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#Discworld obsessed #cat servant who likes #programming and painting small versions of big things (#miniaturepainting)

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PixelBandits, to random
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It's very important to me that you know whenever I write the word "books" I want you to read it as Peter Falk's Princess Bride delivery of "When I was your age, television was called books".

Also that when my wife says "as you wish" I see her as Cary Elwes (not entirely bad)

bitflipped,
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@PixelBandits I should probably watch that film at some point.

NickEast, to discworld
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Oooh, tough choice, but more likely I kidnapped myself so I could meet one of them... but I still can't choose just one 😂

@terrypratchett @speculativefictioncomedy @fantasybookstodon

#Discworld #Characters #TerryPratchett

bitflipped,
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@NickEast @terrypratchett @speculativefictioncomedy @fantasybookstodon They'd all get the job done, so I guess it all comes down to what you want to happen to the kidnapper 😅

bitflipped, to discworld
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Difficult to choose a favourite, but in the spirit of Terry Pratchett Day, and my overall obsession with Discworld, here goes...

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #TerryPratchettDay

An image which reads "My favourite Discworld novel is Guards! Guards!", "28th April 2024 Terry Pratchett Day". It features an illustration of the modern version of the Guards! Guards! book cover, with Sam Vimes holding a swamp dragon at the bottom, and a large dragon flying up from a burning cityscape in the background.

aral, to random
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Solve a problem with AI. Now you have two problems.

bitflipped,
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@aral What if you solve a RegEx problem with AI? 🤔

bitflipped, to discworld
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Signal this to all towers, not logged.

He’d never have wanted to go home. He was a real linesman. His name is in the code, in the wind in the rigging and the shutters. Haven’t you ever heard the saying “A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken?"

#GNUTerryPratchet #Discworld #SpeakHisName

bitflipped, to animals
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I think my cat likes the new position of my monitor and has claimed it as her own.

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

bitflipped, to EliteDangerous
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This screenshot I took quickly in Elite Dangerous ended up looking a lot more ominous than I had intended or imagined 😅

rolle, to random
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I’m sick and tired there is now AI in every app. ”Update: We have now AI in this-and-that feature.”

Fuck that.

Why do humans always feel the need to fix something that is not broken?

#Enshittification

bitflipped,
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@rolle we don't need to worry about AI coming after humanity. There are so many AI startups, and companies "shifting focus" to it, that the AI implementations will be too busy fighting each other.

tosbourn, to random
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Just finished The Light Fanstastic by Terry Pratchett.

I enjoyed it a lot, I’m not sure if there are more Rincewind books but whilst I enjoyed him as a character, I’m looking forward to reading about another part of the Disc next

bitflipped,
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@tosbourn here you go 😁

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Discworld_Reading_Order_Guide_3.0.jpg

PixelBandits, to VideoGames
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I'm not going to ask "if you remember this" because we're not engagement farming and OF COURSE YOU DO.

We've only just begun with our Mega Drive collection... But I'm very glad that we were able to get a good price with this and it arrived today.

Sonic had such an impact for me, early in my gaming journey. I think I'll always love him ❤️

#VideoGames #Gaming #Gamers #RetroGaming #retro #retrogames #retrogamer

bitflipped,
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@PixelBandits if you were going to farm engagements, Sonic is a good way to do it as you'll need to collect a lot of rings.

hrefna, to fediverse
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I have now seen multiple, multiple people run into the same set of obstacles with #ActivityPub. Some of them bounce off entirely, some stick with it, but they all run into the same approximate issues in similar places of the dev cycle.

That's one of the major situations I'd like to see improve in 2024 on the #fediverse. Above any feature other than trust and safety related items.

I'd like to see it become easier to develop in this space, with confidence that you are doing the right thing.

bitflipped,
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@hrefna I was surprised at how difficult I found the spec(s) to read compared to theoretically more complex ones I've read in the past. I put it down to it being heavily based on abstract concepts, as that sounded better than "You're just getting old, Cameron"

nixCraft, to random
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Heads up: Google just killed yet another product. RIP Google Podcast.

bitflipped,
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@nixCraft Intriguing, I wonder what we will be able to listen to on Google Podcasts when podcasts are no longer available.

rolle, to fediverse
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Over the past year these are the top arguments against the Fediverse:

  1. Too left wing
  2. Too difficult
  3. Not enough people
  4. Not enough mutuals
  5. Too nerdy / too niche
  6. Too confusing
  7. Too ugly
  8. Too many different options and apps
  9. Too many servers
  10. Not owned by a corporation (yes, really, one person told me he prefers an oligarch)
  11. There is no algorithm
  12. Hard to discover people

Many of these are based on the attitude and feeling, but there is some truth to it, for example discoverability is still a bit of an issue. I personally find most of the Fediverse web UIs clunky considering the big world standards, but I’m sure they will get better over time.

bitflipped,
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@rolle There isn't really a hook with mass appeal. I'm guessing most reasons that drew the current user base to the Fediverse are only relevant to a particular Internet subculture, as existed in smaller numbers back in the late 90s and early 2000s.

I think the Fediverse, as it works currently, is more likely to attract the type of people who would have wound up on IRC and Usenet, not necessarily those who were perfectly happy with things like web chat and email as they did the job.

