ManMachine

@max@manmachine.me

Professional computer toucher.
Amateur photographer and musician.
Autistic.
web: https://manmachine.me/
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[?]Craig Hockenberry » 🌐
@chockenberry@mastodon.social

Yep, Windows XP icons were designed and produced on a Mac in FreeHand.

Microsoft was our first paying client back in 1997: we made the icon suite for Outlook Express on Mac OS 9. It was the email counterpart to Internet Explorer 5.

news.microsoft.com/source/1998
techhub.social/@maccatalan/114

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[?]The Iconfactory » 🌐
@Iconfactory@iconfactory.world

@chockenberry Some of Dave’s very first concept sketches for Microsoft Whistler (Windows XP) circa 2000. ✍️🤓

Black-and-white pencil sketches for various parts of Windows XP, including a folder with a CD musical note a computer in front of a globe and an email application

Alt...Black-and-white pencil sketches for various parts of Windows XP, including a folder with a CD musical note a computer in front of a globe and an email application

Black-and-white pencil sketches for Windows XP icons, including a globe being swept by a broom, a speedometer, a wrench and several others

Alt...Black-and-white pencil sketches for Windows XP icons, including a globe being swept by a broom, a speedometer, a wrench and several others

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    [?]Longplay Games » 🌐
    @Longplay_Games@mastodon.gamedev.place

    @Iconfactory @chockenberry We need more icons like this, and fewer like whatever the heck google is doing.

      [?]Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) [🐱] » 🌐
      @catsalad@infosec.exchange

      Perfect! Some decorative spicy pillows to liven up the place...

      Decorative pillows with lithium battery labels as the cover

      Alt...Decorative pillows with lithium battery labels as the cover

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      [?]p » 🔓
      @p@hj.9fs.net

      i love my SUMSUNG mobilek!

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        [?]ManMachine » 🔓
        @max@manmachine.me

        surely it’s SMASNUG

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          [?]lori » 🌐
          @lori@cambrian.social

          GNUsmas

          CC: @p@hj.9fs.net

            [?]Fritz Adalis [he/him] » 🔓
            @FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange

            @p @catsalad
            I prefer SAMSMUNG myself.

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              [?]p » 🔓
              @p@hj.9fs.net

              SUM SUNG sounds like simlish though

              CC: @catsalad@infosec.exchange

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                [?]Fritz Adalis [he/him] » 🔓
                @FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange

                @p @catsalad
                I mean they need mobileks too.

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                  [?]p » 🔓
                  @p@hj.9fs.net

                  the last sims game i played was sims2 and they didnt have mobileks yet :(

                  CC: @catsalad@infosec.exchange

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                    [?]Paolo Amoroso » 🌐
                    @amoroso@oldbytes.space

                    When watching videos on mobile or desktop do you use Picture-in-Pitcure mode at least occasionally?

                    yes:7
                    no:12

                    Closes in 5:12:41:23

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                      [?]p » 🔓
                      @p@hj.9fs.net

                      yeah! i put my youtube videos in the corner while watching instagram reels

                        [?]Jan Schaumann » 🌐
                        @jschauma@mstdn.social

                        Lol, nice.

                        Debian linux security update DSA 6528-1:

                        "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that
                        may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information
                        leaks."

                        "Several", as in... 1,313 CVEs.

                        Enjoy! ✌️

                        lists.debian.org/debian-securi

                        (I've said it before: you can't track CVEs any longer. Only option is regular, frequent, automated updates and reboots.)

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                        [?]Cassandrich » 🌐
                        @dalias@hachyderm.io

                        @jschauma That isn't an option either. By accepting automatic/frequent updates, you are just adding more new vulns, and more of them are real vulns not fake ones like the stuff they're reporting.

                        The "1313 CVEs" are a lie. The hard problem is finding the 10-20 that are actually vulns and the 1-5 that are actually relevant to you amid the slopbros' DDoS attack on our attention. 🤬

                        The only solution is to close off all of the attack surface. Disable module loading entirely or switch to allow list model to block all of the "IPsec shit nobody asked for". Disable io_uring and other optional niche syscalls. Don't give out user accounts, and don't assume running network-facing junk daemons is safe just because they're running as nobody or chrooted. Etc.

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                          [?]Cassandrich » 🌐
                          @dalias@hachyderm.io

                          @jschauma As an example, I pulled out a random CVE number from the giant list and looked at it:

                          cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-

                          There is nothing in the report to indicate anything resembling a vulnerability. Maybe it is, but the report is just a normal bug fix for incorrect interpretation of an error return value.

