YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Damn you mean itch didn’t actually just abandon these creators but has been working hard with its limited resources to figure out how to continue supporting them? How surprising

Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go!

Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”

Ahem. *takes a sip of water*

A deep mottled green background with red lava like text in the middle reading 'Dark Tide'. Pale yellow text reads ' Penance RPG Dark Tide 49.Flee To The Sea. Exploring an alternative Dragon Age timeline'.

penancerpg.com/shows/DT49.mp3

A blockaded village, with a barrier of furniture? Were the locals keeping people out? Or preventing something from leaving...
Will our Grey Wardens find a haven? Perhaps by fleeing, or racing, to the sea…

#IndieGames #TableTop #DragonAge #podcast #ActualPlay #RPG

A map showing South West England and Wales, labelled "Graph of British Rivers". Two river courses are shown, labelled 'Wye axis' and 'Exe axis'. Does anyone read these descriptions, or am I wasting my time?

Graph of British Rivers

A deep mottled green background with red lava like text in the middle reading 'Dark Tide'. Pale yellow text reads ' Penance RPG Dark Tide 48. Counting Contracts. Exploring an alternative Dragon Age timeline'.

penancerpg.com/shows/DT48.mp3

After the creepy command to sleep, presumably from the skull they were transporting, our Wardens awake in an unexpected place

This is our first streamed non-DnD TTRPG

#IndieGames #AudioDrama #TableTop #RolePlay #DragonAge #podcast #podcasting #HomeBrew #ActualPlay

empty wheelchair covered in parakeets

omg they even ate the bones

"The one thing I need to do today" represented by a single Tetris block that needs to drop into a very obvious gap at 9am; at 5pm it's evident that single block has been very badly dropped into the wrong spot.

Sigh.

A man wrapped up against the cold, surveys a frozen plain

The secret German weather station on the Arctic island of Svalbard. Part of the 'Weather War'.

The team, led by Lieutenant Wilhelm Dege, were the last German troops to surrender in WW2, finally doing so FOUR MONTHS after Germany had officially surrendered.

It was not for want of trying. /1

xkcd comic 2347 "All modern digital infrastructure" with one small important block near the bottom replaced with an inclusive pride flag

cartoon of Wendy, Michael and John in the nursery as the Tardis materializes in the open window. "Peter?"

Cartoon: Some might say I spend too much time on these. And they're probably not wrong but it's my time and you're not my supervisor :) Hope you enjoy :)

Orange background with blue and white text read "Crypt Community charity stream playing Endoparaditic 2. From 2am UK / 9pm EDT. Underneath is the logo for Penance RPG and a logo for The CrYpt Community stream team.

Join us tonight while we play #Endoparsitic2 for @cryptcommunity.bsky.social's latest #CharityStream for St Jude's, May 8th at 9pm EDT/ 2am UK

Streaming now at twitch.com/PenanceRPG

Donate at tilt.fyi/ZOrffcuFnR

#Horror #streaming #gaming #TwitchStreamer #RaidTrain #FundRaising

Orange background with blue and white text read "Starting 3pm UK / 10am EDT. Below is a list of participants, who can be found at https://bsky.app/starter-pack/did:plc:xqsn7youv5fh74y2nztmyze6/3lm5nhpd7st2o Underneath is the logo for St Jude's Childrens Research Hospital and a logo for The Crypt Community stream team.

Join @cryptcommunity.bsky.social's latest #CharityStream for St Jude's, tomorrow May 8th at 3pm UK til the 14th.

Donate at tilt.fyi/ZOrffcuFnR and watch Nikoli take part on the 9th at 2am UK/9pm EDT on the 8th

#Horror #streaming #gaming #TwitchStreamer #RaidTrain #FundRaising #TTRPG #gamers

A deep mottled green background with red lava like text in the middle reading 'Dark Tide'. Pale yellow text reads ' Penance RPG Dark Tide Dark Tide 45. The Return to Orzammar. Exploring an alternative Dragon Age timeline'.

penancerpg.com/shows/DT45.mp3
Following their negotiations with the Dalish, our group start to head back towards Orzammar, on the border of Felrelden
#IndieGames #AudioDrama #TableTop #RolePlay #DragonAge #podcast #HomeBrew #ActualPlay #gaming #fantasy #Comedy #TTRPG #RPG #RPGs

Color contrast checker for accessibility – WCAG 2 and APCA methods – A+Tech Resolve one of the most common accessibility issues on your website by using WCAG 2 and APCA methods

My husband and I made a color contrast checker with WCAG and APCA support.

It has Live Preview with APCA-specific details, assisting messages, helpful explanations, and permalink support.

