Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club)

@xarph @thomasfuchs I like the idea that upgrading Python once a year is too much churn.

One last release without deno, huh? https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2025.10.22

I just came across *the* most Geocities site to ever exist. You want to see this one, I promise. https://web.archive.org/web/20010722223545/http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Wharf/1014/

A REQUEST: If you own a French CD-ROM computer game called "Pop Anim'", please let me know. I could use it for some research but haven't been able to find a circulating copy yet. (It's at the BnF but I can't get there right now.)

Just a note for those wanting to act in solidarity that Kickstarter United have *not* asked for a boycott - their demands and ways of how to act in solidarity with them can be found in their messaging. https://union.place/@kickstarterunited/115304520313956505

I think the absolute best defense mechanism against toxic nostalgia is hanging around younger people who wistfully describe the years I think of as "after it all went to shit" as their long-lost glory days. It's not that I'm Right and they're wrong, it's that the whole frame is meaningless.

Anyone out there in Vancouver hired anyone to do Ethernet wiring for a home? Got a company or people you can recommend?

Genuinely fascinated a single bot can do this without getting instantly taken down.

https://github.com/gitcoincoactionpro/mo/issues

GitHub is letting this bot post spam more quickly than it's letting me report accounts responsible for that spam. I got rate-limited after only tow reports.

Safari 26 for Mac sure seems to freeze on me a lot.

I’m actually serious on this one - and I know Higan does this. We focus on the “official” ways of playing games when focusing on game history but so many people experienced these in unofficial ways. And those are real, important parts of game history too.

Gaming history blazing hot take: if recreating the experience of playing old games via CRT shaders is important, it's equally important to recreate crappy old emulators so you can experience what it was like to play these games for the first time on a low-env 90s PC.

maak - Imitation (2002) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN7Eyojwycs

#music #codingmusic

You know, the other thing I'm thinking is: as a community, we keep telling people to stay off mastodon.social. But if you signed up for mastodon.social in 2016 or 2017, it's one of the only options available that would still be working today with your full post history intact. If you signed up anywhere else, you've *probably* been through multiple migrations and lost your full posting history several times over.

If we want users to sign up on non-mastodon.social servers, we *need* to make server migration actually, genuinely painless and make it possible to actually bring over *all* of your account's content if you want that. Otherwise, "just use mastodon.social" will continue to be the lowest-risk option and picking another server will actually be riskier.

I think for many users, if they lose their posting history when moving to a new server, they have less reason to stay here instead of moving to a new network. If they're losing everything anyway, why not move to bluesky or something else?

The more and more old servers I see close, the more intolerable it is that Mastodon still doesn't offer a way to migrate data like posts to new accounts. A user's post history is valuable, and it's more valuable the older the account is. Users *should* have the option to migrate those to a new server!

I'm thinking about this because I saw a Mastodon server of eight and a half years shutting down, which is leaving its migrating users in a very awkward position if they have years' worth of posts that are being lost.

It's not, to be clear, the server admin's fault - they don't control Mastodon's feature set. It's squarely the responsibility of Mastodon to supply the server migration tools necessary to resolve these problems for its users.

Ultimate Companion for Windows (US Dreams, Windows, 1994)

Using Codeberg a little more is making me appreciate how *performant* it is. Reminds me of GitHub a decade ago.

Normally I feel like "it reminds me of a decade old site" wouldn't always be a compliment, but GitHub's UI performance has degraded so much it's a breath of air using something that feels this snappy.