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
The head of Anbernic R&D has a long standing beef with the guy behind ZPG/GKD & it is admittedly kind of funny sometimes. He said Anbernic would never do a 1:1 aspect ratio handheld because it was stupid but then the Unicorn was announced and suddenly they can't make one fast enough
@eloy (don't ask about software licensing, programming languages, text editors, and source control systems)
Fosstodon meta
in case folks haven't been following along, new Fosstodon instance owner Gina has, at this point, repeatedly doubled down on the idea that instance founders Kev and Mike were victims of "harassment" for the innocent little oopsie of openly sheltering a fascist on their moderation team.
yesterday, she escalated that rhetoric, calling it "outright abuse at worst."
those of you who defederated from Fosstodon can rest assured that the new boss is the same as the old boss.
re: hypothetical, violence resulting in death, silicon valley
@navi play to their FOMO by showing scrolling linkedin headshots of their colleagues who already consented
i have written a post. it's long, entirely personal, and it makes me feel very vulnerable.
on socialization, social media and emotional maturity, or: how i learned to stop worrying and become the change i wanted to see in the world
Today on oneterabyteofkilobyteage, a Geocities page that mentions nostalgia for the 90s web.
🔗 https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/783245592035000321/
🔗 https://web.archive.org/web/20090830011044/http://geocities.com/SouthBeach/Docks/9187/
🔗 the essay: https://web.archive.org/web/20090804031938/http://geocities.com/SouthBeach/Docks/9187/anessay.html (viewing through the Wayback Machine a page that mention the Wayback Machine. This whole post is very meta).
i feel like people don't take it seriously enough when i say that my life is online and think i'm just being cute
the internet was never a tool or a distraction for me
the internet is my home and my home is being taken over and destroyed
that is perhaps another blog post i should write
i have written a post. it's long, entirely personal, and it makes me feel very vulnerable.
on socialization, social media and emotional maturity, or: how i learned to stop worrying and become the change i wanted to see in the world
queer robot squirrelbunny girl, un-retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021, 2024-), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, making a return to upset those who told us to leave.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, lowercase, check system link above, meat shell is 31yo, i block underage
flirting good but get at least acquainted first?
HRT: 15/11/2015
⚠️ do not like or favourite my negative posts: https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/110573733959251340 ⚠️