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Whenever I write about old software, it still strikes me how absurd it is that it’s easier to run software from the 90s and 2000s on a modern computer than it is to run an iOS app from 15 years ago.
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hometown 4.6.9+hometown-1.3.0Runs digipres.club. Software + digipres. Currently, engineering at @webrecorder@digipres.club. Prev. at Internet Archive, Axo, GitHub, Artefactual, etc.
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I’m not anti-passkey, but I got caught really off guard by a site automatically creating a passkey for me with zero user input. Imagine if I’d logged in on a shared device and now the device owner gets passwordless access to my eBay account!
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Seen a bunch of people sharing that "RemoveMacAI" tool, so feel like I should point out it's largely built on top of someone else's tool that isn't getting anywhere near the same love: https://github.com/4evy/pared
Encountered one of the best emails I've ever seen
Feels extremely weird that my wife had to mod our TV so it would stop exfiltrating all our data. At least it's possible...
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Now this is a fun party trick: https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/
Government issue tract
Microsoft released the source code to Comic Chat?? Under the MIT license??? https://github.com/microsoft/comic-chat
Has anyone worked out what the “Automated protocol deliverability probe” spam wave is about? Do we know who’s doing it or what their goals are?
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Love this article about a mysterious Billboard-charting single no one could actually find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_%27n%27_Steady
Hometown admins! We've released a new version incorporating today's Mastodon security release. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.5.14%2Bhometown-1.2.1
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I keep finding myself wondering… now that it’s becoming clear that most people are going to be priced out of regular electronic device upgrades for years, and the ones that do exist are likely to be much more RAM-constrained then before, are apps/websites going to have to be much more well-optimized than they have been for the past decade or so?
What do people think the good Linux laptops these days? I've got my eye on the MNT Reform Next, but curious about other options.
Good battery life and screen would be nice. Would prefer something not from a US company.
While debugging the Magic School Lunar translation, I ended up spending some time reverse engineering the save game format so I can speed my way through all the battles. Turns out it was a lot simpler than I thought! But I did run into some fun misdirections on the way, so wrote it up: https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2026/08/01/decoding-magic-school-lunars-save-game-format/
I always find myself wondering what people think the "p" means when they're quoting resolutions these days. The "p" part hasn't been relevant for 20 years, and most people just treat it as a standard part of describing resolutions, but... do people think about what it's short for? Probably not?
I think if I were Sony I would probably have waited to make my “ending disc sales” announcement until people had forgotten about the digital movies they had lost without compensation, or the closure of the Vita/PS3 stores. Just not good timing
What on earth is the difference between “got it" and "dismiss" meant to be in this popup
Absolutely bizarre comment. Maybe they shouldn't have been collecting them all then?? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/the-incredible-shrinking-xbox-five-studios-3200-employees-let-go/
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RE: https://mas.to/@gifs_bot/116879838744450706
The original infinite storage glitch
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I'm sure some of the cats in my neighbourhood have this going on.
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I have been added to my cat's WhatsApp group. The whole street has a group so they all know where he is and who has given him treats already. He has a better social life than me as proven by the fact that this is the first group chat I've ever been in.
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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net The artist is Akihito Izuhara, who’s still active as an artist today! https://www.studio-mangosteen.com/interactive
He did a few other HyperCard things along with a CD-i game and two amazing Mac games, Putlestory and Pantos Story
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Like come on. It's not even buried deep in the 10th paragraph, you can't proofread your subhed?
THE TRUTH ABOUT HAM TRUCKS COMES OUT https://defector.com/i-believe-i-have-located-a-ham-truck-in-france?giftLink=443493770ea52c847a120e3c73e1bb47
What indeed
#canpoli
“You then clip the vest and shorts together, creating a single, dripping suit.” - don’t like that
https://www.404media.co/i-bought-the-3-000-fitness-suit-that-electrocutes-you-im-sending-it-back/
Truly absurd situation where the only copy I can locate for sale of a local west coast Canadian album I want is in… Germany, and won't ship to Canada.
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@aud@fire.asta.lgbt @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @astraluma@tacobelllabs.net Yeah, I transitioned in 2003, and people who transitioned even just a decade later are often shocked to find out what it was like back then. The early 00s aren't even really the "bad days" relative to a little earlier than that either.
Looks like we've got a new winner on Wikipedia's list of longest-lived hoaxes! 21.15 years, added in 2005 and removed two weeks ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia#Hoax_articles_extant_for_15+_years
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@overholt@glammr.us Also striking me that that the paragraph itself is almost certainly AI generated. It’s exactly the set of cliches they’re biased towards.
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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social @wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe @lumiere@hooves.social Ah, got it! Looking at their website, the default chiptune.app uses is libFluidLite, which is a newer library. The Hamienet converter is old enough it's been around a decade before libFluidLite even existed. TiMidity++ is old enough it'd fit, but if it's not that I wonder what else it could be.
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@redsakana@infosec.exchange Thank you! Good to hear, and I definitely hear good things about the Thinkpads. I'm certainly more comfortable buying from a Chinese company atm.
And yeah, I'm in a similar position. I have a first-gen M1 MacBook Air from 2020, and while it's basically still fine, I'm trying to read the tealeaves on the next few years to decide if I should get my next computer now instead of waiting a few years.
Hey WebKit friends, I'm trying to debug a surprising change that seems like it came from Safari 26.5.2. Any advice?
An onclick handler that does navigator.clipboard.writeText started being rejected by the browser, but I thought that was the context in which it's supposed to be supported? I know there were some security changes to the clipboard in this release.
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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social Oh neat, mirroring the blog updates?
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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social Now I understand why you were asking about the MIDI to MP3 playback stuff! Seems like you've been making progress getting what you were hoping for?
I'm curious, is your goal here to basically clone HamieNET 1:1 or are you planning to build out extra features? I'd been thinking about building a specialized MIDI site that could track stuff like what hardware something is for, or expanded artist/cover information... but maybe we should join forces?
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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social I wonder who ran hamieNET back in the day… I wonder if it’d be possible to find them and ask
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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social @lumiere@hooves.social I believe that's one of the soundfonts using a lower-quality rendition of the SC-55's GM bank, like the one that's built in to Windows and macOS!
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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social Oh neat! I'll have to dig into this disc... according to the track metadata in this specific MIDI, it's SC-55, so I wonder if it's using some non-GM instruments?
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Recommendation to people who enjoy Kukeiha Club's fusion jazz: try Vancouver band Skywalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-oFttPvMBM
#music #jazz
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Spinnage - A Midsummer Night's Dream https://ahiweb.bandcamp.com/track/a-midsummer-nights-dream
#music #techno
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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social @wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe @lumiere@hooves.social Do you have any context on where that recording came from?
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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social @wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe @lumiere@hooves.social I wonder if it's using TiMidity++ to do the conversion? It might be worth seeing if that produces something that sounds similar to their rendering. https://timidity.sourceforge.net/
What are you using to compare locally>
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This is all out now in 1.24 and on the hosted site. Let me know if you try!