2025-05-20T19:33:17Z https://nostr.ae Dan Fixes Coin-Ops https://nostr.ae/npub1z7v4ppzghd4fj5cr0r30n8zryengdzfrz8c77zqdm2sy8d0hx5dqzvfnxu https://retro.social/system/accounts/avatars/110/572/809/889/057/597/original/99f4e1adaf9d1e23.jpg https://retro.social/system/accounts/avatars/110/572/809/889/057/597/original/99f4e1adaf9d1e23.jpg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9d7tz7t2k45r55a4p2mtv9zzmtj9szg98vwewkx3z9qspvgte8cqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635nzaw63 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswa8pagvmxpv5g4ggtq0ejfn8l6lyzyv5u9png3amzsdkfhmek99qexhhmp'>nevent1q…hhmp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Damn, websites are not supposed to get this old<br/><br/>my silly text adventure game literally outlasted twitter ffs 2025-05-08T16:46:02Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswa8pagvmxpv5g4ggtq0ejfn8l6lyzyv5u9png3amzsdkfhmek99qzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6353ant3r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs95mtmwcyen76x2y82u7qhk23grr7mfz7c82yj7j20qzntjkmclrscau2ww'>nevent1q…u2ww</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🦝 Oh I know, I&#39;ll just think of some jokes that will still be funny twenty years from now, and then I can relax a bit and take it easy<br/><br/>🕛 <br/>🕑 <br/>🕗 <br/><br/>🦝 WHY DID NOBODY WARN ME THAT THIS WOULD BE HARD 2025-05-08T16:44:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs95mtmwcyen76x2y82u7qhk23grr7mfz7c82yj7j20qzntjkmclrszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6356jkulq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf854uxfxpjm6j2ljvurpgc3h4ljt2dauj3qq07n8d4uf94cr3ywq3580zg'>nevent1q…80zg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Brand new player on my game: 🐻 Wow this guy must really like google<br/><br/>Me: 🦝 I just haven&#39;t updated my shitty old jokes to reflect how bad google&#39;s gotten<br/><br/>🦝 hmm, so do I take those out, or should I do some jokes about how bad google&#39;s gotten...<br/><br/>A brand new player 20 years from now: 🦊 what the hell is a google<br/><br/>🦝 THIS SHIT IS SISYPHEAN 2025-05-08T16:41:40Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf854uxfxpjm6j2ljvurpgc3h4ljt2dauj3qq07n8d4uf94cr3ywqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635hsdwdp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0zxn3kgqdum3hqwqm7uj0qjdx7dad9mvflgwzutllvsw7jy6v32c3n6xxg'>nevent1q…6xxg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ooh is this why blogs took over from websites<br/><br/>By website I mean you have a welcome page and then categories of cool stuff and subcategories and pages within those subcategories that people could traverse in whichever order they were interested in, as opposed to people looking at your stuff newest-first<br/><br/>If people look at newest-first then they&#39;re always seeing the latest you, the you that is the most you, rather than seeing stuff that they&#39;re interested in but which you wrote years and years and years ago and you might not even agree with anymore or might just want a fresh coat of paint or whatever. People don&#39;t expect that anymore, search results are full of &#34;Best way to construct a picnic table in 2025,&#34; people are no longer used to websites laid out like the folder full of random notes on your hard drive with information neatly categorized without anything to do with each page&#39;s age<br/><br/>And here&#39;s a nasty little wrinkle from this Recency-Brain, people will read shit you wrote fifteen years ago and unless you put the date on the page (and nobody reads the date anyway) then there&#39;s no way for them to the difference between &#34;Shit that I wrote fifteen years ago and I&#39;m still proud of and stand by,&#34; and &#34;Shit that I wrote fifteen years ago and then just straight-up forgot about because it&#39;s in some dusty corner that I don&#39;t look at very often.&#34; Those two things look absolutely identical. 2025-05-08T16:34:07Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0zxn3kgqdum3hqwqm7uj0qjdx7dad9mvflgwzutllvsw7jy6v32czyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635y0pj5k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9t8xftg8tjmwk68r2fhth87u5lfusuc6626va3ngsw0qxxxqvvmsznkus5'>nevent1q…kus5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(obviously that&#39;s gotta come out because google&#39;s gone to shit, and I&#39;m struck by how easy it is to instinctively want to say &#34;Ugh I knew they were dodgy from the start&#34; but no, seriously, google genuinely used to be actually good, I used to like them, I&#39;ve got the proof right here, and a ghost of me in my thirties is still on the internet telling people they&#39;re good and That Is A Problem) 2025-05-08T16:16:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9t8xftg8tjmwk68r2fhth87u5lfusuc6626va3ngsw0qxxxqvvmszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635mgs03y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswwpk3j24zsk65hfl0llecglvcdz58rspy4ml50xcs70e5mgvjxkqgts83p'>nevent1q…s83p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(I&#39;m not even necessarily talking about social justice issues here, I&#39;m talking for example there was this cute little bit in the museum where there was an exhibit on googles, which by then wasn&#39;t even a search engine anymore but a wee thingy that sat on your ear and projected into your retina and you could say &#34;Google where are my keys&#34; and it&#39;d put arrows over your vision and direct you to walk towards the last place it saw your keys, which ended up being in your hand, in the reflection from a mirror. I wrote that when google were good) 2025-05-08T16:13:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswwpk3j24zsk65hfl0llecglvcdz58rspy4ml50xcs70e5mgvjxkqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635c39w6c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvth888mh4mw6qcd8jfs37k0qp8573qtlusq0px8ugzag5fng0xls6fd4e9'>nevent1q…d4e9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Except they don&#39;t live on a website and have the ability to go back and update shit every few years, whereas I do and, like, if you have the ability to update and rewrite so as to move with the times, then you kinda have to y&#39;know 2025-05-08T16:11:22Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvth888mh4mw6qcd8jfs37k0qp8573qtlusq0px8ugzag5fng0xlszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6356fy77n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9a4jml39vfq8tp9uyzhterplzulksuche3rsxjmgyd9fmp3eg2yqvfd8zw'>nevent1q…d8zw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Reminded of bitter old stand-up comedians who end up digging their heels in partially because of ideology but also because updating material and coming up with new material is legitimately harder than repeating the same tired old jokes 2025-05-08T16:09:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9a4jml39vfq8tp9uyzhterplzulksuche3rsxjmgyd9fmp3eg2yqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635w5npg0 Updating story bits on Improbable Island, which is a game I&#39;ve run for seventeen years now and of course I keep coming across jokes that I wouldn&#39;t make today, and jokes that were satire 17 years ago and are now rendered redundant by reality being daft<br/><br/>Also bonus-material &#34;This is a thing that will definitely be sorted out 17 years from now&#34; optimistic-sci-fi content 2025-05-08T16:03:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq3yt22s24pgjhzs33gavd5r3ewaspvqhw677gtk82fnt26ajuesqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635p9nwxl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspn9jxprpv2v9nf4yy2zdlyuv9assluyqyk4pzg7gxnlcrh7c6e7qccxmt7'>nevent1q…xmt7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🐰 Oh yeah? Sounds like a bet, buster<br/><br/>🐰 owowowowowowowowowowow 2025-05-04T15:39:49Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspn9jxprpv2v9nf4yy2zdlyuv9assluyqyk4pzg7gxnlcrh7c6e7qzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6356vdya5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgfvaulhthm06t9peae3kuea77seq3nxm6m0tft50e2ydnjdvssqqr6g4ze'>nevent1q…g4ze</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🦊 Huh, does that mean the oscillating punchy massage guns can make you cum?<br/><br/>🦝 *clamps legs shut* NO 2025-05-04T15:38:50Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgfvaulhthm06t9peae3kuea77seq3nxm6m0tft50e2ydnjdvssqqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635crrv7a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9a6rc5ygzn5eqfeuq9re4l0sfmgxd7uqn6nx44fz2hylpv6wlu0q878q7k'>nevent1q…8q7k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🦊 Are those Magic Wand thingies actually good for your back muscles, or do they just say that so they can sell them on prudish websites<br/><br/>🦝 *holding magic wand on lower back, drooling, twitching puddle of vibrations* thHheEeyYyRre goOoOoOd 2025-05-04T15:38:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9a6rc5ygzn5eqfeuq9re4l0sfmgxd7uqn6nx44fz2hylpv6wlu0qzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6359uh7jk On like the second day of this many-day storm-induced power outage (thankfully we have power now) I twanged my back by bending slightly and being old, and it&#39;s still causing me problems.<br/><br/>But! I&#39;ve said this in replies to posts but I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve said it on main before so posting it here for folks who can benefit from it: you know how Hitachi Magic Wand style vibrators are often sold with nod-and-wink &#34;These are good for back massage&#34; bullshit?