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> Python needs a version 4 to make a clean break

The tragedy of Python 3 is that they made the community go through a billion dollar migration but didn't tackle any of the hard stuff. And the reason they didn't was the Perl 6 debacle. So it's all Larry Wall's fault.

I am almost in that age range but the older I get the less interested I am in AAA titles. Indie games is where it's at.

True but there is no way it would be implemented in such a half-assed way at any other big company (including pre-Musk Twitter).

Stuff like this makes it obvious that the people who are still there no longer give a fuck, they just do what they are told with the minimum effort required to collect the paycheck.

That grace period has long passed. If you are still there at this point you have made a choice.

(Removed "complicit" because I don't like the way that sounded)

For language runtimes that don't normally have to deal with C baggage having to drag libc into your address space and going through libc code for syscalls makes this a less secure platform.

It's even better than that, for just $1/year they can get their bot accounts certified as a "real human".

You are holding it wrong, in Wayland every frame is perfect.

> IRC lost to Discord years ago.

A couple of years ago you'd have told me the exact same thing but with s/Discord/Slack/

IRC has "lost" many times before and yet it's still around while the previous "winners" are all gone or irrelevant. Even if Discord is tolerable today how long before it becomes terminally enshittified?

> Tell me what happened your freenode?

It shat the bed, just like Twitter and Reddit did recently.

The huge difference is that with IRC we were able to painlessly hop over to libera.chat pretty much the same day while a lot of people are still struggling to leave the other two behind. I have learned my lesson, it's open services for anything important.

In that scenario Musk fills the "useful idiot" role.

I am not really convinced though, I think it's just plain old incompetence and hubris. But then, it's 2023 so who knows.

They are literally throwing away revenue with every denied impression. An act of desperation obviously. My take: they broke something and need to shed load to keep the site running. The "extreme scraping" thing is the usual Musk BS.

Yeah, it really is "destroy".

Let's say that you are the proud owner of a goose that lays golden eggs. "fixing" would be switching it to a different feed that might make it more productive, or it might make it sick. But this year the trend is to give it a few good kicks to see if that helps.

That's Musk-speak. Translation: "we broke shit again and need to shed load to keep the site up."

I wish it would stays that way though so that I wouldn't land on the site by accident.

This gets parroted a lot but it's the wrong way to look at it. The Fediverse doesn't need to "win". It just needs to be good enough for those of us who use it.

I am giving it the same treatment that facebook and twitter get. No more contributions, Redirector entry to a libreddit instance in case I land on a link.