Also known as catching up to Discord, until they reach feature parity and some people actually use it, and then BAM: service discontinued.

No, but as someone who just dumped Nova after realising I’ve been given some company free reign of my device (because I’ve had it so long) I feel Neo is closer to being a more comparable feature set… though still not as much as Nova

Everybody’s dead, Dave…

*letters start moving around on paper*

It’s been foretold by ancient prophecies. Burn it all down. The factories, the banks, everything. Return to monke. Reject technological poltergeists.

In short, it’s a backend/frontend combination that can be shaped using standards compliant web technology, i.e HTMX and JSON, to make it easier in prototyping federated platforms.

Prototyping frontend and backends in tandem is an undertaking to say the least. By creating a framework specifically designed to bridge that gap it will allow developers to more effectively develop, test and publish social media platforms.

…also, they coupled the decoupling… because of course they did. But yeah, if this makes it easier to create federated platforms, I’m all for it.

Welcome to the world of venture capitalism. It’s all “come on, guy! This is the next thing! Trust me bro!”

But by that token energy is the possibility collusion and cooperation within the industry, to front these technologies in board rooms and to shareholders. The problem is the question of the how and why. We can compare the current AI boom with the crypto boom.

The crypto boom just made NVIDIA more exploitative and fronted scams, grifts and rugpulls in the form of smart contracts and NFTs.

Everyone pretty much abandoned it, like in the gaming industry, because being associated with crypto was tantamount to being declared a plague bearer.

Then we see NPUs being integrated into SoC’s by Intel, AMD, Apple, etc, platforms like Hugging face, frameworks like pytorch.

Sure, there’s a crapton of illegal data harvesting and new swathes of content farms, as well as the premonition of mass layoffs in the future. But all these things are strictly speaking speculation.

I personally think that some of the moves being made to distribute AI processing is good, because it is far better to having access to AI processing from within the SoC of your device, rather than being locked to the GPU market. But the question still remains.

Will localised SLM’s, LLM’s and stable diffusion really take off? Or will these NPU’s be gangrenous limbs come the next decade? Will we all have to bend over to our AGI overlords? Only time will tell.

Place your bets.

Automattic are the people behind wordpress.com, JetPack and WooCommerce. The amount of people who use their software is staggering. I’ve set up a fair deal of WordPress instances myself.

WordPress also recently became ActivityPub compatible, in a single-user mode - I think. This actually makes me consider it for my own blog, but I ick at PHP - probably undeservedly, as modern optimizations make it lightweight and quick (cache all the things).

What I’m saying is that they might make having on-site chat and self-hosting a possibility. If they provided a sort of freemium WooCommerce thing, where some add-ons important to certain operations cost money, but that the chat integration is a compliment to Gutenberg and the theming system? Bruh. I’m there.

That being said, freemium sucks, but it’s better than not being able to self-host, as bills have to be paid - for both Automattic, other companies and freelance developers ^^;

The venture capital samba:

1. Make free service (it’ll pan out, trust me bro).
2. 1 years passes… trust me bro
3. 3 years passes… look at all this user data we can sell - trust me bro
4. 2 more year passes… look, we’re going to have to fire some people…
5. 1 year passes… we’re not really making any money, so trust me bro - we’re only going to increase subscription fees a little…
6. 1 year later, increase subscription fees…
7. 1 year later, increase subscription fees…
8. 1 year later, increase subscription fees…
9. Listen, Mr Creditor - I have liquidity. So much liquidity. I’m rife with the stuff… increase subscription fees

And so forth, and so on…

In the worst timeline drivers and firmware get distributed through snaps with a mandatory account login.

Knock on wood…

Hey, look who’s no longer pushing the envelope… come on irrelevancy…

I think you missed the point.

What I’m saying is there’s a crapton of middlemen and the only reason they have a job is because some people are afraid to make an attempt, do some experimenting and generally going exploring. There’s also tech anxiety, tech fatigue, etc.

But largely, if people weren’t so scared of learning new things, or conflating certain computer processes (i.e CLI) with something that’s overly complex (spoiler alert: it isn’t), and also not having learned basic computer sense (like copying data and working on the data), then a lot of people would lose their jobs.

Also, who tf thinks Arch Linux is hard?! nano -w /root/Install.txt, a couple cups of coffee and you’re off to the races. Yes, that was another aside.

…this post is the oldest link in a chain of conclusions that we could find, which lead to a turning point in history, which helped to bring about a a movement similar to the early skinhead movement of the 1900s - before ethno-nationalists had co-opted it - the difference being that skinheads wanted to solidify the identity of fhe common man, the common labourer, where as a nuller is someone who rejects identity entirely.

