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Working on an interactive #vr #scifi story, that involves lots of #programming and #animation and #art: @starshipsd.com
I sometimes talk about #left #politics and #anarchy.
Live in #london #uk
There's also the Tarot show: @wordcloudtarot.com
I sometimes talk about #left #politics and #anarchy.
Live in #london #uk
There's also the Tarot show: @wordcloudtarot.com
Netflix have broken the pop-out player in Firefox. Tsk. Annoying. Why do they do these things? Now I can't resize the video window to fit the projector throw without having the firefox title bar visible.
Every day technology gets worse in more and more ways. Thanks Netflix. As if it's not more...
February 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Netflix have broken the pop-out player in Firefox. Tsk. Annoying. Why do they do these things? Now I can't resize the video window to fit the projector throw without having the firefox title bar visible.
Every day technology gets worse in more and more ways. Thanks Netflix. As if it's not more...
Apparently last week's improv class, which I missed, did indeed talk about a story spine, a template I first heard from a Pixar story course:
Once upon a time there was... And every day they would.. Until one day... And because of that... (repeat 'because' till end)...
And this week was more...
February 11, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Apparently last week's improv class, which I missed, did indeed talk about a story spine, a template I first heard from a Pixar story course:
Once upon a time there was... And every day they would.. Until one day... And because of that... (repeat 'because' till end)...
And this week was more...
Trouble with Big Finnish Doctor Who Audio Dramas is that they're mostly rather expensive.
But look at this: there's more than a dozen of them for less than a quid each on humble bundle right now.
That's more like it. 👍
#bigFinish #doctorWho #humbleBundle more...
February 10, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Trouble with Big Finnish Doctor Who Audio Dramas is that they're mostly rather expensive.
But look at this: there's more than a dozen of them for less than a quid each on humble bundle right now.
That's more like it. 👍
#bigFinish #doctorWho #humbleBundle more...
Okay then, I guess I won't give you any money today after all. 🤷
Well done on protecting your business from all the people wanting to give you money in exchange for things today. more...
February 10, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Okay then, I guess I won't give you any money today after all. 🤷
Well done on protecting your business from all the people wanting to give you money in exchange for things today. more...
It's that time of year again when the tree outside my windows begins to blossom. This tree is always very early but spring is on the way.
Was a green parakeet in that tree as I was sitting up in bed reading and waking up, and the sun shining directly only my face.
#spring more...
February 9, 2026 at 11:47 AM
It's that time of year again when the tree outside my windows begins to blossom. This tree is always very early but spring is on the way.
Was a green parakeet in that tree as I was sitting up in bed reading and waking up, and the sun shining directly only my face.
#spring more...
Went out canvassing with the Green Party in ward next door.
The candidates seem nice and meeting other green members is nice, but the actual process of going around knocking on people's doors isn't really a great deal of fun for me.
Mostly nobody home, or else maybe peering through the s more...
February 7, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Went out canvassing with the Green Party in ward next door.
The candidates seem nice and meeting other green members is nice, but the actual process of going around knocking on people's doors isn't really a great deal of fun for me.
Mostly nobody home, or else maybe peering through the s more...
This month''s newsletter/digest is on the way to the fantastic loyal wonderful member who asked for it.
The rest of you terrible evil defectors joining opposition groups can read it here:
https://dalliance.net/blog/jan26/
Featuring bits about Improv, Vivaldi, A Hitch Hikers Guide show, p more...
February 6, 2026 at 1:17 PM
This month''s newsletter/digest is on the way to the fantastic loyal wonderful member who asked for it.
The rest of you terrible evil defectors joining opposition groups can read it here:
https://dalliance.net/blog/jan26/
Featuring bits about Improv, Vivaldi, A Hitch Hikers Guide show, p more...
Content warning:Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy immersive theater show
Went out and saw the Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy immersive theater show at the Riverside in Hammersmith.
It was good fun. Our pub visit and Arthur Dent's surprise leaving party that Ford threw was interrupted by more...
February 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Content warning:Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy immersive theater show
Went out and saw the Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy immersive theater show at the Riverside in Hammersmith.
It was good fun. Our pub visit and Arthur Dent's surprise leaving party that Ford threw was interrupted by more...
Content warning:UKPol Starmer Epstine
Starmer's speech is full of regret, so sorry that he believed the lies of Mandelson.
Now we are expected to trust the judgement of a man who believed the lies of a person known as the Prince Of Darkness in order to appoint him as ambassador to Americ more...
February 5, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Content warning:UKPol Starmer Epstine
Starmer's speech is full of regret, so sorry that he believed the lies of Mandelson.
Now we are expected to trust the judgement of a man who believed the lies of a person known as the Prince Of Darkness in order to appoint him as ambassador to Americ more...
Read "How To Survive In A Science Fiction Universe" by Charles Yu, a novel about a time-machine repair-man getting stuck in a loop during his search for his father.
First person narrated, in a fictional universe in which you can travel in time but you can't change anything about the past. more...
February 4, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Read "How To Survive In A Science Fiction Universe" by Charles Yu, a novel about a time-machine repair-man getting stuck in a loop during his search for his father.
First person narrated, in a fictional universe in which you can travel in time but you can't change anything about the past. more...
Now that Musk has offloaded Twitter and his AI experiments to SpaceX, he can be sure the government will bail it out when the AI bubble pops. The government's defense industry depends upon SpaceX for access to space.
This is probably the main reason for the "sale" transferring money from more...
February 3, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Now that Musk has offloaded Twitter and his AI experiments to SpaceX, he can be sure the government will bail it out when the AI bubble pops. The government's defense industry depends upon SpaceX for access to space.
This is probably the main reason for the "sale" transferring money from more...
