Same here. Thinking about that class just now, I remembered the name of one of the sites that we were told to use to find GIFs and animated buttons. I think it was called “animation factory.”

Well there is an https://www.animationfactory.com/ and it has exactly the types of GIFs I was thinking of. More classics right there.

Very!

Those are amazing, thanks!

I’m wondering if the fediverse in general (but especially Lemmy) would benefit from some kind of “fediverse help wanted” board for moderators, donations, technical help, etc.

edit: People who run a Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed/etc instance might be hanging out in the Matrix chat room for the software they are running; that might already serve this purpose.

I’ve never actually used it, but Faircamp caught my eye a while ago. https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/

I’m not sure if you can create a blog with it – it might only be for showcasing your music, no text posts. It definitely looks nice, though.

I never had it back then, but I had the demo disc and we played that for hours. Just two characters and one stage, and that still gave us endless fun.

I played Power Stone 2 with a friend last weekend (the new rerelease on steam, not on a Dreamcast) and it was great. A perfect “pick up and play” couch coop game.

One popular way was that Internet Explorer 6 included something called ActiveX, which basically allowed any website to run code on your computer as though it was a locally-installed program. You could just click on some URL and next thing you know it’s writing files to your hard drive. This is one of the main reasons why the Internet Explorer 6 / Windows XP era was particularly virus-filled. A website could open your freaking CD tray.

From the ActiveX wikipedia page:

Developers had to register with Verisign (US$20 per year for individuals, $400 for corporations) and sign a contract, promising not to develop malware.

Promising not to. And they did it anyway. The bastards.

Gotcha. The web UI in wallabag is nice and works pretty well with ereaders. It’s already black-and-white, although it doesn’t have pagination, so you’ll have to scroll.

I’ve been using Wallabag for a few years now and really like it. (It’s the one thing I’m not selfhosting, though – I’ve been using their hosted service. But it should run on a raspberry pi with no problems.)

You can also export to epub, but you have to do that manually. OP, does your ereader run android? There are wallabag apps available, which are nice because they usually work offline after downloading articles from your wallabag server.

When Redis messed with their licensing terms a while ago, I thought to myself, “which project that I rely on will be next?” And I kept thinking it was going to be Minio.

So I switched from Minio to Garage a few months ago and it has worked great. I used the AWS cli to start copying everything over one evening, and when I woke up the next day, it was done. My S3 use is just one giant bucket for my music collection in Funkwhale, so I only had the one command to run. After updating the S3 urls in Funkwhale’s configuration, everything was good to go.

This has all made me start paying closer to attention to what kind of organization is behind the various open source projects that I use. Garage is made by a web development shop in France – they might even be a coop, or I might be thinking of someone else. I could be wrong about that last part. But they’re definitely not a VC-backed operation like Minio.

Yeah, a few years ago they advertised themselves as the perfect storage solution for blockchain projects.

What you are referring to as pedantry, is in fact, semantics/pedantry.

Oh nice, that’s good to know. I wasn’t sure if the name “Red Wing” was just a coincidence or not.

I installed Grafana, simply because it was the only one I had heard of, and I figured that becoming familiar with it was probably useful from a professional development standpoint.

It’s definitely massive overkill for my use case, though, and I’m looking to replace it with something else.

I went with the cotton webbing straps. I thought that might be a little more comfortable.

Owning a backpack for 19 years sounds great, I hope there’s a way to keep it going.

How is the leather quality?

I can’t say that I’m an expert about leather, but it seems good enough. Their website says that their leather comes from Red Wing, Minnesota, and searching for that brings up SB Foot, who I’m not familiar with.

It uses two different kinds of leather: one for the straps that hold the rolltop down, and a different kind in the riveted places for reinforcing the riveted spots. The same leather for the rolltop straps is also used at the bottom of the shoulder straps for attaching to the backpack itself.

The leather for the straps is fairly hard and makes a “clack” sound if you tap your fingernail against it. The underside is unfinished, and I think a few little pieces still need to be rubbed off for it to pass through the buckles a little easier. It still isn’t broken in at all, so I’ll wait to weigh in on that.

The leather for reinforcing the riveted spots is softer and more flexible.

Here are some close-up pictures of the leather: https://photos.tuckerm.us/share/0xNl8uoBGRJc2l3lJA8O_RYfaySyihQuLZ0QhGhBvLzbZJZwmOdRFAHW5RZdu-yVoaA

Can the side pockets fit modern waterbottles (nalgene/hydroflask/etc)?

Yes, the side pockets are very large. My widest vacuum bottle is a 24 ounce Stanley with a 4 inch diameter, and it just drops right in pretty easily. Aside from the absolutely giant Nalgene/Hydroflask jugs, I’m pretty sure most of those are 3.5 to 4 inches. https://photos.tuckerm.us/share/SvCfwVRaRT0wXCNOUoqNenVTyXkuN-fZn00s4d72i9CuteFy63MQ3EV1JJpGEtbIglc

A few months ago I couldn’t sleep, so I turned on the TV and flipped through the regular old channels for the first time in probably about 15 years. There was a sumo tournament on NHK (Japanese public broadcaster) and I was immediately hooked. I’ve been following each tournament since then. For anyone who’s curious about it, matches are very easy to understand if you just want to watch the sport, but if you decide to starting looking up more information about the history behind these events, there is so much to read.

Looks good! Is that both lentils and kidney beans? Sounds like a great combo.

What are you trying to host?

That’s a very slick setup, nice.