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Thank you to all the developers and instance administrators! 💓
(Shame on those who stir up controversy for ideological reasons, seeking the worst in people who dedicate their time to improving the technology that enables the use of an open social web! 👿🤬)
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amen 🙏
I didn't plan anything for #FediBookFair , but here goes.
Remittance Witch, a #fantasy / #Western /#steampunk novella set in a world loosely inspired by #Skyrim and #Iceland, is my first long-form piece of fiction from 2024.
A gleefully technical magic system inspired by JavaScript dev, a female protagonist in over her head, werewolves who set themselves on fire to turn, and a wild, remote setting. Sound interesting?
1/n
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117579594140229264
If free software is not about ethics, then what the fuck is its point.
@ajroach42 wheatpasting 95 Theses onto the door of Cinderella’s castle
@dustin I think the modern version of this is editing the disney wikipedia page.
@gamingonlinux should be noted that most old flash games are available in Flashpoint Archive, and the Internet Archive has Ruffle running too.
Hearing more and more stories of "nobody knows how to work on our codebase anymore after 1.5 years of agents, and management is asking for us to get more involved in the code after initially telling us to go agent native due to quality issues, but nobody really knows how to anymore"
Responses:
- Shock!
- Surprise!
- Wasn't this the goal?
@ajroach42 wheatpasting 95 Theses onto the door of Cinderella’s castle
grumpy old man “Pet peeve that gets stronger every year”:
stop replacing actual pressable buttons with crappy ‘touch sensitive buttons’ on appliances.
1. they are shit,
2. they don’t work if you have wet/dirty fingers,
3. you have to look to find them as there is no affordance,
4. the markings explaining them wear off leaving an incomprehensible area of actions
@lritter Well my point was "there seems to be no plan or the opposite of a plan, and regardless of what happens it will happen with no plan". And I feel your questions only reinforce that point
@mcc and yet there are "rollouts". many people obtaining the same tech at roughly around the same time. no one told them to. they just felt attracted without knowing why. are these significant accumulations of same behavior "chaos" or just something we don't understand enough?
La justice administrative contredit le ministère de l’intérieur sur les « street medics »
À Nancy, trois juges des référés ont permis aux secouristes bénévoles de porter des équipements de protection en manifestation, alors que la préfecture voulait le leur interdire. Mais la controverse sur leur rôle n’est pas terminée.
Par Camille Polloni › https://l.mediapart.fr/G5Z
Congress is back in sessoin tomorrow and their are reports that the Senate might vote on BAAJA, a "permitting reform" bill that guts environmental and tribal protections. Yesterday's "manager's amendment" didn't address the issues -- https://mailchi.mp/culturalheritagepartners/urgent-tell-your-reps-today-to-reject-the-managers-amendment-to-baaja?e=7e90c194ac, from 106 Strong, is a good discussion.
So now's a good time to contact your Senators and ask them to vote against BAAJA (S. 5653).
(202) 224-3121 is the switchboard
Contact your Senators makes it easy to get their direct number. You can also click on their name or image to get to their web page, which has a contact form if you'd prefer to email them.
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can we shout out to the fediverse developers, for making the fediverse possible
shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site
shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter
shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist
shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time
ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done
28 days later, an award winning major motion picture, was shot on the Cannon XL1.
The Cannon XL1 is a Standard Definition DV camera.
As far as consumer video cameras go, it was about as nice as they get, with 3 CCDs and interchangeable lenses. It was used by a lot of public access television studios and even some professional television productions.
But it's a standard definition camera, shooting at 480p.
28 days later was released in theaters in 2002 (which means it was released in theaters on film), they just blew it up optically. It's just a regular television 480p image being projected at movie theater screen size.
And you can absolutely tell, and it absolutely does not matter.
We've been releasing movies made on television cameras to theaters for more than 60 years.
Your smartphone produces a better image than a 60 year old television camera.
You can make a movie.
In 2002, a movie made with television cameras and released to theaters won a bunch of award.
Your smartphone probably produces a better image than a 2002 television camera (and, even if it doesn't, you can get a camera that does for under $200.)
You can make a movie.
In 2019, a major Hollywood director just started shooting movies on iPhone 7s.
Stastically, you probably have a camera as good or better than an iPhone 7 in your pocket or in your hand as you're reading this.
You can make a movie.
Le covid est en énorme pic, on est déjà sur des chiffres qui s'approchent des pics de 2023, plus élevés que 2024 et 2025.
Et c'était en voie d'augmentation nette y'a 2 semaines, qui laisse à présager une augmentation encore dans les semaines qu'on est en train de vivre.
La grippe est en début de pic, comparable aux deux années précédentes, on est encore au début mais ça monte plus vite que les années passées.
Période de contaminations qui s'approchent possiblement du maximal pour le mois et demi à venir, avec des chiffres qui dépassent / vont surement dépasser les années précédentes. Et de manière flippante.
Portez un masque, faites-vous vacciner, contaminez pas vos potes ou les gens que vous connaissez pas.
C'est le moment de l'année pour commencer à masquer.
This #FediBookFair post is for the #Australians on this lazy Sunday morning.
I have print copies of my books to hand that I can sign with any message you desire, and #ChristmasIsComing.
So if you have someone in your life who might like a quirky, funny romantic fantasy book and appreciate an “enjoy the naughty bits, you saucy minx xxx” type message personally from the author, have a browse 😉
Available through my Payhip store at 20% off retail, with flat $11.95 postage no matter how many books you order.
And you can read sample chapters at each of the individual ebook links.
(More about me at my website https://wendypalmer.au/)
HAPPY DIWALI !! 🪔 , दीपावली की बहुत-बहुत शुभकामनाएं !
Today is the festival of light, I really love this day, you wear new clothes, make rangoli and have fun with your loved ones :)
let there be light in this dark world 
As usual here are some amazing pics :)
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