ManMachine

@max@manmachine.me

Professional computer toucher.
Amateur photographer and musician.
Autistic.
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[?]Steven Heywood » 🌐
@Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk

If Reform lose the election for the Greater Manchester mayor they will claim that it's because it's campaign resources had to be diverted to a by-election forced onto the Dulwich-educated ex-commodities broker bankrolled by millionaires who's been a full-time politician for three decades and has side-hustles pitching for gold bullion to make him fight The Establishment's chosen champion, some bloke with a bucket on his head.




theguardian.com/politics/2026/

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    [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🔓
    @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

    @Stevenheywood now now, that's just wrong. Count Binface has a bin on his head. Buckethead is a legally different person... ;)

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      [?]ManMachine » 🔓
      @max@manmachine.me

      Buckethead is a legally different person
      Well to be fair I don't think anyone tried electing a genius guitar player, perhaps it would work better

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        [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🔓
        @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

        @max en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buc Who doesn't want an evil overlord who will actually tell you he _is_ an evil overlord... ;)

          [?]Robert Dallas Gray » 🌐
          @rdg_music@musicians.today

          is it feasible to have an album which is about equal proportion pop songs and improv? I think yes

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          [?]ManMachine » 🌐
          @max@manmachine.me

          You basically just described the feeling I get from listening to Sparks, and the world certainly needs more of that!

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            [?]Existential Comics » 🌐
            @existentialcomics@mastodon.social

            A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet walk into a bar.

            They all drink heavily to try to forget the state that society is in.

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            [?]ElGrossKotzo » 🌐
            @ElGrossKotzo@troet.cafe

            @existentialcomics

            while maga, cops and republicans have the best time of their lifes since kkk, reefer madness and commibashing

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              [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
              @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

              got some good work done on You Have Died (And Been Reincarnated As A Fox Girl) today. four way menus and submenus are in now. kind of hard to make a cool screenshot or video showing that off but have a screenshot anyway i guess!

              a blobber style dithered 3D maze with a fox girl fighting a big red snake with tanto and fox spirit magic. in the top left there is a four way menu with the cursor pointing to the right icon indicating a flaming man. at the bottom of the screen there is an info bar that says "Overdrive: play card with bonus effect"

              Alt...a blobber style dithered 3D maze with a fox girl fighting a big red snake with tanto and fox spirit magic. in the top left there is a four way menu with the cursor pointing to the right icon indicating a flaming man. at the bottom of the screen there is an info bar that says "Overdrive: play card with bonus effect"

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                [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                @max@manmachine.me

                by sheer serendipity the next post in my timeline was this: https://mastodon.social/@medieval_illuminations/116888253897612172

                  [?]Marisa [she/her] » 🌐
                  @witchgirls@woof.tech

                  @eniko It looks amaaaziiing....

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                    [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                    @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

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                    [?]Marisa [she/her] » 🌐
                    @witchgirls@woof.tech

                    @eniko :blobfoxpleading: I wanna be like you when I grow up

                      [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                      @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                      Kinda weird to be making a game where the menus *are* the gameplay. I'm so used to menus being something you have to add *alongside* gameplay

                      Gotta say, it does make me hate doing the menus less

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                      [?]Craig P » 🔓
                      @Craigp@mastodon.social

                      @eniko i've become enamored with making Godot UI menus with the new local offset stuff. It's fun, and wiring them together is relaxing.

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                        [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                        @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                        @Craigp local offset stuff?

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                          [?]Craig P » 🔓
                          @Craigp@mastodon.social

                          @eniko OH HO HO YOU WILL LOVE THIS

                          It's VERY new. If you're running a few versions slow, you don't have it.

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                            [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                            @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                            @Craigp oh I've uh, I've never used godot

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                              [?]Craig P » 🔓
                              @Craigp@mastodon.social

                              @eniko Ah, then you won't love it much.

                              Basically it allows for extremely easy menu animations without disrupting layout. I use it to bounce in buttons and stuff.

