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I don’t know of any existing project, but this sounds pretty trivial to make with Python using http.server and PIL modules.

Upload file and store in RAM. Delete after first fetch. Optional watermarking for image files using PIL.

Mastodon users’ posts always include threaded usernames.

It’s against the rules to call the CEO of ExxonMobil a vile man?

Fuck that. I’ll say it myself. Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods is a vile piece of shit and if he weren’t actively destroying the planet with oil he’d be perfectly suited as a Republican politician given his aversion to truth.

It’s called an email alias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_alias

It is, an email alias is a redirect. They’ve just been calling plus codes aliases and didn’t know they were mixed up.

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Possible only if you add that functionality to Gemtext, but currently not something you can do with existing clients. It’s pretty much just modern Gopher.

This completely misses the point.

It may not be particularly useful, but I welcome a challenge to the current status quo. The Internet is a powerful resource, and we’re still building on top of the first protocol that worked back in 1991 to navigate it. Gemini isn’t something I could see having any mainstream appeal, but it’s absolutely worth experimenting with alternatives to the World Wide Web. Having more than one functional open standard could help revolutionize the Internet in novel new ways.

The advantage is that it’s an obligate web 1.0 (-ish) experience. You aren’t clicking a link on a Gemini site that is going to take you anywhere crazy. There’s no tracking pixels and embedded content to get in the way.

It’s possible to attempt this by just following web 1.0 standards on your w3 site, and only linking to sites that do the same, and so on, but eventually there’s going to be a like button or an embedded video or something that ruins the experience. The web is messy.

Smaller spaces with constraints can be a lot of fun. Working within those constraints can breed innovation.

If you can RDP, just copy and paste the file from one computer to the other.

The point of posting them is either for fun or for profit. Not to grant an open license for a corporation to sell your content for their profit.

Reddit created a website for people to come and share content and ideas with each other, and now claims to have legal ownership over their users’ content and ideas. Nobody participated because they wanted Reddit to sell their data. People generally figured that seeing advertisements was how they paid for the site, not by selling their souls.

This is interesting. This incident resulted in the Video Privacy Protection Act. I wonder if you could apply this to streaming providers who sell your watch history to advertisers.

I love that I can’t identify with this. My biological clock is phenomenal. I only use an alarm as a safety net when I have an early morning commitment, but I usually end up turning it off the next morning well before it would go off.

Repeating what everyone else has said, and strongly recommending that you see your doctor.

But if it eases your mind a little, I had a similar experience that was ultimately diagnosed as tinnitus, and treated effectively with behavioral therapy. It’s scary thinking something is wrong with you, but getting diagnosed is great because you get to know more than you did before about what is wrong.

I am unwilling to learn.

This is the only thing you’ve said that matters. Nobody should ever make any effort to help you, because you expect to spoonfed like a baby.

Setting up WINE, in my experience, is as easy as just installing it and running EXEs and MSIs with it. I just set wine as the default handler for those file types, and things mostly just work.

There is some tweaking that is sometimes necessary, but it’s easier to tackle that on a case-by-case basis. I hardly have to do anything for the handful of Windows-based tools I keep to work, and there’s usually someone online who has already figured out a workaround so I don’t have to.

Demoscene stuff. Basically just digital art written for fun and to show off your coding skills. People have been doing it since the Amiga. If you’ve ever pirated software in the 90’s to 00’s, you’ve probably seen a realtime animation and mod-based techno track accompany the keygen - that’s an example of Demoscene art.

I can’t find anyone in the US, not even one of the nerds that works in tech with me, who gives a single shit about this stuff. There are parties and conventions all the time, none of them in North America…

I’m traveling to Germany at the end of March to go to a Demoparty just for the chance to meet a single other person who cares. It should be fun.

I made my own prod discovery service if you ever want to check it out: https://prods.page/ (Yes, I need to update it).

ChatGPT will mock up a python script pretty quickly given a basic english description and reference materials like API docs, sparing me the burden of doing something tedius, but that’s about the extent of its utility for me.

Extremely uncharacteristic of X’s critics to point out X’s flaws.