So Musk bought Twitter for 40 billion and then merged it with his experimental AI company that has never made any money and then sold it to the other company he mostly owns (which exists only due to massive government subsidy) for 250 billion dollars.
This sale based on the ludicrous lie more...
February 2, 2026 at 11:07 PM
So Musk bought Twitter for 40 billion and then merged it with his experimental AI company that has never made any money and then sold it to the other company he mostly owns (which exists only due to massive government subsidy) for 250 billion dollars.
This sale based on the ludicrous lie more...
The AI features are "Optional by default" which is a mad thing to say. What?
If you want to turn them off then just flip the "off" switch to the "on" position 😆
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD4LspntEmI more...
February 2, 2026 at 10:52 PM
The AI features are "Optional by default" which is a mad thing to say. What?
If you want to turn them off then just flip the "off" switch to the "on" position 😆
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD4LspntEmI more...
Mozilla think that adding some controls to their settings to allow users to opt out of the AI features is good enough.
No sign of a separate build without them there at all, but at least a switch to disable them, in theory.
They say:
"Once configured, the AI preferences will persist acr more...
February 2, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Mozilla think that adding some controls to their settings to allow users to opt out of the AI features is good enough.
No sign of a separate build without them there at all, but at least a switch to disable them, in theory.
They say:
"Once configured, the AI preferences will persist acr more...
Resist And Unsubscribe as a protest against the US government and corporations seems nice, but I've already been doing that and there's only like two in the list that I haven't already done years ago or never used.
https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/ more...
February 2, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Resist And Unsubscribe as a protest against the US government and corporations seems nice, but I've already been doing that and there's only like two in the list that I haven't already done years ago or never used.
https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/ more...
I wonder if part of the reason that Mozilla are so confused about what their actual user-base want is that all the people who want to turn off the AI bullshit are also the ones who turn off telemetry so the bulk of people withbrowser.ml.chat.enabled=false
also have telemetry turned off s more...
February 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I wonder if part of the reason that Mozilla are so confused about what their actual user-base want is that all the people who want to turn off the AI bullshit are also the ones who turn off telemetry so the bulk of people withbrowser.ml.chat.enabled=false
also have telemetry turned off s more...
One thing which is annoying about Vivaldi and also Firefox and presumably also all the other Android web browsers is the way the "Add To Homescreen" button works on pages like Mastodon which are Progressive Web Apps.
If you add the shortcut to the homescreen then it opens as a WPA which m more...
February 2, 2026 at 12:37 PM
One thing which is annoying about Vivaldi and also Firefox and presumably also all the other Android web browsers is the way the "Add To Homescreen" button works on pages like Mastodon which are Progressive Web Apps.
If you add the shortcut to the homescreen then it opens as a WPA which m more...
In other AI news, everyone's talking about the Social Network For AIs, no humans allowed.
Those AIs are just as stupid as the humans, all flocking to this centralised owned social network that's bound to enshitify 😆
To judge from Scot's blog they post mad shit about the nature of robot more...
January 30, 2026 at 11:07 PM
In other AI news, everyone's talking about the Social Network For AIs, no humans allowed.
Those AIs are just as stupid as the humans, all flocking to this centralised owned social network that's bound to enshitify 😆
To judge from Scot's blog they post mad shit about the nature of robot more...
Asimov wrote his laws of robotics as a dramic device to show how difficult it is to write laws of robotics. How they always will contradict each other.
His laws are there to illustrate a problem, not as a genuine attempt at the solution. His laws are deliberately wrong.
Anthropic's const more...
January 30, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Asimov wrote his laws of robotics as a dramic device to show how difficult it is to write laws of robotics. How they always will contradict each other.
His laws are there to illustrate a problem, not as a genuine attempt at the solution. His laws are deliberately wrong.
Anthropic's const more...
Oh. Its proprietary!?
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/
Why has everyone been talking about Vivaldi being a sensible replacement for Firefox when it's not even open source and you can't install it on Arch?
😬
These chrome "Profiles" aren't nearly more...
January 30, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Oh. Its proprietary!?
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/
Why has everyone been talking about Vivaldi being a sensible replacement for Firefox when it's not even open source and you can't install it on Arch?
😬
These chrome "Profiles" aren't nearly more...
People who aren't MPs shouldn't have to pay the wages of those who are! 😆
January 29, 2026 at 9:29 PM
People who aren't MPs shouldn't have to pay the wages of those who are! 😆
I wonder if they really think that people didn't go to university don't benefit at all from there being some other people who did? Inane. These tossers need to be tossed.
January 29, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I wonder if they really think that people didn't go to university don't benefit at all from there being some other people who did? Inane. These tossers need to be tossed.
Will the course teach how to get AI to tell you how to get around the VPN ban? 🤔
January 28, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Will the course teach how to get AI to tell you how to get around the VPN ban? 🤔
Because because because because because. Because of the wonderful things he did in the last scene.
Improv teacher Steve Hoopla in today's 'story' course guided us through some "Because Games", in which scenes are to be causally connected. Each following on from prior scenes. Because that more...
January 28, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Because because because because because. Because of the wonderful things he did in the last scene.
Improv teacher Steve Hoopla in today's 'story' course guided us through some "Because Games", in which scenes are to be causally connected. Each following on from prior scenes. Because that more...
Okay, okay, I get it. Thanks Mozilla. I'll give Vivaldi a try at the weekend. Seesh.
https://stateof.mozilla.org/
#mozilla #firefox more...
January 28, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Okay, okay, I get it. Thanks Mozilla. I'll give Vivaldi a try at the weekend. Seesh.
https://stateof.mozilla.org/
#mozilla #firefox more...