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John Harris

@rodneylives.bsky.social

Trying very hard not to be doomist about Bluesky's investors. Metafilter member (JHarris), roguelike person, oldweb enthusiast, Loadstar for C64 preserver. Mastodon: @rodneylives@mefi.social Blog: setsideb.com Switch: SW-4103-7970-5038 BLM! Trans rights!

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I should clarify, there were plenty of people using Firefox forks too. I guess that so many people there even know what forks are is indicative.

04.03.2026 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

03.03.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2787    πŸ” 877    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 124

Yeah, I suspect that reports of Chrome's ascendance are at least a _little bit_ juiced by every Android phone using it whenever they need a webview.

04.03.2026 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ohhhh

03.03.2026 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 926    πŸ” 387    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 29

I'm considering writing an intro guide, although I'm held back by the need to get considerably more experience at it.

04.03.2026 05:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You love to see it: Cunningham cast a pivotal pro-ICE vote and the other two voted to override the governor's veto of anti-trans legislation; they got wrecked tonight, they can all go get fucked forever

04.03.2026 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 218    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Lemmy.World - A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use.

And while Lemmy has nowhere as many users as Reddit, it does have a significant number, top posts on lemmy.world often have 1K+ rep.

04.03.2026 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting observation, I think...

There's a thread on Lemmy asking users what browser they use... and practically no one answered Chrome! The browser that's supposed to have outright won the browser wars has NO USERS there. Some people use a fork like Vivaldi or Chromium, but it's mostly Firefox!

04.03.2026 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You can check compatibility on ProtonDB: www.protondb.com

04.03.2026 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They don't all work, but now something like 95% do. The key was the Steam Deck, which runs Linux by default and gave Valve some strong incentive to get it all working. And if it doesn't work immediately, try one of the experimental versions of Proton and it might!

04.03.2026 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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04.03.2026 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 401    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

They Might Be Giants is the only band I've ever really gotten "into."

03.03.2026 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Jackal (NES) Music - Stage 02 & 05
YouTube video by GBelair Jackal (NES) Music - Stage 02 & 05

It’s the driving percussion that makes this track stand out to me.

Jackal NES tends to get overshadowed by other Konami/Ultra bangers for the console, and that’s a shame. Not to be punny, but it is a blast to play. Typically great music enhances the funβ€” for me, at least.

03.03.2026 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, compare that to the same piece from the arcade version: downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtr...

I think the NES version wins out over it a bit.

03.03.2026 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Get Your War on - Rees, David: 9781887128766 - AbeBooks A first collection of the website cartoonist's observations on the war on terrorism and other contemporary issues critiques such subjects as the anthrax mailings, Enron, the Office for Homeland Securi...

This is the version I have (somewhere): www.abebooks.com/978188712876...

03.03.2026 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Silly Maze Was Right: Everything We Know IS Wrong

03.03.2026 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Because you bought our game, you must now welcome into your life THE KNOB.

"THE KNOB exists to kick things. Every thing. All of them. Off of shelves, in the shins, no exceptions, all the time.

"THE KNOB caused us no end of trouble, we're happy to see it go. Its yours now, no takebacks, enjoy."

03.03.2026 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(sheepishly stands in the corner)

03.03.2026 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Oh, gas prices are 15 cents high, let's vote for the Other Guy, who'll kick the hornet's nest called mideast politics and make that and everything else a hundred times worse. But at least I voted!" I imagine them saying, like a pig standing proudly in their sty.

03.03.2026 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Friend last night who who also has Trumper family said something along the lines of "at least they vote," and I had to put it bluntly to them: no, we'd better off if every Trump voter didn't. While barriers to voting are always bad, people voting for stupid reasons is so harmful.

03.03.2026 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

On the Discover feed, someone's saying that they can't send pictures on Discord... but... I send images frequently...? I can't tell them how because they have non-follower replies turned off. Ah well.

03.03.2026 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have the print collection somewhere around here!

03.03.2026 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, I see. Seemed like a subtle thing but yeah now that you mention it it's more obvious. Heh.

03.03.2026 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Same here.

03.03.2026 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Forget-Me-Not - Apps on Google Play Run around the infinite, ever changing corridors of the NEON DUNJUN.

I'm a big fan of Forget-Me-Not, don't know how classic you'd consider it to be but it feels classic: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Mini Metro is on Android, is it old enough to be classic?: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

03.03.2026 06:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What makes it obvious? I mean, if you didn't have the original right in front of you

03.03.2026 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There is absolutely no reason to apologize.

03.03.2026 05:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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betting it all away making it easier to gamble is making it worse My lasting memory of my first marriage is one that defines the relationship: it is 1994 or so and I’m making dinner, anticipating when my husband will …

wanna read a little bit about how gambling destroyed my family? michelecatblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/b...

02.03.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just imaging going up to your friends, probably wearing sunglasses, and shouting YO GUESS WHO HAS THOSE BK BADGEZZZ

03.03.2026 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just reset them to plaintext with the tags left in.

What a time to discover that shell doesn't have a generalized search-and-replace command, other than maybe sed, which only works on lines so tags with newlines in them need Special Handling.

This is going to be a puzzle, isn't it.

03.03.2026 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0