<br/><br/>Well it ain&#39;t bullshit, I am Literally That Guy who genuinely bought a Magic Wand knockoff from LoveHoney for use on my back and shoulders and buddy lemme tell ya it works absolute wonders. If you&#39;ve got the money then there are WAY worse things to spend it on, go for one with adjustable speed if you can<br/><br/>I&#39;ve got one of those oscillating punch-you-50-times-a-second-like-E-Honda deals too, but the magic wand knockoff I can just stick behind my back and lie down on, and you can&#39;t do that with the oscillating pistols because they&#39;re directional in a way that the magic wands aren&#39;t. 2025-05-04T15:31:22Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrg3vygsgnzafq3w9rq7cddezafatkceaenlgttycq63ewuat65cczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635njsgfm Guy instructs an AI to keep his plant alive. AI overwaters the plant and then panics and tries to use water to flush out the moisture <a href="https://011.sh/posts/plantmom/">https://011.sh/posts/plantmom/</a> 2025-05-01T15:32:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx7sk9yahw254swqhduhshwpvrhyfxf662egphaqv099x9932xnkqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635g4cphq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxp906944ngcfs3nuq309wy98j6l4m99lzjnf4jhznnz5yka3rkhcnykm6n'>nevent1q…km6n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What is the Easily Repeatable Internet Phrase for &#34;Thing that the manufacturer does to make it cheaper which somehow gets turned into an aesthetic signifying that this should be more expensive&#34;<br/><br/>Examples:<br/><br/>* All wires same colour<br/>* Touchscreen<br/>* Boring &#34;minimalist&#34; casing (ex. apple products)<br/>* Lots of holes in things (computers apparently?? string vest computer case?????) 2025-04-28T23:20:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxp906944ngcfs3nuq309wy98j6l4m99lzjnf4jhznnz5yka3rkhczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6350kpz0w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswvscnl6sjtd8kg9l5xf2nkrhsx253nny8365jtthuk36gsuvtv4snkdpua'>nevent1q…dpua</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Looking for a power supply, actual quote from a power supply manufacturer:<br/><br/>&#34;All black aesthetic, no ketchup and mustard wires&#34;<br/><br/>Not like you ever need to tell 5v from 12v from ground<br/><br/>If I had the energy I&#39;d turn this into a 2,000 word rant about class 2025-04-28T23:01:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswvscnl6sjtd8kg9l5xf2nkrhsx253nny8365jtthuk36gsuvtv4szyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635hr3jyp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswsat77ahdm24uw6t84d4c6pq35ufdrkulvtw57vxhp5fyqe08e8grsqmeu'>nevent1q…qmeu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Love to put a black wire connected to a black plug in a black hole in the dark, aye cheers lads<br/><br/>Oh No My Aesthetics, mate put the pretty on the OUTSIDE, put BUSINESS on the inside<br/><br/>Putting windows in computers was a mistake 2025-04-28T22:55:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswsat77ahdm24uw6t84d4c6pq35ufdrkulvtw57vxhp5fyqe08e8gzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6350xdgnn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2wsv42xzqqm0lcs3agsrr0ng2ahmlhd665smeeuyzwr9arznvqhcgj9wv0'>nevent1q…9wv0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Whose idea was it to make every single wire the same damn colour regardless of what voltage is on it?<br/><br/>Who came up with these power supplies with connectors? As if adding another point of failure wasn&#39;t enough, the ones on the supply side are half the bloody size of the ones on the load side 2025-04-28T22:52:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2wsv42xzqqm0lcs3agsrr0ng2ahmlhd665smeeuyzwr9arznvqhczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635r3rsau Helped a mate out with his wiring the other day, mentioned my computer was getting a bit screwy, he said oh aye well I&#39;ve got a spare, just wants a power supply<br/><br/>When did building a computer get so hard 😥 2025-04-28T22:49:13Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswumeldrktjsdq2tshadx826grpl97alxwgzvyhzdmg9upptk8zaszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6356umd0a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfha6ljsjllsn4ur3nhy46wp32k8fl8tcd3yuk4xhwnadjy0pzpzs94x070'>nevent1q…x070</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🦝 What the hell are you doing Stern, why doesn&#39;t the shark eat the pinball?!<br/><br/>🦊 Huh? Why would the shark eat the ball? That seems like a whole lot of engineering only to end up with a generally unreliable mechanism<br/><br/>🦝 Because it&#39;s a SHARK that&#39;s what it DOES<br/><br/>🦊 Yeah but it&#39;s in a pinball machine, you don&#39;t expect the other shark characteristics, the playfield isn&#39;t wet for example, why do you EXPECT the shark to eat the ball?<br/><br/>🦝 B-fff-BECAUSE WHY WOULDN&#39;T YOU, I&#39;m not ASKING for the other &#34;Shark Characteristics&#34; or whatever, I don&#39;t expect you to make it swim or cover the model in grip tape to make it rough,<br/><br/>🦊 Actually sharks are smooth 2025-04-28T02:54:26Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfha6ljsjllsn4ur3nhy46wp32k8fl8tcd3yuk4xhwnadjy0pzpzszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635jj7th9 It&#39;s been over a year now and &#34;The shark doesn&#39;t eat the ball&#34; still pops into my head every now and then<br/><br/>So Stern put out a JAWS pinball machine recentlyish. It&#39;s fine, it&#39;s not great, it&#39;s not terrible, I&#39;ve played far better and far worse machines, it&#39;s pretty by-the-numbers, but it&#39;s memorable for the discourse that followed it around.<br/><br/>The T-Rex in Jurassic Park ate the ball (both in the 90&#39;s Data East machine and the more recent one), Rudy and Ted ate balls, everyone kinda assumed that there&#39;d be a shark on the playfield and the shark would at some point eat the ball, this is a reasonable assumption to make about a pinball machine featuring a shark who famously eats things, so we all just kinda figured that the shark would eat the ball. It&#39;s kinda obvious.<br/><br/>Anyway it gets released and there&#39;s a shark on the playfield and he doesn&#39;t eat the ball, and everyone went &#34;...huh?&#34;<br/><br/>And there followed WEEKS of posts that were either so outraged at the shark not eating the ball that they were indistinguishable from shitposts, or shitposts that were so well calibrated to the pinball community that they were indistinguishable from genuine outrage posts<br/><br/>It&#39;s a weird one this because on the one hand, the shark not eating the ball is a ridiculous thing to get THAT upset about, but on the other hand it&#39;s self-evidently ridiculous to have a shark in a pinball machine and NOT have it eat the ball 2025-04-28T02:48:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswslp28a3wep2yy9ulzgj0m8z35rsfxgpyte5eeszrs6wqtk0g8cgzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635vsp2fv Fedi, I got my kid a #gameDad that can play PS1 games, but when I played PS1 games I was like 17. I remember what was fun for me, but my daughter&#39;s 8.<br/><br/>Were you in your pre-teen years when the PS1 was contemporary? If so, what games did you enjoy?<br/><br/>(please don&#39;t reply if you were over about 12 when the PS1 was contemporary, unless you had a kid who was under 12) 2025-04-24T16:59:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyu2ulvgvf8her57zsld70d2wtwhuwxuev3npn4rvyj3hkjnc9jqqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635m3ucmz Getting ready to make a snarky post about how 99% of fedi replies to a windows problem post are &#34;use Linux&#34; and only 2% of actual people use Linux, so I actually check and whoa it&#39;s 4% now<br/><br/>Doubled since 2020 2025-04-20T23:04:51Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdcc3e2zaf936354drvaqwghfqwp2h450gf67yrstx8a2ysezcw5gzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635nj0knr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2du4naf4f672aczma2wvjskd5v4ccf4w405q57t0cta7d5plarlgt0sh3v'>nevent1q…sh3v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The Home Assistant wiki badly needs a section on how to properly apologise to your family members 2025-04-08T04:03:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqqqyt97pn5q96nkd9qr2yqun369zt42ptye7e3xt9cemvkyexzwszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635u4lzeg Fedi, who do you know who&#39;s the vintage MP3 player expert?<br/><br/>I&#39;m asking Fedi because I have certain expectations and requirements that only Fedi can fill. I&#39;m looking specifically to hear from That One MP3 Player Person, here.<br/><br/>There&#39;s definitely an era of Peak MP3 Player, the same way e-ink ereaders peaked in 2007-2008 in the Just Before Touchscreens Ruined Everything era - there&#39;s definitely an aluminium-body clicky-buttoned MP3 player that Just Plays MP3s and is tactiley perfect and beautiful in every way and probably unobtainum except with eBay and patience, and I want to know about it from The MP3 Player Expert.<br/><br/>I want the person with a display shelf full of MP3 players to infodump at me about when the buttons disappeared and everything carcinized into a phone and made them sad. I expect this person will tell me to look for something in the late aughts to early teens and know the part number for a replacement battery. If this is you, please give me a link to your website, and feel free to show me your socks as well because I expect they&#39;re cool as hell.<br/><br/>No need to tell me you use your phone for music or tell me the MP3 player that you already own is good, I don&#39;t care. I want to find The Vintage MP3 Player Person With Heavily Considered Opinions, and ask them questions that only they will be able to answer. I need the MP3 Player Librarian. I feel in my heart that this person is here on the Fediverse somewhere.