Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net
- Social media instances
- https://hellsite.net
- Project repo
- https://github.com/bobbyd0g/commlab
- Twitch
- https://twitch.tv/bobbyd0g
- YouTube
- https://youtube.com/@bobbydog
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Scrappy queer
Joined Dec 2021
Sadly, the same paradigms that protect your privacy here will offer types of cover to bad actors for histories that no one should ever be able to fully "escape". We should recognize that platforms have purposes they serve, and this one is different from any other before it. There is no one correct path to take; all are incomplete and microblogging presents particular needs and challenges. The destruction of cultural "canon" institutions like Twitter demands our most critical and proactive collab
You should strongly consider, when meeting people on this network and considering following or engagement, to still search Twitter for their past activity. There are a lot of unscrupulous figures trying to take advantage of the lack of search functionality here to escape accountability for miseries they created on more investigation-friendly platforms years ago, to rebuild their brands & audiences largely free of criticism.
Bobby Brown
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If you’re homeless there’s no fucking difference between Democrats and Republicans. If you’re in jail there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans. If you’re killed by the cops, a Democrat mayor and a Republican governor will display the same contempt for your memory.
The difference between a blue state and a red state is if a white employed trans person feels safe or not. That’s not good enough for a party to deserve your support.
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Omg. guys. check this out. I can't believe it either but it happened. We've made it. Don't tell them, it'd be rude. But, seriously:
Only the most annoying people are still exclusively on Twitter!
You can try it right now! Go log back in and scroll that shit for thirty seconds. Tell me you don't want to run away at full speed! You can finally delete your accounts now. I'm so proud of what we've accomplished
Bobby Brown
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So I've been building a 100% analog polyphonic synthesizer with an unique twist. To use only vacuum tube era technology from the 1930s.
Over 300 neon gas diodes create the sound you hear. Pretty awesome for technology from 100 years ago.
Still a work-in-progress, but I wanted to post a video of it with the innards spread out across the workbench. : }
I call it the "Neon String Machine"
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content warning: police violence
Our hearts go out to people in Atlanta, Georgia, where police have murdered a person in the course of their efforts to evict and destroy the Weelaunee Forest.
Here is a statement from Atlanta:
Bobby Brown
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I wrote a blog post giving an introduction to the PNG file format, aimed at anyone who wants to generate or parse their own PNGs (or who just wants to know how it works!)
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hello-png.html
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hello-png.html
Bobby Brown
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What's a weird thing i believed in as a child?
*staring blankly off into the middle distance, whispering*
America
If only I could split into like five people, there's so much I could accomplish. As it is, all the tasks are stuck in the door like Mr. Burns's germs, and so I get done less than one person's share :D
2022 was the worst year of my life so far. i'm not going to blame myself for putting things down for awhile. at least i survived it
I know everything you do in public will always preserve your particular skill level in that time, indefinitely, and you've got to learn to live with it, but reading back the year+ old readme on the commlab repo has me cringing into the fifth dimension
Bobby Brown
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Good morning. In a hilarious set of causes too complicated to explain, I'm the keynote speaker at Wikipedia Day in NYC. The page for the information about it is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2023
You can be quite forgiven for not wanting to upend your life to attend. A livestream of the event is here:
Bobby Brown
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Are those of you here in the #Fediverse aware of the amazing resource that is https://mynoise.net?
No?
Let me introduce you.
It has a medieval village #background #noise environment with toggles you can use to increase or decrease the blacksmith shop and market and horse clops (among many others).
Oh, you want a coffee shop? Sure thing.
Rain? Thunderstorm? Gotcha.
Generic white noise?
RPG thrills? Of course.
Tame that #tinnitus? Yes!
Check it out!
Bobby Brown
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Research collective Ignite The Right / Unmask UTR was just suspended by twitter for posting a detailed thread about a white supremacist, Identity Evropa recruiter, and UTR nazi, who's running for Enid City Commissoner.
Bobby Brown
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@anildash @medium cc: To paraphrase the words of @pluralistic - "It is a good thing to have (near) zero switching costs from a platform."
Bobby Brown
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Okay, here's a remarkable thing about the fediverse: I was able to seamlessly move my followers to a new server, and the vast majority of them *never even noticed* that it happened. About 24 hours ago, I decided to move from mastodon[dot]cloud (because it had been bought up by sketchy new owners), and I came to @medium's new me.dm instance. At that time, I had 25,829 followers, and now less than 24 hrs later, I have 22,648 followers on this new account — without them having to do anything.
Mastodon et. al. badly need long-post folding, or ideally a "magazine cover" feature, just for writers like Cory Doctorow so they can post huge piles of stuff under one cover that perhaps automatically reblogs every few hours, and unfolds cleanly right in the app. I love Cory's work but his posting style is just incompatible with this form; I always skip the entire dozens-long blocks of posts, because while browsing a microblogging platform I'm trying to keep up with *everyone* I follow.
Bobby Brown
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it is alleged in this lawsuit that Meta targets preteens, and that "playdates" were a proposed product offering. sickening!
- Social media instances
- https://hellsite.net
- Project repo
- https://github.com/bobbyd0g/commlab
- Twitch
- https://twitch.tv/bobbyd0g
- YouTube
- https://youtube.com/@bobbydog
Mod
Scrappy queer
Joined Dec 2021
