In the beginning, the computer was invented. It had many uses, and people saw that it was good, and much money was made.
Then, the Internet was invented. It, too, had many uses, and people saw that it was good, and much money was made.
Seeing this, the techbros concluded that people will see any new technology as good, and that much money will be made, and so they invented #cryptocurrency, and said that it had many uses and was good.
If I told you how much time I spent adjusting this so all the emulators + retroTerm fit right in borderless windows in the 800x600 box on the :commodore: monitor background youโd understand why I never get anything done ๐
This thing is actually my home server (Plex , Frigate, NAS etc but these MiniPCs have too much untapped power to just sit there doing nothing, so I hooked it up to the TV for some nerdy nostalgia in addition to a huge terminal.
I really wish there were good HTML/CSS layout engines for typesetting. Then there's no problem using exotic characters, arbitrary fonts, SVG images, you name it. Also, generating a web version of the document is trivial.
CSS has control flow? ๐คจ I've been wrangling CSS for two decades, and not observed a control flow, unless you count later/more-specific declarations overriding earlier/less-specific ones.
Anyway, what else would I use for typesetting? The only other option I know of is TeX, and its problems seem even worse.
I did use DocBook+XSLT+XSLFO for typesetting a book once. I now consider that workflow to be a form of punishment.
I don't understand. Modern browsers render 20-year-old websites without a hitch, provided the resources are all available and don't do anything evil.
But yes, HTML/CSS typesetting engines should refuse to execute scripts or load remote resources. It's quite unfortunate that EPUB allows such things and merely โstrongly encourage[s]โ authors to avoid them. Goodness knows a lot of authors and publishers are much more concerned with short-term profit than long-term stability.
โA New York appeals court judge has rejected #Trumpโs request to delay his April 15 hush money/interference criminal trial while he fights to move the case out of Manhattan.
The decision came Monday, a week before jury selection was set to startโ #legal
People were expecting aliens? ๐คจ Dude. It's the moon. It's a big, dumb ball of rock. No aliens anywhere to be found, and we did fly over there and check.
Nice thing about #KDE#KDEPlasma: if you rename a file, and try to use the name of a file that already exists, the file manager asks if you want to replace that file.
Which, yes, is exactly what I want. Most file managers won't let me do that, but this one will.
Apropos โBe Bestโ: Trump and his Slovene-born escort spent years calling for Obamaโs birth certificate. I am calling for Melaniaโs legal immigration papers. How did she get an โEinsteinโ visa for extraordinary abilities, despite her blatant lie under oath about college degrees?
Even after all these years, I still know basically nothing about her, other than that she dislikes Christmas decorating (which, to be fair, I'm not the biggest fan of, either).
Six months ago, I wrote this post about how console privilege is leading to PC gamingโs history being forgotten.
On a nearly weekly basis, I find myself saying, โHow do so few people know about this classic? Oh, itโs because it was a PC exclusive and never got a console release!โ
Iโm not saying that consoles are bad. I, myself, have many of them. But I do think we tend to tie up what is good into monetary value.
Like it or not, our monkey brains associate wealth with access to resources. Because consoles tend to be a physical thing, we associate them with wealth โ especially now that theyโve become collectorโs items.
By their nature, PCs are less collectible. Few people are pining for a Gateway laptop made in 2002. Many more people are lusting for a GameCube (even though a Wii, which is less expensive, also plays GameCube games).
When PC games are collectible, theyโre usually big box games with odd dimensions like a trapezoid. PC games in jewel cases are not so collectible. Collectability has less to do with the game itself and more to do with it taking up physical space.
What does this result in? Action 52 being more remembered than Caster because one was an unlicensed NES cartridge that looked weird, and the other being distributed digital-only, without any physical media being made of it. And make no bones about it, Action 52 is much worse than Caster.
This isnโt just an issue that affects video games but other media too. 100,000 songs per day are uploaded to Spotify every day. Most of these songs have not been issued on vinyl, CD, or cassette. What songs do you think are most likely to be remembered? Those with a physical footprint.
In 100 years, how will people understand 2024? Itโs unlikely that whatever exists digital-only will be preserved. Whatever is remembered will likely exist, in some form, physically.
This is demonstrably false. Almost all servers that de-federate Threads still broadcast the RSS feed of your posts. This is available to everyone, even servers that are de-federated from yours.
If you donโt believe me, test this out for yourself. Append โ.rssโ to the end of your profile URL (exampleserver.com/@username.rss), and see what happens.
Hell, if I wanted to build a search engine for the Fediverse and not use ActivityPub, I could use RSS instead and I could index most of the Fediverse โ whether you opt into it or not.
Letโs stop spreading the myth that de-federation by itself prevents Threads from accessing your public feed.
Defederating #Threads will, however, stop Threads from drowning out the entire rest of the Fediverse.
The result of federating is that Threads is the Fediverse now, and the rest of us are just the silent periphery that no one cares about and aren't even allowed to speak to Threads users (the federation is one-way). This kills the Fediverse. Easiest #EmbraceExtendExtinguish ever.
But also, I don't want my content appearing on Zuckerberg's platform, even if it does support two-way federation in the future. I can't actually stop them from scraping it, of course, but by blocking them, I can at least put them on notice that they are not welcome.
Really? When I instituted the domain block, the warning message said that users on that domain won't be able to see or interact with my content, if I recall correctly.
So the way the IDF chose targets was (1) an AI spat out tens of thousands of names of potential Hamas members; (2) those people's homes were made bombing targets; (3) no one bothered to review any of it or even see if the person was home; (4) the potential for civilian casualties didn't matter. https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
You can do that in many languages. Slap together any random American first and last name, like โSarah Connorโ, and you'll have the name of dozens if not hundreds of people.
I chose that particular combination because, well, remember Terminator 1? That name belonged to numerous different people, and the Terminator went around killing all of them (and failed to kill the one it was actually supposed to).