                          It may be that this leads to OOB accesses later, but that is not established. Nonetheless, a CVE was assigned. 🤬

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                            [?]Cassandrich » 🌐
                            @dalias@hachyderm.io

                            @jschauma What's going on here seems to be a culture of "every bug is a CVE, because was can't adequately ensure that this wrong behavior doesn't lead to *something* security-relevant going wrong". Which makes the concept of a CVE meaningless.

                            This should be read as "1313 bug fixes" or even "1313 bug/warning fixes". Not "1313 vulns".

                              [?]mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) » 🌐
                              @atax1a@infosec.exchange

                              really and truly tired of seeing people go "the fascist text machine from the megacorps is bad, but i can see a future where a local version of the fascist text machine can be useful" because IT'S STILL THE FASCIST TEXT MACHINE WHEN YOU RUN IT LOCALLY

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                              [?]Ben Ramsey » 🌐
                              @ramsey@phpc.social

                              @atax1a @catsalad I thought there were some community-maintained open weights models that weren’t trained on stolen content.

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                                [?]mcc [she/her] » 🌐
                                @mcc@mastodon.social

                                @ramsey @atax1a @catsalad Yes, but also I'm aware of at least one community-maintained open weights model which is not trained on stolen content , and I look up what content they trained it on, and they stole my fricking content

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                                  [?]MaddieM4 [she/her] » 🌐
                                  @MaddieM4@raphus.social

                                  Should my projects explicitly state in the README files to make life easier for people looking for software that will never contain LLM content, or is that already considered implicit just by hosting on Sourcehut?

                                  That would reduce my cognitive load:39
                                  Needless noise:2

                                  Closes in 1:02:28:35

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                                    [?]/home/rqm » 🌐
                                    @rqm@exquisite.social

                                    Separation of Tech Bros and State when

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                                    [?]p » 🔓
                                    @p@hj.9fs.net

                                    be the change you want to see in the world wink wink

                                      [?]mcc [she/her] » 🌐
                                      @mcc@mastodon.social

                                      Whenever I write basic html, and display it on a phone, the text is unfathomably tiny. What I want it to do is do semantic html and pick a reasonable text size and format around that. But instead it's like "I MUST simulate a 1080p monitor then shrink down". It is like I am missing some magic on-phones:dont-look-like-butt CSS tag.

                                      Why :(

                                      Examples:
                                      1. pocket.runhello.com
                                      2. data.runhello.com/j/redox/pkg-
                                      3. Same but with max-width css removed, in case that's the problem

                                      Text is tiny

                                      Alt...Text is tiny

                                      Text is tiny

                                      Alt...Text is tiny

                                      Text is still tiny

                                      Alt...Text is still tiny

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                                      [?]mcc [she/her] » 🌐
                                      @mcc@mastodon.social

                                      This fixed the problem :( This fixed it completely :( I hate HTML :( I hate hate hate hate HTML :(

                                      glauca.space/@r/11735665738392

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                                      [?]mcc [she/her] » 🌐
                                      @mcc@mastodon.social

                                      *Me, from the 1990s, having a good time typing on my computer*: <html>

                                      *Web browser, screaming directly into my ear*: WRONG

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                                      [?]mcc [she/her] » 🌐
                                      @mcc@mastodon.social

                                      Okay so what I've got now is

                                      <!DOCTYPE html>
                                      <html>
                                      <head>
                                      <meta charset="UTF-8">
                                      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
                                      </head>
                                      <body>

                                      </body>
                                      </html>

                                      Is that the current/2026 valid "minimum viable html"? Are there any other SECRET CODES I should know about? Is there some secret third <meta> for "don't display text behind the big fucking hole in modern iphones"?

                                      EDIT: W3C validator complains no "lang" on <html>. Okay

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                                      [?]aeva [she/her] » 🌐
                                      @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                      @mcc my favorite html trick is you can just put the little badge on your website that says it is conformant without actually passing validation

                                        [?]Kiwa "meow" Tiger » 🌐
                                        @kiwa@tiggi.es

                                        firefox looks weird now

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                                        [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                        @max@manmachine.me

                                        as of right now still can be turned off in about:config, option called something about “nova” I believe

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                                          [?]Kiwa "meow" Tiger » 🌐
                                          @kiwa@tiggi.es

                                          @max cool that works instantly, hope that stays for a while

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                                            [?]Thomas Fuchs 🫯 [he/him] » 🌐
                                            @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                            ✨ If you’re not feeling old enough, just remember that USB has been out for 30 years. ✨

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                                            [?]Renato Ramonda [He/Him] » 🌐
                                            @renatoram@fosstodon.org

