s and CSS, to show at least some kind of support.  I know it doesn't help Ukraine in any way, but I still wanted to make it, so it's out there, for anyone wanting to put it on their sites or anywhere else. 🥴 2022-02-25T17:56:28Z (#bqq6fxq) @ @ That's strange. I was only testing it in the app and it worked perfectly fine there. HTML probably shouldn't be on by default anyway, as besides these accidents, I can see people trying to abuse it to break the site or experiment with some malicious code in there. 🤔 2022-02-25T23:07:47Z (#arbma2q) @ Well I think this is unacceptable too and I won't donate through Google either. Most of the "main apps" I use these days aren't on Google Play anyway, which once again shows the importance of sideloading and alternative marketplaces. 2022-02-26T19:30:00Z (#pvhqlkq) @ Maybe not for the really private stuff, but if it's something you just need backed up, the more clouds it's uploaded onto, the better. 🙃 2022-02-28T12:00:49Z (#dviefaa) @ Do you really think the state/government has no biases whatsoever?  I don't think any online news sites should be paid for. There's already enough needless monthly subscriptions on the Internet as is.  However I don't mind having a few state owned/public radio and TV stations, funded from TV licenses, like we do here. These stations usually provide the best news coverage, debates and documentaries, as well as some basic coverage of sports, good enough for most people.  It's also good that there are now laws, prohibiting them from inserting ad-breaks into shows, unlike the commercial ones, that often insert so many of them, that the station becomes unwatchable. 2022-02-28T19:52:09Z A kind of simple drawing from yesterday. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/MT4fDtm96FhsiLg5nGjrk8.png) 2022-02-28T21:37:50Z (#6xmyfha) @ Thank you. Luckily I don't have to use MS Pain, with all the great free programs specifically for pixelart available these days.  The 64 x 64 limitation on the other hand, isn't that much of a problem, when it comes to this artstyle. This very image is still 63 x 44 at it's original size (excluding the white outline) and my profile picture would fit outline included.  If you really wanted to maximize the amount of canines per a 64 x 64 canvas, you could even comfortably fit 16 of these on there. 😄 ![](https://twtxt.net/media/8J7ugDGcQyR5cVPutA64tE.png) 2022-03-01T17:51:02Z (#5dcauya) @ @ ~the Monster Truck of birb world~🥴 2022-03-01T18:53:24Z (#5dcauya) @ Why do you have all these Photoshop looking birds? Though I guess even this one is pretty nice in it's own strange way. 😄 2022-03-01T19:04:10Z (#5dcauya) @ @ Jokes aside, I've looked up the article this image came from and it is indeed how they protect their hatchlings under their wings, rather than one mutant bird-bug, with many different kinds of legs, pointing in all directions. 😂 https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2020/05/this-jacana-leg-situation-is-actually-adorable/ 2022-03-01T19:54:39Z (#6xmyfha) @ Don't know about cats and TVs, but I've seen videos of cats playing games on touch screens, so I assume they see it well enough to at least somewhat understand what's going on in some of them.  With dogs it's probably even more of a thing, as I've seen them recognizing voices of those they know during videocalls or otherwise interacting with random stuff on TV. 2022-03-02T22:09:06Z _watching everyone talk about cloud prices, while knowing that my pixelart and data is small enough to backup for free, pretty much anywhere I want_  There's also a trick with Google Drive, that can be used to join random organizations, that made their thing too open and if you choose one with stupid enough admins and name your folder on there something sneaky. It's a bit of a Russian roulette and it can get deleted at any time, if you get too cocky with it, so I obviously wouldn't recommend using it for anything too important. 😂 2022-03-02T22:19:15Z (#dbn6ekq) @ I'm in favor of all the sanctions I've seen so far, but the Internet is already held together by paper clips and duct tape, so I wouldn't want to poke it too much and have it fracture into every group of countries having their own separate network, with no connections to others.  Also I'm already unhappy that there's only one big organization, with the monopoly on top level domains and I wouldn't want to give them any power, that they could use to censor things later on. 2022-03-02T22:33:36Z (#dbn6ekq) @ I wouldn't have any problems with that, but as you mentioned, there's so many of them out thete, the chance all of them would do it, is pretty close to none. 2022-03-07T21:49:26Z Woah, I guess the time without an update to the old app is now starting to show even more, as some parts of the Timeline seem to be looping now. 🤔 2022-03-11T13:29:42Z Russia just created their own state-run TLS certificate authority. 🤔  https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/russian-pushing-its-new-state-run-tls.html 2022-03-11T19:01:54Z (#pgcheha) @ Why do you automatically assume it's Chromium? 😄 2022-03-12T12:05:47Z (#2kj5qta) @ @ The design wireframes look pretty good, but those profile pictures better be squircles in the final release! 😏  I'm also still more than a bit skeptical about going from native to webapp. The webapps on Android tend to open in Chrome and to make it worse, with no option to disable history or other bloat from being saved through it.  I'd love to be proven wrong, but so far I haven't found a PWA that'd work for me right out of the box, without me at best having to wrap it in it's own small browser that isn't chrome, through one of those rather sketchy sites like AppsGeyser.com. 2022-03-12T13:58:56Z (#2kj5qta) @ That's fair, but if there is a switch, it better also include a "pure square" option, for the square purists like myself. 😄  Well correctly made or not, if you "install it" directly from a browser, I don't think it'll be as separate as I'd want it to be (not saving shit into browser history, cookies, fill-ins...).  What AppsGeyser does isn't creating a PWA, that's poor wording on my end, but even with well made PWAs, like https://app.revolt.chat, wrapping the web apps site through AppsGeyser ended up being closer to meeting my needs, than using it the intended way, despite it still being even further from native. 2022-03-12T18:03:07Z (#2kj5qta) @ I think I prefer number three , but depending on colors chosen for the themes, the first one could also work, though I don't think it'd work well with an AMOLED theme. 🤔 2022-03-12T19:44:53Z (#2kj5qta) @ The first one would be the obvious choice, if we plan to eventually add user banners. Otherwise there'd be way too much nothing around the profile picture and the other two would work better. 🤔 2022-03-15T19:37:35Z (#t45zexq) @ I'm more confused by the look of that shark. 😄 2022-03-15T19:48:53Z (#dsk6zja) @ It's not about free as in price, even Linux has paid distros. It's about being free to use your device and the software on it in any way you want/need to. I think even Windows and Android are leagues better, comparing them in this way. 2022-03-15T22:36:22Z (#dsk6zja) @ I don't even hate Apple, there are even divisions of Microsoft and Google, that I dislike way more than any part of Apple to be honest.  I think one can absolutely have a good reason to hate a company, that produces things they don't even use. The best example of this was Microsofts Internet Explorer, which for decades made lives of many web developers a living hell.  Some web developers argue site rendering on Apple products can still be somewhat lacking (even outside of missing codecs) and working in that area now, I can confirm a few sites had to be changed to show up right on Macs, though to be fair I don't know what exactly was causing it.  Also damn Apple, I really hope they learned how to finally make screens, that don't come off when cleaned.  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/oBDMei95n27YTKBw7FzHLL.png)  Believing me, I've seen this on almost every other Macbook, back during my internship in Ireland. 😏  Cheap shots (and there are many more) aside, part of me would still like to give M1 Macs a fair try, so if any of you work high positions at Apple and my approval is for some (even to me unknown) reason somehow really important to you, feel free to send me one of those machines for free and I might retract some of what I said, at least when it comes to Macs. 😄 2022-03-17T19:07:45Z (#bx325ma) @ Borderline Experimental CSS. 😁 2022-03-17T19:10:52Z (#mxydqka) @ @ Still works on android, unless you scroll too far back. When that happens, posts start being duplicated and it becomes a mess. 2022-03-27T10:34:41Z (#oummysq) @ What kind of art/designs are you making? 2022-03-27T10:45:41Z (#iz5w4qq) @ I get that license change for Yarn, but at this point even Gab might be a better example than Truth Social.  I still think the Gab guy is completely brain dead and delusional, but at least he managed to make the Twitter-like frontend, some other instances where also able to get some use out of and his site "works" on most devidlces.  With Trumps social network, it only "works" as an iOS app*, with not much active development happening, especially for something "in beta". It's so lame Trump doesn't even post there himself, despite being banned from most other places and him being addicted to Twitter in the past.  *with Android version "in development", but web version no longer mentioned anywhere 2022-03-28T17:39:05Z (#kujx7ca) I think that Window 11a design is a bit of an improvement over the inconsistent UI mess of Windows 8 - 10.  I still have to use a lot of programs for university, that only run on Windows and are straight up impossible to run on an M1 Mac. I'm not blaming Apple for this, just saying that having Mac/Linux as your main machine is still difficult at best and impossible at worse in this country.  Windows is about as closed of an ecosystem as Mac and some things can be customized/edited , more than the average user would assume.  With the new Microsoft Defender no longer being just a meme and some other security improvements, Windows is no longer as virus riddled as it once was, though it's still no doubt very lacking compared to Linux and Mac in this aspect. 2022-03-28T19:00:59Z (#iz5w4qq) @ Yeah, both Gab and Truth Social are Mastodon forks, but with some additional changes and no federation (Gab was originally a part of the Fediverse). 2022-03-29T07:05:48Z (#iz5w4qq) @ @ It still exists on the original counter.social address, but it was always a weird one. Despite it never being federated, it's the only one out of these three, that still remains compatible with the third party Mastodon apps (or at least claims to).  There were many accusations towards the site m, some saying this was the only instance, ever braking Mastodons (A)GPL license and not stopping when asked. Thought I don't remember in what way exactly.  It is also controversial for having all kinds of integrations, that judge links and people to determine who is "fake news" and who is not, as well as banning whole countries they consider bad, from using any part of the site and going on long rants about how that's totally different from racism or nationalism.  It's also known for it's weird side-projects, that now seem to include some kind of a VR game/metaverse, among other only slightly less strange things. 2022-03-29T07:20:41Z (#gr5hp3q) @ Don't think it looking like the corporate social-media is a bad thing, as long as it actually improves on that look and isn't ugly like post-redesign Twitter.  It getting kinda mainstream isn't a bad thing for me either, as that's kind of the goal. It needs more mainstream people to grow and become a real alternative to Twitter.  Though I wish it'd attract a different kind of audience, that isn't so happy to report/demand that anything they disagree with, has to be blocked for everyone. 2022-04-01T08:39:28Z A small # of the new # related # # soon out! 😄  Feel free to right-click!! ![](https://twtxt.net/media/VNCLMhKwwQQXeqwUpFN5WA.png) 2022-04-01T19:58:50Z (#mnlbgxa) @ Sadly just a backpack. 2022-04-01T20:04:10Z Hope you enjoyed the April 1st NFT joke post. I'll probably switch to using a more normal profile picture tomorrow, so I'll finish the day by giving you the full-sized picture of the current one, traced from the Rude Dog VHS cartoon. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/2hfC25SCWAN9T37SwNg3oZ.png) 2022-04-02T06:53:42Z (#mnlbgxa) @ Woah, I'm definitely in favor of that idea now! I said I wouldn't aback up the original, but this one is definitely getting the backup - thank you! 2022-04-02T20:14:02Z (#mq56zra) Could someone who already follows the new Darch account please at him, so I can get on the profile from here and start following him too.  