Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

This might be the single most frustrating bug report thread I've ever read.

GNOME, why are you like this?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288

People are currently dunking on this post that complains about Mastodon link previews DDoSing their servers - and they deserve every bit of it.

Pulling up this site in a browser with no privacy/sanity plugins installed, it made a total of 3740 requests within 4 minutes, which amounted to 267.22 MB transferred. It has ads left, right, bottom and center, and it has one of those annoying autoplaying videos, which ALSO has a video ad in front of it. The website would not scroll even close to fluently, and I'm doing this on a 24-core M2 Ultra Mac Studio with 128 GB RAM. I had to use the `debugger` command in the JS console in order to make the network panel in dev tools stop lagging.

In addition, they quote someone complaining about 114.7 MB being requested from their server over the span of 5 minutes. Not only is that less than half as much as you make a single user download if they don't actively cut into your bloatware crap, it also amounts to a whopping 3.06 Mbit/s that you're complaining about. THREE MEGABITS PER SECOND!

Your website is an insult to the internet.

https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/?cache=bust

🚨 In case you missed it: We filed a complaint against OpenAI on Monday!

Read all about it on The Register 👇

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/29/openai_hit_by_gdpr_complaint/

Commission for Kyowai

In anticipation of the Econet LAN Party at The National Museum of Computing on 18/19 May, I have just released a huge update to Elite over Econet.

Not only does it now run on all 8-bit BBC machines (including the unexpanded BBC Micro), but I've added live multiplayer scoreboards to the mix.

Here you can see six players competing live on three different bridge-connected Econet networks. The scoreboard updates as players play, with Elite transmitting player stats to a central scoreboard machine.

The idea is that you can run competitive Elite events between groups of players, all connected by Econet. You don't need any modern equipment - this all runs on standard 1980s kit - but if you use a PiBridge to connect networks over the Internet, you can even run live international competitions. 🙂

The LAN Party is imminent. Time to hone your Elite skills!

Full details can be found here:

https://www.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_over_econet_scoreboard.html

LAN Party info:

https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28552

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #bbcmicro

A woman of class and distinction

Spotti onstage giving lecture at UC Berkeley yesterday (pic by merrillotter.com on bsky)

I just released v0.0.1 of #httpDOS, a #TLS enabled #webserver for #MSDOS

https://github.com/SuperIlu/httpDOS

#RetroComputing #FreeDOS #DJGPP #mbedTLS #HTTPS

Finally, my small gourds will no longer swing freely in the wind

buy this for your autistic puppy gf so she can communicate with u when she goes nonverbal

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Some Xenia fanart just because #xenia #linux #furryart #magpiart

#AptoApril #15: "Tail"

Sometimes it's nice to take stock of assorted things

Patreon: https://patreon.com/AviYinglet
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/AviYinglet

The yinglet species (and the tailpoof as a relatively common part of its anatomy) were originally designed by Valsalia

most important FFXIV button

Generated art correlates strongly with low effort writing and video. But I keep seeing developer types in my feed reader use generated illustrations without seemingly realising how an increasing number of readers interpret it

And it’s only a matter of time until “generative art = spammy bullshit” will be the majority position because that’s how the economics of it are going to play out. Using extruded synthetic art will not do your writing or video any favours in the long run.

I got tired of YouTube search being 80% made of irrelevant "For you", "Previously watched", shorts, etc
So I made uBlock rules to yeet them, feel free to copy

www.youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has(span[id="title"]:contains("For you"))`
www.youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has(span[id="title"]:contains("Previously watched"))
www.youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer
www.youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has(span[id="title"]:contains("People also watched"))