On the "Owncast aggregator frontend" front I had this awful thought that having a SPOF aggregator introduces two major legal concerns.

1. As the aggregator I'd probably get the second wave of DMCA takedowns if the first wave directly to instance hosts didn't work. This is how it's been with every "aggregation and search" service since the dawn of time. So running this would require legal backing.

2. This kind of aggregation would also increase risk surface for streamers in much the same way as [1].

LegalEagle finally dropped a video on the Loduca ChatGPT lawyer case and ye gods it's so, so much worse than I thought.

Not only did these lawyers ask ChatGPT to write an argument for them and filed it without even reading it, and not only did that argument contain completely bogus citations, but half the citations aren't even in a legal format and once the judge got the lawyers into a hearing he absolutely filleted them into admitting they'd lied on record directly to the judge multiple times.

That's a rough watch. Devin directly calls out the concept of fremdschämen and... yeah... yeaaaah.

Watching a discussion about the pros and cons of the idea of every kink community having a pride flag. I ended up with the cursed stuck thought of "This is fine, we had pride flags for every concept you can imagine through the 90s and 00s: they were called userbars"

I'm not saying the thought's right; I'm just saying it's cursed!

Kink pride userbars though...

Woke up thinking about my first year in silicon valley and how this cute dorky queer gal went out with vee a few times and on the 3rd date sent vee a... let's say private photo... and more or less directly propositioned vee.

I was still too Up In My Puritanical Upbringing and simultaneously too On The Silicon Valley Grind to know what to do with that. Now and days that'd be close to my perfect date, hah!

I sometimes wonder how that would have gone if I didn't effectively have to do my teenage 'finding myself' years twice and was an absolute dense dingus til I finished.

Every now and then I have this scuffed idea of a fediverse Xonotic tournament or maybe just pubgame meetup.

Just because I'm amused by the idea of casting a Xonotic match of, just to pick randomly... team awoo.space vs team plush.city.

If I had a nickel for every time I was "And I think one other person" when someone shouted out a list of people who speedran a game, I'd have like two bucks by now and I hate it every single time.

Anyway if you're of the Final Fantasy V persuasion, please do participate in Four Job Fiesta this year. Signups are open, they dropped Twitter as a requirement (but replaced it with Google, sigh; what can you do), and are contributing to The Trevor Project this year.

Until the fiesta actually starts, every dollar they get in donations increases the risk racers will get assigned Berserkers (if they opted into that risk, fools~).

The guy who puts this on is cool and I wanna see this one go well to justify the changes he's made this year.

https://www.fourjobfiesta.com/index.php

Actually I can do you one worse, 🗞️ faces in a different direction depending on if I'm composing a post or not 🙃

Criminal that 🗞️ faces in a different direction depending on your platform.

EC Cryptography except you encode a Conway's Game of Life starting state and...

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