Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

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My current embroidery project is a series about The Sentinel video game (created by Geoff Crammond) in its #ZXSPectrum version.
I selected an area in particular among the many levels of the game and tried to reproduce every pixel of it in a 55x46 cm canevas. The series will eventually consist in 13 needlepoint.
Hope you’ll enjoy.

#needlepoint #embroidery #broderie #art #embroideryart

"Introducing Ring Car Cam!"

now i'm gonna remind folks that everyone's threat profile is different and my security decision-making is not right for everyone, but there is no fucking way you should give Amazon direct access to your driving habits, GPS location, OBD-II port, *and* place a microphone in your car to boot.

all over an LTE connection you do not control.

Apparently, lifting heavy weights produces far less beneficial strengthening effects than *lowering* them?

"Those who only lowered a weight saw the same improvements as those who raised and lowered weights—despite only performing half the number of repetitions... 'eccentric' muscle contractions—in which activated muscles are lengthened—is more important to increasing strength and size of muscles, than volume."

https://www.ecu.edu.au/newsroom/articles/research/less-gym-time-same-results-why-lowering-weights-is-all-you-need-to-do #weightlifting #exercise #gym

Instead of saying "come to mastodon" link the person to a thread here where they would totally want to jump in and join the conversation.

"we were just talking about this here: ***link*** -- could really. use a perspective like yours."

It gives people a starting point and some people who are active and who they'd want to follow.

Two years after Donald Trump's ignominious failure of a coup attempt, we recommend this text about why it was a godsend to the state as a way to change the subject from popular revolt to the preservation of normalcy.

https://crimethinc.com/January6

"Counting on the state to hold the threat of fascism at bay leaves us in an extremely vulnerable position. It’s not unthinkable that at some point, a far-right coup will succeed, at least in some parts of the country, and we—not just anti-fascists, but all people of good conscience—will find that our concerted action is the only thing that stands between us and the establishment of an even more authoritarian society. That is precisely what happened in Spain in 1936."

If you’re outraged about Adobe sending your pictures off their servers (you should be), please know other vendors do this too. That horse has already bolted.

Eg Microsoft Edge automatically sends your key presses in Edge to MS - enabled by default https://winbuzzer.com/2022/09/19/microsoft-editor-in-edge-sending-personla-info-to-microsoft-could-be-putting-users-at-risk-xcxwbn/

Microsoft Office 365 sends every photo and screenshot you add in Word, PowerPoint etc (including in emails) to Microsoft 365 Intelligent Services without prompt https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/everything-you-need-to-know-to-write-effective-alt-text-df98f884-ca3d-456c-807b-1a1fa82f5dc2

racial pseudo-science? no, we will not be going back to 1935 with this

transphobia and homophobia? no, we will not be going back to 1935 with this

they hate it. they cry about it. they're a little bit scared.

some of the greatest tragedies of our age are built on the fact that they aren't scared _enough_, though.

people act like the left is all about loosey-goosey relativism, but they go apeshit every time we act like a question is settled and the answer is "no, we will not be going back to 1935 with this"

This makes no implications of instances with moderation regimes that fit their own particular needs, or see themselves as networking differently; every instance needn't seek the most connectivity possible. There is every reason to maintain a portion of the network that is defederated with mastodon .social, the largest instance, because maximal connection is not even desirable to many people with every right to use AP how they want. It's just a collective material requirement to improve the net.

If an instance has got fifty people on it who interact a lot with each other, and one of them is a miserable piece of shit, well, if the instance doesn't repel them, it's a lot easier to see 50 people having personal responsibility for failing to consider the behavior of a member they almost certainly know, than it would be to hold 5,000 or 50,000 people responsible (blocked and inaccessible to your users) for the moderation team's decisions about a person they may never have any connection to.

I'm generally against no-trust systems, as an ideological pursuit, but building your systems toward outcomes that would otherwise be reliant on good individual behavior can get a lot of important things done with minimal risk or imposition. This is why I feel large instances are unsustainable on this platform. Sharing an instance with another person -- anyone -- means sharing liability for that person with all the other users. It's not just about moderation; instance blocks silence everyone.