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Took a few tries, but I got the old ATI Toyshop demo running on Linux (with Proton 7).
I found some old tech demos to download from here: https://soggi.org/video-cards/tech-demos.htm
If you're doing gifts this year, keep it simple and just give everyone packs of N95s.
Load up all the stockings with colourful KN95s/KF94s.
Make up a cute chocolate sampler style box but with varieties of disposable respirators.
Say, "Gosh! I hope they're the right size! I saw them and thought you'd look cute in them."
RE: https://ohai.social/@thatkatharine/113626509826914409
Look, I’m just saying there are KN95s in some nice colours now. The gift giving season is here-ish. Give some folks a packet of masks in their favourite colour.
https://wellbefore.com/search?type=product&options%5Bprefix%5D=last&q=kn95
https://www.ppe-supply.com/collections/kn95-a-colour-for-everyone
See Nuremberg for the full impact of this.
Some helpful advice for all you software devs:
- You cannot solve social problems with code
- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does
- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they are trying to accomplish
Whenever I get started on a new project, I like to go look at the first blog post the project ever wrote.
Here is @Gargron's first post - it rings as true today as it did back in 2017.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2017/02/the-power-to-build-communities/
What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?
Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.
👀 Pay your respects in full resolution ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/in-memoriam-web-mascots
New from 404 Media: X has shown where accounts are actually being run from, revealing many MAGA accounts are actually grifters in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. But the situation is much, much worse. Entire guides specifically on how to squeeze US audiences with AI.
https://www.404media.co/americas-polarization-has-become-the-worlds-side-hustle/
@ireneista @beka_valentine none of this has anything to do with how much it weighs…
@chrisamaphone @beka_valentine yes, true. you're right that that could be a cost concern as well.
The US revoked the visa of South Africa’s former international relations minister Naledi Pandor last week, in the latest effort by Washington to punish Pretoria for taking Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the charge of committing genocide in Gaza.
Pandor told local media on Thursday that she had received an email from the US Consulate stating that her visa had been cancelled with immediate effect.
🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
💬 The #booktalk with Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) on his book "Enshittification", hosted last Friday by Internet Archive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org) and Authors Alliance, is now available at https://archive.org/details/cory-doctorow-2025
#Enshittification #books #computing #Internet #interview #BigTech
Communications of the ACM:
"Tech Workers Versus Enshittification
Now is the time for tech workers to get organized."
By Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-workers-versus-enshittification/
@pluralistic in your latest podcast episode you said you'd be on TechTV on the 14th so I fully expect that whatever TV channel you're actually going to be on, you will be wearing this outfit again :p
@catsalad anti-boost: delete a post on someone's page for your instance
j'ai eu froid les pieds toute la journée
@DeutscherWetterdienst Mein Promotionsthema ⬆️ Drei Jahre lang habe ich mich mit diesem Event und der Frage beschäftigt, wie sich die Vorhersagen verbessern lassen.
@haubles Only now do I realise how far ahead of his time he was.
I remember my first time on Mastodon, around 2018, when I gave up after a short while because I felt like I was only meeting IT people. And now it's turned into something so vibrant and versatile!
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