upside @upside@octodon.social
contributor to #sourdough #bass #epistemology #faq #NameThatTune but laying off the #meta and will probably follow you!
https://upsided.github.io
@kara_dreamer 🤣 yeah he wouldn't like my approach! But the more seriously I take it, the more I seize up and seek out web games to play.
@kara_dreamer I used to have a whole bucket of tricks to get going; my most successful was convincing myself it was just "typing".
@kara_dreamer Blessing or curse?
I'm writing short stories again for some reason. Felt like such a time suck when I did it before. But in a malaise, I opened some of my old stories on a CDR, expecting pure embarrassment, but instead liked what I read (mostly).
I can't tell if I was overly critical when I wrote it, or too gracious now. But the bug's caught me once more, and here I am researching makeup ad jargon for another character's patter...
@risabee wow those pictures are beautiful!
But, I see things finally warming up to the FreeNet approach in general, working out the kinks and the usability of it, and it won't be long until these growing pains go away and we're all taking control of tech for ourselves -- after all, we have radios, hard drives, a massive amount of CPU at the tips of our fingers, but are still wed to the server/client legacy built into the internet. We'll break it... sometime...
So yeah, Scuttlebutt works, kind of, but "off the grid" is not just store it on your hard drive and sneakernet it around like a github repo. You have to support the actual circumstances of "off the grid" which is *limited resources* and non-infinite time near a computer.
Reminds me of all the cryptocurrencies I can’t buy bread with: they aim for the target, hit something else, and call victory...
So I tried Scuttlebutt for a bit. ( https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ ) It's supposed to be an "off grid" distributed social network, and I it does succeed at that -- there's a lot of foragers, gardeners and nomads using it, which is a testament to its focus.
The only part that seems wonky is the amount of resources it requires to function at a minimum. One guy said he got kicked out of a cafe for hogging the internet, and the public library blocks the technology needed by scuttlebutt.
https://www.fictionpress.com is still alive! Wish they had a bandcamp kinda thing going on, though. Download an ebook story for a buck or two.
@I_am_journei knew a strange guy in highschool, a parent's worst fear, now building murals for skyscrapers. :shrug: shit happens, poor fella.
@I_am_journei as a production artist my bosses were art majors, you don't need to justify nuttin
if i were to look into digital currencies today, where would i start? back in the day (last time i thought about it) there was only bitcoin, and only three or four exchanges i could find. is coinbase the way to go for a n00b?
Also finally resolved in my own head that mastodon isn't about avoiding politics. CWs aren't about avoiding politics.
Taking care with content is about managing risk to others so that the effort to repair a damaged world doesn't deteriorate into panic, aggression or despair.
CWs seem like a small good step towards respecting that the state of global politics affects us deeply. It's not a sideshow.
@MightyPork no, it's just the same bs I hear on repeat every day. Fortunate ones can make as many mistakes as they like to no Ill effect, while the unfortunate make 1/10th the mistakes and it cripples them, and this somehow separates us into stupid and smart for no logical reason.
@MightyPork heh selfish people always say shite like that to justify their further greed.
Gonna wear my bass and watch some anime, the only proper way to do it.
I'm convinced that if you're used to transcribing music and reading standard notation, Rocksmith will 95% of the time drive you nuckin futs.
Wiring the 4G LTE/Wifi router is almost complete and everything works fine!