<br/><br/>UPDATE: it&#39;s only been 5 minutes haha, alright here&#39;s what I want:<br/>* no apple or apple-wannabe<br/>* plug it in and it shows up as a USB drive, I won&#39;t install software<br/>* takes SD or MicroSD<br/>* just plays MP3s<br/>* no touchscreen<br/>* no capacitive controls<br/>* preference: steel or aluminium<br/><br/>UPDATE: ipods are apple, I specifically don&#39;t want apple, I already know about ipods thx<br/><br/>UPDATE UPDATE: editing the question to make it more obvious that I&#39;m looking for a person not a thing here, I don&#39;t want to know about your MP3 player, I want to know where the Vintage MP3 Player Wizard dwells<br/><br/>UPDATE 4: looking into Sony players around the tail end of the minidisc era, also this wee lad looks like a decent &#34;modern&#34; equivalent: <a href="https://binarydigit.city/a-simple-digital-audio-player/">https://binarydigit.city/a-simple-digital-audio-player/</a> 2025-03-15T15:28:38Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqx2lav5vgua96jydlh402myny6zq6mng29n3gnd4d35tsypc4gnqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6353xydy5 Cat just said meow<br/><br/>She&#39;s never said meow before, she&#39;s all acknaaaow or yar or b&#39;gack or mapmapmap, she straight-up looked at me and ENUNCIATED<br/><br/>Me-ow. 2025-03-07T02:21:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs20nj9m5g5fx0c70la0amrtajwpg6u0d935ppzdcfy8c9xpym0zpgzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635pm2fgw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs25yrlu3nneegfueg6k9mljwy39jlzz0nxngfdrqn6mxwjmqwwdhq38hmg9'>nevent1q…hmg9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>See, the root of the problem here is that publishers hate ebooks and would rather they didn&#39;t exist at all.<br/><br/>Ebooks are a threat to publishers because making physical books and distributing them at scale requires a large staff, lots of very expensive equipment and a network of business relationships built up over literally centuries, whereas making ebooks and distributing them at scale requires one dipshit, a computer, six cups of tea and some muttered cursing 2025-03-05T15:56:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs25yrlu3nneegfueg6k9mljwy39jlzz0nxngfdrqn6mxwjmqwwdhqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635hzucck In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs97vch734dtwasxfuvex999s7k77qllacg9lndu3y5zud0f5hpwlshd9947'>nevent1q…9947</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🐴 Dan, this is supposed to be a quick guide on how to read ebooks, do you really need to include so many thousand-word tangents on corporate greed<br/><br/>🦝 It is a hard thing to write a Bullshit Removal Guide without mentioning The Bullshit to be removed 2025-03-05T15:28:14Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs97vch734dtwasxfuvex999s7k77qllacg9lndu3y5zud0f5hpwlszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635rq8qm6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy6fa37dqg06kksa7xly5lefg5hwnfw68usssu0z2hqh7j4vkfz3g3q44ne'>nevent1q…44ne</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Everyone who&#39;s ever bought an ebook or borrowed one legally from the library: 🐧 Oh Dan, I&#39;m so sorry, I&#39;ve been there and I know it&#39;s an awful mess<br/><br/>Everyone who&#39;s ever pirated an ebook: 🐴 Huh? What&#39;s the problem, it&#39;s easy 2025-03-05T15:21:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy6fa37dqg06kksa7xly5lefg5hwnfw68usssu0z2hqh7j4vkfz3gzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635mzjscz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdc93mjek2jau4a7800qzqxkep0up0lntexxj57zxkndllculd7hcwzpsz2'>nevent1q…psz2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🦝 Alright, time to distribute some of these ereaders, I&#39;d better write a quick guide on how to make new ebooks work on vintage ereaders<br/><br/>🕛<br/>🕐<br/>🕑<br/>🕒<br/><br/>🦝 Well this turned into a gibbering manifesto 2025-03-05T15:17:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdc93mjek2jau4a7800qzqxkep0up0lntexxj57zxkndllculd7hczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635e4apa6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspfkx7xntwa7w7spj577xlnq5y5vgt3xm75f2fdvyh7w4us4443ac67alr8'>nevent1q…alr8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The UI and general Experience Of Using The Device is CONSIDERABLY worse on the touch-enabled one. Whereas on the 505 every menu item had a line on the display and a corresponding button, this 600 has its interactable parts of the screen appearing without rhyme or reason in a layout that doesn&#39;t seem very thoroughly thought out.<br/><br/>Honestly, touchscreens aren&#39;t really good for most things 2025-02-28T22:18:53Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspfkx7xntwa7w7spj577xlnq5y5vgt3xm75f2fdvyh7w4us4443aczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635y8klf7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9dmyxwp5uyna652pukwukkgdh64l974ld8vxk4f7zjfj90c6ye5c95nm22'>nevent1q…nm22</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You could legitimately accuse me of hoarding these things<br/><br/>...if anybody else had bid 2025-02-28T22:08:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9dmyxwp5uyna652pukwukkgdh64l974ld8vxk4f7zjfj90c6ye5czyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635ul0p7j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfes4ekctezcem23ntfrp6h3v3lff4kkxt3zhq84evvkxlgnlntxcxusvdv'>nevent1q…svdv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The case has a built-in flip-out popup booklight! Featuring some incredibly crappy 2008-era icy blue LEDs, boo<br/> <img src="https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/083/760/557/386/781/original/60623e1352fcf1b7.webp"> <br/> 2025-02-28T22:02:20Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfes4ekctezcem23ntfrp6h3v3lff4kkxt3zhq84evvkxlgnlntxczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635uv6uq2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9yuv8t90vx6hdyqsfjlwsu8w0etzl92xsux3h5aphexcrmtwc2tsaujcsv'>nevent1q…jcsv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I only bought this for the cover, but I bid a fiver for this and two broken Android tablets and nobody else put a bid in so I got this gorgeous boy for 99 cents plus a fiver to post it.<br/><br/>Shame about the touchscreen, not NEARLY enough buttons on this thing, but it&#39;s a gorgeous colour and it&#39;s got that reassuring Sony Aluminium Heft to it<br/> <img src="https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/083/753/107/741/632/original/a05041ca5a0accab.webp"> <br/> 2025-02-28T22:00:21Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9yuv8t90vx6hdyqsfjlwsu8w0etzl92xsux3h5aphexcrmtwc2tszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635ryce9u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd3hn33mmlnme42khvusqp4qx29k9xgux3c46jp5yt3prlgd8un9ssx86ml'>nevent1q…86ml</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Anyway look what just turned up at my house lol<br/> <img src="https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/083/746/006/495/445/original/500e76e0d89fd7b9.webp"> <br/> 2025-02-28T21:57:20Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd3hn33mmlnme42khvusqp4qx29k9xgux3c46jp5yt3prlgd8un9szyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635ud32er In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf2m7s7zfgznq7kr4eah5kqzh9trereq7sjdr2573z9ysh5yn9x0sgg9qpm'>nevent1q…9qpm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Like seriously what was I thinking owning a vintage unwifi&#39;d ereader and not using it, just using my phone instead<br/><br/>🦝 Let&#39;s settle down and have a nice read of a long book! Gee, I sure hope I don&#39;t get distracted from this book, for example by a distraction machine, much like the one that I&#39;m holding in my hand right now, and staring at, 2025-02-28T20:04:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf2m7s7zfgznq7kr4eah5kqzh9trereq7sjdr2573z9ysh5yn9x0szyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635r3vfk5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszfxpccwch44qmp65glcfgrk6ynzp37p6ecgezrykq7qfecy4cpzsrk89vk'>nevent1q…89vk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I gotta do like a Big Thread about this sometime on my blog that I don&#39;t have, but for now I&#39;ve gotta say, Actually Making The Effort to use the e-reader rather than my phone for reading books has paid me dividends in Chill 2025-02-28T20:02:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszfxpccwch44qmp65glcfgrk6ynzp37p6ecgezrykq7qfecy4cpzszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6359r49xm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvkz5mk4khsdmlj4tpwra23r5jc25xyl60l8gp0nd8xwrfwy8a7hcv75v0a'>nevent1q…5v0a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I must be thoroughly Ebook Brained now because I&#39;m actually starting to enjoy using Calibre 2025-02-28T19:51:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs02t33qtn3wcsv08lwgettu04vyj4tc3lm2uxd8lzu4xea76k5w3qzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635a2puss 🦝 I wanna delete my account because I don&#39;t agree to your terms<br/><br/>🐰 You&#39;ve gotta agree to the terms or we won&#39;t delete your account :D<br/> <img src="https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/072/963/013/408/559/original/08be4420b68c837a.webp"> <br/> 2025-02-27T00:15:27Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsru2j7e7vknzshjxgzpx03pd0gq2d5evydm6d3m5nux38etlgwp5qzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6355640lc I bet if anybody knows how to get old Encarta CD-ROM encyclopedias running on Linux it&#39;d be Fedi 2025-02-26T22:13:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgecswydzy0g52pm5hyzlhnjet3u7dlcstwx8l393whhfm20j6kdqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635c3hxh4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxende9lcq75pkdcyfwr37u4n3ytla5hc5phd68frt6xvjt3ftfkq9s9u33'>nevent1q…9u33</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In case you haven&#39;t heard it, the joke is, guy breaks down in the middle of nowhere, doesn&#39;t quite Die On The Moors but makes it to one of them rural pubs where there&#39;s always a fire and the same ten blokes and not much talking. Rings for a tow, gets a pint, eyes all over him but they&#39;re very polite and they don&#39;t Wicker Man him. Some time goes by, one of them stands up, says in a voice that carries across the room &#34;Twelve&#34; and everybody does a wee chuckle and goes back to their pints.<br/><br/>&#34;That&#39;s weird&#34; thinks the protagonist, goes back to his pint. &#34;Twenty-seven&#34; says this one lady off to his right, some giggles and blushes and elbowing. &#34;Thirty&#34; says a bloke with a beard and everybody roars, pointing, great big guffaws, apparently it&#39;s the way he tells them.