ManMachine
@max@manmachine.me
Professional computer toucher.
Amateur photographer and musician.
Autistic.
Amateur photographer and musician.
Autistic.
ManMachine
@max@manmachine.me
#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt
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A river winds through a heavily wooded landscape. On the right side of the river are rocky cliffs. In the top right of the sky is a white moon. This is a predominantly blue painting, signed "Chris Silverman".
@csilverman This reminds me so much of the scandinavian painters from late 1800, early 1900 that illustrated fairy tales, John Bauer, and Theodor Kittelsen. Love the creature-like shapes of the woods at the low right side 😍🩶
Speaking of Unicode, I think many people would be surprised just how strong the pushback against it was even in the early to mid 2000s. UTF-8 adoption in Linux was a fight.
@mjg59 at least around here, people still do not seem to fully understand it which then ends up in, hey try not to use any Umlauts in the masterdata which makes me go gnarrr all the time.
@mjg59
The opposition in Poland was crazy, especially given that we suffered 3 competing codepages not that long before unicode arrived. The fights on the newsgroups were massive!
@mjg59 More features means more things that can break. Things are mostly fixed now, not perfect, but most of this renders correctly for me: https://antofthy.gitlab.io/info/data/utf8_demo.txt
@mjg59 I can still recognize Shift-JIS decoded as Windows 1252 on sight from how much time I spent on Japanese sites in the early 00s
please don't tell me to read that great essay on why AI is so bad, when it features:
> I use AI tools sparingly for assistance while refactoring code in languages I understand. I occasionally use it to help compose command line arguments for tools like ffmpeg.
straight after why not to use it
YOU CAN LITERALLY NOT DO ANY OF THAT AND NOT MISS A THING
and directly before
> The explosion of AI has played a significant role in my own burnout.
i mean,
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Multi-function Casio watch showing a barometer graph that dropped rather swiftly for the last day.
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4-panel comic by War and Peas Panel 1: Two green alien astronauts at an archaeological dig on post-apocalyptic Earth. One alien says to a crowned alien that's just arriving, "Commander, we've discovered an artefact. The humans called it 'Internet'."
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Panel 2: The two aliens stand beside a wheeled computer console on the ruined Earth surface. The alien at the keyboard says, "We were able to reconstruct some of the data."
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Panel 3: The crowned alien watches a screen showing an orange cat batting at a ball of yarn.
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Panel 4: Close-up of the crowned alien crying green tears. The other alien says, "It's pretty much all like this." The crowned alien replies, "Beautiful."
We know we have posted this comic a couple of days ago. We're just curious what you prefer: *4 panels in one image* or *panel by panel" posts?
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@warandpeas why not both? That worked fine here.
edit: you can include any text you want to along with the all in 1 image reply message, such as the usual call to action for paid supporters.
@warandpeas
Have you seen @davidrevoy's take on this subject recently ?
@Zekovski @davidrevoy Yes! His experiment is the reason we are doing this!
@warandpeas @Zekovski @davidrevoy
Voted 4 panels 1 image for you, and the reverse for Revoy. I think one panel works better for your work.
@warandpeas I prefer panel by panel because it makes it less likely I read the punchline too early by accident.
@warandpeas I don't have a strong esthetic preference, but I think the single image with all panels is easier to share with people off the platform? So do with that insight what you will.
@warandpeas 1 image rather than 4 images. Contrary to what one would think, 4 images is worse for mobile, because the controls to change images cover parts of the image and sometimes text is unreadable. Every time someone posts 4 images, I email myself a link so I can read it at home on desktop, because it's unreadable on mobile.
@warandpeas In this case, *definitely* the all-in-one, because it seems you've accidentally reversed the first two images in the split-out version. :-)
(But yeah, I also generally prefer all-in-one. I'm a sighted user on a laptop and this is closest to how I read comics normally.)
Should I be shitposting more on here?
I mostly think of Mastodon as a lower-rate platform, where I try not to flood people, but iunno, thoughts? Poll!
