Notices by The (Yuled) VHS Wizard🎅☃️ (drakkenzero@retro.pizza)

Why did nobody tell me that there was a 1979 made-for-tv movie and following scifi series about Andy Griffith being a junkyard owner who builds a rocket to fly to the moon to "salvage" the moon landers and re-sell them.

Doesn't look like there was ever an official release, we appear to just have recordings, but we DO have them.

I present to you... Salvage 1

https://archive.org/details/Salvage-1-Series

LOCAL 58 JUST UPDATED

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=82sMwdFq2z4

Because I can change my password, and everybody ought to be doing that all the time anyway. But if the archived version of a web page from 2002 is gone, it's gone forever.

Or worse yet, what if they altered some of the stuff that's been archived. Might take forever to find changes that were made, depending on the scope and the amount of access that they have.

Archive has more knowledge in one single place than anywhere else in the world, it getting hacked "for the lulz" is like The Smithsonian getting broken into and having someone rummage around in the exhibits.

Yes, it's not ideal that they got personal data, but I feel like we're really burying the lead here.

@nocontexttrek Don't threaten me with a good time.

@BeAware So what happens on Threads if you post a link to someone that has their linkability turned off? Does it refuse to post the link at all, or does it just show it as a link instead of doing it like a quote?

@BeAware If it helps, while Vince and the WWE went into it with full participation and partnership, once it actually started uncovering stuff and more lawsuits started breaking they backed the fuuuuuuuck away from it and disavowed everything in it.

@BeAware Filled with trust, I am. Filled to the brim.

@BeAware You wanna know the dumbest part about it?

If you go down to the bottom, the links they have for them ON social media are... Threads, X, and "Social Web" which one would assume is, like, their instance of whatever it is.

But if you try and click on the Social Web link, it takes you to https://socialwebfoundation.org/@swf which is clearly broken because (at least in Firefox) it shows up as just the raw data

@BeAware

Almost all my posts are public. I have very little to hide, and the things that I do hide are generally for the benefit of others, and not for myself. If you choose to peer too deeply into the wizardly abyss, I cannot help you.

@BeAware @batuhan

I love that there's a language option for Esperanto.

@egg @BeAware

I for one welcome our new overlord, John Mastodon

@BeAware absolutely true, it's like the big loading area for all the players before they get into the actual game. Being on mastodon.social is like being in the starter noob clothing.

Search around, note instances that have fun people you see already on them, and in no time you'll eventually find your home on some weird fun instance called something like disco.buttplug or radioactive.horse

@BeAware @stirlock @the_spc Yes, he hasn't been in charge of the company for decades... er... years... months maybe? It's a little hard to tell where he's actually gotten off to, and he somehow just keeps coming back like a slasher movie mon-

He's standing right behind me, isn't he?

@BeAware @stirlock @the_spc I have been watching wrestling since the 1980s so my bar for "a company treating women with dignity" is set pretty low, but WWE consistently managed to limbo under that bar in the late 90s/early 2000s for a looooooong time - so much so that one of those moments (his "assistant" doing a strip tease in ring for Vince) was immortalized as a meme.

@stirlock @the_spc @BeAware AEW and ROH (which AEW now owns) are both really good about their women's divisions. They're still (often) playing second fiddle to the men, but they're not paraded around like pieces of meat to be oogled at and have some very cool characters and personalities that don't just sum up as "watch my butt wiggle"

@santisbon @BeAware

And I know that the fediverse technically has that - from here in Mastodon, I can follow users on other sorts of systems and hypothetically see and interact with their content, but having had tried using a bunch of the different services over the last couple of years, I can say the actual functionality of the interconnected-ness is PURE JANK in some places.

@santisbon @BeAware

I would argue that the thing that makes the "Meta" ecosystem actually appealing to most people isn't the actual services, it's the single universal sign-on. With one login, I can use Messenger, all the FB services, Occulus, and a ton of games that use FB accts for backup.

That's the simplicity people are actually looking for, the services are secondary and rise/fall constantly (RIP FB's Games and Video) as the needs, wants, and interests of the community rise and fall.

@BeAware

To quote MST3K S8E20, Space Mutiny:

Mike: Well, I think I've more than answered your encyclopedia grievances

Tom and Crow (in unison): NO!

Tom: It was much more fun to complain about the old ones than to have new ones

Crow: Yeah, I miss complaining already, frankly.

@BeAware I looked at it once upon a time but I couldn't a) really tell what it was for, and b) was immediately offput by how many people I saw flogging crypto and NFTs or (as you said) mocking those flogging crypto and NFTs.