Anyone for accurately named board games?
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The enshittification cycle Doctorow discusses is specific to online companies and services, but does have a certain general form that is applicable more broadly. But it isnt just "service degrades over time due to the tendency of profit to diminish."
It's about platforms, aka markets, aka middlemen. An online service doesn't just exist to serve customers. Initially, the platform holder caters heavily to customers and to suppliers. Netflix offers a seemingly unlimited buffet of video for a low monthly fee, but also they seek out content creators to license their works and hire them to make new exclusive works. Epic Games store, same deal: free games for customers, huge exclusivity deals for publishers.
Enshittification happens when you get big enough to play the sides off each other. Publishers are captive to your platform for access to the audience, the audience is captive for access to your exclusive content. Older companies sold directly to stores or consumers, making it easier to just put the squeeze workers or customers.
By controlling the platform/market, you can extract wealth from every aspect of it: degrade customer experience, lock in and underpay producers and employees, and if you get big enough you can even start bossing around the government. Look at how much Amazon makes by forcing shippers and postal providers to cater to them.
That dynamic is somewhat novel. Markets are traditionally regulated, controlled, (and profited by) the government. David Graeber talks about the origins of markets under monarchs in order to centralize sales of goods to supply armies more readily. The modern capitalist understands that if you own the market, then you've won.
This is just a high effort version of "...Then may God strike me dead!" but targeting a spiritual minority instead if the hegemonic national religion. Shouldn't the amount of un-smited politicians indicate that there is no God?
OK but, hear me out: fuck the Democrats. When are we getting behind a new party; a real, actual, authentic, left-wing, coalition party? Where is the national movement to unify and overthrow the duopoly?
From Dusk Til Dawn, Salma Hayek.
Just imagining the perverted little Tarantino and Cheech puppets is giving me titters.
"We got velvet pussy, cloth pussy, fuzzy pussy, felt pussy..."
Remake Team America with real Matt Damon.
Kermit crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.
I am Bert's complete lack of surprise
I'm not sure if I should bring up the homeless vets with PTSD who'd love someone to talk to, for hire or not, qualified or not; or if I should make light of asking my own friend for hire about coping with the depression and anxiety of living in a world that the ultrawealthy have immiserated for their wealth.
The rich are worried about people hating them for being rich while everyone else is burning out from the stress of coping with living in situations that are literally depressing.
Maybe people don't need to feel better about it? Maybe the rich should be afraid and feel like shit? Maybe the poor should be angry and upset? Maybe people on the internet use humor to cope with difficult situations and being a wokescold finger-wagger about it is counterproductive?
I feel like y'all aren't ready to hear that Earthbound is 31 years old. The "new" thing you love, inspired by the retro thing you loved, is now retro and inspiring the next generation.
https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Fercris-Hart-1/Boss-Made-a-Dollar-I-Made-a-Dime
Boss made a dollar, I made a dime
That was a rhyme from a simpler time
Now boss makes a thousand and gives me a cent
When I′m an employee who can't pay my rent
When the boss makes a million and us workers make jack
That′s when I protest and take my life back
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime
That's why I shit on company time
Boss makes a billion, my prospects are grim
Next company party, I'm gonna eat him
When the boss makes a million and us workers make jack
That′s when we riot and take our lives back
We make a penny, the boss makes fifteen
Guess who′s in line for the guillotine
Boss made a dollar, we made a dime
Til' we went to his mansion and burned him alive
THANK YOU! Goddamn, nothing makes me feel more like an old man screaming at clouds than this stupid "Nobody:" meme.
Woke up a 1, then remembered i live in a genocidal regime collapsing at the end of history, and I still have to show up to work for several hours of meetings. So I'm at about a 7 now, as my day truly starts.
I feel like its a mixed bag. Certainly there's an infinitely higher chance of someone randomly noticing a backdoor in OSS than in closed source simply because any OSS project in use has someone looking at it. Many closed systems have dusty corners that haven't had programmer eyes on them in years.
But also, modern dev requires either more vigilance than most of us have to give or more trust than most of us would ideally be comfortable offering. Forget leftpad, I've had npm dependencies run a full python script to compile and build sub dependencies. Every time I run npm update, it could be mining a couple of bitcoins for all I know in addition to installing gigs and gigs of other people's code.
The whole industry had deep talks after leftpadgate about what needed to be done and ultimately, not much changed. NPM changed policy so that people couldn't just dissapear their packages. But we didn't come up with some better way.
Pretty much every language has its own NPM now, the problem is more widespread than ever. With Rust, it can run arbitrary macros and rust code in the build files, it can embed C dependencies. I'm not saying it would be super easy to hide something in cargo, i haven't tried so I don't know, but i do think the build system is incredibly vulnerable to supply chain attacks. A dependency chain could easily pull in some backdoor native code, embed it deep into your app, and you might never realize it's even there.
A timeless classic on any system! Even though the remake is.... 20 years(!!!) old, its still an excellent way to play the game. They updated the graphic and interface, but kept all the core gameplay the same. There's never been a pirate rpg\sim as comprehensive as Pirates!
man with gyrojet pistol: I am become carrier, deployer of aircraft.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
That blows but I'm not surprised. Reddit has gone full lockdown on anything opposing glorious leader, his politics, and the money Spez presume will soon flow to him as just reward. The LA sub was already super conservative anyway. Even the fucking NOLA sub is shockingly conservative for this town. The Money doesn't like to be reminded of inconvenient truths.
Well, I've labelled you as an LA local. If we keep posting and building up a fediverse LA community, I know we'll eventually get to critical mass here!
Reminds me a bit of the old default Gtk look. Or maybe early Java Swing... The flat look, primary colors, and some other elements to me; it's very nostalgic. Not sure of any themes that fit it though, sorry, haha
You seem so nice online, I never would have predicted this degree of violent foreplay. And making them lose to you at Catan first, that's some kinky shit!