Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Speaking of which, Josh Steffen did some Lars-ification of popular songs as a joke, and they got so big he now has loads. Try not to laugh...
https://youtu.be/_MnYTN2Lf98

So, #Metallica and Lux Aeterna. It's strong out of the blocks, and really grows. Very interested to hear what the album is like. Hatfield's vocal style is the best it's been in years, nice to hear Lars grooving although this ratatatatatatata crash crash thing he's done for the last 2 decades is...well, you know. #Metal

@checkervest Oh my God Alex sometimes I could not adore you more.

@wiseguyeddie@mstdn.plus Sam Harris talks a lot about how this is part of the systemic breakdown in institutional trust; things should never have got this far, but they have and there is no bottom to it.

@vriska That was the first Bowie album I really knew when I was like..12. I've always liked it, despite stuff like China Girl that was dodgy as shit even then.

I work with some very, very smart young people and this timeline seemed a little fanciful to me, which caused some cynicism in the rest of the story.

The Hive social story never added up to me. A developer that decided they thought they could do better than legacy social media, so taught themselves coding in June 2019, releasing an application in...October, just 4 months later. There was apparently and unnamed developer involved too. Now..

@vriska Atlanta too!

@vriska Your gate is the other side of the airport and a train ride away

Hive Social turns off servers after researchers warn hackers can access all data – Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/hive-social-turns-off-servers-after-researchers-warn-hackers-can-access-all-data/

@iyalei@chaos.social @ZahmbieND@hachyderm.io And there I was thinking fishnet just meant stockings

There is nothing that makes me feel every second of my 48 years more than the phenomenon of the 'reaction video'. I don't understand it, and I know it's because I'm old. #grumble

https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/01/lastpass/ #lastpass breach

@godlessmom@mas.to that's brilliant.

@stux Nor do I trust online proles

@stux Boat McBoatface should have been the end of them.

Like smartphones the obsession with more features to collect ever more data results in a poorer customer experience, unless you pay for a new product. Fuck that.

My Fitbit tracker which I have found useful for tracking exercise and sleep habits had a firmware update recently which has resulted in it being slower, and with less battery life due to 'new features'. It is two years old. My wife suggests just getting another one, but why play the game? It still works, just a bit less pleasant to use.