elilla, travesti bandida 🏴‍☠️ @elilla@transmom.love

my kid is absolutely brokenhearted that this friend that they liked turned out to be a police informant. in vieeogames. no I mean for real, it really happened in a videogame, none of their 13y/o schoomates has been revealed to be a snitch.

anyway ty game for introducing my kid to the fact that this is a thing

@pixouls @AgathaSorceress I think sci-hub does just-in-time piracy, right? like if you search for a DOI and they don't have it yet, they'll fetch from some anonymous hero who is acting as a tunnel through the walls of the ivory tower.

could do something like that too, anyone running spotipirated will answer to search requests and leak the spotify results. I think the results are biased by country, which is unchangeable and taken from the payment data, so country of search would be a parameter; dunno if or how else the algorithms change from user to user.

@pixouls @AgathaSorceress you can browse and discover playlists and get suggestions and edit collectively etc. for me that's the whole point of spotify, I discover a lot of music there with the user-submitted, autogenerated ("radio channel for this song") and combined ("suggested additions to your playlist") features. it works even for very specific stuff like "antifa hymns in Latin American Spanish" or "20th century leftist battle songs but in modern remixes". if it was just about my own playlists I wouldn't be stuck with it.

what I'm envisioning is, you run a daemon. it starts searching keywords and keyword combos in your account, and for each playlist spotify suggests, checks if it's already in libgen-of-playlists. if not it submits the playlist, if yes it ensures the keyword is associated with playlist ID $x. by the time spotify notices it and starts an arms race we already have a usable public catalogue of playlists. I'm overengineering this, it's just frustrating to me that the concrete benefit spotify provides (collective curation, classification and discovery) isn't even done by spotify itself and the whole service is a scam in the first place

it makes me feel so sorry for them that people so often ask me for cigs or fun drugs and I have none. I would actually carry some with me specifically to share with folks, except knowing myselves I'd prob get addicted to anything within impulsivity distance in like 3 days

*immediately negates the success by forgetting her bag in the train* ugghgh

managed to notice it in time to return to the train before it departed and find the bag, but now I'll have to go from the next stop, and now not only I'll have to travel alone but I'll miss half the festival

@snowyfox I guess your expectations are shaped by it. when I played games on the MSDOS it never even ocurred to me to stop the game, take notes in edit.exe, game time was game time. today if some linux fullscreen game has a bug that I can't switch to the terminal it annoys me terribly

*sprints from subway to train platform and catches the train right as it leaves* wait, how did I do that? 2 weeks ago I couldn't jog 60 seconds to the tram stop

ah yeah that's the thing with fitness: diminishing returns work both ways. on the one hand it means professional athletes have to push hard for hours every day to shave off those last few seconds. on the other it means, the more unfit you are, the more fast and dramatic the early improvements.

latest batch of itchy games I gave my kid after Meatpunks/Celeste:

- 2064
- Four Horsemen
- A Mortician's Tale
- Heaven Will Be Mine
- Jam And the Mystery of the Mysteriously Spooky Mansion
- Long Gone Days
- Tonight We Riot
- Electric Zine Maker

I'm thrilled that they were immediately interested in Four Horsemen and we can share our experiences of that now, it's such an underrated game. Or maybe it only hits hard when you're an immigrant dunno.

@guenther @pixouls @david

lots of ppl are saying it doesn't work anymore but I'm using this one on the latest firefox and it's working for me

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-image-text/

@pixouls @david I use a firefox extension that does just that