(your own experiences are quite welcome too)
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Crypto? Yeah I have some, in /usr/src/crypto, like krb4 and ssh, why are you asking
@nina_kali_nina you're forgetting about the endless source of crypto in /dev/urandom
Kind of kills the market, I think 🤔
(This toot might contain traces of a slight stretch of the word "crypto")
have you beaten the ender dragon? (in survival)
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@eniko I still don't know why I defeatened the ender dragon tbh. It took so long and all I got was a stupid egg I couldn't do anything with.
@eniko Every time I play (well I should say "played" since I let my Microsoft account expire because, well, Microsoft and now the game I have owned for practically two decades has been taken away from me by a company that I didn't even buy it from) I usually just get bogged down exploring the Zork empire and the Nether version of it and building my underground base. I think I've never even gotten around to even going into the End at all...
(When I can sit down and try it out I bet Luanti will scratch my itch. For free even. Take that Microshaft.)
@eniko I have, and it made me sad. Poor dragon. The dragon was just there, living happily, and I slain it for no reason
@nina_kali_nina well. not *no* reason
there were shulker boxes to get >_>
@eniko Once, with a some friends on a server we had running for a few months. Most of my Minecraft time over the years has been spent just building and exploring though.
Also, maybe this is unusual, but I rarely bother with mods. The vanilla game has been plenty entertaining and most mods or (worse) big 'ol mod packs seem to just pile on needless complexity.
Which is weird because apart from the portal storms I've enjoyed Vintage Story which appears to be forged from weapons-grade complexium.
Two thousand year old #opsec advice:
Hoping that others will not hear is not the same as not speaking; hoping others won’t find out is not the same as not doing.
(from the Book of Han, a history book authored by a brother-sister pair)
#classicalchinese #fountainpen
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Handwritten Classical Chinese and translation: Hoping that others will not hear is not the same as not speaking; hoping others won’t find out is not the same as not doing.
@0xabad1dea I must know, what kind of pen gives that ink effect? (It's so pretty!)
@catsalad fountain pen filled with bottle ink that gives that effect :) they’re called “sheening inks”
edit: this is the same ink in strong sunlight at an angle https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116447336389536456
@0xabad1dea @catsalad Which one, if I may inquire? (Edit: you replied before me) I use the KWZ Sheen Machine and Sheen Machine 2, and I recently got some "chromatography" inks from Ostrich, and I love them.
@0xabad1dea I copied you
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Photo of a few words written with a fountain pen. Text say "Hoping that others won't hear / is nof the same as / not speaking; / hoping others won't find out / is not the same as / not doing. The paper is a rhodia n°8, white with thin blue grid in a narrow format; pen (not pictured) is a twsbi eco purple translucent; ink is diamine inks monboddos hat, a very dark purple
@0xabad1dea Hmm. I am learning Chinese better from this post than anything else I've come across. I'm not sure how close to modern day usage this is but your annotations are great and helps me understand from the perspective of Japanese...
欲 "appetite" ... "wishing"
人 person
勿 "not/must not"
聞 "hear"
言 "speak"
的？old version of this character? I see it a lot in Chinese text but the meaning is opaque to me.
@muddle the old equivalent of 的 is 之 but neither of those are in this text so I'm guessing you're misreading 为 which is simplified 為
@0xabad1dea ah, OK. In Japanese, it's 為さる, to do!
What is 的 / 之, though... ?
@muddle oh sorry, and 的/之 is "of" (the x of y) and I suspect if I say "like Japanese の" it will click
in Classical, 之 is also used as a pronoun, which you can understand as "thereof" but translates as "him, her" etc
@0xabad1dea Thanks. I'd just looked up 之 and I remembered the の thing. I would never have guessed that there was a connection between it and 的 though. In Japanese it's more of an auxiliary character for (I guess) turning an adjective into an adverb.
Thanks again for your patience.
