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The circle of life

Literally was in a presentation at work the other day where they said someone used 2 million tokens and the next person used 1 million and they were so excited by it.

I didn't get it. I asked went 2 million was better than 1 million. The VP basically said it's not, just costs us more money.

So why the hell is the presentation acting like it's a fucking victory?

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id Software insists in new statement that it still has "the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for"

Yeah, we just laid off all the engine people we use to build the games we're known for.

And now we're moving to an engine none of us knows and isn't ours. What's the worst that can happen?

Totally certain Microsoft will be a good steward and give them time and money to completely transition to ...

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The person that was writing about the sacking has been sacked. There are five lights.

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Lemmy.world Is Anti‑Humanity. How Its Admins Weaponized Defederation to Silence Palestine Solidarity

Lemmy.world is run by Ruud, a man that lives in the Netherlands. He does not have the same legal protections as say Reddit. He has to obey his laws in his country. Looking up Netherlands laws, it would seem to me that having any user named "Murder all " is literally against the law in the Netherlands. So he has two choices. Literally risk going to prison, or having to take it down.

The brilliance of the Fediverse, as you realize because you've posted this on Piefed, anyone can create a server and build their own connections.

I'm against hurting anyone, but I'm in the US, where people have that right to say those things. Ruud isn't.

These servers have specific rules for their communities for a reason. Most aren't here to make money. No one is paying Ruud to keep people in power. He doesn't even have to run ANY service, but he is. Because he believes in the Fediverse. But he's still bound by his laws and it's his server.

I've spoken to Ruud on an episode. He's a lovely man that doesn't deserve this hate.

I understand the frustration. Lemmy.world is a large instance where there are tons of people, but you don't know the laws.

I'm not denying the censorship at all. I'm not denying that we need to speak out for Palestinians. But he HAS to follow his country's laws or there will be no services. And when you say ggod that's what you want, the more servers shut down, the more people will turn away. The more people are forced back to big tech where they will censor you to protect their investment. Reddit IS protected by that speech under section 230, but they'll still censor it.

The best you can do, start your own instance. It's possible it might be blocked by Lemmy.world if your server is breaking their rules. But at least you can get your message out.

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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online

Honestly, I look at this and I see a future where everyone runs their own Federated services. I can verify my child's age as well as mine and I'm the best one to decide what they can and can't see. So I only need to worry about me and my family.

Or a local community can run it for themselves.

A forced move away from social media, because they can't afford the risk, to one where we all run our own stuff and can follow who we want.

This is only 1 possible outcome of course, and it's wildly idealist, but it's a future I'm going to push for no matter what. So I'm very biased, so don't take my opinion into account. :D

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TIL that Truth Social is (was?) based on Mastodon

Not only is it Mastodon, but before it released a bunch of folks went and looked it up. They realized it was Mastodon, but had no attribution. So Mastodon sent a 30 day notice to properly display the open source licensing or lose access to it. If they refused, then Mastodon could have taken them to court and almost certainly have easily won.

While I don't like Trump, or what he stands for, this is the power of open source. You want to create your own toxic sewage social network? You can. You want to create your own growing, beautiful, welcoming, social network, you can. You can build anything you want.