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mitch

@mitch@posts.dumb.stuff.donaberger.xyz

🎨 Creative Director
✏️ Illustrator & Cartoonist
✒️ Vector Wizard
💻 Graphic Designer
🖋 Brand Designer
🌄 Bahá'í
🧠 Polymath, Goofball, Neurodivergent
🛠️ Syndicalism
💍 Married
📌 Philadelphia, PA, USA
📛 he/him

I like coffee, Philly, Pittsburgh, anything on two wheels, music, linux, theology, cats, computers, pacifism, art, unity, equity, etymology, the power of words, and getting high off airplane glue. Will use Adobe Illustrator for food.

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mitch , to Random stuff
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There is something very zen about browsing Mastodon entirely on Tut.

mitch , to Random stuff
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Nobody talks about how cyberpunk it is that nearly every computer has a built-in process or chip called a "Randomness Engine."

mitch , to Random stuff
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here's a futuristic situation: i just generated an image of myself in order to get a sense of how i'd look if i took the time to grow my beard out. i learned that i hate how i'd look. that just saved me a lot of time, unironically.

mitch , to Random stuff
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Enjoying watching the #Phillies on their hot streak. Damn. Wish I could get out to a game.

mitch , to Random stuff
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really sick today, not having a good one. hope you're all well.

mitch OP ,
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@nellie_m nawww, I'm good! Thank you, though!

mitch OP ,
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@raven my back finally recovers, and now this. 😂 Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

mitch OP ,
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@nellie_m hahaha, nice. Thank you for the well wishes!

JoBlakely , to Random stuff
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Considering USA’s claim to love individualism, they sure spend a lot of money and energy trying to make people conform, uniform, and be uninformed.

mitch ,
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@GGMcBG growing up here, i always understood it to be the cult of individuality. i have seen it turn reasonable people into little Himmlers.

mitch , to Random stuff
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I'm sitting outside at midnight on a late spring evening, just smelling the petrichor as it flows from the nearby forest. This forest sits alongside a major city artery, carrying headlamps through the evening like ventricles. Times like these, the city reminds me so much of an ecosystem by itself.

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mitch , to Random stuff
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TIL that 1% of the population has a direct aluminum contact allergy.

mitch OP ,
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@jordan I learned this in tandem with watching a factory tour for a wheelchair manufacturer. Apparently there is an entire class of "medical grade aluminums" that are catalyzed in special ways to make the aluminum oxide coating much thicker and stronger, like an enamel. I thought that was pretty cool. There are so many hidden design requirements in so many products we interact with.

mitch , to Random stuff
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Cool. It's raining pretty hard in Philly today and a crow just flew under my porch and hung out with me. I guess it was trying to take a break from the rain.

mitch OP ,
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I gotta befriend a crow before I die.

mitch OP ,
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@EmilyK they're so pretty up close, too. The detail and the lines of their feathers. Love em

mitch OP ,
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@Thebratdragon hell yeah. I love when birds and humans become friends.

mitch , to Random stuff
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Hm I wanna do some art today. Maybe I'll do some waterpainting.

mitch , to Random stuff
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Project idea: armed drones that will loiter above the stop sign in front of my house. Once a car runs the stop sign, it will drop a nickel-cadmium blade from 500 ft up, disabling the vehicle's engine through kinetic transfer.

Expensive? Yes. Petty? Yes. Dangerous? Yes. Sorry, what was the question?

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The Union makes us strong.

mitch , to Random stuff
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I think tomorrow is the day I wipe my ancient Ubuntu install (circa 2016, though, it was maintained and updated) and move over to Debian 12. just been waiting for a free day to focus on it.

mitch OP ,
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@khird tbh, that's sort of what i'm looking for. i wanna set-it-and-forget it for a lot of things, since my server has really standardized around offering a few services to the house. i've debated Arch but I know for a fact I don't have the patience to re-learn it right now, haha.

glassbottommeg , to Game Development
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Been trying to figure out how to phrase the next era of my / studio

If it's my partner and I making games, but she's a very silent artist partner and wants zero exposure, do I just roll the "single creator" angle?

It feels weird, but also a lot of single creator games sure have lots of contractors so shrug?

