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Wow, the UN adopted @CryptPad 🥳

Did you know my friends started CryptPad, and I was one of the first paying customers way back in 2017?

I couldn't be more proud of their amazing work, and to witness their iconic journey.

It was my friend @ansuz who built a lot of CryptPad, that suggested I apply to NLnet.

And then Pixelfed became the first fediverse project funded by NLnet in 2019.

You love to see it.

#openSource #cryptPad

I really hate how this side of the Internet keeps on flip flopping on issues. Like I remember when people would make fun of you for using Windows or macOS and call you a pleb if you aren't using a FOSS OS like Linux or BSD. Now, people will tell you that Linux is for trannies and that you are delusional for believing in the year of the Linux desktop, and that you are better off sticking to Windows.

That's just one example, but it's just one of the many reasons why I just rather be myself than conform into any community's culture.

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if you want proof the dead internet theory is real I get DMs on my Xbox account with people wanting to buy my gamertag/account LMAO

Now that I think about it, creating an online community (at least one that is decentralized or have loose-to-no moderation) is kind of like raising a child. You may have a vision for your child. You may try to raise them on certain values, but ultimately the child will choose his/her own path.

Same thing with starting an online community. You may have a vision for said community. You may try to impose a certain culture, but unless you impose strict moderation, the culture of said community will grow out of your own control. I think this is why many people who create forums, imageboards, or social networking services end up getting disillusioned with the whole thing. It becomes something that they never intended it to be. I know a lot of libertarian-leaning people who create free-speech sites, but end up being shocked when they turn out to be dissident right echo-chambers.

You just need to realize that culture is 100% organic and grassroots, you can influence it as much as you want, but people will ultimately be the ones to make of it.

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What's a neat tech project that you think was a cool experiment regardless of how it goes?
For me my short list would be:
Manyverse
ZeroNet
Termux

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do engineers in other fields (not compeng / IT) experience the same belittlement, ridicule, and overall misunderstanding from the general population that we do? or is it just us that experience this disparate gap from the rest of society?

my main problem is that we're expected to behave robotically and deal with it, while at the same time being told we don't do any "real work", by the same exact people who probably use our own platforms to write this shit against us! ignorance at its fucking finest
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Can any #nostr peeps give me a rundown of the (current) Bitcoin Core controversy?

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How to Play Videos in HDR on Linux for a Home Theater

This is a post I really should have gotten up earlier as some of the techniques in it are already outdated with newer versions of mpv and mesa. Still, I felt it was important to document some of this, and I'll probably do a followup with the newer methods later this summer.

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-to-play-videos-in-hdr-on-linux-for-a-home-theater/

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We made a Nintendo 64 demo for Revision 2025!

📺 youtu.be/v3wYV6gxJII

It has baked lighting with normal mapping, specular shading (at the end), and of course bloom. The beautiful song was made by @noby with guitar performed by soundcloud.com/sou_andrade

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If you're smart, you embed twitter and just show tweets of the people who donated, then you say IDFK ask Elon.
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