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is there an enshittification watch site? or something to track acquisition and red flags in products/oss projects? itsenshittifiedyet.info if not, what would it take to do that? i think it can be vibed in a weekend.

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good prices, but I don't see info on the token cache hits prices (in/out), are they available?.

in the meantime im having lots of fun coding and using AI, reinventing every wheel i can. 0 stress cos i don't do it for money :). I think a lot of people are having a tantrum because programing is not sexy anymore, its getting easier, the bar is lower now , the quality is awful and nobody cares. its like any other boring soul crushing job.

also if you want to see the real cost (at least part of it) of AI coding or the whole fucked up IT industry, go to any mining town in the global south.

just want to say that, to self host feels like the 2000's, and that's a refreshing good thing, you feel in control, away for all the enshittification we are experiencing right know. I'm having a blast with a group of friends with netbird/tailscale, creating little projects in our forgejo instance with full CI/CD for the infra, and day by day we are adding more and more stuff, our own little internet. we learn things and talk about technical stuff while setting up and implementing them, its my favorite social network now. also f big tech.

how to flush all this shit away? so they will have to learn to swim.

I remember one of the students in our school replaced the Windows 95 startup logo with the goatse.cx picture of every computer of a new lab, the rector of the moment called an emergency gathering in the gym BEGGING the students to change it back . promising that there would be no repercussions, he was sweating blood, because authorities picked our school to inaugurate the computer national program that made the lab possible, the next day. nobody talked, they had to change the inauguration to another school, fun times.

Q: any resource to learn about modern approaches for real time game protocols?

oh the memories, the CTCP ping with the string "+++ATH0" string on the message, or the `/skin "/con/con"` command on Quake2 online games, and the ";cat /etc/passwd" on old Unix's finger services, fun simpler times, what a mess.

> What's preventing it from happening now?

Just improvising with the idea and trashing more on big tech: I would say, nothing, if something like that gets to happen, my guess, it will be silent, away from the noise, would not be a sexy tech headline, kind of what is happening with mastodon, there is no big names, personalities or numbers with tons of 0s behind it, just an interoperable protocol, you know, real tech. it does not need marketing or infinite scale, dependent on FOMO or other social phenomenons, its just pure value for its users, also, as Cory Doctorow said somewhere, as instances of mastodon, ideas like that are going to come and go, and that's fine, that's the process of finding the next valuable thing that will stick with us, it should be organic, the next big thing will not come from the silicon valley casino like esque. An "IT person" would be just a job. pretty much as any other craft, what happens its that some of the most noisy parts of our industry are sick, feverish, delusional and full of their own bullshit, and we have in our subconsciousness that everything needs to be flashy, glorious, amazing, disruptive, big, competition proof and fast (in terms of success), not sustainable at all.

nice to see effort to shake a little the terminal space, and that you can receive 6MM dollars to play with it, but, having tried things like nushell i came back to zsh after i realized that is too much of an investment for something that can disappear in 5 minutes, get poisoned by VC money or be out shined by the next bright thing, and you are competing with 100s of little binaries and ways to do things that have been around for decades here. also i find those star graph so cringe, who cares?, is someone going to decide to use this based on that?, i mean that trend can be cause of a marketing move, that is.it says nothing about the project it self.

nice to know, kind of suspected that. for me, a good non sleep night = bye cockroach mode and hello overenthusiastic maniac for a week. quite a ride. 100% recommended.