Readit NewsOutside of identification, "Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares" and "Radical Mycology" are good reads too.
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> It may end up having a much larger impact than reddit corporate anticipates.
Is unlikely. I'm not adding an opinion on whether or not this is a good move, or a user-friendly move.
There is absolutely zero way they're unaware of the impact and I guarantee you they have thought this move through thoroughly.
I’ve stopped playing video games for the most part as the impact and sense of wonder just isn’t there for me the same way it is when I play D&D with my online compatriots. We’re even meeting up later this year! It’s been a fantastic experience.
On the topic of D&D tabletop becoming more advanced, Stable Diffusion now has models that can be used to take a simple Donjon map and make it more detailed and add a theme and colorize it. Type a theme like “in hell”, use the model, and use Controlnet’s edge detection. Boom, mostly automated D&D maps that look pretty dang good for a DM.
A few more steps and you’ll be able to automate most of the process, provided interesting NPCs and everything in a self contained adventure that the DM can then tweak.
But should we ignore Solid? The project started in 2016. Can you _do_ anything with it yet? You can "start a pod", but all the apps are clearly written to demonstrate the platform features rather than to _do_ anything or meet any user need. Of the ones listed, I couldn't actually get any to work with a newly created pod.
https://solidproject.org/users/get-a-podhttps://solidproject.org/apps
The BBC just announced that they're hosting Solid Pods for personal data, allowing users to control access to their information[1][2].
The government of Flanders is hosting Solid Pods for citizen data[3].
Solidproject.org is a community-led project, but I'd recommend trying out going through our docs at https://docs.inrupt.com under "getting started" if you'd like to play around with it. Feel free to let me know if you have any issues or questions.
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-10-social-tv-and-personal...
[2] https://advanced-television.com/2022/10/27/bbc-social-tv-per...
[3] https://inrupt.com/blog/digital-flanders-reconnects-citizens...
At some point recently they changed it to ask you every time you visit. There used to be an option to disable the mobile app ads. Funny that that's the only thing they've changed in six years (I left late 2016.)
Every so often my company would provide lunches for the developers. However, they didn't want to spend too much money doing this. So how did they resolve it? They put together a committee of devs to discuss lunch options/etc. Easily 1+million/year of salary in one room debating whether we do Jimmy Johns or McDonalds and how they'd get the food to the office.
For $2000, you can get some pretty nice catering for 100 people. But like you said, people just seem bad at thinking of that sort of big picture.