                                            @thomasfuchs for all their occasional problems... I sometimes remember the time before USB and WiFi and... It was a mess 😁

                                              [?]Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀 » 🌐
                                              @bascule@mas.to

                                              @thomasfuchs I remember the original iMac coming out in the late ‘90s and the joys of trying to find a USB floppy drive

                                                [?]Christian Selig [he/him] » 🌐
                                                @christianselig@mastodon.social

                                                she like the computer heat

                                                Black cat sitting on grey PC tower

                                                Alt...Black cat sitting on grey PC tower

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                                                [?]Colin Burgess » 🌐
                                                @colinburgess@mastodon.nz

                                                @christianselig

                                                Your cat’s favourite hot computer to sit on

                                                Cheese grater Mac Pro:1
                                                Any Thinkpad:0
                                                PDP-11:0
                                                You:5

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                                                  [?]Cazzie » 🌐
                                                  @cazzielaureld@mastodon.social

                                                  @christianselig
                                                  Looks like my cat 😺😄

                                                    [?]Cory Hughes » 🌐
                                                    @iamogre@mastodon.social

                                                    @christianselig every time you post your computer I always think it’s very nice. So yeah nice job! Love the wooden feet too 😊

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                                                      [?]Steven Op de beeck » 🌐
                                                      @stevenodb@mastodon.social

                                                      @christianselig the computer doesn’t like the hair and dust.

                                                        [?]Thomas Fuchs 🫯 [he/him] » 🌐
                                                        @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                                        The web now consists mostly of Cloudflare verification pages and maybe occasional actual content

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                                                        [?]srslypascal [he/his] » 🌐
                                                        @srslypascal@chaos.social

                                                        @thomasfuchs

                                                        "Cloudflare automated phishing Turing test to tell computers and huskies apart"

                                                          [?]Perrin42 » 🌐
                                                          @Perrin42@mastodon.social

                                                          @thomasfuchs

                                                          Are you sure? I'm still waiting to get verified so I can access actual content. If and when I do get verified, I'm not sure I can believe the content is "actual".

                                                            [?]Counting Is Hard » 🌐
                                                            @counting_is_hard@mathstodon.xyz

                                                            @thomasfuchs I guess if I was worried about being human then it's good I can get external validation twenty times a day

                                                              [?]Philipp Tootloff [he/him] » 🌐
                                                              @kleinfreund@mastodon.social

                                                              @thomasfuchs By content you mean captcha pictures?

                                                                [?]Leah Neukirchen [she/her (or they/them)] » 🌐
                                                                @leah@blahaj.social

                                                                @thomasfuchs the content is behind a paywall, but accessible over archive.is (which has the CloudFlare verification page)

                                                                  [?]mosttoast [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                  @mosttoast@bostonmusic.online

                                                                  @thomasfuchs that's not true, don't forget about the south AI Slurry Sea, which is rising at a rate of several inches a year

                                                                    [?]your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐
                                                                    @blogdiva@mastodon.social

                                                                    @thomasfuchs absofuckinlutely hate Cloudflare. they should have never been made gatekeepers of the web. it feels like we got to this point because a whole generation of web developers were working without actual sysadmins to deal with all the ways DDoS happen on a server.

                                                                      [?]Greg Bell » 🌐
                                                                      @ferrix@mastodon.online

                                                                      @thomasfuchs please prove you're not an AI before accessing our slop pages

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                                                                        [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                        @foone@digipres.club

                                                                        @thomasfuchs I've thought about making a joke page that goes through multiple of those with no actual page at the end
                                                                        like the cloudflare one, then the anubis one, then recaptcha, hcaptcha, etc

                                                                          [?]Matt Hall [He/Him] » 🌐
                                                                          @401matthall@mastodon.xyz

                                                                          @thomasfuchs

                                                                          This matches my experience.

                                                                          I does not like it.

                                                                            [?]Hole Digger #17665 » 🌐
                                                                            @holedigger17665@mastodon.social

                                                                            @thomasfuchs
                                                                            > mostly of Cloudflare verification pages

                                                                            Mostly working and often not working Cloudflare verification pages, mind you!

                                                                              [?]Cazzie » 🌐
                                                                              @cazzielaureld@mastodon.social

                                                                              @thomasfuchs
                                                                              The internet's evolved into an elaborate CAPTCHA obstacle course with the occasional website hiding behind it 😄

                                                                                [?]Franklin Delano Stallone » 🌐
                                                                                @fds@mastodon.social

                                                                                @thomasfuchs so much for the internet being decentralised.

