George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

Little trick I’ve discovered to deal with procrastination: before getting to the big complex thing I’m dreading, I’ll treat myself to fixing one tiny problem or adding one tiny feature

It’s amazing how often once you get in the mood the code just starts to flow

Fearmongering over public charging stations needs to stop. Here’s why

Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/fearmongering-over-public-charging-stations-needs-to-stop-heres-why/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

One day I'll write a book on the post-2000 indie games resurgence, but in the meantime there's now a cool free ebook by Ben Latimore (creator of the excellent Flashpoint preservation project) about the heyday of Flash games. https://archive.org/details/flashpoint-a-tribute-to-web-games/

Hello #indiedev and #gamedev friends, this one is literally for you!

Debug is a brand new high quality print magazine focused entirely on indie games, from solo devs right up to the so called triple-i studios.

Got something you’re working on and want to share? https://www.teamdebug.com and let us know!

Please share to help spread awareness amongst the developer community. We love you 💜

Finally decided to check out the Mastodon world. Seems to have potential, but finding folks to follow in #Portland and #Oregon #localnews is proving challenging. So a favor for the Mastodon world: if you know of journalists or interesting/influential/important people in #PDX or the surrounding area who are on here, drop a comment with their follow link.

Absolutely despicable to refer to the victims of a gun massacre, including an 8-year-old, as “illegal immigrants”

Ban them, they’re a blight with arguably no benefit

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/30/gas-leaf-blower-mower-bans-spread-us-fight-climate-change/11746893002/

Luftgekühlt Nine @ Mare Island, CA this weekend was a Porsche paradise!

ALSO if anyone has job leads... I need full remote and a certain bare minimum (W-2), and I lose basic things in tech interviews but can confidently chatter about those same things at length in conversation, and I'm available immediately; while my recent experience is pentesting (mostly web app), I'm open to nearly anything except sales and not wedded to infosec. I'm rusty, but I will happily build servers and I'm GOOD at fishing through logs to find things and fix them. I can learn tools, and regard ATT&CK as a useful checklist and STRIDE as more functional for effective threat modeling. DM for resume!

Whether you're making a one time donation or are able to commit to monthly contributions, we appreciate every ounce of support for Let's Encrypt. https://letsencrypt.org/donate/

Can we make the fediverse the welcoming-est place in social media?

We’re a soft-launching a new welcoming committee. All you have to do is reply to introduction posts to say hello and offer help.

We hope you’ll follow @welcoming and mention to the group how many people you welcomed, so we all know that we’re working as a team.

You can point people to https://SpreadMastodon.org, https://discover.fedified.com, or any other resources you like!

A TX man w/AR-15 killed 5 people "execution style." Two female victims were killed lying on top of 2 surviving kids & 3 surviving kids were covered in blood. All b/c they asked him to stop shooting while their baby slept.

This GOP "well regulated militia," has this month alone killed people for:
•Sitting in the wrong car
•Knocking on wrong door
•Turning into wrong driveway
•Attending the wrong birthday party
•Basketball rolls into the wrong lawn
•Asking the wrong neighbor to let your baby sleep

Fiery Feeds for iOS Added an In-App Split View Mode That I Wish More iPhone Apps Offered https://www.macstories.net/ios/fiery-feeds-for-ios-added-an-in-app-split-view-mode-that-i-wish-more-iphone-apps-offered/

DOS detectives, help! This screenshot brought up lost-yet-vivid childhood memories, and of course I went looking... only to find this "The Haunted Manor" appears nowhere on archive.org, doesn't come up on Google, doesn't seem to exist on MobyGames, and has no hits on YouTube. I can't find any evidence of a DOS developer called "Fiendish Software" either.

Curiously enough, I still own the cover disk for this issue of PC Review, but not the 5.25" that would have this game on it. The version I played as a child was just an executable on a generic floppy disk, probably downloaded from a BBS.

I've already gone through a half-dozen Night Owl compilation discs trying to find the game, without luck. Please send help so that I do not have to explore any more of these interminable shareware archives I beg you

#dosgaming #retrogaming #nostalgia #shareware

An ominous heating event is unfolding in the oceans

Average sea surface temperatures have soared to record highs—and stayed there.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/an-ominous-heating-event-is-unfolding-in-the-oceans/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

early prototype of apple pay

#caturday ​

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of.

Today in therapy there is this little old lady who can't make much progress because she has so much shame about her mental illness.

It's okay to struggle. You're not alone. Don't be ashamed.

Wow. It's been only six months since Elmo took over Twitter? Seems like forever.

Then again, it's been about five months since I gave a $#!+ about posting there. I can honestly say I'm a happier person without it. Thanks to everyone here who's made it easy.

I appreciate that everyone is posting about their specialties and such and woo go you!

But I will not be doing that. I come here to enjoy the randomness of things and the community of Mastodon.

Hi, I'm Rob. I like people and banter. I like playing tabletop games and chatting about random things. Almost everything reminds me of a GIF or music lyric. I believe in kindness to all people and subscribe to Wheaton's Law (Don't be a dick.)

#introduction

Why is Social Security going broke? Income inequality.

Workers are making less than projected.

Meanwhile, the rich are getting richer — so more and more income escapes the cap on the Social Security payroll tax.

It's just one more way the super-rich don't pay their fair share.