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Quinn9282

@Quinn9282@mas.to

Hi there! I'm an autistic mid-2000s Gen Zer. I use most public-facing services on the Internet under the alias "Quinn", "Quinn Andrews", or the username "Quinn9282" or some other non-identifiable username.

✊ YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS HERE ✊
Who says you can't be anonymous on the Internet? No one is telling you to put your full name out there on the 'net for everyone to see. Be free!!!

#MaskUp 😷 and #GetVaccinated 💉! Stay safe out there!

#ActuallyAutistic #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

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vga256, to random
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🥴

Quinn9282,
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@vga256 What the heck happened to that poor Mac Pro???

TechConnectify, to random
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Proposal to refer to solar arrays as amp farms.

Quinn9282,
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@TechConnectify :1000: YES!!! That's a perfect name for them! 😉

xepher, to DOOM
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Someone got Doom running on a credit card terminal 😆
#doom #gaming #videogames

video/mp4

Quinn9282,
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@xepher Doom can run on literally ANYTHING!!! 😂

davidaugust, to random
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🦴📎

Quinn9282,
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@davidaugust Oops! 🤣

Quinn9282, to RSS
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The #RSS protocol launched 25 years ago today on March 15, 1999! :rss:

...And it's still cruising on to this day! 😁

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

#Indieweb #SmallWeb #Blogs

cobweb, to random
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ugh this tiktok ban thing is so performative and unnecessary.

Is tiktok giving user data to an authoritarian government? Probably yes. Is Twitter, facebook, instagram, etc giving user data to an authoritarian government? Also yes.

Quinn9282,
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@cobweb I really wish that more governments would focus on national data protection laws (like in the EU) instead of banning random foreign players that, for all intents and purposes, already collect the same amount of data that most other social media networks based the U.S. already do at the very least.

1/

markwyner, to vegan
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I made a grilled vegan burrito. Zucchini, onions, garlic, mushrooms, bell peppers, crumbles, and cashew cheese. It was super delicious and I’d share if I could.

Quinn9282,
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@markwyner Looks delicious! 😋

Quinn9282, to random
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OPTICAL MEDIA LIVES!!! 💿 📀

"Researchers have developed a Very Big Disc™ that can store up to 200 terabytes of data and may represent a return to optical media for long term storage"

Very Big Disc™ (VBDs?) should totally be the official name of this disk format lol. That would be hilarious 😂

https://www.pcgamer.com/researchers-have-developed-a-very-big-disctm-that-can-store-up-to-200-terabytes-of-data-and-may-represent-a-return-to-optical-media-for-long-term-storage/

foone, to random
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Today I'm doing a USB cable test.
I have quite a few to go through

Quinn9282,
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@foone How many USB cables do you have?!

Quinn9282, to Discord
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Of coouurrse didn't bother to take any action on the server being used to coordinate the spam attacks. It's like they don't care about on their platform or something. 🙄

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/discord-took-no-action-against-server-that-coordinated-costly-mastodon-spam-attacks/

(P.S. Don't use Discord as a primary communication and/or discussion outlet, please find and utilize other platforms and methods to do so. Thank me later. Preferably I wouldn't utilize Discord at all if possible, but I'm not here to force people to do so.)

Techaltar, to random
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Not bad for a niche social media network :P

Quinn9282,
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@Techaltar Congrats!! 👏 🎉

ainmosni, to random
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Does anybody else ever think how messed up it is that unless you go out of your way (or live in a very rural area), you are bombarded with ads for the entire time you are awake.

  • Ads on your phone
  • Ads on your TV
  • Ads on every place they can buy outside
  • Ads on almost every website

It is honestly exhausting, and I wonder what a world with heavily limited ads would look like.

Incidentally, the lack of ads is one of the very nice things about self hosting things, and being on fedi.

Quinn9282,
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@ainmosni LED screen-lit billboards along streets are by far the worst. They are way too bright at night, and they absolutely wreck your night vision while driving. I get that the screen has to be brighter during the day so you can see it in "direct sunlight", but if they could just tone down the brightness of the screen at night, then I probably wouldn't care so much.

I would prefer no massive billboards along streets however. They just take up a bunch of space and serve no useful purpose.

Quinn9282,
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@ainmosni @mischievoustomato Interesting thought. I'm not exactly sure how you could study something like that in practice, but I would be intrigued to see some data on roughly how much energy we burn by not paying attention to ads we're served. My "educated guess" is that it's probably a lot, but who knows.

Techaltar, (edited ) to random
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One of my relatives just unironically sent me this completely AI generated video. AI voice, only Ai generated visuals (non-existent Chinese & Arabic characters in a video about Chinese & Arabic), and a completely generic message that's impossible to fact check (3 hardest languages of the world, ranked by trust-me-bro logic). People are falling for this shit so hard and I hate where we are going 😭

(German voiceover):
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/6f5CzTbgGmozPpgt/

Quinn9282,
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@Techaltar AFAIK videos like these done in this sort of style (but not completely AI generated) had already been making the rounds on TikTok and such for some time prior to the AI craze. They pretty much only exist as a really cheap way to farm views and engagement on (factually worthless) content and not much else. The "information" they provide is almost (if not) always completely anecdotal and is unlikely to ever be super accurate person-to-person (especially in the case of languages).