We'll be happy to know what you think :)

#a11y #Accessibility #web #WCAG #APCA

a-plus.tech/tools/contra...

A purple night sky wih stars and a Penance RPG logo in the bottom left corner. Blue text reads ' Season 3 Pre-Finale Catch Up. The Varlastan Circle. A D&D5e campaign stream'.

penancerpg.com/shows/Varlas...
As Sillik awakes, Mal and Ari-ah update him on the happenings since he was bespelled in Gl'th.

#IndieGames #AudioDrama #TableTop #RolePlay #DnD5e #podcast #stream #HomeBrew #ActualPlay #gaming #fantasy #Comedy #TTRPG #RPG #RPGs

So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service."

Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):

I don't have a reference handy other than Wiki, but I've certainly seen (repeatedly from the late 90s onwards) IBM credited for all the problems^Whard work on 4.x because Microsoft had put all their devs on OS/2.

There is good AI and bad AI, and they are easy to tell apart. This is very very good AI.

In addition to our regular streams, we're proud to be part of The Crypt, a #charity focused stream team!

Set up by @kristynxrose.bsky.social and @inspaaace.bsky.social, meet the full team at bsky.app/profile/cryp...

#TTRPG #RPG #Horrror #IndieHorror #twitch #CharityStream #CryptCommunity #gaming

Read more and you’ll be able to craft better insults.

Computer Conservation Society Lore Harp & Vector Graphic: Silicon Valley’s Forgotten Female Microcomputer Pioneers

Like computer history? Come to my talk!

Honoured to have been invited by the Computer Conservation Society to lecture on Lore Harp and Vector Graphic: the forgotten female-founded pioneers of microcomputing

22nd May in London. In-person and Zoom tickets are available! #history #computing

Smiling lady in glasses, with blonde hair. (Dr Isaacson)

Feels a good day for a thread. So I would like to introduce you to a mostly forgotten, but actually rather pivotal figure in PC history.

Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.

If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1

Text tags: "#oral before curry I'm there in a hurry #curry before oral about to learn a moral"

Status report, "Today's Wisdom from Tumblr Tags" Dep't... 😅 (www.tumblr.com/lunarsorcere...)

Choose a plan that's right for you CURRENT SUBSCRIPTION Microsoft 365 Personal £84.99/year For one person Use up to five devices simultaneously Works on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets? v 1 TB of cloud storage New! Productivity apps like Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint with Copilot built in 4 New! Al-powered image creation and editing in Designer 4 LOWER COST WITHOUT AI Microsoft 365 Personal Classic £59.99/year Save 16% with annual subscription • For one person • Use up to five devices simultaneously Works on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets? / 1 TB of cloud storage Switch plan Or buy at £5.99/month Microsoft 365 Basic £19.99/year Save 16% with annual subscription 100 GB OneDrive cloud storage Switch plan Or buy at £1.99/month

This also applies if you’re paying annually, without AI the annual subs are £59.99, with £84.99
In your MS account you will see the auto renewal will be the higher rate, I switched off auto renewal & it then offered Microsoft Personal Classic at £59.99 which you can then switch to for your renewal.

screenshot showing choice of plans between Microsoft 365 and "lower cost without AI" option.

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate.

(They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase).

1) Go to your account page
2) Hit cancel
3) Change sub back.

User the-frog-in-the-bog says "I want to decompose in a bog" well you clearly don't know the first thing about bogs. Clout chaser User thebigwolf says #in the bog is like the opposite of decomposition #get pickled idiot Huge fan of the phrase "get pickled, idiot"

Elite discourse

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

I mean, if a guy did this in front of me, I would marry him too. Congrats to Zendaya and Tom Holland for their engagement🙏

Green and black background with white and green text reading "Penance RPG Schedule December sixtennth" Green headphones on row 1 are marked as a new podcast episode, a twitch logo as streaming on row 2 and a YouTube logo as YouTube release on row 3. The lower half has a table with the days Monday to Sunday, with row one being podcast episode, two being twitch and row three being youtube. Underneath are logos for each game. Monday - Kusoge Korner and VODs Tuesday - Terror Try outs and VODs Wednesday - PalWorld and VODs Thursday - Terror try outs and VODs Friday - VODs Saturday - VODs Sunday - Podcast episode and VODs

Where to find us this week:
twitch.tv/penancerpg

We have #TTRPG streams on #Twitch! They go up on #YouTube before the next stream #Horror & co-op games daily

#gaming #podcast #GamingPodcast #TTRPGs #TwitchAffiliate #TwitchStreamer #HorrorGames #RPG #DragonAge #PodernFamily #HorrorFan #indie