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jake4480

@jake4480@c.im

Writing HTML since 1994. Salesforce stuff since 2009. Into music, art, science, etc. Married. Living on Hohokam land.

Sometimes I write at
https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com.

Black/trans lives matter. He/Him.
Racism/other bigotry = block.

#indieweb #weirdweb #roguelikes #arcadegames #shootemups #shmups #cats #horror #movies #tv #photography #punk #punkrock #garagerock #metal #deathmetal #brutaldeathmetal #antifascist #Wordpress #writing #writers #fedi22 tfr #nobridge #nobot #nokiddin

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jake4480, to random
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Designers now always make things for regular and dark themes but unbelievably fail to include Hotdog Stand

jake4480, to DOOM
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Thomas Rinsma got Doom working on a credit card swiper - attached here is a video of it. His blog post breaking down the process of porting it is wild: https://th0mas.nl/2022/07/18/porting-doom-to-a-payment-terminal

Doom being played on a credit card terminal. The buttons fire and move the player. When a credit card us swiped, the door opens.

jake4480, to random
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jake4480, to history
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This interactive website called Ancient Earth made by Ian Webster for The Dinosaur Database in 2018 is wild. It has a 3D view of Earth you can manipulate - you can grab the Earth and move it in any direction, zoom, etc.

You enter a location in the search field, it marks it with a 📍 and then you can change the date to see what fossils or dinosaurs were in an area (your area!) through all different periods of history.

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth

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Yet ANOTHER reason not to use Spotify. (How many do you need?)

Demonetization of lesser performing songs so they don't have to pay artists the already miniscule amount they barely do? Check.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/spotify-has-now-officially-demonetised-all-songs-with-less-than-1000-streams-3614010

jake4480, to Discord
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If you use Discord, you might wanna know this.

A service called Spy Pet is scraping Discord servers, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity, and then selling access to that data.

Spy Pet scrapes more than 10,000 Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, it offers the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website.

Spy Pet claims to be tracking more than 14,000 servers, 600 million users, and includes a database of more than 3 billion messages.

(The article is paywalled probably, etc but it's here) https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages

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jake4480, to art
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Paul Lehr

jake4480, to Horror
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In today's wild movie news, Maggie Gyllenhaal is directing a remake of the 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein, apparently? 🤯

It'll star Penelope Cruz as the bride, Christian Bale as Frankenstein and Peter Sarsgaard playing a detective? Looks like they're starting production on it this year. That's gonna be a must-see for me 😂

https://www.fangoria.com/original/maggie-gyllenhaal-bride-of-frankenstein-production

#horror #BrideOfFrankenstein #frankenstein #film #movies #HorrorMovies #HorrorNews #MovieNews #MaggieGyllenhaal #thrillers #ChristianBale #PenelopeCruz #PeterSarsgaard @horror

jake4480, to random
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Don't ever let anyone tell you that you have "too many" tabs open. That's none of their damn business. You don't need that negativity in your life

jake4480, (edited ) to music
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It's after 10pm here on a Saturday night, and my music-finding post is finally done and posted! ⚡

I know we all find music in different ways, and I wanted to write a bit on it. These are my methods and tools. Comment away on your own methods and tools-- I'd love to see everyone else's process, too!

Thanks to everyone who inspired this post, including in HUGE part @buffyleigh @starshaped and @Defiance.

Also tagging @HailsandAles @bendaubney @hl @skullvalanche @wendigo @DanielTuttle @BlueGambit86 @cory and I hope that anyone else that reads it and likes it gives me a shout.

https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/finding-new-music-tips-and-tricks

#music #IndieMusic #tech #MusicAddicts #Bandcamp #mp3s #FLACs #MusicFinding #FindingMusic

jake4480, to punk
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Here it is, my top 20 albums of 2023. It's not ALL metal, although there's a lot of metal. I know not everyone likes metal (or brutal death metal) - but there's some rap, some punk, a little post punk- actually, my top 3 here are all non-metal.

As always, let me know your thoughts, especially if you check some of them out, or already have.

https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/my-top-20-favorite-lps-of-2023

jake4480, to Horror
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The trailer for the upcoming Toxic Avenger movie (with Peter Dinklage, it doesn't have a release date yet) is now on YouTube, and it's KILLER (I'm not linking, there's gore and much swearing - even in the trailer! 😂 ) but find it and check it out if you're into weird, gross and funny stuff like I am.

