Early computer aided art and programs I’ve written, dating back decades.

In the mid 1990s I used ImpulseTracker to create music. The music sucks. But losing the original source .IT files would be heartbreaking.

Likewise, my first programs, written as a child in MS DOS batch files circa 1991 – basic menu driven interfaces that facilitated launching my installed sharware… I don’t have the games the program points to anymore, but that isn’t the point ;)

Fourth panel. AI trained on all the above, floods it all with generated content rendering the signal-to-noise ratio too terrible to tolerate, even for corporations.

I still go to Reddit for some communities that don’t have critical mass on Lemmy. Sure you can talk about programming or Linux here, but the more niche ones (like specific mods for specific games) are entirely absent.

But when I want to post something or create content, it goes here.

I mean, it’s right in the wikipedia article. Wikipedia didn’t make it up. This is largely the consensus use for this term in political circles.

Other potential candidates for inclusion might be Indonesia or Mongolia, but they are not usually included for economic reasons.

Based on your tone here, I checked the modlog for your username (Lemmy is great for this! How did we ever survive on Reddit) and my suspicions were confirmed…

Yes. And Australia. And often South Korea, although one can debate their inclusion in this group.

You use these words, but you don’t know what they mean…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy

Western world, western democracy, is largely a term referencing a style of government, not physical location.

“contrasted with illiberal democracies and with dictatorships”

Yeah, that’s how I found out I was banned. Tried to reply to a reply.

Mali had a ten year period where they were allowing free registration. That doesn’t exist anymore.

They also keep getting classified documents due to typos in army.mil email addresses and similar ;)

There is a realistic scenario where Mali starts reclaiming domains who are using their TLD to mean Marxist-Leninist.

I’m not saying it makes sense…

I don’t think my instrance is even federated with them, so it is harder to get banned there ;)

A lot of exploits exist to root a phone. Bad apps can abuse those exploits.

Very cool as a tech demo. Terrible as a product.

Seriously, it feels like 1999 internet. And I’m loving it!

The ability to communicate clearly is a relationship boon. You don’t need to write a novel every night, but if you can’t be bothered with coherence for the little things, how the hell are you going to communicate the big things?

F: +++
M: shi

Ouch. I know Bandcamp isn’t owned by its founders anymore, and the new owners in theory are sketch… But it’s still close to the best webstore ever conceived for music. The payment processing alone is worth it. What is Faircamp in that space?

That cover has no relation to the novel really, eh? But it looks cool.

Also Excession is my favourite 😍

DM trying to get you to pass the bottle.