Markus @SwooshyCueb@chitter.xyz

A N T I - A S M R

Markiplier put on a Youtube livestream to promote the new (really awesome) choose-your-own-adventure YT series thing he put out. In the stream he played through the game and asked chat to use specific emotes to vote which way to go.

Google’s automated systems detected this as malicious spam and completely terminated the entire Google account of hundreds of viewers.

Mark is so pure though, he’s personally championed calling out Google to fix it, probably to his own massive detriment. Last I heard he got through to someone I guess, so it’s being fixed now. Only because a major producer called them out.

However it highlights something important: Google can yeet you for any reason and if they do, you lose access to all your services. Automated anti-harassment/anti-spam catches you in a false positive on Youtube? You lose your gmail, docs, android account, everything.

Every single person who appealed for reinstatement got denied by another automated system, and then were told “there is nothing more you can do, this is the end of the workflow”.

YT also just updated their TOS to express they can and will terminate accounts that are “commercially nonviable”, meaning they’ve put on the table that they can terminate you if your footprint-to-profit ratio is low.

Do not rely on Google. If you have YT vids, back them up. If you rely on gmail, consider an alternative; especially for emailed 2FA logins.

Just… christ z_z;

The DOSBox project started in 2002, which means that in three years, ie by 2022, the project will have been going for longer than the supported lifespan of MS-DOS. It's already far outlived the 14 year period (1981-1995) when MS-DOS was the primary IBM PC operating system.

Mastodon is an isekai

We have like, phones with 4gigs of RAM and a processor that can put some computers of previous decade to shame.

Imagine if this shit just stopped improving and we started optimizing. Would that be crazy or what?

"ugh, that's disgusting" i say out loud as I hit the boost button without even thinking twice

going home: cd
going home but in a flirty way: cd ~

GTK4 is **not** dumping accessibility features. GTK4 is still heavily under development, and as systems move around, many components will break. The intent is to fix these issues before release.

How to Remove Wax from Concrete

There's a part in Death Stranding where a character says "missed a BT" and all I can think of is "MISTER BT MISTER BT MISTER BT MISTER BT. PLEASE BRING IT UP BRING IT UP BRING IT UP BRING IT UP"

#HandBrake 1.3.0 Released with UI Tweaks, Discord Presets + More
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/130330 #gnu #linux #freesw

i want more stories about characters who know that they're fictional, but without like, medium awareness

i want stuff like scientists in a video game realizing that their universe can only store information as accurate as a floating point number

FRIENDLY REMINDER

THE ARTEMIS FOWL BOOKS ARE EXTREMELY GOOD

WHATEVER THE QUALITY OF THE UPCOMING MOVIE MAY BE.

Queer Liberals: "There is no 'gay agenda.'"
Queer leftists: "The gay agenda is the destruction of capitalism, the patriarchy, and the state."

Call me paranoid but there are definitely agents provocateurs following various left-ish communities online, who seize on the slightest controversy or hint of division and drive an escalation of death threats, doxxing, &c. with the dual purpose of inflicting harm on the target of these actions and encouraging onlookers to vew the community as an unreasonable mob.

Sometimes they also play a long con game of establishing a false persona in the community, and they may even emulate other people's trauma narratives to dissuade people from questioning their motives. This bit is particularly awful because they're taking advantage of our need to show to support to comrades who have experienced trauma. The trick is to assume good faith while not taking any shit, and accepting that you can't personally help everybody all the time.

These intruders may come from 4chan. They may come from Kiwi Farms. Doesn't really matter where they come from, you've got to keep in mind that they're going to be around.

Finished emoji commission for @maffsie ^^

lucario

anyway code is art and programmers are craftspeople goodnight