david @xnx38h@cybre.space

I learnt this the other day and ugh..

Please tell me I'm not crazy for thinking this is... I don't even have the words for it.

"In reference to the American Revolution, the 76 in our name declares our independence from proprietary empires through the freedom that open source technology provides. Will you join us?"

Source: System76 Brand book https://system76.cdn.prismic.io/system76/81ae9b62-8848-450a-9fd3-5d6f4f0d1d5d_system76_brand-manual_2022.pdf (linked on https://system76.com/about)

MP3's IDv3, and by derivation OGG and FLAC can store pictures of type "A bright coloured fish". And there is LITERALLY NOTHING on the internet to explain why picture type 17 is a fish. I've asked the FLAC mailing list, but if you know anything please let me know!

(Image of the IETF FLAC standard draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-cellar-flac-04 )

Decorated Streetcar, from the series The Enthronement Ceremony in November 1928 (Tokyo) A.D. 19283 Japanese Color lithograph

for a lot of reasons, both personal and practical, i don't think i can effectively run a public mastodon instance any more, and i need to retire cybre.space. i want to do this responsibly and make sure everyone has a chance to migrate and export properly, so here is the plan for the instance retirement (feel free to share this link around): https://cybre.space/~chr/cybre-space-eol

due to ongoing moderation load issues and understaffing, between now and 1 november, the instance may be undermoderated. for other instances, if this poses an issue for you, i encourage you to use federation tools at your discretion. i would only ask that you be clear and public about your decisions so that cybre.space users can figure out where they will be able to migrate their accounts.

thank you

*goes outside*
holy shit, fund transit
*goes inside, cries*