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• Post #4226707

  "Maybe we should stop trying to use AI for all sorts of everything everywhere?" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ek3gvdnj3o

• Post #4226706

  Huh, and I just discovered Vivaldi has an RSS reader built in. Man I am still sad about Google Reader.

• Post #4226705

  I feel like I'm being punched in the gut by the spirit of The Web That Was. https://appalachia.monster I can not remember the last time I visited a site that *had its own audio* option. Where did all our playfulness go? When did the wander and whimsy die? [edit: why am I not surprised that Safari is shitting the bed for me with increasing lag though?]

• Post #4226704

  Love waking up from a dream where there was someone in my room and I knew it, but couldn’t force myself to wake up to catch them despite trying hard, feeling like I was paralysed. And that room was my bedroom from 20yrs ago. Love it. Not stressful and disorientating at all.

• Post #4226703

  YouTube, please, how many times do I have to mark “not interested” in any video even touching on Anginete du dick-nose band? Please stop suggesting it. Please. It’s as bad as punk. I want my music artists to concentrate on *doing music* and not some other performative bullshit. I have zero interest in musicians that aren’t first and foremost *trying to do music*. I give zero shits about irony, or politics, or visual art, as the “main driver” in *music*.

• Post #4226702

  Yesterday I went for a walk with family. The nice pub we could've had lunch at? Closed for the day. After, I drove a few miles to the old chinese takeaway, to treat myself. It is closed for holidays. Today I went to my fav coffee shop. It's closed until Wednesday. I thought I'd try a different one. Also Cclosed today. This evening I thought I'd try the chinese up the road... it's closed until Thursday. The *hell* is going on?!

• Post #4226701

  I'm not sure SoupyTime likes being called Subie Time, YouTube AI.

• Post #2391116

  Never berate your past self. Do not have regrets that you “could have done better”. That is wrong, factually. Be kind to yourself. Your past self *has always* made the best choices they could with the knowledge and circumstances they had at the time. No one is ever choosing to make a second best option. Everyone is choosing to do what makes most sense right at that moment. Never berate your past self for not being in better circumstances. Which is the ONLY way they might have done better.

• Post #2330231

  Have people over 45 realised how bat-shit-insane phone calls are yet? “It’s perfectly normal that anyone at any time can interrupt my life with absolutely no context and has to be engaged with exactly then and at no other time” Have they realised that “why don’t people call my business if they’ve been on the website” is because entire generations of people *hate phone calls*? It’s the most hostile form of communication? No joke; you won’t get my business if I have to call you. Or you call me.

• Post #1810255

  “I have a good rebuttal to that opinion” … “But fuck it, I can not be bothered” -2026

• Post #1810254

  Once again I am enraged by Mona 7 and it forcing markdown as i write. No. Fuck off. I do not want you “formatting” my in-progress writing. You ARE WRONG, and I can’t fix it in this UI. Because you mangle it every time I write it. ⁃ This is not what I typed. I typed a hyphen and a space. Stop making “lists” that I have not wanted to be lists. Stop adjusting my raw typing. It’s been months. Still broken.

• Post #1810253

  i keep trying to remind myself that it's not really the tech I'm falling out of love with. It's what society is using the tech for, and who's controlling it. I miss the early web era. I miss community driven end goals. I miss progress for the sake of making people happier and more educated. In the end, I'm not unhappy with AI. Or tech. I'm unhappy with society and where it is headed vs where it was when I was younger. I remind myself, and then...

• Post #1810251

  That's some great roleplay from Mouse and Connor actually, lol! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m3g0-XGlP0 (Mouse IRL adores Cinnomaroll. Connor has bought her hundreds over the years. Connor is playing Bubi. The back-and-forth between "Connor" and "Bubi" is genius. This is a snippet from a charity event where they play some DnD)

• Post #1810250

  RE: https://front-end.social/@amber/116484175480154362 I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago when the RICG fought and the strength of men was tested. I marched with my brothers, I saw countless tactics be tried and dashed against the forces of Browser Vendors, and I was there when our victory came. But ever has this achievement been with fault. Ever has the victory been laced with wounds carried forward. Until today, Gandalf. Until today.

• Post #1810249

  It's too late in my timezone for me to watch live - but Matt Mercer (Critical Role) is running a one-shot game of Daggerheart in an hour and a half to raise money for Make a Wish. Players are Ironmouse, Connor (as Bubi), AiCandii, Kairyu Crocodile (better known as Jaiden Animations), and Tim Downie. It'll be live here: https://twitch.tv/ironmouse 4pm PT Please consider watching to support the cause, and donating if you vibe with it.

