This bubble sure

But our long-term prospect as a civilization…? Much less certain. If systems don’t get replaced by something that works we will end up in an overconsumed climate ravaged neofeudualist cyberpunk style hellscape

Everyone is a cog in the dang machine. That’s why people criticize capitalism as a system so much

And it’s going to be our downfall

The original owners retained full creative control though. It would have been fine if Krafton didn’t try to fuck them over

I won’t know if the therapist is doing a good job considering it’s a real threat for old Steve…

Everything is political

And FOSS is explicitly political. It’s open-source free software. What do you think it is? It doesn’t exist in a vacuum

I’m sorry, but you’re being so obnoxious here. If you’re that upset why not just block a person and move on?

It’s not even targeted at me and I’m getting annoyed

At least twitch is a bit different than YouTube in that the culture there it’s normal for people to pay and donate to streamers. Even though the owners still suck massively, of course

If you’re concerned about the site shutting down, seed some of their torrents from their site so that it’s easier to re-launch it if it happens

That’s not my experience in my local areas. I guess we just don’t tend to have strong winds, and you do see a ton of people with umbrellas doing just fine

10% of all crashes is definitively a brag. Crashes due to faulty hardware/bitflips is rare rare, generally I would expect that percentage to be less than 1% in any complex app

Transgender, AuDHD, (secret third thing. Or maybe just bitcoin)

…I’m sure my 18 year old ass would process this information in a calm and reasonable manner, lol

The good place is a great introduction to philosophy

While I agree that AR glasses will become widespread, there’s still time to advocate for and implement privacy focused regulations. Especially early on as people are upset about the technology

While not perfect solutions, enforcing stuff such as recording LEDs and such are steps in the right direction

In other words, it’s why authoritarianism always fail

And capitalism is very specifically not a democratic economic system. There’s a hierarchy. The owners are the ones in power

You know what sucks?

In that AR glasses, in theory, are such an interesting technology with lots of potential, and certainly a piece of tech I would love to have and work with and on. Not to secretly record people, but to, well… augment my field of view with whatever digital tools or displays I would like. It would be so useful

It’s honestly kinda saddening to me that it most likely will get completely ruined by our current toxic relationship to technology. A step towards our ever increasing cyberdystopia, and not towards enchanting our limited lives

Obviously either way I don’t trust Meta, but an open-hardware device running a FOSS AR system? It would be nice…

I still hold out hope that this somehow could be resolved, and I would love to contribute to open software for these devices. Maybe one day soon-ish I will. My expertise should be well applicable, after all

It doesn’t seem appealing tbh

…would it??

That article was an insane read. I couldn’t have written more unserious people if I tried

In that case reducing the amount of freedom the kid has is… counter-productive

It will just give more control to their parents

I feel like that’s something a lot of people are just not thinking about for some reason

There’s a simple explanation for the weird videos, and why the government didn’t want to talk about them. And it’s just it being experimental military technology