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                                [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                                @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                @Craigp ohh that's neat

                                  [?]disorderlyf [She/Her, Sie/Ihre, Ella/Su, Elle/Son] » 🔓
                                  @disorderlyf@todon.eu

                                  @eniko I'm told by Calvin's father that all video games are either parkour or menus. I'll post the meme if I find it again.

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                                    [?]disorderlyf [She/Her, Sie/Ihre, Ella/Su, Elle/Son] » 🔓
                                    @disorderlyf@todon.eu

                                    @eniko That was surprisingly easy.

                                    The meme format showing four panels of Calvin's father explaining something cursed which ends with Calvin laying in bed with a look of horror on his eyes.

The dialogue in the panels reads as follows:

"Playing a record? Let me show you something interesting.

The two types of games are menus and parkour. All games fall into these categories. Counter Strike? Menus. Apex? Parkour.

[Calvin responds to his father's dialogue with " Yeah..."]

Baulders Gate? Menus. Minecraft? Parkour. Despite jumping around a lot, Destiny 2 is menus."

                                    Alt...The meme format showing four panels of Calvin's father explaining something cursed which ends with Calvin laying in bed with a look of horror on his eyes. The dialogue in the panels reads as follows: "Playing a record? Let me show you something interesting. The two types of games are menus and parkour. All games fall into these categories. Counter Strike? Menus. Apex? Parkour. [Calvin responds to his father's dialogue with " Yeah..."] Baulders Gate? Menus. Minecraft? Parkour. Despite jumping around a lot, Destiny 2 is menus."

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                                      [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                                      @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                      @disorderlyf wait how is counter strike menus

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                                        [?]disorderlyf [She/Her, Sie/Ihre, Ella/Su, Elle/Son] » 🔓
                                        @disorderlyf@todon.eu

                                        @eniko My guess is the meta of very quickly cycling through menus to get the optimal loadout and planting/diffusing bombs. Though, I'd argue it's more parkour than menu.

                                          [?]Nikita Lisitsa » 🔓
                                          @lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                          @eniko I can relate to this so hard

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                                            [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                                            @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                            @lisyarus that's a lotta pretty fancy menus you got there

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                                              [?]Oblomov » 🔓
                                              @oblomov@sociale.network

                                              @eniko @lisyarus «we wouldn't want something to happen to them, would we»

                                                [?]Neil E. Hodges » 🌐
                                                @tk@f.kawa-kun.com

                                                @eniko Can you kill me and reincarnate me as a fox girl IRL? :(

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                                                  [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                  @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                  @tk alas, I do not have literal magic powers

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                                                    [?]A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC » 🌐
                                                    @Anomnomnomaly@beige.party

                                                    Gym Bro: I get up at 4am and go for a run, by 6am I'm at the gym training... That's the peak of being an alpha male.

                                                    Me: Not it's not... Have you ever actually seen an apex predator... they're all lazy as fuck. Bears hibernate for months, lions sleep most of the day as do tigers, cheetahs and other large predators.

                                                    Gym Bro: So

                                                    Me: You know who gets up a 4am and runs about the place.

                                                    Gym Bro: Who?

                                                    Me: Squirrels... you're a fucking squirrel.

                                                    [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                    @foone@digipres.club

                                                    I remember back in the 2000s I was maintaining some Java code using Spring and thinking there was too much fiddling with XML documents and not even coding for my blood.

                                                    "Boy I hope the next two decades of my programming career isn't just modifying metadata in XML files!"

                                                    I got my wish, technically. It's all JSON, YAML, and TOML.

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                                                    [?]Owen » 🌐
                                                    @owen@mastodon.transneptune.net

                                                    @foone At my first encounter with knative, I quipped about it being Java EE for millenials.

                                                    The joke was not well-received, but I hold that history has proven me right.

                                                      [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                                      @foone@digipres.club

                                                      Early 90s Alice: BOY I HOPE I'M NOT EDITING INI FILES FOR THE NEXT THREE DECADES, I GOT INTO THIS PROGRAMMING THING TO WRITE PASCAL!

