I'm very intrigued, Dan Sup is one of the most interesting people working in the fediverse these days, and I'm very curious about anything he puts forward.
Your Name is one of my most favourite films, it's about bodyswapping.
Evangelion 1-4 are incredible sci-fi, but the TV series it's based on is arguably superior (or at least, should really be watched first).
Shin Ultraman is very fun if you like campy live action sci-fi.
The CRTC absolutely needs to adapt and relegislate/reinforce CanCon for the digital era. Ensuring Canadian artists get represented in Canada on some of the biggest streaming platforms is super important.
There needs to be a film about the FOSS movement that matches the vibes of 1995's cyberspace masterpiece Hackers.
Lemmy is definitely a more male space than I think even reddit was, and that does affect the tone of certain conversations. It really is a whiplash coming here from Mastodon sometimes and seeing a very different vibe.
Definitely a long way off from how active they were a year or two ago.
My early impressions are certainly quite positive, I love how experimental it is and very willing to explore new gameplay styles. Certainly curious to see what the metascore ends up being, probably higher than Link's Awakening HD?
A scathing new report takes aim directly at Big Tech and alleged violations of privacy.
Cryptobros fuck off
This is the one that has helped me the most with my Japanese vocab: https://anki-decks.com/anki-decks/japanese/ajt-kanjitransition/
This is the one that I made personally for studying Toki Pona: https://audiovalentine.com/2024/08/toki-pona-anki-deck/
I think about this all the time, I really could see myself getting into computer education ten years down the line.
What I would do is this:
- Focus on recreating styles of computing that produced our most digitally literate generation: Gen X (for context, I was born in 2000).
- Give everyone in the class a Raspberry Pi and a MicroSD card. Guide them through the setup process. This recreates larger, more complicated computers in microcosm.
- Start out with the Lite version of the Raspi OS, allow students to discover the different components of an operating system: Bash, window management, sound, the desktop, office applications. Take them through some common Raspberry Pi tasks.
- Do not allow the class to become the Adobe/Microsoft power hour. This is the number one way we are failing our students today.
- Have a unit focused around free software and the open source movement. Focus on social media literacy as well. Ensure that students understand how social media algorithms work, how these companies make money, understand that users are the product.
There's probably more I could come up with if I sat down to really plan out a week by week lesson plan, but this is off the cuff where I'd put the focus. So many of these topics have Connections-style related points. "Why is my computer at home different from a Raspberry Pi?" gives you a great opportunity to expand on CPU architecture, which leads to how computers actually "think". I remember when I was a child one of the things that I was most confused by was how a computer was able to turn Python into something it actually understands, that can be a fascinating lesson in the right hands. How does a computer know where to look on the disc when it boots up? It's great!
Kids already know how to use phones and tablets. Take concepts from those, concepts they are already familiar with, and then explain the deeper process behind it. Computers are engineered by people, you can understand them, it's not magic.
I've been a big Bethesda fan for years, no one else makes games that quite come close to their very simulationist style. I like Starfield, and now that it's a year after launch I have finally found my angle on it to get the enjoyment out of it that I wanted. I think it's a good game.
But it's also a flawed game, it's clearly not for you, and that's okay too.
Lemmy is a lot less women-friendly, queer-friendly, trans-friendly than the rest of the fediverse. That really needs to change.
Lemmy is a lot less women-friendly, queer-friendly, trans-friendly than the rest of the fediverse. That really needs to change.
I want to play either Skyrim or Breath of the Wild for the first time again, knowing nothing about what's out there to be discovered or the limits of the sandbox. Those games cast a special spell in their first few dozen hours before you know where the boundaries of the world are.
I can recognize that I love the Star Wars prequels for bad reasons.
But also they're still masterpieces actually.
Do vinyl records count? I really like that they make beautiful noise from a simple electromechanical process.
If the Play Store becomes required like that then Android's already-shaky status as an open source base platform is going to go out the window. I'm glad there are non-Google distros of Android but there really needs to be more of a push to make a completely FOSS phone platform.
also the August 2024 financial update, but I’m trying not to bury the lede. Hi everyone, We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. As of today, none of us are being paid for our labor1; all of our money in the ban...
We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. As of today, none of us are being paid for our labor1; all of our money in the bank, and any money coming in from people who buy our merch or don’t cancel cohost plus, is going towards servers and operations — paying the bills so we can turn the lights off with as little disruption as possible.
cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st. At this time, we will make best-effort attempts to keep the servers online through the end of 2024.
also the August 2024 financial update, but I’m trying not to bury the lede. Hi everyone, We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. As of today, none of us are being paid for our labor1; all of our money in the ban...
What's your favourite game made for a handheld console?
Games that can be played on a handheld but aren't really meant for it (e.g. most stuff on the Steam Deck) doesn't really count.
What Do You Use Your Personal Website For?
I'm stuck at a crossroads between what to do with my own. Not sure if I want to make it more of a documentation/wiki style site for everything I'm interested in or if I want to treat it more like a blog. I've got it hooked up to ActivityPub now and I'm intrigued by the possibilities that brings to the table, but I don't think I'd want it to replace my Mastodon account, which puts it in a weird sort of limbo.
So I want to know, what do you use your own website for?
The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI
After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product