Dustin Wilson @dustin@dustinwilson.com

Study Reveals Lost Continent Demolished by Europe

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-reveals-lost-continent-demolished-europe-180973120/

Aaaaah, I love computers #not

I know there are quite some #mastoadmin struggling with the disk space usage of the mastodon instance they maintain. The issue is not acknowledged enough and there are very few ways you can mitigate this using the official mastodon tools etc. Even better, often the proposed 'solution' is to 'get more disk space lol'.

Here's a compilation of recipes on how we try to deal with this for post.lurk.org as we learn by doing.

https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Mastodon#Maintenance

In general we document many parts of lurk.org on that wiki so that other collectives can use that information:

https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Main_Page

Hey #Fediverse. When you post pictures, please please please with puppies on top fill in that description box for the visually impaired. You will be helping us out tremendously. We want to enjoy your pictures as much as others do. You don't have to write a novel, but just fill in some details.

Thanks with much love:
A Blind Dude

As promised (threatened?), #brutaldon on an e-Ink ebook reader.

One of the first production #PinebookPro off of the line...

Platformer mock-up with that magical fox critter.

I imagine it'd involve petrifying enemies and using them to solve puzzles mostly.
#pixelart #art #myart #mastoart #creativetoot

#Glimpse is a fork of GIMP with a moderized user interface - and a less offensive name to encourage usage also in professional environments. It is also somewhat related to the original project (developed also by some GNOME devs) and promises to work together with upstream developers.

@glimpse

Or I could just do like Robin Rendle and say fuck it to AMP: https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/taking-shortcuts.html

"Here’s my hot take on this: fuck the algorithm, fuck the impressions, and fuck the king. I would rather trade those benefits and burn my website to the ground than be under the boot and heel and of some giant, uncaring corporation."

This week System76 launched a graphical Firmware Manager that's compatible With LVFS and all Ubuntu And Debian-based #Linux distributions

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/08/18/system76-launches-a-graphical-firmware-manager-compatible-with-lvfs-all-ubuntu-and-debian-distros/#6f89bad223e3

Beautiful paintings right here

RT @cartoonnetwork@twitter.com

The background design for #MaoMao is meow-sic to our eyes 😼⚔️ Which one is your favorite?

#cartoonnetwork #newshow #digitalart #backgroundesign #pureheart

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1163138203324420097

Fun fact: each book scanned for the Internet Archive has a unique identifier, usually the title of the item, or its first 16 characters; the volume number, or 00 if there isn't one; and the first 4 characters of the author. So: