Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Oops, I didn't understand how to ride the DB train and accidentally ended up in Heidelberg. Best mistake ever, this place rules. Forfeited the Stuttgart hotel and I'm even closer to my next destination.

@halcy I'll be there!

It's a shame that communites surrounding Lemmy, Kbin, et al are closer to Pleroma than Mastodon in terms of tolerance for fascism. I really want that part of the Fediverse to succeed, but it's rapidly becoming as toxic as Reddit.

Still better than Reddit by a long shot, and not so toxic that I'm quitting yet, but I might not stick around if things get worse. Already about to switch instances since the flagship mods are slowly shrinking and transforming into corncobs.

About to leave for a trip to Europe!

March 24 - March 27: Munich, Germany
March 27 - March 28: Stuttgart, Germany
March 28 - April 1: Saarbrücken, Germany (#RevisionParty2024)
April 1 - April 3: Paris, France
April 3 - April 6: London, England
April 6 - April 10: Dublin, Ireland

A genre tag cloud based on my listening history. Not sure how Ohio made the cut.

@jraedisch I actually don't develop apps, I just notice a ton of new material design apps popping up lately that leave a lot to be desired. It's a hot take, I don't pretend to know a better alternative.

Hot take: Material Design is terrible and bootstrapping your FOSS app with it just makes your app worse.

Why are people talking about Facebook being down on Super Tuesday like it's a bad thing? I'm more upset that it came back up.

It's official. I'll be in Europe for 2+ weeks starting in late March, and I'll be in Saarbrücken for #RevisionParty2024!

Flying to Munich, then making my way by train to Stuttgart, Saarbrücken, Paris, and London, then flying to Dublin for a few days before my flight home.

YouTube just hit me with a copyright block on my only pubic video. :(

It was a potato-quality Japanese music video I found on a p2p network that pulled in 90,000 views since I uploaded it 17 years ago.

Sony waited until after they uploaded an official HD version of the same video, so I guess I forgive them.

The track slaps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ20Tgq3jk4

Stability AI just screwed up and published their latest project with an MIT license instead of the proprietary license they wanted. They just tried to pull a switcharoo a day later.

If anyone is interested in teaching a lesson to a company that doesn't respect intellectual property, consider forking their repo before this commit to set the precedent that this is FOSS whether they like it or not: https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableCascade/commit/209a52600f35dfe2a205daef54c0ff4068e86bc7

@ploum What's funny is that Jack Dorsey, the billionaire who everyone thinks owns Bluesky, is just on the board of directors, doesn't have an account, and is actively endorsing a Web3 competitor to Bluesky. Bluesky is just a shady for-profit Mastodon wannabe that will never amount to anything in the federated social media space. Now we watch as their own users get angry that federation is coming, even though that was the promise from the beginning.

@theverge The Verge is really going to compare having involuntary pornography distributed of you to getting fired for hate speech, huh?

At least it's clear who will win this thing: The lawyers.

Exploring music by @gribbles@mastodonmusic.social. Good background music to focus to. Enjoying the tracks "What are the media" and "Jetty".

@suricrasia crackles like pop rocks candy.

Just followed every artist on the @radiofreefedi rotational. Looking forward to discovering lots of new music.