Hmm, if I can't get my Atari Tempest arcade cab working again someday, I should cram an Atari Jaguar with Jeff Minter's Tempest 2000 in there instead
We're still trying to make Didthis happen on my team at Mozilla!
It's not AI, and it's not (exactly) social media. It's just a baby step into trying to build a cozy web flavored tool for sharing hobby enthusiasms.
I built a mobile app for it at the end of last year, then a Discord bot at the start of this year. We're kind of letting it simmer for now, feature-wise, to see if we can drum up interest and decide to keep building.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/introducing-didthis-a-new-app-for-hobbyists/
It's kind of light on expected features, intentionally, because we wanted to see what we could ease into differently. So, we didn't dive straight into building feeds and follows and faves and all the rest.
The challenge with leaving that sort of stuff out, though, is that it makes things hard to "go viral" or drive buzz or whatever. Also I'm personally awful at marketing
@trevorflowers That's a good question... I think the main answer is we're looking into more genres of projects? Knitting, sewing, hiking, woodworking, and also electronics.
But, also, those sites have kind of the standard array of up-front social features and have built-in communities. I think we want Didthis to be more of a small-group tool and/or a sidecar utility to an existing community like a semi-private Discord.
@trevorflowers @mcdanlj Yeah, admittedly we don't have a lot of moderation tooling yet. But also, we're hoping not to offer the attractive nuisance of a big semi-anonymous venue to spam & troll. Thinking a project page on Didthis might be shared in a group text, or on the fediverse, or maybe a hobbyist discord or matrix or slack or whatever.
fiction; loss; grief
:oof: just re-read one of my creative writing exercises from a bit over a year ago and got the feels
https://blog.lmorchard.com/2023/02/06/the-machine-is-grieving/
@blaine @gintoxicating Sometimes when I see folks talking about "data portability" on a social web, it sounds like "embroidery portability" - i.e. imagine moving a piece of embroidery from one quilt to another.
Like, it can be done, after a fashion? But maybe you have to cut it out of the original fabric and sew it onto the new quilt? Or maybe if it were a standalone patch the transport is easier? And none of that's getting into the subtleties of where maybe you own the embroidery but not either quilt? 😅
In any case it's not as simple as cut / paste / export / import
I wonder what it would look like to build a music tracker that drives both a YM2149 and a SID chip in the same song? I'll probably never have the time to build that but it might be fun.
(This seems like something someone has to have done, since I've been playing catch up on a lot of this stuff.)
@kusuriya for DEMOCRACY
@ann3nova but that looks like the ideal device for kodi /s
It's 63F / 17C and sunny outside after weeks of grey skies and chilly temps. Might have to tell my secretary to cancel the rest of my meetings so I can go touch grass. Oh wait, I don't have a secretary. Well, they'll probably figure it out when I don't show
Also, inadvisedly, I find the location tracking & timeline on Google Maps handy sometimes and I turn it on.
Last night, while in bed, it for some reason thought I was walking 0.6mi for 4 hours and then "driving(?)" for 16 feet for 18 minutes?
Reasonably sure I didn't sleep walk/drive, but now I'm trying to picture what that would all look like
@robdaemon I need to play with those! The one thing I've read is that some filament materials hate to cooperate with them, but PLA seems happy to oblige?
long covid; that npr life kit article
Hey, remember that NPR piece from earlier in the week with the author wishing her husband would compromise on his immunocompromised status so she could go back to her pre-2020 life?
This is the opposite of that
https://theheatherhogan.substack.com/p/my-long-covid-isnt-a-burden-on-my
Got a spare breadbox C64 in the attic with a bad SID and maybe a bunch other ailing parts.
Tempted to give it the Six Million Dollar Man treatment and see just how many bits I can replace with ZIF sockets and modern alternatives to turn it into a mega-franken-commodore
Then there's this upgrade I've wanted to inflict on a C64 since I was 13 years old and read about it in The Transactor: Upgrading the internal RAM to 256k and then to 512k by replacing all the memory chips and adding some bank switching hackery
https://archive.org/details/transactor-magazines-v9-i02/page/n67/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/transactor-magazines-v9-i06/page/n25/mode/2up
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line, day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggles while another relaxes
@c0debabe oh hey look what just showed up
@Macross hey what r u wearin? @maddiefuzz @cinja @liz 👁️