Decentralized governments: already a reality in most places, with a clear hierarchy (federal, state/province, city). Local communities aren’t always formed, but can coexist

Decentralized power sources: kinda there already? The thing is that it makes more sense economically to have a small number of big power plants than spread then thinly, especially due to industry needs that can be much larger than what residential lines typically transmit

Decentralized market: I mean, open fairs and small, corner markets are still a thing, no? Or what kind of market do you mean?

Decentralized currency: crypto kinda does that? There’s no central authority issuing whatever-coins. In more real-life terms, decentralized currency is deeply tied to local economy and you can look at history for how something like that used to work: small kingdoms almost always wanted to mint their own coins, then whenever conducting trade with external markets, some exchange rates would be set based on supply/demand.

Maybe you should try a more chaotic approach to solving the crimes in that game, like Josh does in this video

• That’s a link to a video from Let’s Game it Out. Josh’s thing is playing games the “wrongest” way possible.

Yeah, because all censorship is evil /s

It sure is easy to grift squeenix out of their money nowadays, eh? I think I’ll start some new blockchain project, market it to whoever’s their CEO, get rich and get out.

so someone else picks up the IP and runs with it.

My bet is that either Disney or EA would pick it up

Something something history repeats itself as farce or something

For context: Intel was founded by people who thought Fairchild Semiconductors wasn’t receiving the necessary funding or respect from the owning company.

I remember reading some time ago that “the idea (of phones listening to everything you say to serve ads) makes no economic sense, because it’d be too expensive to run”

Looks like it actually isn’t “too expensive” to run in the end.

Mastodon works more like twitter, several microblog posts that you only see if you search or check:

• Latest posts of an instance;
• The profile of the person posting;
• Posts with certain hashtags;
• Posts of people you chose to follow;

Meanwhile, lemmy works more like reddit, easier to find “specific content”, with posts neatly separated by community/instance and easier to find/search/interact with in the future. It’s less about individuals and more about communities

I think mastodon only interacts with lemmy as comments on existing posts, though there’s probably a way to post to a community from a mastodon client/site

Not enough crossed L’s or áććéńtś to be polish

Yup, created at Pontifica Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ, a catholic university), originally for Petrobras’ systems in the early 90s.

I know World of Warcraft’s UI and lots of logic runs on lua, also that a good portion of roblox logic can be made in lua instead of C++. Being super light (247kb was small even by 1993 standards) and easy to embed helped it a lot, for sure.

That or the realization “Ah”, as in: “AAAAh, so that’s what <sequence of bad adjectives> looks like”

From what I heard from a friend that’s pissed at losing access to xitter and begrudgingly made an account on bluesky, it doesn’t have trending topics yet, “How am I supposed to know what’s going on in the world?”

Lua and Elixir 😙👌

As a brazilian, I’m now deeply offended that the ISO does not recognize brazilion as a valid amount

The part of the law that talks about content removal (Section 3, articles 18 to 21) does not say that only content can be removed nor that accounts can’t be touched. Before Moraes, judges have ordered people to be locked out of certain social media, so there is precedent.

It’s also important to note that freedom of speech ends the moment it becomes a crime. Whether said xitter accounts have been committing crimes, and which crimes, is a different discussion

Judge tells the company to take down profiles that have been known to be used solely for spreading political lies. Company complies. Manbaby buys company, pedals back on previous compliance. Judge tells company to comply again. Company ignores it. Judge makes it a legal order. Company removes its legal representative from the country, so the company no longer “answers to the country’s laws”. Company’s IP addresses gets country wide block. That is censorship because…? Freeze peach?

Not that the judge in question, Alexandre de Moraes, is any sort of role model, what with him imposing a R$50,000 fine to anyone using a VPN to bypass the block, which is a clear overstepping of the order and hitting end users because “fuck them”, this is likely to be overruled later today. He also ordered to freeze Starlink’s assets (because they didn’t comply with the order to block xitter).

That’s exactly the kind of thing that I need, just a shame I need to have a texture on the polygon and, code as is, it offsets the texture a lot compared to the polygon’s center. While not “ideal”, I can probably work with this, though creating anything other than squares will be quite a pain if I don’t use large textures, due to the zoom level of Godot’s UV editor

I’ll mess around and see if I can get it to work as I want until a more definitive solution shows up, thanks!

“Women? Ugh, take them away!” - The Greeks in BC times

For anyone that never heard of, or doesn’t know much about the Amiga, I highly recommend this series on Ars Technica

On part 5, it shows that the Amiga 1000 retailed for around 1,300 dollars, while then current Apple computers cost over 2k dollars.

Overcooked 2 tournament. It has a 2v2 mode. I want to see blood