if you have images that were poorly scaled up (non-integer) with nearest neighbor resampling, here's a script to fix those images: https://gist.github.com/Lana-chan/5b4604c8a03b21a897161afa01bd3542
if you like the stuff i do please support me: https://ko-fi.com/squirrel
if you're in the UK, please email your local MP to express your concerns about the online security bill's E2EE interception clauses.
I put together an email explaining my technical background and my concerns with the bill, and sent it to Nadia Whittome MP. she is still currently supporting the bill despite expressing some concerns, but the email conversation has left her with some key questions about the viability of the nebulous "emerging technologies" purported by the bill's proponents.
begging for help moving.
https://cohost.org/xkeeper/post/2667340-i-am-no-longer-merel
i don't need money, i need locations. i need suggestions. i need help.
I posted about this on twitter already but should've asked on here tbh
How can you dispose of a swollen laptop battery in the UK?
Currys do recycle laptop batteries but I've seen conflicting info on whether they'll accept one in this condition
The local recycling centre Probably will take it but that's a 30min bus journey that I'd have to take with this hazardous object
i really need stable income but since jobs aren't real anymore i'm taking any help i can get. i have a ko-fi you can send money to and there's even some pins left to buy there. i have a patreon where i don't have any rewards because i couldn't think of any and nobody has suggested any yet. you can also get a pixel portrait for a very reasonable price. or you can tell your employer about me
hi i need money would you like to buy some hand crafted pixels #commissions #pixelart https://maple.pet/commissions bring your face, bring a picture, bring a pet, that's right, we'll draw your pet
"Nation-states are a fiction": Yakko Warner stirs controversy with radical refusal to update famous "Nations of the World" song for 2023 geopolitical landscape
Discussing the British Press, and I'm reminded of the time when I had a moderate amount of celebrity in the UK LGBT community, and the press tried to do a hit piece on me.
Now here's the thing. There's a cheat code, and I'm going to explain what it is:
They will contact you for comment.
If you say nothing, they will publish the piece and say you were offered the chance to comment.
If you tell them to fuck off, they will publish the price and say your response was foul and unprintable.
I did neither of these things. I told them that this piece wasn't journalism. It was ridiculous tittle tattle and represented everything that was wrong with a failing and dying industry more obsessed with clickbait than proper reporting. I asked them if they didn't have proper news to report, and said that they should be ashamed of themselves.
They're basically screwed at that point. "We contacted Ms Brown for comment and she said that this was ridiculous tittle tattle and that the reporter should be ashamed of herself."
They're not gonna say that.
I'm struck by something one of my history teachers once said about medieval castles. They weren't meant to be impregnable. They were meant to be annoying enough that an invading army would decide to investigate other priorities instead.
The piece never ran.
If you're a trans person in the crosshairs of the British press, make yourself an annoying target. They're on a deadline, and if you make them conclude that life is too short, they will leave you the fuck alone.