I'm experimenting with hosting a single-user instance at @voltur@social.voltur.one . I'll be following some of y'all there.
I know it can be obnoxious when folks are constantly hopping instances and stuff, so I'll try not to do that.
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voltur (with the good hair)
@voltur@masto.hackers.town
mastodon 4.7.3Hacker and storyteller broadcasting from somewhere in the Virgo Supercluster. He/Him.
I make Bedtime Stories from New Cyberia.
I make and maintain #Starscan, a #FOSS game.
Mediocre As A Service
Client security @ VRChat
I like and talk about: #Hacking #HackerCulture #VR #VRChat #BedtimeStoriesFromNewCyberia
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deeply considering leaving all social media.
youtubers are like "No one knows how this common thing works UNTIL NOW! Luckily for you I have a 9 minute and 13 second video that explains EVERYTHING, just like 23 other youtubers mysteriously have at the exact same time!"
The number of times I look at an engineering decision and think "the person that designed this does not have a cat' is bonkers.
Well hello awkwardly early dentist appointment
A project built on VRChat just won an Emmy! I am supremely chuffed!
We put a lot of effort over the past few years into making sure our tools are high enough quality that folks can do stuff like that and last night SOMEONE DID!
We didn't win the Emmy of course, but it's so cool to see a project I work on and care about so deeply be listed.
https://www.televisionacademy.com/shows/uncanny-alley-a-new-day?
I dont have a lot of unique life lessons to share, but this: I wish people were more willing to celebrate their peers, both professionally and personally.
Its true that not everyone likes the celebratory spotlight, but most do and this isnt solved by not celebrating people, its solved by getting to know them.
The vast VAST majority of people get no accolades or interpersonal kindness and feel like imposters or deeply alone.
Be the fuel for some of the fires around you.
@Wrewdison@masto.hackers.town every time i see more of your posts about this the more I want to participate lol
I am experiencing what I can only describe as being "existentially tired".
If you knew you were going to die, like really knew it was coming. What would you do? Like what is "that thing" you know you'll have wished you did? Read a book wish you had read? Lay out under the stars and try to count your favorites? Make some beautiful (or ugly) art to make people feel something? Tell people you love them? Finish that novel you keep thinking about when you drive by your Starbucks?
Anyway, everyone dies. Now you know, so go do whatever it is.
The realization that you can install windowmaker on the Steam Machine and tell everyone it's just a baby NeXT Cube
Lots of little tweaks and performance stuff, but finally getting to where I want to be with this! Built in godot, playing local music library on Steam Deck
i actually have had huge success with meshtastic since moving. I'm guessing i was just in a dead zone before. Been fun to script all sorts of ignorant shit for it lately.
i'm giving a talk in 15 minutes or so about some interesting observations during my last bout of threat hunting. i was showing my wife my slides while preparing and i have a Princess Bride reference in it. She just looked at me and was like "I hope they're old enough to get it."
So if I have to suffer that psychic damage, so do you.
Hey nerds, I bought a bike! It's not fancy like my wife's, but I think it's neat. It's a Trek Verve 3. It looks like a good starting place for just tooling around here.
I'm realizing how much more of a platform it is than a static item.
Haven't had much chance to ride yet, though. I'm still in the stage of having to get used to it again, so it feels hella awkward.
I have distinct memories that I had forgotten about learning to ride when I was very small. Wild.
Anyone else feel really weird when someone walks in and you're watching youtube? like... no reason, just like you've been busted watching something naughty?
I AM A GROWN ASS MAN AND CAN WATCH SCIENCE YOUTUBE WHEN I WANT OK
Webrings!
I see the YT algorithm has made the epic leap from Star Trek to dom/sub youtube via "subspace". lmao
you really learn a lot about how many hills there are around your house when you take up biking. like... who put that there?
it's honestly amazing how many 80s artists with pop hits that are considered 1 hit wonders and end up on party sound tracks have backlogs that are just really good post-punk.
I got to FaceTime my mother with my brothers today. She's in a care facility in another state, so I don't get to see her as much as I'd like. We make an effort though. I know we don't have many Mother's Days left with her.
going to meow wolf this morning (4 day weekend)
Something about the frenetic soundscape of the Dead Kennedys really meshes well with a gray, windy rain storm.
lmao @ usps logistics.
An item has been shipped to me from Florida. It went to Denver, where I live and has been sent to Seattle, where it will be sent back to Denver.
lmao. The original estimate would have been correct if it had been sorted properly at that stop.
There are some vehicles I would buy. (I no longer have a car/truck. ) but i just can't justify buying a non-electric/hybrid anymore and most of the vehicles that are interesting enough to get me to even consider are all old. So... /shrug.
I'm just so uninterested in owning another vehicle.
Today I learned while deep diving L7 history: Viggo Mortensen had a spoken word album in the 90s called One Man's Meat.
You're welcome.
Why yes, I TOO am in parties.
I'm pretty sure the packaging of this bike lock is more secure than the lock itself.
lmao it says "security rating: 2/10" like I would get fired for that. hahahahaha
do y'all have a hard time letting go of old and unused hardware? I have like 3 laptops that are just sitting around, but i keep thinking "one day i'll use this again" and like... probably not, because of the other 2 i have sitting around that I actually use.
Oh right.
Made some progress this morning while tinkering. Added a library view that, right now, only loads up lists of artists. I had set up the data structure to be somewhat "playlist" driven at each level of abstraction, so artists, albums, and tracks can all be handed off like a single playlist, which means this library view is going to be relatively easy to apply across the board. UX itself won't be, but this is the fun of tinkering.
Work gave me psychic damage today
workin on my skant bod
Picked up some used All About Eve, Bolshoi, and March Violets records this weekend. So many fun record stores here.
@thegibson@masto.hackers.town hell yeah
🎶 This is a song about the seedy underbelly of the carnival. The part that only the kids know about 🎶
@hobbs@dobbs.town to be in lloooovveee 🎶
1st day of new invisalign trays are always like swaddled teeth and sharp edges.
Replying to
@maddiefuzz one of the star trek tng uniforms!
Feeling overwhelmed at work for no real reason.
Replying to
@xiane@wandering.shop I still find it more engaging than other social media (i'm aware this is a hell of my own doing of course), but my federated social circle appears to be going dormant aside from a small handful of folks. Glad folks are finding other things to enrich their time, but dang!
It's like the Pez of wisdom.
Someone just compared Spike and Drusila to Megan Fox and MGK and if I have to suffer that psychic damage, so do you.
It is a Castle Rat kind of morning. you're welcome, neighbors.
i have lost the plot on lora mesh networks. did we grow out of meshtastic? what is the state of things
Is there a light weight activitypub that I can self host without wanting to go nuclear every update? What does that landscape look like