I was going to try it out, and then the website asked me for my email :(
I don't want a feed aggregator that has its own account, I want one that just lets me use my existing network/feed-specific accounts.
I imagine (/hope) that the email-for-signup is only while the software is in alpha/beta/unreleased, to help them get user feedback.
Good luck and don't forget to bring heat pipes!
(More realistically, given you posted this 11 hours ago; hope y'all weren't stranded!)
Great article, thanks for sharing! I now have a bunch of albums to go listen to.
I got really into chip defense. The concept is a really fun twist on classic enemy hp mechanisms in tower defense. However I think the game's controls design "scales" poorly with its difficulty curve. Building a new "tower" takes too many taps for the game to continue running in the background. Same for upgrading towers. The worst is when starting a level, you kind of need to rush placing towers to not mechanically end up in a fail state.
If the game let you build and upgrade when paused (or at least queue up those actions to be executed when un-paused) I would have continued playing it.
I don't think I was making it out to be easy at all. I expect it to be nigh-impossible. I also expect it to be worth it.
But the question was what opinion on the industry do I have that I don't feel comfortable voicing at work, not what do I think is the most feasible way forwards.
... That's why I ended my comment with "we should be teaching others and helping them make their own".
We should stop making software for others.
A prerequisite for reasonable tech use is understanding the amount of energy and materials you need to "burn through" for any given piece of tech to 1) exist and 2) do its useful work. Call me naive, but I really doubt that we'd be accelerating climate change this much if every person contributing to the "X thousand hours of videos uploaded to YouTube each day" was required to write their own video hosting software first. I doubt our social networks would become so captured by propagandists of every user of one had to write their own. (Obviously as an absolute this is a bit too restrictive - it's more the tone and direction that I'm trying to convey).
Instead, we should be teaching and helping others reach our knowledge /skill level.
Maybe the execs would stop pushing shitty UI dark patterns if they had to code the service themselves (and then use it afterwards!).
One^can^^dream...
Don't joke too flippantly about it to their face, though.
I did once and the dude sat me down and very patiently explained to me all of the ways people still suffered because of that period, like how his friend had to suddenly pay his cancer treatment out of pocket for months and months and would have ended up homeless if not for being able to crash on this guy's couch.
Effectivement. Le plus récent, c'est dans mon autre poste.
Pour ma part, c'est la première fois que j'apprends l'info. J'ai partagé l'article ici après ne l'avoir vu qu'uniquement retransmis par un bot qui miroir reddit sur le fedivers.
Vu que ça risque de ne pas être que cette espèce d'oiseaux qui sera en voie de disparition bientôt, peut-être qu'on pourra répéter la technique ?
Good stuff near the end:
I will never forgive these people for what they’ve done to the computer, and the more I learn about both their intentions and actions the more certain I am that they are unrepentant and that their greed will never be sated.
These men lace our digital lives with asbestos and get told they’re geniuses for doing so because money comes out.
I care about you. The user. The person reading this. The person that may have felt stupid, or deficient, or ignorant, all because the services you pay for or that monetize you have been intentionally rigged against you.
You aren't the failure. The services, the devices, and the executives are.
I don't feel like Zitron completely addressed my remark in the parent comment, but the end result/destination is the same.
Joyeux Noël aux jlailutin·e·s !
Je suis très content. J'avais récupéré presque 1m³ de pelotes de laine dans le grenier de mes grands-parents après le décès de ma grand-mère. De l'adelphité des oncles et tantes à ma génération, tout le monde a grandi avec au moins un habit tricoté par la grand-mère. Aujourd'hui, il y a maintenant 4 petits qui n'ont jamais connu (vraiment) leur arrière grand-mère et qui surtout n'ont jamais eu de tricot venant d'elle. J'ai cherché en ligne un patron assez simple de chaussons à crocheter, et ai eu le temps d'en faire une paire pour le plus jeune.
Il est super heureux et j'ai des commandes de la moitié du reste de la famille pour en avoir aussi 😊