Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

For this #FollowFriday, I want to highlight @medium. "Wait," Sharon says, "I thought Medium has its own publishing thing."

That's right, Sharon! They do. That's why having them setting up their own #Mastodon instance, which they'll be inviting their writers to microbolg to, is so interesting. Props to @coachtony embracing the fediverse as part of their continued writers' mission . More here: https://blog.medium.com/medium-embraces-mastodon-19dcb873eb11

Of course, there is more to do. Some great ideas here: https://mastodon.social/@jesseKawell@hachyderm.io/109681956727733096

Make no mistake, Smudge is *absolutely* plotting shenanigans

The list of [un]intentionally Turing-complete games welcomes a new entry: TETRIS! 🧱

Yes, as it turns out, Tetris is capable of universal universal computation. And if you don't believe it, there's even a simulator you can try for yourself! 👇

https://meatfighter.com/tetromino-computer/

#turing #turingcomplete #tetris #game #gamedev

Mastodon bumps up the active user count when a user logs on, including right after sign up. I’m not surprised the monthly active user number is coming down a bit, there’s no service out there that has 100% retention on new sign ups.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~ Edward Stanley

Pines and frost #photo #photography #landscapephotography #winter

As a procedural animation enthusiast, it is no surprise that Rain World is one of my favourite games of all time.

It's a true masterpiece from every angle you look at it!

From its unique aesthetics, to the incredibly complex AI that powers every creature.

If you are curious to learn more about the game, have a look at this documentary!

#rainworld #slugcat #ai #gamedev #games #madewithunity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMx8OsTDHfM&ab_channel=CuriousArchive

If you're @-ing someone on here, it's really important to check that you've chosen the right person.

Account addresses on Mastodon and the Fediverse always have two parts, the username and the server. Both these parts have to be correct for it to reach the right account.

This is similar to email addresses: you can't just put the first part, you need to include the server at the end too.

To see someone's full account address, look at their profile page. More info at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#WhatsMyAccountsAddress

@chouti Really embracing cloud computing there!

@aral @Gargron After a month of daily use on mastodon I’m finally to the point where my gut instinct isn’t to “quote tweet”, please don’t bring that toxic nonsense here, I have no desire to see folks dunking on one another with their bs hot takes.

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

I am forever grateful to him for building & popularizing Mastodon, but I don't think @Gargron should be working on features at all right now.

Instead, he and the Mastodon non-profit (and a whole bunch of others) should be figuring out governance for collectively making decisions about Mastodon. Features in the Fediverse shouldn't be up to one guy, or even one company.

That's the whole point of the Fediverse. We do this together, or not at all.

@Venture @Dawangthang I'm going to see if I can get some of a small Discord server of Smash players to join the Fediverse. I'm suggesting https://join.fgc.network/ ; though Mastodon-powered servers look more user-friendly. Any suggestions?

#paradoxical #commandments #dogood

@QasimRashid It's not an either/or proposition. A society can and should invest in both.