I'm so picky about my VTT software, I wrote my own VTT. Used it in the last campaign I GM'd and everything.

It's pretty minimal. No mobile/tablet/touch support. Also no audio support whatsoever. I used that VTT in conjunction with Discord.

I even made a video demo of it. I think that demo is a little bit out-of-date, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw

I joined when it was for students only and quit sometime around 2007. There was a "quit Facebook day" once a year that was for raising awareness about how evil Facebook was even back then. I quit on one of those days. At least that's part of the reason why I quit. Also the only Facebook friend I really interacted with abruptly got extremely fundamentalist Christian and started posting stuff that I couldn't stand to be assaulted with.

Jean-Luc Picard is entirely too classy to snore.

Yeah, it's like prosecuting women for miscarriages. Oh wait.

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Last time I made a post on Reddit, the automod hid and locked my post for advocating something my post wasn't advocating and then responded to my post saying my post was a duplicate, which it was not. The automod also DM'd me to tell me I would be banned shortly if I didn't take action quickly. I messaged a(n ostensibly) flesh-and-blood mod who agreed with me and unlocked/unhid my post, but by that point, the post was old enough that it wouldn't get any significant amount of responses.

I'm not necessarily entirely against automods, but if we do end up with automods, they definitely need to be more judicious than the ones on Reddit. (And they are, from what I've seen. I don't think I've ever seen that an automod on Lemmy has done something and thought "that automod is out of line."

Maybe just as a rule of thumb, I'm thinking maybe automods shouldn't delete/lock/hide posts. The whole automatically responding saying "your post is a duplicate" is pretty infantalizing as well. But I could certainly see use in an automod that flags any posts for review that mention such-and-such keywords.

And maybe I could even be convinced that automods actually deleting/locking/hiding posts (or even banning users) could be a good thing in some cases as long as they err on the side of false negatives rather than false positives.

Anyway, I guess all that to say that I'm broadly sympathetic to having concerns about automods. Though "it's lazy" isn't really my objection to them. And I don't think talking smack about mods is exactly good PR for your opinion. (The communities I mod are all pretty chill and modding really doesn't take up any significant amount of my time, but I'm all for making mods' jobs easier.)

I think you're misunderstanding octopus_ink's comment. Are you thinking octopus_ink is a 4chan refugee? I think they're just a Lemmy user hoping we don't get flooded with 4chan assholes.

Both Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez.

I mean, as long as they don't butcher them like they did to, for instance, Ready Player One.

My place of work used to have a fairly large "data entry" department until they... did... something to make that job kindof unnecessary. They laid off pretty much all of that department. And I'm told the boss who was over them before they were laid off returned to his office to find a sizeable human shit directly atop his desk.

Another story. My own boss (actually my boss's boss) was a massive asshole. Committed the team to a completely unreasonable deadline in conversations with the C-level folks above him, and then threw temper tantrums when the deadline wasn't hit. He turned the daily standup into a 7:30am (in-person) daily demo to prove we were making progress and weren't... I dunno... slacking off or whatever. Many a temper tantrum was had in those demos as well.

I quit and made no secret of why. After I left, I heard through the grapevine that in a meeting with the CTO, the asshole boss accused the CTO of being incompetent and said that he was gunning for the CTO's job. The CTO, sensibly, told the asshole boss to do not pass go, do not collect $200, security will escort you out of the building and we'll ship you your personal effects from your office.

And then I quit the place I'd gone to and went back to where the asshole boss had been and I'm still working there. Definitely would not have considered coming back if he was still there.

Ok. One more story about the other place. They switched from one chat provider to another. But they never actually shut down the one they were migrating away from. Several folks never left the old chat. When it was discovered that on the old chat service, said folks were trading really really inappropriate holocaust jokes, the whole office got a talking to in very vague terms. It wasn't until like a month later that someone explained to me what had precipitated that.

4chan and Jira too. It does seem like a lot of things have had outages lately.

I really can't overstate how much respect I have for Kuhn and the SFC. If RMS and the FSF are the Free Software movement's past, Kuhn and the SFC are it's future, and I can't imagine anyone better to carry that particular torch.

Why wasn't I told that was an option sooner?

Long COVID and fascism.

Whoever created YAML apparently thought Excel was a masterpiece of software design.

Damn. You're tempting me to make a novelty language.

No, see, you rename the new hire "Cat Conner" and give the mice hunting job to him to free up Conner for more important work he'll do in his new job now that he's promoted.

Someone woke up this morning and chose violence.

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