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★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​'s posts Back to profile
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★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

putting 'before:2022' into all of my web searches like a wanderer of a wasteland attempting to find relics of a forgotten time before the Great Plague

22 September at 3:00 | Open on unstable.systems
syn

@AmyZenunim@unstable.systems like diving for roman ships for low background steel

22 September at 7:53 | Open on plasmatrap.com
🏳️‍⚧️ LinuxEnjoyer 🐧

@AmyZenunim@unstable.systems ive actually found blog posts and honest to god forums by putting before:2018. its always such a shock

22 September at 9:06 | Open on blahaj.zone
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

me, 2020: "it's going to be really funny when Google discontinues search"

you, my followers: "lol amy you're so cynical"

google, 2024:

vincentschmalbach.com/google-n

Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content July 15, 2024 by Vincent Schmalbach
19 July at 3:16 | Open on unstable.systems
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Abimelex ✔️

@AmyZenunim it's the totally right approach to counter the AI genrated web content bs and people using chatGPT instead of google. But it should be it's own product. So you as a user decide if you want to search the entire web or only quality content.

20 July at 8:16 | Open on mastodon.social
enshroudedshrew

@AmyZenunim so, the more freaking nonsensical, fake news-ish, and simply insane stuff people produce the higher the uniqueness rating will be, and so their stuff will be listed?
Sounds like “idiocracy internet version” is coming

20 July at 8:52 | Open on mastodon.social
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★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

society if all copyright extension laws were repealed

The "society if" meme image depicting a futuristic urban utopian society.
2 June at 14:56 | Open on unstable.systems
MinekPo1

@AmyZenunim except rich people would fuck over poor people even more

2 June at 15:05 | Open on tilde.zone
mia

@AmyZenunim society if there were no concept of intellectual property and nobody were forced to monetize their creative output to make a living because no other value can be extracted from them

2 June at 15:52 | Open on movsw.0x0.st
Willow "Wolveric" Catkin

@AmyZenunim Don't forget insulin patents!!! :DDD

2 June at 16:06 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

rust? yeah, I know all about rust. you use WD-40 for that

25 February at 1:03 | Open on unstable.systems
aki-nyan

@AmyZenunim The fact the C++ bindings for rust are /not/ called that is a crime, lol

25 February at 1:07 | Open on chaos.social
Gemini6Ice

@AmyZenunim what is the opposite of WD-40? (Actual issue I needed such a thing for a few years ago and never figured it out)

25 February at 1:41 | Open on octodon.social
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

youtube, what the actual fuck does this even MEAN???

???????????????

[A modal window presented by the YouTube iOS app.] Craving something new? [Three choices are displayed: a red blob, a blue blob, and a green blob, all non-descript and amorphous.] Create a feed of YouTube videos based off of color, and enjoy exploring! Let's Go [Button]
30 Sep 2023 at 16:33 | Open on unstable.systems
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★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

happy 10th anniversary to the most important tweet of all time

A Twitter post by dril (wint). "here's a list of touhou girls i want to have as a Mom someday & here is a copy of that list in case you accidentally throw it in the gabarge 9:55 PM · Sep 13, 2013"
13 Sep 2023 at 22:46 | Open on unstable.systems
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

ZUN's author notes of Touhou 19: Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost are, once again, inspiring

in a world that demands perfection and efficiency, imperfection and the flow of creativity within art scenes amount to an act of rebellion

#touhou #antiAI

Hello, I'm ZUN. Sure is hot this year. This year's news is practically monopolized by AI. The things being done with AI generation are one of the answers to the question of efficiency, and a natural extension of it. We've already come far enough that if you want to learn something technical-- if you look something up on the internet-- even a child who just started researching can make a super-hyper-skilled work. If that's the case, then if you cut out that redundant "internet" middleman, you could make just about anything by leaving it all up to an AI. "Amazing," "skilled," "beautiful." An AI could create something worthy of all that praise in mere seconds. ...Well, at least, if you're placing the utmost value on efficiency. When the AI boom got going around last year, I figured (in my contrarian way) that "if AI takes the world by storm, homebrew work will conversely go up in value," and decided to make a game that was, first and foremost, just plain chock full of stuff. That's this game. If AI symbolizes perfection, inorganicity, and "ends over means," then the opposing symbol of imperfection, organicity, and the importance of "the process" would be, in short, living creatures. "While humans are all abuzz about AI, the beasts are the ones building a world of mental enrichment and a palpable sense of life." That's the fantasy crammed into this game's main theme.
21 Aug 2023 at 19:22 | Open on unstable.systems
Epsi
@AmyZenunim imperfection is way more beautiful :neocat_floof__w_:
21 Aug 2023 at 19:30 | Open on akko.wtf
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

a capitalist would look at the doujin art scene that has sprung up around Touhou, encouraged and cultivated by its author with his permissive licensing, and say that, despite ZUN being famous/beloved and easily making enough to live off of, that he's a failure, as he hasn't turned Touhou into a paperclip maximizer

but if your goal is the enrichment of culture and the arts, upholding storytelling traditions and inventing new ones, of inspiring and bringing together the next generation around a shared medium, then Touhou and ZUN have succeeded beyond all expectations, in its own niche way

capitalism is a thought-terminating cliche that cannot fathom people valuing things other than monetary growth, and actively seeks to harm those who do

a capitalist would look at the doujin art scene that has sprung up around Touhou, encouraged and cultivated by its author with his permissive licensing, and say that, despite ZUN being famous/beloved and easily making enough to live off of, that he's a failure, as he hasn't turned Touhou into a paperclip maximizer