I was trying to do it the other way already, but I don't think that worked all that well this time. 🥴 2022-04-03T11:04:20Z Look, they managed to do it! They still found a way to make Odysee even more of a scam: https://odysee.com/@Odysee:8/premium:1?r=2bHbKKGWFruefZK6Q3fF2kH5SbEEj8Da 2022-04-04T10:51:51Z (#wexnrrq) @ Funny they don’t even take their weird useless crypto in exchange for these premium subscriptions. It is also just a frontend for LBRY, so it’s a bit strange that an alternative frontend will now have ads and paid subscriptions, while the original app won’t. 2022-04-04T16:33:07Z New profile picture. It was a pixelart project, trying to make it as small as possible, while not missing any details. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/TfMaM8sssENNvq9mwrRxbh.png) 2022-04-05T05:13:19Z (#rrgofoq) @ I tried making something animated a few time. The app I use can do gifs, but all of the changes between frames have to be done manually (pixel by pixel), so it takes a lot of time. 2022-04-07T06:54:11Z A short responses to the browser thing. Now thinking about it, it's sad Opera despite being Chinese owned, linked to scams and overall shitty, still remains the best choice I have, for what I usually need.  Still when I need to test sites at work, I often just use the browser I mede, because it doesn't cache everything and it's not filled with cookies, so one can actually see how the site currently looks and not some old and broken cached version.  It's amazing the competition is so shitty, that despite all their sabotage, one student with not much time was able to make a browser, that may not be able to compete, but is still somehow more useful for webdev. 2022-04-08T16:48:42Z (#t4dyocq) @ I'd say that at this point, most (including mine) are Cromium based, which is giving Google a lot more power than they already have and letting them get away with bending the web standards as well as the direction that most of the Internet is heading.  Chromium is also a security nightmare, with critical vulnerabilities having to be patched on almost weekly basis, so at this point I'd love to see at least one engine starting from scratch and having the funding and team, allowing it to eventually catch up. 2022-04-09T08:36:06Z (#t4dyocq) @ I could, but you'll probably get a way better look into what it is, looking at the source code of CefSharp - the thing I use to embed Chromium into my C# browser app.  CegSharps GitHub: https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp  Download link for my browser (Windows only): https://flist.glitch.me/canineum.html 2022-04-12T17:32:16Z This version of me, was made exclusively for the https://fedi.place/ experiment, similar to r/Place. 😁 ![](https://twtxt.net/media/eX2qQgg38onmWNb7xDpyYV.png) Sadly it ended already, so there was no time to ad a Yarn ball on there. 2022-04-12T19:41:27Z (#5e6fgoq) @ The colors chosen are cause of the very limited palette on most of these sites, but I don't want to complain, as that challenge ads fun in it's own way. 2022-04-12T19:44:27Z (#5e6fgoq) @ I should try making something on there eventually, but I'll have to look into the best way to get there on Windows and how to convert my style into good ascii art. 2022-04-26T08:00:19Z Funny that @ and Twtxt.txt is the exact thing, the previous CEO now claims he always wanted Twitter to be.  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/SyYBMKtEFuCnk7ceM5v2nE.png) 2022-05-02T17:25:41Z Time to contribute to the picture-posting. By @DoneDragon1 from Discord  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/hZLR6CtKJm7wapLJbSqoGK.png) 2022-05-04T17:42:23Z (#t5vwd3a) @ This might be a stupid question, but will everyone have to host their own Salty IM account, or are there plans for some multi user "Salt pods"? 2022-05-12T18:54:34Z Just a reminder that I still exist, along with some pixelart I drew today. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/Fn2ypjgNgo99yFGdZ5L954.png) 2022-05-12T20:39:52Z (#vctugiq) @ I can place tiny squares well enough from time to time, but still can't draw a straight line to save my life. 😄 2022-05-27T14:06:23Z Drawn yesterday or the day before, but I forgot to post it here, so here it the new doggo. 😄  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/oMpWKxr4p6jMpUVGEVLwgU.png) 2022-05-29T17:13:16Z (#wcxw6eq) @ He's just fluffy, but good theory. 😄 I also made a smaller version, that I plan to use as my new profile picture here. 2022-05-29T17:16:09Z The previous picture didn't really end up working that well in profile picture sizes, so I decided to make a chibi version. It's new profile picture time! 😄![](https://twtxt.net/media/sGGUmWt74aap8v3xE5bWDX.png) 2022-05-29T17:19:20Z (#bireljq) @ Any chance you could print my profile picture on a piece of paper and try measuring it with the device? I already had my art judged by a few AIs on the Internet, but never had it tested for life force energy before. 🙃 2022-06-15T18:42:28Z Kinda busy lately, but here's a header/banner thing I made for Mastodon. Also feel free to insert a joke about how retiring the mobile app, in favor of a PWA that's still "early in development" at best, might have not been the best idea here. 😏 But than again, who am I to call that out, when I have no time for similar projects now myself. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/Mh9ong7pxK9VpZsSVQLH7U.png) 2022-06-16T09:16:20Z (#yxcnvmq) @ Yeah it still kinda works on Android, I just hope the PWA that was supposed to eventually replace it is still in development. 2022-06-22T12:38:40Z (#ajba5dq) @ I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Yarn/social, is in fact, twtxt/Yarn/social, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, twtxt plus Yarn/social. Yarn/social is not a microblogging system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning twtxt system made useful by the twtxt... 2022-06-22T12:50:52Z (#ajba5dq) @ Don’t take it too seriously. It was just a joke reference to the GNU/Linux copypasta. :P 2022-06-28T12:01:11Z (#3ijpiva) @ Selling data should, but not advertising itself. If it was, most free to use sites/apps would have to go with some kind of a paid subscription of beg for donations even more agressively.  I know it's a bit hypothetical coming from me, with my relatively agressive adblocking settings, but I was fine with ads, before they became the intrusive privacy nightmare, that they are now. 2022-07-03T21:10:07Z Tried making an even more low-rez version of the current profile picture. Probably too low-rez to be used, but wanted to share it anyway. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/mJCYC2ZCVBFTi9eru9zEhF.png) 2022-07-07T13:51:32Z (#3nr4ekq) @ Nice, but clicking the three dots in the top right corner and than "Register", doesn't seem to do anything. How do I get an account, or even better see all the public instances I can get an account on? 2022-07-08T08:31:18Z (#6xpkria) Well time to start pumping that water manually guys! It'll be a good workout and the first step towards seeing you two on the next season of Australian Survivor. 😏 2022-07-15T17:14:55Z I'm busy playing pixel wars lately, so not much posting or new art to post here. Still there is at least one new things those pixel wars brought me, the answer to the question "how small can the dog get?".  The answer to this question turned out to be 48 pixels (on a 9x9 canvas). ![](https://twtxt.net/media/K2iKYCq3JhwszgYYco2Yni.png) 2022-07-15T22:00:20Z (#r5ag34a) @ I get what you mean, but even someone who has never seen me before, could probably tell, that it's supposed to be a dog, get some idea about the fur pattern, see twisty tail and the red collar. 2022-08-29T19:27:27Z (#dqwn2ba) With the electricity prices still rising, contracts for it having to be re-negotiated and winter coming up soon (at least on this side of flat earth), they might soon start begging everyone to stay home, so they can save on heating.  Or at least that's what some universities here are already considering. 2022-08-31T17:21:53Z (#cn2qg2q) @ Busy, but not in a bad way. Mostly just work, at a job I no longer have, enjoying the holidays, and some studying for an exam I had today, that I ended up failing.  A part of my inactivity here can also be blamed on Google, as their last update to Android (12) broke the drawing app I'm using to draw all the pixelart I post here. Currently the only working solution involves having to run a virtual machine with an older version of Android on my phone.  It's not as impractical of a solution as it sounds, but I'd still prefer if Google could stop breaking compatibility or the developer fixed the app. At least it works now and my laziness/artblock are once again the only things to blame. 2022-08-31T17:30:57Z (#bqaxpwq) @ @ Same, especially the Dangan Ronpa logo. Thought it is in your own interests to keep such a "game" from happening here, especially when there is an inugami among you. 😅 2022-09-01T09:29:49Z (#cn2qg2q) @ It's not bad, but it has some things I don't like. Changing colors is a bit tedious and un-doing is done pixel by pixel, rather than based on strokes (if you place more at a time).  It also doesn't look like placing transparent pixels is a thing. That usually isn't too much of a problem while drawing, but it makes the app unusable for other edits, that I usually also use these kind of apps for. 2022-09-01T17:11:22Z (#cn2qg2q) @ My lack of free time aside, these aren't exactly issues, but rather differences in opinions and adding setting to allow users the choice between these preferences is probably beyond the scope of their project. 2022-09-01T18:14:11Z (#cn2qg2q) ...to explain myself better, here is the color selection tab in Pixel Station - my favorite app for pixelart: ![](https://twtxt.net/media/QCxzBY4YQh3CascXuzJcUN.png) The top line shows the 8 most recently used colors, so you can return to them easily. The basic colors are always on the left, but on the right you get 6 variants of any color you're just using. Under it are the tools, needed to get colors from the image you're working on and tweak the values of the currently used color.  So as you can see, most other apps would have to implement quite a bit of changes, to make their apps the main art app of people who have a workflow similar to mine. And this is still far from a complete list of my "requirements".  This isn't a criticism of this app. I like it and hope if helps more people find joy in the creation of pixelart. I might even use it myself for some pixelated doodles when I'm online. I'm just saying it probably won't replace my main art app any time soon. 2022-09-05T07:51:56Z (#zrry2tq) @ Not everything written about it on WiKipedia is true* and it did some good things too, like bringing some zoophiles to justice.  The problem was mostly their obsession with doxing everyone.  *a lot of these articles are edited by Frederick Brennan, who has in the past worked with the guy behind KiwiFarms, but hates him since then. 2022-09-05T10:18:11Z (#zrry2tq) @ when a person loves animals a bit too much in the worst of ways and does things to them one would rather not have to describe here.  What I was referring to was KiwiFarms helping to find people from a leaked zoosadist Telegram group, some of who were also harming children.  Obviously those actions don't in any way justify the actions of those, who used the site to spread addresses of their enemies, have people go after their jobs or make it easier for swatting to happen. If the site disallowed posting peoples addresses, things would have probably never gone this far. 2022-09-06T07:05:16Z (#euslzjq) @ is this a @ callout post? 2022-09-06T07:22:31Z (#2v67x3q) @ buying dumb TVs is getting increasingly more difficult. We had one from LG, but it broke, so we bought a somewhat smart one from Hyundai.  It connects to the Internet (WiFi), but it has it's own OS, rather than Android TV and the microphone requiring features like Alexa are turned off by default.  It also asks if you want cookies before you start using it and doesn't make saying no to them difficult. 2022-09-06T07:29:32Z (#gjvkaxa) @ The malicious use is one of the things NETs are actually good for, as these tokens can't ever be fully deleted* from your wallets history.  So if someone has a public wallet, you can send them tokens with their address or other things they don't want public and it'll just be there forever, visible to everyone.  *the "art" "attached to" them can, the tokens themselves cannot 2022-09-06T12:07:41Z (#2v67x3q) @ It will, it's in the offline mode by default. You only have to connect it, if you want to use the built in browser, Internet apps or WiFi screen share. 2022-09-06T12:42:53Z By popular demand, I made him even smaller. 