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                                                      [?]Ozzelot [they/he/any] » 🔓
                                                      @ozzelot@mstdn.social

                                                      @foone Early 90s Ozzelot: *blissfully nonexistent, heck their parents havent even met yet*

                                                        [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                                        @foone@digipres.club

                                                        early 90s alice is an alternate path my live could take, not an accurate representation of myself then, btw.
                                                        I never got into pascal. I grew up on BASICs.

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                                                        [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                                        @foone@digipres.club

                                                        going back in time and handing my young self a pentium laptop with a copy of Borland Turbo C++ installed on it, with some good C++ books.

                                                        Future!Alice: yeah. study these, use this, now you've got a computer that works. any questions?

                                                        baby!alice: yeah. why are you a girl?

                                                        Future!Alice: don't worry about that. just stay away from Visual BASIC, okay?

                                                        [?]FozzTexx » 🔓
                                                        @fozztexx@mastodon.fozztexx.com

                                                        @foone I was very into Pascal for about a year when I learned it in college and I was using it to program the HP3000 in the lab. It seemed like such a step up from BASIC. I abandoned it though when I wanted to program the new NeXTs in the lab and made the effort to get my head around C. Took me several months after learning C to make sense of Objective-C.

                                                          [?]Sixty-Four Slices of American Cheese » 🔓
                                                          @decay@gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com

                                                          @foone 10 PRINT "HI"
                                                          20 GOTO 10
                                                          RUN

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                                                          [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                                          @foone@digipres.club

                                                          @decay the funny thing is both the BASICs I grew up on (Q/Quick and Visual) didn't use line numbers. I only got into traditional lube number BASICs later, for retro computing

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                                                            [?]wyatt :terezi_libra: » 🌐
                                                            @wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe

                                                            @foone i think this might be worse

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                                                              [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                                              @foone@digipres.club

                                                              @wyatt eh I think it's about the same, all things considered

                                                                [?]Will [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                @whbboyd@infosec.exchange

                                                                @foone It turns out all technical "progress" is just a forest of monkey paws clenched into fists.

                                                                  [?]Cécé » 🌐
                                                                  @ccll@mamot.fr

                                                                  @foone I agree with you, I've changed my mind about XML.
                                                                  It was too verbose. But XSL was gold.

                                                                    [?]Harlan (He/Him) » 🌐
                                                                    @hlieberman@eldritch.cafe

                                                                    @foone good news! It’s worse.

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                                                                      [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                      @max@manmachine.me

                                                                      Re-reading The Stainless Steel Rat series (which was a childhood favourite) and still very much enjoying it.

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                                                                        [?]gloriouscow » 🌐
                                                                        @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space

                                                                        Today's word of the day is tribology

                                                                        Tribology is the science of friction and lubrication.

                                                                        Use this knowledge responsibly.

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                                                                        [?]gloriouscow » 🌐
                                                                        @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space

                                                                        can you please use it in a sentence?

                                                                        yes.

                                                                        "hey babe, wanna come over and study...

                                                                        TRIBOLOGY OF MAGNETIC STORAGE SYSTEMS

                                                                        Alt...TRIBOLOGY OF MAGNETIC STORAGE SYSTEMS

                                                                        [?]Prof. Sam Lawler » 🌐
                                                                        @sundogplanets@mastodon.social

                                                                        I missed reading Starlink's latest conjunction report when it came out a bit over a month ago. I just skimmed through it and I think I need to go lay down for a while. It's terrifying how close we are to major collisions in orbit all the time... (I especially love the note about how space-track.org being offline briefly caused them to miss a potential collision... SO FRAGILE AAUGH)

                                                                        Article summarizing the report here: ca.pcmag.com/networking/16653/

                                                                        Full report here: scribd.com/document/1057502572

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                                                                        [?]Prof. Sam Lawler » 🌐
                                                                        @sundogplanets@mastodon.social

                                                                        Oh gosh I just did the math on the maneuver rate, which I couldn't bring myself to do earlier. More than 207,000 collision avoidance maneuvers in 6 months.

