Only 85% on iOS 12? That’s not as high as it used to be, is it?

“Beautiflu”. OK, happens to even the best of us.

@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com I am strongly refusing to use Apple products but for different reasons. But I wouldn’t consider anything except a computer or a console appropriate for gaming. Pads and phones might be for casual games but not for gaming.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net you’re really using w3m as your main browser?

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net You can also send your location to xmpp:wttr@mdosch.de using #xmpp

Make your website better in bed. Use @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { /* … */ }.

Still using Firefox? Try a rusty nail in your eye instead.

Hi @mr_woggle@tilde.town! How did you find us? :)

Hi @mr_woggle@tilde.town! How did you find us? :)

Something you gotta remember about the alt-right is that they’re a temporary alliance of warring groups with conflicting ideologies, most of which are planning on killing all the others & are putting it off in favor of killing the rest of us first.

Taking Another Person’s Perspective Doesn’t Help You Understand Them - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/-taking-another-persons-perspective-doesnt-help-you-understand-them

Are there any free AS/400 emulators floating around that would give a feel for what it’s like to use the system? (Support for running arbitrary IBM binaries optional)

Random link from the archives: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites originally archived Thu Dec 20 10:50:07 EST 2018

Random link from the archives: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/topic/when-spies-come-home originally archived Tue Nov 7 14:19:17 EST 2017

A Feud Between Two Popular Statisticians, Nassim Taleb and Nate Silver, on Election Forecasting http://nautil.us/blog/nassim-talebs-case-against-nate-silver-is-bad-math

One Free Trick: How to Use the Writing Skills You Have to Learn the Ones You Don’t | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/03/25/one-free-trick-how-to-use-the-writing-skills-you-have-to-learn-the-ones-you-dont/

Apple Has Been Struggling with the Stylus for 20 Years - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw8pgn/apple-has-been-struggling-with-the-stylus-for-20-years

Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

Learn more programming languages, even if you won’t use them - Thorsten Ball https://thorstenball.com/blog/2019/04/09/learn-more-programming-languages/

I Let a Stranger Watch Me Work for a Day “ And I’ve Never Been More Productive - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/focusmate-review-productivity-work-hack

Because it won’t work with chromecast, Shudder TV is ironically the only Shudder feature that you can’t use on a TV

@kas@enotty.dk re:hyphenation That article motivated me to add hyphenation to termpub. Though i’m using the greedy algorithm currently.

@kas@enotty.dk re:hyphenation That article motivated me to add hyphenation to termpub. Though i’m using the greedy algorithm currently.

The Guys Seeking DIY Chemical Castration - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-guys-seeking-diy-chemical-castration

going without was fun and all, but i’m glad to have something to use again

Big Rural - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kp4bv/big-rural

The Web’s Sickest Perverts Are Lurking on r/Handholding - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/r-handholding-reddit-4chan-meme

Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/tilde-servers-r-us.html

The Famous ‘NESticle’ Emulator’s Stolen Source Code Has Been Preserved - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43ze39/the-famous-nesticle-emulators-stolen-source-code-has-been-preserved

@kas@enotty.dk What ? No I don’t, I just use twtxt normally and use the timeline command :/

I want to like exa, but its default color choices are hot garbage. Don’t these people who use purple ever try using a terminal with a black background?

This, except unironically: https://makefrontendshitagain.party/ ; interfaces ought to be rich & individual representations of the underlying models, unless people are required/forced to use them, in which case all formatting should be able to be stripped automatically.

@kas@enotty.dk now that I understand fish enough to port over the contents of my .bashrc and .bash_profile, I’m starting to get used to it. How’s having different shell preferences for login/interactive treating you?

