Raygan Kelly 

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This account has moved (back) to @raygan. bird.rodeo instance will be shutting down soon (July or August 2024)
all my linkshttps://raygan.me
The Short Game Podcasthttps://shortgame.fm
@Moltz I spotted your InkPalm review minutes after ordering one for myself. I have a larger Boox device already. If you’re still looking at eink friendly epub reader apps, I’ve liked FBReader. They sync your books and progress via Google Drive with versions for Mac and iOS, and the beta APK on their website improves the look on eink.

I am a pretty big user of in-home game streaming, and I finally took the time to move my gaming PC from Nvidia GameStream (via GeForce Experience) to Sunshine. So far it's a big improvement!

If you want to stream your PC to any other device, the combo of Sunshine (server) and Moonlight (client) is great, and a great example of good tech rescued from a corporate death penalty by the open source community.
#moonlight #cloudgaming

I’ve just learned that the word Hermetic (as in Hermeticly Sealed) and Hermit (a person who lives in seclusion) are entomologicaly unrelated.

The word Hermit comes from Greek by way of Latin, originally “eremos”meaning desert-dweller.

The word Hermetic comes from the Greek god Hermes. A hermetic seal comes from alchemy in the tradition of Hermeticism. The legendary Hermes Trismegistus supposedly invented the process of making a glass tube airtight using a secret seal.

395: Subpar Pool

Golf + pool + the developer behind holedown? Be still our hearts. Subpar Pool brings polish and charm to the (pool) table, with tons of variations and challenges to keep it fresh — we highly recommend you pick it up on mobile, Switch, or Steam. Plus, a tour of your hosts' various attempts to play games in bars. 

https://www.theshortgame.net/395-subpar-pool/

395: Subpar Pool

Golf + pool + the developer behind holedown? Be still our hearts. Subpar Pool brings polish and charm to the (pool) table, with tons of variations and challenges to keep it fresh — we highly recomm

The Short Game
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"Being able to say, ‘wherever you get your podcasts’ is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience." https://www.anildash.com/2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash

“[H]aving the world’s biggest advertising company make the most popular Web browser [is] about as smart as letting kids run a candy shop.”
@washingtonpost

@geoffreyfowler explains why the “#Chrome browser looks a lot like surveillance software.” He recommends #Firefox. (My pick is Safari first, then Firefox.)

DYK? “Google quietly began signing Gmail users into Chrome last fall.”

#GoogleIsEvil
#Google
#GiftLink #GiftArtcle

https://wapo.st/3SaZkYH

OLD ARTICLE
Missed the date. Sorry!

Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s Web browser has become spy software

Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week.

The Washington Post
Great video detailing what was required for BlueScuti’s incredible world-first achievement of a true kill screen in NES #tetris, how we got here, and where the competitive scene may go next. It’s amazing to see a 13 year old building on decades of #retrogaming achievement and breaking new ground.
https://youtu.be/GuJ5UuknsHU?si=7v9xTSw2batU_EQZ
After 34 Years, Someone Finally Beat Tetris

YouTube

Huh. TIL Tom Lehrer released all his music into Public Domain back in January! Neat. Dude’s still evolving at 95.

https://tomlehrersongs.com/

Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer

Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the

Tom Lehrer Songs
How Big is YouTube? The methodology used to answer this question (in lieu of an official API mechanism) is pretty interesting: they “drunk dialed” a bunch of random video URLs and counted how many were valid. https://ethanzuckerman.com/2023/12/22/how-big-is-youtube/
How Big is YouTube? - Ethan Zuckerman

How big is YouTube? It's not easy to find out, but we did two years of research and figured out how...

Ethan Zuckerman