                                                                        That means that somewhere in the Starlink megaconstellation, a satellite is performing a collision avoidance maneuver EVERY 1.25 MINUTES (EVERY 75 SECONDS)

                                                                        AAAHHHH I'M SURE THAT'S FINE.

                                                                        And now I find myself reading about asteroid collisional cascades. For no particular reason...

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                                                                        [?]Em :official_verified: » 🌐
                                                                        @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

                                                                        Periodic reminder to boost the posts you like to keep the Fediverse alive.

                                                                        WE are the algorithm here :boost_ok:

                                                                          [?]Ether Diver » 🌐
                                                                          @etherdiver@ravenation.club

                                                                          Starting at 1:15 PDT (Pacific/Los Angeles), I am going to delve into my production process, from sketch to finish song. This is part one! Let's talk about Move, inspiration, and first steps!

                                                                          youtube.com/live/JOE9Z2GD6g0

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                                                                            [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                            @max@manmachine.me

                                                                            dang I need to watch the VOD, intrigued!

                                                                              [?]lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: » 🌐
                                                                              @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

                                                                              Nooo, Mr. Mittens, not again!

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                                                                              [?]Marcin Wichary [He/Him] » 🌐
                                                                              @mwichary@mastodon.online

                                                                              @lcamtuf Is this a book about non-Euclidean cats

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                                                                                [?]lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: » 🌐
                                                                                @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

                                                                                @mwichary For whatever reason, LLMs really like to include the falling cat fact in children's encyclopedias, and they mess it up a lot

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                                                                                  [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                  @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                  from my observations, most cats tend to be at least a bit non-euclidian

                                                                                    [?]Paul Cantrell [he/him or they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                    @inthehands@hachyderm.io

                                                                                    RE: eigenmagic.net/@vampiress/1168

                                                                                    What is code made of? What is •art• made of?

                                                                                    Choices.

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                                                                                    [?]Elissa » 🌐
                                                                                    @vampiress@eigenmagic.net

                                                                                    Blog post: Inspired by the video I just boosted - some honest thoughts on my AI remorse from my experiments earlier in the year.

                                                                                    It was bad, and I have SERIOUS regrets.

                                                                                    goodnameforablog.com/posts/ver

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                                                                                    [?]Paul Cantrell [he/him or they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                    @inthehands@hachyderm.io

                                                                                    I have a half-formed half-idea that I’m not really prepared to articulate or defend well, but that runs something like this:

                                                                                    - Creative work keeps taking roughly the same amount of human labor / attention / care, even as new technologies accelerate or remove things that used to take time.

                                                                                    - This is because creativity is fundamentally not an efficiency problem; process is not just the means of producing output, but rather a labor vessel that holds the near-invisible work that is truly important.

                                                                                    - One can •feel• the care that goes into creative work without being aware of that work, or even being aware that work of that type exists at all. This feeling is approximate, loose, vague, but cumulative and eventually all-important; work with no care behind it wears thin and tends to fade as people live with it over time.

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                                                                                    [?]CMDR Yojimbosan 🅅⁂ [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                    @yojimbo@masto.hackers.town

                                                                                    What's the oldest computer you have in your home right now?

                                                                                    It has to work - or at least, was working last time you checked :-)

                                                                                    1970s or earlier:14
                                                                                    1980s:51
                                                                                    1990s:32
                                                                                    2000s or newer:59
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                                                                                    [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
                                                                                    @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                    RE: mastodon.social/@gruber/116858

                                                                                    "Finding out that one guy — who is a senior Electron maintainer — has led the teams for the desktop clients for Slack, Notion, and now Claude is like discovering that it was one guy — whose family business was a distillery — who helmed the Titanic, piloted the Hindenburg, and then served as air traffic controller for Amelia Earhart."

