Not enough dog investors pushing dog-tech hype though. It is a shame though, have you ever read about what their noses can do??

I could sure use some more government right now cracking down on industries with oligopolies that feel no threat of consequence for completely undermining the quality of their products while raising prices.

Who says way too much art is being made? There are a dizzying array of video games outs there but there is still clearly plenty room for more.

The problem is the exploitive way we set up these industries. Right now we have most of the big game companies seemingly poised to try to fire all the bulk of their artists/employees in favor of ai and it goes going to fail spectacularly but the damage to human workers in the industry will be long lasting all the same.

It is like the concept of hospitals being privatized businesses. It is insane when you step back and actually think about it. Do I want the doctors, nurses, janitors and staff to get paid for doing hard work at the hospital?

Absolutely! Why does an abstract entity, the financial instrument of a private hospital, need to profit off of my care?

Hey I see a bright future for companies selling the service of turnkey lemmy, mastodon, pixelfed and peertube instances so maybe Facebook can get into that and be a nice little small reasonable company helping instance admins out instead of a monstrously poorly run corporation that tears apart the social fabric of society for profit.

:)

edit wait did this article seriously just call the guy running the open source project mastodon, “CEO”…?

There are plenty of fantastic alternatives, we really don’t need the DnD universe. I mean, as highly acclaimed as BG3 is, people in general seem to feel that the dev’s previous game Divinity Original Sin 2 has better combat mechanics… so idk I just think it’s time to move past wizards of the coast and embrace better systems.

Hahahahaha nope, he literally was just a leech on society that got into high enough positions that his vapid bullshitting didn’t just fool his bosses into paying him a good wage but directly contributed to the deaths of countless innocent humans… for absolutely zero good reason from any perspective other than kissingers. Seriously this isn’t serial killer level stuff, this is war criminal mass murderer levels off violence and he never ever faced any real consequences for it.

I am not religious but Kissinger makes me want to believe in hell just so I can fall asleep with the comforting thought that Kissinger is burning in hell forever. He deserves nothing less, rest in piss, Kissinger.

The question is WHAT is the child doing on that screen? Are they blobbing out or are they playing a video game that stimulates and challenges their brain (a strategy game, even action games) or socializing with friends in a video game learning how to conflict manage and operate as an effective social group? (minecraft is full of this).

I mean we ruined the world for kids, I can’t blame them for looking to virtual worlds to transcend the hellhole we left them even a little bit. Sure, the kids should just “go outside” and play in the… development full of huge pickups that aren’t even designed to able to see children (they kind of look custom designed to run over children actually), with no public spaces to explore and play in, no sidewalks leading from the development to anywhere else and endless strip malls, parking lots and cars as far as the eye can see…

Their brain is going to be healthier engaging with good video games than that landscape.

Personally I think it is kind of sociopathic when we build large population centers and plant zero trees or worse cut down old trees in an older town/city and never bother to plant new trees so that tree cover is maintained.

It has become a joke on the fediverse that it is going to die any moment, tech journalists have written article after article over the years saying mastodon failed, it is going to die, it will never virally scale like venture capital funded corporate social networks did…

What they never understand is the localized perspective of someone in one of the small communities on the fediverse. Who individually actually cares if 1000, 5000, 100,000, 2 million…… or whatever abstractly large number of users are active on the fediverse? If you look up and see a handful, perhaps 60 active users who all genuinely engage with you and are interesting to talk to then the presumed fantastical future of a freer, fediverse of connected social networks existing outside of the rat race of corporate, consumption focused social media is already here…

Yes a small minority of people are currently experiencing that future, but it becomes undeniable that future can exist for everybody, it is a matter of simply more people waking to it when they please. The fediverse can exist as just a pebble on the shore of a corporate internet that dwarfs it, yet the potential always persists that the fediverse could destabilize and overthrow it all by virtue of being enough, just as a mere pebble, to bring meaning to the very next person who stumbles upon it.

Here is a discussion by @feditips@mstdn.social on reddit alternatives on the fediverse. https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110476830253102884

  2011/03/15   Trader Joe's
      Expenses:Groceries   $100.00
      Assets:Checking
  2011/03/15   Whole Food Market
      Expenses:Groceries   $75.00
      Assets:Checking

Like I said elsewhere in this thread, I like to use ledger inside codeblocks in org mode (org-babel) in a simplistic application of literate programming. The extremely human readable nature of ledger's data structure is a natural fit for the similarly human readable org format, and in export of an org file into a website, html document, pdf or other media (via pandoc) ledger codeblocks remain human readable, even to someone who has never heard of ledger-cli. This means that an org file tracking a complex project with associated costs at each step (though ledger can track anything with units, including time) can be easily converted into a professional quality document that can be used in any number of contexts.

The professional outward facing document used for conveying information about a project to others can thus originate out of the same org file that is being used to work on the project itself. In other words, your notes are only a step or two away from a presentation in any number of formats.

When you want only the finances from the project file, just tangle it out and treat it like a normal ledger file.

Another example could be creating a meal plan for a long trip with many meals that you have to bring all the ingredients with you.

Ledger has so many more potential use cases than just as a way to track money, and ledger is so much more useful in org babel than by itself, it is an ideal compliment to org mode for managing large projects with lots of fiddly bits of defined types and units (which honestly can be time too, I kind of prefer it to org mode's clock system).

Further, 99% of digital audio workstation customers start off as broke kids with no money to feasibly drop on a music production software that costs $150 or more. So a huge amount of future paying DAW customers are piracy converts anyways. Making a DAW that can't be pirated is a sure way to shove your future customer base onto somebody else's DAW that can.