Enafore (previously Pinafore and Semaphore)
Minimalist web front-end for Mastodon and compatible servers. Not as capable as Elk, but more stable.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Minimalist web front-end for Mastodon and compatible servers. Not as capable as Elk, but more stable.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Seared into my memory. Cascading failures as zombies attack an elementary school. Well-written, but I never, ever want to read it again.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the POV of an alien plant person who grew up human. Now the invasion has started, and she's sorting out friends, family, and who she can trust from either planet.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A fast, enjoyable read with a few gut punches hidden throughout. Not so much about the moon turning into cheese as how lots of different people *react* to the moon turning into cheese.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
★★★★☆ - Alternate web front-end for Mastodon and compatible servers. Slightly more user-friendly, if a bit buggy, especially on non-Mastodon servers like GoToSocial.| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★☆☆ - A cool idea, and it looks great, but the combined feed is too much of a firehose unless you're only following a small number of people on each account.| Hyperborea: New Posts
A short, fast tale of frozen people reawakening after the fall of civilization, built around the premise that you need to keep a frozen person's consciousness active in VR, and there are very different reasons you might put people into cryo storage and a simulation.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
★★★★☆ - Mostly flat, with hills along the inland edge. Views of the ocean and Catalina. Not much shade except for one stand of trees at the foot of the hills, the garden around the visitor center, and the bunkers remaining from a military site decommissioned in the 1970s.| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★☆☆ - A simple application wrapped around macOS' built-in virtualization and emulation capabilities. Fewer bells and whistles than the commercial options, but works better for some purposes.| Hyperborea: New Posts
A virtual machine application for macOS that makes it easy to install a Windows, Linux or macOS guest. Downside: annual subscription.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Books and comics I've read, movies and shows I've watched, and places I've been to, software and products I've used, games I've played, restaurants I've eaten at, businesses where I've shopped, and so on.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Things I've had to do on my PineTab2 to get various features working and/or usable.| Hyperborea Tech Tips
Extremely bare-bones social networking server that runs on low-resource machines, works on the web without cookies or JavaScript, and still interacts through ActivityPub with Mastodon, GoToSocial and other Fediverse software.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
An app for Mastodon (and other Fediverse sites) that cuts through the clutter. Runs anywhere in a web browser, or can be installed to your device's home page as a PWA.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A lightweight Fediverse server, with a clean web interface for viewing public posts. Compatible with Mastodon apps and interacts with other ActivityPub platforms.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A surprisingly capable Chromium browser for KDE and other Linux desktops that runs well even on low-end hardware and virtual machines.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
My second choice distro for both desktop and servers. More reliable than Ubuntu, more stable than Fedora, easier to install than Arch, though a bit slower to update. Bigger than Alpine, but uses the more typical glibc.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Once it's installed, it's fine! Faster updates than Fedora or Debian. Smaller software selection, but community packages and Flatpak make up for it. Danctnix port to ARM is solid. I don't miss the old days of setting everything up by hand, though.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A simple desktop app for Mastodon and (most) compatible Fediverse servers. Fast, runs on multiple platforms.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
★★★★☆ - An extremely powerful image editor for Android. And not just the usual features like crop, adjust contrast or brightness, maybe apply a filter, but you can do batch edits, format conversion, scaling the actual pixel image, editing metadata...all the things that mobile apps tend to hide behind the curtain. And it can preserve EXIF data when you want it to.| Hyperborea: New Posts
The most ridiculous Linux bug I've encountered in ages: Installing XFCE changed a mouse cursor setting for GNOME that caused the login screen to crash when trying to log into GNOME/Wayland.| Hyperborea: New Posts
The MacBook would boot as far as the login screen, but any attempt to use or repair it would just reboot, even at the Genius Bar. I managed to recover recent files by connecting from another computer over the network and copying them, 60 seconds at a time.| Hyperborea: New Posts
I can go with your scifi/fantasy story’s super-impossible thing being associated with an eclipse. It’s activating or deactivating people’s super-powers? Sure! Certain magic spells can only be cast during an eclipse? Sure! The moon transforms into cheese? OK, whatever. (pun not intended) But please, please get the basic mechanics right! The moon’s phase is caused […] The post Eclipses and World Building first appeared on K-Squared Ramblings| Hyperborea: New Posts
Which Fediverse servers can handle local-only posts, and which apps can publish them? Here's what I've found so far.| Hyperborea: New Posts
Go into Device Manager and tell it to show hidden devices. There could be a broken display config interfering with the driver for the real adapter.| Hyperborea Tech Tips
Personal website of a programmer and sci-fi/comics fan from Southern California: creative writing, photography, humor, and fan activities.| hyperborea.org
How to find the RSS/Atom feeds for Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Misskey, and other Fediverse platforms.| Hyperborea Tech Tips
Whimsical and melancholy tale of the last unicorn's quest to find others of her kind. Well drawn characters and story, very much a classic.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
