March 1999 VHS @mattDVD@wandering.shop

Friends I've done it. Mastodex is now up! If you don't know what it is, Mastodex is a public listing of Mastodon users in which they are tied to a specific Pokémon of their choosing.

It's in early stages, I'm happy for others to play with it and for people to contribute if they want. It's licensed under the zlib license.

Some features:
- Translations for 4 languages (English, German, Italian, French)
- Clear way to claim your own Pokémon
- Responsive layout
- MissingNo

https://funkeh.gitlab.io/mastodex

It is SO frustrating to me that critique of high vs low culture manifests mainly as protect netflix specials/MCU movies from criticism at ALL COSTS and not like.... pay attention to things made outside both the fine art system and entertainment industry

@mattDVD

#SeaQuest looked at this a bit, although it was more submarine Star Trek. Sylvia Earle and the Tektite project might be of interest as well as the Seasteadding Institute. Finally, I would check out #tidalpunk and the Sea Orbiter. http://www.seaorbiter.com/

excited to announce that the theme of this week is patience

the "analogue hole" refers to the idea that no matter how hard you try to make sure nobody can make illegal copies of videos, music, or text, there's always a "hole" in the protection that occurs when it's no longer digital. digital content can be protected - video files can be encrypted, music players can limit you to five devices - but analogue signals can't be. for example, itunes can disallow you from putting a song on more than five computers, but if you play the song through your speakers and record it, what you do with it is beyond apple's control.

one of the few remaining analogue outputs on a modern device is the audio jack. this is where you connect your headphones or speakers. your laptop only knows that something's plugged in. it doesn't know what's connected. you could be playing it through earphones or a massive speaker system and it wouldn't be able to tell. meanwhile, HDMI is a digital output format. it can tell if it's been plugged into a TV or a recording device, and can automatically disable output if you're recording it to make it harder for you to make copies of movies.

if the audio jack is replaced by USB-C or bluetooth, it becomes possible to tell what you're connecting to the laptop or phone. your phone might disable audio playback on anything but headphones to prevent you from hosting a public event with the music. it could also detect a recording device that you're using to (for example) make a copy of a song you're listening to on spotify and turn off the playback.

of course, at some point, digital needs to become analogue. humans can't watch electrical pulses, we need to see patterns of light. we can't listen to streams of 1s and 0s, we need vibrations in the air. this means that it's impossible to truly defeat the analogue hole - no matter what you do, someone can always just point a camera at their TV. it'll have worse quality, but it can never be stopped.

the analogue hole is one of many ways to circumvent DRM, or digital rights management. you can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

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*tv static, typograhy wipes on screen*

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i am actually kind of terrified of Big Cat

@mattDVD Ghost text. You're haunted by its presence!

I’m running for President in 2020 as a hardline biblical literalist

Do you ever look at the Wikipedia pages for numbers? They're rather interesting. In a nerdy kind of way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000