<br/><br/>He asks the barmaid hey thirty of what, she says well it must look a bit weird to outsiders but since Dave here kept telling the same three jokes someone said one time &#34;Oh that&#39;s a Dave Number Three&#34; and it stuck, and then it got out of hand and we ended up numbering all the favourite jokes that everyone knows off by heart anyway and now it saves drinking time to just shout out the number. Give it a go if you want luv, you&#39;ll fit in better.<br/><br/>So our guy shrugs and grins and he takes a swig of his pint and shouts &#34;Sixty two!&#34; and the room just ERUPTS, people are falling off their chairs, slapping their thighs, wiping away tears, big red faces, holding their sides, the whole lot.<br/><br/>&#34;Wow, what&#39;d I just say?&#34; says the guy.<br/><br/>Barmaid calms down enough to giggle &#34;we&#39;ve not heard that one before&#34; 2025-02-26T04:51:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxende9lcq75pkdcyfwr37u4n3ytla5hc5phd68frt6xvjt3ftfkqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635av4sra In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdmnvurjmyf8k34fxkjsp2qwvnp9663a2xyjjtrpccavwznlqx0qqfsv95k'>nevent1q…v95k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is how we reduce data centre power consumption and save our phone batteries and data plans, instead of posting spidermanpointingathimself.jpg we post &#34;Spiderman Pointing At Himself Meme&#34; like that pub where people shout numbers 2025-02-26T04:41:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdmnvurjmyf8k34fxkjsp2qwvnp9663a2xyjjtrpccavwznlqx0qqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635hm2uj3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdx5qea2sh63dt5klvcvdujkd6q3gffs8ev6fsvqx9nqurltretrq3k29w3'>nevent1q…29w3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The fact that I don&#39;t even have to post the meme image itself anymore, I can just say &#34;Dexter&#39;s Lab Waiting Meme&#34; and that&#39;s sufficient, 2025-02-26T04:37:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdx5qea2sh63dt5klvcvdujkd6q3gffs8ev6fsvqx9nqurltretrqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635zdcy8l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstat5ajsqw4wt6lm04yv9leus5d54yf0h7aud8kdgfgjpk2huw64s9ssv3k'>nevent1q…sv3k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>dexter&#39;s lab meme &#34;why is it taking so long, the meme* should be in the cultural zeitgeist** by now&#34;<br/><br/>*dick<br/>**mousetrap 2025-02-26T04:31:16Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstat5ajsqw4wt6lm04yv9leus5d54yf0h7aud8kdgfgjpk2huw64szyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635t6gpjl 136 comments in a metafilter thread about AI, ctrl-f mousetrap zero results WELL I&#39;LL JUST HAVE TO POST HARDER THEN WON&#39;T I 2025-02-26T03:56:02Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvkz5mk4khsdmlj4tpwra23r5jc25xyl60l8gp0nd8xwrfwy8a7hczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635z97uq0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8c70jkqyw5pga5nj9qpkm9j0pwwd3wuzhtpuh7vdtcncv4dnxvdqcralvd'>nevent1q…alvd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Continuation of ereader battery replacement thread: I replaced the battery in my own ereader too (it&#39;s the same PRS-505 but in black), and I would like to remind you that we thought about batteries very differently back in 2007.<br/><br/>Did you forget that in 2007 you didn&#39;t have to plug your phone in every night? Remember the INDIGNITY you felt when you bought your first colour phone or even smartphone, and it sucked so much energy that you had to turn the screen off when you weren&#39;t using it?<br/><br/>Anyway, I put in a new battery and charged it five days ago, read for a couple of hours every day, and can report that last night the battery display dropped from four bars to three.<br/><br/>So that&#39;s probably three weeks between charges aye. On a 750mAh battery smaller than a box of tic-tacs.<br/><br/>Look what they&#39;ve stolen from us. Demand better. We deserve better. 2025-02-21T15:30:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswhwh8m6k6x9p80y7lfqpzuu9wm86a8xe5nt3uws8aq0ue3d3z73czyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635px3s2y Should I make a blog 2025-02-21T02:36:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs08vm8xdap2z5tvkt5vfru8kt7hnt0v85mwj2ld2eln57mr59st4czyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635zujyp9 Oh no I have totally screwed up my Nextcloud contacts list<br/><br/>I was trying to add the contacts that had accidentally gotten saved to a google account from my phone<br/><br/>so I figured &#34;Well heck, this software is super smart, I&#39;ll just export all my contacts from my phone, import them into nextcloud, and it&#39;ll be clever enough to go &#34;Haha of course he doesn&#39;t want to have everyone but these dozen-odd people listed twice, we&#39;ll merge the obvious dupes&#34; because it&#39;s fancy whizbang modern software&#34;<br/><br/>I figured wrong<br/><br/>I figured so, so wrong<br/><br/>NEXTCLOUD MERGE CONTACTS, I splammered onto my keyboard, NEXTCLOUD CONTACTS MERGE HOW I continued, NEXTCLOUD DUPLICATE CONTACTS HOW TO FIX said my fingers in an undignified panic, and I staggered onto the nextcloud forums for lost souls who&#39;d damned themselves the same way I had. &#34;Help me,&#34; whispers user apalfalba, user szaiman responds with a github link, I scroll down, the computer says 3 YEARS LATER: CLOSED. 3 YEARS LATER: ARCHIVED.<br/><br/>Another wild random tab in the dark, here is another poor bastard who made the same mistake in 2023, David says can anyone help thanks, in response he receives two hearts and 669 views and then <br/><br/>3 months later<br/><br/>Closed on Jun 5, 2023<br/><br/>This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.<br/><br/>I wonder briefly if everything worked out for David, after all we close issues when they&#39;re resolved right, not when they&#39;re still broken after three months, right? Oh dear, I have to go to another one of the tabs I opened a few minutes ago, I duckduckwent to so many tabs, here&#39;s another... poor appddo, what happened to you? You took the same wrong turn I did, and what were you told...<br/><br/>&#34;The easiest workaround I could find - and yes you non google people won’t like it - is to<br/><br/> export the address book from nextcloud as vcf<br/> go into your google contacts (or just create a burner google account with no contacts)<br/> import the contacts in the web ui<br/> fix the duplicate contacts via the “merge and fix” tool from google<br/> export the now cleaned up contacts as vcf again<br/> import the cleaned up contacts into a new address book&#34;<br/><br/>Take Back Control as they say, yes... next tab, and I hope there&#39;s some non-slippery surface somewhere on the sides of this well I&#39;ve dropped into, it&#39;s the github tab, it&#39;s the issue about there not being a contact merge, this one&#39;s been linked to a lot on this journey. Deep breath, let&#39;s go in.<br/><br/>Oh no. Silverhook opened this issue in 2016:<br/><br/>&#34;In the old contacts you were able to consolidate or merge two contact entries into one.<br/><br/>Example how this could work:<br/><br/> Alice is in the contact list twice<br/> select both contacts for Alice<br/> a “merge” button appears<br/> click on the “merge” button<br/> the two entries for Alice merge into one (if needed, user can be prompted regarding collisions)<br/><br/>This was particularly useful after importing contacts or syncing between several devices.<br/><br/>It would be great to have this option in the new contacts app as well.<br/><br/>As a bonus, a command to scan all your contacts for such duplicates and to consolidate them, would be awesome.&#34;<br/><br/>That sounds great, Silverhook! What do other people think...<br/><br/>scroll scroll scroll<br/><br/>A bounty appears. This is where people give money to a holding-onto-the-money guy and the holding-onto-the-money guy gives the money to whoever fixes the thing. The bounty raises in value. November 2021, the bounty is at $85. June 2022, the bounty is at $120. &#34;This functionality would be very useful.&#34; &#34;Please, do address this issue. It is extremely important.&#34;<br/><br/>And then... the guy, of course, there&#39;s always the guy:<br/>&#34;I don&#39;t speak for the Nextcloud project (I&#39;m just a casual contributor every once in a while) but I encourage everyone here who thinks this functionality would be useful, or is extremely important, to contribute a pull request adding it.&#34;<br/><br/>and when there&#39;s one guy, then another will turn up soon...<br/>&#34;No one is stopping you from writing the code. Or paying someone to write it.&#34;<br/><br/>Reply: &#34;I haven&#39;t got the time, but I gave some money.&#34;<br/><br/>But then there was some... concerns, about the holding-onto-the-money guy.<br/><br/>Brief discussion about can we get a new holding-onto-the-money guy, because the current holding-onto-the-money guy looks like he might run off with the money.<br/><br/>Inconclusive.<br/><br/>I can taste the desperation in this brief exchange:<br/><br/>-----<br/>🐇 &#34;Why is NC missing this very important thing. It is the third time I had to re-do all my contacts with some offline tool.&#34;<br/>-----<br/>🦊 👀 &#34;Which tool do you use&#34;<br/>-----<br/><br/>And then the holding-onto-the-money guy ran off with the money and so there was no more money to fix this problem.<br/><br/>Time flows by, nextcloud gets money, they spend it on AI, they post to mastodon about AI and everyone shouts at them for it, the pinball man draws a very nice picture of a dick in a mousetrap and he&#39;s very proud of it, and someone posts &#34;Eight years ago. Is there any hope this will ever get addressed? Seems like devs rather build shiny new AI features, something so basic is not exciting enough?