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jsit, 4 months ago to random

“Subscription” doesn’t feel like an accurate word for all the stuff we subscribe to.

When you cancel a magazine subscription, Time doesn’t come and take all the issues back.

When you cancel a Hulu subscription, you can’t watch the show for which you’ve been paying for months or years.

Do you like your Spotify library? Hope you’re ok with paying for it for the rest of your life.

What do we call these? “Service plans”? “Rentscriptions”?

TheBreadmonkey, 2 months ago to random

Sad to hear they're discontinuing work on the Apple car

jsit, 7 months ago to random

Something else great about alt text on Mastodon is that it’s useful if the image or video doesn’t load because of the fragility of federation.

jsit, 1 month ago to random

If you search Mastodon for “threads.net” you’ll see a bunch of people wondering why they can’t see President Biden’s account, unaware that they are on an instance that did a full suspend on the threads.net domain.

jsit, 7 days ago to RSS

We need an #RSS reader with "Reply" and "Repost" buttons. These actions would occur on a blog you connect with #Micropub or #XMLRPC, and use #WebMentions to notify the originating site.

jsit, 9 months ago to BBC

The #BBC has set up their own Mastodon instance! 🤯

https://social.bbc/about

cc @gbhnews

jsit, 2 months ago to random

God bless Cord Jefferson who used his speech to beg Hollywood to make mid-budget movies again.

“Instead of making one 200 million dollar movie you could make twenty 10 million dollar movies. The next Martin Scorsese is out there.”

#oscars

jsit, 1 year ago to fediverse

I have a crazy and probably terrible idea:

A network of medium-sized, invite-only, interest-focused #Mastodon instances at various subdomains -- movies.social.example, minneapolis.social.example, foodies.social.example, gaming.social.example -- that all relay with each other and operate under the same server rules.

jsit, 1 year ago to random

The superior moralizing that goes on on Mastodon has real “I don’t even own a TV” vibes.

jsit, 8 months ago to random

The best time to stop using Chrome was 15 years ago.

The second best time is now.

jsit, 4 months ago to random

“Hey guys, my name is Tim and I’ll be taking care of you tonight. My irritable bowel syndrome is really acting up today, and recently I started sleeping with my girlfriend’s sister. Can I get anyone started with drinks?”

• T.M.I. Fridays

jsit, 10 months ago to random

I got tired of how every Lorem Ipsum website has tons of intro text that isn't Lorem Ipsum, and it takes one or more steps of JavaScript to actually SEE LOREM IPSUM TEXT...

So I present to the world:

DUMB IPSUM

10kB of pure, raw HTML hosted on a Linode Object.

http://www.dumbipsum.com

jsit, 10 months ago to random

I think we forget that “reduce, reuse, recycle” is intentionally ordered.

First, reduce your consumption.

If you can’t reduce your consumption, reuse the things you consume.

If you can’t do either, then, as a last resort, recycle.

jsit, 6 months ago to random

We need to go back to that thing where everybody just has brandy on hand at all times

jsit, 5 months ago to random

Not sure if this will work…

I want to see some holiday-/winter-themed Calvin and Hobbes strips.

Post your favorites below:

jsit, 6 months ago to ai

As far as I know there is no convention for designating that an image was created with #AI. So I made one.

#AIBadge: A little CC0-licensed badge you can use on your images to show that they were AI-generated.

(Please do not debate the ethics of AI in the replies to this post.)

https://aibadge.org

jsit, 5 months ago to random

Hey! That "full of cheese" "meme" is art by a human named Katie Kirby, who publishes under the name @hurrahforgin

She even has a website where she makes money from her art!

https://katiekirby.co.uk

Her original post is here: http://instagram.com/p/_4_sziihre

jsit, 5 months ago to random

Masto-brained people ask: "Why would people flock to billionaire-owned/VC-funded networks like Bluesky and Threads?"

I hate to break it to you, but that's why they're flocking to those networks.

That model is "normal" and familiar. Something that runs on volunteer work and open software is alien and suspect.

jsit, 7 months ago to random

“The Association of Indigenous Anthropologists requested that the American Anthropological Association officially pause land acknowledgments.”

Huh.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/analysis-how-well-meaning-land-acknowledgements-can-erase-indigenous-people-and-sanitize-history

jsit, 7 months ago to VideoGames

I'm just becoming aware of the fact that people are making brand new #NES games and selling them on itch.io. I've got to try some of these out: https://itch.io/games/downloadable/tag-nes-rom

#VideoGames #Gaming

jsit, 2 months ago to random

No matter what you think of the “influencer” “profession,” if a TikTok ban means that some people will lose their livelihoods, that really says something about our reliance on centralized platforms.

jsit, 5 months ago to random

R2D2 should get a standalone movie. No dialog, no established Star Wars characters. Just R2 bouncing from situation to situation and planet to planet in a low-stakes and lightly comic yet quietly profound series of mishaps.

jsit, 5 months ago to random

A question about media outlets now having a Fediverse presence via #Flipboard:

How many of them know they now have a Fediverse presence via Flipboard? I would imagine a lot of these Flipboard-enabled sites are just the result of someone creating a Flipboard account 10 years ago, hooking their site's RSS feed up to it, and forgetting about it.

jsit, 5 months ago to random

I like the promise of ActivityPub because I can connect with people without using corporate surveillance apps, not because I am prevented from using corporate surveillance apps to connect with people.