Er I didn’t know what to expect and trans-related is the last thing I would have thought of. I had been thinking of using that name for an instance or community with per-thread anonymity, mostly to make it harder to build user profiles by scraping.

It’s been noticed before. https://archive.is/fphZh

It’s kind of feasible now to use a small Linux laptop or tablet, plus a cellular modem or wifi hotspot, giving up on smartphones altogether.

Too expensive to run due to current gas prices.

This site seems to be slightly polished AI slop and they don’t say what they think an existential crisis even is. Meh.

2021

I’ve been using porkbun and they never asked my ID. Maybe it’s specific to the .xyz TLD? That surprises me but the domain you wanted are super cheap, so maybe they attract spammers. .xyz is somewhat disreputable anyway.

This is actually the first time I had heard of the 6-9 digit .xyz domains being discounted (.99/year). That was not mentioned on porkbun’s .xyz page, but web search found info. For those unaware, those domains register and renew at $0.99/year at some registrars, though $1.24 at porkbun.

And lol, almost everything I could think of related to mathematical constants were unavailable, e.g. 61803399.xyz. Some random ones were available and maybe I’ll try to buy one just to see what happens.

I wonder if porkbun suddenly requires ID for all domain purchases? That would be annoying. It’s been a while since I last bought from them.

Added: ok, this might help: https://kb.porkbun.com/article/225-why-porkbun-id-verification

Tumbolia!

Mimeos worked differently and didn’t smell nearly as strong, but they needed special paper (“twilltone” in the fanzine world) and the stencils and machines were more expensive than their ditto counterparts. You’d use them for large copy runs since a stencil could run off unlimited copies. Ditto masters were basically carbon paper and were good for maybe 30-50 copies depending. About right for a batch of class handouts. Dittos were also relatively clean and convenient to operate. Using a mimeo generally made a mess.

https://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Twil-tone

This is also good: https://fancyclopedia.org/wiki/Mimeo

Spirit duplicator or colloquially “ditto”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator

There’s an HN thread about this and yes it sounds like the guy is being stupid and/or there was a communications error. He submitted a PR for a potentially breaking change and it was closed as “needs discussion”. That is, instead of clicking “open PR”, he was advised to instead click “open discussion” and talk about the proposed change and its potential downstream effects. He instead got pissy and started spamming forums.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941590

Thanks, appears to be Facebook slop.

https://www.google.com/search?q="+two+shoes+that+the+same+person+wears"

I don’t use most of the software you mention, but converting FLAC to other formats is pretty easy. E.g. with ffmpeg you’d say

ffmpeg -i somesong.flac -o somesong.mp3

or similarly for other formats. There are more options to control the output bit rates and that sort of thing.

I was making a joke about one of the Smalltalk pioneers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_(computer_scientist) .

Adele Codeberg? She was one of the designers of Smalltalk, I thought. So I’m surprised to hear that about PHP.

Smell-emitting diodes will become reality! Welcome to the future!

It looks like I have Google Photos disabled in Settings. Maybe that helps.

I have Fossify Gallery as my default image viewer but I’m still using the pre-installed Google camera app. Am I affected by this scanning? I haven’t gotten around to checking out other camera apps.