⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

I miss written tutorials. I hate how every tutorial is a YouTube now. I don’t want to watch 15 minutes and forget to pay attention for the second that has the detail that I am missing or it just doesn’t show. Even short tutorials are 3 minutes when it could have been a ten second read. I want to skim a page and go directly to the point. Has writing really become that hard to do?

I'm starting to follow quite a few ppl who main tooting-language isn't English, on the basis that @Tusky will bring the translation function into their app soon. *fingers crossed*

@ProjectFearlessness plus the Indian government managed to put a lander on the most inaccessible part of the moon for less than that stupid barge cost. We’re deliberately spaffing money up the wall just for the sake of cruelty, rather than fixing our broken asylum system.

@mhoye My first take: Why does it have to be processed in the cloud? But I'm late to the party...

Booked travel to the UK for next month, guess we'll see if I'm arrested at the border

Flight of the Navigator (1986): Trimaxion Drone Ship, art by Edward Eyth
#scifi #conceptart #spaceship

I have seem some tomfuckery in my time, but this one is absolutely baffling.

#Excel

Attention citizens!

I am delighted to announce Mandatory Happiness Affirmation Day!
For the next 24 hours all citizens are required to express their undying joy for the glorious rule of Friend Computer, the quality of their lives, and the utopic merits of Alpha Complex.

Failure to participate will be considered treasonous grumpiness, punishable by mandatory fun reprogramming.

Thank you for your cooperation.

#ttrpg #paranoia #announcement #rpg

Building a Lego set with the kids and it has a 2-piece smooth cell phone brick and I'm explaining to them that we had the damn slanted touchtone phone when we were kids and there was even a rotary phone one now get the fuck off my lawn

@wolf480pl @nevali in all seriousness forcing them to use 1 mbit and a laptop cpu from 10 years ago would probably fix a lot of dumb stuff

Just one of the reasons why we NEED to keep the staff at our railway stations.
You may need to click on the image to see it properly.

@neil As reported by London-based web streaming startup BBC

Perhaps I'm the only one who wants to see #i18n support for Mastodon usernames...?

But if you also think the Fediverse should be open to people unfamiliar with a QWERTY keyboard, please leave a thumbs-up on https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/8417

@mcc someday I'll get a Jacquard Loom to play Doom

Hey, I've just anaesthetised a grizzly
And this is crazy
But here's my numb bear
So call me maybe

So, a slow news day:

1. India lands a rover at the Lunar south pole

2. Prigozhin and Utkin's bizjet shot down over Russia, presumably on Putin's orders

3. Trump and co-conspirators arrested and charged under RICO Act

... Anything else?

Who's done good critical work on "age verification" systems/companies?

I'm seeing a lot of grifty vendors prepared to hawk their wares as a new strain of child-focused online legislation moves forward. I'd love to read detailed assessments of the tech & the claims 🙏

What I'm listening to today: "One Channel Music", Aleksi Eeben

This piece is a sort of parlor trick. The C64 has three sound channels, but each is reprogrammable— each can play any sound the SID is capable of. So composing for C64 it's good practice to learn to cram "two channels into one", rapidly switching timbres to alternate instruments. This track goes all the way to fitting *the whole song* in 1 channel. It's complex and interesting sounding, and shockingly funky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsXCnND1SiI