My magic is absolute. Your resistance is meaningless.

Wizzro from Hyrule Warriors, made on stream for the Night of the Sorcerer!

#pixelart #ドット絵 #fanart #zelda #nintendo

I'll tell you how not to fall for Ai scams - simply do not trust anyone or anything. They're all out to get you. No more contact through email or the telephone. Letters are right out. Correspondence is a lie. Unless you have a pre-agreed arrangement, no one is allowed to ask you for money. That's it now. Terminal financial velocity. Corporations and governments have had enough and they'll just have to make do with what they have already managed to plunder. If they're sad about that, well they'll just have to make it stretch. Only use their vast stores of stolen wealth sparingly so they feel the benefit. Supermarkets have to go back to selling you each item individually like down the not-super market, then prove to you it's not an nft.

@lowqualityfacts I think he was at Tuscon in 79, 80 something like that. He was sitting in a corner looking somewhat the worse for ware, and the hostess that year was irate because the night before someone feed him one or more silver bullets. Didn't turn out so well.

Viper BTR

#pixelart #artspam #pc98

released git-pages v0.10.0!

So, I’ve mentioned before that I have a site I’ve had since 1995 that I had to strip down to a single page because a Chinese company started using my name, but seems to have no interest in buying the domain.

I tell you that story only to tell you this one, I’ve been hit over 50,000 times with ai bots in the last 12 hours. They’re doing lateral path searches, like /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, and just pounding SSH. (HP1 has been slurped, confirmed.)

Anyway, if your #server has #bandwidth limits, now is a good time to check on those.

#infosec #sysop #StupidestTimelineEver

maybe also because a lot of instances default to “Local” instead of “All”

@joshmillard Have you seen Sudoku Mansion? It’s brilliant: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5005590/Sudoku_Mansion/

I’ve tried both [Lemmy and PieFed], and the UX is incredibly unintuitive and unpleasant. The main problem is that it’s quite hard to discover content you want while avoiding content you don’t, Bluesky at least has really good custom feeds that are easy to add (the default feed sucks). Another big issue is the general site layout, it’s hard to figure out how to do things as simple as saving a post for later or how to go back to the feed without being redirected back to the post I’m trying to exit.

Maybe they didn’t see the “Feeds” feature in PieFed? The top navigation menus in PieFed are a bit messy. Although shareable blocklists could be cool too, or maybe toxic?

That’s excluding the horrible lack of contrast most frontends use, which makes reading and parsing the site elements unnecessarily difficult (no Lemmy, grey text on a grey background is not good for readability).

I like the Lemmy colors, but maybe it should be easier to change, because they might like the darkly-pureblack theme.

Fediverse feels slower, but not in a good way. More of a ‘if I don’t use this for a week, I’ll see new things’. If I log in after 2 or 3 days, I’ll scroll for 10 minutes and see the stuff I saw last time.

Maybe this is a UX issue of not finding the right feed they would like.

I also want nsfw stuff now and then. I hate how censored the internet has become, at least with reddit if I want to see a bit of porn, I can.

Again maybe a UX issue of not presenting what communities they could subscribe to.

I tried twice to join those forums within the Fediverse and I can’t get past the captcha test. The fact that you need approval to validate your access doesn’t seem designed to encourage you to recommend it.

The captchas on Lemmy are AWFUL, I can’t do them either.

(that’s the “Medium” difficulty)

Lemmy v1.0 is adding the ability to do invites, so maybe there will be an invite-only instance that gets some momentum, that could be cool. Invite sites seems like a cool old-internet type of culture.

The fediverse stuff is way too complicated for me, Reddit is very easily accessible and actually has active communities for the topics I’m interested in.

Of course these are naturally going to be all negative because they’re users that bounced off the Threadiverse, but there’s probably hints to what can be improved

@Vivaldi I am a new user of Vivaldi and I had a small experience, that concerned me. I the desktop Vivaldi browser, I wanted to search for a newspaper, that starts with the letter "J". But when I typed "J", the Vivaldi search engine suggested "O! Ostrovok. ru - online hotel booking"
Is the Vivaldi project connected to or infiltrated by Russia in any way?

intaanetto..........
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The Astor House in Shanghai is one of the very few - maybe the only - hotel that ever sustained torpedo damage during naval combat.

Astor House: The Battle Of Shanghai

https://sturm.to/?post=520

#AstorHouse

@Gargron if I were to buy photos, I’d go for calming landscapes or black and white city scapes.

I do like your portraits, but they are too personal.

I like how this joke works for the supposed complexity of json-ld while the viper pit metaphor can also represent the bickering about it.

Read a favorite book from when you were little. What was your favorite part?