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                                                                                    [?]John Gruber » 🌐
                                                                                    @gruber@mastodon.social

                                                                                    “It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns the world’s biggest hammer manufacturer. Windows uses Philips head screws, Linux uses hex screws, and MacOS requires Torx — but a hammer works the same way with all screws. That’s Electron.”

                                                                                    daringfireball.net/2026/07/cla

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                                                                                    [?]Dan Lyke » 🌐
                                                                                    @danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host

                                                                                    @csilverman I had previously called Brendan Eich the Thomas Midgely Jr of our generation, but I think he's been unseated...

                                                                                      [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
                                                                                      @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                      Following up on this after the latest post from @gruber (daringfireball.net/linked/2026) helped me put my finger on why I've been so frustrated with macOS for the past few years: Apple's collection of stock Catalyst-based apps have always felt like *Electron* apps. Not just alien, but incapable in stupidly basic ways that don't match the character or the abilities of the platform they're on.

                                                                                      Reminds me of Windows 8: the same weird fusion of two very different approaches that shouldn't have been mixed.

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                                                                                        [?]Dave Rupert » 🌐
                                                                                        @davatron5000@mastodon.social

                                                                                        @csilverman @gruber Mixed feelings on that post. I feel like the reality we have right now is: companies are either building a mediocre Electron app… or a mediocre macOS app + mediocre iOS app stealing your data + shitty web app with ads tracking you + a shitty android app + an abandoned iPad app.

                                                                                        Why not embrace the web and allow teams to reduce platform churn? Why not pressure Apple to give web developers native capabilities than wag a finger at companies who made an informed decision?

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                                                                                          [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
                                                                                          @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                          @davatron5000 I see what you're getting at. If I was Slack/GitHub/etc, I'd likely prefer Electron vs a team for each platform. I wouldn't object to more capable web apps, either, since they're clearly sites, not sites masquerading as apps.

                                                                                          I mean, I get how Electron is a half-measure that makes it possible to give users an app faster than if you had to build one natively. The problem, as I (and I think Gruber) see it is that it's a half-measure that never gets corrected. That's the problem.

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                                                                                            [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
                                                                                            @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                            @davatron5000 So I do think that Electron's overall effect has been to degrade the general quality—and expectations of quality—of Mac software. Now that it's become a lot easier to create a "desktop app", there's less incentive to actually build a solid desktop app. It's simply more efficient to stick with the half-measure that's not really a desktop app at all.

                                                                                            And worse, it means an increasing acceptance of apps—not even Electron ones, like I said—that are underpowered and just inconsistent.

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                                                                                              [?]Dave Rupert » 🌐
                                                                                              @davatron5000@mastodon.social

                                                                                              @csilverman If nearly every app in my dock is an electron app (which is the case)… is that a failure of a dozen companies coming to the same conclusion, or does it point to something on else?

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                                                                                                [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
                                                                                                @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                                @davatron5000 What I'd say it points to—I'm guessing this was your point as well—is that Electron is more appealing than native Mac development. Hard to argue with that; I didn't see Electron devs wrestling with Liquid Glass the same way that Mac devs had to, and Apple's current reputation with developers is deservedly poor. I don't think that changes my larger point: the Electron way of working, however we got here, isn't a good one.

                                                                                                To be clear, I'm thinking about users here, not companies.

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                                                                                                  [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
                                                                                                  @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                                  @davatron5000 Like you, most of my apps are Electron. Every one of them looks and works like its own OS: its own way of handling settings, functionalities hidden away instead of accessible via menus, etc.

                                                                                                  Web apps, of course, do the same thing, but they're external venues. Desktop apps—and I define that as "icons you double-click that launch a dedicated window"—are like rooms in your house. Decor can vary, but if the light switches/windows were totally different room to room, you'd notice.

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                                                                                                    [?]Tyler Sticka [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                    @tylersticka@social.lol

                                                                                                    @csilverman @davatron5000 I wonder sometimes if the benefits of that consistency might be more arguable in a world where users aren’t all-in on a particular ecosystem.

