maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

i make music: https://maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: https://maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: https://links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

a cross-section diagram of multi-user mastodon instances

i'm really cool actually

jsyk discord's #OnlineSafetyAct compliance is client-side only, so if like me you have play store updates disabled your mobile app predates the compliance and you can view nsfw channels on mobile but not on desktop

i think a lot about the scene in halt and catch fire where to convince a mom who doesn't understand the high phone bills and why her kid spends so much time on the computer to sign back up for mutiny he explains to her that the bbs is to him like church is to them

for how much of them were adware crap i'm sad all those quirky 3d screensavers are gone now

you can bypass it by just removing the word "Mozilla" from your user agent by the way, i just wish there was a way to automate that

5 years ago we would be criticizing anubis for being a hidden cryptominer, impressive that now we just put up with it

it's not that much more coherent or closer to finding a solution yet but i started a forum thread about this: https://forums.transbian.love/?page=thread&id=215

everything i want to do to myself costs more money than i can possibly hope to have and hearing other people getting to have the procedures just makes me jealous and bitter instead of happy for them

pov it's 2007

the problem i have with 2000s retro computing (surprise, it's mostly how the internet changed):

look up "junkbot" in 2005: you get a link to play junkbot

look up "junkbot" today: an entire page of just "remember junkbot?" without a single way to play it (inb4 flashpoint, yes i know, but it won't work on my xp pentium 4)

i know it's just how times moved on and i can't expect the internet to stay still, but... i'll try to elaborate my words better in a longer post

it worked for iphones with flappy bird installed on ebay

QRT https://aus.social/@dawnstar/114939410022569391

honey are you ok you're browsing https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/style-pixel-design and yearning for the fifth time this week

the 2025 internet is not very good

how do i search the 2025 internet for "screensavers that work on windows xp" as opposed to "windows xp screensavers" which results in "3d flying text nostalgia churn"

"you're not supposed to feel bad when you're not being productive that's capitalism speaking" and "you're depressed when all you do is consume because you were designed to create" both heading towards each other at 80mph who wins