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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

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i make music: maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

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if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

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is there a rehab for like tracker musicians who got sexually harassed out of the only communities that they knew and aren't good enough musicians to participate in big demoscene parties so now they're just sad and alone because they don't have anybody to make music with/for

So there is a (IMHO) shady market out there that gives app developers on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows money for including a library that sells users network bandwidth. Infatica [1] is just one example, there are many more.

I am 99% sure that these companies are behind the effective DDoS attacks many webmasters have to deal with since months. This business model should simply not exist. Apple, Microsoft and Google should act.

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[1] infatica.io/sdk-monetization/

it's 2025 and kids still think you'll immediately get ten thousand viruses if you tell someone your ip address

i'm deathly curious to see a decap of one of those fake writeback pc chips cache from the 90s that weren't routed to anything on the motherboard

@tubetime @kenshirriff ?

actually did you know famicon was sharp's family convection oven first and the family computer was never called famicom for legal reasons until sharp and nintendo came to an agreement and that's how you have the sharp twin famicom and why nintendo got to call the sequel super famicom

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thinking about how different cultures shorten popular names

jpn:
"family computer" -> "famicom"
"magnetic video camera" -> "mavica"

gb:
"resident evil" -> "resi"
"sensible soccer" -> "sensi"

i'm getting better and better at opening up a text post field, typing out my inflamed discourse thoughts, and then closing the field without making the post.

i love it when people say something "sounds like midi" like yeah sis it sure sounds like music notation without an associated sound!

i want to build a new text to speech voice for myself (something i will carry around to use to speak), i do not want it to sound human, if you know any cool off-the-beaten-path stuff like this please let me know

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