mircoxi

mircoxi, 13 days ago to random

What even are the frontends other than Mastodon? I'm sticking with CI as my main instance for as long as it's up, but I'd been meaning to set up an instance for a project I've been working on anyway - if Masto's future is uncertain it seems unwise to go that route? But it's also the only one I'm familiar with >_>

mircoxi, 15 days ago to random

I'm gonna dig out my old semi-finished spec for an AP alternative. I started it a couple years ago as a portfolio piece before depression hit (and getting mocked for writing it in Python and PHP instead of Rust and Go like the big boys), but I have a sudden urge to finish it

I already have test implementations for full account migration, "lifeboats" for when an instance needs to unexpectedly shut down (so folks can just carry on using it without losing anything on the instance they designated as second choice), and encryption between instances (as well as an E2E DM implementation I'm pretty sure I need to re-work)

mircoxi, 15 days ago to random

The "official" Mastodon instance, whenever I look at it, seems to just be techbros* pretending to nominally care about decentralisation, but only insofar as they can shill their startup by saying it supports ActivityPub. With that in mind I'm not terribly surprised Mastodon has lived long enough to see itself become the villain, since it seems like none of them really interact with other instances either

(* techbros and people dipping their feet in who don't know about other instances yet, but those folks aren't at fault outside of maybe complaining that it's not exactly like Twitter)

FlockOfCats, 1 month ago to science

I had a couple things come across my timeline that made me think about how far science, especially space science, has come during my lifetime.

For example, when I was younger, Pluto was not much more than a few blurry pixels of a planet, now it is a richly detailed world (and dwarf planet).

When I was a kid, there were 9 planets, now we know thousands, most exoplanets outside the solar system. Wild to think about. 1/3 🧵

#science #space

mircoxi, 2 months ago to retrogaming

While I wait for stuff to download, here's one for the Playstation fans - it's widely agreed that NTSC releases are better than PAL most of the time. Are there any PAL releases that are better than the NTSC version? PS1 and PS2.

So far I know about Ico for PS2 and Digimon World 2003 for PS1, but that's all so far.

#retrogaming #PlayStation

revengeday, 2 months ago to random

Back in the day when communities were made up of wild PHP code and a MySQL database 💪​

mircoxi, 5 months ago to random

mircoxi, 5 months ago to random

Note to self: Let the ink dry before using a CD

mircoxi, 6 months ago to random

Tries to set KoFi up but in a way that won't dox me if someone donates

God I hate PayPal for not letting you hide your address and use a pen name

mircoxi, 6 months ago to random

mircoxi, 6 months ago to random

I've spent SO much fucking money the last few days that I probably shouldn't have since I'm not employed, but fuck it

It's interesting and that's what matters

mircoxi, 6 months ago to random

Every GitHub repo I try and view is suddenly 404ing, including my own. Wut.

mircoxi, 7 months ago to random

Unironically miss forums and IRC tbh

mircoxi, 7 months ago to random

I don't know if we still do intro posts in this day and age, but yolo.

I'm Jess, 29, Bri'ish, and I go by any pronouns (currently questioning - neutral is always safe, experimenting with she/her).

Amateur game dev, terrible web dev, studying for an MSc in CSec and Information Forensics, and WAY too into retro tech.

I'm relatively new to the Fediverse (I kinda gave up on it way back when Mastodon was first getting popular because of how bad the UX was at the time), so I'll still be figuring things out for a little bit while I look around.

All this to say - hi!