anthony @[email protected]io

Since it's night again, and I'm getting ranty as usual: someone needs to write a paper entitled "Discord Considered Harmful".

It's one of the most annoying antipatterns I've seen in both software projects and communities like #hackerspace - centering community around a group chat (Discord, Slack, Telegram groups, and yes - IRC), in lieu of a proper forum *and maintaining documentation*.

Such software is not suitable for long-term knowledge maintenance, and excludes people who can't track discussions live.

@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. "

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.

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.

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.

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

Nescafè - 1955 - “COFFEE HUNGER” https://advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/188297008203/nescafè-1955-coffee-hunger

The most dangerous intersections of #pdx

The reception desk at Atari headquarters, Sunnyvale, California (1976) https://superseventies.tumblr.com/post/187898943959/historycultureeducation-the-reception-desk-at