Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@pistachios I don't much mind fools being parted with their money, but what I take issue with is that we're in the information age and yet there still seems to be no way to permanently ruin the reputation of a scammer. Even when they do so under their legal, given name!

Government: "We're going to make sharing news really expensive for social media."

Meta: "Okay, then we won't allow news on our platform."

Matt Stoller: "Meta is blackmailing Congress! Waaah!"

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63869013

#JCPA

From a libertarian perspective, I sure wish we had stronger enforcement of anti-trust laws.

It seems that the lack of enforcement is leading people to want to pass laws treating the symptoms (anti-consumer practices) instead of the causes (not caring what consumers think due to monopolistic lock-in). And those poorly-thought-out regulations will inevitably lead to bad knock-on effects.

If we had better anti-trust enforcement, it would be easier for new competitors to enter the market, which would allow us to fix these anti-consumer problems naturally, with market competition.

Modern game developers are so wasteful with disk space that it makes me sad that there are "only" 4TB external SSDs for sale.

@LauLauThom For those on .NET, it's:
System.IO.Path.GetFileName/GetDirectoryName

@worldsendless Muting users is the best. You can mute for a short period of time or indefinitely.

You can also set up filters on your account settings to remove it.

Or, just keep your live-tooting in a thread and make all but the first toot "unlisted". That way people can turn off replies in their Home and they'll only see the first in the thread.

@worldsendless It's fine. Some people will just choose to curate it out, and they have more than enough tools to do so.

@ThinkingSapien @alltherum You deny your badass Kerbals an opportunity to die while hurtling through space?

You monster.

@JKuznicki Except the problem is that Spotify works with the record companies, not the artists. So, how much of that dollar do you think would actually make it to them?

@alltherum That's okay. That's what they're there for!

Just for fun, a recreation of this view (best as I could) in #KerbalSpaceProgram:

@owa For future reference: "Read this 350 page economics essay written by the government to see if I'm right" isn't very effective advocacy.

@owa @slightlyoff No, it's not. Switching from a closed platform to an open platform is instant success.
Campaigning to regulators is deferring a problem you can easily solve yourself to someone else while seeking to impose it on others who may have different values than you.

Starting the road network now. It needs to begin with a simple east-west trail:

Added a loading screen for my terrain generator with stats about the land it is generating.

@digital_carver NASA's Artemis livestream, earlier today.

This was just a few minutes after the capsule performed its first return burn while in a communications blackout on the dark side of the moon.

When it came back into contact with Earth, this is what we saw.

@slightlyoff @owa Or better yet, vote with your wallet and don't buy Apple products. This is only one of many of their creepy, sleazy programs.

That is a damn cool view.

On one hand, it's sweet schadenfreude to watch the crypto industry collapse.

On the other hand, I know that the people who perpetuated these scams will walk away with millions, scot free, while the average dupe will actually pay the costs.

I'm very conflicted.