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  1. @synlogic4242

    > localfirst.

    I wonder if people know how to have fun with a computer without social media, let alone without the web in general, let alone without the internet in general. Some of the most fun I've had recently was dinking around with #Plan9 with nothing more than a bunch of manpages and the occasional web lookup via #Mothra (a web browser who's capabilities closely match #Dillo — very web 1.0)

    Shameless plug(s):
    https://rldane.space/i-loved-computers-before-the-internet-was-a-thing.html
    https://rldane.space/web-10-is-unironically-going-great.html

    > text-bias. terminals, CLIs, shells.

    I love the fact that plain text has more or less won. Markdown. JSON. XML, umm, yeah. XD

    > Markdown.

    MARK the FRICK [DOWWWWWWWWN]
    I was literally writing Uni class notes in MS Word until I discovered Markdown (not until after abandoning grad school, sadly). When I learned about it, I was like,

    "This is a UNIX system, I know thi—"

    *COUGH*

    I mean,

    "This is basically just #WikkaWiki or early #TiddlyWiki markdown! I already know this!!"

    And I've loved it ever since, like 7 years, now.

    > decentralized. p2p. e2ee. no surveillance supported, allowed or even possible.

    The glazed-eyed look when I tell people that their security cameras could be e2ee'd, that they didn't have to give some creepy corpo a 24/7 view into their kids bedrooms.
    Mein gott

    > middle finger to the rentier & grifter class.

    Thank God for the #fediverse for teaching me terms like "grifter," "rent-seeking," and the like. Y'all have ruined this Texas boy 🤣

    I was talking to my aunt a few months ago, and this totally white lady raised by conservative Christians said, "Man, capitalism just ruins everything!"

    My immediate response: "DEAR GOD, [NAME], THEY HAVE RUINED YOU!!!" 😂

    > anti-AI caltrops the norm.

    YAS. I wanna see TONS of anti-AI honeypots ;)
    There needs to be a service called amislopornot.com that lets you punch in a git repo URL and tells you if there's any agents.md, claude, or copilot contributions. #Fedi, make this happen! 😆

    > return to compute efficiency (where every pixel, character, cycle and bit is precious and not to be wasted -- unless its for sake of funny cat videos, and even that the only exception. ok also dogs in costumes. no other exceptions. maybe a re-binge of Firefly. literally no other exceptions, however. unless Minecraft has new skins avail. again: last possible exception.

    Make .GIF for still images again. It was never meant to be used for animations. 😥
    The fact that you can effortlessly convert an animated GIF to mp4 in like a few seconds with ffmpeg, shave off no less than half the storage with no perceptible loss of quality (on a highly dithered image, to boot!) really tells you it's just not meant for that.

    > the important point is to aspire to be a vegan even while mouth stuffed with fresh bacon.)

    This is the last sentence that EVER needs be writ.
    Literature is now declared COMPLETE.
    I have a B.S. in Literary Studies, I have the auttorritaah!!!

  2. AppleTV and Legendary Studios have posted an official video from their ‘world’s largest ever’ drone show at the ***Monarch: Legacy of Monsters*** Hollywood season two premiere earlier this week.

    It’s a titanic statement.

    youtu.be/iWZkRfUl6MI

    #Monsterdon fans — heads up — ***Mothra*** is teased in the drone performance. Could it be that ***Mothra*** will return to onscreen grandeur in this, her 65th anniversary? (***Ghidora*** seems to be in there too.)

    Join us on in our new *Monsterverse* Lemmy community startrek.website/c/monsterverse to discuss or raise the *Monsterverse* profile here on Mastodon with some engagement!

    #Monsterverse #MonarchLegacyOfMonsters #MLOM #Godzilla #Mothra #Kong #Ghidora #Kaiju #Titans #Monsterdon #MonsterdonAlert #SciFi

  3. Great benefit of going #nojavascript #nojs on your #SmallWeb is being able to have full access to your web over experimental or retro #os. I just did a merry #solstice status update on mine. From #mothra. Running on #9front in #qemu running on top of #twm in #termux running on low end #android tablet. And yes, you can have decent user experience on mouse oriented system without a mouse using just trackpad / touchscreen.

    So, merry Solstice. May your knitting and your code flow freely.