arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es
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I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time: such as randomizers, roguelikes, and gender expression! Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
also at: https://cohost.org/arborelia
Joined Jan 2020
I'm moving to kind.social. @arborelia@kind.social is me.
I haven't hit the button to redirect my account yet because I want to be absolutely sure.
@mcc I just got a Framework. Ubuntu 24.04 works well on it so far, and I haven’t had any of the problems I was afraid of with linux laptops
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It's #BandcampFriday again! For today Bandcamp waives their fees and all proceeds go to the artists!
I feel a little silly promoting my music over and over but I know not everyone who would like my music has heard it yet!
⬇️Click below if you like #synthwave type music!⬇️
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This opinion will be unpopular not because people will disagree with it but because it is incomprehensible
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Today was a special day. I scored 1,016,221 points in classic NES Tetris, the first time I broke the 999,999 maxout barrier.
With that maxout, I became the oldest person to get their first ever maxout at 46 years 319 days.
After I scored that, I learned that today would have been 7-time Tetris world champion Jonas Neubauer's 43rd birthday.
I am FILLED with incredible emotion tonight.
https://clips.twitch.tv/AverageImportantGoldfishHassaanChop-bRfUxo4q5SxEgJvI
@kritischelezer @alice And "we need less polarization" is emphatically NOT the thing to say here.
"oh can't we just compromise on whether gender transition should be criminalized?" No! We cannot!
@alice @kritischelezer Dang I wish I could see edited posts on Mastodon.
Horrific to hear that even the US subsidiary fell into transphobia.
@kritischelezer @alice The Guardian UK is extremely anti-trans, so much that the Guardian US wrote a mild op-ed trying to call them out on it.
If you don't have experience with this, listen to the people who do.
@AeonCypher @Hunterrules0_o@techhub.social @alice replace the word "dangerous" with "life-saving"
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Since I see that a notable VC-famous is now telling us that he wish he'd "stood by" Eich way back, I'd like to tell you a true fact that situation: Eich didn't lose the CEO's job for his (reprehensible) Prop-8 donation.
Everyone wants to believe that's true, because fits nicely into narratives a number of invested camps want to believe, whether it's somebody being ousted for reprehensible views the woke SJW mob somehow pulling down a great leader (tm) but that's not what happened.
@Kimiko_0 @Maverynthia and afaik, they have _also_ been targeted by blocklist drama.
I don’t know what’s going on there but it reminds me of middle school kids reacting to getting bullied by bullying those that are even weaker.
@Kimiko_0 @Maverynthia I have never been able to follow anyone on it. they use irresponsible blocklists that a small queer instance can never come back from.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=zprSxCMlECA
There’s #demoscene, and then there’s this abomination of nature and genius
Somebody must have bet him that he couldn’t make a demo without the computer itself
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(completely fucking up on my first day at the printing press) uhhh maybe nobody will notice
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It's late enough to be hacker hours, if you're as old as I am. Gonna write down a bunch of rambly thoughts about #xz and #autoconf and capital-F Free Software sustainability and all that jazz. Plan is to edit it into a Proper Blog Post™ tomorrow. Rest of the thread will be unlisted but boosts and responses are encouraged.
They seem to have changed development priorities so that handling takedowns and name changes has more than the 0 priority they gave it before.
But they're doing it their way, which means they have to code themselves out of the corner they coded themselves into. I'm glad to see the development but disappointed that they're just _starting_ after two years.
No updates that I know of on the "feeding everyone's code, regardless of license, into a HuggingFace AI" front.
The situation with the Software Heritage Archive might be improving, and they stopped deadnaming me in particular.
I don't want to give them credit for this until they document a process that _other_ trans software authors can use, but here are the updates:
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Imagine if every time you looked up anything in the Yellow Pages or encyclopedia, there was this big section at the top of the page called "Notes from Gary" where some guy named Gary who seems to know about 20% less than the average person just sorta gets to say whatever he wants about the subject, no matter how irrelevant it is.
This is what it's like to use Google now.
lewd, nerdy, bad pickup line
hey girl are you the xz incident? Because you’re a perfect 10 and you can backdoor me anytime
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I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time: such as randomizers, roguelikes, and gender expression! Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
also at: https://cohost.org/arborelia
Joined Jan 2020
