matt bluelander 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

A lot of people called Seinfeld groundbreaking for being "a show about nothing", but those people have clearly never listened to A Prairie Home Companion. You want nothing? Garrison Keillor *invented* nothing

My security advice for rich people is that they should all set their passwords to "password". This will make it much easier for non-rich people to commit crimes against them, which will increase the overall level of financial security significantly

@trysdyn My security advice is that if you're the type of person who'd sign up for Parler, you should send strangers your social security number and scans of your photo ID. This is the correct action and whatever developments occur are sure to be just and proper.

Ironic that "sunlight is the best disinfectant", an aphorism about the value of truth, sounds like some pseudomedical breatharian horseshit if you take it literally

(and the castle roughly corresponds to Kyoto, the location of Nintendo HQ. Neat!)

Today I realized that this island formation in Mario 3 is Japan

@trysdyn ...PSO2 means Phantasy Star Online 2, right? Not some other game with the same initials? I have so many questions

Okay, I shouldn't say NO threat of DMCA takedown, because opentrackr does occasionally get removal requests and comply with them http://opentrackr.org/transparency.html

But it doesn't have the discoverability factor of other filesharing options. It's not the auto-content ID ad hellscape that youtube is now. They have to actually put in the legwork and find this stuff, and I don't expect any videos are going to be removed because they have a 5-second clip of a copyrighted song

And if we're okay with lower resolutions and less-than-perfect quality, we could share videos with each other like this a lot more easily. Pirate TV and radio stations were never ideal perfect crisp quality, but they were watchable. Stuff like youtube and twitch gave us the illusion of the democratization of broadcasting outside of the sphere of capitalist interests, but now that the rose-colored veneer is starting to chip off those glasses, maybe it's time to lower our standards again. HD is a construct of the bourgeoisie

I recently discovered that you don't need a big public HTTP tracker like The Pirate Bay to share a torrent. You can just add a UDP tracker like the one at opentrackr.org and share the magnet link.

It seems like this would be a better solution than the usual "I'll upload this to a filehost so you can download it" business. It's faster, no threat of DMCA takedown, no risk of an upload failing and having to start over, you can pause a download and resume it later if you need to... I wonder why plain ol' bittorrent isn't used more for this kind of personal filesharing. Like who needs peertube? People can just say "I have a new video, here's the magnet link, check it out." You can even configure the client to download the parts sequentially so you can watch as it downloads

True, most people don't have the upstream to support more than one or two people doing this at the same time, but for small networks of people sharing videos with their friends maybe that's enough

Heartwarming children's story about a baboon who saves christmas with his shiny red butt

It's wild to me that some people let people leave comments on their stuff without pre-approval moderation. Unless you run a community where you have multiple moderators, you're dancing in a minefield. If it's just you, someone could post the most heinous nazi shit imaginable all over your site while you're asleep and it'll just be there for hours and hours. Anyone with e.g. a small youtube channel should enable the "hold for moderation" option, it's just common sense

@solterrasa That's fascinating and also a dedication to the ideal of "perfectly correct" that I 100% can't identify with lol

I installed a module on my wiki that lets users set their local time zone and the number of options present is ludicrous. Does Indiana really need six different entries on a time zone list? If you live in Indiana you're either in Eastern or Central.

If the idea is "well maybe the person lives in Indiana but doesn't know what time zone they're in", why have an entry for Marengo, a town of 800 people, and not like Fort Wayne or Bloomington?

I don't want to make *that* bold of a statement; I think I'll just wear semi-cologne

I refer to the current era of the united states as (ominously) pre-decimalization

And this is my most prized piece of Open Source memorabilia: a sealed boxed copy of Red Hat 4.2 autographed by Annie Lennox herself

Skyrim with guns? Skyrim already had guns *flexes biceps barbarily*

Seize the means of production

Rip it in two with your bare hands and hurl it into the stratosphere