Idk man I thought they had an uphill battle trying to run a business that is both sustainable and ethical under late stage capitalism too but I don't think it's right to mock them for trying and misrepresent the reality of their financials while doing so

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and now it's stuck in my head.

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is there a pun here

@eniko Depending on its value, it may completely overshadow the short skirt, defeating the point...

@eniko also, people don't need to quit Twitter “cold turkey”: they can start setting up their presence elsewhere while still holding their place there, so it doesn't even have to be as dramatic as some people try to paint it. And the sooner the start, the earlier they'll have a decent following elsewhere and realize that Twitter didn't have to be the be-all-end-all of their network.

@eniko It's so low effort as well - all you have to do is have an account and copy-paste your tweets if people are still really attached to Twitter. Heck if their income depends on it, it's an easy way to increase reach.

But people aren't doing it and I think a part of it is the Ostrich Effect. It's too much to face the possibility that Twitter might end up dying. Too scary. So rather than prepare, the brain shuts down and pretends it's not happening.

@eniko it would seem that the corollary to that headline is 30% of doctors have been negatively impacted by Covid misinformation

@eniko would be cool if someone built a tool to search for accounts that stopped posting in the last 6 months and then showed you the final tweets from those accounts.

@eniko the internet does a great job of highlighting the futility of symbolic protest when the people your message is directed at aren't even aware of your existence, definitely aren't listening, and will probably find a way to break your plugin.

@eniko Amateurs, I hide all tweets by not being there.

Yes I miss a few things (pretty much just info posting), but I rather err on the side of not dealing with twatter.

Anyway it's funny people think I'm some big time successful indie dev. Well folks this is what being a hotshot indie dev looks like, not being able to run your heat so your money will last until your next game comes out. Living the dream

Still a lot better than working an office or service industry job during a plague though

@eniko oh yeah I had to deal with this a couple jobs ago - was writing a mobile GPU device driver and was trying to use the texture unit to accelerate vertex/index buffer copies (since the built-in memcpy on the chip was shit for perf) and had to deal with how the "textures" (basically reinterpret-casted vertex buffers) were being interpreted in that space for the copying

good times

@eniko Now with the corporate fedi in the wild, instances could be outposts or forts where we try to stay safe from the zombie nations

@eniko just so long as there is no red lining and there are no HOAs.