towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

https://www.archives.gov/ is like archive.org but for the US Government.
It would make sense that they archive government websites

[–] towerful@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago

Both things can be true.
OP can be doing good.
And potus can be doing shit and running rough-shod over the working class

[–] towerful@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

In a single player game, yeh.
Cheating in a game that impacts other people is trash

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

Free for a year or so, depending on where you register

[–] towerful@programming.dev 24 points 5 months ago

"draining the swamp" is actually a bad thing.
Huge ecological upheaval, likely increase of both floods and droughts by lowering the water table, and decreasing surge control because swamps are essentially sponges.
Never mind the nutrients and biodiversity.

But in the short term, it's more useable land

[–] towerful@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I want to say... Some sort of self hoster with a cheap domain going for the "security through obscurity" approach...

https://crt.sh/?q=91268476.xyz

I'll let you explore, but definitely a self hoster!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 32 points 5 months ago

Nah, you call it a meme so everyone doesn't look at it too closely.
It's like the typos in scam emails and texts.
The people that would actively investigate such a thing dismiss it immediately.
The stupid people buy right into it.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No, mainstream media is part of capitalism.
Specifically shitty mainstream media (I'm sure there are some mainstream media providers that aren't shitty).

This is a shitty product.
This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism.
This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism which happens to show mainstream media.

But this isn't mainstream media.

Mainstream media would want in on the ad revenue. Mainstream media would facilitate & encourage this.

This is just a shitty product from a shitty company capitalising on shitty practices.

Edit:
I guess "part of the same bullshit" is correct.
But it's placing the blame on the wrong thing

[–] towerful@programming.dev 97 points 5 months ago (6 children)

This isn't mainstream media.
This is capitalism.

This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn't really matter.
This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete product

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know that he has helped build anything. He has helped hype 2 companies.
He did great PR when someone was managing him, but recently his PR is poison.
SpaceX is managed by someone competent, musk has - quite frankly - little to do with the company.
Tesla is riding the hype from before musk took off the mask. I give them 4 years, tops. If it's not already on the way down.

Intel needs to be run and managed by engineers. That's what we want from core components. Not hype, not bubbles, not marketing speak, not fancy names and confusing part numbers. We want actual engineers who have thought through the implications of their decisions all the way to the end consumer. We want hardware that works and is predictable.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

I stumbled across Amaranth a while ago. It's been years since I've done FPGA programming, and I haven't had a reason to get into it again.
But Amaranth seems like a cool paradigm instead of AHDL/VHDL.

https://github.com/amaranth-lang/amaranth

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