My personal opinion as a trans girl? We need to stop pretending that social networks are THE solution. We need a balance between social networks and anti-social networks. And by "anti-social networks", I mean traditional blogs.
Funny thing is, Fediverse is actually very well equipped to deal with Blogosphere. The fact that you can easily ignore the other side is a feature, not a bug.
Whatever happened to the Olympic ideals? Citius, Altius, Fortius, Communiter? Apparently, going faster, higher, stronger, together, wasn't a factor here, somehow. The fact that some particular athlete tried to be the damn best they could, yet didn't want a particular prize anway, was of no consequence according to the public.
Damn straight we should return to Olympic ideals, but I'm afraid that while we have dipshit gatekeepers, that's going to take its time.
I also wonder what animals think of how they are depicted in culture.
Oh good. I was just thinking "Hmm, I haven't tried Fortnite in a long while, maybe I should check it out again." ...Yeah. ...No.
In-person admission costs between $649 and around $1,300.
I was mildly confused by the headline when I read this. Oh, it's a conference. Maybe not emphasise the "job fair" part? It's clearly meant for people who are already employed. They even have a "convince your boss" flyer on the website.
...Yeah, that's how some people get to keep going in the industry, don't they? ...As an unemployed dev gal who just got done sending a bunch of applications that likely won't lead anywhere I probably shouldn't keep mulling about, you know, everything going on in this article, and just go to sleep.
I want 1990s Internet back. Except for background MIDIs, which should be banned elsewhere but which should be made legally mandatory on music-related pages. Forcing record companies to share literal performance instructions for their music would annoy them gloriously.
Flash was a solution for a real problem that web creators were having at the time. Unfortunately, it was a stopgap solution that ended up being incredibly popular and nobody was concerned about building a smooth transition to a standardised way of doing things.
In the 1990s the web browsers didn't really have any real interactive multimedia capabilities. Browser makers said "eh, that's the plugin makers' responsibility", and so someone made a plugin all right, and the creators said "eh, that's good enough".
In hindsight, of course, it's easy to say that browser makers and the web standards folks should have just gone for the sort of stuff we now have in HTML5. But that's because we nowadays see the standards as a good thing. This was taking place in the late 1990s, and the browser makers, Macromedia and the creators were not really all that concerned about standardisation and interoperability. Which, of course, ended up hurting everyone when it all collapsed on its own.
Things might have been different if Adobe had actually turned Flash into a genuine open format (like PDF, which is still very much a living and useful format despite the fact that you shouldn't touch Adobe's own PDF software with a ten foot pole) and it had become part of the landscape of web standards, but that's for the alternate history buffs to debate.