@muddle patience? you’ll be lucky if you can get me to shut up 😂
@0xabad1dea Forbearance, then? I mean, there you are writing about Chinese characters and here I am diverting the conversation into talking about Japanese. I just like the characters and the history around them (like different simplifications and meaning shifts) but I'm a bit wary of coming across as being a Japanese fanboi. It's just that I don't really have any perspective on hanji other than that. It's good to get a non-Japanese perspective, though. So 
#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt
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A dark blue background. Hovering above is a large, orange space invader: one of those blocky pixel monsters from the classic arcade game. It is dropping neon green blocks. Below it, running away from the blocks, is a person, not pixelated, carrying a black umbrella. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
it is impressive that github's downtime situation has gotten SO bad that:
1) they've suspended signing up for PAID llm usage. they cannot take your money because they know they can't deliver
2) if you are already a customer on the middle tier, they have reduced your access and you have to pay 4x as much if you want it back
3) they've removed the best models from mid-tier because they're simply too expensive to run at rates individuals can pay
this is WHILE being an internal user of one of the largest cloud businesses in the world; github should, in principle, have effectively infinite compute as long as the customers are paying
completely independent of all other concerns both practical and ethical, it turns out that trying to run code-generating LLMs at commercial scale is just wildly, impractically expensive and unreliable
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-20-changes-to-github-copilot-plans-for-individuals/
@0xabad1dea GitHub is also in the middle of a big lift and shift from AWS to Azure. Azure is so much worse than you can possibly imagine.
@0xabad1dea every commercial llm provider's pricing structure seems to be moving toward a situation in which the amount users pay is completely decoupled from the level of service provided (both because reasoning about rate limits is intentionally made difficult and because the service providers are reserving the right to change the nature of the service at whim). it's pretty gross!
@0xabad1dea They’re doing three, huge, stupid things at once: using Copilot for everything (MS said to), switching to host on Azure (MS again), and rewriting everything using React (top down edict, don’t know the source). It’s so ridiculously slow and unreliable now.
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like to add ® and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug
@SwiftOnSecurity as a developer who is still trying to finish a port of a script from py2 to py3 because of this exact reason: please don't. Very fed data formats or streams include encoding info, and just debugging such an impossible thing would just drive a poor dev like me maintaining a 20yo+ stack towards the insane spectrum.
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![Fake Windows XP dialog:
Age Verification
Are you old?
[ Yes ] [ Maybe Later ]](https://cache.treehouse.systems/media_attachments/files/116/428/407/400/298/241/original/756276c8d781ac79.png "Fake Windows XP dialog:
Age Verification
Are you old?
[ Yes ] [ Maybe Later ]")
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Fake Windows XP dialog:
Age Verification
Are you old?
[ Yes ] [ Maybe Later ]
Standing in line for VCF consignment. Think they have a PCjr? Its only system I emulate and don't own...
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The line for VCF east consignment. A number of nerds are in line outside an old red brick Army building.
They did have a PCjr! I thought this one might be from computer reset since it was in the box. But it's clearly been in someones storage.
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An IBM PCjr in the box. The IBM PCjr logo is striped and the PC is in blue and the Jr is in red.
It's got the "good" keyboard.
I've got the adapter cable for the PCjr video jack to a standard CGA monitor so I don't need a PCjr monitor, thankfully.
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A view inside the IBM PCjr box showing the replacement 'normal' jr keyboard and cpu.
@gloriouscow
Turns out it's pretty hard to get the chicklet keyboards now! I spent a while hunting for one that wasn't completely overpriced on ebay because mine came with that kind as well and I wanted to complete the set.
@TechTangents @gloriouscow same. mine came with the good keyboard, but I wanted the chicklet version
@foone @TechTangents maybe I'll start a Kickstarter for a new production run of pcjr chicklet keyboards. Now with Bluetooth
@gloriouscow @foone @TechTangents ... would Bluetooth be more or less reliable than the original infrared link?
i guess fundamentally i'm not convinced that whatever amount useful functionality has emerged from generative AI (and i think the jury's still out on whether that amount is non-zero) couldn't have been achieved in more cost-effective, equitable and sustainable ways by having taken the money and resources we've shoveled into gen AI and investing them elsewhere
("sustainable" in the sense of environmentally sustainable but also "can we keep this in a working state" sustainable)
like... the cost of a single "state-of-the-art" llm training run would be a permanently institution-changing amount of money for your average computer science department (to say nothing of depts in CS-adjacent fields, especially in the arts and humanities). the claude mythos result, even if you take anthropopo's claims at face value (which: don't) seems indicative of this, like, yeah if you toss nine figures at security research, you're gonna find some exploits?