&#34; and nextcloud people say OH THUMBS DOWN FOR THAT COMMENT, THUMBS DOWN FOR MOTHER FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS, The Guy says HEY BUSTER THIS IS OPEN SOURCE AND YOUR COMMENTS ARE HARSH AND UNHELPFUL, The Other Guy says HEY WISEGUY THIS ISN&#39;T SOME GUY&#39;S PET PROJECT THIS IS A GMBH WITH SIGNIFICANT REVENUE AND A TEAM OF FULL TIME MOUSETRAP BOTHERERS and I do a record scratch and turn and look directly at you straight into the camera and say &#34;I know what those letters GMBH means,&#34; holding up a finger, &#34;because I&#39;m on mastodon,&#34; and I turn back to my laptop and I scroll right back up to the very tippy top of the github issue page and I check the date, reminding myself man was it really 2016 when someone asked for this,<br/><br/>Well technically, it was VERY late 2016, December 2016, December THE TWENTY-FIFTH 2016, this guy asked for this feature ON CHRISTMAS FUCKING DAY like the POOR LITTLE MATCH GIRL, this was all he wanted for Christmas, and you know what? I&#39;m gonna click on his github profile pic and find out if he&#39;s just fucking dead. Did he freeze to death waiting for this incredibly standard feature. Did he grow a beard down to his ankles then fall over and get little X&#39;s for eyes. Is he a skeleton. Has he been dead and buried for seven years with people dragging tables and chairs across the earth atop his grave so they can have a discussion about large language models.<br/><br/>Nope, apparently he&#39;s messing around with XMPP, tryna do something with Prosody, so he&#39;s at least kind of alive.<br/><br/>I know what I&#39;m talking about, I run a Prosody server too, I&#39;m also kind of alive. I&#39;m the kind of alive where it&#39;s half past one in the morning and instead of fixing the problem I&#39;m staring down a rabbithole of figuring out the social dynamics of how this problem isn&#39;t getting fixed. Instead of putting my contact list back the way it was, I&#39;ve stuck my head into nextcloud&#39;s armpit. That&#39;s the kind of alive I am right now.<br/><br/>You know how all this started? Maybe once a week I log onto facebook and scroll for three seconds and see a swastika and log RIGHT the FUCK back off again, and this time I saw it was my neighbour&#39;s birthday, and I went &#34;Oh I should put that in my phone because the intervals between my looking at this horrible website are getting further and further apart,&#34; and I went to my nextcloud and she wasn&#39;t in there and I frowned and went &#34;Huh she must be in my google contacts, weird I thought I&#39;d exported all those, alright well this won&#39;t take a sec I&#39;ll juuuuust stick my head into nextcloud&#39;s armpit I guess.&#34;<br/><br/>She&#39;s really damn old, so sometimes I gotta ring her up and say hey are you alive, so I guess tomorrow (when I started this her birthday was today, now it was yesterday) I&#39;ll ring her up and say hey happy birthday from yesterday, are you still alive, and she&#39;ll say yeah kind of, and I won&#39;t tell her about any of this because she&#39;s normal, but I&#39;ll tell you. I&#39;ll tell all of you.<br/><br/>If anybody ever fixes this please tell silverhook merry christmas 2025-02-18T06:56:45Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8hckk9y69myexa6lwuvr8ucq9z3cqy9muh5sudrflc02w6t07l9szyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635kxwad5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrsk7akpc7q3mjmum2cvzdnhpfn8g8mhjv9l3cl9hgwcxefcpt3ysh4z5xt'>nevent1q…z5xt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Pinephone with keyboard case is... a pretty terrible phone, but a totally kickass little portable writing Pocket Computer, a slice of the 2000&#39;s as imagined in the 80&#39;s and a total delight. But yeah kind of a crappy phone sadly 2025-02-15T00:10:21Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszhhts27hmc5ucnr6u6m7mhekawp7vx6949x889u4sa7qj9463vcszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635y77tpz I think that&#39;s me done with Severance 2025-02-12T03:07:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0u06eacmhu3ruqyrmllevvenj3q82f8a3zhvwu8us58wy8rdcrpczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635qc8cvj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrjzqg54knyxdpasy9ndymxumdkq2u7tsg32c2yjf5hmf9m7p6ucsx05dnq'>nevent1q…5dnq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Dude just say &#34;Nodes&#34; and call it a day, I get your point 2025-02-10T16:37:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs05yfcllkt0fywsz6xcgamga3as3p7lva896ejendzf6rljq8j8ggzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635hv39kr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp4gljk7vrvwlykcc7wpcpejjnnadqmrjm5qn5rl5qrrtqcqw9nyg4mlgdt'>nevent1q…lgdt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I sincerely hope you&#39;re not writing any software intended to be used by other people. 2025-02-10T16:26:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxlaq60tx75a5af69qwnpn3vmkdpfr8dggn9cu52fk0llrp0cjhfczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635wkcc3g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8qlpmnnjx5agghrtp3cecksuln5uhs6njdw0njwjvqc5fer66pxc66ugqm'>nevent1q…ugqm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hey, you know how when you gotta do something that&#39;s so jank it&#39;ll only run on windows, you set up a new windows box, what&#39;s the first thing you do?<br/><br/>You go into the settings in the file explorer and swear at it and go &#34;Where the hell have they hidden it this time&#34; until you find the option that shows the whole filenames, right? So you don&#39;t end up double-clicking on cutekitten.jpg.exe, right? So you can see what the hell&#39;s going on in the computer that you bought and that lives in your house? How the hell else are you supposed to use it, right?<br/><br/>Most people don&#39;t do that. Hardly anyone does that. You are an outlier for doing that. You are a tiny minority. If someone downloads a zip with file.html and file.css and file.jpg then they only see file, file and file. Most people never change any settings. Most people don&#39;t even know that there ARE settings. The joke about the writer who sighs and says &#34;Sometimes I&#39;m sad that I make art.txt not art.jpg,&#34; nobody gets that joke, except weirdo computer people like us.<br/><br/>I cannot express strenuously enough how different most peoples&#39; experience of technology is, to how people talk about it on fedi, which is full of the one person in a hundred who fiddle with the settings. But which also seems to have lots of people who are trying earnestly to make Software That Will Change The World.<br/><br/>If you want your software to be liberating, if you want it to be an agent of positive change, then it has to be usable and understandable by a majority of people. Being frustrated at Clueless Users won&#39;t change anything, won&#39;t help anything, won&#39;t do anybody any good. I promise you, these people are just as frustrated at you as you are at them, and you&#39;re outnumbered a hundred to one.<br/><br/>Meet people where they are FFS. 2025-02-10T15:22:38Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8qlpmnnjx5agghrtp3cecksuln5uhs6njdw0njwjvqc5fer66pxczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6355q26s0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspxn384k8pcylktqqy4vhn90nch7vqlg8hq7yws6sv6md3qptyhmsp0wgyj'>nevent1q…wgyj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Once again thinking about this as folk bounce off fedi and flock to A Social Media Site Run By A DIFFERENT American Billionaire 2025-02-10T15:05:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8sxzu5rdey76pys7egjzgcydzf3zln6y6ksldq9kfvq564r7l0mgzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635qqmc4v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspyfz0zqdf9d25847nrrws35638838esyzpjzvff7umr0ly9hcw5clglglj'>nevent1q…lglj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I like... pseudonymity as training ground. If you mess up under a nickname bad enough that you&#39;ve gotta burn it and start over then you learn something and hopefully grow from the experience, but if someone messes up under their real name and get called out on it then it follows them around forever, and half the time they&#39;ll double down and dig in. Disposable identities provide an escape hatch, a way to be wrong on the internet and learn from it.<br/><br/>In addition to all the bad stuff sure, but it&#39;s not like having your real name attached to an online identity stops the bad stuff At All Even A Little Bit y&#39;know 2025-02-09T17:28:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfnjqyzlzde7336hlzztdcydg82xemsv0udgst7k2xn5n2h9y75yczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635k80zdh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswp0qdatts8l6trxpvex5zsr0fg95zz0zcuugj9x90g2u4e8l2adq3j4nk8'>nevent1q…4nk8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(and also full of interesting thoughts which I am not done reading but felt the need to pause midway and come here and say hot damn that&#39;s a pretty website) 2025-02-09T16:16:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswp0qdatts8l6trxpvex5zsr0fg95zz0zcuugj9x90g2u4e8l2adqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635qdzpgs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8d7tktanj6gfsc9gjtvppnkgyr0fqx5c773mgd8wyz78mfgpkw5q7j24pc'>nevent1q…24pc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>hot damn that&#39;s a pretty website 2025-02-09T16:16:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9664x3qpnc3ajwku9pm426nmye3cmyry8nz2my7958065h084z6czyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6358xm4dh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyjzqxz7fyjrl8wd283frwspnyl9mt3u8kgug05la0vdfmnenqsvs5j3ekr'>nevent1q…3ekr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I really wish cryptocurrency was real. Like, I wish it wasn&#39;t a world-boiling pyramid scheme, but just a thing that let me send a penny to the author of whatever silly gay webcomic I&#39;m reading whenever they post a new page, and have that penny actually arrive to them<br/><br/>If someone wants to send me a quarter, I don&#39;t get that quarter, Peter Thiel gets the quarter, it just disappears. Someone sends me a dollar, I get 47 cents.<br/><br/>Someone puts a quarter in the slot of one of my games, that quarter&#39;s mine now. I should be able to earn a living by asking thousands of people for a quarter every now and then 2025-02-07T14:44:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyjzqxz7fyjrl8wd283frwspnyl9mt3u8kgug05la0vdfmnenqsvszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635vdud6p Who knows a good way to send and receive money online* that doesn&#39;t give any money to Peter Thiel?