beaches

Computer User && Digital-Age Punk

[b3aches]

I was first introduced to the computer as a small child. I then started programming my TI-83+ in high school during algebra, and it spiraled out of control from there. Several years later I ended up at HOPE Number Nine, where I worked on Radio Statler doing the audio archiving. For some reason they asked me to stick around. I have always had a knack for collecting things, especially information. Who knows, maybe you'll find some interesting things here.

Outside of Tumblr, you can find my socials on my web site:

technetius/socials.html

[everydaylouie]

hello, world (a test of some virtual singer software!)

(soundcloud)

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[b0tster]

myself and @isthatyourmain made a game IN A SINGLE HOUR for the pigcon single hour game jam 😍

it involves the player getting trapped in a baby minotaur's first ever maze!

it's roughly 40 seconds long.

check it out!

[b0tster]

to commemorate phobias first ever game she worked on (and all the good pigcon memories) we got tattoos of mini 🥰

[engineering]

Where's that comment?

Hello Tumblr! 

@jubs here, today, to tell you about a feature we're building: Comments by author!

Comments (or replies) have been around for a while, but they have always been tucked away from your regular feed, and so we're working on a few ways to integrate them into the rest of our experience.

Soon, blogs will have a Comments tab alongside Posts, Likes, and Following. There, you will be able to see posts other people have been commenting on, and, more importantly, find your own comments! This was not possible before, except through notifications if someone engaged with your comment.

We're also working on a way to surface posts commented on by people you follow in your feeds. You will be able to find those in the For You tab, and later, alongside chronological posts in the Following tab.

So, how do you identify those posts in the feeds? 

Replied posts will show a small preview right there in your dashboard, before you click anything. 

This is not out yet, but soon! In the meantime, tell us what you think and expect from this! ☺︎

[engineering]

Launch Day

@jubs again!

First of all, thank you all for the feedback in the original post!

Today, we're launching the new "Comments" tab for Blog pages, and we'll be testing a For You recommendation based on comments from people you follow. The posts will have a preview of the reply, so you know why you're seeing that post.

You will be able to control the new tab visibility, and whether we should include your comments in your follower's feeds, through a new setting:

The toggle can be found on https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/YOUR_BLOG or in the General Settings > Replies section, on Mobile. If you have already disabled the "Share posts you like" setting, the setting will default to disabled.

The new tab is only available on Web and iOS (44.8+) for now, but the toggle is available to everyone (including on Android), so you can control what other people see on your blogs, even if you don't have the new feature yet. Don't worry, we have plans to implement the tab and posts on Android, soon!

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We want to later include these replied posts to the Following feed as well, and we're planning on adapting the current "Include posts liked by the blogs you follow" toggle to also consider comments, in case you don't want to see shared comments from people you follow.

What do you think? As always, we appreciate your thoughts, keep 'em coming!

[charl0ttan]

charlotte my tummy hurts how do i fix this :<

SWITCH TO LINUX

[ames-draws]

I'm fed up with "maybe later".

[liaraswife-deactivated20210629]

SHIT

[coredumpproject]

How is this the first time I’m seeing this as a meme?

[kyra45]

Tumblr tech support isn’t any of these:

Discord account

A Gmail account

Microsoft Teams

WhatsApp

Telegram

Facebook Messenger

A Yahoo account

A tumblr blog that claims to be support but has numbers on it

[elt]

an official Tumblr blog should have the staff member badge equipped

[demilypyro]

it's raining :) :) :)

[demilypyro]

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May, 2026

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🌟 New

You can now sort your likes from oldest to newest on web and iOS. Do you remember what your first liked post was?

You can now search for posts within Communities on web.

Redesigned blog headers on iOS — Same as Android, now following and subscribing to a blog are front and center.

Tapping "Not interested in this post" now temporarily filters that blog and their posts from recommendations. This is an additional improvement to how "Not interested in this post" works. We had announced that tapping this option will down-weight the tags from that post in your interest profile, and filter out recommended posts similar to the ones you have dismissed.

A new Media auto-play setting on web lets you choose whether GIFs and videos auto-play, independent of your system's reduced-motion preference. Find it in Settings → Dashboard.

The reblog graph explorer on web now shows at a glance which reblogs have commentary.

🛠 Fixed

We fixed an issue on web where high-resolution image thumbnails appeared noticeably degraded in quality.

We fixed an issue on iOS that was causing crashes related to image decoding, particularly with GIF-heavy content.

We fixed an issue in the iOS and Android apps where users with unverified age in mature-labeled communities couldn't see the "Leave community" button.

We fixed an issue in the iOS app where the Unblock button in the Blocked Blogs list stopped responding to taps after scrolling.

We fixed an issue where blogs previously marked as "not mature" by our team couldn't add content labels to their posts.

We fixed an issue where blocking anonymous ask senders from a sideblog would fail with an error.

We fixed an issue where users on older operating systems encountered SSL errors when clicking password reset or email verification links.

🚧 Ongoing

We're aware that some blog exports are failing. If you're affected, please file a Support Request so we can track your case.

We're investigating reports of some image thumbnails appearing pixelated in the mobile apps, despite looking fine on web.

We're investigating reports from some iOS users who are unable to view mature content despite having their settings correctly configured.

