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@djsundog I really associate the phrase "information overload" with the six months after I graduated college and the studio apartment I moved into. I only connected my little black and white TV to the cable because I was hoping it would work as an antenna but I discovered it hadn't been turned off.

I'd never lived anywhere with cable before and suddenly I had CNN. The aftermath of Tianenmen Square was still being understood. The Bay Area got hit by the Loma Prieta earthquake. The Berlin Wall fell. The Soviet Union collapsed. I watched a firing squad kill the Dictator of Romania. I'd get home from one of my two jobs and immediately turn it on to see what I'd missed.

And then one day I picked up my phone to make a call. But it didn't go through. Instead I found myself in this amazing liminal telephone netherworld where I could hear a dozen or more conversations, all happening at once, against a background of electronic beeps. Just as I'd start to follow a couple sentences of one call it would vanish and its place be taken by another call. I sat listening to it for half an hour while trying to figure out a way to route the signal into my four-track cassette but couldn't get it to work.

Having my first taste of 24-hour news was as earthshaking as the events it was covering. And that phone call became my personal metaphor for what it felt like.

Then I got a dial up modem...

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@lain @kaia
So refined 😍

Hair isn't purple though, authenticity cannot be confirmed.

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This is an experiment. Please boost.

mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

@mangeurdenuage
> Ruined tourism
gemini://gem.sdf.org/bronzie94/gemlog/20241109-1.gmi
I do not agree with this piece, I even started drafting a response to it, but I think "ruined tourism" is debatable, considering this is posted on Geminispace.

@theorytoe
With classes! 🤩

With classes, right? 🥺

@kaia
You aren't alone, they've played us for fools!
Windows 7 whopper was impossible to eat in one sitting: mashed.com/637143/burger-king-

@neural_meduza
Не одобрял её заигрывания с анкап-плебсом, но раз уж такие дела — так и быть, возложу цветы 😳

@lizzy
Does it at least run Rocket Leaguecy of the Hearth of the Stone Void?

@gordoooo_z
I feel you! The distaste for modern technology I've developed over the years might be one of the reasons I'm procrastinating and subconsciously sabotaging getting a job in this field 😩

@p @vic
I can't even come up with a good explaination on why that was done — this preference looks zero maintenance cost to me, it's like four lines of code that require minimal to no testing; other than receiving a call from their Google HQ with something like: "No one likes our image format that is actually video compression cosplaying image compression — do something about it!"

@p @vic
> I mean, it should be possible to find out, right
Of course it is! On my build machine I would just check out the commit that was used for building it, start the rebuild process and snatch the config, but I'm not — and I'm a lazy ass looking for other options😅
> The only mitigation against the stupid webp exploit was to turn webp off.
Can you imagine it? They have removed that option in like a week or two after that vulnerability got discovered!

@gemlog
And I don't think that the war would go on indefinitely, and that this regime is forever, but it still makes sense — irregardless of the outcome and when it comes, it would be really gloom here, I expect it to be much worse than in the 90s Russia: all these "defenders of the motherland" coming back home with guns on their hands, former "police" looking for side-jobs due to lack of funding — even outside of freedom of speech and good mental health it's truly scary shit😱

@gemlog
Yeah, it's been a side-bussiness for them for quite some time already: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_V
Actually, I think I started using their email because I was looking for a good VPN provider 😄
> very hard for him to actually move to europe
It's certainly a challenge and it's much easier when you're young, but it's not impossible — I have friends who did an who would help, for me it's a matter of finding a job that… you know, won't make me want to kill myself 😅

@sunchaser
Это настоящее музыкальное видео? 😲
Боже, как круто!

@gemlog
To be fair, our "law enforcement" is probably just not interested in Fedi yet — I doubt that those who are smart enough consider me a threat, and those who are least intellectual probably use more mainstream platforms as their "feeding ground".

But I still have to rely on Proton and spend numerous hours on finding entry nodes (and ports on them) that still work — I should probably get a job and move to Europe already, less time wasted on this and better for mental health.

@gordoooo_z
My Android device can last 5-7 days on one full charge when it's not acting as a VPN gateway. On Sailfish it can only last up to two days. The explaination — I barely use it 😅
With pmOS, I expect my battery usage/charging patterns would be the same as that of an average person using mainstream mobile OS.

@kaia
Hey, my daily usage is about 3Gbs!
You'd be surprised how little you use if you don't watch videos.

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