soni

• Libre™️ clones of 90s FPS games (development abandoned ~10 years before boomer shooter revival¹)
• several billion different bespoke config file formats that should have been replaced by XML or something at least 20 years ago
• extremely accurate console emulators that, by the grace of god alone, have not been DMCA'd out of existence by Nintendo and co.
• the stupidest idea you've ever heard in your life, which has somehow also become a pillar of modern computing
• tiny program that fixes this weird problem you've been having on just about every computer you've owned in the past ten years (cannot be built with modern compilers, only prebuilt executables are 32-bit and require libc2 to be installed)
• oh shit there's actually some really good applications here (Firefox, Audacity, LibreOffice, Krita, Telegram, etc.)
• perfectly fine programs rewritten in Rust/Go/${TRENDY_LANG} by extremely annoying narcissists who act like they've just changed the world (they suck at programming and their implementations run like 4x slower than the original)
• xscreensaver! let's fucking go!

1. rip in peace OpenArena, Sauerbraten, Tesseract, OpenQuartz, Red Eclipse, Warsow², AssaultCube, and so on. you will not be forgotten.

2. actually on second thought fuck you Warsow. mwaga, if you're reading this, chug a dick.

call it malloc (malevolent alloc)

One step closer to a spoon-fed streaming service media future if no one steps up to fill their massive shoes

it's unfortunate.

fyi, the private tracker TorrentLeech has opened registration for a "very limited time" using the code REFUGEERARBG.

the announcement of the iPhone permanently broke all business people's brains

the announcement of the iPhone did these things:

• announced on a big stage in a big event by a celebrity CEO
• announced with the thrust that it would be *the future*
• announced as though this was a historical event
• delivered on these things

now every inventor thinks all new inventions need to be announced this way IN ORDER TO BE big and futuristic. the invention that starts small and slowly increases in relevance is taken for granted in favour of big publicity stunts and showmanship. there is always a quest for the "next iphone" and so CEOs are convinced they need to only look for big, showy, "dangerous" products instead of smaller, working products

Elon Musk is the perfect example of this where he is more of a celebrity than an inventor and doesn't actually invent anything but insists on announcing it on a big stage in order to capture that iPhone magic

...and he's not alone, tech feels like it's full of these guys now- it's become less about making useful products and almost entirely about publicity and loud press demos

Elon Musk is Steve Jobs repeated as farce- (for all the criticisms I have about steve jobs, he at least seemed to be able to turn a product) it is all show, it's all smoke and mirrors, there's no product except the feeling of witnessing history, captured and repackaged for people who were dissappointed they missed the iphone. the showmanship IS the product. and it's farcical