Take the win.
I mostly just use GitHub for work. I don't think the social media bits matter.
Except stars. I've been told investors use stars as a proxy for interest lately. I see how bots these make a lot of sense.
All this bots stuff reminds me of an off hand part of Anathem. They had this historical arms race of garbage spread on their internet. There's these monk folks who have been fighting it for generations. I thought it was sill years ago. Feels sane now.
Looks like I duplicated this comment. Deleting.
I follow two people. I have no idea why I did that either.
Same as lemmy username
147 people follow me. I have no idea why. I'm boring.
And yet Haymarket was in Chicago.
That was fun. Well done. Thanks!
A government stipend to make public art or open source software or literature or whatever sounds pretty great. It's hard to see how we get there from here. But it'd be great.
France has something like it for artists I think.
I'm the other way. I always thought "picture an apple" was a metaphor.
I tell myself Stardust turned out this way. It sure doesn't start that way. And it's Neil Gaiman which... Feh. I want to remember it as a movie where everyone respects everyone else in the end.
I worked on a project that was open source and then not and now is. The commhnity is gone. Maybe it's just because we're older.