Nigel @ignitionigel@fosstodon.org
Filthy casual geek, gamer, husband, step-father, DIYer, MTBer, Procrastinator...
- Gaming
- https://elekk.xyz/@rtwx
- Keybase
- https://keybase.io/swansinflight
Some rare pictures of the making of Final Fantasy 7 found on ISOs on Internet Archive. These ISOs came from a 6-CD multimedia press pack given for the 1997 European Computer Trade Show.
Lots of vintage equipment and office cubicles~ (check out the professional monitors, and the SGI Indigo2 in the last image!)
(https://archive.org/details/sonyects1997)
(via @retrohistories@twitter.com - https://twitter.com/retrohistories/status/1008381556656832513)
- Dzuk
Full text of the directive: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fTEXT%2bREPORT%2bA8-2018-0245%2b0%2bDOC%2bXML%2bV0%2f%2fEN&language=EN#title1
Why it means the end of the people's and creators' Internet: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180703/01343440162/latest-text-eu-copyright-directive-shows-even-worse-than-expected-must-be-stopped.shtml
Under this law, Internet stops being a place where people can freely post their content, comment on it, and share what they find interesting - it becomes a TV, with a small amount of pre-approved publishers posting content for everyone to passively consume.
Here's Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)'s blog post on the case of LT, including our response to Hodder & Stoughton's lawyers attached as a PDF!
...I promise you'll enjoy reading it!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/effs-help-language-teacher-responds-ridiculous-patent-threat
[due to my new internet regimen where I avoid sites that game your interest through fake notifications I have now run out of internet to see]
Changing between iOS and Android phones is a fun exercise in muscle memory. 😑
Hey so #creativetoot etc - and other - if you liked the funloving Luddite pattern, I put it up on a society6 store
(full disclosure I get like a dime when you buy something there so... buy thousands of them)
How to make a career move from proprietary to open source technology
Open Hardware: Good for Your Brand, Good for Your Bottom Line
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-hardware-good-your-brand-good-your-bottom-line
The Pentium FDIV bug was ahead of it's time. That was closer to artificial intelligence than we've ever been. Most humans make miscalculations when dividing very large numbers.
WTF is a personal information dashboard for your terminal
https://wtfutil.com/
@rtwx @ben0_o Time to install Stylus instead! It's a much more modern and also tracking-free fork: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus
If there’s going to be a privacy/decentralisation revolution it won’t be with a horde of poorly maintained VPSes and Raspberry Pis. I’m not even sure it’s a solvable problem yet. Any software project sufficiently resourced and organised to protect its endpoints would be decried as too powerful and centralised.
What a bug... "Samsung phones are spontaneously texting users’ photos to random contacts without their permission" https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/7/2/17528076/samsung-phones-text-rcs-update-messages
Oh dang, I had no idea the "Stylish" browser extension went to the dark side. Thankfully I haven't used it for a while but I wouldn't have hesitated because it worked really well. https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extension-steals-your-internet-history/
Some of us install 'Stylish' to force wide columns on Mastodon.. Well apparently it's logging all your internet history to create a profile on users:
https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extension-steals-your-internet-history/
Time to uninstall, folks :+\
Well I guess that's ok then, and I expect that the lack of that entry was why I couldn't play Spotify on my reviever via Spotify Connect.
Completely powered off receiver, restarted and now it works fine. Hmm. Am concerned about the notices I see where Spotify is removing support from some devices.
When as a warmup you decide to continue doing cute little "old tech symbols" and now you can't stop...
Send help, making a cute cassette tape as we speak