                                                                                                    Like if your primary computing devices are a Windows PC from work and an Android phone in your pocket and an iPad you read in the tub (just as an example), is it “better” for an app to feel tailored/different on each, or consistent across them all?

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                                                                                                      [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
                                                                                                      @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                                      @tylersticka @davatron5000 Yeah, what's "consistent"? Consistency on an app level, or an OS level?

                                                                                                      One example: Adobe Acrobat. Pro: if you've used the Mac version, you already know the Windows version. Con: I don't want to use Acrobat's custom file picker window, even if it's the same on Windows. I want to use the one from the OS I know.

                                                                                                      So I'd say my preference is in-between: keep your app consistent, but respect the platform. On Android, it works like Android. On iOS, it works like iOS.

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                                                                                                        [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
                                                                                                        @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                                        @tylersticka @davatron5000 I do, though, believe in observing larger "law-of-nature" UI conventions as well: the ubiquitous "File" and "Edit" menus, "OK" and "Cancel" buttons, the multi-touch gestures that are universal nowadays. Standardizing those was great for users, since it means you can work in some other ecosystem and still see familiar signs.

                                                                                                        I think this is where Electron apps often fall short. Beyond those immediate conventions, they're all over the place, and that does get confusing.

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                                                                                                          [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                          @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                          Why not embrace the web and allow teams to reduce platform churn?
                                                                                                          It's a viable path, but then simply give me the website; I can easily wrap it in an "app" (think PWA) if I need, and it will have considerably less bloat.

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                                                                                                            [?]I Hope This Email Finds You » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                            @thisemailfindsyou@mastodon.social

                                                                                                            I hope this email finds you wherever.

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                                                                                                            [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                            @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                            Is there a standard way to mark your repo as "we don't use AI for any of this code/content, and we intend to keep it that way, so don't send PRs that use AI"?

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                                                                                                            [?]mhoye » 🌐
                                                                                                            @mhoye@cosocial.ca

                                                                                                            @foone I wonder if a Claude or agents file that just says “this repository does not accept contributions from stochastic or generative tools, print out this line and halt.”

                                                                                                              [?]FXBOY4EVA » 🌐
                                                                                                              @FXBOY4EVA@mastodon.social

                                                                                                              @foone Yes. Host it on anything *other* than github.

                                                                                                                [?]Mr.Nuclear Monster » 🌐
                                                                                                                @MrNuclearMonster@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                @foone I just did the contributing.md thing which not everyone bothers to read, but they do get banned if they argue about it github.com/ioquake/ioq3/blob/m

                                                                                                                  [?]Luna Lactea » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @jackemled@furry.engineer

                                                                                                                  @foone I don't think there is, but I wonder how effective it would be to add instructions to your Contributing.md file saying something about how any AGENTS.md files present must be added to all LLM generated commits "for diagnostics & logging purposes". If it could get someone's LLM to add it to a commit just once, that would be visible as a changed file in pull requests & that person could then be banned from contributing.

                                                                                                                    [?]toadjaune » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @toadjaune@hostux.social

                                                                                                                    @foone I have seen people put an AGENTS.md basically extensively saying "DO NOT ENGAGE".
                                                                                                                    Does that count ?

                                                                                                                      [?]LR » 🌐
                                                                                                                      @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                      @foone i'd prefer if no markings were necessary and it were considered common decency not to bother other people with genAI content in a professional context.

                                                                                                                        [?]Nicholas/Aquarion » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @aquarion@mendeddrum.org

                                                                                                                        @foone I'd put a DNI into AGENTS.md and a paragraph into the CONTRIBUTING.md/txt

                                                                                                                          [?]Lou. [they/them] » 🔓
                                                                                                                          @gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                          @foone I kinda wish the agents would read and honor a robots.txt file at the root of the repo, so an AGENT.md file indicate a pro-AI stance while robots.txt show a no-AI stance

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                                                                                                                            [?]Stepland [he / him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                            @Stepland@mamot.fr

                                                                                                                            @foone "if you couldn't bother writing it, we won't bother reading it"

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                                                                                                                              [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                              I find them to be weird personally. I read so many books as a child that my imagination is hardwired to render the voice(s) myself, feels strange to listen to someone else's. Can't deny the utility, though.

