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rakslice

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quantization machine inputs artisan. he/him. being wrong on the internet practitioner. 50.3° N, 119.3° W (approx.) 68kΩ (Rɪᴅ_ʙ) pull-down. ε_𝑣 in Twitch chat. Boosts are sometimes followed by relevant snark

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kiwa, to random
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Keyboard, I think it's for some terminal but it's ps/2, kinda works with in my modern computer, but I want to use it with the alpha

rakslice,
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@kiwa hm, i wonder if openvms/alpha itself lets you remap ps/2 scan codes

mcc, to random
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At 5:14 in this YouTube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_xoKqLQrvs

The vlogger says "subscribe so you don't miss it!". At that exact moment, assuming you are not full screen, a little rainbow shimmer runs over the "Subscribe" button under the video.

…did the vlogger set a flag somewhere, or is Google doing speech rec to look for the word "subscribe" in videos and triggering a CSS effect when it finds it? Does this happen in all videos now?

rakslice,
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@mcc The second one https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/17/23920088/youtube-like-subscribe-button-animations

rakslice, to random
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Reflecting on notation and programming, I do have a certain conceptualization of the free software outlook as a kind of malicious compliance with the approach of literate programming, like making the information accessible in theory, but not in practice to the regular users, only to a certain kind of weird specialist

rakslice,
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In any case, the question I was getting to is: which is the effect and which is the cause? is the cause of better exposition held up by bad languages? or are languages bad at this because being better at it is not what programmers want to do?

rakslice,
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Programming languages in the modern era all seem resigned to some amount of write-only-code-encouraging inscrutable punctuation marks

rakslice,
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(Now to be clear this has nothing to do with the real origin story of free software, which is that it's basically a reactionary movement from the days when most of the regular users basically were the weird specialists who wanted to make changes to the new, weird proprietary software)

rakslice,
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And if a language that self-consciously primitive can't stick to its guns, what hope is there for anything else

rakslice,
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Like I consider the line-numbers-BASICs among the popular languages that most aimed at new user comprehensibility, and yet I distinctly remember as a kid trying to figure out how to detect keypresses without blocking by reading the code of an example program that was doing it, and I eventually had to just look it up in a reference book, because the INKEY$ function-that-looks-like-a-variable is totally irregular and I couldn't figure out what was going on from the code

rakslice,
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Now I do have a certain amount of hope for someone somewhere to one day do something with a fundamentally different UX than pushing blocks of text around, like it's 1978 and we're really proud of our newfangled glass ttys, but it is unclear at this point even an approximate idea of what that might be

rakslice, to random
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So I have a question for people who know cursed old libtool stuff: When using libtool modules, are you supposed to be able to just pass the modules with -dlopen when linking the final program with libtool and have it work?

rakslice, to random
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Okay, let's think about a different question: What's the most torment-nexus-flavoured sw dev opportunity available?

rakslice, to random
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-crow-reboot-lands-at-lionsgate-1235584373/ a "movie of its time"... and that time is middle teenager imo

rakslice, to random
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I spoke recently about YouTube as a glorified free hosting platform chasing eyeballs trying to pass itself off as social media; Medium is another example. tl;dr: What if most of the "network effects" of such platforms are actually negative for the hosted content?

rakslice, to random
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LB: the desire for genuine reviews is great; a lot of the details are silly or at least misguided, but there are a lot of conversation starters here

rakslice, to random
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LB: ngl, I use the Best Buy website as a kind of "what would the world's least competent retail website developers do" quick reference

rakslice,
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Every time I see the dumb "choose a country" popup, I think: one day they're gonna learn what SEO means and their heads are going to literally explode like a watermelon getting hit with the subspace explosion wave from Star Trek VI

rakslice,
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alol, the Klingon moon that blows up at the beginning of Star Trek VI is called Praxis, which is 👌

rakslice, to random
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LB: utter lack of ui 101 level traditional ui affordances and ui guidelines stuff is so commonplace now. Look at the print dialog in Chrome if you want to see what "programmer ui" means in 2024

rakslice, to random
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"having the assembly language embedded inside your source code meant that the code was very portable" what even are words https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=279

rakslice, to random
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It's interesting to compare and contrast this with the soft, almost ceremonial, tit-for-tat retaliation Al Jazeera received in the US in 2003 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68961753

rakslice, to random
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LB: This is the thing with the sort of campaigning-against-Trudeau the Conservatives are doing, sure the government sucks, and Trudeau is quintessentially a kind of boring happy medium looks good in the uniform percentage-maximizing undistinguished leader pick, but to run against them on the basis of that you have to provide an alternative platform that is NOT TOTALLY PANTS WETTINGLY BATSHIT INSANE

rakslice, to random
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Anybody know what the situation is with usb gadget drivers with the rise of type-c? I have an mt81xx device where I'm trying to figure out how you would convince the mtu3 to provide udc (or is that even relevant in type-c land?)

rakslice, to random
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LB: I mean, I think the complaints are about appropriation; if I had a distro I would give the releases names like "globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil" and the douglas adams appreciators could fairly get up in my grill about it (if they were the type of person into that sort of thing which odds are they probably aren't)

rakslice, to random
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oop, there's the lede: "The DOJ hasn't further specified how the US military purchased counterfeit Cisco gear [...] Online marketplaces like Amazon and eBay are known to have suspicious tech listings, so it would be alarming if government entities, especially military ones, were acquiring gear purchased by these means." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/counterfeit-cisco-gear-ended-up-in-us-military-bases-used-in-combat-operations/

rakslice, to random
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It's like a corollary of "when you're an exec, reasons don't matter" -- like as the customer, legalese doesn't matter, I'm not awarding points for technical correctness -- when a company ditches the feature I'm using without warning, or the site just bans me for no reason, it puts the ball in my court to take the next step, and I have to make a decision about choosing a replacement and I'm gonna take the obvious factors into account,

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