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jame

@jame@wetdry.world

programmer, sometimes also blogger, developer in old versions of roblox, also practicing art and writing and daydreaming about what i am working towards everyday.

send me book recommendations 🙏

my pfp is a dragonfly, my favorite animal!

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jame, to random
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so is there just no way to right click with only a touchscreen on KDE? i'm on wayland and can't find any way to do it

jame, to random
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good morning

jame, to random
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please go watch ONE by cheesy hfj it's on youtube. just go watch it. (actually it's kind of boring at the start but season 2 is so emotionally destroying I'm just thinking about it again that's why im posting this........ go watch it)

jame, to random
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the browser after dealing with the loss of a core developer and the entire project going out and having to be revived by a new developer, as well as the original website being taken over by wordpress SEO slop...

released a new version after 9 years!!! and they are on fedi!

their website said to spread the word in order to support dillo, and you know what? i didn't know they were still at it, so now you know too. so go try it if you have some supremely crappy hardware, i know i do and dillo runs great on it.

thanks besties @dillo :steamhappy:

https://dillo-browser.github.io/latest.html

jame, to random
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i just watched Spirited Away for the first time in my life, at the movie theater, and im not the same person i was 2 hours ago lol. insane movie

kit, to music

in an effort to expand my music library and also share cool stuff, fedi, I beseech thee... lend me your ears (and boosts)

if you listen to, make, or have a friend who makes electronic music that fits any of these descriptions:

  • sounds like the early 2000s, especially if it's some kind of dnb, jungle, or ambient
  • nostalgic futurism that isn't dnb or ambient (and especially not synthwave!)
  • sounds like racing game music from back when it was too good
  • vaporwave but original (as in, not sample based) and not synthwave
  • weird and wacky experimental electronica that can work in the background
  • bass heavy but low intensity music that tickles the brain
  • just really pretty and interesting ambient or drone stuff in general

please drop names and links here. by all means, plug yourself and your friends if you want to

bandcamp, mirlo, faircamp, and similar links are preferable, but any link will do if those aren't available. extra bonus points if creative commons or similar

I think these styles of music are amazing and rather underrated, especially since a lot of the people who like these styles are just playing random youtube mixes in the background, so they have no idea what they're actually listening to or who to support

I also find this kind of music annoyingly hard to discover, which isn't helped by those mixes either, because most of them are either drawing from the same small handful of artists, or just playing video game soundtracks

I want to change that, even if only a little bit. for that reason, please boost

aside from just hoping to spread this post around, I'd love to write about what I hear on my website eventually too, play it during livestreams with the titles on screen, and of course share it with all my non-fedi friends

@electronicmusic

jame,
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@kit @electronicmusic a friend and i might know a few, I'll share in the morning!

jame,
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@kit @electronicmusic ohhhh my i never replied, so here you go. i didnt check if anyone else shared these but if i did consider it a +1 lol
not trying to fit every point to their own song its just what comes to mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLRVEsiIMy0 boy 2000, fits the first one
https://youtu.be/yVWU6NyW0mU Windows96, the best and afaik only vaporwave artist still at it and makes entirely original compositions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LouipVmv1wE idk how much this one fits but Patricia Taxxon maybe for 5 and 6?
https://youtu.be/O6XFQM0Fuuw this and Wrong People by Iwamizu may fit the 6th, the rest of their music is totally different lol
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fquojOReXKE i like this original vaporwave song from 2021
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FisV_OCJDR0 and Hello Meteor's ambient tracks are awesome

i might have more but that's everything i have off the top of my head, have fun!

cc @nick64

davemark, (edited ) to books
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Of the 58,000+ books published per year:

  • 90% will sell fewer than 2,000 copies
  • 50% will sell FEWER THAN A DOZEN COPIES

Great, very readable piece on book publishing and how it's very much like being a VC...

https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

jame,
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@davemark enlightening read, thanks for this!

CultureDesk, (edited ) to books
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It's always been hard to make a living as a writer, but in 2024, it's harder than ever. Dirt has published this depressing but essential essay by David Hill, a union organizer turned author, on the grim reality of writing life. "At the time the National Writers Union was founded [in 1981], $1 a word was considered a bare-minimum rate for freelance writing ... Today it is no longer considered the floor, but a ceiling."

https://flip.it/86ezKz

@bookstodon

jame,
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@CultureDesk @bookstodon fantastic essay

jame, to random
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hi

jame, to random
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i was reminded of a hat i absolutely need to get sometime

jame, to windowsphone
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Anyone remember Mastodon for Windows Phone 8?

jame, to vaporwave
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Windows96's new album, it's so good oh my god :face_holding_back_tears: :face_holding_back_tears: :face_holding_back_tears:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVWU6NyW0mU

jame, to random
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to all birds:

slashdot, to random
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OpenAI Says New York Times 'Hacked' ChatGPT To Build Copyright Lawsuit https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/02/27/1817208/openai-says-new-york-times-hacked-chatgpt-to-build-copyright-lawsuit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

jame,
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@slashdot

> OpenAI said in a filing in Manhattan federal court on Monday that the Times caused the technology to reproduce its material through "deceptive prompts that blatantly violate OpenAI's terms of use."

how is that hacking??

Linux_Is_Best, to random
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The problem about Firefox forks is they are soft forks of Firefox.

Because they are soft forks, they're still following the upstream, and generally still not going far enough to overcome Firefox's shortcomings.

Someone needed to take the plug awhile ago. Now, I'm uncertain if there is still time.

jame,
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@Linux_Is_Best people seriously need to criticize mozilla more

jame, to random
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Upcoming New Years Eve dates:

  • December 31, 2024
  • December 31, 2025
  • December 31, 2026
  • December 31, 2027
  • December 31, 2028
  • December 31, 2029
  • December 31, 2030
  • December 31, 2031
  • December 31, 2032
jame, to random
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i am the FIRST person in the eastern united states to turn on a sega dreamcast in 2024. happy new year

jame, to random
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http://52.28.33.214:5002/ wtf? someone found this on pastebin's recent pastes. it's nothing bad but a very strange survey, and it puts a cookie and ip bans you if you tab out

jame, to random
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jame, to random
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"Average neighbor in Ohio" doorbell cam footage of a guy walking up and showing the camera a countdown to midnight. "Neighbor, neighbor look! It's almost here, it's almost the New Year. Come on... let's go... 3 more seconds... oh here we go..." the clock reaches midnight and he puts his face up to the camera. "I HAVEN'T SHOWERED SINCE 2020!" he yells. Also note all the audio sounds like an Xbox Live call from 2005.

oshy, to random
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The Steam Deck is like a modern Sega Nomad (I want it so bad please)

jame,
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@oshy you will not be let down

MsHearthWitch, to food
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Using. Content. Warnings. On. Food. Posts. Is. Not. A. Neutral. Action.

Hiding food and food talk behind a cw actively harms people. What people? Me, for one. And others. If you claim to use them to reduce harm, please understand you are failing.

Tag food posts. Then people who need can set up their own content warnings. A much more equal approach that seeks actual harm reduction for more people.

jame,
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@MsHearthWitch genuine question how does putting CW on food posts hurt you? i dont really know about this stuff

jame, to random
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i say let it die

mcc, to random
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Something just occurred to me

  • "GNU Imp" is a terrible program
  • Also people are angry about the name
  • By comparison Blender is actually kind of good now
  • Also Blender has a cross platform GUI toolkit good enough it is now used by other applications (eg VCV Rack

Solve two problems at once: Build a 2D paint program on top of Blender's core libraries; name it Blimp

jame,
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@mcc expand the video editor too because kdenlive sucks

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