😄  Canvas: 8 x 8  Pixels: 38  # # #   ![](https://twtxt.net/media/ooWqDvNvLoRmzgJJvHLsrF.png) 2022-09-06T13:25:26Z (#4vpsrrq) @ Thank you. At this size it still does, but I think this is the limit. The one pixel bigger canvas version still works better for the pixel war sites and I think that making an even smaller version won't be possible this time. 😅 2022-09-06T18:18:47Z (#4vpsrrq) @ Thanks! It's been an interesting experiment, moving things around and seeing what parts could still be reduced to shave off pixels. Sadly all of those signs now point to this being as small as it can get, unless there is a completely different way to draw the head and legs, without ruining it. 2022-09-06T20:08:37Z (#4vpsrrq) @ I wonder too. The idea started shortly after the previous one, with jan6 suggesting his way of reducing the size:  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/gJF6MpGSS9UuKqifjqmpan.png)  Doing so, he proved that a smaller version is possible, but while I liked it, I wanted to make the changes elsewhere. Mostly because shortening the legs always leads to people calling me a corgi.  Than there were two or so days, when I spent some time playing around with it, but only came up with bad looking results.  Yesterday I was once again trying to break my art block by drawing something big, though that led nowhere, so I returned to the smallening project, while I still had the app opened. That's when it finally came together somehow - in part thanks to getting rid of the collar. 2022-09-07T07:20:32Z (#hufdb5a) @ I've recently gotten more into sour IPAs myself. If you like sour drinks, I definitely recommend giving them a try. 2022-09-08T15:18:10Z (#4vpsrrq) @ No problem, I'm happy people enjoy the result as well as talking about the process.  Saying a few days might have been a bit misleading, as it was not entire days, but just some time during those days, usually alongside watching YouTube or listening to music. 2022-09-08T15:28:10Z (#4vpsrrq) @ Yeah, that's one of the many "joys" of making pixelart.  The previous (9 x 9) version of my profile picture was actually made primarily to be used on the canvases of the pixelart games played at https://rplace.tk , https://plaxe.chetbox.com and similar sites.  This one was made to see how small can I get, but it already found its place on two of these sites, one is even in a space so tight, the one pixel longer version wouldn't fit there.  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/ouahRR9px3vfZA9rwFZM7C.png) 2022-09-15T06:14:36Z Is there still no way to get build 63 of Goryon on Android? Currently there's still only apk files for build 61 on the Gitea and I think the app is still not available on Google Play.  Also the url https://yarn.social/app still mentioned on a few places (like the Gitea) now gives a 404 error when accessed. 2022-09-19T21:00:50Z Not to brag too much, but I'm the local expert of "technical minimalism". There's rarely ever more than 5 e-mails in my inbox. Onece I read it, in the bin it goes!  Whenever SW goes unused for too long, it gets uninstalled and I manually hunt down and delete all the cache and trash files it still left on my precious SSD.  I always make sure to uninstall all pre-installed junk from any device. I browse in incognito, to not waste my memory with cookies, history files and browsery junk.  What little junk spills through I run over using the Ashampoo WinOptimizer, that itself I optimize to ensure the most optimal optimizing.  All canines drawn reside in the cloud, I don't even have them all backed up locally, but I always use 5+ cloud/FTP services, just to be absolutely sure they're safe.  Yes, my "technical minimalism" might be getting slightly out of hand. 🤪 2022-09-20T06:31:37Z (#gcldhuq) @ What's new and when is it coming out for Android? 2022-09-20T20:32:46Z (#fgfjvqa) @ Many optimizers are in fact just some kind of a scam, or fall into the bloatware category.  I can recommend Ashampoo WinOptimizer, because it's an old classic, trusted by users and companies for many years. It's paid, but the devs are friendly and are always giving away free licenses for older versions of it at https://chip.de .  The only downside is that (as the name suggests), it only works with Windows.  It did and probably still does have a free Android version, but last time I checked, it was very basic. If your Android phone doesn't already come with an optimizer app installed, I'd probably recommend SD Maid instead. It's free, but a small one time donation is required to unlock all its features.   Sadly I don't know if there are any good trustworthy optimizer apps for other operating systems, but maybe someone else does and can join this conversation. 2022-09-21T17:17:46Z I'm done with the "smallening" for now.  I thought it'd be interesting to remake an older pixelart, that was way too "inspired" by Difros (https://difro.carrd.co/) work, to match with one of my friends profile picture at the time drawn by Difro.  Now I wanted to return to it and try making all the changes I regretted not making back than and in general make it more than a somewhat edited copy of someone elses work.  *They still look somewhat similar, because some changes were already made in the first edit from 2021. It was never just a re-color of someone elses art.  The original: ![](https://twtxt.net/media/DPbnqtJXmADQGsJh6Evrt5.png)  The new one: ![](https://twtxt.net/media/54qAwQDaceimRQMSqW26AF.png) 2022-09-21T20:13:17Z (#w3gw4mq) @ There's something about the client on this screenshot, that immediately makes my mind got to Temple OS. Rightfully so, you have clearly not surpassed the god given limit of 16 colors per operating system. 2022-09-21T20:33:34Z (#l2phrpa) @ Yeah, I scaled the eye down a bit and probably prefer this style of smaller, mostly black eyes too, which is why I use them in almost everything I draw.  I still think the other style might look better in some cases, like when Difro, the artist on the site I linked uses those eyes, because they always animate their art and need eyes that blink. For these animations, the bigger eyes just work better.  I also like the hint of color they have, because I always wanted to give my inigamis eyes a hint of blue, to make him a little different from other shiba colored four leged inugamies. I know - probably not necessary, as he's already rather specific, but it's also a bit of a reference to an old slavic/pegan god Chors, who was in some videogames depicted as having glowing blue eyes. 2022-09-22T06:13:06Z (#l2phrpa) @ I never studied any kind of biology, other than the basics taught at primary school, so I'm probably not the most qualified person to answer this.  I know some dogs have blue eyes, I think it's usually light blue and according to the first few Google results, the probability also depends a lot on the breed.  Inugamies are a fictional race, so there's obviously no biological answer there, just the observation that they are drawn with big black eyes like mine has, in anime.  I actually have blue eyes in real life, but unlike most, if not all blue eyed canines, mine are dark to the point of almost not being blue. 2022-10-01T17:09:31Z (#mokebma) @ Nextcloud might also be worth looking into. 2022-10-11T09:27:18Z There is no organism on this planet, less intelligent, than those working in the management/leadership positions at this university.  The government told them to turn the heating down 3°, to waste less electricity. So to please the government, they cranked up the AC to blow cold air everywhere until the temperature is exactly 3° lower, than it was previously.  I'm being frozen alive while typing this. 👌 2022-10-11T11:22:12Z Despite my earlier rant, today is a pretty lucky day. I've got a job as a tester, that'll start soon. Still a little nervous about it, but really looking forward to it! 2022-10-11T13:26:30Z (#ru3ln2q) @ Thanks and good luck with the new job to you as well! 2022-10-11T13:30:56Z (#ngo44kq) Russia has some ties to Telegram, but I don't think they have ways to control Signal.  I don't use it, so it doesn't effect me either way, other than peeking my curiousity. Also even if that was somehow the case, there are still Signal forks, with their own servers. 2022-10-11T13:36:05Z (#ngo44kq) I use XMPP and Matrix myself and was also very skeptical, when it came to the push to add crypto to Signal. Especially as someone who had to jump the Keybase ship years ago, for similar crypto and ties to a dictatorship (in Keybases case China) reasons. 🤔 2022-10-11T16:27:21Z (#ru3ln2q) @ Manual testing of internal systems and websites along with the bugs reported. 2022-10-11T16:28:47Z (#m4ak6cq) @ Luckily for me it was only in the main building, where I only had to stay for one and a half hour today, so hopefully not long enough to catch a cold from it. 🤞 2022-10-11T16:34:24Z (#avd45ka) @ Well a lot of the things in IT suck sadly, but it is probably better to also focus on the improving parts from time to time. For example people finally starting to worry about their privacy, or leaving big tech, to try out some alternative community hosted platforms.  Also things sucking is not exclusive to IT, as most things look nice on the outside, but when you get deeper, you find out the much darker reality of that field and in things like art the reality is much darker, than it is in IT. 2022-10-12T18:00:24Z I'm starting to think that neither Twitter being bought by Elon nor it being left alone is the good ending.  I really hope it gets stuck in endless legal hell and bleed money, users and investors, for as long as possible - preferably until becoming MySpace 2.  I hate what that site is now, but I'd hate it even more if it became the "everything app" and the idiots involved in running it now ran our banking and infrastructure. Also WeChat, the app this idea takes inspiration from, is run by the Chinese government to monitor everything about heir citizens and outcast those not enthusiastic enough about it.  With Twitter already taking orders from politicians, I'm sure giving it even more control, would go just fine and definitely not turn into "man-made horrors beyond our comprehension". 2022-10-18T09:01:09Z Looks like the ancient Android app for this thing broke at last. I can still see the feeds (albeit without any profile pictures), but no user profiles can be loaded, not even my own. 2022-10-18T19:25:10Z (#wch4l3a) @ @ I just downloaded it from the first link, installed it and it works perfectly!  I had to uninstall the old version, but that's because of the signatures, but other than that the app seems to work even better than the previous version did. 2022-11-08T18:05:34Z Tried to draw something again... #![](https://twtxt.net/media/mhp5eURCvZQpzQbhggrYNU.png) 2022-11-08T18:20:51Z (#kyynyva) @ still find it way easier than digitally drawing lines tbh. 2022-11-18T23:18:44Z (#d2jih3q) @ To be fair, the DMs on these sites are never private, now it's just easier to guess who might be going through them and for what purposes.  This should ironically enough be considered an improvement, as before you couldn't even guess that, but sometimes knowing more makes these things less comfortable. 2022-11-18T23:32:48Z (#b7ptmsa) @ Giving Discord*, Slack and Reddit a check for "user-ran instances" is a massive stretch, as those "instances" still run on their server and rely on the mercy of global moderators, to be allowed to exist.  Discord can also be ran on ones hardware, using Fosscord, but than it's not very connected to the rest. This option is also used by only a handful of people, mostly those directly involved in the development of Fosscord. 2022-12-06T13:44:48Z Advent of code (impossible edition) 6/12/22:  Task of the day: Fix the Yarn.Socail app, so the timeline doesn't loop. 2022-12-06T18:30:57Z (#gm3zbnq) @ Don't have one yet. Don't even know if I will, as I was never that much into Christmas profile pictures. 2022-12-10T17:52:39Z (#s5xb57q) @ There are things that are valuable, even if you can't physically own them - for example intellectual property.  The problem with NFTs, is that by buying one, you don't own the art physically, legally or even digitally - you don't really own it at all, you just bought some vague digital receipt with a link attached.  So by right clicking and saving the file attached to the NFT, you actually own a copy, unlike the person who bought it. 2022-12-10T18:01:32Z (#tszxplq) @ Wait, you put the presents under the tree this early, but don't open them until 24th or 25th?  You're supposed to wait for Santa, or whoever brings them in Australia, to put them under the tree on the Christmas day. 2022-12-11T11:16:18Z (#s5xb57q) @ It's still a convenient term to use for that category of laws, even if it is more misleading.  In case of art you're mostly dealing with copyright, or the license to use the art in some way. Patents and some other laws, one might find under the "intellectual property" umbrella are all good example of things that have value, despite not being physical.  