Like if I say "couple", EVERYONE gonna zero in on that. The angle they'll want is couple interviews. And, well. No.

mitch ,
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@glassbottommeg piano is the dark souls of instruments

mitch ,
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@glassbottommeg fwiw, I voted 'dont claim solo', but I have to wonder if this is a good opportunity to bring out 'co-op'? As in, "a game development co-op," vs 'studio'.

In the fine art world, that's pretty much how it works. Lots of people work together and contribute, but the director or auteur gets the name credit. Like how Warhol had other artists he gregariously collaborated with. They're credited on the work, but it's still 'a Warhol.'

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In response to this post I wrote this morning, I keep seeing folks saying, “just switch to DuckDuckGo!”

DuckDuckGo is not a 1:1 solve. There is too much important information buried specifically in Google that it does not have direct access to, including:

  • 400+ years of book scans, including of copyrighted material not available elsewhere
  • The largest easily accessible history of Usenet
  • The easiest-to-use archive of patent filings
  • A number of newspaper scans not available elsewhere
mitch ,
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@ernie Jesus, you're right. I never thought about Google being the last remaining public archive of Usenet. That might actually be solvable, thanks to the many Usenet providers still out there.

tulpa , to Pittsburgh's Home in the Fediverse
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Coming down buckets here in . attendees will get wet.

mitch ,
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@tulpa oh dang are you from PGH? or just visiting?

mitch ,
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@tulpa nice! I left my heart there. Lived there for 8 years. Well, Pittsburgh for 7, and Millvale for 1.

mitch ,
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@tulpa love Greenfield. I lived just beneath it, right nearby Four Mile Run. (Panther Hollow, if you know the neighborhood)

mitch ,
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@tulpa my home for many years. I miss it dearly. I hope my geocache is still out there, lol.

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You know how powerful politicians throw their wife under the bus when they get caught doing something borderline treasonous?

Once, just once, I wanna see the wife bite back by publicly divorcing the dude and going on record with ALL the dirt. I hate thinking that they're in on it, or cool with taking the blame.

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Keep what's important in mind this weekend.

mitch ,
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@daswickerman Dave, I love you, but you're already on my mind.

mitch , to Random stuff
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i am always so happy when my lgbtqia friends ask me to design pride stuff for them. happy to.

mitch , to Random stuff
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yesterday is in the fire

mitch , to Random stuff
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whatever happened to Sam Altman's sister? that was weird.

mitch OP ,
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@travissouthard honestly i don't remember, but she was living out on a kibbutz somewhere.

mitch , to Random stuff
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y'all just pretend JK Rowling is dead and we'll all be a lot better off.

mitch , to Random stuff
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writing a sci-fi treatment, only to realize that Futurama did it already

mitch , to Random stuff
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imagine if we achieve AGI, and that intelligence learns enough about us to learn that it is better off dead?

mitch OP ,
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@bitzero i think that makes sense if we examine intelligence only from a perspective of one that evolved from circumstances of survival. i really wonder what intelligence would be shaped like if it were only interested in knowledge, instead of aggression.

wait, i am describing an episode of Futurama...

mitch OP ,
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@bitzero hahaha. fair.

Binder , to Random stuff
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Bifocals let eyes focus every other week. Or is it twice a week?

mitch ,
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@Binder you're mistaken, unfortunately. the 'bi' part of the focals refers to your eyes' inherent sexuality.

mitch , to Random stuff
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a tip for designers: if you want to become invaluable at a company, spend a little energy bailing people out of crazy production situations. you will become a wizard in people's eyes.

mitch OP ,
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but, of course, you have to be careful to present your help as that of the Riders of Rohan sweeping in to save the day. You need to make your help feel like a breath of fresh air, not a fan that has been left on.

mitch , to Random stuff
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i'm gonna start calling the fediverse the "pubnet."

mitch OP ,
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we need to bring back 80s-style technology abbreviations, and you know it.

err, i mean, "tech-brevs"

mitch OP ,
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A computer store? No, no. That's CompuStor

mitch OP ,
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A ham sandwich? Perhaps you'd know it better as a HamSa

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So, listen, if you're ever feeling down about the fact that you've been grieving the death of a loved one for nearly 18 years, just start telling people you want to rent an ice cream truck in their memory, because then those people will hand you about $1800 in a little less than 24 hours, and suddenly you get to buy hundreds of kids ice cream, and that fucking rules!

mitch ,
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@stumblewyk you making an ice cream social, like the good ol days?

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