Renbymon 💜💛🏳️‍⚧️ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

Protip for phone calls: if you get a call from a number you don't recognize and it's silent for about five seconds before you hear a noise on the other end, it's probably solicitation from a call center and you can hang up.

If it's critical they'll call again. But it never is. It's /always/ spam.

If tech companies enable some feature, _except_ in the EU, then that's an excellent indication that the feature is bad and should not have been built.

to me the smartphone will never be a primary computing device. it is a clumsy little rock in your pocket that you can thumb out messages on, read the news and check the socials.

long live the proper computer, with their proper keyboards, proper clipboards, proper multitasking and proper programmability. the proper computer is where things are made. the pocket rock is for dicking around on at bus stops

Generative AI is a disaster for the climate - keep that in mind when you are tempted to use it.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/generative-ai-triples-the-carbon-dioxide-emissions-from-data-centers

It's talk like a pirate day! Here I go:

"I just want to access the media I already own in a portable format that I can watch or listen to in high quality on all my devices without DRM or adverts."

Did I do it right?

Stream Alert!
Today!
9pm London (UK) time!

I fixed a bunch of the technical issues I had on the last stream, so hopefully it'll be a better time XD

We're going to be trying fighting game for the first time in over 20 years!

We'll be trying to answer questiones like these:
- Does our ancient knowledge have any use in today's games?
- Do these games really need us to be 20 years younger to be any good at them?
- What the hell is up with all these energy bars!?
- Are we just going to stomped into the ground by our Playstaion?
- and more!!!

https://www.twitch.tv/garrwolfdog

The UX sins worthy of capital punishment in my opinion:

1) stealing focus for any reason other than to inform the user of a world ending emergency
2) and by extension, any kind of popup modal the user did not explictly ask for
3) moving the user's scroll position if they are ANYWHERE other than the tip of whatever feed they are perusing.

Essentially - anything that demands the user look at something they didn't explictly chose to. Notify users, of new info, don't demand they see it.

kobold coffee!

Not much to him, just a kobold holding coffee, sat on his own tail. (And he's got a leather belt with a pouch!)

#doodle #furry #furryartwork #sticker #kobold #scalie

I've put off posting this cause I didn't get it done in time for pride month, but here's a piece I did for my girlfriend and I since we didn't get to go to any pride events this year 💖🏳️‍🌈  #furry #furryart #pride

Current reporting from NYT and others (gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/17/world/israel-hamas-war-news?unlocked_article_code=1.LU4.yQNN.lrxL0ef79K2O&smid=url-share) essentially confirms the speculation: Supply chain tampering with a new batch 3000 pagers from Taiwan ordered by Hezbollah involving adding 2oz of explosive material near the battery. Reports of 2800 injured, implying that essentially all of them went off, apparently nearly simultaneously, suggesting this was not targeting particular individuals (just anyone with a pager in the batch). At least nine deaths so far.

Radio CESA

Brief look at the PSX stream setup I did for last year's Silent Hill stream, where I made a buffer that matched to the game's native resolution* with a PSX-rendering-style vtuber, & NTSC processing for the final render.

[*aside from the menu resolution, which I do go over how I preserved elsewhere]

What they say: "read between the lines"
What they mean: "I'm demanding that you pick up an idea which I am refusing to put down"

It's hard to get more rude than saying that.

#actuallyautistic

Own your media.

Own your networks.

Own your means of computation.

everything i read about the massacre in lebanon is even more horrifying then the last thing I read. it's like the start of a movie that i'd decry for being so stupid that they'd make the villain do something so pointlessly and horrifyingly evil. and instead it's something my country supports wholeheartedly. how am i supposed to support anything except the death of america with every fiber of my being huh

Installing Kernel-level Anti-Cheat is the equivalent of giving someone a key to your backdoor of your house and letting them take whatever they want without your permission.

Tim Sweeney and his ass backward takes on Linux are so stupid. I get the feeling he tried to install Linux one time, and fucked up so bad and swore it off forever as "too difficult" to use.

#linux #anticheat #windows