Notices by ⚪ the lynne creacher (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space), page 2

permabanned from wikipedia for creating the article "list of all lists that do not contain themselves"

keyboard is my favourite ps/2 game

i made a post about installing and configuring searx, a self-hosted replacement for google/bing/etc: https://bune.city/2019/05/configuring-searx/

has anyone seen my orange starbust? i can't find it anywhere :blobcatsurprised:

a sex repulsed ace who reviews movies and always describes them as "better than sex"

what am i most oppressed for? being trans? a woman? gay? polyamorous? no. not at all. none of those are even close to the oppression i face for being a laptop gamer

the "analogue hole" refers to the idea that no matter how hard you try to make sure nobody can make illegal copies of videos, music, or text, there's always a "hole" in the protection that occurs when it's no longer digital. digital content can be protected - video files can be encrypted, music players can limit you to five devices - but analogue signals can't be. for example, itunes can disallow you from putting a song on more than five computers, but if you play the song through your speakers and record it, what you do with it is beyond apple's control.

one of the few remaining analogue outputs on a modern device is the audio jack. this is where you connect your headphones or speakers. your laptop only knows that something's plugged in. it doesn't know what's connected. you could be playing it through earphones or a massive speaker system and it wouldn't be able to tell. meanwhile, HDMI is a digital output format. it can tell if it's been plugged into a TV or a recording device, and can automatically disable output if you're recording it to make it harder for you to make copies of movies.

if the audio jack is replaced by USB-C or bluetooth, it becomes possible to tell what you're connecting to the laptop or phone. your phone might disable audio playback on anything but headphones to prevent you from hosting a public event with the music. it could also detect a recording device that you're using to (for example) make a copy of a song you're listening to on spotify and turn off the playback.

of course, at some point, digital needs to become analogue. humans can't watch electrical pulses, we need to see patterns of light. we can't listen to streams of 1s and 0s, we need vibrations in the air. this means that it's impossible to truly defeat the analogue hole - no matter what you do, someone can always just point a camera at their TV. it'll have worse quality, but it can never be stopped.

the analogue hole is one of many ways to circumvent DRM, or digital rights management. you can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

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@maloki
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one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbIing on some bread is better than starving.

DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOU'RE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU
WERE BEFORE.

reply by redheadhatchet:

One of my college professors used to say "anything worth doing is worth doing poorly." I didn't understand that for years because I didn't do anything poorly. I couldn't do anything poorly. I had to Do Everything Perfectly.

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting. Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible. Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible. Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because l don't have the energy to go anywhere.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly... because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.

omg

diaspy, a python library for diaspora*, has far, FAR better documentation than misskey.py
as in... it actually exists, and it's extensive, and every function is documented, and... :blobcatmelt:

honestly i wasn't expecting much from a diaspora* python client, since the diaspora* network is (i think?) a fair bit smaller than misskey's, but... damn

(in my adaptation of the shakespearean plays everyone is a catgirl and nobody dies, they all just hug and have a good time)

reminder: fuck apple

reminder: apple surpassed $1,000,000,000,000 in value about half a year ago. that's one trillion dollars.

reminder: if you try to screenshot a movie purchased with itunes on a macOS or iOS device, it won't work. this is presumably to prevent you from taking 24 screenshots per second and stitching them back together into the full movie, because why else would you prevent people from doing this

apps compatible with the pleroma ID update:

✅ mastalab
✅ amaroq
✅ tootdon
✅ tusky
✅ subway tooter
✅ twidere
✅ mast
❌ toot!

conclusion: pleroma ruined everything

:brain1: lossily compressed music is fine for daily listening
:brain2: all music should be recorded as 128kbps MP3
:brain3: i bought a 256GiB microSD for my phone so i can listen to my 24bit 192KHz flac audio
:brain4: lossless compression ruins the warmth of the music, raw PCM all the way
:brain5: i append garbage data to the end of my lossless music because larger file sizes give the music a more full sound

money samsung has donated to twitter: zero
money samsung has donated to mastodon: $70,000

i think its obvious which one is valued more highly by companies

ahh its good to have so many browsers to choose from

ubuntu unity adds a feature that sends your search queries to amazon over https. this feature is enabled by default but can be turned off. RESULT: community-wide outrage, massive backlash, feature is set to opt-in and has since been removed

windows 10 adds ridiculously invasive spying to its operating system, bakes in ads, bundles candy crush, forces restarts for updates, aggressively forces upgrading from windows 7/8/8.1 for an entire year, uses the insider rings to test buggy updates, repeatedly "accidentally" resets the default browser to edge, injects advertisements for edge into the operating system, advertises onedrive from the file manager, forces invasive telemetry on users that can be made less invasive (but never disabled) by upgrading to the more expensive version... RESULT: outrage, backlash, etc. some hold on to 7/8.1 but eventually give in. windows 10 becomes the most popular OS in the world. users accept that this is the way things are now.

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