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deadsuperhero

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Somewhat ridiculous. The clump of brain cells responsible for We Distribute, VidCommons, and Brands.Town. Goofy but lovable, passionate about many things.

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deadsuperhero, to random
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It’s so messed up that OS vendors just assume it’s okay to throw ads onto your desktop or your phone. My Samsung just started throwing them in my notifications, and there’s no way to turn them off.

I didn’t want to have to root my phone and install a different version of Android on it, but this is downright hostile.

deadsuperhero,
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@lightspill Even updating your apps is nonsensical! It’s all tucked under your user menu, then hidden under the inactive tab.

It’s comically bad usability.

deadsuperhero, to random
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My brain is so tired.

LALegault, to mastodon
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This is how will whitewash their censorship. While now actively bans and hides the profiles of people advocating for Palestinian liberation citing “Holocaust inversion” they put someone on their board to appear like they care, who does not in fact, have a mastodon account:

https://wedistribute.org/2024/05/mastodons-board-members/

deadsuperhero,
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@LALegault This person literally has a Mastodon account: https://mastodon.social/@alshafei

sqhistorian, to random
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I'll be streaming more Police Quest II in ~10 minutes or so. I'm a bit knackered today so don't expect a whirlwind entertainment spectacle or anything. (Boy, I'm really selling this, aren't I?)

Watch: https://twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian / https://youtube.com/spacequesthistorian

deadsuperhero,
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@sqhistorian Just so you know, Spectra now supports streaming as well. 🙂

https://wedistribute.org/2024/05/streaming-obs-studio/

deadsuperhero,
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@sqhistorian There’s no requirement to do so, but it’s pretty much a bog-standard RTMP endpoint.

deadsuperhero, to random
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It’s kind of funny to see people freak out about systemd, when Microsoft is building a moment-to-moment surveillance system.

I don’t doubt that this could be a useful tool, but the potential for harm makes it completely fucking dystopian. That it’s also a black box that you can’t examine the source code of makes it way worse.

deadsuperhero,
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@gellenburg FreeBSD is pretty great. I’m still in the Ubuntu world these days for convenience, but if Canonical keeps up with the bullshit, I may strongly consider it!

That, or Debian, I guess.

deadsuperhero, to random
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I’ve been really, really getting into Jim Croce, after a recommendation by a coworker. I think what I love most about this guy is that he can really tell a story through his music. This is a guy that worked all kinds of odd jobs to support his family, while also pursuing his dream of music.

Jim Croce was the salt of the earth. He was thoughtful, heartfelt, and incredibly funny. His music was a beautiful marriage of 70’s rock with hints of blue collar workin’ man country.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1SULVCWbFUI

deadsuperhero, to random
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Do you ever get a sad pang of nostalgia about the place you came from? Do you look back at a town, and get sad about the potential it once had, and despair the decline it met instead?

deadsuperhero,
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I feel that way about Peoria, Illinois, and the surrounding area. It was once prosperous. As a kid, it was on the up-and-up.

But, that city has long been a symbol of its own problems: an abandoned downtown, companies that mostly offer dead-end careers, and a frustrated, depressed population that would rather live anywhere else.

deadsuperhero,
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After Caterpillar moved their headquarters, there’s been a black hole in the economy there. Cat used to employ thousands of people in the area - blue collar, white collar, you name it. It propped up everything around it - small businesses, restaurants, bars, and music venues.

That place just feels like it’s barely holding on now. It would take a lot of work to improve anything, from starting businesses to making transit more accessible to getting rid of food deserts. Everything depended on one company for like 80 years, and the layout and flow of things required workers to live in small towns half an hour away.

The Midwest in general just feels kind of fucked nowadays.

deadsuperhero, to random
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Some days, I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing.

onepict, (edited ) to random
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"Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing".

Joe MacMillan
Halt and Catch Fire Pilot.

deadsuperhero,
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@onepict Absolutely incredible series. It was a great insight into what being at the center of the desktop revolution and the explosion of the World Wide Web was like. It’s also a great musing on failure, due to how we sometimes prioritize the wrong things.

deadsuperhero,
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@onepict I’d also go as far to say that the bean-counting tendencies of business makes it difficult for them to take risks or do things that are new and visionary.

We see that with The Giant, which was an engineering achievement, but also removed all traces of personality to instead focus on specs and releasing on time. What Cameron was originally doing with it was special, and different, and the unveiling of the Macintosh was a big realization for Joe that he fucked up.

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