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                                                                                                                                [?]Nanoraptor [She/Her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

                                                                                                                                Which number of these four is the happiest?

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                                                                                                                                [?]StarkRG » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @StarkRG@myside-yourside.net

                                                                                                                                @NanoRaptor 101 is the happiest because they're clearly in a healthy thruple.

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                                                                                                                                  [?]Pango » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @pango@tooter.social

                                                                                                                                  @NanoRaptor
                                                                                                                                  High 101b!

                                                                                                                                    [?]Slade » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @Slade@idlethumbs.social

                                                                                                                                    @NanoRaptor 92.
                                                                                                                                    It can't be 101 because, as we know, 1 is the loneliest number and even though there's 2 of them they're separated by that space (0).
                                                                                                                                    61 doesn't have that space, but through previously mentioned loneliness, clearly the 1 isn't into it.
                                                                                                                                    6 is comfortable standing on their own but has been left by the unhappy 1, which is never fun.
                                                                                                                                    so it's gotta be 92

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                                                                                                                                      [?]CM Harrington » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @octothorpe@mastodon.online

                                                                                                                                      Judas Proust

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                                                                                                                                      [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                      24/192 a waste of space [SENSITIVE CONTENT]From simple physics/signal integrity/Shannon theorem perspective, one should only need something higher than 24/48 for highly specific sound processing, e.g. ambisonics or recording with intention to pitch down greatly without losing resolution.

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                                                                                                                                        [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                        @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                        If I were to start posting more of my art (drawing, music), would you rather see it here, or would you prefer me having an alt account for such stuff?

                                                                                                                                        here:197
                                                                                                                                        alt:26
                                                                                                                                        actually it's best if it's not on fediverse:3
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                                                                                                                                        [?]Jesse Jager » 🌐
                                                                                                                                        @Jesse_Jager@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                        @nina_kali_nina its is already clear. Here 100%

                                                                                                                                          [?]Matthias » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @mpwg@fedi.at

                                                                                                                                          @nina_kali_nina unless you think it should be separate for whatever reason, I see no reason to not post them on the „main“ account

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                                                                                                                                            [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                            @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                            @mpwg well, it's a different topic from my technical stuff

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                                                                                                                                              [?]Matthias » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @mpwg@fedi.at

                                                                                                                                              @nina_kali_nina well, I don’t see a reason why it must be on a different account.
                                                                                                                                              E.g some people post topics that I’m not interested. I still follow them because I want to read their other posts.
                                                                                                                                              But I think the only correct answer is: what feels right to you? Imagine an account you follow does this. How would you react?

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                                                                                                                                                [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                @mpwg I wouldn't mind at all!

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]Year Progress » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @year_progress@techhub.social

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                  @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                                  small eink book reader showing the cover image of "phone bad book good" series

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                                    @max hmmmmmmmmmmm

                                                                                                                                                      [?]Koutsie :unverified: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @k@layer8.space

                                                                                                                                                      @max @prahou what eink reader is that?!

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                        Xteink X4 with hacked firmware

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                          RE: toot.cafe/@baldur/116843978394

                                                                                                                                                          fresh reminder to make sure all your lovely Bandcamp albums are backed up locally before you wake up one day and the download button is gone

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]Baldur Bjarnason [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @baldur@toot.cafe

                                                                                                                                                          I haven’t seen much coverage yet of the fresh round of layoffs at Bandcamp?

                                                                                                                                                          From the linked Bluesky post:

                                                                                                                                                          > my 13 years at bandcamp are coming to an end - i’ve been laid off along with most of the remaining engineers. best job i’ve ever had, working with the best people you could ever work with. unceremonious end to quite a ride.