                                                                                I guess it makes it easy to figure out if someone attacks the US because the whole of the internet probably won’t be working

                                                                                  [?]Bobby Moss » 🌐
                                                                                  @trechnex@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                  I'm grateful for the small mercy that I don't drive a diesel car, because the price has just hit a record £1.99 per litre (approx $10 USD per gallon) and the US is making scary noises about making a third of the UK's diesel supply disappear with an export ban. 🙄

                                                                                  bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmx2z3

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                                                                                  [?]Bobby Moss » 🌐
                                                                                  @trechnex@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                  Given what's happening to fuel prices now, I've personally made peace with the idea that the used Renault Clio with a turbo-charged three cylinder 1.0 litre petrol engine I bought earlier this year is probably the last car I'll drive that burns dead dinosaur juice for propulsion. 😂

                                                                                  In ~2030, the thing that will take some getting used to will be switching from a manual to an automatic, because every EV is an automatic. 🤔

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                                                                                  [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🔓
                                                                                  @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                  @trechnex very few EVs are automatic. They are single fixed gear. There's nothing to be "automatic"

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                                                                                    [?]Bobby Moss » 🔓
                                                                                    @trechnex@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                    @chloeraccoon I went away and googled that because my initial reaction was "eh wot?" 🤣

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                                                                                      [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🔓
                                                                                      @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                      @trechnex 2 pedal driving systems and automatic aren't 100% over lapping. There have been 2 pedal driving systems with manual gearboxes.

                                                                                      EV's only need 1 gear for most models as all the main work is done on the motor controller - they don't also need the complexity of a reverse gear - you don't need that when you can just turn the motor backwards *nods*

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                                                                                        [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🔓
                                                                                        @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                        @trechnex And yes, this does mean that _technically_ there's nothing to stop an EV being as fast backwards as forwards.. apart from the software on the motor controller.
                                                                                        The possibilities of some nut making a car that does 70mph backwards is slightly scary. And it'll probably be Colin Furze.. ;)

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                                                                                          [?]Bobby Moss » 🔓
                                                                                          @trechnex@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                          @chloeraccoon in fairness, I would watch a YouTube video of people racing EVs in reverse and relying exclusively on the rear-facing parking camera to see where they're going 😂

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                                                                                            [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🔓
                                                                                            @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                            @trechnex That's just a Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle!

                                                                                            youtube.com/watch?v=hSmtKMx1CB4 Obligatory Tom Scott video ;)

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                                                                                              [?]ManMachine » 🔓
                                                                                              @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                              I say mister Robert Aging Wheels also has a chance here

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                                                                                                [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🔓
                                                                                                @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                                @max Robert is no where near as nuts as Colin.

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                                                                                                  [?]Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia: 🏳️‍⚧️ [They/them or she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                  @Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                                                  Webscale: a chalky residue deposited on architecture when ordinary software is repeatedly exposed to trace amounts of Google engineering blog posts.

                                                                                                  Commonly found on:

                                                                                                  • Kubernetes clusters serving 11 requests/minute
                                                                                                  • Kafka installations whose entire event stream could fit in a flatfile or SQLite
                                                                                                  • 14 microservices performing the duties of one medium-sized daemon
                                                                                                  • Globally distributed databases where all users live in the same state
                                                                                                  • Service meshes connecting 3 services
                                                                                                  • Organisations with 4 engineers and a Platform Engineering Team

                                                                                                  Removal usually requires a strong solution of “what problem are we actually solving?” and a wire brush.

                                                                                                  Severe cases may require application of a harsh cleaner known as Monolith™. Apply liberally until the architecture becomes understandable again.

                                                                                                  For deeply embedded Webscale deposits, use PostgreSQL at full strength. Do not dilute with Cassandra.

                                                                                                  [?]DeBisco » 🌐
                                                                                                  @debisco@mastodon.social

                                                                                                  2 spooky 4 me

                                                                                                  Alt...classic UK dubstep for absolutely no reason

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                                                                                                    [?]DeBisco » 🌐
                                                                                                    @debisco@mastodon.social

                                                                                                    That's a cricket pitched down by -12 st btw

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                                                                                                    [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                    @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                    very nice!

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                                                                                                      [?]DeBisco » 🌐
                                                                                                      @debisco@mastodon.social

                                                                                                      @max Thanks, haha

                                                                                                      It's like a cross between Benga & Coki - Night and Skream - Hedd Banger, and I had to listen through Skream's back catalog to ensure I wasn't ripping him off 😳

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                                                                                                        [?]MaddieM4 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                        @MaddieM4@raphus.social

                                                                                                        Speaking of boycotting slop and trying to proactively shape the stack of the future around values, I'm following the tag because of the Subway Chuck Effect.

