Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

Sheep and fennec duo who offer a simple service: One of them helps lull you to sleep, the other... is your alarm clock.

bad first day on the job

The story campaign is finally taking shape! Today was very productive. #babaisyou

If you find yourself in the place I did (which, like, the longer you stay here the higher that probability gets), and you DIDN'T back up that .csv, you're gonna at some point vent about this Situation to an actual real-life friend, in person, using your meat mouth, and they're gonna make this face 😱 and they'll be RIGHT to do so and you'll know it.

Seriously I see so many "Hey all the newbies, remember to CW eye contact and food and get off .social ASAP," but I don't see "Back your followers the hell up because beefs between admins you don't even know will silently and irrevocably sever your relationships" posted, like, Anywhere. TBH if it were up to me that'd be the first damn thing the website tells you.

Also while I'm PSAing maybe don't make threads that get so long they've gotta span THREE DANG SERVERS but I know you all are too sensible to do that so that's more of a Note To Self thing

Today on Okazu - I'm In Love With the Villainess and 'The Talk'

'Reality in Anime' Week continues with a discussion about the discussion of Rae's sexuality in I'm In Love With The Villainess.

Take that, Kadokawa.

https://okazu.yuricon.com/2023/10/17/im-in-love-with-the-villainess-and-the-talk/

#urbanism

I wish more journalists covering YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers told the blunt truth about what it really is & why blocking ads is so prevalent:

It's a simple money grab by a corporation that already has too much money (Google).

Google is going after ad blockers because enough people have figured out that ad networks are genuinely as unsafe for their own computers as LimeWire ever was.

Keep #adblocking.

> Dear Professor Church,
>
> Russell had the iota operator, Hilbert had the epsilon operator. Why did you choose lambda for your operator?

> According to Scott, Church's entire response consisted of returning the postcard with the following annotation: "eeny, meeny, miny, moe".

Reminder that if you are on mastodon.art, their admin is blocking you from all of your connections and art clients on tech.lgbt in two days

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It's funny: Both Bandcamp and Patreon had the easiest and most straightforwardly long-term profitable business models imaginable: Sit between indie creatives and their fans, provide some basic services for mediation (comment sections, media posts, semi-global payment) and take enough of a cut of any payments to cover the costs and then some.

But because that business model wouldn't scale forever, they are instead being gutted, because ever _increasing_ growth is the only model capital accepts

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3181017

YouTube uses anonymous information such as [list of very much not anonymous information] to serve you ads

Hey folks, I'm looking for recommendations for pixel artists. In particular, I'm going to need a lot of 24x24-pixel tile art for my environments, and 24x32 (or so)-pixel sprites for my creatures (monsters, robots, humans, etc). Paid work, of course. Looking for recommendations and portfolios!

Roguelike Celebration is an online event of talks about roguelike development, history, and community (and procedural generation, and related things). It takes place in a bespoke MUD, and it's happening THIS WEEKEND!

🎟️Tickets are pay what you want, snag one here https://ti.to/roguelike-celebration/roguelike-celebration-2023

📆 Check out the full schedule https://roguelike.club

You know, without Web3 NFT bullshit, there was a lost era of decentralized gaming back when it wasn't cost effective to have massive servers for users. Old games which used the host/join system. Hell, just games where one client in a LAN also acted as the server computer. I get it, it's just easier to run all your online interactions through Nintendo, but like... Those old games can still go online, whereas everything else just died. That's sad and we should make that a consideration again.

The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky.

https://skyviewer.social

Oh boy. The protocol is absolutely insane. RPC galore, responses are only partially typed. The docs are pretty much useless.

But the "funniest" part is this: there's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs.

All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design.

The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise.

Here are my last 100 posts.

https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?repo=badlogic.bsky.social&collection=app.bsky.feed.post