Notices by Alonealastalovedalongthe (alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe), page 14

I don't understand why we can't just get rid of software companies and pay programmers to develop open source software directly. I mean, I understand it can't happen overnight but what are the actual disadvantages to this longterm?

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@rstevens

Yah especially because all the work developers put into making the fediverse technically decentralized is for naught if it just ends up socially centralized anyways

@doctorow
Omg this is great

I haven't heard car horns used in a gratuitously aggressive fashion in awhile. I am in NYC right now.

Everything is angry car horns here.

@feld I approach coffee like I approach music gear. If -philes say "well that gear is okkkk, it isn't as good as my <insert unattainably expensive gear here> but if you don't know better..." about a piece of gear I figure it sits right in that perfect point of vanishing returns that I am happy with.

@feld its a saeco magic deluxe, it's like 15 years old I think. I guess it's called a super automatic in that it has a grinder and a water container built in so you just have to press a button to brew an espresso, which isn't what I would have bought if I had chosen but it was $25 at a thrift store soooo. Real Espresso people frown on such devices I think but it genuinely makes a good espresso with decent crema and foams milk really well.

I may have been living for the past 8 years in the void of 20-something wallowing misery but I have crossed into the promised land. I have a real espresso machine now I got from a thrift store for way too cheap and I can make a pretty decent latte at home.

I am a god now.

@Mandyjacek It is one of the most truthful and subversive shows I have ever watched

@baldur wow this hits things square on the head, especially since I think it is colonial to look at the damage colonialism causes and ironically not see an agency in the people affected (it is all about the terrifying power of the force that came in and not really about the people the force affected). This article frames things as "The social media Fordlândias happening all over the world right now probably won’t last. The damage they cause probably will" which is a better way to look at it.

@sinvega I am very tempted by rimworld

@wxcafe Ughhh why are conservative men so afraid of sex?

How #vaporwave is this old Dave & Busters card?