Even if somebody wanted to argue against this, it's weird to draw the line between physical art and the rest of it. Would printing out the image or script to a theater play, suddenly give it value, that it didn't have before? 2022-12-11T11:41:10Z (#s5xb57q) @ The rights to perform the play, would be what's most valuable. A printed copy would probably be worth more, than the digital one, because of the price of paper and printing ink.  But on the other hand, sometimes the digital copy has more value to people, because it's easier to share (both digitally or in making additional prints). 2022-12-11T21:10:16Z (#s5xb57q) @ I'm all for less restrictions. The land ownership is a good example. When people in this country buy a piece of forest land, they don't put fences around it and let people and animals use it freely. In contrast, this obviously wouldn't work for all land. You wouldn't want strangers and wildlife randomly walking through your house - or at least i wouldn't.  Back to the ownership of art. I value my pixelart somewhat and part of why I started making it, was to stand out of the crowd, that is social media and have something unique and memorable, that people can recognize me by. I'm not crazy, so if someone randomly finds it somewhere and starts using it as their profile picture, I'll politely ask them not to, rather than throwing a law book at them and claiming non-existent damages.  With NFTs, the situation is different. People usually know it's wrong, but still felt entitled to just steal art and keep all of the profits for themselves, while the artist who did all the work gets nothing at best and a damaged reputation at worse. Even if the license the art is under allows it, I still see it as misuse of the art and the license, that was most likely intended for the art being used for some nice website illustrations or to help people express themselves online, rather than for someones pyramid scheme. 2022-12-13T18:58:38Z (#i3wiyvq) @ Despite not liking Elon all that much, as well as hating Twitter in almost every way, I'd still give Elon some credit for at least tying to fix that excuse of a site, even if so far it's mostly just the CEO equivalent, of throwing shit at the wall and seeing if any of it sticks and slows the collapse of the house.  It's still better than the previous strategy, of looking away and pretending they don't see the holes in the walls and pedophiles inside of the falling house.  Obviously the best solution in my opinion, would be to bulldoze this poor excuse of a house/site completely and build a better one from scratch, but I can see how that's hard to do, when it cost you 40 billion dollars. 2022-12-13T20:59:39Z (#7iworcq) @ You can't say that it's been deboooonked, but follow it with evidence, finding that it doesn't happen as often, as people assume.  We can argue about the details, but the fact is, that on most social media recomendaitions are based on what you like, rather than providing you all opinions on what you're frequently looking at.  Most sites also show some bias in their moderation, on top of that, so people often end up on the sites, where finding opposing opinions is harder, than those they agree with.  This isn't enough to create an echo chamber in most cases, but just look around social media and see how many people are subscribed to blocklists, designed to filter out the rest, or just block those, who try to have a discussion, about specific topics. 2022-12-13T21:25:42Z (#7iworcq) @ I assume we're using the dictionary definition:  an environment in which the same opinions are repeatedly voiced and promoted, so that people are not exposed to opposing views: an online echo chamber; _We need to move beyond the echo chamber of our network to understand diverse perspectives_  Even then it's not obvious, at what point something becomes an echo chamber, or rather, it's left subjective. Still I find it bizarre, arguing that it's not a thing at all. 2022-12-15T12:10:05Z (#eobktaa) @ Sure, go for it and get him here. I'm still waiting for him to apologize for crippling the original Twitter API or letting it happen.  That an a very detailed explanation, of what happened to project Bluesky. I'm not blaming him for that not being finished, it not going well, was one of the reasons he "left".  There were other things, that I hated him for in the past, but most of that is forgiven. I'd still make fun of him, for being the kind of basic bitch, who puts "#bitcoin" and nothing else, in his bio and a profile picture, looking to the side, focused on his ear hole. 2022-12-15T13:16:41Z (#kucsuba) @ Now you just have to find seven more and a sled. 🙃 2022-12-16T16:14:47Z (#ct2ezwq) @ Google support? There exists an alternative to finding the e-mail address of the most important Google employee you can find and spamming them until moral improves?  Well if the new option is awful, you can always return to the original one I just described - no need to thank me.   Might as well also tell them, to shove their whole browser authentication/OAUTH2/secure browser detection team far up someones ass. They've just had it set to check user agents for years, while pretending they're actively working on actually making that thing be of any use. 2022-12-16T16:32:11Z (#fmqoaoq) @ We can all find some joy, in the fact that while still in the Bahamas, he's been dragged out of his luxury villa, and thrown into one of those rat infested jails there, where you're forced to shit into buckets, while crying about "muh vegan diet".  He might start begging to get extradited real soon. 😏  https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-14/rats-tiny-cells-no-vegan-food-ftx-bankman-frieds-bahamas-jail-could-shift-extradition-stance 2022-12-17T08:45:48Z (#hyfxvda) @ Sad to hear that, hope you get better soon. 2022-12-18T21:23:57Z (#thxxbma) @ This is pretty pathetic, but it might at least force the more "follow-worthy" people, to create a simple unique website, with links to all their socials, for them to link on their Twitter instead. 2022-12-19T17:00:41Z (#kbiy7ta) @ but he said the dreaded m-word and that people can find him there. That's what broke that stupid rule, not the fact it was linked on the site.  To 100% comply, with how that rule is written, you'd have to just link the site, without directly saying what is on it.  It's pretty clear and somewhat funny, these people were never before on the dark side and have no idea, how to ban-evade.  Glad I left Twitter years ago, so I don't have to find ways around this garbage. If I had to, I'd probably end up making some indirect redirect site (with other things on it, as well) and put it on some really offensive, but technically still within the ToS sub domain - something along the lines of "elon-sucks-off-aids-infested-crackheads.coolsite.co". 2022-12-19T19:24:54Z (#kbiy7ta) @ it's obvious, he bought a very shitty website, only valuable, because it has a lot of users, for like ten times what it was worth and many of those users hate him and/or are actively trying to flee into any other community, willing to accept them.  This policy doesn't have any higher goal in mind, it's just the "let's tie everyone to this sinking ship, that might make it sink slower somehow" kind of policy. 2022-12-19T19:32:01Z (#2u3rigq) I thought, he'd use the poll to determine, if he should find some puppet to put "in charge" of the company, or stay the public face himself. 🤔 2022-12-20T16:57:22Z (#bsqemhq) @ depends on what what side I happen to start peeling it and how close to a trash can I'm standing, while doing so. 2023-01-01T18:15:28Z ![](https://twtxt.net/media/8KeFjH3fG9RkQsa8soWXNQ.png)  New pixelart. Hope it works well as a profile picture. 2023-01-01T20:39:36Z (#xsi67zq) @ 11 pixels in both length and height, but over 70 pixels in total - a lot more than the other tiny ones. 2023-01-01T21:06:40Z (#xsi67zq) @ Thanks. The face readability is a fair critique. I was trying to keep the ears and "hair" similar, to the previous one, just down-scaled.  That limited me, on how to do the rest, working with a canvass of this size. The result somewhat reminds me of some animals from the animated shows of previous two decades, or the artstyle they inspired, just in a very pixelated form. 2023-01-01T21:15:10Z (#lt3fpqq) @ I also have ears sensitive to earplugs and some headphones, but getting a big pack of cotton wool and shaping a bit of it to fit in there always works for me.  I'm somewhat of a fireworks fan, especially if they're bought and launched by others, more willing to waste their money, but I get it being annoying, if it's still going on a second night and preventing you form sleeping. 2023-01-01T21:44:30Z (#xsi67zq) @ Me neither, that's one of the reasons, why I don't post pixelart more oftern.  Even when I somehow convince myself not to be lazy and find time to start trying, sometimes I just place a few pixels and realize that "today's not the day", or end up with something I don't like the look of and decide to delete.  The art AI also further encourages my laziness, as I'm more so a shitposter, than I am an artist. Before the days of AI, I'd have to draw meme posts in MS Paint or somehow convert them to pixels, but now I can get almost all of that painted a hundred different ways by a few different programs and choose what works the best, for what I'm trying to accomplish. 2023-01-01T22:31:52Z (#buacqba) @ Idk, when it comes to art, I don't really hate it tbh. Mostly out of spite, because I think most of art has been on a downward spiral for quite some time. There's also the fact, that it can provide some inspiration or concept art, when needed.  Then again, I'm not effected by it much, as machine learning algorithms are having problems with pixel art. Combining a lot of pixelart images produces strange results, as it uses pixels of inconsistent sizes and distorts them further by blending.  When it comes to code, the arguments are a bit similar. The code optimalization on most projects these days, leaves a lot to be desired. I'm not saying I'm the one to talk, I'm definitely responsible for some spaghetti coed myself, but maybe that's something the AI could help us with, in the future.  Sadly I can also see there being companies, who might try to use it to replace their developers, as soon as they think they can get away with it and that code will probably be way more of a mess, than the code the worst of us can turn out today. 2023-01-02T00:36:11Z (#lt3fpqq) @ Same. I enjoy the visuals and not the sound, so I too dislike the kind of people, who use things, that just make a pointlessly loud explosion, without anything nice to look at.  At that point you're just buying ear drum pain and the opportunity to annoy your neighbors and all the animals around. 2023-01-02T07:36:11Z (#en4agmq) @ I don't think Minecraft itself was ever open-source. Also when it comes to burner emails (that I assume can't be temporary in this case), is there any reason why go through all this, when you can just have an account on something like riseup.net, with a few strange aliases not linked to you? 2023-01-02T11:25:11Z (#krffwqq) @ Oh god, the Pocket Edition of Minecraft is pretty dreadful these days.  The controls are annoying to get used to at best and useless at worse, also literally everything in that game is monetized now. The last time I tried it, you needed a paid DLC, just to play sky block or similar mods. I know everything has paid DLCs these days, but this is literally paying, for the opportunity to have less blocks in your world, so you might even say, paying for more nothing. 2023-01-02T12:28:13Z (#krffwqq) @ DownLoadable Content - usually of the paid kind and sometimes already in the game, but requiring extra money to unlock. 2023-01-12T07:30:02Z (#e76le7q) @ It's not an unpopular opinion, it's one shared by most people with a brain, most likely including the majority of the Apache people - if anyone actually asked them.  The problem is that the minority, interested in censoring the history, speech and opinions allowed always complains louder and is backed by the media, owned by those, that this benefits in some way. 2023-01-12T09:46:37Z (#ljv6a7q) @ @ I'm still using the relatively old version of the Go/Flutter app and other than the two spaces at the start of a new reply, it being impossible to select text properly (while writing it) and the looping timelines, I don't see any serious problems with it.  I don't think it needs all the new features, fixing what's broken, finishing the rebrand to Yarn and making it easier to download, would be more than enough.   