Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Millennium

@milliesquilly.com

240 followers 440 following 1.7K posts

(she/they) Call me Millie, for short. I can also be found on several other websites. I make e-zines in Decker at zine.milliesquilly.com and write blog posts at milliesquilly.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 5d

zine of Millie EX2, the latest installment of my rebooted #Decker e-zine, is out! Check it out at zine.milliesquilly.com/ex/ex2.html and all the back issues at zine.milliesquilly.com

I had to zip it to fit it on the floppy disk!

Two floppy disks atop a keyboard, the top one reads EX 2 <3 Millie

1 2 11

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 43m

Blog post: today's deck kiosk progress

milliesquilly.com/deck-kiosk-p...

#decker

Deck Kiosk progress!

Much Deck Kiosk progress has happened!

milliesquilly.com

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 3h

There will be more added. Please do not be offended if your decks are left out but instead give me a wave

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 3h

Also a few bangers from IJ, and an "Others" folder with some @plastic-mannequin.bsky.social classics and also @zelkova.neocities.org and @fizzelpons.bsky.social and @aircrystal.bsky.social

1 1

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 3h

I've got some decks from some friends on the deck kiosk too @ahmwma.bsky.social @gray-lofi.itch.io and Flocon who isn't on bsky I think

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 4h

So I don't have the display yet so I've just got it hooked up to my regular monitor, and my desk is A MESS, but the deck kiosk works! Even with a custom bootsplash!

#decker

Messy desk with a beige keyboard and mouse hooked up to a raspberry pi displaying a folder of my Decker games on the monitor

Photo of a screen with the text:
"Decker is a program written by and for humans."
-Internet Janitor, creator of Decker

"Winners Don't Use Gen AI"
-Millie Millennium, Decker Zinemistress

I and many other people working with Decker, as well as Decker's developer Internet Janitor, oppose the use of generative AI tools such as LLMs in our work.

All the work you see on show here is the product of human creativity, without the use of generative AI.

For more information about the Certified Organic Art badge, see zine.milliesquilly.com/certifiedorganicart/

Photo of screen showing a purple haired woman in a room with the dialogue "Hi, I'm Liv"

Reposted by Millennium

OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 1d

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

15 660 1.7K

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 9h

My custom #decker mousepad has arrived

1 5

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 11h

like I don't know how to explain people that "use mate instead" is not an answer to "how do I change icon themes in lxde"

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 11h

Having a lot of "this is why people get frustrated with linux" feelings when every time I google how to do something I find forum threads where people say "actually you should not be doing that, use a completely different piece of software to do something different"

1 2

Reposted by Millennium

actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 12h

13 Oct 2025

Heathcliff rides down the street in his open-top ham car past an autumn tree whose colored leaves are falling. Two meat store employees watch from their shop's entrance, and one says "This is great ham weather."

5 94 390

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 13h

which I mean I can't complain about since I am using a pi with only 2gb of ram and in the long run don't actually need much of a desktop environment for my purposes

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 14h

Yeah it's entirely possible that this is more of a "whatever the raspberry pi people did to lxde to customise it for their purposes" issue haha

1 1

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 19h

Up late writing a lil script to generate .desktop files for the deck kiosk

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 20h

Huh, aside from the whole "manually creating .desktop files because there's no sensible tool for it" issue it looks like the problem is mostly that whatever desktop environment the pi uses is slow to refresh if you rename or change the icon in the .desktop file. Odd

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 1d

this is why I save the little computer things I make onto floppy disks and write colourful labels on them in sharpie

innes @innes.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with computer jobs is that it's all in your head. You can't touch or eat the code you write, it's too abstract. You need to find something to make with your hands if you want to stay okay

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 1d

I think I have a workable solution determined through the technology of reverse engineering .desktop files generated by the menu editor (which for some reason isn't installed by default in the new version of raspberry pi os???)

1 2

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 1d

But also like I don't want to have to manually edit a bunch of text files. Yes I can write a script to automatically generate them once I know how they're formatted but I don't WANT to have to, I want to just click a thing and go "make a shortcut to this" and have it just fucking work.

1 2

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 1d

Every time I look up how to do it on Raspberry Pi OS I get a lot of stuff about manually creating .desktop files. Aside from being really fiddly, I can't seem to get this to work and look all nice and neat. I know it MUST be possible seeing as the OS's own .desktop entries look pretty

2 2

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 1d

A linux complaint:
Trying to figure out making nice desktop shortcuts in raspberry pi OS. Basically I want to have the shortcuts named something arbitrary and with whatever icon I want.

In Windows this is accomplished by dragging with the right mouse button and clicking "create shortcut"

1 7

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 1d

I've found mine is really good for cooking skin-on bits of chicken, like wings or legs. Comes out nice and crispy.

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 1d

Blog post about the deck kiosk milliesquilly.com/parts-arrive...

#decker

Parts arrive for the deck kiosk

I had a few parts come today, necessary for the deck kiosk project

milliesquilly.com

1 3

Reposted by Millennium

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

"Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year?

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]"

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

slashdot.org

6 320 1.2K

Millennium @milliesquilly.com · 1d

it's playing in ALL our heads!

Reposted by Millennium

Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 1d

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

91 860 4.4K

Reposted by Millennium

OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · Nov 20

PLEASE SHARE!
Video game music fan???
PASS THIS ON! :-D
Every OC ReMix in one big RAR!
drive.google.com/open?id=1gEW...

• 26 GB
• 310+ hours of music
• 1,100+ games represented
• 1,600+ artists
• 4,500+ tracks

Keep what you like, toss what you don't, but TRY EVERYTHING.
Enjoy! :-)

OverClocked ReMix (ocremix.org) album cover - headphones surrounding 16-bit game controller

36 940 1.5K