I wanted to feel productive this evening, but I didn’t want to do any useful work. In related news, I’ve switched to https://fishshell.com/ from GPLv2 bash.

my only interactions with the digital world will be through my raspi, my old fossil of a desktop, and any public use computers i can find around campus

The Latest ASMR Craze Involves Tales of Crime and Murder - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-latest-asmr-craze-involves-tales-of-crime-and-murder

This Guy Is Vlogging His Entire Midlife Crisis - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/karl-meszaros-midlife-crisis-youtube-vlog

How the nineties are coming back to haunt us - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-how-the-nineties-are-coming-back-to-haunt-us/

The Perfect Irony That ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-the-wolf-of-wall-street-was-also-a-real-life-scam

Why I still use medium: https://lobste.rs/s/bykzkm/hide_medium_com_as_personal_filter_on#c_v6frxz

Silicon Valley’s Latest Bizarre Craze Is ‘Organized Intimacy’ - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xnmme/sf-bay-area-scene-intimacy-party

Welcome to ‘Zombieland’: A former US Army base rots in the hands of overwhelmed Afghans - Stripes https://www.stripes.com/welcome-to-zombieland-a-former-us-army-base-rots-in-the-hands-of-overwhelmed-afghans-1.570893

How to Take a Nap When You Suck at Taking Naps - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/how-to-take-a-nap-when-you-suck-at-taking-naps

Collins’ Crypt: Bad Movies Used To Be So Much Better | Birth.Movies.Death. https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/03/06/collins-crypt-bad-movies-used-to-be-so-much-better

Douglas Engelbart’s Symposium - Challenges in making interactive systems more useful - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqYHcvH-YZM

In the Web’s Hyperreality, Information Is Experience | Hapgood https://hapgood.us/2018/11/20/in-the-webs-hyperreality-information-is-experience/

Re: https://adactio.com/journal/14888 – it’s a competent reframing job, but if common behaviors require complicated hacks for literally years, you’re using the wrong tool.

Why intuition leaves us vulnerable to conspiracy theories - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/4/18250292/facebook-moderation-conspiracy-theory-mike-wood-psychology-interview

brand names precision-engineered as superstimuli of the noumenous and noetic flooding the used-car-market mindspace

Explaining Code using ASCII Art – Embedded in Academia https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653

How to Retire Early - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gya8bx/i-tested-the-saving-technique-that-promises-retirement-at-40

In the ‘Black Guns Matter’ Movement, ‘Make Racists Afraid Again’ Is About Education, Not Violence - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/black-guns-matter-make-racists-afraid-again

Basic Docker Setup for HTTP Server (using docker-compose) ⌘ Read more…

Has anybody digitized the tapes used in first-generation melotrons?

The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable

Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.

JIRA would be a lot more useful if it was small enough to actually load & render on my company-provided workstation.

What’s the most unexpected way to use garlic in a dish? https://thetakeout.com/recipe-most-unexpected-way-to-use-garlic-in-a-dish-1832528068

The government is using wrong data to make decisions about the internet - Recode https://www.recode.net/2019/2/8/18211794/government-data-internet

The Teens Who Listen to ‘Mallwave’ Are Nostalgic for an Experience They’ve Never Had - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-teens-who-listen-to-mallwave-are-nostalgic-for-an-experience-theyve-never-had

Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel Brings Neuroscience to the Neue Galerie http://nautil.us/issue/69/patterns/gustav-klimt-in-the-brain-lab

Masters of Science Fiction is actually pretty good if you can get over the extremely post-9/11 vibe, the use of the Star Trek Voyager font everywhere, & the ‘hosting’ being somebody using the Hawking synth to speak a line after every episode

Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html

Con-Culture Experts On the History and Future of Scamming - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/con-culture-experts-on-the-history-and-future-of-scamming

The (Almost) Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys – Algorithm Soup https://algorithmsoup.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/breaking-an-unbreakable-code-part-1-the-hack/

I work in IT, which is the reason our house has: mechanical locks, mechanical windows, routers using OpenWRT, no smart home crap, no Alexa/Google Assistant/…, no internet connected thermostats