There's also the fact that while sending this reply, for the first time, the app got stuck in an infinite loading loop. Because text editing is broken, the best I could do was screenshot what I wrote - then OCR it back into text. 2023-01-17T09:51:18Z (#47clcnq) @ At least when it comes to personal use, it also depends on how much data you're storing, how important it is and how much you're fine with using dirty tactics.  For a lot of people the free options are enough, or the combination of them, at least. Neither is there anything, preventing you, from using alts on those services (other than the impracticality, of having everything on a different account).  For data you want to share, but don't mind loosing, there's also sites, that let you forcefully connect your account to some companys paid Google storage, that you can then use, until they find and kick you, or cancel their subscription - but they can never get your OG Google account banned for doing this.  Lastly there's also Chinese companies, that let you save upto 1 or 2 TB, in return for most likely mining that data, having it linked to some adware and wanting money for faster download speeds. These services can also be exploited to get those paid speeds and features for free and the ability to use it without the adware, making it usable, if you don't care if the data is private.  So you can have all the cloud you want, for free. What you pay for is privacy (or the illusion of it), convenience and the peace in mind, that you're not a "cloud pirate". 2023-01-17T19:50:42Z I'm starting to notice replies to Tweets, after Elon took over, are now sorted in this way: 1)checkmarks 2)non-checkmark other checkmarks replied to mixed with checkmarks 3)non-checkmarks  We just unlocked the segregation ending, for "our online public square". 2023-01-28T08:51:43Z (#qcg3nuq) @ Are you doing all your work, on this tiny keyboard? 🥴 2023-01-28T09:07:32Z This interesting video about AI art, just came out: https://youtu.be/nIRbN52PA0o  I already knew, most of what it was talking about, but found it interesting, that no company, developing music generating AI, was ever brave enough to use copyrighted music, for training. They all seen to have no problem, doing it with images.  It's not surprising, I've already expected it to be the case. It just amazes me, how they find a way to incorporate the "music is worth money, images are not" bias into everything.  It's more so a battle of lawyers, than artists at this point - or perhaps it always has been. With the corporations, using the garbage flat art and "nothing music*" for their interests and letting stupid and underpaid artists, eat the (usually deserved) backlash for it.  *nothing music/corporate music is a whole other chapter itself, if anyone wants to find out more about that, this is a good start: https://youtu.be/AIxY_Y9TGWI 2023-01-28T09:40:20Z (#v4bk7oa) @ Yeah, I don't think there even is an equivalent for other artists, you'd have to get your own team of lawyers with powerful connections. Good luck doing that with (in comparison) next to no income.  What I also find funny, is how music streaming services are a normal thing, most people use theses days. You couldn't sell people a subscription, to look at all the images. In some cases, you're even expected to pay, for the privilege of people seeing your art. _cough cough_ Facebook pages _cough cough_ 2023-01-28T10:38:02Z (#v4bk7oa) @ I understand people falling for "free" software, especially if it's something you're almost never using, but subscription services still confuse me.  How can someone be unwilling, to pay for a thing once, but happy to lower their monthly income for the foreseeable future, for it? 2023-01-28T14:06:31Z (#v4bk7oa) @ I don't think banning it, is the right solution, as it can be quite helpful, when used the right way. I just think the works produced, should never be able to get copyrighted or monetized in similar ways. The double standard between music and images should also be addressed and either every artist gets fair compensation, or none of them do.  Sites should also decide, if they want to be an image board, or a portfolio site for artists and approach the situation accordingly, rather than trying to play both sides and failing.  Lastly, the situation should be used, to bring awareness to user agreements and the things companies put in there. Many of them already include, giving the company the right to use your work (be it code or art) to train some proprietary AI (GitHub, everything Adobe, DeviantArt...). This is where it comes full circle, back to the subscription based apps. They change their agreements all the time and always add these things, that let them monetize your data, so they get you to be the product, like the "free" ones, but they get to charge you for it too. 2023-01-29T21:12:13Z (#b2xqpjq) @ Just wait until you make it into one of those cursed forest-ish areas, that's where the old furniture, electronics and car parts begin.  Or maybe that only happens here. 🤔 2023-01-29T21:21:58Z (#hhsmcea) @ There is not much one can do, other than avoid putting any of it on places, that get scraped frequently or engage in data harvesting, for some other purposes.  You can also check the site https://haveibeentrained.com . There you can see, if any of your images are already in the scraped datasets, used to train AI. If they are, you can request them, to be removed. 2023-01-30T23:00:53Z (#hhsmcea) @ No problem. The dataset the site searches, is only comprised of images, with very detailed text descriptions attached to them, as that's something all images used for AI training need. Therefore I think this site works more based on those descriptions, than it does recognizing the text on the images themselves. 🤔 2023-01-30T23:17:09Z (#b2xqpjq) @ I guess unusual garbage in places, where one wouldn't expect it, is a problem everywhere. Still find it hard to understand, as even if you don't care about nature and animals living there, in any way, it still takes a lot of effort, to bring the furniture, car parts and heaps of other junk there.  I also doubt the average perso doing this, is carrying washing machines into forests by hand and when you're already driving around with it, it's probably simpler, to just dispose of it legally. In many cases it might also be closer, or get you a bit of money, for the scrap metal. 2023-01-31T07:59:14Z (#gf5tc3q) @ So you're now in favor of it? 2023-02-01T15:55:39Z (#hhsmcea) @ Google scanned all kind of books, to improve their search results - letting people find books and studies, based on any of the text in them, while not having the content of the books freely available, for obvious legal reasons.  Despite only doing that, it still resulted in a big lawsuit, that dragged on forever, then settled, only to be brought back to court again. Eventually Google won, more or less because their service did more good, than harm, for both book sales and people looking for books to do book things with.  This case was also recently brought up by many, when some artists filed a class-action lawsuit against Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, for their AI, trained, using copyrighted images.  This is just a "brief" and maybe not entirely accurate summary, mostly based on this stream, by Uncivil Law, who is a real lawyer and surely more qualified to talk about this, than I am: https://www.youtube.com/live/CwTWwvLRdeo 2023-02-01T22:45:10Z (#hhsmcea) @ There is a difference, between scraped data, used for AI training and the advertising companies, who track your behavior online, across sites, to better target you, with more relevant advertisements. These tools also give companies that use this technology, statistics about how people use their sites, so they can deduce, what needs to be changed, to increase their profits - but no AI is involved in any of that yet.  There might not be much one can do, to prevent what they publish online, from being scraped, to make some AI, but you can fight against targeted advertising and corporate analytic, by hardening your browser.  I think it's best to combine things like: Using adblockers, scriptblockers/filters, incognito modes, settings that delete everything, when the browser is closed, not allowing unnecessary cookies, logging out of services, right after you're done using them (unless you are sure, they don't track you).  There are more extreme measures too, but those are a bit of an overkill, for normal web browsing, in my opinion. 2023-02-01T22:55:02Z (#6mdvn3q) @ "outsourcing" and "restructuring" are the hot new corpo buzzwords these days. The shirt economy and endless inflation we find ourselves in, probably isn't helping it either. 2023-02-02T19:43:50Z (#o766mwq) @ Even back when I still somewhat cared about the site, the API was lacking (and that's putting it extremely nicely). In addition to lacking the support for many, if not all, new features, the alternative clients, relying on this not so great API, also had a very strict, hard limit of accounts, allowed to use them. That's why these clients usually didn't last long, or had a million different versions and charged their users to make those few user slots last.  Some might have had a better contract (don't know if that was just a rumor, or not), but now with Elon taking over, none of it matters - they'll all go away now. Sure, it might force people to use the ugly default app and see the ads, that it is full of, but I hope the users aren't this brain-dead and that it'll have a negative effect on the company, in the long-run.  Surely, there must have been a better solution, than shutting it all down. If the API was updated and ads included, in the alternative clients, or it had some other from of monetization, Elon could have removed the hard user limits instead and be seen as the good guy, like he was often in the past. 2023-02-02T21:25:27Z (#hhsmcea) @ By more extreme measures, I meant the things, that Tor browser does. For all that is holy, or unholy, please don't ever return to Internet Explorer - it has destroyed the sanity of enough web developers as is, we can't risk it's user numbers ever increasing - never! 2023-02-03T17:29:40Z (#sffi54a) @ 24HourOps - obviously 😏  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/hJdCz2ReZhSvF6viioWihR.png) https://youtu.be/vxgdHgMPP3k 2023-02-03T19:00:02Z (#b5smlzq) @ @ I for ones was just silently confused, I'm not in the IRC, so whatever it was - therefore I didn't see it. I also think it's important to add, that no group, event or action, should be considered "protected from humor".  It's a feeling, hard to describe, but the Internet went for mostly toxic, with only a few sanitized places, to now almost fully sanitized. It ruined the fun.  The Fediverse fractured, mostly because some percentage of users, had to find a way to silence those offensive to them, for the entirety of their instance. I really don't want this place, taking the same path. 2023-02-03T20:00:09Z The Nostr protocol really is a cryptobros wet dream. On Amethyst (the Android client), every account automatically gets a pointless blue checkmark - before it even has a name. You get the promise of free speech, in the marketing, but in reality, that predictably translates to bots, spamming vague porn ads and other suspicious links, new users begging for followers for a follow in return and most prominent of all, the people utilizing the great feature, to beg for cryptocoin change, without doing anything else and not getting any. 2023-02-03T22:05:08Z (#hhsmcea) @ I use Opera. It comes with some basic ad blocker, built in. It's far from a good browser, it's just what I've always used and I'm too lazy to switch.  It's probably the same with most browsers on Windows, unless you harden them through settings and extensions. 2023-02-04T17:53:19Z (#bfbchba) It's absolutely laughable, how some people see Russia as a free-speech utopia. I'm sure those thrown in jail, for as little as suggesting, that what Russia is doing to Ukraine, might be a war, are really glad, to live in such a free country.  Even when it comes to hosting, you get more restrictions, than you do in the US (or the before mentioned Ukraine), unless your controversial thing, is either convenient for their government, or you're willing to play ball. 2023-02-04T18:58:13Z (#kthy2ya) @ @ I'm not trying to be hostile, or spread misinformation. I was there, on the Fediverse, back when it happened. If anyone wants more information about this part of Fediverse history, they can watch this short video about it: https://youtu.be/yZoASOyfvGQ   Even this video is in favor of this kind of instance-based moderation and so am I - to some, but much lesser extent. There are instances, that unfortunately became the home of mostly pedophiles or animal abusers and I'm sure no-one else, wants to see that, unless "that" means seeing these kinds of people in jail.  