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Hi there! 👋

An elder millennial, tech savvy up until about five-ish years ago, lol. I enjoy #DIY projects, #crafting, #videogames, and I try to stay informed about current events (even when they're *exhausting*).

Constantly over-caffeinated serial hobbyist.

Emojiology:🏳️‍🌈🐈‍⬛🎮🎨☕⚛️
Pronouns:He/Him/They
Playing:GW2, BG 3, D4
Hashtags:#maker #gamer #catdad #osint #progressive #ttrpg #aiart #3dprinting
Social media should not have "retweets" or "boosts". Instead you should have to write a handwritten letter with a quill pen, beginning with "I hope my letter finds you well. I have encountered a most remarkable piece of writing, which I wish to excerpt for you herein."

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in #Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists
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The recent transformation of the state’s #election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations.

Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.

#Voting #Elections #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/right-wing-activists-georgia-voter-challenges?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists

The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.

ProPublica
I am currently dealing with a great deal of property management stress involving obfuscating the number of foster cats currently residing with me while they barge into my life to work on the gas lines and once again I am so mad that it's not possible for a single adult like me on a modest salary at a skilled job to actually own a house and not have to put up with this shit for the sake of HELPING MY COMMUNITY.

David Tennant wearing a "Leave Trans Kids Alone You Absolute Freaks" t-shirt to the Good Omens 2 premiere. Love this show. Love these guys

*Season 2 coming to Prime July 28th 😇👿🖤🤍

starring David Tennant, Michael Sheen and a diverse, incredibly talented cast. written by Neil Gaiman @neilhimself (with blessings from Terry Pratchett)

A new study shows a whopping 87% of games released prior to 2010 are no longer available for sale or download by any means other than the second-hand market and archival/"piracy": http://gamehistory.org/87percent/

Proof if you ever needed it that the community is doing the work that corporate interests won't do to preserve gaming history and the slice of culture it represents.

We are living in an age when it is so astonishingly cheap to keep copies of things around and yet the perverse incentives exist for companies to memory-hole anything that doesn't perform well or that might compete with newer offerings.

IMO, in the big picture this is what legislation is for, correcting a horrible tendency that the market will have if left to its own devices, and there should absolutely be legislation protecting archivists of content that's no longer available for sale, or even requiring that content creation companies keep content available in SOME form. Until then, we depend on each other to do this.

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 what do I do with a domain name?

I got my first hostname from Google Domains (apparently in the middle of a sell-off to SquareSpace? Ugh). I setup an old PC with Ubuntu, hoping to experiment with self-hosting some Fediverse apps, which turned out to be *far* beyond my skill level.

In the process, I failed to configure SSL through CertBot for my new domain, AND screwed up SSL for my old no-ip DNS (hitting the rate limit for CertBot). 😵‍💫

I wanna use this hostname for SOMETHING.
Any ideas?

If you tell your friends about Mastodon, you’re technically an ambassador of the federation.
Interest in OpenAI's ChatGPT skyrocketed earlier this year, but the chatbot's growth now appears to be waning. https://www.pcmag.com/news/are-we-sick-of-ai-chatbots-already-chatgpt-site-sees-traffic-dip
Are We Sick of AI Chatbots Already? ChatGPT Site Sees Traffic Dip

Internet traffic monitor Similarweb says the novelty with ChatGPT may have worn off.

PCMag

This is Monroe, who emerged from his garden lair this morning to inform me it's time for breakfast. 

#CatsOfMastodon

So I, my partner, and our (five!) cats moved into a proper house after years and years of apartment living. It's hard to say who among us enjoys this backyard the most, but I am super pleased with how all the decorative efforts turned out. There is still a lot of work to do, but this already feels like a magical space. 💖 #FreshStarts