Brendan Alford

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Professional Code Monkey, part-time ZX Spectrum tickler.
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Child A's first wobbly tooth fell out yesterday at nursery, and they didn't even notice! We only spotted the gap in the evening when I was helping them brush their teeth. They were very upset they couldn't leave anything for the #toothfairy , or get a coin for it. But don't worry, #German paperwork to the rescue. I created a mini 'lost tooth' form that we've filled out and put under the pillow instead, I'm sure it'll work out šŸ˜‰

#FediEltern #Parenting

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zprSxCMlECA

There’s #demoscene, and then there’s this abomination of nature and genius

Somebody must have bet him that he couldn’t make a demo without the computer itself

Freespin

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If you have an Adobe account, for Acrobat or Photoshop or whatever: they've turned on the "we will pillage your work for AI" setting.

Go to https://account.adobe.com/ -> Account and Security -> Data and Privacy Settings -> Content Analysis. Turn it off.

If they want to learn from your work, make them pay for it.

[Edit to add: before you gripe at me about using Adobe, read https://mwl.io/faq#tools ]

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Manage your Adobe Account profile, password, security options, product and service subscriptions, privacy settings, and communication preferences.

As someone who spent a large portion of '98 and '99 making sure shit didn't break on Y2K, I'd like to extend a very heartfelt FUCK YOU to HBO for greenlighting a piece of shit documentary that suggests that effort wasn't necessary.
Today is 2023-12-13, the sun sets at 16:05:43 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 00 secs. #GrandStretch #JointEarliestSunsetDay

W3C has posted that we are no longer active on X/Twitter and have directed all our followers here to Mastodon.

We are encouraging all W3C-related accounts to do the same.

Encourage your friends to follow us here!

Today is 2023-12-04, the sun sets at 16:08:26 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 02 mins and 43 secs. #mastodaoine #GrandStretch #NearlyAtTheNewSthretch

On a sad note, for many reasons, including that Elon wants to charge us for posting the stretch times, we're no longer operating on ExTwitter.

If you have buddies or friends over there who want to be part of the fun, please let them know we're here now.

(If you don't like what we do here and there are people you count as your worst enemies, please let them know, too!)

After a couple of days of fixing some animation bugs, I'm finally calling this done! This is my recreation of the end credits of Terrahawks, done in #blender #blender3d
@GerryAndersonTV
#retro #animation https://youtu.be/p_fBUiF3Ll0
Terrahawks End Credits Recreated in Blender

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BBC: "Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble"

No, lots of us called crypto out from the very start. I was reading accurate critiques of bitcoin in 2012.

Journalists and financiers and politicians got duped or didn't care about the truth when there was money to be made.

Now you're trying to pretend nobody warned you? Get fucked.