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

Anyone got an invite to a cool fediverse instance I can move to? Boosts appreciated!

The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time.

I have been saying this for at least a decade and I shall scream it into the void for at least a decade to come but:

the over-simplification of technical jargon, interfaces, and capabilities of end-user software and hardware have been a disaster for tech literacy of the 'general population' and have aided the creation of walled gardens more than the lack of open alternatives.

(quote from https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied/)

is there an instance that's replacing plural cafe or something like that

ok not a huge one this time but #ditherinator v0.4 is out now

• NEW palette mode to sample colors from source image
• some code reworked to optimize things

https://maple.pet/ditherinator/

text rendering i like:
- printed text on non-glossy paper. the ink expands in a nice way. bold and comfy
- mac os
- windows before cleartype, displayed on a low-ish resolution monitor (let's say 9x on a 800x600 or 1024x768). no antialiasing. raster fonts. visible pixels. simultaneously chunky and precise. any blurriness you saw was on the rightmost side of the glyph, and was caused by inadequate shielding in your vga cable

turns out one Apple II vendor, ReActiveMicro, apparently bans people from buying from them, and shares that ban with other vendors, for “wokeness”: https://www.reactivemicro.com/terms-and-conditions/

You can and WILL be blacklisted from all purchasing privileges in perpetuity for any of the following:

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• Public postings, comments, declarations, targeting, or encouraging of; libel, slander, defamation, mockery, accusations, attacks, disrespect, discrediting, nonfactual information, wokeness/canceling and/or threats against any or all; members of the Community, RM customers, or personnel

I may have just sent an e-mail to their snitch line sales e-mail specifically asking to be added to the list

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/links-extreme.html - New article! Links Extreme, the one time the most well-respected series in all of computer-golf decided to do something different. Golf for non-golfers, or non-golf for golfers?

- i cannot overemphasize this: dont be the motherfucking mastodon hoa. the entire reason bsky has been as successful as it was, is because too many people here told people "how to behave" on their first day, or shamed them because "they werent doing it right"

if you want mastodon to thrive, you have to make it "worth it to come here". nobody likes being shamed by rando strangers.