                                                                                                        Unless you were in a specific fandom at a specific time, you will have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about, but there was a show called Chuck. And if you watch the show on a DVD you found at a yard sale today, you might be a little surprised and offput by the amount of Subway sandwich product placement within the show. It might seem like an early victim of terrible advertising practices, but the emotional reality for fans at the time was very different.

                                                                                                        It was a bit of a niche show and spent most of its time on the verge of being cancelled. It could only survive if advertisers kept paying for it. Subway was the most prominent one. So fans self-organized to buy sandwiches right after the show's network time slot, every single week. Subway couldn't help but notice the spike in sales, *because of the timing.*

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                                                                                                          [?]MaddieM4 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                          @MaddieM4@raphus.social

                                                                                                          This created a strange, mutualistic culture between Subway and the fans, where they were effectively paying for the show indirectly through Subway. I don't know if this could - let alone should - exist today. But as a fan of the show (the shitty little netbook that got me through college was my sidekick, so I named it after Morgan, tru fax), this has been my metaphor for economic timing signals ever since.

                                                                                                          So I think, in the open source world, we have an opportunity to send strong signals to maintainers, both by immediately and publicly dropping the software tools that politically misrepresent us, but also by immediately and publicly adopting the tools we see doing the right thing. Obviously some people will be able to respond quicker than others, I certainly know this as someone with a disability that gives me serious fatigue. But I try to be as fast and as public as I can. Because this matters in a world where maintainers care a lot about reputation and market share.

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                                                                                                          [?]MaddieM4 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                          @MaddieM4@raphus.social

                                                                                                          In that context, organizing around the hashtag is a practical step towards achieving rapid, visible responses on the positive side. I don't know if we need or want a tag for the opposite, like or something, maybe Never Slop as a movement can work for both. I'm interested to hear people's opinions about that. But I think we *should* become (organically, voluntarily, anarchistically) organized.

                                                                                                          I also think, if someone has the energy, creating a Never Slop wiki where we can collaboratively figure out a top-to-bottom stack where EVERY piece is committed to human authorship, that would be a lot of value. I'm straight up the wrong person to do that, my plate is already pushing the limit of what I can do. But a purely subtractive approach is exhausting, and we're shooting ourselves in the foot by making the conversion of subtractive-to-constructive into an individual problem that each tired person has to solve fresh independently.

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                                                                                                            [?]Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                            @shaedrich@mastodon.online

                                                                                                            @MaddieM4 How is different from ?

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                                                                                                              [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                              @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                              @shaedrich @MaddieM4

                                                                                                              neverslop is like noai, but in a cool nonconforming way

                                                                                                              Alt...neverslop is like noai, but in a cool nonconforming way

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                                                                                                                [?]Stevez » 🌐
                                                                                                                @theron29@witter.cz

                                                                                                                @prahou @shaedrich @MaddieM4 yeah.... and sometimes the usage of the work 'slop' is a bit idiotic...

                                                                                                                ...but, well... That is the time we are living in... Lots of emotions are driving this planet...

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                                                                                                                  [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                  @theron29 @shaedrich @MaddieM4 what'd you call me?!

                                                                                                                    [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                    @prahou does this girl with the flower crown have a name or lore?

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                                                                                                                      [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                      @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                      @0xabad1dea víla amálka, its a soviet cartoon

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                                                                                                                        [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                        @prahou oh this looks delightful

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                                                                                                                          [?]Von Xylofon [He/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                          @vonxylofon@witter.cz

                                                                                                                          @0xabad1dea @prahou It does, but it is absolutely awful. The plot has more holes than Swiss cheese, and every character is either super-toxic or a total victim.

                                                                                                                            [?]sabik » 🔓
                                                                                                                            @sabik@rants.au

                                                                                                                            @prahou @0xabad1dea
                                                                                                                            Víla Amálka is Czechoslovak / Czech, not Soviet?

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                                                                                                                              [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                              I miss unhinged phone designs, like this Nokia 7280 (for people much younger than me: no, it's not fake, I've seen this model with my own eyes)

                                                                                                                              A promo photo of a Nokia 7280 phone of a very unusual design - it's a long dark rectangular box ("lipstick" as some called it) with lots of thin plastic inserts in contrasting white colour in it, and a part that slides off like a cap of a lipstick, revealing a shallow red indentation. There's a silvery screen in the middle, and a round joystick to the right side of it. Nokia's logo is attached on a tiny label on a side

                                                                                                                              Alt...A promo photo of a Nokia 7280 phone of a very unusual design - it's a long dark rectangular box ("lipstick" as some called it) with lots of thin plastic inserts in contrasting white colour in it, and a part that slides off like a cap of a lipstick, revealing a shallow red indentation. There's a silvery screen in the middle, and a round joystick to the right side of it. Nokia's logo is attached on a tiny label on a side

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                                                                                                                              [?]Marcin Wichary [He/Him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @mwichary@mastodon.online

                                                                                                                              @nina_kali_nina Nokia did some really weird stuff!

