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• Post #4390152

  Whoa, spell check, those are two VERY different things! (Though admittedly one can be a delivery channel for the other.)

• Post #4345742

  New  game review on my website! Legends of Amberland ★★★★☆ A fun throwback to the early Might and Magic and Bard's Tale fantasy games of the 1980s and 1990s. Grid- and turn-based, with old-style pixelated graphics and LOTS of side quests. https://kvibber.com/reviews/games/amberland1/ #fantasy #rpg #amberland #retro #games #review

• Post #4296318

  The Onion's got a point: Report: Decision Not To Call Film ‘The Baby Yoda Movie’ To Cost Disney $900 Million #StarWars #silly #branding

• Post #4296184

  @lolspam Or a drummer.

• Post #4294566

  Interesting approach: a minimalist, db-less static site generator blog where every post is stored as exactly one JSON file and comments are offloaded to either the Fediverse or Bluesky, according to the blogger's preference. I've got way too much customization in my current #11ty and #ClassicPress setup, but it would be interesting to look at for a side project or experiment. Though I'm not convinced JSON is better than Markdown with front matter. Yes, it moves the parsing complexi...

• Post #4219469

  The Firefox equivalent to degoogled or ungoogled should be "nozilla."

• Post #4182830

  New  book review on my website! Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★★ Not a novel, not quite a short story/poetry collection, but a fascinating, thorough exploration of an imagined post-apocalyptic rural utopia in a far-future Napa Valley. https://kvibber.com/reviews/books/always-coming-home/ #ursulaKLeGuin #scienceFiction #solarpunk #community #futureEarth #books #review

• Post #4182190

  FFS you'd think Sublime Text would let you close the hundreds of empty "new files" you accidentally "created" without insisting on asking whether you want to close each and every one.

• Post #4092644

  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Famous for his Blue Raincoat.

• Post #4068029

  Kind of funny that judging by the number of comments on each article, more people pay attention to @osnews@mstdn.social when they write about AI than when they write about operating systems.

• Post #4048587

  Looks like some of the neighbors decided not to wait for the slurry seal to finish setting before parking on the street. I hope it's not stuck too badly to their tires tomorrow morning. Plus there's the neighbor who decided (briefly) to try driving on it less than two hours after it was laid down. But the one that's really just out there is the city garbage truck. Really, they couldn't coordinate that with the paving?

• Post #3977245

  Updated  park/viewpoint review on my website! Del Cerro Park ★★★★☆ Incredible views of the Pacific Ocean, Catalina Island, and the coastal hills and canyons from the top of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Calm and quiet, usually breezy. https://kvibber.com/reviews/places/del-cerro/ #park #palosVerdesPeninsula #ocean #coast #delCerroPark #places #review

• Post #3972594

  I do not understand "fans" who judge stories in sprawling, shared universes that have grown and changed over decades primarily by how consistent the details of that new story are with (somehow) every other story told over time (including the established stories that already contradicted each other). This may be a factor in why I've left basically every fandom I used to participate in, including stuff I still like to read/watch/whatever.

• Post #3938722

  So tired of searching for how to do ABC and finding "why would you want to  do that? just do this other thing instead" when the other thing won't solve the problem I need ABC for. Even better when searching for the next thing up the line also turns up "why would you want to  do that? just do this other thing instead"

• Post #3895588

  I think I accidentally brought the distraction machine from the cautionary tale, "Don't Bring The Distraction Machine."

• Post #3801250

  TIL that Last.fm... is still aroundhad been bought by a megacorp at some point in the pastis independent again. https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591

• Post #3295359

  Strange that with all the authoritarian techbros naming stuff after Tolkein, none seem to have called a gen-AI model Grima 🤔

• Post #2774041

  I like this quote from The Boring Internet (about how a lot of it's still around, just overshadowed by the glitzy, extractive, corporate net, and we can still build on top of that foundation) The boring internet isn't protected by innocence. It's protected by awkwardness. also: Every property that made these protocols feel old and uncool to you in 2014 is part of what's keeping them alive in 2026. #InternetHistory #PersonalWeb #IndieWeb #IStillFunction

• Post #2161007

  Whoa, slow down there! At least start with dinner and a movie first.

• Post #1944979

  New post on my website! The State of Local-Only Fediverse Posts (WIP) Which Fediverse servers can handle local-only posts, and which apps can publish them? Here's what I've found so far. https://kvibber.com/tech-tips/fediverse-local-posts/ #fediverse #mastodon #GoToSocial #akkoma #LocalOnly

• Post #1600794

  I’ve reviewed a lot of tech products over the past decade and a half, and all I can tell you is that it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people. Asking people to make themselves more legible to software —to turn themselves into a database — is a doomed idea. -- Nilay Patel at The Verge #AI #LLMs #perspective #SoftwareBrain