Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

Come check out the 80s MMO Habitat, developed by Lucasfilm Games, this Friday through the NeoHabitat client. Streamer BogusMeatFactory will be hosting a meetup so people can play the game at the same time and experience the game the way it was meant to be played. See the article here for more details
https://renoproject.org/the-gathering-of-the-avatars/

https://virtualmoose.org/2024/01/03/try-classic-mmo-habitat-this-friday/

#retroGames

Hey #infosec and #privacy folks: do you know of a good streaming trail/game #camera that doesn't send its data anywhere?

Use case: a relative wants to see who's at the door without surveilling the neighborhood.

With the end of the year in sight, I am very happy to announce that dotAGE has now sold more than 30k copies on Steam!

This is an indie dream made real! Not even in my wildest dreams I would have thought of reaching such a milestone!! Thank you so much for all your support!

Best addon after uBlock Origin
https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

It allows you to remove some websites from your Google search results.

Bye, Quora, GeeksForGeeks, Pinterest, fandom.com etc.-etc.

@ari@wetdry.world @CrebboElodie@transfem.social

TIL that the US government runs an official dad joke database 👀

https://fatherhood.gov/for-dads/dad-jokes

Reposting @scotlit from a few days ago: Edwin Morgan predicting the weirdnesses of text generation software, 55 years ago.

merryholly happyjolly all!

windows 12 is just gonna be linux running microsoft edge, a bullshit ai assistant, and nothing else. all legacy apps will run in a sketchy online “classic windows emulator” and the entire UI will be web based.

following the backlash, windows 13 will be CLI only, and the cycle will begin anew.

meanwhile, mac os xi will have only one feature: displaying a pretty photograph of a mountain, rendered so inefficiently and in so much detail it takes the whole capacity of a top-of-the-line GPU. all apps will no longer be supported. hardware will be supported for 5 years of new photos every month before you have to buy a new macbook for $100,000.

before reaching 7.0, the linux kernel will split into 20 completely separate lineages, each with 10 total developers who are themselves their only users. GNOME only supports one of them. KDE is mostly buttons.

I finally got around to explaining how I made this partial hash collision https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/colliding-secure-hashes.html

I'm getting Google, Facebook and Amazon out of my life.

Starting last year and continuing until it's done, in manageable increments, I've been gradually disentangling myself from three of the worst tech monsters. After 15 years of letting them embed their fangs deeper and deeper into my leg, it's daunting!

Finding an alternative for audio books and ebooks tonight was a nice step. I still have to un-DRM my books from them and find a non-proprietary e-reader, but I'll get to that.

Even seemingly little things like removing Google Analytics from my sites and installing the (paid) non-tracking app Plausible Analytics felt like a big thing at the time. I had to first look to see if there was such a thing as privacy-forward analytics — there is, with multiple options! Then pick one, then sign up, then install and configure...

So I'm taking this step by step. It'll take years. But each additional step feels liberating.

#goals #FuckAmazon #FuckGoogle #FuckFacebook

Back in Feb, when Grammarly said they were going to think about incorporating AI, I immediately canceled my account and uninstalled. And now they've actually done it.

I'm sharing because with everything going on, writers might not realize this is happening.

#AI #writing