21 Aug 2023 at 19:30 | Open on unstable.systems
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

"bike/transitbrain people don't understand! you NEED a car for spontaneity! road trips, camping, and going to the hardware store all require a car!" says man stuck in rush hour traffic attempting to go to the grocery store after work. he has not gone camping or on a road trip in seven years, and orders everything on Amazon.

21 Aug 2023 at 15:34 | Open on unstable.systems
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Lawler Hix :verified:

@AmyZenunim

same feel as watching people buy SUV's but they aren't outdoorsy in the slightest...

21 Aug 2023 at 15:43 | Open on vt.social
Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈

@AmyZenunim a lot of the US experience of mass transit requires painful amounts of planning instead of just assuming things run frequently :(

I really wish we could do better

21 Aug 2023 at 16:44 | Open on hachyderm.io
aloe
@AmyZenunim so true like the most spontaneous camping trip i ever took was on a bike
21 Aug 2023 at 17:15 | Open on akko.wtf
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

Earlier today, the admin of .art ordered the suspension and removal of one of the users of their instance. The reason was that the user talked about how they use GIMP, the image editor, for their art, and "gimp" is a (very archaic, barely-used, not relevant in this context) slur. The user in question didn't know, as English is not their native language, and were puzzled about the entire interaction. There was no negotiation: they were suspended, and ordered to leave.

Later, they announced that they were federating firefish.social from .art due to guilt-by-association, as firefish.social was federating with an instance they did not approve of.

Unprompted(!), the .art admin DM'd an admin of firefish.social, and called them a homophobic slur, right before blocking them.

These incidents aren't related, are they? Not directly. But we can see clear and violent hypocrisy at play here. There's no excuse for this behaviour when they hold other people to such impossibly-high standards.

How is this performative social justice at all acceptable? If there was no excuse for "GIMP" when referring to a widely-used image editing app, how is the slur "cocksucker" acceptable when directed towards an LGBT individual?

Evidently, they are not capable of wielding their power responsibly. The admin of .art should apologize, and step down immediately.

Earlier today, the admin of .art ordered the suspension and removal of one of the users of their instance. The reason was that the user talked about how they use GIMP, the image editor, for their art, and "gimp" is a (very archaic, barely-used, not relevant in this context) slur. The user in question didn't know, as English is not their native language, and were puzzled about the entire interaction. There was no negotiation: they were suspended, and ordered to leave.

Curator Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator @Curator@mastodon.art Fediblock, firefish.social #Fediblock https://dotart.blog/dotart-blog/suspending-firefish-social Annoucement for .art users: we've limited firefish.social and will be suspending in a week because the instance federates with a known abusive racist instance, and the lead dev is interacting with a known anti-black harasser on that instance. Full explanation in the post above. I am not at all happy about this and I am really f'ing tired that people keep making space for racists. Just... ugh. Can you not? Do better, people. (picture)
Kainoia - 02/05/2023 12:57 PM Hey, just wondering why you blocked stop.voring.me? Kainoa - 02/05/2023 1:51 PM @WelshPixie | gave you my list of instances we federate with a while ago, and since we were supposed to share moderation info | find it weird you blocked me for guilt by association. You wouldn't even think to ask me about any context or clarification or anything? - July 27, 2023 - WelshPixie - Today at 1:47 PM don't talk to me again, eris cocksucker
Pages in category "Homophobic slurs" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. B * Batty boy C * Cocksucker
Your safe space Its not safe. Its just toxic because you want to R have an inch of power. Bye. Cuenta limitada Aún puedes usar tu cuenta, pero solo las personas que te estan siguiendo veran tus publicaciones en este servidor, y puedes ser excluido de varias funcionalidades de descubrimiento. Sin embargo, otras cuentas podran empezar a seguirte manualmente. We take the safe space of our instance and the people who use it very seriously. We have many, many disabled folk on here who recognise the word 'gimp' and what it means and what it stands for, who have been called it offensively by people, who grew up with the word used against them. It is NOT a good word, and there is NO defense for using it - the fact that a company chose to name their software for it does not excuse that it is a vile word. Since being asked to be considerate of the well-being of the people you share this instance with is too toxic for you, your account has been limited, and you have seven days to move to another instance.
27 Jul 2023 at 22:55 | Open on unstable.systems
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防空識別區ᴏᴜᴛᴇʀɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ:adm1::adm2:

@AmyZenunim@unstable.systems I don't understand how mastodon.art isn't widely fediblocked considering how sociopathic and terroristic their administration is towards the wider fediverse/other instances.

