moonshadow

@moonshadow@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  N-th the suggestion to creep on people who buy the same stuff as you. There’s a lil grid of their pfps, I click on a cool one and check out the stuff they listen to that I haven’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You shall not cut!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your daddy’s my kind of freak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He did not singlehandedly create the “signal protocol” (double ratchet key exchange tyvm), that’s not really how it works. He was an early contributor who became an advocate and figurehead because he was a good communicator/unafraid of the exposure. Check out some of his pre-signal sailboating stuff for a good time :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to save the internet in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not gonna lie, the line “discrimination against commercial use” just did more to get me to check em out than any of their own promotional material

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where's my JUUL?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the most literal sense possible, there’s nothing empathetic about being unable to understand or relate to experiences distant from your own. I’m not going to join in trying to share insight into the interplay of poverty, escapism, and addiction when you so clearly don’t give a shit. Happy new year man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where's my JUUL?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would go as far as to say no single chemical is “the problem” and that entire perspective is brutally reductionist. There are so many problems with the way we’re living, pinning the blame on the existence of temporary escape is so backwards and cruel it’s hard for me to imagine what makes someone think that way. “TrickDacy” is really showing their whole ass here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where's my JUUL?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wanted to say this was an insightful and empathetic post from someone who clearly has a lot more direct experience than the guy going off about heroin itself chemically ruining lives

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t! I’ve never done it but have def seen usb-c ipods and there’s a kit from “moonlit market” that comes up a lot. Minor soldering required

  This might be a helpful starting point :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen a glass bottle of milk outside of old movies, around here it’s plastic jugs and the “fancy” stuff comes in cartons

  So this is how I find out I’m poor…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a way, a gift card is kind of the opposite of a credit card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you get a gift card for rehab?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t seen one with wifi, but enthusiasts are for sure building out old ipods and bluetooth/flash memory are probably the two most common mods

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is kinda the same process amazon itself went through back in the day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "feel" gender?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My take on this is pretty simple, and manages to alienate tradwifes and transbians alike: gender is a social construct, and like most social constructs worth freeing yourself from. “Assigned” is a key word here, no one is born with an inherent gender to be right or wrong. Sex is a separate concept entirely, currently immutable and relevant only in the context of reproduction. Being the best you you can be (and defining what that means) is a lifelong process with no shortcuts or easy answers. Allowing a false dichotomy between hard tough exploiter and soft pretty resource to shape your very sense of self is a tragic waste of the miracle of experience. That perspective is useful only to this sick society’s goal of total extraction, not our human need to love and be loved

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Females, am I right fellas?

  Smells kinda like reddit in here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Merry pissmist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orange man good⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Genius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you get carried away with the corn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck yeah they have. Cheaper power during peak production is still very much a thing though, as it should be imo. Slurp up that juice as it pours in!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine was kinda that we do if we could adjust our patterns and habits a little bit to live with the world as it is vs imposing ourselves on it. Forcing “companies” (read corpos) to do something other than maximize extraction is a big part of that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …they should charge at work during peak solar and run their homes off their car batteries at night. That’s where you were going, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We all know art is hard, artists gotta starve

  The real deal will always be there and never be easy. Fuck “content”, fuck entertainment, fuck packaging yourself for sale. To know and be known is the most human thing there is. Genuine self-expression was never commercially viable and isn’t going anywhere as long as there are two people to engage with one another. That’s art. It’s not something you can be “good with LLMs” at, no matter how technically proficient their output

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not interested in arguing and have already shared my experience, hope you have a nice rest of your day. From their perspective, “texting” most people just quit working and someone had to “fix” it by switching them back to their phone’s default sms client. It’s pretty clear you haven’t been tech support for an elder, a lot of people aren’t aware of these things or making real decisions about them at all. Texting at all is a big ask, they need help looking at/sending pictures, a separate app is way too much friction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a screenshot handy, but it was very clearly communicated through both colour and iconography whether or not a conversation was encrypted. For people who still couldn’t tell, like my elderly relatives, removing sms support meant they went from 10% encrypted communications back to zero and forced the rest of us to expose ourselves again to stay in touch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Deku SMS (on fdroid) is nice to use and all, but I’m not really sure how “ethical and pro-privacy” can apply to an sms client

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt their reasoning was disingenuous and that supporting sms had been a massive driver of adoption, a lot of “normal” people used it as a default messenger on the advice of the nerds in their lives without any idea what signal or sms were. Removing that support was a significant rugpull and measurably detrimental to their stated goal of private communication as a default

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to, pulling that was their biggest mistake since requiring a phone number and made me trust them a lot less

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Paid hype is a red flag imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking the difficult questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Magic good for dog. Make dog smarter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the exact opposite position… hoarding bits on the cheap, all I need is ram and psu but ram now costs more than I paid for everything else put together and scavenging sources have dried up completely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if you want it to be! This feels like a breakthrough :)