I think like, the death of Vine and Rabbit, Wikipedia constantly needing to beg for money, Discord depending so heavily on venture capital, Facebook turning towards spying on users to generate a return on all the venture capital that got them started, Adobe creative suite turning into a subscription rather than a single product you buy, the strangulation of streaming entertainment as every company pulls their content and makes it exclusive to their service, are all great examples of how like, it really doesn’t matter if something is legitimately useful, efficient, or beloved, it is next to impossible for a service to exist if it doesn’t make shareholders increasing amounts of money year after year. Which may seem like a “no duh” type of statement, but it’s a very simple window into how the profit motive makes products and services worse, not better. And how that’s not just a matter of certain companies or ceos being bad and greedy on an individual level, but is an inescapable factor of an economy where existence is dependent on generating capital.
“We, as in the IT industry, need to come up with a culture or methodology of ‘declaring a product complete’ whereby all product managers are gracefully allowed to move on and a product is put into a state of stasis, where bugfixes and the occasional relevant feature is built. If a product was not designed to show intelligent recommendations, use gamification or become a notification dashboard then that should be bared from ever appearing in its Backlog.“
There is such a thing as a completed project but trying to continually milk consumers for this produce without providing any mentionable service is bad practice.
Macintosh SE and SE/30 Analog board to logic board connector (J12) pinout. Order is left to right top to bottom with Pin #, wire color, then description:
Black GND
Black GND (twisted pair with VIDEO)
Black GND (twisted pair with HSYNC)
Black GND
Black GND
Blue -5V DC (For serial)
Green -12V DC (For serial)
Black GND
White VIDEO (starts 11.2μs after falling edge of HSYNC, lasts about 33μs, first data line is 1.26ms after falling edge of VSYNC) (Paired with ground connector #2)
Purple HSYNC (square wave, falling edge triggered, 45μs per line) (Paired with ground connector #3)
love to follow veterinarian practices on facebook because every one in a while they’ll post a picture of something so bizarrely funny. this axolotl getting an x-ray just took me out
ive been getting a lot of people really worried for this axolotl so i thought i’d clarify: she’s fine. she’s moist on the puppy pad so she won’t dry out and the x ray only takes a few seconds. the x ray was because she had an internal gut blockage due to the wrong substrate being used. they took another x ray after giving her barium to determine where in the gut it was, but the barium lubricated her gut enough that she passed the blockage with no invasive surgery and she’s completely fine. here she is not-flattened
I don’t think you’re ready to have an adult conversation about politics until you’re able to admit that there are things you love and enjoy that would not and should not exist in a just world. $8 billion dollar budget movies every other month don’t exist in a just world. New 900 GB AAA video games every year don’t exist in a just world. Next day delivery doesn’t exist in a just world. 80 different soda brands don’t exist in a just world.
All of those things come from exploitation on some level, and if you wouldn’t trade those for a world where everyone can eat and have a home no matter who they are or what they do, I don’t know what to tell you.
Don’t see how you can say that any of that shit would definitely not exist in a just world. People like to make art, including collective art; the production process would look very different, and maybe an AAA game would be impossible without exploitation – but maybe it would be possible. We don’t know. We’re talking about a radically different way of organising human society than has ever existed, so how can you write with such certainty about what would be impossible?
you’re seriously misreading the post. the op did not say that movies or video games or soda or delivery would not be possible in a just world, but that a new massive AAA game every single year would not be possible, an 8 billion dollar budget movie every month churned out like that would not be possible, next day delivery would not be possible, hundreds of different soda brands would not be possible. the speed of these things is the largest indicator of exploitation, the relentless churning out of content at such a rapid pace in pursuit of profit that requires more exploitative working conditions for those doing the labour. the post is saying that labour that isn’t exploitative means that these things need far more time, to happen less often, to slow down, to be done with more consideration, to value the people and labour that goes into it above the pursuit of money, not that “art would not exist” and if you read it more carefully and in better faith you would know that
This is a really interesting take, because yes UPS overnight gets you whatever orders you have off the Internet when you want it the next day, but this is ALSO the same infrastructure that gets things like telecommunications electronics across the country overnight.
I’ve seen more than my fair share of outage tickets from one phone company or another talking about an issue with a broken fiber optic cable that say “Fix pending Line Card/Amplifier/etc. to be overnighted from X to Y.”
Will it decrease? Yes.
Should it decrease? Yes.
But it seems very naive, just for the sheer lack of nuance, to say that all of that is going to outright stop “in a just world.”