What I have a problem with, is circulating blocklists, including many instances, because of some political ideology or offensive/dark sense of humor - or worst case scenario, the actions of only few of its members.  An ideal implementation of the Fediverse, would in my opinion, warn users, when they're about to interact with one of these instances, but still give them the options, to accept the risks and go forward with it.  I think this decision being left purely to instance administrators, can in some cases further the divide, between groups and opinions and lead to more extreme versions of those opinions eventually.  We can argue about the other topics too, but that's probably less important, as I'll always be of the opinion, that when it comes to humor, anything (me included) can be a target - to the point where I even think it's ok, to make fun of tragedies, as soon as they happened, even if I usually don't do that myself.  The sanitization only applies to some sites, like YouTube - removing the dislike button and making their rules way stricter, when it comes to some topics. There are other examples, but I don't want to make this textwall infinite, so I'll let go of this, for now.  Lastly and probably most importantly, it was pretty stupid of me, to add these other frustrations of mine, onto this thread about transphobia. Even if we disagree about what is, or isn't too far, when it comes to humor, I'm obviously in favor, of keeping this place free of any kind of discrimination. 2023-02-05T11:01:33Z (#moouzqa) Hmm... my background, now I'm obligated to make that joke - hope it's not too far. Oh no, here comes the Big Bang Theory music.  ♫ Our whole universe was just some shitty meme groups on Facebook, Then nearly ten whole years ago, expansion started, when Z** ***n slept with 5 game jurnos... Wait. Discord, "chat for games" started, A tone of stupid drama happened, Then a server called Wolf Den was formed,  Went from a chipmunk, to wolf, to canine,  Drama and constant infighting, let to changes in many things,  But it all started with Gamergate! ♫  *Censored the name, not to spread stupid rumors, nor did I have anything to do with the mentioned movement, other than it changing a lot of things on the internet - most of them for worse, just by it happening simultaneously. 2023-02-05T18:53:15Z (#hhsmcea) @ Opera is on almost everything, I'm using it on Windows. There are probably way better options on Linux, Mac, phones and the rest of things. 2023-02-16T09:10:02Z I'm not an art investor myself, know a fair bit about it, but had no idea missing JPEGs, is where the money at. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/YaA9PCEJvgbyf2VxJDyhRe.png) 2023-02-16T09:55:53Z (#vctjd6a) @ I got an ad, for this strange site, that claims to be the only way, to invest in parts of some famous paintings.  I decided, to check it out, because it presents more questions, than it does answers, like if and how do they even own them. It's also been advertised for quite some time, yet it tries to look, like some hot new thing, you have to be invited to join.   Can't really say, how much of a scam it is, but the fact some of the paintings listed have their image links broken now, doesn't add much credibility - not like the site itself had any, to begin with. 2023-02-21T08:20:46Z The social media of old, are so desperate for money, they're now copying Twitters widely mocked decision, to charge monthly, for a verification badge. https://youtu.be/6t3eiNHL2Zo  In the days of old, jannies were widely mocked for moderating (often very profitable) sites, for free, just to feel some kind of power.  Now even more pathetic creatures emerge, willing to cough up a monthly payment, as well as a copy of their government ID, for this feeling. 2023-02-21T16:15:16Z (#2p5jzrq) @ I'm pretty sure it's still possible to mass-register accounts, through some tempmail services. - It just makes doing so harder.  In this case, despite hating captchas, they still seem like a best solution to this. Especially if there's still ones, that'd work, while being well made, not too annoying and made with accessibility in mind. 🤔 2023-02-21T17:36:00Z (#2p5jzrq) @ Yeah, this is probably the best option, especially if the e-mail isn't kept anywhere, after the verification. 2023-02-21T17:40:04Z (#uimoqbq) @ New app? What? Where? When??!  Give me!!! 2023-02-25T19:50:02Z Good news, for those who miss the cursed canine sticker collection - here's a bonus one. As always, there's a reference there, to be guessed. :)![](https://twtxt.net/media/viTM5nBs5xJJ5xb8KgV3CZ.png) 2023-02-26T00:20:19Z (#2byqfha) @ Thank you. The reference is really obscure, to the point that no-one, in any of the places I posted it to, guessed it. Excluding the place, where I found about the thing from myself - but one can hardly count that as a guess. 😂   So I guess, I might as well say it. It's Alex Eagleston, one of the most unlikable video-game protagonists, from the game "YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG". A game, that most would agree, isn't very good either. 2023-02-27T21:42:47Z (#sfurppq) @ I kinda like the glass look it adds to the site. I also still have no idea, how CPU demanding such a thing is, so now you're making me wonder, if it's worth it. 🤔 2023-03-01T19:55:02Z (#j7ukhba) @ The people who wanted to rely on Visa, Mastercard or any other giant company with already too much control over peoples finances and ability to do business, completely missed the whole point of crypto, to begin with.  Or at least the point, that sadly became secondary, to "extracting money from gullible idiots, to overall benefit the already wealthy". 2023-03-01T21:00:18Z (#3nq6dla) @ Yeah, I fully understand Mastercards and Visas decision on this. I'm just saying, that the people invested in crypto, who want it to become mainstream, shouldn't forget, that the main reason it got popular, was people wanting a financial system, that governments and big companies wouldn't be able to monitor, rule over, manipulate or ban anyone from. So why do some of them cry, over these big companies like Visa or Mastercard, not wanting to be involved now?  There were even those, who tried pushing crypto, as one of the main currencies in their countries - and that just ain't it either. Just look at what happen to El Salvador, after they tried doing this, with Bitcoin.  These things might sound nice on paper, to cryptobros and holders, but I think they go against, what crypto was meant to be. 2023-03-10T20:55:08Z Just days after @ integrates ActivityPub into Yarn, Facebook comes out with plans to do the same (at least according to Twitter jurnos): https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-is-building-a-decentralized   There's no escape Prologic, Facebook will find you in the end... Don't be sad, I know you will  But don't give up until  Facebook will find you in the end   *Help, I can't stop with the stupid lyrics gimmick, while posting here. 😅 2023-03-14T18:50:03Z My hot take, adding to the banks vs crypto debate, happening here:  While banks in most countries, can be trusted, what I find more alarming, is there being only two companies (MaserCard a Visa), who handle international money transfers - both having ToS, that allow them to blacklist you, without even giving you the reason, why that decision was made. They are also both ran out of the same country.  I'm not saying crypto is the solution, competition is! Anything even close to a monopoly, in any field, should make people worried. There should also be no second chances, for the companies, institutions, or governments, cough mishandling peoples money.   PayPal withheld funds for unreasonably long and charged illegal and unjustifiable random fines, that earned them a class action lawsuit. No-one should do business, with a company this scummy and I immediately demanded, that they delete my account, when I found out this was happening.  Lastly, say what you will, about the protests of Canadian truckers. I don't fully endorse, what they did (both sides made mistakes, in this conflict), but if my government withheld money, from anyone, over protests, I'd definitely not feel safe, knowing people like that, can touch all my money. 2023-03-17T21:30:18Z (#wnh5gkq) @ Your reflective glass door, has turned your dog into a yoteyote.![](https://twtxt.net/media/utiQTkJMqYeAcUNtg6HQHW.png) This illustrations is by TheRoguez 2023-03-18T07:15:50Z (#m4qgqra) Microsoft really couldn't stand their browser, for the first time ever, being ever so slightly better than Chrome, so they're already working hard, to find new ways to ruin it. 2023-03-23T18:10:02Z Another month, another pixelart! This time it's actually not a canine, but a strange scenery, made using the PICO 8 color palette.   The only thing shared between this and the last art, is both being "slightly YIIK inspired".![](https://twtxt.net/media/7wnvfZmH58coyFWMvxXiGG.png) 2023-03-23T22:30:03Z (#nhmgwva) @ Thank you. It's the not so great game, the last pixelart was also referencing. 2023-04-01T11:40:02Z I have some exciting news to share! Celebrate the 3000 days of Canine anniversary, with this limited time offer. The ore-orders will launch soon, so get your wallets ready everyone!  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/9GvHa3TCEd4xCHuGFqnJ6f.png)  While waiting, you can also check the post-modern redesign of the Flist site, currently being tested on: https://flist.glitch.me 2023-04-01T15:40:48Z (#3nhdcva) @ Thank you, this is it's april fools version - still it's really nice to hear this, since the regular version, is now somewhat in danger, thanks to the unwillingness of Czech ISPs, to provide IPv6 addresses, to their clients.  If you mean the illustration here, I have to disappoint you and admit, that the bottle was generated by AI, before being edited by me. 2023-04-03T16:39:17Z To my surprise, some AI companies, might have to face the consequences of their art theft afterall. While the legal and corporate world, still couldn't give less of a shit about the small artists, stability ai made the critical mistake, of using the ever so precious bland and generic stock images. Those are owned by companies, who for obvious reasons, hate AI, have extremely deep pockets and access to the right kind of lawyers.  They also have one other key advantage, that could win them the case. By slapping their watermark on millions of images, in the exact same place, the AI will start putting distorted versions of it, onto some images. Therefore, they can argue damage to their reputation, with evidence, to back it up.   https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66788385/getty-images-us-inc-v-stability-ai-inc/ 2023-04-05T19:31:08Z I said, I don't want to hear any more Trump news, but seeing he's still seething in all caps and some invalid characters, on his isolated bootleg site, made me chuckle.  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/cZT64xKeQvidNh3EgZt49.png)  The only way, this could get more pathetic, is if he starts spamming 5 emojis, after every word. 😂 2023-04-05T21:53:15Z I still have great memories, of playing Club Penguin as a child, or even playing it on a few private servers, at times, as a nostalgia-filled adult, after Disney destroyed and took down the original. Sadly most of those servers were either too obscure, broken, or not obscure enough, to avoid Disneys lawyers.  I was mildly excited, when I heard about a 3D sequel, made by some of the people, behind the original game (before Disney bought it), but this is suspicious at best.  Even if you made the funny penguin game from my childhood, I will not give you my social security number, nor my credit card info, to play the new one and I hope not many others will either.  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/WrNfAejwYSuTVvBuJZMdiG.png)  *The sequel is called "Party Parrot World" and requires a "verified Hideaway account", if you want to play it, or try some other two game things, that they are currently working on. 2023-04-05T23:43:31Z Can we get a folder, for all the new android Yarn App builds, or something like that, so most users don't have to be stuck, on this ancient version please? 2023-04-06T21:33:38Z (#2frxgka) @ I think it recording the outside of the car, was known for a long time. Likely since they came up with that not so great self-driving project, that led to the need for a lot more data to improve it.  Sadly, people in tech, talking shit about their customers, doesn't surprise me either. Not saying it's excusable, I've just seen it happen, at many places, in the past.  The one thing, that surprises me, is it recording the inside. Even I, with all me skepticism, would still expect some bare minimum of privacy, when it comes to the things I'm doing and conversations I'm having, inside my own car. 2023-04-19T19:31:17Z My twtxt fork will only include nicknames, profile pictures, a thing that livestreams you whenever you open it and the upvote and downvote buttons - under every stream.  