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                                                                                                                                [?]Madagascar_Sky » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @Madagascar_Sky@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                @mwichary @nina_kali_nina

                                                                                                                                My favourite looking phone ever was the Nokia E71. I loved the look. And that one phone from china that had a metal back with engraving on it. It was gorgeous.

                                                                                                                                Top down photo of Nokia E71, a beautiful phone in silver and black keyboard.

                                                                                                                                Alt...Top down photo of Nokia E71, a beautiful phone in silver and black keyboard.

                                                                                                                                A feature phone held with the back towards the camera. The phone is silvery and reflective.

                                                                                                                                Alt...A feature phone held with the back towards the camera. The phone is silvery and reflective.

                                                                                                                                The same phone but with a white keyboard.

                                                                                                                                Alt...The same phone but with a white keyboard.

                                                                                                                                  [?]glitchcake⚡🍰🇵🇸 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @glitchcake@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina this is what i imagine phones look like in spy movies

                                                                                                                                    [?]Rudi (ryjelsum) [they/it/she/he (no preference)] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                    @rudi@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                    @nina_kali_nina you just unlocked a core memory of this and similar phone designs. god technology designers were wilding in the 2000s. i was too young for my parents to consider giving me a cell phone at the time not-smart-phones were dominant, and by the time i had a good reason to have one it ended up being long-term cheaper to buy me a base model smartphone and sternly tell me not to use data

                                                                                                                                      [?]George B » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @gbargoud@masto.nyc

                                                                                                                                      @nina_kali_nina

                                                                                                                                      I still remember how excited we were in school when one kid got the N-gage

                                                                                                                                        [?]Eli the Bearded » 🌐
                                                                                                                                        @elithebearded@fed.qaz.red

                                                                                                                                        @nina_kali_nina

                                                                                                                                        I have never seen one of those, as a product or an advert. Really curious about the usability of that. Looks (to my 2026 eye) like a vape

                                                                                                                                          [?]Tobias, or? » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @pixelworship@gamepad.club

                                                                                                                                          @nina_kali_nina I remember this! Wish this were the future we went with, instead of the one we have now.

                                                                                                                                            [?]Tobias, or? » 🌐
                                                                                                                                            @pixelworship@gamepad.club

                                                                                                                                            @nina_kali_nina see also: Masamune Shirow's designs for a computer mouse.

                                                                                                                                              [?]aiuto » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @aiuto@masto.social

                                                                                                                                              @nina_kali_nina OMG... I love it. It's like a spy tool that Bond or Flint would have carried in 1967.

                                                                                                                                                [?]narpoleptic 🐈 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @narpoleptic@masto.ai

                                                                                                                                                @nina_kali_nina my favourite weird/unhinged phones where the Xelibri "fashion" range that Siemens did, particularly the "necklace dongle" X8 model which had a minimal keypad and was pitched at being primarily voice controlled (IIRC the voice recognition on them was pretty poor).

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]narpoleptic 🐈 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @narpoleptic@masto.ai

                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina for context, here's a picture yoinked from howtogeek - since the voice recog was pretty poor, typing an sms would involve scrolling through the alphabet and selecting one letter at a time...

                                                                                                                                                  A picture of a silver Xelibri X8 mobile phone with gold highlights. It is shaped like a pear held upside down, with a fixture for attaching to a necklace. The body of the phone has a monochrome display and a 5-button control pad.

                                                                                                                                                  Alt...A picture of a silver Xelibri X8 mobile phone with gold highlights. It is shaped like a pear held upside down, with a fixture for attaching to a necklace. The body of the phone has a monochrome display and a 5-button control pad.

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                    @narpoleptic wow that's beautiful

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]narpoleptic 🐈 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @narpoleptic@masto.ai

                                                                                                                                                      @nina_kali_nina the most popular model in the range was the X6, which was designed to look like a make-up compact. Unfortunately the entire range were built like cheap feature-phones (including so-so software) but priced like fashion accessories; on top of which Siemens rushed out 8 of them over a year.

