@darius And you can spot the locals because they’re always going on about “I live here”

@darius Tautology club welcomes you to tautology club.

@darius do you love doing that to just anyone or do you do it to people that somehow deserve it?

@darius Do I read you right that you see Mastodon (and technologies adjacent!) as more of the latter than the former?

@darius Protocols not platforms! Lets get out of the matrix and back to the web!

@darius @courtney wow that person looks like they got beat up by a Hot Topic circia 2004 and barely survived

@darius @courtney god that brief period in 2005-6 when Hot Topic was selling steel balls and *all* the teens were doing this shit at the mall

@darius @courtney I thought this was a Borderlands baddie for a second.

@darius suddenly wondering if there's a wizard job simulator, for your post-wizarding-school career, or if wizarding schools have wizarding guidance counselors

@darius In a similar vein (though lighter on the “school” aspect), I really enjoyed Ikenfell. https://store.steampowered.com/app/854940/Ikenfell/

@darius "still works on modern computers"

This looks really interesting — but it turns out to only be for Windows. Us other 1 in 4 computer users who use different OSes look to be SOL. 🤷‍♂️ Got my hopes up, briefly! Definitely looks interesting, though.

@darius https://web.archive.org/web/19961228233707/http://www.boutell.com/faq/catalog.htm

@darius “Programs that automatically traverse the web can be quite useful, but have the potential to make a serious mess of things.”

@darius That takes me back! 😀 We’ve come a long way!

@darius I used to use Kermit (the software) to get online in the mid-90s!

@darius I remember using that!

@darius I wouldn't call Kermit "efficient"! It was certainly versatile and portable, but was among the slowest protocols commonly available on 8-bit micros of the 1980s.

If you have been JoJo's-curious but find it kind of a daunting task, might I suggest starting with our first episode? We cover each episode of the anime (mostly, sometimes we cover two in one go) and do our best to provide context, commentary, and of course, to explain what the hell is going on.

https://explainjojo.com/

@darius Heck yes!

@darius can you please post it as text here? Twitter is not so easy to visit these days 😀

"You've arrived" to the #Fediverse
@darius

@darius

If journalists checked the #journalists then they'd get Mastodon a lot better.

@darius imagine a world where a follow request is answered by a tentative accept or reject..

@blinry have you seen this?

@darius thanks, this is excellent

@darius
Works as intended. Late stage value extraction.

@darius i don't use instagram a lot and am probably far from the average user, but for me the normal feed is more useful, but i find it actually unusable because of the sheer amount of ads and reels shown on the feed; so basically i think it's a self reinforcing effect; by making the feed unusable, anyone who would prefer it is driven away from the platform.

@darius Agreeeeed.

I recall that @pixelfed added stories at some point. I wonder what the usage numbers are like as well as the UX choices. Gonna check it out.

@darius mastodon, the pot network

@darius Lolol

@darius Interesting...

@darius You deserve it! Enjoy!

@darius have Fun!

@darius niiiiice.

@darius ... the problem is, you forgot to generate any lies.

@darius Wow, a Peacefire reference. That takes me back!

@darius we need to import the self-awareness of the fact that we're jangling keys in front of our own faces with this modern "AI" thing. At least when I'm 4 hours deep into a candy crush knockoff, I know where the foolishness lies

@darius I wrote a big (for me) and award winning (in the library world) WordPress plugin back a few years ago and our library switched to a new system that's paid for by our consortium, so I'm not developing it at work anymore. I asked and they're fine with me having the code now. It's a room booking and event calendar for libraries (and anyone else) who can't afford the big names. Free as in beer.

I need to overhaul it. Wonder if it's worth dusting off for the fediverse...

@darius Sounds like as if some devs entered the WordPress ecosystem for the first time and said the same thing. It's really exciting to see all of the new things being cooked up around the fediverse.

@darius This post is so good that I boosted it, faved it, AND bookmarked it.

@darius goddamn

@darius so much depends on looking just like Buddy Holly

@darius this is a crime

@darius daniel lopatin (aka oneohtrix point never, chuck person) sampled this on eccojams, a founding album of vaporwave

@darius That hurts all the way back into my teenage soul.

@0lly - one to keep an eye on!

@darius ooo thanks I’ll check it out!

@darius the Demo is looking sooo good!

@darius This is brilliant. Nick Cave clearly has a way with words.

…but hold on a minute… what… what if the reply is written by ChatGPT too? 🤔😐🤯

@darius I was discussing that with my girlfriend yesterday, and I was saying, to put it short, that Cave's opinion on this is rather reactionary and mystifying. Also, it was pretty much the response I would expect from him... 😅

@darius He wrote that well. About halfway through, I started to wonder whether there would be a world-class gag at the end and and the text would turn out to have been written by ChatGPT.

@darius One for you @mistertim @support … ?

@darius Thanks for fixing this quickly.

Unrelated (other than I noticed a moment after restarting my Mastodon services following the update) - The "Hometown" - link on the error page on my instance ("We're sorry, but something went wrong on our end.") points to example.org instead of anything useful?

Is there some place where I can change that link?

@darius Ah, so that's what it was. @lurk was patched quickly yesterday if I remember correctly. Thank you for all the hard work!