Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2022
Thu Dec 1
★ Liked https://werd.io/2022/transphobia-in-open-source
post from Transphobia in open source
A major developer of open source social networking software has a rather public statement about his opposition to “trans ideology” on his website. I won’t link to the statement, but I want to make my stance clear.There is no such thing as “trans ideology,” which, as a phrase, …
Wed Nov 30
★ Liked https://mastodon.social/@thatonegm/109430756377084518
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Unfortunately, my #NaGaDeMon (National Game Design Month) TTRPG is still in the planning stages.However! I am going to take some time tomorrow to write up as much of a rough draft as I can. That will entail making up a lot of settings and mechanics as I go, but that's what rough …
Tue Nov 29
★ Liked https://maya.land/responses/2022/11/28/we-live-in-a-society.html
Mon Nov 28
★ Liked https://minimaxir.com/2022/11/stable-diffusion-negative-prompt/
★ Liked https://www.enderverse.org/notes/indiexanadu.html
Sun Nov 27
★ Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/
★ Liked https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/26/productivity/
Sat Nov 26
★ Liked https://xeiaso.net/blog/site-update-v3
Fri Nov 25
★ Liked https://boffosocko.com/2022/11/17/your-twitter-go-bag/
post from Your Twitter “Go Bag”
In all the great spy and heist movies and a number of gangster films, characters in the stories that may need to drop everything at a moments notice and disappear “in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner” often have a “go bag” typically filled with jewelry, …
Thu Nov 24
★ Liked https://tracydurnell.com/2022/11/23/asserting-the-right-to-exist-in-public-online-spaces/
post from Asserting the right to exist in public online spaces
To this end, the damage to our communities by a twitter exodus isn’t simply going to be in the mode of losing the networks we’ve cultivated, but losing the ability to circulate cultural products that are INTENTIONALLY SUPPRESSED through institutionalized oppression.
Wed Nov 23
★ Liked https://www.zachleat.com/web/vote-with-your-tweet/
post Vote With Your Tweet
Twitter is backsliding into irrelevance. It has been a whirlwind three weeks of bad managerial decisions over there, including:
★ Liked https://maya.land/responses/2022/11/23/infinite-jukebox-eternal-jukebox.html
post from the rebirth of the infinite jukebox and autocanonizer
The link above is broken because the site has some bad metadata, but the site itself works!
Tue Nov 22
★ Liked https://briefs.video/videos/what-happened-to-text-inputs/
Mon Nov 21
★ Liked https://werd.io/2022/moderation-on-mastodon-theres-a-lot-of-work-to-do
post from Moderation on Mastodon: there's a lot of work to do
I’ve realized that I need to temper my enthusiasm for Mastodon. I worked on open source social networking platforms for a full decade of my life, and I’m very emotionally attached to this moment. I really want the fediverse to work.I come by it honestly: I do think that a …
★ Liked https://waxy.org/2022/11/invasive-diffusion-how-one-unwilling-illustrator-found-herself-turned-into-an-ai-model/
post from Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model
Last weekend, Hollie Mengert woke up to an email pointing her to a Reddit thread, the first of several messages from friends and fans, informing the Los Angeles-based illustrator and character designer that she was now an AI model.
★ Liked https://jealousmarkup.xyz/texts/webgl-line-hiding/
★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/19665
★ Liked https://gomakethings.com/pixel-perfect-is-not-the-goal/
★ Liked https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain
Sun Nov 20
★ Liked http://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/20/tracking-mastodon/#atom-everything
★ Liked http://annas-blog.org/putting-5,998,794-books-on-ipfs.html
Sat Nov 19
★ Liked https://aeracode.org/2022/11/14/takahe-new-server/
★ Liked https://b-ark.ca/2021/08/07/how-i-book-blog.html
post from How I Book Blog
I used to use Goodreads for tracking/reviewing books I’ve read. Then Amazon bought them and I decided to move all that stuff to my own blog. This is how I did it! #indieweb #ownyourdata
Fri Nov 18
★ Liked https://rhiaro.co.uk/2022/11/fediverse-culture
★ Liked https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-11-18-latest-changes-to-my-website
★ Liked https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/is-open-graph-protocol-dead/
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post from Is Open Graph Protocol dead?
Facebook Meta - like many other tech titans - has institutional Shiny Object Syndrome. It goes something like this:Launch a product to great fanfareSpend a few years hyping it as ✨the future✨Stop answering emails and pull requestsIf you're lucky, announce that the product is …
Thu Nov 17
★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/19645
Wed Nov 16
★ Liked http://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/16/yamanote/#atom-everything
Mon Nov 14
★ Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2022/11/14/9/raspberry-pi-restream
post from How to Build a Restreaming Server with a Raspberry Pi
First of all, what is a restreaming server? Sometimes you want to livestream video from a device like an ATEM Mini or OBS to multiple destinations. Many devices and software like this will let you push video to just one RTMP destination at a time.
★ Liked https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/