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> Python needs a version 4 to make a clean break The tragedy of Python 3 is that they made the community go through a billion dollar migration but didn't tackle any of the hard stu…

I am almost in that age range but the older I get the less interested I am in AAA titles. Indie games is where it's at.

True but there is no way it would be implemented in such a half-assed way at any other big company (including pre-Musk Twitter). Stuff like this makes it obvious that the people wh…

That grace period has long passed. If you are still there at this point you have made a choice. (Removed "complicit" because I don't like the way that sounded)

For language runtimes that don't normally have to deal with C baggage having to drag libc into your address space and going through libc code for syscalls makes this a less secure …

It's even better than that, for just $1/year they can get their bot accounts certified as a "real human".

You are holding it wrong, in Wayland every frame is perfect.

> IRC lost to Discord years ago. A couple of years ago you'd have told me the exact same thing but with s/Discord/Slack/ IRC has "lost" many times before and yet it's still around …

> Tell me what happened your freenode? It shat the bed, just like Twitter and Reddit did recently. The huge difference is that with IRC we were able to painlessly hop over to liber…

In that scenario Musk fills the "useful idiot" role. I am not really convinced though, I think it's just plain old incompetence and hubris. But then, it's 2023 so who knows.

They are literally throwing away revenue with every denied impression. An act of desperation obviously. My take: they broke something and need to shed load to keep the site running…

Yeah, it really is "destroy". Let's say that you are the proud owner of a goose that lays golden eggs. "fixing" would be switching it to a different feed that might make it more pr…

That's Musk-speak. Translation: "we broke shit again and need to shed load to keep the site up." I wish it would stays that way though so that I wouldn't land on the site by accide…

This gets parroted a lot but it's the wrong way to look at it. The Fediverse doesn't need to "win". It just needs to be good enough for those of us who use it.

I am giving it the same treatment that facebook and twitter get. No more contributions, Redirector entry to a libreddit instance in case I land on a link.

It's cool to not hate Comic Sans and it's brethren right now but as an old school hater I know that our time will come again. https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html

Sometimes you just have to destroy the site to meet your OKR goals. Who hasn't done it once or twice in their career.

I dearly miss the golden age of Usenet, I still keep an eye on some groups and use GMANE as well. The Fediverse is the closest thing we have now. It's not perfect but it's ours.

This uses the API and will stop working when that goes away, correct? This presents an interesting dilemma to those of us who are planning to leave if the planned changes go throug…

The existence of this HN thread and the situation we are discussing is a very clear sign of Reddit's incompetence. Regardless of what their motivation was they have fucked up the e…

For better or worse a lot of us have been passionate about the sub-communities we were involved in and we thought that our contributions were valued by the site.

The writing is on the wall, it will go as soon as the current mess quiets down (if it does). I don't think that I will even wait it out, the trust has been broken.

The painful lesson here is that nothing with the "you are the product" business model escapes enshittification. So I am not really interested in anything that's not community contr…

Even if it's sufficient why settle for that? We should take advantage of the best or most practical technologies available. Most automobiles don't run on legs and airplanes are not…

You'd think that the Digg-fiasco was burned into Reddit's corporate DNA but I guess even the most important lessons are forgotten with time.