Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es
- the stuff i do
- https://netizen.club/~wildweasel
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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Do I feel like this computer is mine, or The Company's? Do I feel like The Company is trying to manipulate me? Do I feel like The Company feels that they own me? Does the computer feel like a sort of interloper, in my life, something that's wormed its way into my home, something I can't get rid of, something that will use this foothold someday to hurt me?
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A little story based on a dream last night.
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We took the coastal road into town after dark, headlights cutting through the mist and clarifying nothing in the haze but movement. The sea, close and unseen, whispered secrets.
Mia drove. I was still sweating out nicotine when we passed the first hand-painted sign: “NO DRONES. NO CLOUD. NO EXPLAINING.”
We were looking for machines, but not those machines.
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Gristle Plankman
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was looking up that one black metal band where the one guy got murdered and another guy was like "well I was gonna murder him myself" (mayhem) and found on the page of the nazi murderer bassist one of the funniest Wikipedia sentences I've ever seen
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And yes, I *could* stand to post on Here more. Maybe what I need is more cool people to follow. Assuming the cross-instance follow function works. I keep running into instances where it doesn't. 
i am, in fact, posting this here instead of on bsky (where it's more relevant) because bsky is having some bizarre problems and not letting my posts go all the way through.
in fact, the only kind of community moderation that "works" on a huge website is the kind where the mods are completely isolated from their users, unable to perceive what their populace find wrong with the experience, never seeing anything from their point of view. but of course, the kind of people who want to run a site that big are the kind who *want* to be citizens of it, which means they're inevitably going to be insufferable asshats.
there can be a website where the mods are well respected by its populace, but it has to be a site where the mods are citizens of the town that they run. they must be capable of being friendly with all of their people. which means such a site is unsustainable if it gets too big. as soon as the mods are unable to connect with their users, they cannot serve them. thus, a citizen-mod is incompatible with infinite-growth social media.
https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/shelter/index.html - Alright, I've sat on this for long enough; I added a new section to my webspace, about all of my weird computers that I own, the naming scheme I have assigned them, and photographs of (most of) them.
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I absolutely need to remember, "I hope you're thirsty, 'cause I brought some punch!"
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alien sky - Robert Cortez
https://macthemes.garden/themes/db7a4f38894f-alien-sky
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FYI Imgur blocking UK users isn't because of the Online Safety Act, it's because they're in the process of being fined for not following data protection laws.
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⚠️ Important PSA about #Pocket ‼️
If you used Pocket to save interesting articles you found online, you may be aware that #Mozilla decided to shut down the app and discontinue support.
I vaguely remembered that date was July and had a mini-heart attack when I saw it was actually July 8.
Good news though: if you, like me, have hundreds of articles saved to Pocket, you have until October 8 to request an export of your data (I just did): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
Next up: moving to @wallabag 🤗
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anyway. the Donkey Kong Bananza Category Extensions on SRC includes a category called “Banana Peeling”. the current first‐place record is 1.115 seconds.
- the stuff i do
- https://netizen.club/~wildweasel
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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Joined Oct 2017
