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gregly

@gregly@retro.pizza

Ruby dev. Previously embedded-dev. Former “gifted” child. Frustrated creator. 45. Married, heteroflexible, cis, he/him.

You have nothing to prove. Be unapologetically yourself, for one day you shall die.

#fedi22 #fish #dogs #music #gamemusic #gamedev #programming #ruby #videogames #tech #electronics #retrogaming #retrocomputing #startrek #doctorwho #scifi #adhd

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gregly, to mastodon
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I’d love to see (and/or clients like ) provide the feature to… I’m not sure what you’d call it, actually. It would let you put a certain person under a persistent “content warning”, in the case where you might not want to block/mute them, but they have the tendency to post non-CWed stuff a lot.

Maybe you could call it “screening” or “blurring” — something like that.

gregly,
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@heyfluxay Well shoot, I learned something new today!

gregly,
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@Mlep Yeah, @heyfluxay also pointed that out, and I didn’t realize you could still view posts underneath filters — that’s fantastic!

gregly,
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As has been pointed out to me, filters in already work this way, which I hadn’t realized. I thought they functioned like mutes on the birdsite, but you can click through filtered posts to see them if you want, which is fantastic!

gregly,
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@heyfluxay does support filtering accounts, but looking into it, I think the account filters work more like mutes (they’re just hidden entirely), so it might not be quite what I envisioned

foone, to random
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I like how quickly a non-project can spiral out of hand. I have a Packard Bell 386 here with a dying hard drive. So I get my roommate to buy me an IDE drive, but it turns out it's also dying and I have to back up a bunch of files off it. so I get a CF to IDE adapter, but then it turns out it needs a 3.5" floppy power adapter, and I don't have one on hand. so I build a cable, then it turns out I can't easily mount the CF card in the hard drive slot, because it's bottom-mounted, not side-mounted

gregly,
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@foone That’s wild. I had an old 286 that used CTRL-ALT-PLUS to toggle the turbo on/off, but I’ve never seen separate keys for the on and off state.

mcc, to random
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I feel in this era of painfully uncool corporate net spaces it is easy to overlook the best thing about the internet is when it is allowed to be fearlessly uncool in a human, organic way https://cohost.org/lutz/post/1907611-if-you-re-not-on-tum

gregly,
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@mcc A long time ago I envisioned a 2D web that was essentially the overworld of the first Zelda game, with each screen (or maybe block of screens) being a different site, and X/Y boundaries being akin to two-way hyperlinks between the sites.

Adjacent sites would be pinged by the “browser” ahead of time, and if they were offline, some sort of magic barrier would appear there to prevent passage.

gregly,
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@mcc @gkrnours In junior high and high school I had a friend with a subscription to The Sierra Network, and it did the whole “physical neighborhood” thing too. It truly was the Time of Skeuomorphism. 😆

gregly, to random
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The dark patterns that services make you jump through to cancel them should be absolutely, 100 percent illegal. None of this “you need to call us and sit for 15 minutes while desperate salespeople do everything in their power to retain you”.

We need a law that says “a service must allow you to cancel it in the exact same manner that it lets you sign up for it”. If you can sign up online with a click, you should have the right to cancel in the exact same way.

AbandonedAmerica, (edited ) to random
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Look, there's a lot of anger and dissent in the Fediverse about the launch of Threads, but can we all at least agree that it is going to be utterly hilarious to watch Musk pretending he's not not crying as the last shreds of the platform he paid billions of dollars for go swirling down the toilet?

Screenshot from @noturtlesoup17

gregly,
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@Hey_Beth @AbandonedAmerica @bigheadtales This, right here. I think he was fine, even amused, with Twitter flailing around and hemorrhaging money, as long as it was mostly the peasants getting hurt. But now someone of his class is beating him, and that’s probably infuriating the guy.

gregly, to random
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Final Fantasy’s social network service is called Chocobo, and each post is called a Wark

trixter, to random
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This morning I dusted off a ~10-year-old "Ultrabook"-style laptop with a dead battery (physically disconnected so as not to burn the place down) and installed a fresh version of Linux Mint on it in hopes of returning to a dedicated torrent seeder. I know there are probably more modern ways to do this but they cost money I didn't already spend 10 years ago.

gregly,
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@trixter I’ve been considering something similar, especially with Paramount pulling all of Star Trek Prodigy from their service.

It’s hilarious that streaming services drastically decreased piracy, only to have their greed bring it back into vogue once again.

gregly,
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@trixter The waste just infuriates me, all so they can do a tax write off, in an age when we should technically be able to host almost every piece of media that has ever existed and make it available to the whole of humanity.

gregly, to Electronics
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I learned from the Tech Time Traveler’s most recent video that Don Lancaster, prolific designer and publisher of many articles and books, including the seminal TV Typewriter Cookbook, died last month. It’s made me think I should dig out my dad’s old copy of the book and re-read it. I think that book is one reason why I originally went into embedded systems development after college.

gregly, to mastodon
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If you are new to and anyone tells you the like/star button “does nothing”, THEY ARE WRONG.

It tells the poster you liked what they posted. It provides positive and encouraging feedback. It did the same thing on Twitter before all their algorithmic bullshit.

You are allowed to like something without boosting it, and letting someone know that you do is valuable and spreads good feelings and community engagement.

mcc, to random
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If I pour an entire bottle of handsoap down the sink/bathtub/toilet will it do anything bad to the plumbing system

gregly,
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@mcc I literally 3D-printed an adapter that lets you screw one bottle of Softsoap into another one so you can easily consolidate bottles because I’m a total nerd

Also, I lost the adapter because I am ADHD, so 🤷🏻‍♂️

GrimmReality, to random
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GUY WHO REALLY LIKES IPAs: You know what's great about -

ME: SHUT THE FUCK UP, GARY.

gregly,
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@GrimmReality I’ve wondered at times if enjoyment of IPAs is genetic, like how cilantro tastes to people. To me all IPAs taste like drinking conifers. I simply can’t stand the taste of hops.

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