Songs You've Heard But Dont Know The Name! #satisfying #music
Songs You've Heard But Dont Know The Name! #satisfying #music
More Posts from Pikz3l and Others
Kinda cool and a little ridiculous. AI art is controversial but amusing with the creations. Little details seem to propagate in abundance towards the unrealistic. I like it for crazy concepts than actually finalized art.
This is ridiculous. I get that if I were to reverse the concept, create a new file type called .com or .net it'd still be a problem but I'm not so sure the new domains were necessary to the whole of the internet. It just means I'll probably never click on one of those links. Can we have the first go at removing a TLD? Seems to me more dangerous than valuable.
New Things to Beware on the Internet
On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.
Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.
Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".
This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.
What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.
Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.
This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.
What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.
I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.
Be cautious out there.
MAGFest 2023. I've been going since 2013. It continuously ranks as one of my top conventions I've ever attended. As a parent, can't make the full weekend for now but even just one day is worth the experience. They take masking seriously. (I had no problem playing DDR with my kn95 on).
My favorite section is always the Indie games. Love seeing the ingenuity and hard work people put in to making an experience. Hair Nah made my list for making a real lesson fun. Learn boundaries! Until next year...
I never bought a small pen maker #fountainpen before. Came across @luckystarpens and saw this amazing design and homage to one of the most recently amazing space tech feats for the @jameswebb_nasa telescope. I reached out and was lucky to snag one of the last ones on hand. Currently inked with Pelikan purple and it writes smooth! Thanks to Lauren for bringing out such a cool pen to life 😎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIId1yOQxL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Merry Christmas 🎄⛄
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cml4XNEJvKN/?igshid=NDdhMjNiZDg=
This gifset got me to watch this show. I'm still a sucker for preppy drama and romance.
Maxton Hall: The World Between Us
S01E03: Exposed
Losing the centricity of the main community sucks. But there are other groups starting something. I follow the reddit as the next big community and from there people post discords or other sites. I was actually hoping to find some community on Tumblr too.
I think after participating on and off every year since 2008, I'm OK growing out of it. Then getting into my daily word count year round phase to really embrace writing as a hobby.
This month has been a little weird, because in the past it's been the point of time where me and a few others ramp up for NaNoWriMo event planning.
I decided not to be an ML this year - I'm one of the many breakaway regions forging ahead with an independent event for our writers - but several people had been hoping to work with HQ again, and seeing the chatter around that is sad because it looks like NaNo isn't letting it happen.
Last year at this point, everyone who had volunteered to be an ML had been given instructions for this year, and links to order ML kits (usually the annual stickers). We'd get instructions in Aug on how to update digital spaces for the new year, and were encouraged to start scheduling events.
But it's Aug 1st and HQ has never even asked if anyone wants to volunteer this year. It's looking more and more likely that they have canned the entire Municipal Liason program, and if you don't have MLs what's the point of regions? If the community aspect of NaNo is going away, is it just a website now?
What made NaNo awesome was the other writers I'd hang out with on zoom or coffee shops.
I thought i had already grieved my time with NaNo, it had headed down a path I didn't want to follow and I had put so much energy into it. I'm building something new now even! But it's still so, so sad to think that it's just not my participation that has ended, but an entire program. And soon, I suspect, an entire organization.
NaNo is running on fumes, spiraling down and alienating so much of its old user base due to poor management and communication. Will it even run in November, I'm not entirely sure. I don't know if the donations they've received coverage servers fees.
Writers might have to do NaNo, or just write a draft in November, solo and that sounds so sad. I've only ever won because of my community (my region had at least 20 events scheduled in November).
I'd encourage people to reach out to old regions if you can - see if there's a grassroots community it morphed into. Or just any writing community - mine is hybrid now and all our writing events in November will have zoom options.
I hoped maybe the new HQ would build something that would work for someone, but i have a sneaking suspicion that it won't. NaNoWriMo might just become something like NoShaveNovember or Dry January. A thing you do, but no official community.
Feeling real bummed about this, because i volunteered with NaNo for 5 years and wrote for 12.
