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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 πŸ’‰! Stay safe out there!

#ActuallyAutistic #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

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davidaugust, to random
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πŸ¦΄πŸ“Ž

Quinn9282,
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@davidaugust Oops! 🀣

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

video/mp4

Quinn9282,
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@xepher Doom can run on literally ANYTHING!!! πŸ˜‚

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 @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.

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.

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! πŸ˜‰

cdarwin, to random
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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.
Inkjet printers were always a sleazy business, but once these printers got directly connected to the internet, companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer
Now, this scam wouldn't work if you could just put things back the way they were before the "update," which is where the DRM comes in.

A thicket of IP laws make reverse-engineering DRM-encumbered products into a felony.
Combine always-on network access with indiscriminate criminalization of user modification, and the enshittification will follow, as surely as night follows day.
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/

Quinn9282,
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@cdarwin @pluralistic Funnily enough, HP decided to launch an advertising campaign for their printers recently with the tagline "made to be less hated", in a rather poor attempt at trying to quell the anger with the ink DRM they pushed out and win back consumers again.

AFAICT, all this ad campaign really did is make people hate HP even more (if they weren't already hated enough for their anti-consumer behavior over the years).

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/hp-misreads-room-awkwardly-brags-about-its-less-hated-printers/

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.

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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

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 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. πŸ™„

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 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.

Quinn9282, to RSS
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Came across this really cool service called Feedbase. It turns your #RSS feeds into #NNTP (Newsgroup) posts that you can comment on! It's definitely grown quite a bit in the last year per the statistics on the website.

Feel free to add your own RSS feeds to your blog or newsletter to the service on the website to help grow the service! It's currently hosting 861 feeds, and serving 5,319,339 articles at the time of this post.

https://feedbase.org

#Indieweb #Blogging #Newsletters #SmallWeb

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 random
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OPTICAL MEDIA LIVES!!! πŸ’Ώ πŸ“€

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

Very Big Discβ„’ (VBDs?) should totally be the official name of this disk format lol. That would be hilarious πŸ˜‚

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/

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!

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

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.)

Quinn9282, to SmallWeb
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Redoing my #introduction again since it's now been a quarter of a year since I first joined Mastodon:

Hello! πŸ‘‹ I'm an #autistic Gen Z-er born in the mid-2000s, and I go by the name "Quinn" (with he/him pronouns) on most Internet platforms. I'm a fan of #Indieweb, #SmallWeb, #RSS, #NNTP, and the #Fediverse! 😁

The only two social media platforms I currently use are Mastodon and YouTube. I haven't really dabbled with any other social medias at this point.

My website is https://quinn9282.neocities.org!

Quinn9282, to Alberta
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And this is what I see when I go to check my phone (the alert was pushed out like an hour ago, but I didn't hear or see it because my phone was on silent).

#Alberta #EmergencyAlert

Quinn9282, to random
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Not sure if this is a real issue or not, but I've heard some people mention that apparently some government agencies out there only use Twitter/X accounts to provide PSAs and other alerts, which, if true, is a MASSIVE issue that needs to be rectified ASAP.

With #Nitter falling apart, and with no way to view a profile's chronological timeline for such high-importance accounts on Twitter/X without logging in, any agencies that do such practices NEED TO ADD NEW COMMUNICATION OUTLETS ASAP.

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Quinn9282, to SmallWeb
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I came across a website that features small or otherwise lesser-known personal sites hosted on #Neocities! Found lots of really cool websites in the list!

https://federiefederi.neocities.org

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb

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.

🧡

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! πŸ˜‹

vga256, to random
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πŸ₯΄

#vintageApple #macPro #facebookMarketplaceGore

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

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.

#macintosh #vintageApple

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.

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 β€˜happy birthday’ right! :no: πŸ™… :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. πŸ˜‚

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