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blaft, 3 months ago to random

Aaand it's done! 187 backers!

A gazillion thanks to you all! We're really looking forward to finishing up the book 🙏

philpem, 3 months ago to random

I've had the CCTV system fully installed for a week (and partly installed for about a year), and it's had one noticeable effect: the local rogue-traders don't knock on my door any more.
That and I always win the "where did they hide the parcel" game with the local parcel delivery guys :D

misty, 3 months ago to random

“If you are the stingray at the center of a pregnancy scandal, you are probably doing fine because you have no concept of social media.” https://defector.com/charlotte-the-ray-did-not-have-sex-with-a-shark-so-stop-asking

misty, 3 months ago to random

Important note: this is the official crab gauge. Please keep a copy for your records.

misty, 3 months ago to random

@blaft For tiers that include your previous ebooks, do backers get those right away when the campaign ends, or once the new book is ready?

misty, 3 months ago to random

Is there any official discussion going on anywhere about how mastodon admins are defending against the spam attack, or official discussions of first-party spam moderation tools? I've been checking the official Mastodon and Mastodon Engineering accounts; I'm not aware of any official accounts I could be checking other than core developers' personal accounts.

vga256, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Canada

if you grew up in canada, you probably had these in your pencil case 😆

i can practically smell them

#canada

misty, 3 months ago to random

Had the unsettling realization that with Mastodon being eight years old now, at this point in Twitter's life it was already one year into Gamergate. In a year Mastodon will be as old as Twitter was when Mastodon got started. It still feels so new; where does the time go?

misty, 3 months ago to random

Hard not to feel like this spam attack is the end of an era for Mastodon. The possibility of doing this has always been here, but now that it's actually happened we're going to see it happen more often.

The fact that smaller hobbyist instances have been the main vector for this is going to have knock on effects on other small hobbyist instances.

jeffgerstmann, 3 months ago to random

If you have a love (or, dare I say it, a "love") of games like Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Link: The Faces of Evil then you really owe it to yourself to get a look at Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2mbo3xyoUo

renkotsuban, 3 months ago to random

Getting hit hard with Japanese spam from the following Misskey instances, highly recommend blocking them:

• m.mxin.moe (edit: has since closed registration)
• cunnyborea.top (cw: CP)
• social.cutefunny.net (cw: CP)
• friendsyu.me (this is the only one that has closed registration so far to try and stem the tide)

#fediblock

misty, 3 months ago to random

Oh dear. It's very funny that Air Canada tried to pull the “well, the AI chatbot lied, not us" as a legal argument. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-s-chatbot-gave-a-b-c-man-the-wrong-information-now-the-airline-has-to-pay-for-the-mistake-1.6769454

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

fuck i love blogs. if i had nothing but time i would just read blogs all day.

misty, 4 months ago to random

cohost is the greatest website in the history of the world, part two.

cohost user sleeps-darkly put together a ridiculous dynamic post: every time it's loaded, the image in the post gets JPEG recompressed so the quality gets just a little bit worse. In less than a day it's gone from recognizable to an unrecognizable blob.

https://cohost.org/sleeps-darkly/post/4410990-i-want-this-gameboy

misty, 4 months ago to random

Remembering that time I dug up weird build failures that came from a configure script using an ancient flag that hasn't done anything since ca 2002

https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2013/10/19/no-cpp-precomp-the-compiler-flag-that-time-forgot/

acdha, 4 months ago to random

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misty, 4 months ago to random

Google's getting rid of the ability to view cached pages. Even though they weren't a permanent archive, I'm going to miss it. It’s been such a useful way to find copies of pages with the actual search result on dynamic pages where the current version doesn't have what Google found.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/2/24058985/google-search-cache-feature-discontinued

misty, 4 months ago to random

Mac users who have virtualized Windows on M1 Macs: do you prefer Parallels or VMware Fusion? Not sure which option is the one I should be going for.

misty, 4 months ago to random

Came across an interesting development in CD preservation. DiscImageCreator, the low-level CD ripping software, now supports ripping the leadin/TOC and leadout areas. Those normally get skipped, and are just inferred from the rest of the disc's contents and its metadata, but being able to actually archive exactly what was on the disc is quite interesting from a preservation standpoint. https://github.com/saramibreak/DiscImageCreator

Edit: Redumper is able to dump leadin/leadout too: https://github.com/superg/redumper/blob/main/README.md

#digipres

misty, 4 months ago to random

This is completely bizarre. From the description, makes me wonder if Photoshop’s generative AI was involved. I bet we’re going to see a lot of really weird stuff like this from people who don’t pay enough attention to what the software did for them https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/30/georgie-purcell-mp-photoshop-automated-image-nine-news-apology-victoria-animal-justice-party

misty, 4 months ago to random

It's funny how after all these years, GitHub still doesn't support an idea of passing PR ownership off to someone else. Happens to me at work semi-regularly! And yet there's no good way to handle PR approval when it happens.

misty, 4 months ago to random

I really feel like there’s never been a bigger own goal in development history than when developers insisted they be allowed to develop native apps for iOS instead of building on open web platforms. Just imagining a world where the App Store lock-in never happened at all.

There’s real performance reasons why people wanted native apps but I wonder what else could have happened there.