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2007 GOOP QUOP - $8793

its fucked that people will work on their indie video game for literal years and then sell it for less than the price of a bandcamp MP3 download of a 20-minute-long live set EP

The head of Anbernic R&D has a long standing beef with the guy behind ZPG/GKD & it is admittedly kind of funny sometimes. He said Anbernic would never do a 1:1 aspect ratio handheld because it was stupid but then the Unicorn was announced and suddenly they can't make one fast enough

hackers are really rational people who truly think for themselves, unlike all other people

(don't ask about Club Mate, Lenovo ThinkPads, Engelbert Strauss and Paulaner Spezi)

in case folks haven't been following along, new Fosstodon instance owner Gina has, at this point, repeatedly doubled down on the idea that instance founders Kev and Mike were victims of "harassment" for the innocent little oopsie of openly sheltering a fascist on their moderation team.

yesterday, she escalated that rhetoric, calling it "outright abuse at worst."

those of you who defederated from Fosstodon can rest assured that the new boss is the same as the old boss.

#fosstodon

midas touch? no no i said mid-ass touch. everything i touch turns mediocre

@navi play to their FOMO by showing scrolling linkedin headshots of their colleagues who already consented

When the revolution comes for the Silicon Valley tech industry, they will make sure the CEOs have consented to their beheading by asking them:

Do you want to be beheaded?

• Yes
• Maybe later

i have written a post. it's long, entirely personal, and it makes me feel very vulnerable.

on socialization, social media and emotional maturity, or: how i learned to stop worrying and become the change i wanted to see in the world

https://maple.pet/blog/on-social-media

Today on oneterabyteofkilobyteage, a Geocities page that mentions nostalgia for the 90s web.

🔗 https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/783245592035000321/

🔗 https://web.archive.org/web/20090830011044/http://geocities.com/SouthBeach/Docks/9187/

🔗 the essay: https://web.archive.org/web/20090804031938/http://geocities.com/SouthBeach/Docks/9187/anessay.html (viewing through the Wayback Machine a page that mention the Wayback Machine. This whole post is very meta).