Quinn9282,
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@Techaltar But of course, people still fall for it, either because they don't realize the "information" they provide is completely factually worthless, or because they just don't care. That's modern social media for you. 🙄

Quinn9282,
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@Techaltar That's even worse. I mean, at least "historically" the stuff these sort of channels posted was at least anecdotal, but this is complete nonsense garbage. I have to guess that the creator is either a) purely relying on the fact that the audience for this video doesn't know what actual Chinese or Arabic characters look like, or b) knows the different language characters displayed in the video are completely made-up nonsense, but just doesn't care; or perhaps both. Who knows.

vga256, to random
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i normally don't post stuff like this, but ... the dude who runs macintoshrepository.org sure is a piece of shit

i had noticed several years ago that he was scraping macintoshgarden.org mercilessly, then reposting the same files on his own site. as a user, it was just mildly irritating.

last year i spent a day extracting and converting the PixelJerk icon set by hand, so it could be used in OS X and System 7/8/9 again. it was a lot of work.
https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/109854078857733955

I uploaded the packs to macintoshgarden.org. it's one of the best mac preservation communities there are.

today i found all of those files uploaded with identical filenames on macintoshrepository, and the kicker: he didn't even bother to credit anyone for the work: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/70538-pixeljerk-os-x-aqua-icon-collection

archival work is a time consuming and often thankless job. the very least we can do in this community is credit people for their unpaid labour.

Quinn9282,
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@vga256 Man, that's bad. I probably wouldn't care so much about people doing this is if it was clearly done for "archival purposes" or something. But if you're going to start needlessly scraping content off of other websites and reposting them on your own site with no credit and/or a source to where you got the content from, then that's absolutely not helpful at all.

I wonder if whoever's running the site would care to remove the files or at least add credit to them if you were to reach out.

Techaltar, (edited ) to random
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My favorite sight is when riding a bike is the fastest option 😍🚲

Quinn9282,
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@Techaltar The alt text has an error in it. It should say "biking", not "hiking".

vga256, to random
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TIL AppleWorks - formerly ClarisWorks - survived into the PPC era, and died gracefully at Snow Leopard. i last used it as clarisworks on a junior high school computing lab LC II

i sure miss this era of apple's box art visual design.. late 90s and early 2000s... while not skeuomorphism, it shared the same foundations in a care for elegant textures and shapes found in real-world objects.

photo source: extinct media museum tokyo
https://extinct-media-museum.blog.jp/archives/21110393.html

Quinn9282,
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@vga256 I love these old Apple box designs (even though I wasn't alive when this version of AppleWorks came out in 2000).

Too bad boxed software went the way of the App Store and Internet downloads years ago. Boxed software visual design was the coolest back in the 90s and 2000s in my opinion!

thomasfuchs, to random
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This is my favorite era of Computer design, it's kind of Dieter Rams meets Soviet space probe engineer

Quinn9282,
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@thomasfuchs That's an old acoustic coupler modem isn't it?

thomasfuchs, to random
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Periodic toot about my astonishment that a lot of “techies” don’t know that macOS is a true UNIX operating system going back in a direct line to the original UNIX (and BSD). ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Quinn9282,
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@thomasfuchs I sort of incidentally figured out that MacOS is a UNIX OS under the hood whenever you use the Terminal. It screams UNIX (and even uses the same commands and functionality as any other UNIX terminal).

stux, to bsky
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Im so glad doesn’t need my full date of birth!

Oh wait..

I’m sure it’s just for a ‘happy birthday’ right! :no: 🙅 :bugcat_nod:

Thanks but no thanks

Quinn9282,
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@stux I just figured out that the earliest birthdate you can possibly choose is January 1st, 0001 (1 AD) for some reason. 😂

Quinn9282, to random
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@nina_kali_nina (In response to https://tech.lgbt/; I'm making this a separate thread so it doesn't end up being a really long reply chain)

So, unlike a lot of other Gen Zs my age, my phone isn't the primary device I access the Internet on. Sure, it's useful in cases where lugging around a laptop is impractical if it's only going to be used for a short period of time, but it's not my device of choice for accessing the Internet on a regular basis, that job goes to a computer or laptop.

🧵

Quinn9282, to random
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So, I've decided to enable automatic post deletion for any posts I make that are older than 3 months and haven't been favorited by anyone at least once. I'm doing this just to clean up any random non-contextual posts I make that no one ever interacts with or sees, and they otherwise have no historic value.

(Posts with media attachments or polls will not be auto-deleted regardless of the favorites count)

If you like a post I make, please favorite it if you don't want it to get auto-deleted!

rootcompute, to random
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Sometimes I go entire days without realizing how my experience using a web browser is vastly improved by various third-party tweaks. My sanity is at least partially preserved thanks to the work of all these extension developers; they are the true unsung heroes of the modern internet.

Quinn9282,
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@rootcompute I've been using adblockers on web browsers for almost 4 years now and haven't looked back. I swear that every time I try to turn an adblocker off, the ad situation on websites gets worse every time. I will keep using them for as long as I possibly can.

Oh yeah, and fuck Google for trying to kill adblockers off, they're the greatest thing ever created. I won't be using the Internet without them (at least until the day websites stop shoving ads down your throat all the time).

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