Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Heading to E-Werk Saarbrücken for #revision2024 in a about an hour. Looking forward to The Meteorik's and Shader Showdown qualifiers the most today.

First time at Revision after nearly a decade of watching from afar. I enjoy a good convention, but during the pandemic Revision was the only remote event that was actually fun.

First ever Demoparty, actually. America doesn't really do this kind of thing for some reason. Closest I've done is Defcon, which while fun, isn't the same at all.

Made it to Saarbrücken! No mistakes this time. Looking forward to #revision2024 tomorrow!

Also, this city looks fun. I'll need to use some of my time to explore with my wife.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I really hate Microsoft products. Thankfully I only have to deal with them at work, and not all the time.

Answer: It discreetly opens a "create share link" dialog in another part of the program (where I can't see it), and DOES NOT COPY ANYTHING TO THE CLIPBOARD.

To a casual user, it appears successful though.

And that's how I pasted a malicous spam link I was reporting earlier into a Teams chat when I was trying to share a SharePoint file from another chat...

You try to share a link to a SharePoint item from a Teams chat, and there's this button. Take a guess what it does. Remember, this is a Microsoft product.