I'll call it "Yarn.Anti-social" or "Blog TV", since we all remember, how great this idea, worked the first time around. 😅 2023-04-26T08:56:40Z (#dyr46ra) @ That's all true, but to play the devils advocate for a moment, how many people here, ever even heard about JPEG-XL until now, or used it in any way? 2023-04-26T09:15:38Z Quite predictably, the introduction of Chat GPT, has led to even more browser bloat. 🎉   ![](https://twtxt.net/media/p6KunzxsdL9yqYS9JpcwCH.png) ![](https://twtxt.net/media/Z2h8ncngTLqLJUDJWD8jhG.png)  Also since I'm already bringing up opera - I have genuinely no idea, what their dev team is smoking, as all their additions this year, have been this desperate:  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/pTPYe3x5UTkyC4vDfqzVzY.png) From some cashback scam and TikTok integration...  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/dbfDMYb9fMcR6Yad8d2beD.png) ...all the way to some "lonely men bait" and adding NFTs - a full year, after everyone stopped caring. 2023-04-26T14:24:25Z (#pg5dg7q) @ Hard to say when exactly the downfall started, but there were many strange moments, in the last few years. There was the new ownership, some developers jumping ship and starting Vivaldi Browser, the whole company getting caught, for offering predatory loans, to Android users in poorer countries, in 2020 (https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-19-opera-accused-of-predatory-loan-apps.html),...  But at last, they found some success, with their gimmicky Opera GX "gaming browser", they still pay youtubers to promote and I guess the promoted content within.  They also came up with a free VPN integration, that they later monetized and started taking pretty much every partner, willing to pay them, to get integrated into their main browser - an offer most appealing to small crypto/web 3.0 projects, trying to appear more promising, by having a browser company on board. 2023-04-26T19:25:28Z (#ujrsmkq) Sure, it's still not exactly ethical and probably not even legal, in some cases, but at the end of the day, it's at the very least something.   Something, that makes me think, that there could have been a scenario, where it was a voluntary community project, developers would gladly contribute some of their code and advise to - like some of them are already doing elsewhere.  Even with "art generation", if credit was properly given and the thing showed all the artists, the final peace was inspired by and where to find and support them, it might have had a way warmer welcome. 2023-04-29T20:46:25Z (#645gw7a) @ I've looked into it myself and funnily enough, the best take might have been some random comment, saying it's only popular, because it's invite only and people are having trouble getting in.  Further, as there are not many actual users, people seem to be projecting all of their hopes and dreams onto it, while waiting in the endless joining line, or falling for "pay for invite" scams. Yes, those somehow exist and cost anywhere from 20 to 100$ - no refunds. 2023-04-30T22:00:38Z (#ersasha) @ Quite a few people do. It's not even that hard, as you can fill them retroactively - there's even tutorials, like this one: https://dev.to/codesandtags/how-to-generate-pixel-art-in-your-github-activity-2e6k 2023-05-02T19:30:01Z So the news is telling me, Bluesky is the hottest new decentralized thing, with parole waiting month to join, or buying invite codes of ebay, for thousands of dollars.  Yet there's not one other instance out there, for people to join this decentralized paradise. Idk, just sounds a little sussy to me.  I know there was stems.social, but when people tried joining it, they cried "abuse" and shut it down - so no, it doesn't count. 2023-05-03T05:10:02Z (#m37icwa) @ Thank you for the info. I definitely wouldn't mind one, despite originally wanting to join, through some other instance. Since they're also promising seamless instance switching, this should hopefully be a non-issue. 2023-05-03T18:55:33Z (#fghhzwa) @ I'm 99% sure, that won't be the case. I'd be really surprised, if the instances, willing to host illegal content, weren't somehow blocked by default.  Even the sites hosting gore and archiving illegal shooting cams, always have an effective way to remove illegal pornography. If anyone made a site without that option, no-one would ever want to host it and the only users happy to stay on it, would be pedophiles.  There are a few Mastodon instances like that, made by and for pedophiles, hosted in places with loose laws, but they're completely defederated, even from those ran by "free speech absolutists", as well as the few, straigh up advocating neo-nazism. 2023-05-03T19:05:19Z (#eaewypq) @ Like it or not (it's also a "not" in my book), that's the direction, most search engine are heading. It's also heard to imagine it being illegal, because they've been scraping and letting you search images for decades and won the lawsuit, they got into by scanning and scraping books. 2023-05-14T10:00:04Z (#kcf4vrq) @ ...and looks like a teenagers MySpace page, with the big emojifilled randomly colored text, with "Relatable Memes" TM, after every single sentence. 2023-05-14T15:42:04Z Experiencing some "red screen of death"  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/EwsKjahimUsms8FyDriqRk.png) 2023-06-23T23:11:05Z Opera browser: my final disavowal   While the Internet is being flooded by a record amount of Opera ads, affiliate program members and new hardcore defenders, while I - as someone, who has been using it without a break, for more than 10 years, have had enough and I've finally decided to uninstall it.  Part of the reason for this decision, was the new Opera One UI update, that I not only found incredibly ugly and uninspired, but also worsening the already abysmal performance of the browser, as well as adding to the already gigantic pile of bugs within.  All of this, came after a few very frustrating weeks, where the browser constantly crashed, under the weight of its own AI bloat. Every time any text was selected, it was trying to load some ridiculous AI integrations on top, but always crashing and loosing all the opened tabs. After the UI update, the whole browser somehow felt even more wonky and laggy.  Even for those, who might be fans of the new UI and all the added "features", that now include a built in generic anime girl game and stupid cartoon noises, upon clicking almost anything, in the "gaming version" of this browser, the growing concerns about this browsers spyware-like connections, to all kinds of mysterious servers, should at least be considered and looked into further. Not to mention the extra problems, that come with them being a Chinese-ran company, storing this data in China. Quick summary: https://youtu.be/NV8akIgfDqQ  Int the interest of brevity, I won't go further into the pointless social media arguments they engage in, their past promoting predatory loans, them inserting affiliate links (to the sites you visit through tiles), running a very questionable free VPN service, hidden extensions, that cannot be removed and god knows what else.  Either way Opera, you were an alright browser - many, many years ago. Sadly all I can say now, is "rest in piss, you won't ever be missed!".  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/aTJEDSG3XMVGRJjSKrwYvL.png) 2023-06-25T21:15:03Z Deleted Bluesky, to once again, post here exclusively. When do I get the 50 million exclusivity contract, to keep me here, or at least a new version of the app? 2023-06-26T22:05:41Z (#oi4lxja) @ for sure, I also block ads wherever possible. What Opera does now (among other things), is sponsor creators/"influencers" to talk about it, pays to show up, on top of browser-related Google searches and occupies the tiny amount of ad space, that I do not block, to help cover some projects server costs. But to be transparent, some of that is surely targeted at me, only because I was researching it - and the Google spyware somehow noticed.  Now I want to give Pulse browser a fair try. It's still in alfa, but it's one of the few forks of Firefox, that try to change and simplify things, offer a bit of a unique look and it comes with Ublock origin built-in. 2023-07-01T20:34:56Z 🥁 The dumb shit of the day award goes to: ![](https://twtxt.net/media/oTJCyScNWtLkQa7FJBPwSB.png) *yes this also breaks alternative front-end and people without an account, can't even use the "real site", at all. 2023-07-24T20:23:14Z Can't wait until this site joins the trend and becomes "y.com" - the everything protocol. 2023-07-24T20:30:02Z New profile picture. 🎉 ![](https://twtxt.net/media/BKux9znRHDqPnR2Bh8Aj7m.png) 2023-07-25T07:58:07Z (#5gmpt7a) @ Twitter has ditched the bird logo, in favor of the uni code character "𝕏".  The company behind it is now called "X Corp." and the site can also be accessed, by going to https://x.com .  Once the rebrand is finished, the site will just be called "X", with "the everything app" as the new tagline/slogan.  Dumb (but related) shitpost, made by me: https://youtube.com/shorts/GxeYI7ZBdk4?feature=share 2023-07-25T19:07:14Z (#urxnnsq) @ It's just floofy hair and big ears. 2023-07-27T08:14:26Z (#4sbpj2q) @ Depends on what you're looking for. If you want something a little bigger, but still very pixelated and don't mind it only supporting English. You can take the one used on my site( https://thecanine.ueuo.com )  You should keep in mind, that it's more or less ripped from "Hypnospace Outlaw", so probably not good for commercial use.  A smaller, most languages supporting and more commercially usable pixelfont is "uni05_53" by Craig Kroeger. Sadly the version of this font, listed on the vast majority (if not all) font sites, includes a small error, that makes it unusable, for some European languages.  A fix for that was made by me, after getting Craigs permission, so if you like this font, it's better to download my version of it, from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vEXYneABo6tAXdz2e0Er915uiiP5aFh-/ 2023-07-27T22:01:09Z (#4sbpj2q) @ That one is also nice, but not all too pixely. Don't even know if I'd consider it a pixelated font, rather than just a "low resolution looking" one. 🤔 2023-07-27T22:27:07Z If anyone remembers my rant, about the strange Club Penguin sequel, that requested very personal information and documents for verification - it somehow got even stranger. I got a couple more e-mails from them, trying to get me to finish my registration, before I set my spam filter, to get rid of future reminders.  For some reason completely beyond my understanding, after a few months passed, their system just automatically assumed that I went through with it and sent me the following e-mail, congratulating me for doing so:  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/pSgMAzRsHbpFuMyhxj3kD4.png)  Sure enough, this is not just a "rogue mail server" and my account just somehow works now, without any of the requested info.  I off-course did the responsible thing, clicked the big yellow button and downloaded the apk file onto my primary phone, installed it and gave it the requested permission, to install other things. It installed the promised Club Penguin sequel "Party Parrot World", that still despite being a separate thing, could only be launched through the original app, that was called "Hideaway".  To cut it "short", it is a "technically functional multiplayer game", in the loosest definition of all those words. It barely even loads and clicking almost anything breaks it. I have only seen a glimpse of one other player for a second, so I'm not even sure, it wasn't some NPC, missplaced there by one of the many present bugs. Lastly there just wasn't anything to do, besides walking around, going through the buggy menu, that usually broke the "game", so much it had to be relaunched, or trying to find "minigames", that either said coming soon, or were not playable on mobile.  I might still return to this thing down the line, out of pure curiosity, but a masterpiece it is not. 2023-07-28T07:12:39Z (#4sbpj2q) @ That is unfortunate, but it probably applies to all heavily pixelated fonts, so if you're aiming for that aesthetic, you don't have a more accessible choice.  I only use those fonts on my website, where this issue can be mitigated, by turning off external fonts (in the browser settings), or using a screen reader.  This is not a perfect solution, but knowing that, I try to keep screen reader compatibility a high priority, during site rewrites. Along with making sure, the site looks alright, with the usual default browser fonts. 2023-07-28T18:40:13Z (#4sbpj2q) @ You're the first person, to ever tell me that. I was testing the last minor rewrite, along with my friend from US, who had no trouble accessing it and all of my US VPN IPs connect too.  