28 Jul 2023 at 5:26 | Open on soc.outrnat.nl
Trash Panda

@AmyZenunim@unstable.systems They won't because they're on a power trip.
Where did the banned non native english speaker gimp user go?
Are they ok?
I feel pretty bad for them to be honest.

28 Jul 2023 at 5:29 | Open on den.raccoon.quest
shrimps
“Do better” is the catchphrase of self righteous abusive freaks
28 Jul 2023 at 5:32 | Open on shitposter.club
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

this may be shocking to some of you, but there was a time when ^_^ and >_> were some of the only "emoji" we ha-- what are you doing. no I don't want to go to bed. stop calling me "grandma" I can beat your ass at TF2

13 Jul 2023 at 14:47 | Open on unstable.systems
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★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

Proud to announce the first preview/beta release of Taisei Project v1.4!

Taisei Project is a free, open source (FOSS, MIT/CC-licensed) Touhou fangame written in C, featuring original art, music, story, patterns, and gameplay mechanics, that runs on Linux, Mac, Windows, and most major web browsers through WebGL.

This v1.4 preview/beta is the culmination of over 4 years of work, which involved rewriting most of the stage patterns from scratch, balance and performance improvements, creating new 3D backgrounds, and the introduction of a brand new story (written by me!).

It will also be featured in its own booth at Dokomi, an anime and Japanese cultural expo taking place in Düsseldorf, Germany, from June 30th to July 2nd: dokomi.de/en

Click here to download: taisei-project.org/download

Click here to try out the WebGL version in your browser: taisei-project.github.io/taise

And feel free to report any issues you have to me, as I am on the dev team and might be able to help! You can also report issues here on GitHub: github.com/taisei-project/tais

#touhou #東方Project #東方 #gamedev #games #foss #creativecommons #dokomi #videogames #art #opensource #danmaku #bullethell #stg #taisei

Proud to announce the first preview/beta release of Taisei Project v1.4!

Taisei Project is a free, open source (FOSS, MIT/CC-licensed) Touhou fangame written in C, featuring original art, music, story, patterns, and gameplay mechanics, that runs on Linux, Mac, Windows, and most major web browsers through WebGL.

26 Jun 2023 at 22:08 | Open on unstable.systems
hokaze

@AmyZenunim Hey, this is really good!

I don't think I can provide much in way of useful feedback (both because brain fuzzy tired and super-casual at Touhou...like, "struggles with Easy Mode in Imperishable Night" casual) but wanted to say that this looks and feels great to play when I tried it out earlier

I know this is a project near and dear to your heart, I've seen bits and pieces of it for pretty much the whole time I've seen you about on social media I think, so it's incredible to see a public beta of it take shape

Hope the whole team are proud of this and get the positive reception it deserves ^_^

@AmyZenunim Hey, this is really good!

I don't think I can provide much in way of useful feedback (both because brain fuzzy tired and super-casual at Touhou...like, "struggles with Easy Mode in Imperishable Night" casual) but wanted to say that this looks and feels great to play when I tried it out earlier

26 Jun 2023 at 23:21 | Open on queer.af
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

Zelda: "Link! I think I've translated some of this text from under Hyrule Castle! Look, it reads: 'This is... not... a place... of honour. No... highly esteemed deed... is commemorated here.' What do you think this means? And this line later on, 'The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours-'"

Link:

Zelda: "Link this is very important research. Stop bouldering all over those priceless artifacts for just ONE MINUTE and LISTEN TO M

1 Jun 2023 at 4:23 | Open on unstable.systems
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★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

kept typoing "ls" as "lsd" so i fixed it

aliced@Vivio:~/Code/bannedwagon $ alias lsd="ls | lolcat -F 1" aliced@Vivio:~/Code/bannedwagon $ lsd 00-prelude.md 01-garbo.md 02-oldest.md 03-jank.md 04-cooldown.md 05-modern.md 06-meta.md 07-finale.md
6 Feb 2023 at 6:04 | Open on unstable.systems
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

this was a sleep-deprived shitpost at 2AM but i'm glad you all find it entertaining

6 Feb 2023 at 15:23 | Open on unstable.systems
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

for people with ADHD, it's not that our memory is bad, it's that our garbage collection is too strict

21 Nov 2022 at 14:13 | Open on unstable.systems
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xan

@AmyZenunim reminds me of when @eliza tried to garbage collect empty cans and various other vessels around the house and i told her that my desk held references to them, so she would need to collect my desk in order to succeed in her GC sweep

21 Nov 2022 at 15:30 | Open on xantronix.social
BadCat 😼

@AmyZenunim
I say I have a big hard drive, but not a lot of RAM 😹

21 Nov 2022 at 15:33 | Open on mastodon.social
JrDev
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