Semi serious question, (please do not ask "AI") I can do web searches just fine so please answer from your own experience:
In English, you have "four letter words", these words have four letters but are perhaps not to be used in polite communication.
In OTHER languages: Are there any other "group of words constrained by arbitrary rules"?
Does NOT have to be an offensive group of words, but more like a grouping outside the traditional language syntax.
(no answer? please boost)
I have told a fellow indie musician Michael Kuz to join the Fediverse, please give the guy a warm welcome, follow him and check his music out! I told him here was so much better than the other social media platforms- you just need to find the right people!
As yellowed a piece of mac gear as I've ever owned.
I suspect some kind of wacky chemical exposure in the environment it was used in.
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A photo of an extremely yellowed Apple keyboard. The background and keys should be white with greyed text. Instead it's yellowed and the text is a lightish green colour. There's a white Apple notepad on white paper next to it to show the extreme yellowing.
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A photo of an extremely yellowed Apple keyboard. The background and keys should be white with greyed text. Instead it's yellowed and the text is a lightish green colour. There's a white Apple notepad on white paper next to it to show the extreme yellowing. Even the white surround near the USB ports is yellowed in this almost pinky yellowing.
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A photo of an extremely yellowed Apple keyboard. The background and keys should be white with greyed text. Instead it's yellowed and the text is a lightish green colour. There's a white Apple notepad on white paper next to it to show the extreme yellowing. This view shows the caps lock, shift and ctrl/option keys. The clear part of the keyboard has survived, but the white plastic inside is just like a pumpkin.
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A photo of an extremely yellowed Apple keyboard. The background and keys should be white with greyed text. Instead it's yellowed and the text is a lightish green colour. There's a white Apple notepad on white paper next to it to show the extreme yellowing. This view shows the nav cluster and really shows how the greyed text too has faded.
@NanoRaptor I wonder if retro-briting could even recover from that.
@static I have another version of the same keyboard where only the white inside the case had yellowed but the keys are pure white.
I tried retrobrighting the internal parts, but it didn't touch it.
@NanoRaptor Wow, perfectly uniform. Looks entirely intentional other than the bad text/background contrast.
“software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like” it literally can. corporations do it constantly and I really doubt any of them will drop linux if it doesn’t comply with a set of godawful fascist age verification laws. historically one of the forms of pushback against unjust laws is to show some basic fucking solidarity and do nothing to assist in their enforcement because it really isn’t practical to sue everybody, but unfortunately solidarity is alien to most of these computer fuckers
feel free to fuck off with the “it’s just a field in a database, distros will make it a simple age gate during account creation” horseshit unless you come with an explanation of why that’ll work in a regulatory landscape where porn sites with age gates are currently under legal threat from states where an age gate isn’t a sufficient proof mechanism, to the point where some of them have started partnering with companies like (Thiel-backed) Persona for identity verification
if your proof is that I should trust that the people currently complying will suddenly grow a backbone and it’s actually very punk rock to have a database field with PII in systemd: go fuck yourself
also, is it not plainly fucking horrid that your account creation experience on linux of all fucking things is getting worse due to an unjust, unconstitutional (in the US) law? are you not pissed that muscle memory and scripts will break and command line account creation will get much worse due to this? no objections from the fuckers who campaign against any improvements to the status quo on this one? no? only when doing so fucks over someone else? how weird!
“it’s just a column in a database, aren’t you being dramatic” thanks fucker, believe it or not I know how software works and I know perfectly well the type of horrid crap we can build on top of a simple backend if it’s encapsulated in the right type of system
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@zzt "It's just a column in a database" is also a great rebuttal to any commentary about the Federal Reserve.
