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Menu -> Add-ons and themes -> Extensions -> Find more add-ons: "ublock origin" -> uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill -> Add to Firefox

Why?

Because now that Chrome has dethroned Internet Explorer, one dark lord has been replaced by another:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-warns-ublock-origin-may-soon-be-disabled/

Is Firefox the best Web browser? No, far from it! But it's the *least* bad choice of browser that works with the modern excuses for websites you use.

Flat design has gone too far

I love slopes now?! The speed you can get in this game is incredible. And the song for this bit is so choice.
#KitsuneTails

Kitsune Tails is OUT NOW!! Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.

get it now on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 or itch https://eniko.itch.io/kitsunetails

we're a small underfunded team with a majority queer developers, and while we're punching way above our weight class we need the support of our community if this game is going to be a success. please boost this post, and if you can afford it buy it on steam and leave a positive review on the first day (the text doesn't matter, only the thumbs up, so "i like gay fops" is totally valid as a review)

i also want to prove fedi is powerful enough to make an indie game succeed, so even if you're not personally that into the game, please boost this post? 🙏

#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt

PSA: the default AAC encoder in ffmpeg is terrible even at very high bitrates, you are literally better off telling it to use MP3, even at a similar bitrate (e.g. -acodec mp3 -b:a 256k) https://twitter.com/puella_meiberu/status/1819373771280535810

thinking of changing my server naming scheme to major arcana (it's currently anime girls, and not v good)

Cloudflare is the only company that has ever given literal nazis my mother's phone number, so my opinion of them is slightly worse than my opinion of hot garbage.
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112887890911515501

‪btw… if you want to experience a very accurate version of the heights that dream had reached by the end of the 1990's, Roland's “Sound Canvas VA” plugin is $69 for a lifetime license and will be discontinued on September 1st. just saying.‬

‪but now there is a thing you can (fairly) easily download which, effectively, puts a perfect replication of the original and most legendary General MIDI hardware synth from 1991 right onto your computer. a new chance to experience what it was meant to be. and maybe appreciate it.‬

‪if you care about the General MIDI era and that type of synth like i do, it's very depressing to read about it online. misconceptions abound everywhere. especially for people coming at it from a software perspective, living in a software age, most people won't “get it” i think.‬

i'm really glad that nukeykt made Nuked SC-55, a fully accurate software emulation of the Roland SC-55. the SC-55 is a very important device: it's the original General MIDI and GS synth, used for e.g. DOOM's OST. but most people know it only through bad imitation soundfonts

even the humble SC-55 from 1991 could do a lot more than your average soundfont player. it has many extensions to General MIDI: a song's MIDI data can adjust the parameters of the reverb and chorus effects blocks, remap MIDI controllers, route LFOs, edit envelopes, etc.

I fucked up my repo so bad

And they said memory management in C was hard 😏

i think it would be funny if, should i eventually learn guitar, i only play it through a hexaphonic pickup into a midi converter.

I'm a bit annoyed that non-"smart" gadgets get often called "stupid" or (worse) "dumb"
Can we start using "simple" instead?
I don't have a smart thermostat / fridge / washing machine, I have a simple one!

‪i am sure the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but a side effect of github's awful handling of all this is to promote lock-in to the platform. if the git commit history only makes sense when viewed on github dot com, it makes switching away from it less practical… ‬

‪- github just assumes your display name on your github profile should be attached to commits and gives you no option to change this‬
‪- github just assumes that that your primary login/password reset email address should go in git history and you can't completely disable this‬