<br/><br/>* in such a way that a PHP script can be triggered based on transaction data<br/>* that normal people who want to give me money can use, e.g. they don&#39;t have to learn anything or install an app<br/>* that isn&#39;t a scam or use a lot of energy 2025-02-07T13:27:14Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0cw5h404hrp9wxx6jgaccgdqqu3jkmdvmqjpyu6qawgt4w0qzdcczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6358cphcw I&#39;m back now and it&#39;s everybody&#39;s problem 2025-02-07T00:51:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswylesac4np258z5jygay9zw0gx5lyr6433gpvf9d9krwfs7zzweqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6353hqtu9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxe2p3eyeql58v0sfcxjt73xmzr8psa9u9eyjkfvvsvw4hk7ras5gpxq6ts'>nevent1q…q6ts</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🐿 wow, this is perfect, it&#39;s comprehensive, why&#39;d you do such a beautiful thorough job on this<br/>🦝 because I&#39;m lazy as hell 2025-02-01T16:25:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstg9x0cmxz3uzs33vd9qza3xrrf8vg43u33l4h0wcqsz962z5f6jczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635pth4nz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9y5sf5vn2en9aackwadfs28ul2g23c20y95jaezzyasez2jnz2esml00wm'>nevent1q…00wm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>80% of the time it&#39;s connectors but, like... I&#39;ve got the board out, y&#39;know, I&#39;m lazy, I don&#39;t wanna pull the board out again in a couple of years when the optos get unreliable or it starts having weird display issues, the 12v line&#39;s just as knackered as the 5v, might as well do all the caps while I&#39;m in there<br/><br/>Brightens up the lamps as well 2025-02-01T15:10:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsywd0hhvqedgq4j7800usfu8kzjpty6am3ve7jzcjdhahupjqfcmqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6357yxp9x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspdgptss5u7f0lqxvr6sudyvaxpv9ryfdjla79z5kuz4v4k7z3jrs26wtmj'>nevent1q…wtmj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>but leave all the other caps alone even though they&#39;re all just as knackered out as each other aye 2025-02-01T15:00:08Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxvmcyx3phu0wm77p7dqm53qq2mjuzee4ahw9uq8lrslewyhxq6mszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635l783y7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2ps57rhtt75rpv47v0jzn9jr2t0zx65372ht726uv356alcmqzecs0g6fz'>nevent1q…g6fz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>pointlessly massive bloody images<br/><br/>(which are mandated by amazon so they choke older ereaders and make you buy a new one) 2025-01-29T22:55:14Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgg4egda0q90wfwlxvtkhu69q8ejedh8mped4gknpr5qe8cckef4gzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635vr2c6t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswu75md82tzlg2vn597dl2jqe9ux6905kkxmf2sd2w26z9zpkr60q575eac'>nevent1q…5eac</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🦌 but Dan what if I give my customer an epub without any DRM and they email it to their friend<br/><br/>🦝 Then you&#39;ll have five dollars, rather than the zero you would&#39;ve had if they got it from a pirate site 2025-01-29T22:47:14Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswu75md82tzlg2vn597dl2jqe9ux6905kkxmf2sd2w26z9zpkr60qzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635ngxqma In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd2uws8k2aytpv98kdspsmklma7zx043e9f5nl37eagtlaeq9zjxgejhcg8'>nevent1q…hcg8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is what I meant when I said ebooks are a mess<br/><br/>The whole ebook scene is another one of those businesses where I have some money, someone has a thing I want to buy, and there&#39;s a whooooole lotta folks whose livelihood depends on getting in the way of me just paying for the thing 2025-01-29T21:48:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd2uws8k2aytpv98kdspsmklma7zx043e9f5nl37eagtlaeq9zjxgzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635r03lmd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0zmdxdxryhlkvdhcxyz7yp5gwe37uyq0aemc94vsk0hd2xpetrec62zvhj'>nevent1q…zvhj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Having said all that I do hope that bookshop.org is successful and manages to put a crack in amazon&#39;s monopoly, but I also hope that it figures out how to just straight-up take my money and hand me an epub in return<br/><br/>Like, I don&#39;t want another app, I just want pay money, get epub 2025-01-29T21:43:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0zmdxdxryhlkvdhcxyz7yp5gwe37uyq0aemc94vsk0hd2xpetreczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6359ss3ld In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszggvglwgdxgmf5jj3cmr7rausvw0x05sawffnltyr95e0zn3qrlqfqr8jk'>nevent1q…r8jk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>actual quote from thread:<br/><br/>&#34;I looked up some stuff about the Kobo-ADE process; so, if I get this right, you have to download ADE and use that on a PC or Mac or Android or iOS device, and make an Adobe account, and then you can download even Digital Restrictions Management*-encumbered ebooks and then can use ADE to move the files onto your non-Kobo e-ink reader of choice.&#34;<br/><br/>The thing that every ebook shop competes against:<br/>1. Download epub off pirate website<br/>2. Open file manager, drag and drop epub onto ereader<br/><br/>The publishers insist on copy protection and stuff which makes it a pain in the arse to just buy an ebook and read it, whereas the pirate websites just straight-up hand you an epub no questions asked<br/><br/>The ideal perfect-world solution:<br/>1. Buy epub from author&#39;s website<br/>2. Open file manager, drag and drop epub onto ereader<br/><br/>What some folk end up doing:<br/>1. Download epub off pirate website<br/>2. Open file manager, drag and drop epub onto ereader<br/>3. Go to author website, place money in tip jar<br/><br/>Publishers and authors could learn a lot from how PC game piracy became less convenient than buying a game through steam, the closest thing to &#34;Steam but for ebooks&#34; is kindle but the difference between kindle and steam is that steam is good 2025-01-29T21:40:33Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszggvglwgdxgmf5jj3cmr7rausvw0x05sawffnltyr95e0zn3qrlqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635x25vyv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9ch9e3fvf6vqgynt7hls7f7vrahfw9fa0xfxtc9k206ws0qnlz0gpxj9fs'>nevent1q…j9fs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>reading a thread about bookshop.org&#39;s gonna do ebooks and oof<br/><br/>OOF<br/><br/>ebooks are a hot mess, lemme tell ya<br/><br/>Like I have been on every different side of ebooks and they&#39;re a mmmmeeesssssss 2025-01-29T21:28:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9ch9e3fvf6vqgynt7hls7f7vrahfw9fa0xfxtc9k206ws0qnlz0gzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6350a53t5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspy9f68nlnz5xuc6a675ur548knf20k0w2xznzgyk35u4fxgna6ec7z3vfu'>nevent1q…3vfu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🐰 I believe it&#39;s &#34;Author headshot,&#34; Dan, HEADshot, not &#34;mugshot&#34;<br/><br/>🦝 buddy lemme tell ya something about the kinda books I got on my ereader 2025-01-29T21:18:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspy9f68nlnz5xuc6a675ur548knf20k0w2xznzgyk35u4fxgna6eczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635ulg6th In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv8qn70u6uvqkfqa7ttggfgmpz0rfny3vscjgkuf3fa6p0uyyk7pcvxar83'>nevent1q…ar83</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>30 megabyte ebook shrunk down to 200k and even with my glasses on I can&#39;t see any difference at all<br/><br/>Except that it loads faster 2025-01-29T21:14:13Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv8qn70u6uvqkfqa7ttggfgmpz0rfny3vscjgkuf3fa6p0uyyk7pczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635gsrkm7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx36fk02j3fmgajls88vxgazqmrvchwxeyjxwk6lwmeg85zy2mjgc7agdlf'>nevent1q…gdlf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The Actual Story: 100kb<br/><br/>A cover image four times bigger than the screen of the most high-resolution ereader ever made: One Hundred Times As Much, have fun looking at that on your black and white e-ink screen 2025-01-29T20:43:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvaxskxu4tdgmsmn5rdl4c7hfc8wjt2js6wagcd0c3usppw2qr4pszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635eymetw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv0gtgxl0udmv6ea2pqkn0kkqw4t62hu44crrf89gpgq4jrzrdkvcuz8zg8'>nevent1q…8zg8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Not even! There&#39;s just a load of hilariously oversized chapter headings! 300kb for a black and white png of the number 12 in Chiller font! 2025-01-29T20:39:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx36fk02j3fmgajls88vxgazqmrvchwxeyjxwk6lwmeg85zy2mjgczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635zy4f9h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9xhs59j9xf60g90qm52x3c6pqx4zsftez8wr62v89ufe9tpu3ckqr69k2s'>nevent1q…9k2s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So my ereader&#39;s choking on this elephant of a book because someone decided the author mugshot had to be four thousand pixels wide just in case someone wants to zoom in on their individual nose hairs<br/><br/>🦝 &#34;Thank goodness for Calibre&#34; and other sentences I thought I would never say.epub 2025-01-29T20:38:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9xhs59j9xf60g90qm52x3c6pqx4zsftez8wr62v89ufe9tpu3ckqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635t9f2xu Putting books on my kid&#39;s vintage ereader and my vintage ereader too and good grief an epub for a fiction book does not have to be thirty megabytes yikes 2025-01-29T20:36:26Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz0wagsxesuquadfsy6tn7fl0xa9u7lunn667lzl2289yhd825zeszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635nc2le2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrdpdlmsu96h4va4l59vz9fypuh8l6hnzq3cxfhjze7cg3hs2q8acg2uu0g'>nevent1q…uu0g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A trillion dollars disappeared in a day because someone made a garbage generator that uses fewer irreplaceable natural resources than the current garbage generators, and that makes me think about cobblestones.