Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

Oh.

Oh no.
#foraging

Me: I don't feel the need to upgrade my PC. It's decent and I don't play any heavy games.
Baldur Gate 3: *exists*
My PC:

This game is called a "Pennslyvania"… it's like a Metroidvania, but you play it with a pen

#SheepOfMastodon #Sheep #Sheepfarming

I ordered a swamp cooler to help deal with this summer heat, but now I worry it might have chosen one that was too big. Should have looked at their marketing materials before I hit buy.

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"a fascinating way to show users the refresh rate of their screen by spinning a specially designed zoetrope-like disc graphic at speed. As it spins, the numbers representing the viewer’s refresh rate should remain visually stable unlike surrounding numbers."

https://cohost.org/lunasorcery/post/2465593-testing-your-animati

I made a zoetrope that shows your browser's animation refresh rate (which is usually the same as the display's refresh rate)

https://cohost.org/lunasorcery/post/2465593-testing-your-animati

I was talking with someone about programming and said that I use the JetBrains IDEs. He said he uses six. I'd never heard of it. He went on to talking about six and why he liked it. After a minute or two, I realized he was talking about vi.

He's been calling vi "six".

Boost if you think trans people are neat 🏳️‍⚧️

Just a reminder, please do add alt text descriptions to your images, videos and audio clips. It will make them accessible to people with visual or hearing impairment.

You'll also get a lot more boosts if you add descriptions, because a lot of people only share posts that have descriptions.

If you forget, don't worry, you can edit your post afterwards to add it 👍

It can take a while to get into the habit, so there's a bot to help you remember at @PleaseCaption

#FediTips

I'd been wondering why I'd heard so little from Naomi Wu lately, and the reason is unhappily worse than Twitter breaking API based post mirroring to Mastodon.

(TL;DR, she's been silenced by the authorities.)

Worth reading in full, as the end includes a brief interview and suggests that her earlier highlighting of the security risks of compromised keyboards to E2E encrypted messaging turned out to be potentially relevant.

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes/

From now on I will be addressed by my proper name, Ram-square root-bigger than or equal to-n

may have gone a little overboard with the cables here

Since this subject seems to resonate with folks every time I've mentioned it, I wrote a blog post on the subject of malicious actors (typically stalkers and trolls) abusing the DMCA takedown notice and counter-notice processes to extort personal information from victims.

https://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/the-dmca-enables-harm/

Different surface patterns on the tower. On each level, the tower will have a different pattern.

I wonder how I can eliminate the visual banding in the texture mapping.

“When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound recordings as they were originally created, they go to libraries like the Internet Archive. Both are needed. There shouldn’t be conflict here.” - @brewsterkahle

Read our full statement about the recording industry lawsuit against our library: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/