Are those of you here in the #Fediverse aware of the amazing resource that is https://mynoise.net?
No?
Let me introduce you.
It has a medieval village #background #noise environment with toggles you can use to increase or decrease the blacksmith shop and market and horse clops (among many others).
Oh, you want a coffee shop? Sure thing.
Rain? Thunderstorm? Gotcha.
Generic white noise?
RPG thrills? Of course.
Tame that #tinnitus? Yes!
Check it out!
Here's a documentary called #TechnicallyImprobable! that I've been working on. The COVID era sort of brought me to a halt, but I'm back at it. Got stuff in there about #Litton, #GrassValleyGroup, #Atari (#CyanEngineering), and more. We've got a lot of tech in #GrassValleyCA and an amazing and bizarre history behind it.
Feeling the profound good fortune of being a person who has, for 20+ years, been enabled to tell stories to a lot of people I've never met. It means that I get to spend my time, even on dark days, working my brain into myth, history & wrongful certainties, trying to use my words to change the ways we imagine one another. It's an immense privilege to get to do this with my life. Sometimes I gnash. Writing can be hard, aggravating work. But in the end, I get to work on the problems. So: grateful.
Are you, or do you know someone age 14-18 who wants to develop free software? Free Software Foundation Europe's "Youth Hacking 4 Freedom" competition could be just the thing - https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/index.en.html sign up between now and 2022-12-31 #FSFE #freesoftware #hacking #programming
Converting Your Twitter Archive to Markdown, and t.co links to original URL
Screenshot of a prompt to start a Twitter archive Once your archive is on your machine, you will have a browsable HTML archive of your tweets, direct messages, and moments including media like images, videos, and GIFs. This is nice, but it also has […]
https://gadgeteer.co.za/converting-your-twitter-archive-to-markdown-and-t-co-links-to-original-url/ https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10-036b9b74-072f6890c7a11709
Here's one useful guide as to what to write in your image descriptions for those that find such guidance helpful:
https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546
But again, you do not need to be elaborate here, but do try to write something that will provide enough information to people who can't see or understand your image on its own that they can be included in the conversation rather than excluded.
I’m here!
Looking for the hangouts for:
#writer #writers #authors #books #publishing #querying #submissions #editing but mainly where writers support writers.
Tell me where I need to be! Cheers!
Hey #nanowrimo peeps
Hope it’s going well for you. Almost the end of November.
I’m happy with the shape of my story and hope to have a decent draft to play with. I hit 42,000 last night, so I’m on track.
It’s been up and down - one day I wrote 4,265 words, on another 565. I was happy either way.
Onwards!
#writingcommunity #writers
💯 We need so many things that could flourish if promoting new ideas didn't require the permission, tools or mindsets of big-media or big-social. Back when programmers, librarians and inventors were building out the internet, innovations were popping up almost every day. As many predicted even then, big tech derailed all of that, as surely as Amazon and big box stores derailed retailing and American manufacturing.
I was trying to reach someone in threat research at Crypto dot com. But apparently they either don't have a security department anymore or no one knows who to route my communications to. Rumor has it they fired a bunch of their security staff recently.
Anyone know anyone who is there? I have a scam that specifically targets Crypto dot com wallets, and nobody to coordinate research with.
#StandingStoneSunday #Ireland #Drombeg Stone Circle in #CountyCork - I visited this amazing space in August 2022.
#introduction - I ran out of room! I'm a total #history nerd, love reading books, especially #scifi, #fantasy, #historicalfiction. And I get loud about #socialjustice.
#introduction time! Hello, Mastodon!
I'm an #author and an #artist. I write #historicalfiction, #historicalfantasy, #Urbanfantasy, #Timetravel, and some #nonfiction. I've got 12 (and counting) books published, though I'm republishing 7 more which I bought the rights back from my publisher.
I make #jewelry by #beadweaving.
I #cosplay, love #dragons and #Dragoncon, anything #Irish, am learning #Gaeilge, love #Travel, #cats, and #Coffee. I love #BoardGames, especially #SettlersofCatan.
I have not presented to mastodon yet the fact that my cat knows to ring a bell whenever she has an urgent need that I must fulfill! #MagicalMinka
I taught her to do it because her previous way of notifying me was pulling any paper out of my shelves and destroying it. this is much less destructive.
she used to ring for all kinds of things, but ever since she's chosen my roommate over me she only returns to my room to ring when she's hungry or to complain that my roommate's door is closed.
So many devs seem focused on making a better Mastodon, a better Mastodon clone, or another ActivityPub client altogether. And all of that is good and healthy.
But we should also be talking about all the possibilities of an open, federated system where no 1 company is deciding what a post is, what can be done with (or to) it, how other apps can use it, and how knowledge can be shared more effectively than Twitter of Facebook ever did. (Which was very little.) We can and should do much better.
Joining the commercial centralized post.news means waiving your rights to arbitration unless you painstakingly opt-out. #PSA
This story about Elon's birthday cake is incredible.
https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701640041114517504/elon-wyd?source=share
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.