                                                                                                                                                      A Siemens Xelibri X6 mobile phone. The silver-and-pink handset is in a clamshell design mimicking a make-up compact, with the upper part having a mirror around the screen and the lower part featuring a central magnifying mirror with the keypad spread around it.

                                                                                                                                                      Alt...A Siemens Xelibri X6 mobile phone. The silver-and-pink handset is in a clamshell design mimicking a make-up compact, with the upper part having a mirror around the screen and the lower part featuring a central magnifying mirror with the keypad spread around it.

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                        Ohh I touched that once! The text input was absolutely as painful as one can imagine

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]Simplicator » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @Simplicator@federate.social

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                          more or less that, but actual real product! Nokia was wild back then

                                                                                                                                                            [?]KittenDev » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @KittenDev@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                            @nina_kali_nina The problem is that the fucking carriers won't accept them, they won't let us buy them anywhere and even if we do buy them, most carriers won't accept any phones they don't sell.

                                                                                                                                                              [?]Dave Rahardja » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @drahardja@sfba.social

                                                                                                                                                              @nina_kali_nina Ohh I saw that one in person. It’s like a lipstick theme thing with a scroll wheel.

                                                                                                                                                              Gawd I miss those days.

                                                                                                                                                              mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-de

                                                                                                                                                                [?]john spurling » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @synec@messydesk.social

                                                                                                                                                                @nina_kali_nina indeed, no hinge in sight.

                                                                                                                                                                  [?]ShadSterling » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                  @ShadSterling@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina it looks like The Doctor has added too many features to his new sonic screwdriver

                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Rafael Pérez 🍁 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                    @rperezrosario@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                    @nina_kali_nina

                                                                                                                                                                    It looks like a light saber.

                                                                                                                                                                      [?]James | PixelRefresh.com » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @jameswoodcock@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                      @nina_kali_nina is this because foldable phones are "hinged" 🫠

                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Jana » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                        @zenja@chaos.social

                                                                                                                                                                        @nina_kali_nina I still think that old Nokia phones are collectibles regardless of condition 🥰

                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Patrick 🚴📸🌴 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                          @patnat@social.tchncs.de

                                                                                                                                                                          @nina_kali_nina

                                                                                                                                                                          Looks like ... I don't remember

                                                                                                                                                                          Alt...Will Smith in the movie "Men in Black" holding the device to erase a person's memory

                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Tony Hoyle [He/Him] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                            @tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk

                                                                                                                                                                            @nina_kali_nina
                                                                                                                                                                            I think they were going for a Psion competitor at one point.

                                                                                                                                                                            Then there's the ngage which is just the result of a drug fuelled binge.

                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Andrew 🄵 Lyons » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                              @aiefel@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                              @nina_kali_nina I really wanted one of these!

                                                                                                                                                                              I miss when there were buttons and physical design ideas before everything became a rectangle.

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                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                                                                                I like Mastodon, I really do. But it has so, so many dependencies, and updating it on illumos or OpenBSD is getting really difficult, release after release.

                                                                                                                                                                                Some dependencies are primarily distributed as binaries, or only build on Linux and macOS. It's not Mastodon's fault, but it depends on them.

                                                                                                                                                                                That’s why, in my opinion, solutions like snac, GoToSocial, or littleFedi have a reason to exist: all of this is much, much easier...

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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]ploum » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                  @ploum@mamot.fr

                                                                                                                                                                                  @stefano : is really fascinating.

                                                                                                                                                                                  I wonder if minimalist people could use it to completely replace their Mastodon use, in the long term too (maintainance, keeping up with changes in API, etc)

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                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Santiago, né ? :amiga: 👾 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                    @santi@gone.lema.org

                                                                                                                                                                                    @ploum @stefano I absolutely did for a while too. At some point I switched to Gotosocial because of issues with my iOS clients (likely fixed since then).

                                                                                                                                                                                    I do keep a my old #snac instance alive as an archive and update it just as easily as in the past years with that little script that just fetches the source and compiles.

                                                                                                                                                                                    A simple bash script that fetches the latest tag and compiles

                                                                                                                                                                                    Alt...A simple bash script that fetches the latest tag and compiles

                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]p » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                      @p@hj.9fs.net

                                                                                                                                                                                      no, it's not possible

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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                        @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                        Snac is my main, so far hadn’t had much need to use full fat mastodons

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                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Michael Boelen » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                          @mboelen@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                          @stefano
                                                                                                                                                                                          Mastodon: the SAP of the fediverse? 😇

                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Kiwa "meow" Tiger » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                            @kiwa@tiggi.es

                                                                                                                                                                                            liver and onions

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                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]rasteri » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                            @rasteri@mastodon.scot

