FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I timed AFTER THE THIN MAN on Max (formerly HBO Max) so the new year would strike simultaneously on film and in real life.

After it did, I paused. When I restarted, I got this message.

A good reminder for 2024: physical media doesn’t disappear at midnight.

#FilmMastodon #PhysicalMedia

new on the #linkcache

Internet Artifacts - An online museum of artifacts from the early internet, including a working browser and Flash emulation.

Museum of Obsolete Media - A unique online museum of physical media formats showcasing developments in audio, video, film and data storage.

Wiby - An indexing search engine harking back to the early days of the Web. Make sure to go in the settings and disable the display of HTTPS sites to find some real gems!

https://links.netizen.club

need to walk into a house where it is immediately established what type of architectural style it has and whether the doors to the rooms can be locked #光ハルヒHoliday 10

need a girl to want me to be trapped me in a closed-circle mystery #光ハルヒHoliday 10

‪adults write stories about kids because we feel that kids are allowed to dream‬

‪“why do you like anime, isn't that [usually] for kids?”‬

‪it's made by adults who are proud of their work, and because it's “for kids”, they're allowed to make it joyful.‬

i think certain children's media have such enduring appeal with adults because they have this earnest joy to them that the adult world tries to suppress

@whitequark javascript is a workground that occasionally has a language in it

apparently the only way to get the JavaScript engine to run memcmp() on two typed arrays is...
...
...
to use IndexedDB. which provides a comparison operator. for typed arrays. in the Indexed-fucking-DB namespace. `indexedDB.cmp`. 🤡
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21553528/how-to-test-for-equality-in-arraybuffer-dataview-and-typedarray

time for my favourite european new year's tradition: it's time to watch „der 90. geburtstag“ aka ”grevinnan och betjänten” aka “dinner for one” as it's variously called

Knives are cutlery, forks are stabblery, spoons are scooplery

In 2009, I join Twitter.
I make friends there.
I can see their posts.

Twitter has a Nazi problem.
I pre-emptively join Mastodon.
But I don’t really use it yet.

Elon Musk buys Twitter.
My friends start leaving.
I no longer see their posts.

I want to see my friends’ posts.

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I find my friends again on Mastodon.
Now I have two apps to keep track of.
But I can see my friends’ posts again.

My instance admins get in a fight.
Friends’ instances defederate from mine.
I can no longer follow them, nor they me.
I am told about this by a friend who noticed.
There is no indication given by the software.
I am not notified of the connections I’ve lost.

I want to see my friends’ posts.

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A friend invites me to their instance.
I accept, and migrate my profile across.
I re-follow missing friends I can remember.
And I can see my friends’ posts again.

A friend posts photos on her instance.
But those photos are not visible on mine.
Her profile appears, to me, devoid of images.
My new instance seemingly media-blocks hers.
There is no indication given by the software.

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I just want to see my friends’ posts.

Am I wrong to want that?

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https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/i-want-to-see-my-friends-posts/