Quiff

@quiffboy
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UX architect. Left of center. Against all forms of racism, fascism, homophobia and transphobia. Ally. Dabbles with tools and communities for his favourite video game. Reports on sectors that aren’t really lost.
PronounsHe/Him
DispositionMildly annoyed
MusicYes
Video gameDestiny 2

“We notice you are using an ad blocker…”

Yes, and I notice you are using a few dozen trackers. Turn off the trackers and I will look at your ads. Until then, we are at an impasse.

@ryanhoulihan my favourite part is when the keyboard and typing window in any app randomly disappears, so you have no idea what you already typed or what keys you’re pressing next.

Almost as much fun as trying to place the cursor into a chunk of text to insert a word.

Such a mess. How are they rewriting the keyboard so dramatically that they’ve made it so unstable?!

Welcome to another day in late-stage capitalism, when millionaires train computers to paint pictures and write poetry, while human beings do back-breaking work for them at minimum wage, and Billionaires tell the slaves to blame immigrants for their misfortune. Have a great day!

https://gamehistory.org/87percent/

Piracy is a moral imperative.

Stop demanding remakes, start demanding access.

87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation

New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable

Video Game History Foundation

So, social media manager types... Has anyone found a tool that can cross-post to hive, threads and bluesky yet?

Used Buffer app before but it hasn’t got the new networks.

Or are we all cutting and pasting between apps on our iPhones? 🙀🙈

How to be An Genius:

1. Pay $44bn for a site worth 1/2 that
2. Sack everyone who knows how it works
3. Release far-right troll army
4. Turn genuine validation into a badge of idiocy
5. Kill most of your ad revenue
6. Inflate API price to recoup money
7. Everyone stops using API and scrapes site instead
8. Massively limit the service to end scraping
9. Service is now unusable
10. Remaining advertising value destroyed
11. Kill a cornerstone of the internet
12. Lose $44bn

The sudden chaos as Twitter — a service built on the idea of shouting your shower thoughts to the world — locks everything behind a registration wall, jacks up prices, AND gets demonstrably less stable for the PAYING customers is a hilarious demonstration off the fact that Musk isn’t actually good at business, just at being a rich guy.

We haven’t, as a society, really seized on the idea of “there’s more of us than there are of them.”

Corporations spend a lot of money making sure we don’t think that way. We might unionize! We might vote!

Politicians (republicans) spent a lot of time slicing and dicing, changing the rules, and making gerrymandered districts so we think we can’t win.

We only get our power back when we choose to take it. Speak up. Unionize. Vote. Use your voice until you’re hoarse. Protect our future.

February 2020 was the last time I DJ’d anywhere. 😳
Petition to get Astley and Marr on stage together when