Bobby Moss
Credit where it's due, the library of games for the NES isn't bad and I'm enjoying playing them on an emulator for the Nintendo Switch.
Its successor, the SNES, also outsold the much more powerful Sega Megadrive despite the North American version looking like an ugly grey block.
(Seriously, compare the North American SNES to the Super Famicom the rest of the world got! π)
Bobby Moss
It looks like there's some more scary news about Facebook.
Apparently companies like Netflix, Spotify & various banks had read, write and delete access to people's private messages. Facebook claimed the oversight was because they didn't consider them "service providers" π€¦βοΈ
Worse still, Yandex (a search engine with links to the Kremlin) had the same access, although they deny being aware of or ever using that access.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html#click=https://t.co/P0rPXhnKhF
Bobby Moss
Here's the direct link to the findings from those documents:
It is really quite damning.
* Facebook deliberately obscured from users what information they were collecting about them & how to opt out
* Facebook used its monopoly to cripple competing applications and services
* Facebook signed agreements to acquire data other app developers collected in exchange for some of its own
* Companies could circumvent user permissions by signing an agreement with Facebook
Bobby Moss
I realise I probably should have put this behind a CW saying "selfie / eye contact". My apologies for the screw up!
Bob Mottram π§ β β
Prof. Dr. Ginny McQueen, Esq
Reminder to pay people if you want their time or work.
Robby, LLC
if your cell phone ringtone sounds like an ear-splitting old-timey landline bell ring, then i do not like you.
Bobby Moss
@julia sometimes I even use brown sauce!
Bobby Moss
I got bored and remembered I rarely do selfies, so I took some inspiration from @maloki π
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Add option to auto-delete old statuses
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/9384
This is an upcoming feature! It will let a user set all their own posts to automatically delete themselves after a certain amount of time. If you've ever tried https://ephemeral.glitch.social you'll be familiar with the general idea! It's also reminiscent of Snapchat.
You can click the π if you're into it, and if you want to know if/when it gets approved or stay up-to-date with discussion you can click "subscribe" on the right. β¨
Bobby Moss
@julia wait... You don't like hash browns?! π²
(I find drowning them in ketchup helps)
Bob Mottram π§ β β
Bobby Moss
Today's discovery: DoubleTwist functions more pleasantly as an audio player than VLC does on my Android phone, mostly because it knows what an album actually is
Bobby Moss
@emsenn @slightlyflightyone indeed, according to what I heard as a youngster it was meant to be a penance thing that stops people going to hell.
Now if you suck you go to purgatory/hades (depending on your Christian denomination) instead until you're deemed "pure" enough to go to heaven.
It's an afterlife myth as good as any I suppose.
Bobby Moss
Now writing docs while bopping along to The Killers "Battleborn" album. Would recommend π
Bobby Moss
In other news, Stephen Fry just called Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn "hopeless titwheels" π€£
https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/1068134134319628293?s=19
Mx. Autumn Goose π
Mx. Autumn Goose π
maloki π΅
Now I can start doing #Tusky support on the fly!
BΓ‘lint π
Is not so humble.
I have some amazing pie everyone!!
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