Well that’s the neat part, you don’t! If you post on Pixelfed you’re already on Mastodon.

…I suppose you can reshare it if you want. Me, I just point people to my Pixelfed account on my Mastodon profile and vice versa.

Funny thing, Pixelfed isn’t even a competitor to Instagram in the very very strictest sense.

Pixelfed is a federated service for posting photos.

Instagram started out as a service for posting photos, but it has become this… thing. I don’t even know anymore.

Oh yeah, pineapples have always been associated with toughness.

Ah, the pre-new-season-recap/where-are-they-now of the utter madness that was The Trump Administration: The Ultimate Chaos.

What will they do in the next season? Just how hard their asses will be bitten? Nobody knows!

Seriously, though, like everyone else, I was highly worried about what the fuck the re-election of Trump will mean. But then I remembered all of the total fuck-ups they did last time around, and I turned my worries, like, 1% down. All I’m hoping right now is that some conservative loonie group goes all in on “finish building the Wall” and it’ll be a shitshow as usual.

Huh.

You know, when I think of supercomputer applications, I think of deeply analytical problems based on solid math and well understood algorithms that can be highly parallelised to take the maximum theoretical advantage of the hardware at hand.

You know, the opposite of what the “AI” crowd is doing. Throwing vast amounts of crunching power at a barely understood hypothetical black-box problem in hopes that it potentially yields some interesting results. Maybe.

…We control the treble, and all your bass belongs to us too.

/incredibly ancient joke

Yeah. I love the French, our dear EU brothers and sisters, but just don’t buy a nuclear power plant from them.

I had a rad cloak for my Hunter. They sunsetted it. Why was I even playing from then out.

Which is why I’m a Drupal fan. It’s wayyyy too overpowered for every purpose equally. …If I need a personal blog, there’s always Jekyll.

If I were building a larger site, I’d probably use Drupal.

It’s a bit of a departure from the “blogware” mindset though. You’re not managing “posts” and “static pages”. You’re managing stuff. …Which can manifest itself as pages or posts. Different kinds of content, different kinds of fields. Blogware gets hacky if you are posting anything but pages and posts, but in Drupal, every type of content is equally tweakable.

PEGI is a private organisation. The reason it exist is that it allows the industry to regulate itself, because in some jurisdictions, the only alternative would be for the governments to establish their own rating board.

(Not trying to justify what their current policy is in this instance, however.)

Hngh. Balatro already had a bunch of hassle on Switch eShop due to the PEGI ratings change.

Earlier, Nintendo somehow got a PEGI 12 rating for 51 Worldwide Games, which includes poker and blackjack. I wonder what they argued to avoid the 18 rating. “Sure, this compilation has poker and blackjack, but it’s not like we made it fun.” (It’s adequate but compared to Balatro it’s very much a non-frills experience.)

There’s a movie plot hook buried there. About a kid on spectrum whose robot buddy gets killed by the uncaring business. They go “oh no, I’ll have to fix my robot buddy” and go on to become a tech genius. One day, they become a tech millionaire, and the story’s antagonist, the shady businesses partner, goes “look, we’re bankrupt, we have no choice, we have to shut down all of the robot buddies”. And the protagonist remembers the saddest moment of their childhood and are like “no, we can’t do that”.

It’s an insurance company. I assume they had a 6 hour meeting discussing the shade of the quotation marks. Then the social media intern said you can’t change it.

For those who don’t need cloud access, I just put all of my photos on a NAS and use a digital asset manager software. digiKam is great if you want an open source solution. I use ACDSee because it’s faster and has better usability in my humble opinion. But since both of the software packages store the metadata in image files and XMP sidecars and basically only use local app-specific database for caching, if digiKam ever gets a couple of quantum leaps ahead, switching back to it isn’t that big of a deal. (As usual, don’t use Adobe Lightroom or you’re screwed in that regard. Or so I’ve been told.)

I have them on CD-ROM.

I also think I have the final patches for them on floppies that I stuffed in the boxes. Not sure if they’re readable (or in fact the final patches)

Kinect! I mean, a bunch of Wii games were really fun, but Kinect had some really interesting uses. And unlike Wii games the sports games actually gave me an exhausting workout. Without cheating.

Neither of the platforms really got to the fullest of the full potential though.

But even there, Kinect had one incredible example of where it was great. Xbox 360 Skyrim had the absolute best voice commands I’ve ever used anywhere.

When Twitter (and Reddit) pulled this off, I was just mildly pissed. Can’t do interesting things with my data, oh no.

…Image that, except it’s an expensive luxury car you’re no longer allowed to do interesting things with.

When I was a kid I saw Birdo in the Super Mario Bros 2 manual and the bit about how she thinks she’s a girl.

And I was like “Oh, interesting”.

When I was a kid, I had no idea how many mysteries would this universe hold. A new one? Guess I learned something new that day.

Elon Musk before: “Oh, these old Twitter executives were so dumb. When number go up, you’ve gotta show it everywhere!”

Elon Musk now: “Number not go up? For cripes sake, don’t show it!”