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@simsa03 It's hard not to see this as technology (the system, not the output) as eating itself. My bets would be long on disaster recovery and insurance.

@Mollysdailykiss @DrVeronikaCH @neil This to me is the my main concern. Having infrastructure controlled by a single person or a tiny elite goes well against both personal philosophy and sensible risk-taking. I'm heavy on WordPress for now, but between this and the other recent news stories, I'll be keeping an eye on other decent SME-suitable tools to try. (Replacing the longevity of WordPress *is* a hard problem though.)

@adrianh The Poppins approach.

Morning and #tzag netpeeps.

Another day another technocapitalist visionary releasing spectacle-based technology they think everyone already wearing glasses will love.

@Guv_Bubbs @GammaGames Insta-purchase for me, even though I've very rarely Pomo'd before 😅

And as he points out, this is a hard problem to solve, a Very Hard Problem indeed. Our modern societies are built on huge chains of trust - and it only takes 1 or 2 breaks in those links to disrupt the whole thing.

Maybe links can be re-established in the long term. But can those affected survive the short-term breakdown? That's the thing.

"Targets are everywhere." Bruce Schneier's short essay on the trust / vulnerability trade-off in global supply chains is a good explainer about one of those "magic bullet" things that most people gloss over.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/israels-pager-attacks.html

> new post: 'Recent Tech Tweaks and Fixes'

https://6days.exmosis.net/2024/09/25/recent-tech-tweaks-and-fixes/

I hath coined the term "drop-ups".

3rd issue of Mycelium is looking for any "weird, strange and wonderful events and creative projects from 2024" - if you're working on anything "counter-culture, Discordianism, mushrooms, folk horror, magick, ritual, zines, high strangeness and the like" then check out https://orbific.com/mycelium-parish-news-2024-submissions-needed/ and @orbific

@paulsilver Argh.

This Wordfence blogpost on #AI content generation and moderation in WordPress is making me realise how important it will be to Be A Human in the years to come.

Use AI to do things better, sure. But if you want to stand out among the auto-chaff, find your tribe and show them you're real.

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2024/09/wordpress-ai-gpu-hosting-open-source-ai/

Why don't you like concrete? Even Tarquin likes concrete. Mary Berry likes concrete. So why don't you like concrete?

A mapping of city marks and sounds, bound together through time and space? Loving the Atlas of Intangibles: https://atlasofintangibles.com/

/cc @orbific

@SasquatcherGeneral Of course, I have rose-tinted specs. Between magazine demos, public domain, and a network of "helpful friends", the only time I actually really played proper paid-for games as a teenager was birthdays and Christmas.

@SasquatcherGeneral Basically the same here. The time of life when teenage habits are flipped in their head - time is a scarcity, and entertainment is now a commodity. We pay for the potential of playing something, not for something to actually play. Ownership of an ideal, as a quick hit of retail therapy.

@orbific Hmm, one of the benefits of using such an old model that Amazon has forgotten about it I guess. Nothing has changed in decades.

The best bit of #gamedev today was showing my wife the finished trailer and her not hating it. Which is a good sign.

I'm fairly sure #son1 said it was pretty good too, but he denies it now.

Ok, game trailer is done, with only a few bits of smoke and mirrors... 🎉 Now just to stare blankly at an empty page for a few hours to come up with some "exciting" words about it all.

Suspect that "It's a game. It might be fun? Buy it?" isn't what publishers take their cut for.

#gamedev

"As trees are modular, and
therefore grow exponentially (according to a sigmoid curve)..."

Hitting peak something right now.