‘Kingdom Hearts III’ is a Big, Beautiful Mess - Waypoint https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/gyaqwm/kingdom-hearts-iii-review-lore-copyright

Used my first webp image today. Took me a bit to figure out that I needed to put width: 100% on the img element, not on its enclosing picture element.

it seemed like the static twtfile setup i used for ‘moon’ fucked with twtxt caching…

YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers’ Extortion Tool - TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-strikes-now-being-used-as-scammers-extortion-tool/

Editions https://qz.com/1533143/the-best-way-to-use-social-media-is-to-act-like-a-19th-century-parisian/

Interesting idea: create a search-by-meaning for functions using the memoization database http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2017002_memoization.pdf

In the sunken and forgotten city, Senpai lies not dead but dreaming, as blissfully unaware of mankind’s rise above as that of other prior races. We have just begun to meddle in forces that may cause Senpai to notice us for the first time, and rise.

Why not apply the principles of the jury system to democracy?
Not only do we know that Democracy as we know it doesn’t work, in 1787 the man who gave us democracy here in the USA told us that it would not work, hence the second amendment. They said this is the best we have deal with it. Don’t let it get too big! What did […] ⌘ Read more

I kind of want to use SILE (http://sile-typesetter.org/) for something, but I need a PDF generator like I need a hole in my head.

The MITRE Corporation’s project to use Chomsky’s linguistics for their weapons systems — Science and Revolution http://scienceandrevolution.org/blog/2018/1/28/the-mitre-corporations-project-to-use-chomskys-linguistics-for-their-weapons-systems

Why I use old hardware | Drew DeVault’s Blog https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.html

Capital does not love you or hate you, but you are made of labor-value which it can use for something else.

Why Don’t People Use Formal Methods? • Hillel Wayne https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/why-dont-people-use-formal-methods/

Using Visual Studio Code in fullscreen on my main monitor while looking at other things on the other monitor. I did not expect to turn into one of John Siracusa’s millenial co-workers.

Twenty-Five Useful Thinking Tools | Scott H Young https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2018/12/04/25-thinking-tools/

When YouTube Red-Pills the Love of Your Life - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/youtube-red-pill-men-right-wing-hate-radicalization

The Rise and Demise of RSS - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss

How experimental psychology can help us understand art | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-experimental-psychology-can-help-us-understand-art

Can Scientists Do TV? http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/how-well-forget-john-lennon

Slaying the Snark: what nonsense verse tells us about reality | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/slaying-the-snark-what-nonsense-verse-tells-us-about-reality

The World through the Eyes of the US https://pudding.cool/2018/12/countries/

I am also thinking about using a gopher url for that…

The Genius Person Has Always Been Sort of an Illusion http://nautil.us/blog/-the-case-against-geniuses

Periodic reminder that, by using third party trackers, you are paying somebody to grep their http access log instead of greping your own. So, like, maybe roll your own analytics if you need them?

Facebook and Google’s Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjden/targeted-advertising-is-ruining-the-internet-and-breaking-the-world

New repository: aquilax/colorcount - Command line tool to count colors used in image

A History of Flavoring Food With Beaver Butt Juice - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/a3m885/a-history-of-flavoring-food-with-beaver-butt-juice

Spotify’s ‘release radar’ seems to use artist name instead of artist ID, which is annoying now that there are mediocre french soundcloud rappers named Devo and Rush

Create a Basic HTTPS Server (using TLS) ⌘ Read more…

I Used The Web For A Day With JavaScript Turned Off “ Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/using-the-web-with-javascript-turned-off/

I Used The Web For A Day With Just A Keyboard “ Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/web-with-just-a-keyboard/

I Used The Web For A Day Using A Screen Reader “ Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/12/voiceover-screen-reader-web-apps/

We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites

Higher education in the US is driven by a lust for glory | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/higher-education-in-the-us-is-driven-by-a-lust-for-glory