@zzt tbqh i'm surprised they are actually implementing the field instead of just asking an llm to guess my age and then never bothering to check if it works
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@cap_ybarra @zzt I heard that Linux is gonna make me try to ring the bell with a sledgehammer before I log in
“it’s just a column in a database” said presumably a full grown adult whose ability to live under capitalism is a column in their bank’s database
“they can’t force FreeDOS or ITS users to implement age verification!” you know, I don’t think the fascists give a single fuck if you spend a relatively short period of time jacking around on increasingly expensive retro hardware before it dies and/or is priced out of your grasp. I think if they force you to do that as the only way to experience a computer you control, they’ve won.
I cannot believe ITS got brought up as a counterpoint but welcome to mastodon I guess
@zzt
When they start bringing up lisp machines we'll know the apocalypse is nigh.
“software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like,” I said, tapping the icon on my phone that summons an unlicensed taxi
new moon ft. @ozzelot
https://analognowhere.com/_/lxxora/
#penitum #unix_surrealism #analognowhere #comic #penitum #computer #mastoart
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new moon. metacity. right place. right time... i dip inside deb's antiques. if one wants to tempt fate - this must be how.
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cursed penitum
Oomfies, what's more gay? The winner is likely going to be my desktop OS. Others ideas are welcome, as long as it's fairly usable, open source and not Linux
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@nina_kali_nina have you considered Mia Rose as your desktop environment? 
I can stretch loooon, maybe I can cover a lot of your desk 
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com
@nina_kali_nina can't speak firsthand to its gayness, but Haiku seems like it might fit your other criteria
@joe it might, but I fear for safety/security etc etc. It's a primary machine after all
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@nina_kali_nina ah yeah it's probably not good for that. though it is cool that the base OS and apps are immutably mounted directly from the set of packages you have installed, which is something you need to do extra work to get with any *BSD (though of course when you're always root in Haiku, it's still not hard to simply install or alter packages to indirectly alter the OS)
@nina_kali_nina
OpenBSD! (But OTOH how would I know, being old and cis and straight and probably a troublemaker)
@nina_kali_nina i mean, i am hardly the expert, but you seem to have picked like the two least gay options.
@drj @nina_kali_nina I don't know how to grade this (is it the SysV/BSD split?), but I'd bet good money on Oracle Solaris being less gay.
@nina_kali_nina ... now that you made me think about it, OpenBSD looks gayer, but NetBSD looks queerer...
@nina_kali_nina why not FreeBSD? It’s a while since I last looked at BSDs, but I believe FreeBSD was the more desktop oriented one, that and Dragonfly.
IMHO NetBSD is kind of a “research” project these days. Not sure anyone uses it in anger, or as a desktop OS.
@WiteWulf they still don't have an anti-AI statement. :(
@nina_kali_nina This is like asking which shovel is more like a love sonnet.
(For the record, I voted NetBSD because they have greater platform diversity, which seems philosophically gayer?)
@bytex64 indeed it is, and shovel lovers curious about poetry, as well as shovel-curious poetry lovers, will be able to answer. ;) which is exactly my point
@nina_kali_nina NETBSD works on the Wii and (I think) Amiga. Seems pretty gay to me (also pretty Gary, as my phone insisted)
If you buy a chainsaw or a bicycle or a power drill, and you don’t spend time learning how to operate it properly, harm may come to you. If you give your child a chainsaw or a bicycle or a power drill without imparting said understanding, great harm may come to them too.
Somehow we’ve decided computers are different and this is a problem we need the government to fix by breaking computers for people who do know how to use them.
I’ve been working on this for a while, but let’s make it official: I started a little Tumblr-like microblog about software craft and quality!
You can sign up via RSS or a weekly newsletter digest. There’s already almost two months of content in there, if you just want to check it out.
Hope you like it!
I will occasionally link to a post from the blog that I feel really good about, if you don’t mind!