BEYOND psyched for this movie.

jake4480, (edited ) to fediverse
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Edit to my original post here to remove the image etc as Feditrends no longer appears to have the 3 tab design they once did.

Anyway, Feditrends is still a good spot to see what's trending on the fediverse, that you can add to your RSS feed:

https://feditrends.com

jake4480, (edited ) to random
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I've been a huge Foo Fighters fan since early on (I was a big Nirvana fan in the 90s too). I was psyched to get to see Foo in 1996 (edit: originally said 1995) at UMBC (a college!) right after the first album, and then again a couple years later, when they were at a big arena show.

Yesterday I went through and made a fully chronological playlist of ALL my favorite Foo songs-- 49 of them on this list. Even covers and b-sides in here - might be something you haven't heard yet! Dave is a great songwriter. No ballads or anything too light, ALL (mostly) heavier ones here.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUo1OYrFf_Np74uQhJwMY_zzkwhfLPPU0&si=n4kenBjhuDVWldKz

jake4480, (edited ) to PCGaming
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32 years ago today on May 5 1992, one of the greatest games of all time (and forever my favorite first person shooter), Wolfenstein 3D, was released. I wrote about it for the list of 20 video games I can't stop thinking about (https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/20-video-games-i-cant-stop-thinking-about). I still play it regularly. Sometimes weekly. Killing digital Nazis is always fun and therapeutic.

You can play Wolfenstein 3D FREE in browser here: https://dosgames.com/game/wolfenstein-3d) and you can also download it free and run it on your own machine via DOSBox. Wolf 3D is also on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2270/Wolfenstein_3D) for a few bucks, and on the Microsoft store (the port of the 360 version). Now if they'd only port it to Switch! 😂

Happy birthday, B.J. Blazkowicz. 🎂

jake4480, to random
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It's the age of bookmarking something on YouTube when you're mobile so you can watch it later with a browser that has adblockers

jake4480, to spiders
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Scientists translated spiderwebs into sound and it is AMAZING. 🤯

Several videos of the sounds that were generated are here, as well as explanations as to how they were made, etc:

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-translated-spiderwebs-into-music-and-its-absoutely-stunning

jake4480, to n64
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Upset this doesn't exist (graphic made by FakeHandshake).

Question is, would it be a platformer, rpg, racer, shooter..? 🤣

jake4480, to random
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Sometimes when I make my wife oatmeal I like to put in a little oat milk as well, just as a reminder to the regular oats that I could grind them even smaller if I wanted to

jake4480, (edited ) to random
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This week's is , the first song you remember hearing live. That's an easy one for me - my first show was Foo Fighters at UMBC in 1996, I was 16. They opened with "Enough Space", but the song I vividly remember was "This is a Call" - still an incredible song all these years later. I had the album, loved it, and was floored to hear it live. RIPPER of a set, too - and it's online here: https://youtu.be/uQncL1LfPYQ

@neurothing

jake4480, (edited ) to ai
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This excellent comic on the history of Luddism by Tom Humberstone https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite led me to this site with folks developing 'Glaze' which is a thing artists are using to mess with AI trying to scrape their art. Check it out here:

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html

Here's to innovation and taking back technology for the people.

#luddism #NeoLuddism #ai #Glaze #innovation #tech #comic #comics #art #artists #history #workers #solidarity #TomHumberstone #GenerativeAI #diffusion #StableDiffusion #midjourney

jake4480, to space
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The Hubble captured a detailed image of an amazing looking part of IC 438, a spiral galaxy located 130 million light-years away in the constellation of Lepus

https://archive.ph/1kvbA

jake4480, to SmallWeb
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Wrote a thing about the web in 2024. Walled web vs. decentralized, HTML, other stuff, I mention @stefan briefly, etc.

https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/02/19/the-state-of-the-web-novelty-booms-and-busts-the-joys-of-simple-html-centric-web-design-personal-websites-the-walled-web-vs-decentralization/

jake4480, to science
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Babe, wake up - we just documented a bunch of wild deep sea creatures for the first time https://www.popsci.com/science/new-marine-species-discovered

A new species of deep sea squid. He's kinda white/translucent. Maybe it's a she. 🤣

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