@alice I had an Ultima Online phase where I was basically online every evening until late at night on an unofficial server; the only way to break out was getting into the server side scripting gig. As soon as gaming turned into programming, I stopped playing altogether.
🎵 Death Cab for Cutie at Greek Theatre Los Angeles #indierock
(2026-08-03) I've seen Death Cab for Cutie seven times now and they, without fail, put on an awesome show every single time. The band has undeniable chemistry, Ben Gibbard's voice is incredible and they always pick a great setlist. For this show in particular I was hoping they'd play "Punching the Flowers" off I Built You a Tower and...
@jonty well, it turns out you only have one week to use a RM international standard label (which they helpfully do not tell you while you buy it, or my overheated brain missed it), so that's nice
@YaLTeR i use nextcloud auto upload feature for that. If you only care about pictures there are probably better things out there. I like the person behind pikapods which makes hosting of these services effortless: https://www.pikapods.com/apps#photos
@zcutlip their offering was already more expensive than DeepSeek's official API, not benefiting from the initial 75% OFF campaign (pic 1). I did not mind, and I did not ask them to provide service for the same price.
DeekSeep is an open-weights model and can have 3rd-party hosting. Second pic is TensorX, EU-hosted, zero data retention. More expensive, but still cheap. Also, DeepSeek themselves will soon double prices in "peak hours".
If you're interested in Fediverse platforms other than Mastodon, you might want to try out Friendica.
Friendica looks a bit like Facebook from the early days, and supports very long posts without character limits. However, what makes it really stand out is its support for many different open standards. For example you can follow Mastodon accounts and RSS feeds in the same timeline. Find out more at:
Complete agree with this article, and I'd add that this trend is poisoning online forums. So if you're one of those people, you're making your work environment and the Internet a worse place.
But I also write about slow technologies, plain text, digital Minimalism, and digital self reliance. Oh and Pandoc and Asciidoctor. Feel free to link to whatever interests you. Thanks!
