RE: https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/115743859250469584 In other words, we demand that the feed must only be susceptible to _inside_ manipulation. re: "The TikTok algorithm will be retrained on US user data, excluding data from everywhere else, to "ensure the content feed is free from […]

The MicroProse B-17G Flying Fortress for #msfs2024 is out of preview now, and the 1.0 version looks very nice. Here's a photo of the real Sentimental Journey I took in 2012, and the model in the simulator. https://www.justflight.com/product/microprose-b17g-flying-fortress

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]

Setting up step-and-repeat page layouts for efficient finish trimming has always been a fun activity for me. Not sure why I take pleasure in manual imposition work that I'm sure many would find tedious, just to save a few cuts later.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@pc_gamer_/pc-gaming-news-dmgca5crz/-/a-j-FUe6b2R_OWJyxZGNci6A%3Aa%3A2568789945-%2F0 The brilliant puzzle design, progression, and sense of discovery makes The Witness one of those games that I continue to think about regularly. So when I seen Jonathan Blow spent a […]

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson declares a statewide emergency in response to flooding occurring throughout the Pacific Northwest. https://www.king5.com/article/weather/weather-impact/statewide-emergency-declared-washington-flooding-atmospheric-river-rain/281-1268ff2c-9c5d-45b2-b94e-495b2c440412

Put on a lofi playlist and, after a few tracks, I found myself bopping my head to a familiar diddy. Took me a moment to place it before… oh it's the Scooby Doo theme! They can make lofi covers of anything I guess. Apple Music Sample […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This is a fun new #macos bug. Mission Control / Expose view shrinks windows down to a single pixel each. But only on one space at a time. Other spaces are fine. If I delete the affected space, then the issue migrates to another single space that was previously fine. 🤷

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington

Came across a post where a youngling uses “OG” as an abbreviation for simply “original.” As in “here's a link to the OG unedited file.” 🤦🏼‍♂️

Don't wait ’til #Caturday. Squeeze ’em while you got ’em.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bricknews/115651691467895200 So timely! LEGO literally made a Portland Frog minifig.

Under Blockade, Gaza’s Doctors to Unveil the First-Ever Locally Made 3 – Glia https://glia.org/blogs/press-releases/glia_external_fixator . This is the kind of technology we will all need once we're beyond the tipping points. Thanks to the Palestinians who prepare the future...because they're […]

I finally got https://crafty.social running on my minisforum, not sure why all that took me so long. Literally just needed to switch tunnels from my laptop to the proxmox containers by deleting the published app on one and adding it to the other. The server is up to date with the latest software […]

#BellinghamWA The Allied Arts Festival of the Arts is being held at the old Rite Aid space in Sunset Square, next to Safeway. For #SmallBusinessSaturday, come shop dozens of local artists and craftspeople, and support local art education programs in the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Wife got the Christmas village put up just in time for the in-laws to ohh over yesterday. This year it's the #department56 North Pole series that came out of storage. #d56 #villaging

Second Thanksgiving in a row where the #traeger smoker app is down. 🙄 Not a huge deal since the grill works from the front panel and doesn't need the app for the important stuff. But still… The more robustly reliable and accurate Signals probes are still up, so I can watch temps from the couch.

RE: https://beep.town/@greatscott/115618834299679890 Dr. Pepper be like:

Are you okay, Dropbox? What are you even doing?

I found a neat app that helps jazz up macOS screenshots. It's new, from a small independent developer that's looking for some traction, and thought I'd create a little review video. Take a look at https://www.screensnap.pro if this might fill a need you have. One time purchase for $10 if you […]

@Mrfunkedude Can I ask how you set up the "home" tab on your #peertube server? Mine only shows tabs for Discover and Browse Videos. Is it a custom markdown content under Settings > Configuration > Homepage?

I had a thought as I drove through an increasingly pastiche section of our local Old Town district today.

Every game needs a fishing minigame inside, and now Flight Sim is getting one too! Drop your float plane onto any lake worldwide, hop out, and cast a line. Uses seasonal and location data to spawn appropriate species. Go Fish from Parallel 42 available soon […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

One of the problems with the fediverse(s) is that there are in fact cash costs to compute share, and we can't wave it away with VC and ad revenue. There's no economy of scale and complete self-hosting costs hundreds/month even if your admin&mod team is volunteers. Which is why I'm really keen […]

Why are credit card offers always "get 3× points on restaurants and airfare!" and never "get 3× points on emergency pet surgery."?

If you try and sell a book on eBay, they offer you a convenient drop down, scrolling selection list of, apparently, *all* authors and *all* titles to choose from.

