Morgen, zaterdag 23 september, wordt een grote. Zorg dat jij erbij bent: http://a12blokkade.nl
New Mastodon UI
Anyway, long story short: Mastodon continues to be garbage and should really really really really prioritise community safety features before anything else gets bolted on at this point
Usually when a company does something shitty, there are people suggesting an open-source alternative to switch to, and many of the responses are "that's all well and good, but it doesn't do what I need, that's why I use the proprietary thing".
I've noticed that with the suggestions of #Godot in response to #Unity's changes, this doesn't seem to happen, or at least not to the same degree, and people seem happy to try out the suggestion...
If I were Unity, I'd probably start getting worried right about now
Reminder that Fosstodon still has some stuff to be held accountable for
Harbouring a r000t alt despite knowing who he is / what he's done: https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/110815813243559950
(The admin actually DMed me after this to let me know that they had added a new rule about not harbouring known abusive actors, as if they'd put the rule in place so that they had a legitimate reason to kick the account, and then... the account is still there >.>)
Deleting a mutual aid post then suspending the account: https://mastodon.myocci.social/@bishop/110895457499714817
Weird account suspensions: https://floss.social/@downey/110675313983742403
Took a year to notice someone was breaking their 'only speak English' rule, then the admin got irate in replies and ended with "so. Leave. Then. FFS." https://archive.is/cyDQ5 (they have since amended the English language policy)
Problematic user still active:
https://archive.is/77Vtw anti-immigration views
https://archive.is/SWYEc calls Tusky's blocklist "control freakery" while implying allowing covidspiracy content is universally important
https://archive.is/R2Nq8 "opposing the enforcement of political beliefs"
Admin complaining about 'snowflakes' https://web.archive.org/web/20190705194422/https://fosstodon.org/@kev/102387494273401525
Admin saying pronouns make him cringe https://web.archive.org/web/20190705194339/https://fosstodon.org/@kev/102388307135942576
subtoot, meta
the reason people block disqordia is because they're racist. there are receipts. there is no conspiracy, stop making shit up.
https://twitter.com/gingerRudder did these marvellous shitposts, and I felt obliged to share them here.
EDIT: Telegram Stickers! https://t.me/addstickers/EepyBios
TIL: `git archive` which makes a tarball/zip of a git repo and a version number. Handy for making things which you can give to someone to deploy.
git archive --remote gitea@gitea.example.org:username/project.git 4.0 --format tar.gz -o webfrontewnd.tar.gz --prefix /srv/service/webfrontend/
time for another iteration of #GodotHelpDesk 🙋
are you working with #GodotEngine & you’re running into any problem and want some help? Reply to this thread with your question, we’ll try to help! 🙌 (this includes you, person coming from #Unity!)
are you experienced with working with Godot, try and help out in this thread with answering some questions. 🙏
for more in-depth questions, i’ll try and solve them live on stream later today over at @watch ! 📽️
boosts appreciated!! ✨ #GameDev
@gedeonm I just came by two pieces of his work in zagreb. They are lovely dots of color on the grey street.
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.