and everyone in ta’s hangout! 
I still hate how we don't have headphone jacks in most phones today. My previous phone had one (Galaxy Note 9) and my new one now doesn't (S23 Ultra) and it's just inconvenient. I have a lot of wired headphones that I like to use, it was handy to just plug them in whenever I wanted but now I have to remember to carry a stupid adapter that sounds worse than my previous phone. All because Apple, Samsung and more realised they could essentially force customers to buy expensive wireless headphones that are guaranteed to hit the landfill once the batteries give in. A reminder that there are headphones from decades ago that use a 3.5mm jack that still work today, wireless simply won't with our current battery tech and the cost to replace just the batteries compared to just buying a new pair instead. Don't get me wrong, I own wireless headphones, they have perks, but I don't like being forced into buying something just because it means more money for the company long term rather than based on it's quality alone.
Bluesky finally has a proper logo that isn’t a jpeg of the sky lol. It’s quite nice. It’s clean, simple, but recognisable. Also the app now has a similar launch animation that Twitter used to have (on a related note i have 2 invite codes if anyone wishes to join Bluesky)
The Auriali Scratch account turned 3 years old not that long ago, to think this account was going to be left to collect dust until I decided to make it a meme account which resulted in it becoming its own thing is really cool to me, thank you 
This week has been amazing so far, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, passersby give you a smile and a wave as you walk past them, there isn't a single cloud in the sky, everything feels right with the world, all thanks to Adobe taking a massive L by having to abandon that $20 billion merger with Figma lmao
I totally can understand why people would want to use AI to do all the boring jobs and tasks us humans don't wanna do but I don't get why we want to outsource all the fun creative stuff to AI and machines in general
lol
Google on their way to kill another service (it's been five minutes since they killed the last one)
I've been using an RSS reader for a few months to get news and other updates about things and honestly it's great. I don't get served clickbait or rage-bait articles now compared to when news used to be served to me by an algorithm.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s top songs 2023 from his Spotify Wrapped
(wait until cubeupload is back to see)
My quest to collect as many Twitter clones/alternatives as possible like they're Pokémon continues as I now have a Bluesky account and wow does the UI look insanely close to Twitter's lol.
Hey, a little self promo, so if that ain’t your thing feel free to skip 🩷
So in my Discord server ta’s hangout we have a bot called AurialiBot, it was originally by @gyrox and was a goofy bot that had a ton of random features like generating rants, posting meme images from Reddit, roasting users and other things. We then got a second version rewritten by @micahlt which was used to check if the ta’s hangout SMP was online and who was online at the time. Now the SMP is currently inactive, so we don’t have anything else to use the bot for, that’s where you might come in!
The bot’s code is available on GitHub and has around 99% uptime, since Micah is running it. If anyone has some free time and wants to code a command for the bot, then we’ll gladly add it provided it works and follows the ta’s hangout server rules! The command can be useful or just something silly, we’re just looking to make the bot more feature rich with things that people in the server and community may find interesting to them. If you have any questions or suggestions for commands, then let me know! Note that I myself am not the most technical person, so most of those questions I’ll pass onto Micah or you can ask yourself directly (when we have time lol).
Repo: https://github.com/micahlt/aurialibot
Server invite: https://invite.seanjw.com
Thanks in advance to anyone who considers this! I thought sharing here would be helpful since there’s a lot of programmers here who build cool wasteof bots here.
