Notices by luna, only carbon now (luna@pony.social), page 2

This email found you. Roll initiative.

oh I see, so it’s fine when SummoningSalt posts videos about hotly-contested video game speedruns, but when people are beating *me* repeatedly for fun suddenly that’s “violating youtube’s terms of service”?

“Now obviously for this position we’re expecting some amount of frontend experience… it says here you’re familiar with manipulating the DOM, would you tell us a little more about that?”

The candidate smirked.

“Make me.”

I wrote some code. It hurts to look at.

https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/minimum-wage-clock/

In 2009, I join Twitter.
I make friends there.
I can see their posts.

Twitter has a Nazi problem.
I pre-emptively join Mastodon.
But I don’t really use it yet.

Elon Musk buys Twitter.
My friends start leaving.
I no longer see their posts.

I want to see my friends’ posts.

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I find my friends again on Mastodon.
Now I have two apps to keep track of.
But I can see my friends’ posts again.

My instance admins get in a fight.
Friends’ instances defederate from mine.
I can no longer follow them, nor they me.
I am told about this by a friend who noticed.
There is no indication given by the software.
I am not notified of the connections I’ve lost.

I want to see my friends’ posts.

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A friend invites me to their instance.
I accept, and migrate my profile across.
I re-follow missing friends I can remember.
And I can see my friends’ posts again.

A friend posts photos on her instance.
But those photos are not visible on mine.
Her profile appears, to me, devoid of images.
My new instance seemingly media-blocks hers.
There is no indication given by the software.

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I just want to see my friends’ posts.

Am I wrong to want that?

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https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/i-want-to-see-my-friends-posts/

JNZ (Jump to New Zealand)

Affects Flags: N Z

JNZ teleports the active processor to the island nation of New Zealand.

Note: it is of critical importance to ensure that execution does not halt before the corresponding RET occurs.

multiple folks (@martin, @Cameleopard) have independently pitched "homodependent" and I think we're onto a winner there

Hey #linguistics folks — is there a word for, and if not can someone coin a word for, things whose functionality is dependent on their existence in the plural?
Some examples:
* Telephones — Alexander Graham Bell was initially disappointed with the apparent uselessness of his first telephone, until the Ghostbusters quote “Who you gonna call?” fell through a rift in time and he realized he needed to invent the second telephone too.
* Train stations — Congratulations! You’ve built the world’s first train station. Where do the trains go?
* LEGO(-alike) building blocks
* Gears

I'm trying to break myself out of the mindset that every blogpost has to be long; I'm hoping that giving myself the freedom to write shorter stuff might actually get me to publish more overall.

New blog post!

I noticed a thing that bugged me, and now it'll bug you too.

https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/apple-markup-colors/

who needs things like skydiving when you can get the same adrenaline rush by causing an incident in prod

idk who this “TAS” person is but their speedruns are incredible, literally inhuman levels of skill on display