bev! @TonicBH@computerfairi.es
(aka tonya)
39/pan/trans. she/they.
writes about dumb junk about video games and music sometimes.
your woof friend. may also be bnuuy or kitty depending on mood.
Joined Oct 2017
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We are currently witnessing the fallout from monopolization in the browser space. Back in 2007, Internet Explorer received much criticism for its phishing protection mechanism which transmitted all visited websites to Microsoft servers. Mozilla paired up with Google and designed a different system which performed most checks locally and preserved users’ privacy. That’s what healthy competition looks like.
Fast forward to 2023. Almost all web browsers in use are either Chrome or based on the Chromium browser engine. With the competition pretty much eliminated, Google is now pushing its “Enhanced Safe Browsing” down everyone’s throats – which is a nice sounding name for “every website you visit is sent to our servers.” The Internet Explorer approach from 2007 all over again, only that now it’s Google getting all this data. And they certainly won’t do anything evil with it. Yeah, sure.
Reminder: Firefox and Safari are the only remaining browsers worth noting which are not using Google’s browser engine.
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what the hell is going on
Usually I'm not into the older, pre-1970s quiz/panel shows, but I think the unusual nature of some of these shows warrants giving them a second look.
More tape converting and I've found some interesting stuff that's not on the Youtubes (from a cursory glance):
- A partial episode of The Name's the Same from 1954-55, with Dennis James
- An episode of the short-lived What's Going On?, a panel show that had panelists asks questions of someone who's doing something remotely (a common thing nowadays, unheard of in 1954!)
I anticipate what's on this tape next
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MOUSE10A.ICO - System, Devices
....Joysticks, Keyboards, Monitors, Meeces, Trackballs
love going from extremely sleepy to feeling sick
bodies suck, can I get a new one
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I'm coining the term "nap crush"
for when you like someone so much you'd like to ask them to cuddle and sleep together
help I keep being flooded with cute people on my timeline
trans thoughts
Trans folk seem to always have that one piece of media that they gravitate to that made them figure out they were trans.
Yet I honestly can't think of anything that would apply to me.
Maybe I'll figure it out someday.
Facebook reminded me that about ten years ago while in Seattle for PAX, I got to try out Dick's burgers.
Now I honestly want a bag of Dick's
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selfies, HRT timeline
To commemorate this occasion, I tried to recreate a selfie I took back in 2020, before I was on HRT.
While the differences may not be drastic, they are there.
I always worried I wasn't seeing progress but these pictures show that HRT *is* magic
oh hey it's my HRTiversary.
Two years on those fancy little pills.
Feels great, tbh
today is a special day for me, but I realize it's like almost 3AM here and would be silly to celebrate it at a time when everybody's asleep. 😅
Sometimes you convert a VHS tape and it has something interesting on it.
Other times it's just stuff like Family Guy and the Simpsons, stuff readily available in high quality elsewhere.
Upside is at least the commercials are a nice time capsule from 1999...
New on the Secret Area, it's Slingo Mystery: Who's Gold?
A popular casual game genre, the hidden object game, is combined with Slingo, a web 1.0 classic online game, to... interesting results.
Likes, shares, and comments appreciated, as always.
https://asecretarea.com/2023/08/30/slingo-mystery-whos-gold-pc/
mh, mild loneliness
After returning from Campfire Tails I've been feeling a bit of melancholy.
Being away from my home, to a different place, where I can relax and be myself, was great.
And honestly I wish I could do that more regularly. I want to travel. I want to see folks. Hear their stories.
If only travel wasn't so prohibitively expensive...
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it's a nugs and tots kind of night
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New for Patrons: It's Slingo Mystery: Who's Gold.
A game that combines the web 1.0 online game Slingo with the popular hidden object genre. This game goes places, y'all.
Available now if you chip in $1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/88344100
(aka tonya)
39/pan/trans. she/they.
writes about dumb junk about video games and music sometimes.
your woof friend. may also be bnuuy or kitty depending on mood.
Joined Oct 2017
