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  • Jyoti Mishra

    I have a fingerprint reader on my Mac and on my Android phone – I really don't want to use passwords at all any more for websites.

    Is this an option yet? Am I uninformed?

    December 23, 2022, 1:54 am 0 boosts 1 favorites

    @Jyoti Soon: google.com/amp/s/www.cybertalk

  • I've been playing around with Delta Chat, which leverages the ancient email technologies to do instant messaging. Everything happens on the device and email server, without third parties in the middle. If we've interacted, feel free to get in touch through it.

    delta.chat/

  • Jyoti Mishra

    Welp, I can't be the only one.

    Alternative recommendations, peoples?

    Your LastPass account has been permanently deleted and all of your data has been purged from our systems.
    December 23, 2022, 1:32 am 1 boosts 2 favorites

    @Jyoti I've been using a password manager with Nextcloud running on my website. There are a bunch of options that work with it. nextcloud.com/blog/password-ma

  • Today Looney Labs released free solo rules for their Fluxx games. I haven't played any Fluxx in a few years, but I do like the simple mechanics from the game. Today I played a solo game of Pirate Fluxx using the new rules and enjoyed it. I completed only 2 goals in my game, but it was a fun way to break up my last day of work for the year.

    looneylabs.com/solofluxx

  • I set up ActivityPub on my WordPress blog, so it can now be followed at @apollo@apollolemmon.com . The plugin is not a perfect implementation, but it seems to work.

  • Yuuko@Katsucon 2023

    My roommate reminded me that taxes are good, actually

    December 22, 2022, 1:47 am 0 boosts 0 favorites

    @Mythra Taxes would be a lot better if rich people paid them instead of folks barely getting by.

  • Yuuko@Katsucon 2023

    Is cosplay Mastodon a thing?

    Photo by OOC Photography

    Character: Mythra (Xenoblade Chronicles 2/Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

    Yuuko is cosplaying as Mythra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. She is wearing a long blonde wig and carrying a large white sword. She is also wearing a set of light armor made out of EVA foam on top of a white minidress and black tights. Her armor has multiple green sections that are lit up with LED lights.
    December 21, 2022, 5:49 pm 9 boosts 25 favorites

    @Mythra This is fantastic!

  • Cory Doctorow ran down some highlights from the upcoming Public Domain Day, when Sherlock Holmes fully enters the public domain and "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice-Cream" can be recorded freely.

    pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/fre

  • In the 50s Galaxy Magazine had holiday covers featuring a Santa with 4 arms encountering even stranger aliens and often interacting with other Santas. The covers were made by Edmund Emshwiller and I marvel at them every year.

    unobtainium13.com/2020/12/16/t

  • In the past 25 years my home city of Halifax has had snow for Christmas about once every 3 years. In the 25 years from 1960-1984, it was about 2 in 3. As much as I am not fond of cold and snow, it's deeply concerning that climate change has so radically changed our weather already. In the next 25 years we might barely see snow at all around Christmas.

    cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia