Notices by Anthropy :verified_dragon: (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz), page 2

@volpeon I recently took the time to go through 20 pages of woozy emojis and added 3 pages of ones I like
:drgn_sip_woozy:

@dgar
Could be a splatter of red
Or a burst of blue
When the star nearby
Goes supernova on you

Microsoft spinning an EU antitrust regulation as a reason for Crowdstrike's issue causing the entirety of Windows to shit the bed, is such incredible offensive balony just wow

1) you cannot do anything in windows without kernel access because windows is a piece of shit
2) this has always been the case, antivirus isn't new
3) neither is it new that it can cause the entirety of Windows to shit the bed, because they don't do the basic fucking check whether something is loadable before doing so 😭

I would really hate if people's takeaway from this is going to be "antitrust pro consumer regulations are bad akshully" because the absolute last thing we need is for Microsoft to get even more dominance over their DRM As A Platform

istg

it's actually kinda refreshing to see the fediverse return to its grass roots of bashing windows and talking linux instead of the endless wailing about politics haha

sometimes I run into this picture of what happened to my old work laptop, and I have to share the picture again--

I left it on top of my car, it sat on there until I was doing 130kmh / 80mph, then flew off, hit a tree, snapped in two, laid there all night and half the next day in the melting snow because I couldn't find it, and was finally brought back to me by a guard who found it while doing a patrol nearby.

Immediately after it was given back, I connected the power cable and turned it on:

@shitpostalotl somehow reminded me of the Ron Perlman cats from https://www.reddit.com/r/CTLLRP/

friend made an interesting point: "I don't like it when artistic/creative programs show some splash screen with some very professional looking result, it should be something like children's drawings or something simple that invites drawing, not some slap in the face of every artist that ever opens it that isn't at that level or just doesn't want to see other people's portfolios." (paraphrased)

@SwiftOnSecurity she put on some paperweight

consider donating half (or even a tenth) of what you would've paid for the commercial alternative, to the free/opensource projects you're using instead.

Imagine how much these could develop if everyone paid the same as they pay commercial parties, we could easily make these the dominant tools we use; a world where all the tools are available to everyone regardless of income is a hell of a way to provide equity to the creators of the world, similar to what UBI would do ✨

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine/112411991674988058

@winter I went to search about this topic and I'm not sure what to think

every time boiled pizza is mentioned on fedi, part of me goes "I mean what if you boil a calzone, that could kinda work, you'd have a weird ass lasagna of sorts because the dough, rather than baking, would become more pasta-like I guess? I'd have to try that sometime" and I have to stop myself from actually boiling pizza

@volpeon it's such a preciously curious expression, it's like they found magic incarnate, kinda need it as emoji tbh :drgn_sparkle:

@georgetakei pff "not ginger" yea sure that's what I'd say if I were ginger 👀

@georgetakei what about iceberged coffee

@arstechnica
companies, govts, other entities: "let's replace customer services with brainless markov chains and see if people notice"

people: *notice it, make fun of it, exploit it*

companies, govts, other entities: *surprised pikachu*

@volpeon hecc yass volpeon comics I'm here for dis

I wish people understood the difference between "tech" and "nightmarish pipedreams made up by shareholders who's only incentive is to make number go higher at any cost, ESPECIALLY if that cost is shitty user experience, paywalls, forced account creation and tying and spying with it into the device and cutting corners".

Tech is effin cool, is everything YOU want it to be, it's simple things that make your life objectively better and only ever better. It goes wrong when shareholders get involved.

@georgetakei
talk about gaslighting someone with math