Aw boo! Where is your sense of fantasy!?

decaf - white clouds

It starts with a nice piano, when the bass drops.

The original song is Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche, but that's missing some oomph :P

Luke Smith made video about this several years ago: Virgin "Open Source" vs Chad Free Software

He ends the video with "I don't care if the boot-stamping on my head is proprietary or open source. I don't want a boot stamping on my head. That's what Free Software is about, okay!?"

This has been going on for a while, but it's good to shine a light on it once more.

Topologically speaking, the frog is a donut.

I asked ChatGPT to convert the text to common words:

"Academic writing is often hard to understand because it uses complicated words specific to a particular field, making it easier for experts to communicate with each other but harder for outsiders to follow. This keeps certain knowledge limited to a small group of people and maintains a cycle where only the educated or 'in' crowd can fully engage, while others are left out."

She ignored community feedback (I want customized channels back!) and turned YouTube into the dopamine riddled mess it is today.

Still, fuck cancer. My condoleances to her survivors.

This describes Christianity (to an extent). When I turned atheist (because I couldn't believe in God/Jesus anymore, not because I didn't want to) there is this very Church-shaped hole in your proverbial soul that needs time to close. It's a very sobering, yet lonely, way to live life, but due to the internet you don't find yourself lonely for too long, but I imagine it used to be a pretty terrifying way to live life pre-internet.

I am lucky my Christian family still loves me, and I know they only proselytize to me (every now and then) because they care.

I was able to do it for a restaurant once, where I was the first one to do so. I got 1.6+ million views on one image of the (then empty) restaurant. I'm pretty sure that's the peak of my online presence. It's all downhill from there.

Just add before:2023 to your search query BTW.

It was my replacement of Skype, which was leaning hard into its enshittification around that time.

a free forum

"Oh great, I'll have to create another fucking account" - me, already having some 300 accounts in my key-vault...

If a duct that transfers water is an Aquaduct, then a duct that transfers nature is an Ecoduct