samwise

Absolutely spot on. This election isn’t about who we want. It’s about the ability to even be able to wage a fight for a better world after the election. Trump will be 100 times worse than anything people imagine. We will never have a free and legitimate election in this country again if he’s elected. It’s the end of the road. Harris isn’t great and she’s milquetoast af on most issues. But a Harris admin wont be the kind of hindrance on attempting to make things better that a Trump admin would be.

I say socialist because of forced redistribution of any code changes, nobody is allowed to keep any new development for themself to use.

You have a flawed understanding of socialism

I think we should listen to him on matters related to software. For other topics, I listen to other people.

Completely disagree. No matter what he might have expertise in, he has entirely invalidated his voice by taking the stances he’s taken and the acts he committed. Even listening to his hard technical knowledge gives him validity.

This all comes back to the same abhorrent shit that has permeated the tech industry, and FLOSS particularly, that we should never consider soft skills or anything else about a person, that they can be the most vile, toxic person possible, but as long as they’re a good developer, It’s Fine. But it’s not fine. It’s never been fine, and we should not normalize continuing to have people like this in our midst just because they’re a good dev, or that they once made some good technical points.

What remains as methods of protest after this?

Deleting your account and leaving the site. Reddit clearly doesn’t care about the users, and hasn’t for a very, very long time. Remaining there justifies their actions.

Yeah, this is one of those things that gets a lot of people seriously up in arms.

Classic cars, for example, are defined as ones that are 20 years or older, or if they have some particular significance. I think that can generally work for games as well. Some might bristle at the idea of the OG xbox and PS2 as retro, but they’re both pushing 25 years old at this point. Which is why I think it’s generally an ever-moving line. But it’s also one that can often be subjective. My first game console was an NES. But someone else’s first console might have been a Gamecube. So our frames of reference are going to be different.

I think it’s also challenging when a lot of older games are still playable on modern hardware. There’s a ton of games that were released for the OG xbox that are still playable on the xbox one (not sure about series x|s): Morrowind, Halo, KotoR. Since we often think about retro games being ones that are out of production and difficult to play in modern times (like the difficulties with connecting an NES or an Atari 2600 to a non-CRT TV). But backward compatibility has shifted that window for a lot of titles. Which is why I think a lot of people balk at the idea that an xbox or PS2 might be considered retro, even given their age.

So I think it’s really a matter of relative time + a healthy dose of subjectivity

Its the absolute lack of algorithm

“It’s the absolute lack of a way to game the system with engagement bait and reward rage-posting”

Fixed that for you.

It’s not a matter for average users, it’s a matter for the people who farm engagement and post 300 times per day. Having a space that isn’t dominated by accounts like that is a good thing. It’s why Threads is such a miserable place. The algo there is aggressive and heavily rewards this kind of shit. Accounts like that provide no value and create toxic spaces full of rage and misinformation just to keep the waters churning and keep a constant flow of vapid “content”. It’s gross, and we are so much the better if we lose a ton of them.

Might be neat. Might check it out. But devs really need to stop asking me to install things by curling a script and piping it into my shell. There are better ways to do this. Doing this leaves a massive possible attack surface.