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Remember when we had progress bars instead of infinitely spinning wheels when stuff was loading

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation […]

wow the Neopets TTRPG got mismanaged and cancelled after YEARS of development :( $228 NZD down the drain as I backed the kickstarter with extra add-ons that I assume will never exist either... https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1rqx6e2/the_fate_of_neopets_ttrpg_is_currently_unknown_as/

A very complex and multicolored table labeled "Getting and setting rotations of prims." The first column, "Function", lists functions like llGetObjectDetails or llGetRootRotation. The other four columns list what these functions actually do, like "get global rotation of avatar" and "get rotation of avatar multiplied by global rotation of prim (Not useful)." It is disgusting to behold.

It can be difficult to explain to people why scripting for #SecondLife is so much more annoying than many types of game engine coding.

This is a table that shows all of the functions related to getting or setting rotation values, and also shows that those […]

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i find any failure by the surveillance state quite comforting, so i'm tickled to see how many advertisements Facebook likes to give me for dating over 30; they've detected i'm 30+ but have not detected i am the ultimate Wife Guy

i got those unmonetizable knees

Remember how last year a bunch of people joined InternetNZ to stop the FSU taking it over? They’ll be trying it again this year.

If you’re an InternetNZ member, it's time to renew your membership! If you're not, it's a great time to join.

InternetNZ / Ipurangi Aotearoa is a unique institution […]

[Future Web, by Google]

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@leighelse/116212214880172985

The universe is impossibly vast, exceeding the ability of my imagination to reckon with its enormity.

In spite of this, it is still not big enough to contain all the ways Google can go fuck itself.

A four panel comic of "Basic Instructions" entitled "How to Confront the Horros of the Past". Scott and Rick are having a conversation. (First panel. Caption: The first step has to be taking a thorough and honest look at the evidence yourself.) Scott (his arms crossed, matter-of-factly): I plan to watch every episode of Space: 1999. Rick (smugly): You said the first episode was stupid. Scott: Yes, but I figure it has to get better. Rick: Has that optimism ever paid off? Scott: It's made our friendship possible. (Second panel. Caption: The second - and hardest - step is be to be honest with yourself about what you find.) Scott (dejected): I watched every episode of Space: 1999. Rick (laughing): Did it get better? Scott: Not even a little! In fact, in the second season it got way worse. Rick: Maybe if they'd had a season three, they'd have gotten it right. Scott: I think they did when they canceled it. (Panel 3. Caption: Encourage others to look for themselves instead of simply taking your word for it.) Scott: The science officer was an old guy with sideburns. Later they replaced him with an attractive woman. Rick: The Seven of Nine maneuver. Nice! Scott: And they printed sideburns on her. Rick: You must be exaggerating. I'm going to watch it myself. Scott: You're going to hate it, so yes, please do. (Fourth Panel. Caption: Sharing information may make the world beter, but won't make it much happier.) Rick: I watched every episode of Space: 1999. It was so bad I told my therapist about it. Scott: What did he say? Rick: That I had to be exaggering. So now he's gonna watch it. Scott: It's like a psychic virus. Rick: It's the kind of thing that would be on Space: 1999. Scott: Only interesting.

I'm now watching the first episode of _Space: 1999_. It can't really be that bad. Or maybe it really is a psychic virus.

#RetroSciFi #ScienceFiction

utterly flabbergasted at SubscribeStar's rule changes because my understanding was that it's only for people who make adult content slightly too weird for other Patreon-style websites, and they appear to be banning, like... all of that... who on earth is going to be left on this website?

the […]

I grew up hearing that my mom was in a music video from the 1980s, in which she tears apart a cereal box with her teeth. She's finally found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJp1Zr3Hueg Terry Mann - "Barbarian" from 1986, with her first appearance just after 2:25 :)

lovely morning at the Newtown festival, had dinuguan for lunch, bought a plant, filled a bag of vintage clothes :) I'm tapped out for now but my wife is back into the fray...

RE: https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116184372946085941

Beyond Lies the Wub is my favorite short story of his by a mile (and I generally find his short stories very strong) so I went into this list hoping it would be there and was not disappointed :) The Wub belongs to us all!

Newtown Festival is tomorrow and it's my first time while actually living in Newtown :)

i personally thank the festival for getting my house at all, they only held one viewing for my place and then had to cancel the rest for the festival and i think we were one of the only couples who put in an […]

today's awesome academic article: "Playing Nintendogs: Desire, Distributed Agency and Potentials of Prosumption" by Minna Ruckenstein. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256454024_Playing_Nintendogs_Desire_Distributed_Agency_and_Potentials_of_Prosumption

A screenshot of the "new post" area on LinkedIn with a huge ugly popup on the top (complete with emojis) telling me I unlocked a new leaderboard which EXPIRES SOON!!! and then, on the other side of the "new post" area, a prompt telling me to make a post or video about a woman who had an impact on my career for International Women's Day 2026.

i feel like LinkedIn wants me to use it completely differently than i actually use it. leaderboards? international women's day celebrations? I log on you to answer connection requests from my students who think they need to be using LinkedIn, and to harass […]

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anyone have a spare 3.6 million new zealand dollars? the Havana building is up for sale, we can all make a disgusting commune in the 6 bedroom penthouse on the top floor

Urgent, Wellington peeps!

I have two tickets to the Wellington Chocolate Factory x Dilmah tea and chocolate tasting experience at 10 AM today. Can't make it and it can't be rescheduled either. If you want to go spend 45 minutes having chocolates and tea on my dime in a few hours can you please […]

(it's an Android device running LineageOS)

beautiful computer women* of fedi, what would you use to get the data off a phone that is fully functional aside from a broken screen? if i can just figure out a painless way to mirror it to another display i can save all my various 2fa nonsense off it

*and others

everyone I know was shocked that my masters isn't about virtual pets (though not at all shocked that it's about therian stuff instead) and to that I say there's always the PhD

my wife pointed me towards someone up in Auckland doing a PhD in virtual pet sites and I'm so excited to talk to them :) they got back to me on LinkedIn so fast

nothing like sitting on the bus in my well-fitted n95 twiddling my thumbs and listening to everyone around me cough and sneeze literally once per second

unfortunately I managed to break one of the head loops taking it off, so my bus trip home will not be nearly as secure

RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@Firesphere/116168336951729009

praying this is all true because it sounds so bad it might kill windows for real

i sat through the first four Scary Movies because my neighbor Jennifer was really, really attractive and liked them. she turned out to be homophobic and she didn't out herself as this until AFTER four Scary Movies and a How High. could've easily become my villain origin story

really awesome that Scary Movie 6 is going to be even more unwatchable than the previous five Scary Movies

i'm still glad we smashed some "smart" glasses but it's so disappointing we didn't stop it for long

my totally unfounded conspiracy theory is that when Google Glass became a thing in the SF bay area and we responded by smashing them off people's faces because we didn't want to be surveilled, it was big tech's first taste of the reality that the large cities that breed innovation also have no […]

checked the mentioned account with the username like a secure password and i can confirm bro needs his knees broken with a hammer but has nothing exciting going on

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woke up to a mystery ping from some sort of inscrutable bot, i don't know who sicced it on me or even what post of mine it was replying to but i'll break your knees with a hammer