Cadence 🐀 @goblingirl@girlcock.club

Had a "What year is it!?!?" moment last night at Applebee's. They had basketball on and I saw, in the subtitles, the narrator praising "Irving".

As it happened, they were referring to Kyrie Irving, not Julius Erving, whose name I did not know how to spell.

I know about a basketball player from the 80s because of the classic video game "Dr. J vs. Larry Bird One on One," which was a killer app back in the Apple ][ days. And I know way to much about computer games from the 80s.

please picture Rey: running a small strange diy channel of 480p vids of herself restoring rusty sand-wrecked machinery/tools interspersed w the occasional short vid of a sunset:desert wildlife. Never shows her face, posts videos sporadically & infrequently.
one day out of the blue posts a facecam where she’s driving a hippie van down an unplaceable highway at definitely illegal speeds w an unfamiliar man in the passenger seat, a popular activist vlogger’s very well known missing pet in her lap

XDDDD

i think im going to buy a fountain pen

what are the foundtain pens called where u have to dunk them

Goblins get a bad rap but i think more people are goblins of the soul than people realize

When there's cowboy talk on the tl

the "analogue hole" refers to the idea that no matter how hard you try to make sure nobody can make illegal copies of videos, music, or text, there's always a "hole" in the protection that occurs when it's no longer digital. digital content can be protected - video files can be encrypted, music players can limit you to five devices - but analogue signals can't be. for example, itunes can disallow you from putting a song on more than five computers, but if you play the song through your speakers and record it, what you do with it is beyond apple's control.

one of the few remaining analogue outputs on a modern device is the audio jack. this is where you connect your headphones or speakers. your laptop only knows that something's plugged in. it doesn't know what's connected. you could be playing it through earphones or a massive speaker system and it wouldn't be able to tell. meanwhile, HDMI is a digital output format. it can tell if it's been plugged into a TV or a recording device, and can automatically disable output if you're recording it to make it harder for you to make copies of movies.

if the audio jack is replaced by USB-C or bluetooth, it becomes possible to tell what you're connecting to the laptop or phone. your phone might disable audio playback on anything but headphones to prevent you from hosting a public event with the music. it could also detect a recording device that you're using to (for example) make a copy of a song you're listening to on spotify and turn off the playback.

of course, at some point, digital needs to become analogue. humans can't watch electrical pulses, we need to see patterns of light. we can't listen to streams of 1s and 0s, we need vibrations in the air. this means that it's impossible to truly defeat the analogue hole - no matter what you do, someone can always just point a camera at their TV. it'll have worse quality, but it can never be stopped.

the analogue hole is one of many ways to circumvent DRM, or digital rights management. you can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

#LynneTeachesTech

Good morning.

It's hokey, I know, but the whole "spark joy" thing is actually really helping me in this move.

I never had a chance to sort through anything in the storage locker -- we had to take it as is. There's probably going to be a lot in there that just does nothing for me ...

Does it bother anyone else that Athena, goddess of WISDOM, fell for Eris's golden apple schtick?

hello I'm hot

im hot as shit! look at this leg! LEG!

fuck you google, you possessive, controlling, restrictive assholes

I choose to believe it's called Cracker Barrel because everyone in that restaurant at any given time is a cracker

WALUIGI IS AN ENBY ICON

here's your annual reminder that when people say st. patrick "chased all the snakes out of ireland", "snakes" are a stand-in for pagans, witches, and other non-catholic people

it's a bullshit holiday