Gargron, to threads
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is testing federation for a few selected profiles. I'm now following @mosseri! It's one-way for now, but it's exciting. It's a step towards the interoperable social web that we've been advocating for 🙂

bitflipped,
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@feditips @Gargron this article kinda shoots down the idea that they want to be part of something bigger as well...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/27/23935436/meta-threads-platform-online-public-conversations

rolle, to random
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I was away for a few hours and apparently my post exploded. https://mementomori.social/@rolle/111533676734734824

So far at least 3 people have blocked me because of this post.

So I'm the culprit here? Wow. I don't get it.

bitflipped,
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@rolle fairly certain that a person with enough followers, on any social network, could post "Have a nice weekend, everyone" and get blocked by at least one person for trying to dictate how they live their life.

rolle, to mastodon
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The default user interface needs really a designer's touch. Look at the bell and the copy "stack" icon here in relation to each other. Then gaze over the star and bookmarks icons in relation to each other. Also take a look at the spacing between the icons and the edge or the start of the textual label. There's work to be done right there.

Some day I'll do it and send a massive PR as a suggestion for these all tiny things. I have been afraid to do this partly because then it will be "Too Twitter!" and dumped/nitpicked with wide criticism.

This is why I originally created Mastodon Bird UI, so I don't have to limit myself AT ALL. I could just go ahead and do it "as Twitter looking" as I like.

#Mastodon #BirdUI #MastodonBirdUI #MastoAdmin #CSS

bitflipped,
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@rolle according to their Financials, they pay Lickability Inc. $200 an hour for UX design, although not sure what aspect they work on.

aral, to foss
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The GNU folks: Hehehe, we called it GIMP. And the main branch is called master. Because GIMP, get it?! We couldn’t possibly change it because fart noises

Also GNU folks: Why does everyone think we’re three misogynistic 12-year-old boys in a neckbeard suit?

There are so many low hanging fruits for you folks to embrace inclusivity and make a dedicated effort to clean up your act but you seem too bloody busy pissing all over the tree to mark your territory.

#foss #fsf #inclusivity #gnu #gimp

bitflipped,
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@engravecavedave @aral before all the complaints about the name of the software, I wasn't aware of the fact that it can also mean someone with a physical disability. In the UK, I've only ever heard it used to call someone stupid.

I'm not a fan of the name regardless tbh, but I think the "master" thing is a bit of a stretch considering that's a default branch name that predates even Git, and people are moving away from it now.

bitflipped, to discworld
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40 years ago today, it was revealed that the world is flat, and carried through space on the backs of four giant elephants named Tubul, Jerakeen, Berilia and Great T'Phon, who in turn stand on the back of Great A'Tuin, the star turtle.

Happy Birthday Discworld, and happy publication day to The Colour of Magic

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #SpeakHisName

bitflipped, to random
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@mwadmin is something up with the server at the moment? I'm getting some serious latency and a few load failures, but can view posts on other instances just fine.

Mastodon, to mastodon
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Strangers offering unsolicited advice or derailing conversations should be familiar to all who use social media. In our new for Android update, we’re testing a new feature aimed to curb these behaviours:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/

bitflipped,
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@Mastodon displaying information about the person being replied to and the old post warnings are really great ideas.

I'm not sure the reminders about post etiquette will do much more than take up screen space, though. Whenever Twitter added something like that, it always came across as performative, i.e. "Well, we've told people to play nice, so we are doing our part!"

verge, to random
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Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot for Windows 10 is now available to test https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23972257/microsoft-windows-10-copilot-feature-release-preview-testing?utm_content=buffer44e11&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

bitflipped,
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@verge I just want Windows to be an operating system, not a platform for launching corporate strategies.

bitflipped, to animals
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On this Caturday, she is on the lookout for Australian cats.

#Caturday
#CatsOfMastodon

bitflipped, to discworld
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Listening to Carpe Jugulum (again). I forgot how much I laugh at the things Nanny Ogg comes out with, making it less than ideal for a bedtime audiobook 😅

“Repent!’” Nanny Ogg went on. “Repent? Me? Cheek! I can’t start repenting at my time of life. I’d never get any work done. Anyway,” she added, “I ain’t sorry for most of it.”

#Discworld #TerryPratchett

dansup, to random
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Pixelfed announces leadership transition

The board of directors of Pixelfed.org that acts as the overall governing body for all Pixelfed activities, today announced that Daniel Supernault will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors.

Tuk Cat, the company’s chief meow officer, will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately.

Also, dogs and any content including dogs are now banned across Pixelfed, effective immediately.

bitflipped,
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@dansup My cat doesn't bother trying that. She just stares at me like this, until her eyes drilling into the depths of my very soul become too much to bear, and I just cave.

On the rare occasion that I don't give in fast enough, she just gets closer and closer, or, if I'm sitting at my desk chair, hurls herself at the headrest and perches behind my head to really drive the message home.

metin, (edited ) to ElectronicMusic
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When I was a youngster in the late 1980s, I formed an Amiga game dev team with 2 friends.

Before making games, we started by trying to sell game music that used minimal RAM, made with our music editor SIDmon.

To promote our game music, this energetic music module was composed by our musician Ramon Braumuller. The file, including tiny sampled sounds, is only 22 kilobytes.

Check the hashtag for more tunes.

bitflipped,
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@metin ohhh i vaguely remember getting a demo of Hoi and being terrible at it 😅

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