Well that’s a game changer, because I’ve been using ffmpeg directly to trim the files and it’s very clunky by comparison.

Socialists care about this stuff too and it’s from a socialist magazine, though I do agree that it would make for a good crosspost to neurodivergent communities if you want to do that.

How many of these corporations have been giving money to anti-LBGTQ+ politicians while donning the rainbow?

Firefox has been great since Quantum released. They finally fixed the performance issues and it’s still more flexible in what it can do than the Chromium browsers.

Queer folks and leftists tend to be aware of this guy on the one hand

Guess who the CurrentAffairs demographic is. :D

Literally a magazine for internet socialists, who absolutely know who this guy is, especially if they’ve been reading it for awhile. Your average Joe Schmoe doesn’t know what CurrentAffairs magazine is. More people know who lobster man is, honestly.

Also be sure to check out Alan MacLeod’s update for the internet era. It’s a short and easy read.

Marx is being juxtaposed here because the article the author is addressing did that; he’s not equating the two, nor is he trying to legitimize lobster man (the dude’s already gotten on mainstream platforms and has a fuckton of fans—that ship has sailed). The CurrentAffairs audience is expected to already be familiar with this guy on account of the fact that it’s a niche libertarian socialist magazine that writes critical pieces about him every so often. The author agrees that he’s a charlatan and intellectual fraud that peddles reactionary bullshit to depressed young men.

If you want to do a deeper dive into why lobster man sucks (or share other pieces that do), then that would be a good contribution to the comments section here. Or post it to the beehive, provided that it’s socialist critique. Either would be welcome.

Is it though? The entire piece is taking a swing at his “put your life in order before criticizing” shit him and his fans do in the political arena. I don’t see the article speaking positively of him.

Steam with Proton works OOTB for me if you enable the option in the system config.

Not a video, but I always use this EFF article to introduce the concept.

I’d say that the Indie game experience can still match that. Doesn’t have to be old titles.

Any organization that’s forced to pursue endless growth is going to end up enshittifying eventually, because there’s only so much innovation and wow factor that you can do to make a product appealing before you hit a talent/demographic/creativity limit. Not to mention that infrastructure and operating costs are massive when you hit that level of scaling and that needs to be funded somehow. Eventually they’ll be forced to start extracting more value out of their existing userbase to keep the revenue growth going. Going IPO is mostly just a telegraph for how things are going behind the scenes.

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture.

Something that has become very apparent to me over the past year of migrating away from the big 6 sites into the dark forest is that, no honestly, the internet isn’t that; the big 6 sites are that. Places like Neocities still exist and have lots of traffic and you can go there and have an interesting time. I’ve encountered more cultural diversity on the Fediverse than I had in the past decade of using Reddit. There’s still cool stuff and interesting communities; it’s just hard to find because search engines are increasingly useless. We need better discoverability; if we fix that, then we’re golden.

Yeah, it’d be a real shame if they have to shut down. Hopefully their talent can find work elsewhere if it comes to that.

Well if it’s any consolation, the Fediverse is basically the spiritual successor to that time period on the internet: now with interesting tech improvements.

Once the starvation deaths start rolling in they won’t stop

Already has, unfortunately.

I looked, but I couldn’t find one unfortunately.

It’s a trade off that we’ll probably have to take unless we want to deanonymize the internet.

We’re probably lucky that AI spammers haven’t discovered the Fediverse yet, but if the Fediverse does actually become big enough for mainstream use, we’ll see Twitter level reaction spam in no time, and no amount of CAPTCHAs will be able to stop it.

I was thinking about this the other day. We might have to move to a whitelist federation model with invite-only instances at some point.

There will probably be mounting pressure to deanonymize the internet, like with what we’re seeing via age verification legislation in various places.