Notices by ⸸ commander ░ nova ⸸ :~$ (cmdr_nova@mkultra.monster)

I kind of want to write about the downward path that Bluesky is obviously heading, i.e., deployment > venture capital funding > massive user influx > rightwing extremists > failure of moderation > ??? > ads > revenue generation > trackers > muddy moderation policies > enshitification

I can see it coming from a mile away, and it's kind of sad that it's blown up so much because so many people are convinced that it's the last bastion of hope for a social web ... for some reason

alright, Skymoth works

if you're like me and you already had a Bluesky account, and wish your posts from here could just also be there, so that you can communicate both ways

here's what you can use:

https://skymoth.app

For Instagrammers jumping to #pixelfed did you know you can take the atom feed from your profile and slap it onto your website to display your most recent posts?

build your own website

own your own data

make backups, move when you need to, never lose anything

this one writer at me like "you're saying you think people should roll their own websites and build themselves"

uh

fuck yeah I am

the barrier to learning HTML and CSS is at the floor, and if you can put effort into building a business that you want to be paid for, you can spend an afternoon learning what elements and tags are

every dang app is trying to do a "your year, wrapped" thing, just because a music platform that doesn't pay its artists does it

soon your refrigerator's gonna be like "here's your wrapped refrigeration year: you left a bowl of spaghetti inside of me for 3 months untouched, you drank 187 beers"

still using excalibur ever since I claimed him in that one mission

@murph alright I'll give that a shot

front left turn signal isn't blinking, but the orange light is there, dead bulb? replace it?

@peertube I'd like to test logging into my account on the app, but I can't see video.infosec.exchange on there at all

you know what? the art department at Blizzard absolutely rips ass

https://youtu.be/mtM0WpHEjWU?si=WiiGzZweVjqPsNq0

by the way if you haven't checked out FreeTube on #linux it's a very awesome app that you can import all your Youtube subscriptions into, and watch videos on without ads. You can even use the settings options to auto-skip sponsored segments

I think that I definitely want to stay on Mastodon and only interact with Bluesky via the bridge

In just one day I saw behavior that makes me hate social media, and then I saw the face of someone who now gives me flashbacks to very bad things

That's gonna be a nope from me, Hoss

Updating my former NFT project on my website to use a popup modal, with the alt text as a description, and a title utilizing the character's name from the <p> tag it belongs to

see, making little pictures can be fun when it has nothing to do with a blockchain lol

#linux

Today on Nova Prime ... #blogging #tech #socialmedia #thoughts

Plant Your Own Garden

https://nova.mkultra.monster/tech/2024/09/08/plant-your-own-garden.html

Today, I spent the equivalent of around ten hours of work (on my day off, no less), designing and developing a new kind of “side service” I wanted to offer to people who: Don’t have the time, or don’t want to learn HTML and CSS, and who want to separate themselves from corporate media, just a little bit, even if it’s just to stop paying services like Linktree a monthly fee.

today I learned they force people to wear ankle bracelets when on house arrest but that's not the part I learned

the part I learned was that they charge you 400 dollars a month to wear it

to wear something you're forced to wear

by the state

man this country is so fucked

@dansup I'm on pixelfed.social under the same username, I mostly post real life photos and at some point I saw some of it come through months and months ago but it doesn't seem to do that anymore

@dansup hey I've done everything to try and get this fixed besides speak to you lol my pixelfed account doesn't seem to federate with my instance at all and I'm not sure why

someone on reddit just found out that kickasstorrents was sezied by the US gov't and i was reading the page, and it directly cites "willfull copyright infringement" as a crime that includes up to 250,000 USD fines and possible jail time

okay US gov't, so why doesn't this apply to Sam Altman and OpenAI