After the recent move, the site is now most likely hosted in the DFW Datacenter, located within the US. That's not anything new either, as despite being European, I think the vast majority of my stuff, runs somewhere on your continent.  If this isn't just some temporary outage, you might have to contact your ISP and demand a working service. I'm still checking here, but it doesn't look like there's any problems on my end. 2023-08-08T20:21:03Z (#zi4535q) @ Now we finally know what you look like and that you're insane - getting your bachelors in math. 🥴 2023-08-12T18:38:10Z I just got the Windows 11 update, that adds the new folders, volume bar design and some other "features". I don't even know how many people have it now, or what kind of an update it was, but I thought it looked alright and didn't mind it, until Microsoft tried to sneak all the bloatware I spent a day+ removing back in, through some background process, I luckily noticed and quickly destroyed. 2023-08-21T14:10:50Z (#5x4xrdq) Yes, disabling any and all notifications and sounds is an absolute must.   The Discord app itself used to be at least usable, long before all their stupid redesigns, rewrites, additions no-one asked for and new monetization gimmicks.  >DEATH TO INCOMPETENT REACT REWRITES  Well I might be partly biased, because it is the platform, where I'm by far the most popular and one where my bot development and art started. They even reserved "@thecanine" for me.   Still all I wish them is the Skype future and most users moving to better alternatives, like Revolt.chat. 2023-08-21T16:10:37Z (#aex52eq) @ I really don't think so, as even Googles attempts to filter out content inappropriate for children failed miserably. As far as I know, the only front-end that even comes anywhere close to your requirements is Invideous, but unless you're willing to give up child filers and see some trending, you'd probably have to fork it and change quite a few things. 2023-08-30T14:26:54Z (#xevmcwa) @ Looks like yet another one of those scams, where a custom version of Chat GPT (machine learning at best, in no way even close to real AI), is shoved into a human-shaped torso and presented as FutureBot5000.  Still kinda sad how guy 1, had to invent a woman shaped and voiced android, to have something resembling a woman, he can yell "shut up" at. 😂 2023-08-31T22:57:00Z Oh god, If I don't repent for my sins and end up in hell - I'm pretty sure part of my punishment will be having to watch the Discord soydevs, attempt to program an Android file picker in RN, for all of eternity - as it will never be accomplished. All while I scream at them in pure agony, far greater than the one caused by my skin melting in lava.  You have to have a photo (cannot be an image, even if the extension is the same) in a specific directory, taken by the phones camera, for this file picker to function. How is code this bad even possible, unless it's on purpose. 2023-09-13T19:00:09Z ![](https://twtxt.net/media/NC7LWRw6M5BMKPDbhkvjYG.png) 2023-09-15T15:05:36Z (#xqdrlmq) @ It's a meme template :D 2023-09-17T18:00:46Z SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT  cons:  It takes work  Pros:  Now you get to be the one, sitting in the dark, drinking beer, blasting loud indie music through headphones, writing the edgy READ ME.txt files, you've seen included with things, you downloaded as a kid. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/pQMZkdhLDEt3vQnKtHAaDP.png) 2023-09-21T08:46:27Z (#jzzukua) @ Depends, if it can fix the Yarn app. 2023-09-21T20:39:42Z (#jzzukua) @ I'm never too serious about code theft, because as developers, we all do a little copying and pasting from SO, or smashing the keyboard, until the code works somehow. Despite that, it's still bullshit, that this was targeting all the open-source developers, who did not consent and probably also violating all kinds of open-source licenses in the process, yet at the end, it's the proprietary developers and companies, who profit the most from it, despite contributing nothing, or the bare minimum. 2023-09-22T06:47:27Z The recommendations page be like:  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/3otSKVSALvF5FJF7ioKzVW.png) 2023-09-22T10:56:52Z (#jzzukua) It's not going to stay free for too long. GitHub is going to start charging 10$/month per user for personal licenses and double that price, for every corporate employee - [source](https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing)  They also already announced Copilot 365, priced at an even more ridiculous 30$/month/user, for the corpo customers, that 365 package applies to - [source](https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/07/18/furthering-our-ai-ambitions-announcing-bing-chat-enterprise-and-microsoft-365-copilot-pricing/) 2023-09-23T16:09:34Z Omg! I'm always playing on those pixel placing canvases, where it's usually an endless war of factions or just things being attacked for no reason, but now someone did the most wholesome thing imaginable and drew another inugami facing mine and drew them shaking paws.![](https://twtxt.net/media/ojtp2isCFbkoTUxLYTbftb.png) 2023-09-27T18:50:48Z There is not many designers I follow and even less, who I follow ironically. One of them is Peter Arnell, the guy I "admire", for being able to create stupid shit, write even stupider explanations and sell it to companies, for tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars.  In 2008, his group designed the very logo, that Pepsi used until now and justified its greatness, by 27 pages of the dumbest shit ever put on paper, that I sometimes quote to this day. Sadly all great things, must come to an end.After 15 years of small changes, Pepsi decided, to get rid of the logo completely, along with making their garbage drink, even more unhealthy and pushing the allegedly cancer causing sugar-free version.   I will never have a proper Arnell logo for myself, along with the book of nonsense, that you get with one - especially not after writing this and considering, I probably won't make that much money, during my entire life. Still in the spirit of great graphical genius Peter Arnell, I humbly submit one sketch of my current logo, with added nonsense, that completely fails to rival his.   ![](https://twtxt.net/media/KzqJsLhx9iRa8ZFY78DfPS.png)  If you have any logos, or want to try doing this, with anything I ever drew, please do it now and send me the results - might the spirit of the Arnell design process, never die! 2023-09-28T20:25:59Z The face of a someone, removed from leading two separate Internet communication protocols/platforms. Here is to many more! ![](https://twtxt.net/media/MzzJqmL6eUNjg5upEPtrYV.png) 2023-10-23T16:57:02Z Mondays sometimes really do be like: ![](https://twtxt.net/media/XVCwZugdKMks5sgC9pcbNR.png) 2023-11-19T17:15:43Z (#felme2q) @iolfree@tilde.club Good to know, but if you want to avoid them completely, use either a good front-end (Invideous/Piped), or install the uBlock Origin extension.  ReVanced (or forks of it), NewPipe, GrayJay, VueTube,... can do the trick on mobile. 2023-11-19T17:18:28Z A thing from start of this month, that I never posted here: ![](https://twtxt.net/media/NhWKaxKmFpvgYBrsCNz6S9.png) 2023-11-20T17:05:37Z (#zas2ylq) @ No, though some people call him "Jim", based oh how some of my image files were named, at one point. There were other suggestions (most also beginning with the letter "J"), but this is probably the best one. 2023-11-20T17:32:29Z (#zas2ylq) @ In this one, the uniform is generic, with a very subtle reference to the Czech flag, on the hat pin.  In the first ever picture of him wearing a uniform, he was wearing some kind of a WWII German airman one:   ![](https://twtxt.net/media/CksfpEenqJuS2byLL33PdS.png)   Neither can be considered his war attire of choice. That title would likely go to this stupid combination of a gold and silver spiked black bandanna, yellow decorated leather jacket, green belt with a heart shaped buckle and a white shirt with a burning tree. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/2PWPjtZMUC4eDBKyouK625.png)   Mythological canines aren't exactly known for reasonable fashion/war attire. 😅 2023-12-10T11:57:35Z I'll have to disappoint you, not properly joining the Christmas profile picture thing, for the second year in the row.  This year in fact countering it, with a profile picture wearing sunglasses. Hopefully at least the Australian users, have my back with this one.   ![](https://twtxt.net/media/7NwCf64S6SWk6M44AXpbUf.png) 2024-01-22T18:58:01Z Those of you who have your own sites, might want to give this a quick look: https://spawning.ai/ai-txt  It's just a text file, similar to robots.txt, but for AI crawlers, rather than search engine ones. Probably not very effective, as of now, but at least it's a way to make it clear you don't conset to your site being used for AI training, without making it suck for human users, in the process. 2024-01-23T08:30:09Z (#fucv4ya) @ @ Yes, I agree the website itself sucks and the company behind it is incompetent at best - even more so, with their other websites.  Their first site (haveibeentrained.com) was offering a way to search through all the training datasets, not realizing, they were full of illegal porn - so it was quickly shut down.  Now their main gimmick is offering a browser extension, that lets you see what data on any given site you visit, was used for AI training, what has already been marked as "opted out" and a way to add your stuff, to that list.  I don't like that idea either, adding URLs to a list, should not require questionable browser extensions and in general, opting out all the places that might have your images, doesn't seem worth the time, if the companies, don't even have to respect this request.  If you just want the txt file, without additional nonsense, feel free to take the default one, that I use here: https://thecanine.ueuo.com/ai.txt and use or edit it, to match your needs. 2024-01-24T14:30:16Z (#fucv4ya) @ their crawler does not read the robots txt and to my knowledge, neither do any other AI crawlers. As always, they considered themselves exempt, from everything they find inconvenient. 2024-02-08T08:21:23Z Just an AI generated copypasta, based on an already very pretentious X/Twitter post:  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/HJKKsLxrpqxuT3WjjrRqCg.png)  *I asked it to somehow make it even more pretentious 2024-02-08T08:39:51Z (#xl4fm4a) The original it is based on: https://twitter.com/shadmbrooks/status/1755367436873073135 2024-02-14T10:18:49Z People who fight against the use of privacy frontends and bridges, to relay publicly available information, should be mocked for their stupidity. This applies to both salty Twitter bros/YouTubers, fighting it, because they feel entitled to pennies from advertisers and Fediblock jannies, deathly afraid someone using another protocol and a bridge, might read their shit takes and be able to add their opinion, into the discussion.  I'm not in favor of scraping content and/or profiting from it, but that's something completely different. Especially when it comes to frontends, you're not entitled to an opt-out - that's not how that technology works. 2024-03-13T11:38:12Z Thank you, for giving us a choice Microsoft  ![](https://twtxt.net/media/4dv53SpmkwFyKJ4mu7Du3f.png) 2024-03-13T12:42:20Z (#xcuabvq) @ The best part is, that since it is the business version of Teams, they still have to give you the option, to opt-out of this update. To do so, you just have to: 1) Agree to this nonsense and let the app update itself 2) Click around the new version for a bit 3) Click your profile picture in the top right corner 4) Uncheck the "use new version" thingy 5) Confirm your choice 6) Let the app downgrade itself 2024-03-13T13:17:05Z (#xcuabvq) @ Idk, it's gotten to a point, where there is probably 3 or 4 completely different versions of MS Teams. I was on thr Windows version 1.7.00.3653, when the pop-up appeared and now after forcing the downgrade, I'm back on that version again.  The reason, why I demand to be able to continue using this version, is because the one they're trying to force onto everyone, is not only still janky, but also missing crucial features. Part of my job, is being able to quickly communicate things, in multiple languages. The old version supports that, because it can figure out the language you're currently using and automatically check the spelling for that language. The new version, only lets you choose one language and does not even support the language, that I use the most. I could probably get the support for that language working, but it would require admins to install language packs, to every machine I use and me going through the settings, every time I need it, to spellcheck the other language.