aral

aral, 3 days ago to random

The very fact we have to say “vote against fascism” is a damning indictment of the failure of our democratic institutions and the rule of law. You shouldn’t be able to vote FOR fascism. Democracies that lack constitutional safeguards against fascism will, eventually, stop being democracies. When? At the last election. The one that elected the fascists. Democracy cannot tolerate fascism. Tolerance cannot tolerate intolerance. I’m afraid this is a lesson we will learn the hard way. Again.

aral, 4 days ago to random

I have to say I do like the results you get in Icons8 when you search for Mark Zuckerberg.

#icons8 #cancel #markZuckerberg

aral, 4 days ago to Games

I thought God of War and Baldur’s Gate 3 might have ruined most games for me by setting the bar so high but I’m really enjoying one of the loveliest games I’ve played in a while and it’s… are you sitting down?…

Cat Quest!

(Yep.)

It’s a gentle/sweet/fun Zelda/Final Fantasy/Skyrim inspired 2.5D cartoon-like RPG that you can dip in and out of made by a small studio in Singapore. I stumbled onto it on PlayStation Plus but it’s on all platforms.

https://www.thegentlebros.com/catquest/

#games #catQuest #RPG

aral, 5 days ago to hosting

Does anyone know of anyone offering managed Forgejo hosting?

(I don’t mean Codeberg. All my stuff is already on Codeberg. I mean where I could have my own VPS running Forgejo just for our own projects but where I wouldn’t have to deal with managing yet another server.)

#forgejo #hosting #vps #fediMind

aral, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to SmallWeb

:kitten: Say hello to the new Kitten web site! 🎉

https://kitten.small-web.org

Like Kitten itself, it’s a baby but will be evolving quickly as they approach API version 1 together.

Enjoy!

💕

PS. Of course it’s written in Kitten itself. It doesn’t do anything fancy but here’s the source code if you’re interested: https://codeberg.org/kitten/site

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #html #css #JavaScript #NodeJS #documentation

aral, 5 days ago to ireland

G’morning, all! And a special shout out to the folks here in Ireland: please go out and vote today in the local and EU elections. As lefty as you can. They’re all imperfect systems but at least we have proportional representation here and that’s way better than what most folks have. And we must fight the rise of fascism here and in the EU. This is one – of many – ways we do that. So please, go out and vote.

💕

#ireland #eu #vote #elections

aral, 5 days ago to RaspberryPi

Raspberry Pi… asshats.

https://www.techspot.com/news/103274-raspberry-pi-5-gets-70-artificial-intelligence-add.html

#raspberryPi #AI #Israel #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #BDS #boycott #AI #Halio #SBC #tech #dev #hardware

aral, 6 days ago to SmallWeb

Quick heads up: Kitten’s installer/downloads will be offline for a few minutes as I recreate kittens.small-web.org (the site that new Kittens are deployed to when they’re born) as it was originally on Ubuntu and sites deployed by Domain are now using AlmaLinux. Also, I am setting Kitten’s API version to 0 (it was initially set to 1) to signal that it is prerelease. When the version is back to 1 it will be because API version 1 is stable.

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb

aral, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to microsoft

Oh, that? That’s just me writing the Windows section of the Kitten¹ installation instructions for the upcoming web site.

¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

#Microsoft #Windows #Recall #BigTech #Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #privacy #security #tech #web #dev

aral, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to Israel

It’s not antisemitic to call a fascist a fascist.

#fascism #israel #zionism #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide

aral, 7 days ago to SmallWeb

🎉 You can now use components and fragments in your Markdown pages in Kitten.

Following on from yesterday’s Markdown pages feature, you can now import components and fragments and use them in your Markdown pages to add dynamic functionality (similar to how it works in mdx but without using JSX).

(The “SCARY” text in the screencast is being randomly animated by a component.)

Enjoy!

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #Markdown #components #fragments #mdx

Screencast: On the right, a browser with the Kitten Persistence tutorial page demonstrating the word Scary being animated by a component called Scary that is imported from the front matter of a Markdown page, an excerpt of which is shown in an editor on the left: --- layout: ../Tutorials.layout.js imports: - import Scary from './Scary.component.js' title: Persistence description: Learn how to persist information using Kitten’s build-in JavaScript Database (JSDB) topics: - Persistence. - JavaScript Database (JSDB). - The Kitten CLI’s

aral, 8 days ago to markdown

🎉 New Kitten feature: Markdown pages

You can now create .page.md files and use front matter to specify a layout template as well as any other props you want to pass to your layout.

(I’m working on the Kitten web site with docs, etc., so I thought I’d bite the bullet and add this feature this morning to make my life easier. Should make it easier to make this sort of site with Kitten in the future for everyone.)

