Notices by Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)

@cwebber I was talking about Worms with someone and I was searching for OpenLieroX so I could link it to them and came across your old blog entry pretty high up in the search results! https://dustycloud.org/blog/openlierox/

I just wanted to say I had a similar experience, Liero was very popular in my middle school and I have fond memories of it. I haven't played any of the clones much but I was aware of OpenLieroX. I will have to try to get a group together to play sometime!

@cwebber @daniel @domo Also don't forget they host hate speech and allegedly terrorist organizations, and take a libertarian view of their responsibility here as they view themselves as part of the neutral infrastructure of the internet: https://www.fastcompany.com/90312063/how-cloudflare-straddles-its-role-as-privacy-champion-and-hate-speech-enabler

#Babel by #RFKuang was one of my favorite books to come out in recent years. It's dark academia, anticolonial historical fantasy set in 19th century England. With a magic system based on translation that's super cool. You can pick up the ebook right now on sale for only $2.
https://www.polygon.com/good-deals/505728/babel-rf-kuang-80-percent-off-sale-ebook

#Bookstodon @bookstodon

Interesting article about the erasure of non-american #VideogameHistory and criticism:

https://felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrification-of-video-game-history-dfe11f1e08ae

#Videogames

@cwebber Thanks for another great write-up. I chose to read this in blog format again. So I don't think I have any easter eggs to prove I finished it, you'll have to take my word for it. :)

@cwebber Thanks, it was an interesting stream! I chipped in a little, good luck with the fundraiser :)

@ntnsndr so far I have only seen this done in slack and it seems wrong. What if you intended to overwrite the selected text with the contents of your clipboard instead?

@cwebber I've read your entire article, thanks so much for such a detailed & thoughtful writeup. It was very illuminating as I had not come across any discourse yet that really got into the weeds about DID implementations and so forth. I was also not aware of your proposals regarding Ocap. This is interesting stuff I want to try to understand further. I am glad that you are thinking about these pain points with current fedi implementation, we're all feeling them and I hope they can be addressed.

@deutrino @sun @ryanc Also I should mention this works like a + alias, you don't need to log in to their site more than once ever to use it. If I were to write an email address like myalias.1.myusername@spamgourmet.com it will forward one email to me and then shut down. You can allow up to 20 emails this way, or log into their dashboard to add a sender to an allow-list so their emails won't increment the counter.

@deutrino @sun @ryanc I'm only aware of the one domain. It's an old service that's been operating continuously since the year 2000, I don't know if multiple domains were really trendy back then.

@deutrino @sun @ryanc There is a free service for making burner self-destructing forwarding emails at https://www.spamgourmet.com that's been around for a long time. I use it sometimes but honestly Gmail spam filtering is so good nowadays I haven't bothered much unless it's something sketchy.

Okay, I am very reticent to pull off this particular band-aid but let's say hypothetically I wanted to replace #AWS with another managed host of some kind, mostly for low-traffic static asset/site hosting with HTTPS, and maybe periodically running a #Minecraft server or something for very cheap, maybe bulk data archiving (glacier), any suggestions for companies that don't suck or are at least less bad than #Amazon at comparable cost?

#DevOps #AskFedi #AskMastodon #AmazonWebServices #WebHosting

@ntnsndr #Alt4You Screenshot of linked publication header. Logo for "First Monday: Peer-reviewed journal on the internet."
Publication title: "Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics" by Nathan Schneider.

Please consider adding alt text to your images, it helps keep the fedi accessible! Feel free to use or adapt this alt text.

@ntnsndr Sorry I don't think I have time right now to be involved although I think this is a worthwhile endeavor.

@ryanhoulihan In general I agree with you although recently I have actually been finding uses for the "metaverse", not in the big Meta corporate bet aspect of it, but more for niche online communities meeting up in VRChat. I'm in a Star Trek meetup group there (we have our own uniforms and words but visit other worlds too.) It's also very popular with the furry community and there's definitely some overlap. But yeah I don't think this is really what Zuck had in mind, lol

@steve Welcome to the Fediverse! As you are new here, you may not know this, but many people here will not boost images without alt text to help keep the Fedi accessible. I will add an #Alt4You: "Cartoon caricature of a smiling white, masculine presenting person with brown hair, blue eyes, and a grey blazer with a red shirt and blue tie. The name Steve appears to the right."

Feel free to edit your post to add this alt description or adapt it as you see fit.

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @stefan@gardenstate.social @tchambers This is cool!

@kissane and @darius are working on a fedi governance study, you'd have to ask them about its status and if they would be OK being included in this.
https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/fediverse-governance-successes-gaps/

@ljrk Also shout out to Klára Dán von Neumann (John von Neumann's wife) also considered to be one of the first programmers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_Neumann

She was Head of the Statistical Computing Group at Princeton, and worked at Los Alamos laboratory. She programmed the MANIAC I and ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.

The Lost Women of Science podcast devoted an entire season to her, I've been meaning to get around to finishing it: https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/season-2

@ljrk Shout out to the original ENIAC programming team: Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman.

I watched some interviews with them at the Computer History Museum. This doc also looks cool:
https://eniacprogrammers.org/

I have heard that some black women were also involved with this project but sadly this has not been well documented and information about them may have been lost in the historical record.

@thomasfuchs Not sure if this qualifies as "obscure" but the first digital camera my family had was a Sony Mavica that wrote directly to 3½" floppy disks. Some of those old photos I took with it are still online, being served up by a PC my dad has been using as a webserver since around that same time period: http://www.bambi.net/eliot/a1.html