finthechat

Did a worm eat it?

I hate it. It’s been used so much that it’s lost all meaning.

It’s expensive to research and develop Spez’s apocalypse bunker.

Or as I like to call it: Super Weenie Hut Jr.

Why don’t they just call it “avoiding people” mode instead

Nintendo Wii^2

The Nintendo Wii Wii

Microsoft Edge Death Grip

I am both joking and being serious when I say this: the engine doesn’t matter, it’s a skill issue.

I can see why people are upset, I can agree that distribution of these images can be an issue, but this has the same energy of “I am mad that a certain picture of me is on the internet, I demand that they take it down.” Sorry, that’s not going to happen any time soon.

I can relate to this. I joined a modding Discord and got treated similarly by the regulars there because I made the mistake of admitting in chat that I was not a programmer. I distinctly remember using the phrase “Could you explain the concept?” and some pretentious illiterate fuck thought for some reason that that meant “Can you write the code for me?” and kept telling me that I would never learn that way.

Think of how different the entire world would be today if Mark Fuckerberg wasn’t an irredeemable sack of complete garbage.

Removed by mod

Me too. I thought it was a great read.

tl;dr - a small number of bad actors are causing too much trouble, so the owner is pulling the plug on Omegle rather than continuing to fight uphill against it. The post is also a sad farewell letter where Leif reminisces a bit about the old internet and how people used to actually use it to not be total assholes to strangers all the time

Relevant bits:

In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery. Maybe that has something to do with the pandemic, or with political disagreements. Whatever the reason, people have become faster to attack, and slower to recognize each other’s shared humanity. One aspect of this has been a constant barrage of attacks on communication services, Omegle included, based on the behavior of a malicious subset of users.

The battle for Omegle has been lost, but the war against the Internet rages on. Virtually every online communication service has been subject to the same kinds of attack as Omegle; and while some of them are much larger companies with much greater resources, they all have their breaking point somewhere. I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection. If that sounds like a bad idea to you, please consider donating to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that fights for your rights online.

In its ideal form, a microblog style site could literally provide an online version of a collective consciousness of society. It would be a live feed of normal people’s thoughts.

Except in reality it’s porn, smug posting, corporate advertising, vitriol, and propaganda all fueled by algorithms written to keep mofos scrolling.

What a cancerous website. Even on desktop that place is a mess.

Here’s her solution at the end of the article:

We, the internet users, also need to learn to recalibrate our expectations and our behavior online. We need to learn to appreciate areas of the internet that are small, like a new Mastodon server or Discord or blog. We need to trust in the power of “1,000 true fans” over cheaply amassed millions.

The fix for the internet isn’t to shut down Facebook or log off or go outside and touch grass. The solution to the internet is more internet: more apps, more spaces to go, more money sloshing around to fund more good things in more variety, more people engaging thoughtfully in places they like. More utility, more voices, more joy.

Sorry if I sounded disrespectful to the brilliant people working on this tech. I don’t mean to say they aren’t making insane progress in the field. However, I stand by the main point of my original comment: until VR makes a lightyear jump in tech and frees itself of the headset and the wands/hand pieces (or minimizes them to the point of negligible discomfort), I won’t be sold on VR as a consumer.

I bought a Vive since I was careless and wanted to see what the VR hype was. Considering that I’ve probably used it less than 100 hours in about 4 years, I think of it as a bad investment.

In its current technologically limited state, VR feels more like a gimmick than a real experience. I think that all of what VR is currently trying to do is still waiting for that uninvented Star Trek holodeck technology to come around anyway. Headsets and wands are unwieldy and breaking down/setting up the system is a PITA.

Either pay or get off the Shitter

-Elon Musk

The assassination coordinates are coming from inside the building

Hasn’t it already?

You guys try talking to people online outside the Fediverse (and even here sometimes)? It’s like Idiocracy is happening IRL.