Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Government mandated cat cuddling and cat petting regulations have only increased around here.

Mandatory lap allocations. The regime knows no limits.

"Would you ever put a prediction market in #Roblox? Let kids bet with their Robux?"

Insane combinations of words that should never occur. Anyone even discussing such questions ought to be put into prison. However...

Moments like this make me more determined to help kids build an internet they can control.

The AI bubble.
The AI bubble bubble.
The AI bubble bubble bubble.

*evil grin expands*

Could one use google's authentication API to make a service people could sign up for that would be independent of google authentication?

A kind of escape hatch?

Your ordinary computer user will balk at "signing up" and filling out forms. It's one of the greatest barriers to getting people "on here" among other places.

I recently went through the sign up process on the fedi with an adult friend and frankly it's unacceptable.

There is a labor of love for any dev who'd make a FOSS universal authentication service that institutions like schools would WANT to use.

Until that happens the reality is google dominates and everyone uses it, by not playing along nice with it? It's just isolationism.

I used to be a bit of a hack PHP web dev in my awkward private sector days. I can show them how to make all kinds of things using PHP. I think making a "whiteboard" basically a single wikipedia page with anyone can edit with history that uses google authentication would be a good first project for me.

I don't really want them to waste much time learning the details of any authentication. service or language. These are fleeting things.

The CS club is excited to set up new services on the student intranet at our small grade school. Currently the school uses google for authentication. We can talk about how that isn't ideal, how google is bad etc. but the student club can't change this and neither can I.

So, any service they create will need to use that same authentication service. (we do not want to run annon services, or have students register again)

Anyone have experience doing this on a small scale?

@mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin

Of course, there is danger in a simple hat. It can get very much out of hand.

@mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin

And let's not forget the power of a special hat. I think there are a great many people who have strange conservative and regressive urges that could be satiated if only someone would give them a special hat. A little silk beret, or a pointy hat with tassels... anything really.

They might feel sad to look on a world of equals, they might feel lost, but if they only had a hat... it would be OK.

@keithpjolley

It's the latest tiktok craze "anting out"

@eigen @weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin

... mom?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@retroist/115743198161017194

@michael_w_busch @mousey @Sheep_Overboard

I thought this was about this post at first. https://sauropods.win/@retroist@mastodon.social/115743198334892802

@mcc @phooky @JeremyMallin

Listen people love earning merit badges and having goofy titles. If you don't have a place for that to happen you will have problems.

@catmisgivings @weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin

Yes. They have a little family farm.

@jrconlin @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin

mother must never see any of this.

@weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin

Someday I will call and Dad will answer.

"Yeah, your Mom got that bulldozer she wanted."
"Oh. Uh. Where is she?"
*crashing sounds*
"... outside ... happy"

@weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin

When the catalog from the small personal bulldozer companies come in the mail Dad hides them.

@weemadhamish @4censord @Moss @phooky @JeremyMallin

My mom hired a guy to dig some fields for her with his small bulldozer. After watching him for a bit she asked if she could do some of the digging and they guy showed her how.

Then we couldn't get her out of that machine. In fact, we only got her out of it by pointing out that she shouldn't "help by digging the neighbor's yard too" and "maybe we could buy one of these the man needs to go, Mom."

To this day she asks when we will get one.

@ElGrossKotzo @phooky @JeremyMallin

OK I wasn't even thinking about that.

But NOW I am.