There’s been some talk of possible money laundering I saw on some threads in other Lemmy communities recently. I suppose that’s possible. We may never know.

I haven’t once said anyone was wrong. What they said is immaterial to what I was originally talking about. I was pointing critique/concerns/feelings towards the present day tech industry as a whole.

I kinda expect the guys who are investing in something they hope to see a positive return on to try to calm everyone down. That’s why I don’t give a shit what either of them said; its predictable and they don’t like the internal disruption. It costs company time/money money to put out that fire. Their priorities dont align with the staff.

My comment was aimed at the tech industry as a whole.

Let’s call it what it is in tech right now; it’s a supply chain attack against the whole industry. We’re being told to grab a bowl of this shit stew of venture capital, solidified grifts, and xenophobia with a side of Elon styled political activism.

These fascists have bought, bullied, or got backing from fellow fascists to coopt the F/OSS community with sums of money not commonly used in this space. Elon bought a whole social media platform to craft it into a fascist/Nazi hellscape, strictly to sway public opinion.

These guys are taking it even further; the very tools and means of production are being setup as a deeper rot in tech.

The same fuckheads in DHH’s orbit are only a few contacts away from Elon himself. We developers of all stripes need to move our projects off of corpo services. Self host your repo, partner up with like minded devs, make software for the people who need it.

Hello, would you be interested in an exciting career as a writer at Wall Street Journal?

Nexus 5 with CopperheadOS . it was such a solid combo in terms of speed and lack of corporate bloatware. Oh, and the vibration mechanism needs to be brought back.

Kumquat

Because it’s fun to say

Considering how long this game has been out, that 100 hours gets stretched over a long time.

I demand a primitive cave drawing. Otherwise, it didn’t happen

Damn, this guy seems all about the healthy lifestyle.

Gaslighting. Pure And simple. Which, is and has always been, one of the most disgusting tactics an abuser deploys for self-serving reasons.

I fucking hate Medium almost as much as I hate the tech industry’s disregard to earning our consent through honesty.

I’m out of the loop on that one.

Oh no, I did some math and I realized I’ll forever be a big dummy for not participating in this once in a lifetime moment…

I’ll never know what it’s like to throw $20+ at a shitty streaming platform that’s hyping a videogame trailer that was made by a union busting game studio. I’ll need to choose between giving up $80 worth of groceries for the base game, or I’ll need to give up $100 worth of food for the full game since they paywalled additional content.

All in all, that’s over a hundred dollars in the hole.

Fuck.

That.

Hey, try out OnlyOffice if you need something that can handle word docs that have style/layout breakage. It’s also open source and most distros have it in their repo. It feels like a well polished piece of software.

People need to police their neighborhoods. Using AI as the touchpoint for routing emergencies sends a really clear message; the cops aren’t prioritizing the public safety aspect of their job. But then again, acab exists because they’ve always prioritized the power of the state and the financially connected.

Literally any and all of them. I dropped Google services in 2017.

Holy shit… I don’t want this to be the new normal.

I’m not.

And? What fucks are there left to give about a publically malicious/murderous government buying a publically malicious company which publically destroys their creatives ability to stay alive in this capitalist shitscape?

I want the heart and soul of those studios (the creatives) to create a tsunami of indie studios to revive the long lost connection between the gamers and the makers.

We have to support indie devs if we want gaming to be better for all involved.

Thanks for this. I should have known it’d be somewhere like that.