Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

I've been playing Justin Roiland's new video game High on Life, and it's basically just a disgusting Ratchet & Clank.

And by that I mean it's a great game, I recommend it.

@randomwalker If "active users" are determined by them recently posting, then it's not a great metric. Twitter measures by how often a user connects while logged in, and on Mastodon there's no way to aggregate that data.

Most social networks have more lurkers than active posters, so I would at least double that number and assume that people are sticking around without contributing much.

Maybe an admin of a larger instance could provide better stats on that based on the behavior of their users.

There's a brewery in Seattle called Perihelion, and today is Earth's Perihelion, so I might go after work today just to give them a hard time for not doing anything special for the occasion, lmao.

Tangentially related to the Damar Hamlin heart attack disinfo, I find it incredibly irritating when people insist on saying that a person whose heart has stopped for a period of time, but survived, "died".

Death is irreversible. If you die, you don't get resuscitated after. It's permanent. Irreversible. There is no exception.

What is the point in perverting the definition of death to mean "heart stopped beating" other than to sensationalize for clout? People are gross...

A highlight in #IRC history:

On January 16, 2005, blehbot, the first and only IRC bot running on the Unununium experimental Operating System, goes live on the #uuu chat room on irc.oftc.net.

@Gargron I highly recommend reading this if you haven't already: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet

I'm not 100% against quote posts, but if implemented tactlessly they're a one-way ticket to toxicity. Let's try to avoid implementing a "dunk mechanism".

My wife got me a Ring doorbell camera for Christmas.

We don't have a doorbell at all in our apartment. Literally can't install it.

Not a problem though, she bought it so I could take a stab at rooting it.

She knows me well.

No success yet, but it should be fun to tear open and get prodding.

@billyanders Dick's burgers aren't particularly high quality, lending to their exceptional cheapness, but they are delicious nonetheless.

They also pay their employees a decent wage, and their fries are so greasy it soaks the bag, so you get to say that you've got a "big greasy bag of Dicks".

10/10, do recommend.

So I have some doubts about this suspect that's been arrested in the Idaho killings. The police have sent missed messages since the beginning, made virtually no progress, and are still withholding details on how they established this man as a suspect.

Now the suspect is waiving his extradition hearing and submitting to DNA testing, seeking swift exoneration, which isn't characteristic of a guilty suspect. I have a feeling the police might be full of shit here, I guess we'll soon find out.

Alt-text correction: Upon further review the "Two Dots" ad is in Chinese, not Korean, and it is an ad for a iOS app, not for music.

To be clear, I have nothing against sex work or sex workers, it's just funny that Facebook paid me $10 to help them decide the relevancy of an ad for handjobs, which I assume is not allowed by the TOS.

I couldn't decide if it was relevant though, because they seem to be ignoring the language preferences I already provided them.