From this morning, a review of the documentary Koolhaas Houselife, ostensibly having nothing to do with UX design:
https://unsung.aresluna.org/movie-review-koolhaas-houselife/
A post about the pretty inspiring and strange software that is Strudel, sort of a command line/text editor for music. I want my CSS authoring to feel this way.
https://unsung.aresluna.org/we-can-go-deeper-by-patterning-inside-of-our-pattern/
An appreciation of one tool that does screenshotting in a really interesting way, plus the history of how ⌘⇧3 and ⌘⇧4 ended up where they are.
https://unsung.aresluna.org/how-to-shoot-a-screen-using-a-board-of-keys/
I learned about this cool exhibit at ACMI in Melbourne today, and immediately had to write about it.
It simulates working at a help line for a videogame company in 1993, complete with fictitious games, and a physical 300-page binder of various documents. Amazing.
https://unsung.aresluna.org/this-sounds-completely-impractical-and-we-love-it/
I wrote a little bit about molly guards, or UI that protects you from other UI!†
I’m very curious if you have other examples I missed.
(† Not related to the street drug.)
In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
@mwichary The idea of URLs as user interface elements is such a good take. I've seen some people use URLs as design/communications elements as well, like Jessica Hische:
https://www.jessicahische.is/thinkingthoughts
https://www.jessicahische.is/working
https://jessicahische.is/anoversharer
I love that approach. Modern browsers and preview cards often obscure URLs, but people still see these things; printed materials, links in emails, etc.
I don’t know if this is spicy (I honestly don’t even know what “spicy” means anymore on the internet), but wrote what I learned about making a bug process work for more people than just engineers: https://unsung.aresluna.org/how-to-make-sure-a-designer-never-files-a-bug-again/
For my 150th (!) post, a look back at Apple’s breathing lights: https://unsung.aresluna.org/just-a-little-detail-that-wouldnt-sell-anything/
A little post about Beagle Bros, perhaps the most fun 1980s software company. https://unsung.aresluna.org/our-programs-are-fun-to-use/
Had fun listing all of these interfaces that are aware of the hardware’s dimensions or buttons or other physical properties, so they can do fun things with pointing to stuff.
Please send me more if you can think of them!
@mwichary Volume indicator on iOS that is aligned with the hardware volume buttons.
@gruber Thanks! This one is really nicely done mechanically, too.
(I just wish the slider itself wasn’t interactive on screen. I keep touching it by accident when putting the phone back in my pocket.)
These were also pretty fun to put together.
250 posts on Unsung today!
To celebrate, I thought about and posted the goals + principles of the blog: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-at-250-goals-and-principles/
…and also shared my fav little design details: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-at-250-nine-design-details/
…and, I’m curious if you have ideas on how I can make Unsung better! https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-at-250-nine-design-details/
@mwichary No feedback - just some love for the blog. 🙌
It's one of the few that I'll try and visit in-browser rather than just consume via RSS, so clearly all the design touches, and the mix of topics works well for me.
A little concerned about DIRECTIVE 6, but it'll probably be fine. Probably. 🤔
it seems someone decided to prove you really can just publish any nonsense protocol draft with the IETF https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange It was about time to have a standard for some kinds of communication
Alt...
"Transfem communication". Two transfem girls dressed in shirts and arm warmers with trans colors talk among themselves sharing a text bubble that says "nya mrrp meow mrrp". They both have their own text bubbles saying ":3"
if you have no idea what this is about: a very official-looking "IPv8" draft appeared that was an absolute fever dream of and-a-pony wishlist features for a censorious regime, down to using json web tokens at the hardware level for some reason
@0xabad1dea
No, that was at the protocol level.
To be fair, that proposal calls out all the things that ipv6 fails to address, and calls out that ipv6 transition isn't even happening, and there are simpler ways to solve all of these problems.
The drawback in that particular proposal is the centralization, and the default routing rules seemingly disallowing local peer discovery.
@0xabad1dea oh we're glad we're not the only ones who thought it was clearly authoritarian in motivation. we sometimes stop short of saying that because we feel like we see it everywhere and it seems like a thing we should justify with concrete examples if we're going to say it.