• Post #1810248

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116489457177711947 What is happening? "Product"? "Fall"? Oh this makes me feel bad about this platform. The value to me in Mastodon is it is/was just like the old web: not corporate, not American defaults. Not chasing go-fast for the sake of growth or whatever. It is/was people doing things because it was the right thing to do, and fun. I loath seeing corporate language and ideology invade these spaces. I've s...

• Post #1642373

  https://www.twitch.tv/bajiru_EN She's live, opened with a song she *just wrote* in 20min, and proceeded to make chat cry with it. The woman is pure unfiltered soul expressed as music. It's insane.

• Post #1642372

  Michi drops the whimsy and gets real to talk about suicidal ideation as part of thanking everyone during her 2yr anniversary stream. Mouse in chat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlCOxMA1R0E The compassion and community in the vTuber space is so insanely high.

• Post #1642371

  The onions. So many onion cutters. Such great people. Watch as antidote to the news. Feel good about humanity for a bit; watch this. Connor and his friends have now raised a total of $5.5 million for the Immune Deficiency Foundation in the last few years. Mouse has seen it go from literally "a support group of maybe 200 people, total. There was no info about CVID for me to find at the time, it was terrifying" to this. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2753119594?t=5h18m35s

• Post #1642370

  The iPhone Fold should be the size of an iPhone 5. Have you held an old iPhone 5 recently? It is *far* nicer as an object than any iPhone since. It’s just small. I think given today’s tech; with a fold; you could redo that chassis without the compromise of a small screen.

• Post #1642368

  I miss TV like this, sort of. You can get similar on YouTube if you're lucky. But the idea of "your local ironmonger" ... boy how times have changed in 40yrs or so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev8qMqLnu_w&t=50s

• Post #1642367

  Babylon 5 was so good. 5 seasons, properly outlined right from the start before any shooting - character arcs, plot lines, everything. A *story with through-lines, believable politics, and strong messaging*. Two stunningly good actors among a cast of good actors. The first ever CGI space stuff with "doing physics" instead of "airplanes in space". First to be filmed in widescreen. Age and corporate cheapness has been unkind to the effects; but it'...

• Post #1642365

  Huh. We got some Babylon 5 enjoyers over here in Mastodon I see.

• Post #1642364

  Why do I like the vTubers I do? This is a comment on a video I just found. Look at the numbers. This is a video by someone very very small, talking about overcoming low self esteem. Michi left a comment. Michi Mochievee. The "tens of thousands of people watch me live every day, and I steam for 12hrs a day" vTuber. Found *this* video. And left this comment. Good people. The space is full of really good people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri7zG5fCHic

• Post #1374639

  In an era of tech companies & influencers pushing hard on #AI, I'm sitting here refreshing my knowledge on PHP programming. Know the fundamentals and: - enjoy your craft - spend less money - don't fear about when the AI providers alter their deals You'd think that countries already grappling with the terrible impact of having outsourced their manufacturing - and how that is crippling their economy and national security now - might recognise a new outsourcing of fundamental cap...

• Post #1272069

  So I've been liking Lesage's live streams a lot - he's fallen into the vTuber rabbit hole since hearing Mouse do her Opera. He also does free singing lessons most days, live. Funded by his community. Here's an example one where they work both on singing and also vocal feminisation together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ULA8mSPUOk

• Post #1272068

  Remember how I said about Baji being the first person I’ve ever known of that actually has multiple personalities? Give this a couple minutes and you’ll hear her talking as “other guy”/ “lojiru” - and some dope singing to boot - then shift back to Baji and talk between the two. This was immediately after covering Jinjer’s “Pisces”. The next song she sings is a duet between her personalities, covering “a whole new world”. It’s fascinating. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2748464480?t=5097s

• Post #1272067

  "Age verification" is "no anonymity". Believing that a system enforcing age verification does not then also lead to a lack of anonymity is naieve. People, we got knickers in twists because of cookies - you think something that *requires handing over IDs* isn't going to end up mined that way too? Beyond all the other risks?

• Post #1272066

  Can you imagine if we had some free source of energy that could supply the whole nation and was impossible to blockade or restrict? Can you imagine if that was also cheaper than all other fuels? With current tech? It’s almost as though renewable energy is a matter of national security; and its constant derision by fossil fuel industries was entirely about their loss of profit if we switched. Can you imagine if we’d actually built the infra instead of get cucked by big business? Imagine!

• Post #1272065

  - Mouse sings during the cyclethon, raising money for the Immune Deficiency Foundation. - There have been 5 years of cyclethon's; the last three, she's tried not to repeat any songs, and to do a song for every 5k donated. - These are all the times she sang La Camisa Negra live during the cycling; but synced together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNyDwhxt2lI