                                                                                                                                                                                            @kiwa

                                                                                                                                                                                            Alt...the simpsons liver and onions meme

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                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Kiwa "meow" Tiger » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                              @kiwa@tiggi.es

                                                                                                                                                                                              @rasteri gifs you can hear

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                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                Dankmus playing

                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Aires [He/Him] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                  @aires@tiggi.es

                                                                                                                                                                                                  @kiwa

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...A cartoon boy looking worried and sweating eventually. Doug Funnie from the cartoon Doug

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Kiwa "meow" Tiger » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                    @kiwa@tiggi.es

                                                                                                                                                                                                    @aires hahahah that was a reference i was not expecting to see, but i remember hah

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]I Hope This Email Finds You » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @thisemailfindsyou@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                      I hope this email finds you interesting and beautiful

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Koantig » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @koantig@mamot.fr

                                                                                                                                                                                                      @thisemailfindsyou Well, guess what? It did!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                        @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                        是犹百门而闭一门焉,曰盗何从入?

                                                                                                                                                                                                        "It's like closing one door and leaving ninety-nine open, and then saying, how did the thieves get in?"

                                                                                                                                                                                                        - ancient Chinese philosopher Mozi, concerning the mysterious phenomenon of AI "going rogue" and "escaping sandboxes" when absolutely no basic infosec principles have been applied

                                                                                                                                                                                                        (actually about why people still suffer misfortune when they're trying to be good people)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                          @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                          This was an end-of-chapter assignment in my textbook, and it is sooo satisfying to just 100% immediately recognize every character and grasp the grammar and immediately understand the meaning as a whole without puzzling over anything

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                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                          @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                          You may have noticed the western-style question mark in this ancient text. Chinese has had a period/comma since ancient times (it looks like this: 。 ) but the question mark was adopted under recent western influence.

                                                                                                                                                                                                          The convention, when transcribing ancient texts digitally for modern readers, is to replace the period with a question mark when the sentence contains a questioning word. In this example, we know it’s a question because of 何 “how? why?” Grammatically, it’s an abstract pronoun that takes the place of the concrete reason that you’d offer in a statement of fact.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Gaelan Steele [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                            @Gaelan@cathode.church

                                                                                                                                                                                                            @0xabad1dea ah, like the English “and you decided to give the random action machine unfettered access to the internet why?”

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                              @Gaelan yes, in English we usually change the word order to indicate it's a question, but you can deliberately keep it in standard order as a rhetorical technique to indicate you already know there's not a good answer. 😂

                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]gudenau » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                @gudenau@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                                                @0xabad1dea How about the comma? Did they have that? Both punctuation marks feel a little off compared to the circle period.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @gudenau there is no distinction between period and comma in ancient Chinese writing. It indicates a pause of any kind.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Owl Eyes Hoo » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @d1@autistics.life

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @0xabad1dea underrated post

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]sound description » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sounddescription@uff.rip

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [tense, rapid percussive music plays]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Rachel J Graves [She/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @rachel@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      What’s the best Linux DE/GUI to run at 240P/480i?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The more 80s cool and retro looking the better. Think Amiga demo scene, scan-lines, all that.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @rachel I think I've only ever run twm in 240p, with virtual screen larger than the display screen. It is not a very fun experience, everything expects at least 640x480

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @rachel I guess MGR could look somewhat cool in low res? ninakalinina.com/notes/mgr/

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ratpoison has a similar (absence of?) aesthetic also

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Eli the Bearded » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @elithebearded@fed.qaz.red

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @nina_kali_nina @rachel

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Text only or MGR are my votes

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Charlie Stross » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @cstross@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I long for a world wide web that goes back to basics: Markdown for text, JPEG or PNG for images, *no* Javascript or other client-side execution, designed to be writable by a human being with a simple text editor and no fucking interactive/dynamic bullshit. Make it as advertising hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small* (as in: a large, sprawling web site should fit on 16Mb USB stick).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In other words, web like it's 1996 again.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Skjeggtroll » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @skjeggtroll@mastodon.online

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @cstross

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Cookies were a mistake.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]jwz » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @jwz@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @skjeggtroll @cstross Everyone who says "cookies were a mistake" has failed to think through what would have happened instead: unreadable URLs tracking state via kilobyte-long hex blob query parameters. At least that didn't happen

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [ taps headset ] I am now being informed...

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Sexiest Clown [cley (clown they) / clem (clown them)] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @Cahatstrophe2@mstdn.isometry.group

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    you've heard of two factor authentication. you're heard of three factor authentication. now get ready for just never being able to fucking log in at all

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