You can’t be fully nullified, unless you’ve legally changed your name to null (all lowercase) and only partake in arts and entertainment dedicated to the nullification of naturalistic urges, to bring about enlightenment via the understanding of art and rejecting “the feels”. Nullers often wear bright clothing, signaling a blank slate of mind, with blank expressions, speaking in monotone voices. Even the way they speak is entirely clean, logical and direct. Therefore, to truly be a nuller, one must shed any form of identity. One must become null.

It’s said that people have never been forcefully nullified, but there’s speculation that certain collective communities partake in practices meant to nullify the individual more effectively. The question is wether or not it is indoctrination or grooming, as the collectives swear that these processes are completely voluntary. Certain psychiatrists however claim that FOMO and a want to become nullified negates any warning or critical thinking in cases when people suffer from weakened impulse control, feel the need to satisfy others or other conditions, that the collectives may be taking advantage of vulnerable people.

Whatever the case, nullers are found everywhere today. Non-descript people, who don’t adhere to race, nationality, religion or anything else. The famous author Dr Rinsegüld said: “a nuller is a puritanical humanist. They thrive on the idea of subverting, and even erasing the animal within. They’re tiresome sticks in the mud, who won’t dance around fires or joke at the expense of others. Whatever type of human that is, it doesn’t actually seem alive.”

They say many who become nullified change forever. Some say that the method of personality control - both from the individual and the collective - is so powerful, that the difference between a nuller and a computer can be negligible. The various collectives and groups have their share of members, as well as their places in various lists held by governments around the world. They are spreading rapidly and some people are concerned they may turn into a full blown political movement.

We here at TNN wish to tread carefully, but from what we’ve seen we are personally frightened and leave it up to parents out there to make the best decision for your children. If your children start dressing in all white, speaking in monotone voixe and talking with clear logical intent, unburdened by want or need, they maybe in the process of being indoctrinated. Be advised.

I’ve been Chet Fizbee and this has been Terra News Network, midnight, February 1st 2086.

So contrary to our dispositions, most people are afraid of CLI, REPL and other acronyms that exclude the possibility of mousey clickie and box go swoosh.

This has lead to an industry of middle men, because people would rather pay someone to run a command line process than deal with the issue them selves.

CLI should be taught at schools, like the new form of handwriting… also: handwriting.

…and those damned machiatos.

Delusional boomer vomits his priveliged opinion all over the stage. News at '11.

It’s taking away right of ownership. A direct license of ownership, a copy or copies, defines the parameters of which the user is allowed to operate.

Running locally with access to installer that can be archived allows for more individualistic control. Having access to a Steam library is one thing, but having a local Steam backup is also possible.

However, if a game relies on online functionality it could be frustratingly because it was a “live service”, “online only” or subscription based. In either of these cases, you’re being deprived of value, of control. It vests all the power in the distributor over the contents value at any given point and time, with control over scarcity and accessibility.

As such live services and subscriptions should be disparaged, because it only makes you subservient. Laws should be put in place to guarantee access to games executable and for them to be stored and run locally.

I say this because I think people at large are getting swindled right now and it’s so saddening.

I.e being more reliant upon Google Play services so you’ll have to accept their predatory EULA.

Now if they released a new driver update system independent of Google Play, that would be better.

If you subscribe to play video games, you’re an idiot. Musicians want to exit streaming now, while game publishers sees prime real estate for exploitation.

I’ve had nothing but good experiences with Flatpaks/Flathub and bad experiences with AUR/nixpkgs.

Fedora also has it’s own Flatpak repo now with it’s own runtime.

What? There are plenty of communist Lemmy subs you can ask in. I just think you haven’t tried hard enough.

To answer your question tho, no - because there would be no need. Communism does want mandatory participation, but if checked and balanced correctly everyone would work within their limits and not be relegated to a lower class of living - because that’s sort of the point of communism. You’d work within your means until there was time to retire without being limited in access to services and goods. Theoretically, under a functioning communist system, there would be no manufactured scarcity.

Tbh I believe both communism and our current form of capitalism centralises power and ownership way too much. Social-capitalism, or even libertarian socialism, might be the ticket. It would undo at least 200 years of psy-ops and gamed laws designed to favour the rich and vesting power in them, which is the issue of centralised power that we’re facing today - in what some call “late-stage capitalism” - or what I call the breaking point of society under a predatory, exploitative and imperialistic form of capitalism that seems more like the privatisation of the aristocracy than the supposed liberalisation of economy. Transparency, accountability and consequences for people in power and wealth is what’s sorely needed.

PS: New public management is a con-job disguised as decentralisation meant to encumber governments under the guise of checking and balancing them, being effectively a psy-op in of itself to make people hate public services and taxes. As per usual, goddamn liberals - and I include socially conservative liberals in that polifical grouping. Dems and pubs are the same, want the same institutions and promote US imperialism - not fiscal independence, no matter what justification and mental gymnastics they put in the form of spreadsheets.

PPS: Also, additionally, commodification of the housing market was a mistake. It will always be stupid and harmful towards society.