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

:kitten: 💕

#Kitten #Markdown #SmallWeb #web #dev #NodeJS

aral, 13 days ago to accessibility

I love that a multi-billion-dollar corporation like RedHat/IBM can ship an operating system with a broken screen reader in 2024 (it’s not just them, it’s true for basically every major Linux distribution today) and, when you point it out, the response is “it’s no one’s fault… it’s all free labour… it’s FOSS, man”. And then: oh, and this charity is paying for one person to work on accessibility support to be implemented now… Anyone else see how fucked up that is?

#accessibility #foss #linux

aral, 13 days ago to fediverse

“Fediverse” “a16z” “crypto” “VCs”

The fuck is this shit?

smh

#fediverse #a16z #crypto #VC https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/112524750248407253

aral, 13 days ago to linux

A good to place install command-line apps on Linux is $HOME/.local/bin

Sadly, Linux distributions don’t consistently have that folder on their system paths.

So I wrote up a quick gist with instructions on how to add it to your path on common Linux shells:

https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/local-bin-path.md

(If yours isn’t listed, merge request are welcome.) ;)

Kitten also now warns you if it detects its not on your path with a link to that gist during installation. (https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/issues/178)

:kitten:💕

#linux #Kitten

aral, 14 days ago to Israel

Wow, I just realised: these genocide deniers… they actually think I want to have a conversation with them. As if there’s a debate to be had about how much butchering of the Palestinian people is acceptable or how many dead kids is too many or whether or not killing kids is legal or how much apartheid is too much apartheid or something.

To these folks, I say, this is my block button, feel its click.

#israel #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #palestine #gaza

aral, 14 days ago to Israel

Israeli campaign against ICC may be ‘crimes against justice’, say legal experts

International lawyers believe conduct of Israeli intelligence service should be investigated by prosecutor in The Hague.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/israel-icc-criminal-offences-espionage-legal-experts

#israel #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #ICC #crimesAgainstJustice #TheHague

aral, 14 days ago to random

That’s so weird… I know so many people who know so many good people who work there.

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112525685484114107

#PeopleFarmers #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism

aral, 14 days ago to SmallWeb

So Kitten’s build process (i.e., the time it takes to build Kitten itself) takes ~0.7 seconds on my ~1 year old desktop (Ryzen 7 5700G 3.8Ghz) vs ~1.4 seconds on my ~3-year-old Starlabs LabTop (renamed to the Starbook thanks to a suggestion by yours truly but sadly, not quickly enough).

So, in summary, it’s bloody fast for something that results in a ~9MB bundle.

(And that’s all thanks to esbuild.)

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

#Kitten #SmallWeb #build #performance #web #dev #esbuild #NodeJS #JS

aral, 14 days ago to France

“France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that recognition of a Palestinian state was not a ‘taboo subject’ but that it should take place at a ‘useful moment’.

https://www.inkl.com/a/AgWrLrhlBMl

A useful moment… Like when, motherfucker? When they’re all dead? :0_goose:

#macaroon #macron #neoliberalism #france #israel #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #palestine #gaza

aral, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to SmallWeb

A little detail in the latest #Kitten:

I find #NodeJS deprecation warnings hit the sweet spot between jarring enough to be annoying and not informative enough to be useful.

So, in Kitten, the first time you hit a deprecation warning, you get a message telling you there are deprecation warnings.

If you care, you can open the interactive shell and view the kitten.deprecationWarnings list, which will show you full details including the stack trace.

:kitten:💕

#SmallWeb #design #layering

aral, 14 days ago to random

I love how folks still think people farmers like Google have a trust problem.

In 2024!

They don’t have a trust problem.

They are untrustworthy.

And they’ve always been untrustworthy. It’s just that your friends happen to work there and your agency gets scraps of work from them sometimes and maybe they sponsor events you speak at that you’re even still questioning this. And, by doing so – still, even today – helping legitimise them.

With friends like these…

#SiliconValley #trust #usefools

aral, 14 days ago to Israel

By attacking and undermining the ICC, Israel has proved again it is a state gone rogue

• Simon Tisdall, The Guardian

https://www.inkl.com/a/xrVQwqhvVXv

#israel #pariahState #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #palestine #gaza #ICC #ICJ #internationalLaw #warCrimes

aral, 15 days ago to Israel

“Finish Them, America ♥️ Israel Always!”

Message from Nikki Haley, written on an Israeli missile that will likely murder yet more Palestinian children.

Fuck these genocidal maniacs. Fascists the lot of them.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nikki-haley-finish-them-bomb-israel-gaza-1235028702/

Via: @afouxenidis

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #UnitedStatee #USA #America #usPol #NikkiHaley

aral, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to Israel

You have to overlook 235 days of Israeli butchery and the deaths of over 36,000 Palestinian people to ask “What about October 7th?”

But I guess even that’s nothing compared to overlooking 75 years of settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing should your calendar for blame happen to begin and end on October 7th.

#whataboutism #October7 #israel #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide