Garrett LeSage @garrett@mastodon.xyz

browser extension that replaces every instance of "cancel culture" with "consequences of my actions"

I feel like we often don't acknowledge how very strange US grocery store names are. People just think it's normal to shop at a place called Big Bear or Giant Eagle or Piggly Wiggly.

So I used GPT-3 to add to a list of Perfectly Normal grocery stores.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/very-normal-grocery-stores/

Raise your hand if you think Wordpress / Jekyll / all those other blogging systems ought to anonymize Exif info by default when you upload photos to a post.

Do not buy NFT made with my art.
Do not make NFT with my Creative-Commons artworks.
If you respect my art, remember and apply this.

Here is my article about what just happened: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article864/dream-cats-nfts-don-t-buy-them

#NFT #NFTCommunity

Mothra: giant Moth creature
Ebirah: giant shrimp (ebi) monster
Gojira: ??

capitalism: look, i invented a new thing

people: is it just more CO2 emissions?

capitalism: yea it's just more CO2 emissions

Just released a new app!

📣 Audio Sharing is available on Flathub now!

https://flathub.org/apps/details/de.haeckerfelix.AudioSharing

It's a small tool which allows you to stream your current computer audio over the network as a RTSP stream.

Everyone talks about the Save Icon being a floppy disk, but I'm here wondering for how long the cartoon representation for "having an idea" will be an incandescent lightbulb. I bet many children haven't ever seen one in person by now.

"The lifespan of bitcoin mining devices remains limited to just 1.29 years. As a result, we estimate that the whole bitcoin network currently cycles through 30.7 metric kilotons of equipment per year." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/17/waste-from-one-bitcoin-transaction-like-binning-two-iphones

before electric kettles they used to make acoustic kettles

TIL about Jeffrey, the First of His Name, of the Former Staten Island, the best Marvel character

Just came across this excellent, and also funny, breakdown of how full of shit Elon Musk is. Great primer for anyone who doesn’t know about any of the details:

https://youtu.be/5pNL7MlUpmI

NEW RELEASE - Penpot 1.8.0 - 'My own summer'

What's new?

- Share options and pages on view mode
- Path stroke caps
- Navigable history
- Export artboards PDF

These are big new features that'll make a difference for many. Let us know how it goes. https://penpot.app/dev-diaries.html

https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/09/08/cleaning-up-header-bars/

Well, this happened. Wouldn't be a big enough thing to write a blog post about, but some apps will need updates.

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"Remote user is typing..."

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*Types faster*

Competitive instant messaging.

Here's a little thing that may not be obvious to many people....

When you install an open-source app from Google Play or the Apple app store, there is no guarantee that what you install actually matches the public code.

@fdroidorg are doing a great service. They independently build the public source code for apps from scratch, review for common issues, and publish their builds. Thanks to "reproducible builds" it's possible to verify they do not tamper with the code.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Security_Model/