We're aware that some users are seeing an empty For You feed. We're investigating.

We're aware that some Firefox users are encountering errors when editing and publishing posts or sending messages. Sometimes, trying a second time works. We're investigating.

We're also aware that the Home and Activity notification badges are getting stuck for some Firefox users. We're investigating.

🌱 Upcoming

We're trying out a redesigned Trending tab on web, with topic blocks showing follower counts, preview posts, and related tags for each trending topic.

We're trying out a new post editor entry at the top of the dashboard on web.

As shared previously, we're building some new features for replies, including a new blog tab to see a blog's comments!

We're working on some updates to account deletion. In the future, when you delete your account, we will keep your data for 30 days. This will allow you to restore your account if you regret your decision, deleted your account by accident, or your account is hacked and deleted.

Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We'll get back to you as soon as we can!

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[do-you-have-a-flag]

things that helped me (specifically me, personally) when i start to dismay at The State Of Tech

2nd hand, cheap, and analog/offline tech, such as dvds, books, cds, mp3 players, my own downloads, ect. anything that once you own it cannot be tracked or taken from you. i'm having a lot of fun curating my mp3 player for instance and love the lack of advertising

making stuff. making bad art. making slow art. making art with techniques i've never tried before. remember when everyone was doing colouring books? same vibe just colouring my own drawings.

new hobbies in general, doesn't have to be expensive, i don't intend to monetise them so it's okay if i'm bad at it, it's okay if i have not done it in years and am returning to it. I've been thinking about making music maybe

building on old skills and revising old knowledge. i've been relearning high school level maths, revising history using my old textbooks and some podcasts, and transcribing music using former choir knowledge, learning piano chords.

just looking into how tech works and what i can do to be sensible with it. what alternatives are out there that suit my needs, how can i customise what i do have for best use for me.

giving myself projects and social activities that get me offline as much as possible. I already love a five hour walk but if i can be out and around other people, or even better actively participating in a community, even better. I always have the curated corners of the internet for that style of online socialising. I gotta capture the same whimsy that lead to me doing flash-mobs and scavenger hunts in the early 2010s too.

[do-you-have-a-flag]

worth mentioning, i talk about building old hobbies and relearning stuff i struggled with in school but i hope younger peeps than I or anyone who grew up with an even less constructive academic history know that the skills and knowledge is still avaliable to you at any age

despite how bad a teacher or assignment or the temptation to use a generative language model are.

you can at any point in your life go look up what basics you can online or in a library or in the house of a relative with kids or whatever, find old text books or study guides or youtube videos or websites, and build the mental muscles from scratch with the benefit of doing it on your own initiative with your own goals and rewards and topics. sometimes the support will find you if you talk about it.

there are free and social options for most topics, mileage may vary on resources based on where you live, but if there's kids and universities and the elderly in your community then there will more often than not be resources and places you can go, and if not then there's the internet.

second hand shops have sewing patterns and fabric and sometimes kits

you can move your body to a degree that fits you based on youtube tutorials of how to exercise or stretch safely without a gym

you can get old worksheets and kids books from the internet archive for most topics if you want the real fundamentals no expectation of prior knowledge

if you have a shopping centre or any hobbyist shops in your area then retail staff will generally be all too happy to help you get the things you need to start a hobby or project

ask independant shop owners for reccomendations

if you live near a school or university there are secondhand shops for textbooks

you can find reading lists and syllabus on most educational institutions websites

when i went back to uni the library had a study guide including how to outline an essay and style citations on the main website with no special access

there's a video essay or ted talk for any topic you might have an interest in if you want a place to start on inspo

grab your local grocery store's little free magazine by the check out that has recipe ideas with ingredients you have access to if the saved recipies from socials feel too intimidating

if you go to a live event chat with people in the crowd about their interests and hobbies since you already share the one that brought you there

inspiration is everywhere if you can pretend like you're not nervous about looking stupid long enough to start (i frequently have to accept the possibility of doing bad at stuff to varying levels of success)

[necromancelena]

Computer loves to be like "fuck! You sure you want to shut down? Youve got volume mixer open"

[tenaflyviper]

This Pride Month, I strongly urge everyone to hide negative replies on LGBT+ posts (on any sites that allow it), and immediately block those users. Do not be afraid to report--it DOES still work.

They are not entitled to attention, especially not on YOUR posts, or ANY posts that don't pertain to them.

NO ONE is obligated to put up with harassment.

[reverendrowdy]

Use your PTO

[engineering]

Where's that comment?

Hello Tumblr! 

@jubs here, today, to tell you about a feature we're building: Comments by author!

Comments (or replies) have been around for a while, but they have always been tucked away from your regular feed, and so we're working on a few ways to integrate them into the rest of our experience.

Soon, blogs will have a Comments tab alongside Posts, Likes, and Following. There, you will be able to see posts other people have been commenting on, and, more importantly, find your own comments! This was not possible before, except through notifications if someone engaged with your comment.

We're also working on a way to surface posts commented on by people you follow in your feeds. You will be able to find those in the For You tab, and later, alongside chronological posts in the Following tab.

So, how do you identify those posts in the feeds? 

Replied posts will show a small preview right there in your dashboard, before you click anything. 

This is not out yet, but soon! In the meantime, tell us what you think and expect from this! ☺︎