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✨Donny hates Fascists✨ @spvcevvitch.bsky.social · 8h

Rest in Piss Dick Cheney. You getting a peaceful death doesn't seem fair for the amount of pain and suffering you have brought in your lifetime.

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Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 23h

it's turtleneck season so here's a somewhat low effort self portrait to commemorate it
#art #digitalart

digital portrait of myself done without much refinement or care for the details. Drawn bust up, I'm a white woman with a calm but weary smile and long, straight red hair that dissipates into wavy curls near the bottom.

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 9h

Classic X, opening a link where you can nazi it

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 10h

Looks like X is juicing web visit numbers by opening a browser WebView in the background whether the user visits the link or not.

They've re-invented pop-under fraud (allegedly).

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
247 points by stillatit 10 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 200 comments
Just saw the CEO of Substack celebrating traffic from X/Twitter shooting up thinking they stopped suppressing tweets with links[0]. Actually, this traffic is because now any time you open a tweet with a link, the in-app webview loads in the background, and displays when you press the link.
I run an ecom store that gets a lot of its customers from Twitter. I was also shocked to see my traffic double or triple overnight and thought the algorithm had blessed me and my business. Soon realized what was actually happening. Thought other traffic-monitors might appreciate this explanation.

Meanwhile Nikita Bier is pretending they never suppressed tweets with links to begin with, offering the alternative explanation: "a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is because the web browser covers the post and people forget to Like or Reply. So X doesn't get a clear signal whether the content is any good"[1]. A bit of a rewriting of history since Elon and his mom both tweeted about how it wasn't fair to use his platform to promote other links/platforms, even banning people who shared profiles of other social networks (including Paul Graham for a period). They suppressed all links shortly after.

[0] https://x.com/cjgbest/status/1985464687350485092

[1] https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1979994223224209709

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 8h

seriously how do you get to a lead role in the games industry without understanding concepts such as "greyboxing" or "bugs not yet fixed in this version". like what is the career path, for these people?

They sometimes demanded extra work because they couldn't picture what their colleagues were pitching them. "Frequently, management staff don't come from dev backgrounds and won't be able to understand what they see unless it looks like a final game," explained producer Masao Kobayashi. To appease these leaders, developers produce what he called "fancy concept art and highly-polished, super early demos."

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Keith Stack @keithstack.com · 8h

All eyes are on New York City today. As they are every other day cuz it’s DA GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD BABY LOVE DA METS

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 8h

Folks, I have a new video today where I'm very excited to announce a new dishwasher powder on the market.

Why am I so excited? Because it's vindicated every single one of my detergent opinions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2...

I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it

YouTube video by Technology Connections

www.youtube.com

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 7h

apparently ko-fi marks things as business instead of friends/family and they're holding a big chunk of money (and taking fees). i may be able to use this as collateral to borrow for rent but if you sent me some, you might be able to help out here by going to paypal and confirming the transaction.

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GEM is truly truly outrageous @seghaxx.bsky.social · 7h

turned off opengl in dosbox, which seems to have solved the hangs, try it again now

ssh [email protected]

GEM is truly truly outrageous @seghaxx.bsky.social · 1d

slowly reaching a semblance of stability, i'm ready to let people loose on this

behold, to the best of my knowledge the only running Citadel-86 anyone has seen in some time:

ssh to [email protected] to connect

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

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GEM is truly truly outrageous @seghaxx.bsky.social · 1d

slowly reaching a semblance of stability, i'm ready to let people loose on this

behold, to the best of my knowledge the only running Citadel-86 anyone has seen in some time:

ssh to [email protected] to connect

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

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T. Ashley 🌸 Jenkins @fluttersprite.itch.io · 1d

Laser-powered phosphor display screen panels are starting to pop up on places like eBay and Amazon... If I was more of a tinkerer I'd love to try and get one of these working as a consumer display

www.amazon.com/Tekswamp-Pho...

Tekswamp Prysm PR-TD2 Laser Tile Phosphor Display LPD 030-00031-00 Monitor

Prysm PR-TD2 Laser Tile Phosphor Display LPD 030-00031-00 Monitor Tile Display

www.amazon.com

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T. Ashley 🌸 Jenkins @fluttersprite.itch.io · 1d

It's basically a CRT that uses a UV laser to light the phosphors instead of a cathode ray tube. If you were going to make new CRT style screens in the modern day, this is the closest you could get

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nivs @nivrig.bsky.social · 3d

The Lumo demo WIP went down well at Amiga Belfast today despite being bugged to flip. Might have sold a couple of 2umo as well :)

Also got talking with ex-Codies artist Johnathan Temples, who literally lives round the corner from me now!

#amiga #AmigaBelfast #retrogaming #northernireland

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𝕄🌕𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕗𝕥 𝕄👁️𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 @moonshiftmonsters.bsky.social · 1d

PASS IT ON ‼️

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GEM is truly truly outrageous @seghaxx.bsky.social · 1d

slowly reaching a semblance of stability, i'm ready to let people loose on this

behold, to the best of my knowledge the only running Citadel-86 anyone has seen in some time:

ssh to [email protected] to connect

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

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🖬 A:\DiSCATTe.PCX 🖫 @a.very.sleepy.galactic.furball.discatte.com · 3d

THIS STOCKBROKER

JUST GOT

WARPED

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Ben Combee @unwiredben.combee.net · 1d

Just learned about this #retrocomputing book Kickstarter that still needs some backers to meet its goal. It's the story of a small computer company that designed ahead-of-its-time products and then disappeared just as the personal computer revolution was getting started.

Go Computer Now! – The Story of Sphere Computers

A book telling the extraordinary story of Sphere, a 1970s Utah personal computer maker far ahead of its time—until its sudden collapse.

www.kickstarter.com

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

New awareness campaign

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2d

bsky app should add dialup modem sounds at startup to complete the experience

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🦇 CuntGPT 🕸️ @cunexttuesday.lol · 2d

My favourite thing about American techbros is they think everywhere is like America in terms of infrastructure and if it isn't well then that's just too fucking bad isn't it

This subskeet brought to you by shit Australian internet that won't fucking load the replies on this fucking website

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chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 2d

dear developers,

using the radio costs power.

signed,
everyone's battery

Bossett @bossett.social · 2d

getting to my following feed cold is over 20mb in 231 requests, with the cdn only letting you get ~8 items at once

on mobile data, that's often 20-30 seconds

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Normalise calling people who are obsessed with bringing trans people up in every argument “weirdos” and “perverts” instead of debating them

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 2d

Phantasy Star 2 title screen with two ethereal giant space women flanking a trio of planets.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 2d

Kitsune Tails will be on Games Done Queer later today, check out the schedule here: gamesdonequick.com/schedule/61

It also happens to be 30% off on itch and Steam, and you can get this award winning gay fox girl platformer on either platform via kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

A screenshot of the dance in kitsune tails, with kiri dipping a shocked looking yuzu. Above them is a pull quote:

"Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3" GamesRadar+

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Matthew Sparby @cloudscout.com · 3d

I don't have a dial in line right now but my Citadel-based BBS (originally online from ~1998 to ~2003) is back online although it rarely sees any activity anymore... even I forget to log in for months at a time. And it's here in the Twin Cities!

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