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Recently started working on a small addition to Pawperty Damage's photo mode: Have your character strike a pose, for the camera!

(There won't be many poses to choose from, but they'll work with custom characters, too.)

If you're one of those people that doesn't care about privacy because β€œyou’ve got nothing to hide, you never do anything wrong."

Just remember one thing.

Until the overturn of Roe Vs Wade, there were millions of women in this country that never did anything wrong either. But since the abortion laws changed, their smartphones and the data they collect are now being used against them in court.

You don't have to be doing something wrong to care about privacy.

#privacy

okay, what do you guys think of this redesign of the UK flag

so, e.g. -

"Microsoft Recall is bad" is not effective communication. Some dipshit's going to immediately argue that it meets his needs or desires and thus it's 'good', and then it's a whole-ass thing.

Instead, "Microsoft Recall provides a tool for domestic abusers to further their abuse" is much more effective. It specifies the behavior that I am concerned about, and the relationship of the thing being discussed to that behavior.

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User: "My laptop is really slow these past few days."
Me: "Well, you don't have many applications open so it can't be that, hmm."
*I load up Task Manager and look at the device uptime, it's been on for over a month*

"You call this a steamed copper sheet, despite the fact that it's clearly grilled."

This is why I bought an old hotel CATV/MATV system, so I can run four analog TV channels in my home and they can have whatever TV I want on them. I still need to sort out the software, etc, but it's on the list.

The four channels I'm planning for are:
- Kids TV
- Science fiction
- Movies
- General (everything else, kinda like Sky One)

There's provision for additional modulators, if I feel that four channels aren't enough and want say a channel just for documentaries.

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A recent video I saw re the difference between UK and US supermarkets got me thinking about my own personal TV consumption again.
( youtu.be/zpkvc8bz-l4 )

I don't watch modern linear TV nowadays because I don't find it satisfying; there's too much choice, and that spreading of the viewing pool has lead to a lot of mush that doesn't really interest me.

I do want a linear TV experience but for it to be more curated with less choice.

🀍 Appeal to the Browser Goddesses 🀍

Can we please make it a thing where 32GB of RAM isn't an insufficient amount for day to day web browser usage? Getting an OOM core dump for that reason is inexcusable.

- Should the Zoom browser app really need 2GB on a single tab when it's already downscaling a 1080p feed to 320p on an enterprise account?
- Should Amazon's website really need 1GB per tab just to view the cart or a ~800Mb for a single simple product page?
- Please remind me how an MKdocs fully static page with a single 400k image and no datatables or fancy JS somehow require 242Mb?
- Or perhaps shed some light on the requirement where Google's main page with a single search form somehow needs ~500Mb

There are no "good reasons" for these inefficiencies. We don't suddenly have better search fields or compressed jpegs now vs a decade ago with 1/10th of the system resources.

#developer #webdev #linux #browsers #chrome #firefox #ensh11n

It's done!!! Updated ref sheet!

GoaTuna (goatuna on πŸ”΅β€‹β˜οΈβ€‹) did such a FANTASTIC job!!!

HECK it me!!! πŸ’›β€‹πŸ’œβ€‹

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This is another commission for Zeta Syanthis! It's got some similarities to the previous one, but I also tried to make it distinct. Maybe it's another part of the same temple complex?

made in #inkscape

#MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtWithOpenSource

Tom Baker, in the 1970s, asked about the idea of a woman playing the Doctor.

The answer (β€œa good idea”) to the question is then expanded to consider the culture of the BBC and then just men of 1970s Britain in general.

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