Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

2006 - 2022: Corporate content hosts are so cheap and easy that no one has an incentive to learn to self-host content, and people who were previously self-hosting content move over to big "social" platforms

2022 - … : Platforms close off in every imaginable way and start taking every opportunity to extract rents from users, benefits that originally got people to move over now gone, but the network effects are such you can no longer switch to open alternatives or convince other people to do so

Ad blockers are also cybersecurity. Say it with me.

They reduce malvertising, watering hole attacks, and general malicious script execution. It’s not all about you, ad firms.

I'm sorry my tales haven't been as daily as they used to be (trying-to-stay-afloat reasons) - thank you dear readers for your continued presence.

And welcome new dear readers, it is good to see you all! Thank you for being here!

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It's a thing one can do without spending a single coin!

(But if coins do get tossed my way, I wouldn't complain)

My most recent Bad Keyboard, the ShiftKeyBoard, is up on my tumblr:

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/721218604811616256/

But here's a preview image to entice mastodon

#badkeyboards #keyboards

few remember this, but back in the mid-90s origin systems built #UltimaIX as a 3d game with a unique isometric camera using a software renderer running at 640x480

screenshots from this early pre-alpha were sent around to a few german gaming mags, and then forgotten as it went into development hell

here are a handful of the dozen or so screenshots from that early build of U9, before it was scrapped in favour of a 3D hardware GPU-friendly renderer

although the final game would look much prettier, i always thought this early build preserved the soul of #Ultima

#RetroGaming

Day of the Tentacle copy protection from the floppy disk release:
#DOSGaming

Too many people worked too hard on these shows and movies for them to be gone forever.

Even shows I watched as a kid can still be found *somewhere*. Now a show that doesn't do blockbuster numbers in its first season gets wiped from existence as if it had never been made.

We're losing pieces of our cultural heritage just so some billionaire can line his pockets with money he could never hope to spend.

boost this cat when they least expect it

forced_to_be.wsz

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/f510eff704da494cf80aa9a6391b681c

finally have some time to work on Atari 2600 Myst again. Maybe I'll make some progress before Mysterium happens

Working on some less iconic (though no less important) areas

This reminds me of something I posted on a previous social media account.

“You’ve Got Mail”: a romantic comedy about a little bookstore being overrun by a huge bookstore/DVD store

“You’ve Got ‘You’ve Got Mail’”: a dark comedy about a huge bookstore/DVD store being overrun by an online mail-order megastore.

“You’ve Got ‘You’ve Got “You’ve Got Mail”’”: a tragedy about an online mail-order megastore being supplanted by streaming services. ← YOU ARE HERE

“No One’s Got ‘You’ve Got Mail’”: a farce about how all movies have become unavailable because companies withhold them for the tax write-offs.

“You’ve Got Mail-full-1080p.mkv”: a documentary about the valuable role that pirates are performing as librarians and archivists.

Cheshire Cat (Disney)
VS
Albatross

Colonel Faffywaffy (Arilou Lalee'lay) + Sasha Nein
VS
Elmer Fudd + Marvin the Martian

for people with ADHD, it's not that our memory is bad, it's that our garbage collection is too strict