Cybre Rick @rick_777@cybre.space

Also, if you've ever wondered why Karaoke was hugely popular in America in the 90's and lost steam in the 2000's, it is because the music industry (Sony and Warner) sued everyone, including my father's business, so a great deal of the business's money went into pieces of paper in PACER. TL;DR They won and took everything business related and additionally considered going after my dad personally. No more new Karaoke music meant no more popular karaoke songs.

not relying on github is a good lesson to learn from the attack on #youtube-dl.

another lesson is: please avoid supporting the RIAA. you can avoid buying copyrighted music, i do so for ~15 years. donate to artists if you wanna support them.

i guess canceling things like spotify is a good idea as well. maybe they even ask you why. :)

#boycottCopyright

Dear Free Software and Privacy-loving individual,

If you care the slightest bit about freedom of speech, please take 10 seconds of your time to run the following command into your terminal:

git clone https://codeberg.org/polarisfm/youtube-dl

That's it. You're saving a very important piece of internet history that may be necessary later.

Thank you for your attention. Your effort makes the internet a better place.

#censorship #youtubedl

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Looking for people to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse? 🤔

Here's a complete list of recommended accounts so far:

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After a shockingly bad experience with AutoCAD I decided I'd learn me some KiCAD and build a test board. If this works I'll be amazed, but I've sent it off to the PCB fab for etching *and* assembly. What a time to be alive!

when you or i say 'the economy':
things being made, things getting done, people getting paid

when conservatives say 'the economy':
the process of wealth being transferred from the many to the few

My dad went to the doc and the diagnosis wasn't good. Can't give details, but he needs to see a neurologist soon. He has an appointment with a geriatrist tomorrow.

Donations appreciated.

Boosts ok.

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Interrupt Handling for the 6502 - Ben Eater: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=oOYA-jsWTmc

The Mystery Flaw of Solar Panels: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=yVOnHWnLSeU

Pls join us on The Intergalactic Wasabi Hour with me, snowdusk, livestreaming right now on Tilderadio!

To listen:

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or

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do you like 80s synth, industrial dance, latin freestyle, classic rave, wilson philips, soulfy? you're weird. I'm back from sick leave, get weird with me spinning live on @tilderadio in an hour at 0200 UTC

#np #fediplay #dj #radio

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The new EARN IT Act would let 50 different state legislatures regulate the Internet. Let's kill this bill. https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-bill-before-it-breaks-encryption-a7904e20-2083-4d5e-88ae-44ee5fef7a5d

the people that had zero sympathy for protesters being assaulted, run over, killed, or kidnapped, nor for the black bodies found lynched in parks, nor for children being detained in concentration camps are now the ones saying we need to have sympathy for a fascist tyrant because of "moral high ground" lmfao shut the fuck up

maybe you are the lacroix of facism but its still facism

The next Q&A on Using federated instances as discussion communities starts in 5 minutes: https://bbb.fosshost.org/b/mor-zz2-hkp-b4s

#apconf2020 @jmanumeza

Stumbled on my first Jexer roadblock: Showing a menu item description in the status bar.

It turns out that this functionality is NOT built-in, and I can't override classes like TMenu or TMenuItem (WTF?), they have final methods and private constructors. Who the hell came up with this idea???

So, in order to be able to display a menu item's description text in the statusbar, I had to add an onIdle() event handler to the application's desktop object.

This handler finds the active menu in the menubar and gets the active menu item's id, then updates the status bar text with a string that I store manually using the menu item id as key.

It's a horribly complicated workaround, but it works! 😀

Best of all, since it's called in an onIdle() event, it only gets called after the last event is processed, which means it's efficient and doesn't consume any unnecessary cycles!

#Java #Jexer #TurboVision #programming

Looking for a capitalist pig emoji! With top hat, a dollar bill on the hat side and a cigar in its mouth!

Boosts appreciated.