I've been watching the development of #beekeeperstudio as an interesting cross-platform #sql database GUI, and they just rolled out a charming feature they call "query magics." They're standards-compatible column alias modifiers you can use in a SELECT query to format the output. For instance […]

Redmond turns off #flocksafety cameras after ICE arrests https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/redmond-turns-off-flock-safety-cameras-after-ice-arrests/

I have this circle cursor thing drawn on my screen that won't go away. I was playing around with DaVinci Resolve's fusion nodes, and I think it's an artifact from that. But DaVinci was closed long ago, and the circle remains. It shows on top of every window […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Officially throwing off the #Adobe yoke, and they sure are shitty about it. Because I opted in to the non-AI Creative Cloud plan last May, it restarted a NEW annual contract, even though I've been subbed to CC since 2013. So of course they want to charge an […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

With 108,590 gold collected in a single run, I am currently, officially (probably temporarily) the BEST IN THE ENTIRE WORLD at Ron Gilbert's (@grumpygamer) new game Death By Scrolling. This has never happened to me before.

What the heck is wrong with my macOS?! Lately Finder has been just making up completely BS stuff about my files. Here's a brand new folder that I'm making brand new PDFs in, and one is mysteriously tagged as a 16MB .mp4. In another folder of similarly sized […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Looks like Affinity doesn't support modification effects in the Appearance panel. That's a BIG issue for me. In Illustrator, you can apply offset path to a fill, or convert a stroke to a rounded rectangle to make dynamic appearances. Further, you can add […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Been saving this one all week for the next #caturday.

Wow, my "Reading List" sidebar in Safari is full of things I've accidentally added to Reading List over the years. What a weird accumulation of random crap!

The Filter Brush tool in the new #affinity Studio can be a big timesaver, and something that has no equivalent in Photoshop. Made a quick video last night: https://video.adamwilbert.com/w/odHvp6fgGtfTXdd1TgyYCf

The unified toolset of the new #Affinity is going to take some time to get used to, but it streamlines how I use the Adobe apps. There are going to be some growing pains though. One thing I do often is set up a single label in Illustrator, then place them […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

One thing that I just noticed #Affinity has is a full compliment of Pantone swatch books. For whatever licensing nonsense, Adobe needs another $90/year subscription to Pantone Connect to provide the same. (or if you stay on top of it, you can keep copying […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The new #affinity Studio suite is now free! Pixel, vector, and page layout functionality all consolidated into a single app. That's quite a shot at Adobe. https://www.affinity.studio/get-affinity

The Canadians have invaded our airspace! Every fall, this is one of the things I look forward to most in the Pacific Northwest. https://video.adamwilbert.com/w/8WL2HvuFyfF7UAcMr6Lw19

Never played Gris, so I don't have a deep gameplay connection to the music, but I am really enjoying the Gris Piano Collections soundtrack this Sunday afternoon. I don't usually crank up solo instrumental stuff, but I've got this playing pretty loud and it's reverberating in my chest, doing […]

Super esoteric question: Watching a show (Invasion) and spotted these strange bokeh spots in one scene. The've got a sharp grid pattern in them, and I've never seen anything like that before. Can anyone in the #photography #optics or video #PostProduction […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This reminds me of a few items I've added to my .zshrc file over the years: alias ll='ls -laG' (quick format file listings) alias atheon='open http://192.168.7.61:5000' (jumps to my NAS) alias cls='clear' alias dir='ls' (for when I forget I'm not on Windows) alias dotclean='dot_clean -n .' […]

The National Trust for Historic Preservation wants destruction of the White House East Wing halted, saying it’s “deeply concerned that the massing and height of the proposed new construction will overwhelm the White House itself.” […] [Original post on journa.host]

Free entertainment sorted for the next three weeks. I just found out that my library lends Switch games!

I must be doing something right when the only impact I saw of the AWS outage was a bunch of posts on Mastodon talking about it.

#shapr3d has a new generative render mode that works pretty well for making visualizations of a 3D CAD model. I made a short video. I do find that I'm exceptionally conflicted on these new tools. Privacy, energy, and training data are all problematic. Many people I follow are either all-in or […]

I don't know why "full screen with menu bar" is such a hard concept for #macOS. There's an option in System Preferences to keep the menu, but it applies globally, even to full-screen video which is maddening. So I figured out a per-app solution using […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"Learn anything from Python to Jazz Piano." Thats how I described Linkedin Learning in one of my pinned posts. It's a combination of words that Amazon used to call a “statistically improbable phrase.” There are literally zero other hits on Google for that combination. Now I see that the […]

Newest buzzword du jour: Shoppable. 🤮