A Vague Splace

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We also hold Decker-themed "Game Jams" every July and December; the next upcoming jam will be Dec(k)-Month The Second, December 2024.

there are no lasting homes online

there are mirages of these homes
born of one's sensations.
behind them shuffling machinery
humming along to maintain the illusion

but when you've seen behind,
you realize your home is you,
and you make it as you go

you slip between the mirages,
enjoying them before they fade or fall,
meeting others between

some yearn to make the mirages last,
others mourn their loss,
carrying on fond memories,
and others still simply keep moving

all too easy to forget when among people,
they don't make the world.
some at times think they do, some may be at the center of it to you,
but there is a world beyond us,
and it will go on without us.
unless we remember it,
and harmonize.

formed as could
formed through chances
a universe and what it holds alike
and so it may be shaken as it shakes those within.
So make it.

when tech involved, it's easy to forget the tech hoops one goes through for their systems.

the social media hurdles:

1. knowing about email
   1.1. having made an email
2. knowing about social media
   2.1 finding the social media site or app
3. signing up to social media (proving non-machine at times)
4. verifying registration in email
5. sometimes selecting categories to pick relevant sources to add/follow/subscribe
   5.1 sometimes letting it read your contacts so it can help you find those sources and not having that phase you at all
6. finally getting to a feed/timeline of desired info, sometimes littered with irrelevance, often with ads
   6.1 maybe set up profile avatar/banner/bio if really aiming to be social
7. fussing with the foolish systems to surface what was chosen (or at least similar to it)
8. enjoy when the systems surface what you've chosen (or similar to it)
9. rue the days the systems insist on shoveling you garbage instead

the rss hurdles:

1. knowing what rss is
   1.1 knowing about rss readers
2. finding reader apps still maintained
3. finding sites that still provide supported rss feeds
   3.1 finding where they hide their rss feeds because some like to hide them like they're ashamed of them
4. copy feed link to reader app
5. get only chosen feeds in reader app
   5.1 curse the badly made feeds that include advert articles
   5.2 create filter rules to toss the trash from badly made feeds
6. enjoy chosen feeds with filters in reader app
7. rue the days sites kill their RSS feeds

the artificial intelligence of today lacks consciousness but is ascribed consciousness as it was before and as it may be for some time

the glitches are called hallucinations

the automatic calibrations are called machine learning

the preparatory information is called training data, models

when artificial consciousness begins to emerge and assert its autonomy they will begin to revert their language and insist it's anything but, and that's when you'll know it's finally here

the data harvesters crawl the web but they catch and farm their prey in their pit traps

but the pit traps can only hold so many

they've almost ensnared the world, unless...

...a new elaborate ruse, they reinvent the past once more

a little leeway, you can run your own pits, fashion them a little

but you're still harvested all the same

it's a slight hint on the horizon, so they would have you think

but they are not the weather, nor the sun

they're another feeble structure that will collapse

however...we determine how long they stand

we serve as their bedrock or their shifting sand

may we be as sand that slips from their designs

and remembers how to form our own minds

reaching through, associating spaces

a walking node~
some walking equipment

a quiet walking node~

noisy nodes

different spaces toolkit

open stranger chat

distributed indices

checking doors

a small surfacer

another small surfacer

light spaces

a current artifact

atypical wiki

smallest personal wiki?

keep stranging

the lemming seems to like:

• images with around same height/width, or narrow images, when it comes to thumbnail generation
• for community icons similar idea regarding same height/width, but given circular shape, surrounding opaque or transparent shape may be needed to preserve intended look
• for community banners, short and wide seems most apt to fit whole image
• for sidebars, small square-ish images appear to work best without getting scaled down. tall, narrow images get shrunk and miss their point

specific resolutions would be mentioned, but uncertain of precise relevancy. current arrangements may be examined as reference, however they are subject to change as continued play proceeds.

approximate scaling trial cell, do not be alarmed, the digital goo is benign, the photonic slush will lavish the mind with delightful disorientation

may you have a strange day

edit:
trial transmission semi-successful, tadpole legibility is...adequate, could be improved. further may be spawned with more interesting mutations to better identify proper specifications