anthony @[email protected]

@enkiv2 @byron @jauntywunderkind420

I really hope this is true! I've always *felt* it to be true, even way back in the 80s era of cassette tapes and modem BBSes. It always felt like we were the pioneers of a new underground and there was this vast potential for radical decentralisation.

but, lol, I spent all my time online downloading games, and most of my programming time making games, and not even great games. And now I don't even do much programming and what little I do seems to be harder

I like homeworld but i kinda wanna get stellaris just so i can make a space monarchy

This articulates my frustration with the cognitive dissonance of people who know that Big Tech is bad but continue to embolden it.

https://om.co/2020/09/10/in-convenience-we-trust/

"Perhaps, deep down, we are aware of our hypocrisy, which informs our expressions of outrage. The tweets, the hot takes, podcasts, and talking heads on — everything is theater. We are simply distracting ourselves from ourselves, avoiding the feeling that we are ultimately powerless when it comes to meaningfully influencing the outcome. "

Expiring vs. Permanent Skills https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/expiring-vs-permanent-skills/

A single typo in an Open Street Map entry caused an ordinary 2-story building in Melbourne to become an eerie 212-story pillar.

The Melbourne Monolith is now the most famous landmark in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. A successful completion of the Monolith Challenge is to land neatly on its roof.

[images: fulltimespy]
https://aiweirdness.com/post/627344542828544000/planet-earth-from-above

It's not so much the uncertainty that's so stressful, but all the uncertainty about the uncertainty.

We need to go back to BBS boards

I really miss just hanging out at a coffee shop or bar on my laptop on a lazy Sunday.

It's one of the most magical experiences in open source software to start off thinking that you have requirements that no other software fulfills, and end up with a design so close to something that already exists that it forces you to reevaluate your model of the problem domain.

So, email signature policy combined with #JIRA allowing replies by email means that now this JIRA thread is full of one-line responses each padded with 10-line signatures.

I don't know whose fault this is, but someone has to pay for this.

I’ve just launched my updated list of the top 100 board games of all time - the list aggregates games from 39 reviewers and is fully filterable by number of players, game length, reviewer, etc.! #boardgames

https://boardgamesquad.com/top-games-meta-list/

Wow, this is pretty neat
A procedural 3D spaceship generator:
https://github.com/a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator

Listening to Kind of Blue, sad to hear Jimmy Cobb has passed. Another great one is gone.

I finished up some work. That was not satisfying.

— Rovod Adilelbel, Mason

Please enjoy the sunset from Phu Quoc Island Vietnam. With all the pain and suffering perhaps it’s nice to take just a moment to enjoy a sunset. I took this last year on the island. Wherever you are. Whatever Timezone you call home. Take a moment and see the world. #photography #vietnam

I ate a meal. I'm content.

— Eral Ralthol, Woodworker