Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

havin a good time

I just learned that Super Tux Party is a thing. Alpha stage, but still, this is awesome. https://anti.itch.io/super-tux-party

Now the bots are questioning their own simulated subreddit

semi-regular reminder: the #Firefox (also Chrome, if you must) add-on Bypass Paywalls lets you easily get past the article-hiding nag screens on numerous major media websites, even that jerk-ass WSJ

both mozilla and google rudely delisted it from their add-on sites so you have to get it from the author's github:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

The kids' halloween costumes at the town event were like...

30% Elsa
15% Spiderman
40% other Disney-owned characters
10% Pokemon or other Nintendo
5% not a licensed intellectual property

(me and my daughter were in the "other disney-owned characters" category since we were Pixar characters)

where is the future of culture supposed to come from when the universe of kids' imaginations has already been collected and circumscribed under a single corporate copyright holder?

pupy

Oh, I got to visit the Soviet Arcade machine museum. I missed one in Moscow, but thankfully we got to go in Spb and it was a lot of fun. It also had one of the most frustrating pinball machines ever, I don't think any of us managed a game longer than uhhh 5 seconds?

ghost programmers use boo-lean logic

Princess Pumpum's pretty eyeball

Still giggling. Stick tail

I would like to present one incredible Y2K aesthetic I witnessed at HARD-OFF today, I was in awe

Idea: A clock that takes the time of daylight and divides it up into twelve sections, let's call them "bells", and they are shorter in winter and longer in summer. In the night, same idea, let's call them "watches" and they are longer in winter, shorter in summer.

Trains and timed meds and stuff would still need to run on UTC, but imagine being able to organise your day to the length of daylight/darkness.

Most people would still need different routines in winter and summer but this is a feature, not a bug.

If you think of better names for the bells and watches then let me know, I'm borrowing from nautical terminology here.

Also does anyone want to program this? Even as a website where I could input my location by city, it would be super useful. Even going strictly by sunrise/sunset and ignoring concepts like dusk, it would be helpful.