@ireneista it might not have even been intentional tbh just Extremely Not Thought Through
@0xabad1dea @ireneista I honestly think it’s mostly just that the Silicon Valley Brain is incapable of not designing a panopticon even if it’s not explicitly trying to make one
@0xabad1dea reminds me of Doug Zonker's foundational academic paper "Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken". https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
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title and abstract for an academic white paper, except that every word has been replaced with Chicken
@0xabad1dea Publication date 16-apr? They're 15 days, late, then, I guess?
@rmd1023 this is not an april fool's joke. it is an intentional statement about a ridiculous draft proposal that's apparently serious.
@0xabad1dea Here's an unintentionally nonsense draft, where the author tries to correct the world of mathematics, which has got binary maths horribly wrong: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-terrell-math-quant-ternary-logic-of-binary-sys-12.txt
@0xabad1dea 15 days late?
@0xabad1dea
No, that one makes a great deal of sense, compared to the IPv8 draft to which it is a response.
In general, which rights do you feel are more important: Parents' rights or children's rights?
| Parents' rights, I'm in The United States of America: | 0 |
| Parents' rights, I'm in a Western nation besides The USA ( Europe, Canada, Australia, etc.): | 0 |
| Parents' rights, I'm in a non-western nation: | 0 |
| Children's rights, I'm in The United States of America: | 4 |
| Children's rights, I'm in a Western nation besides the US ( Europe, Canada, Australia, etc.): | 17 |
| Children's rights, I'm in a non-western nation: | 0 |
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I don’t have anything profound to post, I just like being extra.
(Handwritten in an extremely extra style with extremely extra blue-green glitter ink)
@0xabad1dea What ink is that? It's gorgeous...
@stonebear2 it’s iroshizuku ku-jaku with a bit of leftover glitter in it, BUT if you want to replicate this, understand a) it’s applied VERY wet and then photographed while still wet, b) the color dials of the photo have been fiddled with to push the gradient to extremes
@0xabad1dea how do you get it to change color?
@ghosttie the ink is still very wet when photographed, and then I exaggerate the color in a photo editing app to really bring out the gradient in the lighting variation.
however, it is possible to achieve something similar permanently (that is, still there after the ink is dry, visibly on the paper irl) by "kissing tips" between two Pilot Parallels with different inks.
should i do fizzle fades in You Have Died?
| yes: | 12 |
| hell yes: | 54 |
Closed
i'm out here living my best life developing a DOS 486 game like its 1990
@eniko Reject framework/engine programming, embrace raw game programming.
I think I prefer the traditional phrasing: TO BE PLAYED AT MAXIMUM VOLUME
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TV showing just the following message:
FOR OPTIMAL SOUND REPRODUCTION, THE PRODUCERS OF THIS BLU-RAY RECOMMEND THAT YOU PLAY IT LOUD.
Happy to report that I didn’t feel any need whatsoever to use generative AI for anything at all yet. And I‘m very likely not going to use it for the rest of my life and I’m going to be absolutely fine.
On that note, I just officially released (and renamed) Incidental Music Player. I doubt it will find much of an audience but I enjoyed making it, learning some new APIs.
https://motorcycl3.com/incidental/
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A music player.
Am I right in understanding that current version requires the creation of playlists and doesn't support dragging and dropping a folder of music files to be played immediately?
@max @csilverman That is correct, although dropping files on the playlist window works.
is this the year i get a sdr just to get analog phones working?
probably
@kiwa
kiwa the phonist!
i'm gonna be veri korporit and set up a cisco 7925G i got at a flea market. someone smarter than me got it to talk to asterisk, so in their footsteps i will follow. (And for extra fun, this phone has no SIP firmware, it's just Cisco's protocol thingy.)
@ozzelot wow haven't seen one of those in a while, cisco gear is fun to fuck around, like weird and flaky but fun
@kiwa
I watch too much clabretro and now I find IP phones interesting
YouTube is manipulatin our brains, man.
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