<br/><br/>Remember cobblestones? You could hook your computer up to a big distributed science project, there were tons to choose from, you could fold human proteomes, you could search for extraterrestrial intelligence, you could map cancer markers, develop better solar cell materials, all sorts of stuff. It took the form of a screensaver - whenever you weren&#39;t using your computer your CPU fans would spin up and you&#39;d be folding. Move your mouse and it pauses. Great stuff. Something useful for your computer to do when you step away for a minute.<br/><br/>Anyway, you&#39;d get credit for the work your computer had done. Cobblestones, they were called. They were never used as currency, they were just to show off. A cobblestone was a kind of receipt to show that your computer had done something useful.<br/><br/>We never used cobblestones as currency, but we could&#39;ve. Instead we got bitcoin, which is a receipt that shows that your computer made a bitcoin. What&#39;s the bitcoin for? Being a receipt that your computer made a bitcoin.<br/><br/>It served as proof that you&#39;d wasted some electricity.<br/><br/>Proof of waste.<br/><br/>There&#39;s other cryptocurrencies as well, some of which work differently to the proof of waste system, and those are worthless, because they&#39;re not proof of waste.<br/><br/>The waste is the point.<br/><br/>Now we get this market crash today, money disappeared, because the new AI thing is roughly as pointless as the old one but nowhere near as wasteful.<br/><br/>The waste, is the point. We saw it with cryptocurrencies and we saw it with NFTs and we see it with AI.<br/><br/>The waste has to be the point, because to some people, waste equals scarcity equals wealth equals power. The waste has to be the point because the machines that process the pointlessness have to be expensive, have to be owned by someone, have to be inaccessible to the average person, have to be manufactured and sold and rented out, the means of production of the pointlessness has to be in the right hands. The waste has to be the point, because otherwise we would&#39;ve decided years ago that a cobblestone was worth a twentieth of a nice sandwich.<br/><br/>The waste is the point. 2025-01-28T04:57:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrdpdlmsu96h4va4l59vz9fypuh8l6hnzq3cxfhjze7cg3hs2q8aczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635g5xu0s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0cl9szfhyqkvx3jsc6kz9mkyugcwsyc3e53evc9sev8amcqsr8ysy4samf'>nevent1q…samf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I HAVE BEEN WRITING THIS THREAD SINCE THE TWENTY FIFTH OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FOUR<br/><br/>AND THE DICKS KEEP GOING IN THE MOUSETRAPS<br/><br/>DESPITE ALL MY WARNINGS 2025-01-28T04:31:33Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0cl9szfhyqkvx3jsc6kz9mkyugcwsyc3e53evc9sev8amcqsr8yszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635rv9u0r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf8sdgec8r3dm230uqyxea63f5ax9ney2sruvr7dsruqpxkkwrnws68pr8x'>nevent1q…pr8x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🦝 betcha THIS thread won&#39;t get posted to one of those proper websites 2025-01-28T04:19:02Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf8sdgec8r3dm230uqyxea63f5ax9ney2sruvr7dsruqpxkkwrnwszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635tcyjew In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq3tk9z8y6hw28qdpa3jenwessfc94al922nnhww5966wxsrkvzcsau23ul'>nevent1q…23ul</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>See accompanying illustration, Figure 1<br/> <img src="https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/904/017/072/206/407/original/6695115646f23fe1.png"> <br/> 2025-01-28T04:13:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq3tk9z8y6hw28qdpa3jenwessfc94al922nnhww5966wxsrkvzcszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635npvy2a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvjazgy20ug4kcc82ckdla5lpgqqdrudzyhrfts6mtd6xucnjtr5q2kwuh9'>nevent1q…wuh9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🦝 Now pay attention, you at the back. *whips pointing stick against blackboard* THIS SHAPE. Knowing this shape will save you all your dicks.<br/><br/>🐴 That&#39;s not a shape<br/><br/>🦝 I can&#39;t draw.<br/><br/>🦌 I can&#39;t read your writing<br/><br/>🦝 Yeah my handwriting&#39;s bad too. Anyway look at the previous three mousetraps<br/><br/>🐍 You need to start putting these on the board<br/><br/>🦝 I&#39;m trying to save your dick here. Anyway, first mousetrap, cryptocurrency, used VAST AMOUNTS OF ELECTRICITY, to do, anyone?<br/><br/>🐼 Crime<br/><br/>🦝 Excellent, perfect, next one, VAST AMOUNTS OF ELECTRICITY to do,<br/><br/>🐃 Ugly monkeys<br/><br/>🦝 Brilliant, now you&#39;re getting it, then what happened?<br/><br/>🐼🐍 Vast amounts of electricity<br/><br/>🦝 To do?<br/><br/>🐷 Wrong answers!<br/><br/>🦝 YES! Good god you lot are clever<br/><br/>🦇 So the next mousetrap&#39;s also gonna use enormous amounts of electricity to do something ridiculous that nobody wants.<br/><br/>🦝 That&#39;s it! That&#39;s what I&#39;ve been -<br/><br/>🦇 We know.<br/><br/>🦝 ...sorry?<br/><br/>🐐 Dude everybody knows. You&#39;re preaching to the choir.<br/><br/>🦝 ...oh.<br/><br/>🐴 Yeah if you wanna save some dicks go talk to CEOs.<br/><br/>🦝 No, I don&#39;t care about their dicks, honestly I think it&#39;s funny when they take turns trying to fuck the mousetrap<br/><br/>🐀 You should write a book.<br/><br/>🦝 ...I should!<br/><br/>🐀 You should!<br/><br/>🦝 I will! I&#39;ll call it &#34;The Shape Of The Mousetrap: How To Avoid Falling For The Next Big Tech Scam&#34; and I&#39;ll sell it as an epub for ten grand a copy, and all the ceos will buy it! I&#39;LL BE THE DICK MOUSETRAP! ME!<br/><br/>🐀 Great idea! You should end this lesson and write that book!<br/><br/>🦝 CLASS DISMISSED!<br/><br/>🐐... thank you, 🐀<br/><br/>🐀 quickest way to shut him up tbh 2025-01-27T23:03:27Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvjazgy20ug4kcc82ckdla5lpgqqdrudzyhrfts6mtd6xucnjtr5qzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635pdqwcs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfetkxjhg4svl9z8pgl02pqme3m7apdwenhd32ww09sm8g24ytkpqzpwy3u'>nevent1q…wy3u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🐿 Mister Proton, I&#39;m writing you a prescription for bankruptcy. You can pick it up after three.<br/><br/>🦆 Thanks doc<br/><br/>🐿 Not at all. Kindly send Mister Wordpress in on your way out. 2025-01-27T21:36:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfetkxjhg4svl9z8pgl02pqme3m7apdwenhd32ww09sm8g24ytkpqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6359z4v5f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstmnyf4j05fjng6pksvf9gr886dz32f6qwylmdntgua2vz38wq9sgqfe6ls'>nevent1q…e6ls</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🐩 You look like you&#39;ve just had a bollocking<br/><br/>🐛 I don&#39;t understand it. I don&#39;t understand anything that&#39;s happening.<br/><br/>🐩 There there.<br/><br/>🐩 You&#39;re normal.<br/><br/>🐩 It&#39;s not understandable.<br/><br/>🐛 I thought our mission was to snap everyone&#39;s dicks, and now everyone can get their dick snapped, surely we should be rejoicing<br/><br/>🐩 Oh honey<br/><br/>🐩 It was never about snapping dicks.<br/><br/>🐩 I mean, who wants their dick snapped? Do YOU want your dick snapped?<br/><br/>🐛 I mean... I kinda went along with it, but I didn&#39;t really no<br/><br/>🐩 Honey, it was about the waste. Here, have a tissue. Remember the monkey pictures? And the proof-of-waste coins that weren&#39;t real?<br/><br/>🐛 Kinda?<br/><br/>🐩 The waste was the point, dear. The inefficiency was what made it so that only the very rich had the money to burn to run the machines. If you take away the waste, if the dick mousetrap machine becomes more efficient, then you just have a bunch of mangled dicks and nobody making any money.<br/><br/>🐛 So now that sticking your dick in a mousetrap doesn&#39;t burn irreplaceable resources, the dick mousetrap factory owners are finally wondering whether anyone wants to stick their dick in the mousetrap?<br/><br/>🐩 That&#39;s right, dear. That&#39;s where all the money&#39;s gone. Now take a breath. Wipe those eyes. Shoulders back and chin up high.<br/><br/>🐩 The people with the deep pockets will be moving on to the next scam, and this time you&#39;re going to get a piece of it.<br/><br/>🐩 You&#39;ve got a better mousetrap to build.<br/><br/>🐩 Kiss me you animal.<br/><br/>🐩❤🐛 2025-01-27T21:29:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstmnyf4j05fjng6pksvf9gr886dz32f6qwylmdntgua2vz38wq9sgzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635n85rxr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw35jj6tmn64ytknkxvg2887783427waqpqd85pnyh02j4hy30duqa0xdlw'>nevent1q…xdlw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🦊 SHIT SHIT SHIT JOHNSON GET IN HERE<br/><br/>🐛 sir<br/><br/>🦊 OUR STOCK PRICE IS IN FREEFALL<br/><br/>🦊 A TRILLION DOLLARS JUST DISAPPEARED JOHNSON<br/><br/>🐛 sir?<br/><br/>🦊 SOMEONE&#39;S GIVING AWAY THE DICK MOUSETRAP FOR FREE 2025-01-27T21:16:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8zfmua94q0ph9agktu258x83zpxa56nrfxj9x9c07n3meu62emzqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635th99ns She&#39;s doing that thing again.<br/><br/>Lying on my belly, hugging me, purring, giving me the most pissed-off expression she can muster<br/> <img src="https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/890/992/593/624/610/original/7179207212d87dd7.webp"> <br/> 2025-01-25T20:58:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq4sw3ru6puqkmmcqqw4qs6hy4qxct3ra7pct73tyvpffqa9gn84gzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635nwn4rc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdkm568kqh8qtz9es5cry2a4e3de975wueh4fe2vktkzmrmw5na3cey7wu4'>nevent1q…7wu4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>today l learned about pascal case 2025-01-25T00:39:50Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdkm568kqh8qtz9es5cry2a4e3de975wueh4fe2vktkzmrmw5na3czyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635h359lv Right, about camelcasing hashtags, help me sort this out.