Wonder if anyone has made an ST-01 soundfont yet. Would be fun to hear canyon.mid as if played by Ultimate Soundtracker

time to shave another yak (writing a babby pop3 + smtp server)

aight my one real #Bluesky take is that any celebration of its culture is premature: it is largely defined by early yet powerless movers in a vacuum right now. That could change at any time. Already the site has a growing population of "own teh libs" type right-wing puppets doing the same things people hated about Twitter.The site's reliance on third-party labeling service to "hide content that you don't want to see!" out of a pool of Free Speech Soup reads to me like punting on responsibility, yet the fact that it's not meaningfully decentralized means the current operators have an outsized influence on what ATProto *is*. As much as early users crow about "doing things differently here", ultimately it's out of their hands entirely... mods must set and enforce policy for any of it to matter.In short: until they ban a Tim Pool or an Andy Ngo, I withhold my judgment on whether the site is actually "better than Twitter" or merely "in the interval before it too becomes Twitter"

aight my one real #Bluesky take is that any celebration of its culture is premature: it is largely defined by early yet powerless movers in a vacuum right now. That could change at any time. Already the site has a growing population of "own teh libs" type right-wing puppets doing the same things people hated about Twitter.The site's reliance on third-party labeling service to "hide content that you don't want to see!" out of a pool of Free Speech Soup reads to me like punting on responsibility, yet the fact that it's not meaningfully decentralized means the current operators have an outsized influence on what Bluesky *is*. Users can't do shit to shape a site: mods and owners set and enforce policy, and that is what sets the tone for all its users.In short: until they ban a Tim Pool or an Andy Ngo, I withhold my judgment on whether the site is actually "better than Twitter" or merely "in the interval before it too becomes Twitter"

aight my one real #Bluesky take is that any celebration of its culture is premature: it is largely defined by early yet powerless movers in a vacuum right now. That could change at any time. Already the site has a growing population of "own teh libs" type right-wing puppets doing the same things people hated about Twitter.The site's reliance on third-party labeling service to "hide content that you don't want to see!" out of a pool of Free Speech Soup reads to me like punting on responsibility, yet the fact that it's not meaningfully decentralized means the current operators have an outsized influence on what Bluesky *is*. Users can't do shit to shape a site: mods and owners set and enforce policy, and that sets the tone.In short: until they ban a Tim Pool or an Andy Ngo, I withhold my judgment on whether the site is actually "better than Twitter" or merely "in the interval before it too becomes Twitter"

@greg unfortunately yes https://youtu.be/BlaWhtHmUw4

Great injustice done today in the Delphi, Indiana murder case, where an innocent man was tortured in solitary confinement for 13 months until he elicited a false "confession", then railroaded through the justice system to a guilty verdict.I know you all know this but to reiterate: NEVER talk to cops. Tell your family and friends. Cops are not your friends and they are not interested in truth or justice. Lawyer up and shut the fuck up.

if you fail2ban, then you... uhh. you ban2 fail

@threetails well, you can get blocked, first off

> **BOP SPOTTER**> I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below.> > Heard of ShotSpotter? Microphones are installed across cities in the United States by police to detect gunshots, purported to not be very accurate. This is that, but for music.>> This is culture surveillance. No one notices, no one consents. But it's not about catching criminals. It's about catching vibes. A constant feed of what’s popping off in real-time.https://walzr.com/bop-spotter

https://walzr.com/bop-spotter

@bogpunk Oh interesting! I must have misunderstood then - was basing it on this post on the talk page. Maybe it's just so prevalent that even DYKG saying "no, it's not true" is not enough to dissuade editors lol

oh I like this much better than the previous game of spotting the "following you" text way far away from the "following them" button

@HunterZ Same, just clicked the button. I downloaded my archive a while ago, haven't used the site in 2 years. deleted entirely now.

idk why people are so confused by the idea of "they voted for Trump AND abortion access???" the calculation is very clear for those voters: "I can have either abortion-for-all and economy-for-none, OR I can have abortion-for-my-state and economy-for-all". win-win for them#uspol

@greg smooth!!

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/x-white-supremacist-site/680538/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0T8uB7iimO1-elCapdzG8XE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

lol. lmao.

not doing NaNoGenMo but I am once again thinking it'd be a fun idea to just grab everything you can off of Worldbuilding Stack Exchange and automatically smash it all together, to make the most hyperrealistic storyless document imaginable

@mcc proudly namedropped in the first ever "fuckings" text