<br/><br/>I always understood camelcase as capitalizingTheFirstLetterOfEachWordSaveTheFirst, but I keep seeing folk in &#34;Pls camelcase your hashtags&#34; posts CapitalizingEveryWordIncludingTheFirst.<br/><br/>Has camelcase always included capitalization of the first word and I&#39;ve been doingItWrongWithoutNoticing this whole time, or is this a recent change, or is this just a dealer&#39;s-choice kinda situation?<br/><br/>Yours sincerely, manWhoStillPutsTwoSpacesAfterEachFullStop 2025-01-24T23:33:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgfwu8l6hwhstjczuh6pfnf4cl0weach0jpttd4rkxe5kaf38vavqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635met7rw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9q2r3unasfuzzn949zp8a7cth33dcj7ql702gnssev94k4vcdlsgv37y9m'>nevent1q…7y9m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean I can&#39;t just stroll up and knock on the door and say &#34;Hey, I see y&#39;all are queer furries, I fix pinballs d&#39;you wanna be friends&#34; that&#39;d be weird 2025-01-23T23:38:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9q2r3unasfuzzn949zp8a7cth33dcj7ql702gnssev94k4vcdlsgzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6357ne3er Hey, the people with the house near me with the big pride flag and VULPINE and OTTER license plates: you&#39;re on here somewhere, right?<br/><br/>This post is a seaside arcade stuffed-toy claw game called GRAB-A-MUTUAL and every furry or #pittsburgh person who boosts this is another quarter in the slot 2025-01-23T23:32:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8q8ukpgjxydyus6c3ks77x7z5545r2fv922h6jflmncxhph2fhhqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635kl2dpl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqvafwjdgl2zvup8p7j6nzjthrlhqpl5tfl284k8qmw5ncl0adaxslg0ll6'>nevent1q…0ll6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sounds weird to say it aloud, now.<br/><br/>&#34;Hey, anxiety rectangle, tell me my friends are safe. But also, y&#39;know, mix it in with some dread? Thx&#34;<br/><br/>No wonder it never worked right. 2025-01-21T01:02:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqvafwjdgl2zvup8p7j6nzjthrlhqpl5tfl284k8qmw5ncl0adaxszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635ms8f23 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstydf0jcjh3dhlue9yk8gu0ea7xlj3xldqtp5ynxc8l3j9yq2vyygs6zd5h'>nevent1q…zd5h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sometimes you don&#39;t want to talk to your friends. Sometimes you just want to be with them. Like, hang out and watch things together, parallel play, sometimes not even that! Sometimes you just want to know what they&#39;re up to. Sometimes not even that, you just want to know that they&#39;re... y&#39;know, there.<br/><br/>Ambient updates. You saw the forecast for the bitter cold, but a friend posted that they&#39;re eating some stew, so you don&#39;t have to worry about that friend. Mundane taskposting, someone putting their to-do list online and letting folk know when they&#39;ve run the vacuum and had a shower.<br/><br/>The boring updates are good. News that you don&#39;t care about, from people you do care about.<br/><br/>The old social media apps spent most of their time telling you about all the danger in the world. It&#39;s useful to know of the danger of course, but it was never a good idea to do that in the same place you go when you want reassurance that your friends are safe.<br/><br/>It took far, far too long before someone thought to make an app whose sole purpose was to give you evidence, upon demand, that your friends are safe. 2025-01-21T00:07:13Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd535rzq2deza8tg4h9rhzs3jxzd24dv2f5djkseu54az3x0vhpmszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635fst4ee In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdq906lw6r3c3pd7ag3dwsk37tjt9f83jvgfrlqpq3jsg40kxz05ch4yjhe'>nevent1q…yjhe</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>aye but it works optically. No chocolate pop tarts, no brown bread, it looks at them and goes &#34;Oh it&#39;s brown I must be done already&#34;<br/><br/>can&#39;t fit a bloody bagel in it either<br/><br/>Marvellous engineering and very impressive for the time but, like, we eat different things now y&#39;know 2025-01-18T04:16:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfa34v7kd259ygrq5m4e03jpd75xycerhze83vlh2ydh3d8hd6kmczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u6350t3vkk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8x803ma8rpp8c4kz74eutwzqwctv5srfu4trxdumk32t54pervwc6pnur0'>nevent1q…nur0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>if it&#39;s the old chrome sunbeam that all the youtubers wet themselves over in like 2012 then I have one already, it&#39;s sat in the attic because it can literally only toast white bread 2025-01-18T03:24:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvrv9gjjvf62ha8wzzfflvpzudumpwyxtdhd6stxee3qel7krywfszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635cz04rm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrk508a9tytdjc6wdxn6s7vgxy0h0w30eamru6ac979f99tfu320cx0v4h5'>nevent1q…v4h5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you see? you see what happens? this is what happens. this is what happens when you ask fedi about toasters. you see? 2025-01-17T05:30:31Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsruanx3zc9g3cmkkxx97j8xc0w47pz092aq080utkj9ylfsh6dmaqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635z4qtuk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfsyxehlg8aryy59fc5jwejxcw5fay3j3rxy3yy8g3yxm960zdd3g0u7rr5'>nevent1q…7rr5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have learned through bitter experience that the best way to buy a toaster is to shout BOLLOCKS TO IT ALL THIS&#39;LL DO while grabbing the first one you see the next time you&#39;re at the thrift store. It won&#39;t be good but if you spend days researching and reading reviews then it won&#39;t be good either and it&#39;ll cost ten times as much, at least this way you end up with a toaster rather than a toaster-sized hole full of choice paralysis 2025-01-17T05:02:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9tad3g6k9mg8addp0zqa9qzcxzfskl9z8y0nt42zgzr9ampl2p6qzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635ncznw8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsreeh27dagq096y63r3yclwsc3z40qfpw9erksynnnenmvshwxmgsk6kx3r'>nevent1q…kx3r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Fedi sure is good for some things?<br/><br/>🦝 Are there any toasters that aren&#39;t shit<br/>🐰 You want a toaster oven<br/>🐻 Fry it in a frying pan, trust me<br/>🦅 New ones are all deficient, try getting one from the 40&#39;s<br/>🦆 Toast is bad for you<br/>🐺 I use a microwave<br/><br/>🦝 Gimme a VPN recommendation<br/>🐰 Mullvad<br/>🐻 Mullvad<br/>🦅 Mullvad<br/>🦆 Mullvad or proton no wait actually just mullvad<br/>🐺 Mullvad<br/>🦝 Alright mullvad yikes<br/><br/>🦝 Aldi have started wrapping their peppermint teabags in plastic, who&#39;s my next pep T purchase<br/>🐰 Celestial Seasonings<br/>🐻 Celestial Seasonings<br/>🦅 Celestial Seasonings<br/>🦆 Celestial Seasonings<br/>🐺 Celestial Seasonings<br/>🦝 So celestial seasonings then yeah<br/><br/>🦝 My hot chocolate has started to taste like paint, can you -<br/>🐰 You wanna use cocoa instead<br/>🐻 Crumble up an actual chocolate bar and fry it in a frying pan, trust me<br/>🦅 Have you tried using the syrupy stuff you put on ice cream<br/>🦆 You can import this stuff from germany<br/>🐺 Oh there&#39;s a great brand, it costs ten cents a GRAM 2025-01-17T04:38:27Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsreeh27dagq096y63r3yclwsc3z40qfpw9erksynnnenmvshwxmgszyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635fpr3x5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvhqfnlaazln2t3gdk9c7fwl2cl3rxxvhf9pwav2dql5hpp7j8ckc7mu349'>nevent1q…u349</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>sometimes I forget how bloody rich you lot are<br/><br/>INDIE GAME DEVELOPERS OF FEDI, pls give me your hot chocolate recommendations 2025-01-17T02:48:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvhqfnlaazln2t3gdk9c7fwl2cl3rxxvhf9pwav2dql5hpp7j8ckczyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635hqmwjs Last few tins of Cadbury&#39;s drinking chocolate I&#39;ve gotten have smelled of paint and apparently there&#39;s been a recall, Fedi please tell me about your favourite drinking chocolate (not cocoa, that&#39;s different, I mean stuff you stir into milk (I put it in with instant coffee to make a Cheap Mocha)) 2025-01-17T02:11:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8uvwevh5n2f2ufmn3mgwtwj4ugnpup92mgqgljsufzehp54v583qzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635cxe0ss In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8cpg0henxpdgefkcw4umu944yzetqw4g05z59ytf9qfe764v58aqt850ra'>nevent1q…50ra</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Like scratching a really satisfying itch 2025-01-16T22:32:43Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8cpg0henxpdgefkcw4umu944yzetqw4g05z59ytf9qfe764v58aqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635mctj75 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2x4e5rx5gxfx6nz5qh2rwzxfrqs0tufcz76f7q80649pep5dqgpq7xmk2n'>nevent1q…mk2n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;d probably feel really good for the first split-second 2025-01-16T22:31:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2x4e5rx5gxfx6nz5qh2rwzxfrqs0tufcz76f7q80649pep5dqgpqzyqtej5yyfzak4x2nqduw97vugvnxdp5fyvglrmcgphd2qsa47u635nx37q8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstz9pzzad4m5ynudn32hrw74cwnkfx906r595tgf83nsw6g8apwpgwsmard'>nevent1q…mard</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Shoutout to all the heroes who read that CW and clicked through anyway 2025-01-16T22:20:59Z