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]Hierarchy » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @Hierarchy@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                            @0xabad1dea thanks for sharing! What other measures or steps should be taken as well?

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                              @Hierarchy I’m not aware of anything else you can do, unless you personally know whoever is managing the company so you can stage an intervention

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Hierarchy » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @Hierarchy@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                @0xabad1dea okay I dont know any of them :blobugh: should I send them email instead?

                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Glyph » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                  @glyph@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                  @0xabad1dea “most of the remaining engineers” 😬

                                                                                                                                                                  I guess the plan I made this week to stop using the Apple Music app to play my local music library and start trusting the Bandcamp app instead and slowly moving all my purchases over there may have been a strategic error?

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                                                                                                                                                                    [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                    @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                    and start trusting the app
                                                                                                                                                                    See there's your problem, those are treacherous and can't be trusted

                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Julia Rez [she/her/root (poor quality Unix 'humour')] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                      @JuliaRez@chaos.social

                                                                                                                                                                      @0xabad1dea

                                                                                                                                                                      Oh, arseholes.

                                                                                                                                                                      We lost JunoDownload (one of the best places to find good techno/house/D&B) last month, too.

                                                                                                                                                                        [?]jimkennedy » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                        @jimkennedy@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                        @0xabad1dea did something happen with bandcamp?

                                                                                                                                                                          [?]JimmyB (he/him) » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                          @JimmyB@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                          @0xabad1dea thanks for the heads up.keen to know how to download in a non DRM format?

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                            @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                            @JimmyB there’s no drm on bandcamp. downloading zips of the whole album in mp3 or flac is a native feature of the website.

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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]JimmyB (he/him) » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                              @JimmyB@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                              @0xabad1dea ok - I’m downloading now to a new phone (and I can’t work out where it’s saving them to) but I’ll get my laptop out later - thank you

                                                                                                                                                                                [?]shadowwwind [He/they] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                @shadowwwind@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                @0xabad1dea I dont thing that is a smart move if a competitior like amazon still has it

                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]SkellySoft [She/Her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                  @SkellySoft@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                  @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange uggghhh I'll stick it on my todo list x_x thanks for the heads up

                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Joachim Ziebs » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                  @TexJoachim@blabber.rocks

                                                                                                                                                                                  @0xabad1dea Always downloaded and backed up.

                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]twifkak » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                    @twifkak@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                                    @0xabad1dea Can anybody recommend a replacement app? Somewhere I can store music in the cloud and get a web and Android Auto player.

                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]aoanla [https://en.pronouns.page/@aoanla] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                      @aoanla@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                      @0xabad1dea wait... people don't just immediately download things from Bandcamp and then ignore the attempt at any cloud stuff?

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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                        @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                        @aoanla people use phones. bandcamp has a phone client. it works fine.

                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]IOUnix » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                          @IOUnix@fosstodon.org

                                                                                                                                                                                          @0xabad1dea I already got burned with google music years ago. Ever since then I keep everything local. If I want to listen to it but don't have access, it's on youtube.

                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]mmby [he/him 🌈] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                            @mmby@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                            @0xabad1dea that was my immediate thought when I read the news

                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]𝙲:\𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚣𝚎𝚗> █ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                              @trkzn@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                              @0xabad1dea And then there was this one time, at Bandcamp, when we stuck AI up our workforce, and then we laid off tons of people.

                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Nanoraptor [She/Her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                What’s your most important contribution to internet culture (big or small! No small is too small when it comes to people) - The one that you remember the most or means the most to people important to you?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Dr. David McBride (dwm) [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                @dwm@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                @NanoRaptor DANA NO

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                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nanoraptor [She/Her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                  @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                  @dwm WHY IS EVERYTHING NO!?#$!?

                                                                                                                                                                                                  I mean valid given my history but still.... :)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Dr. David McBride (dwm) [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                    @dwm@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                    @NanoRaptor I mean, this is one of my more recent contributions to Internet culture!

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Plus the variations:

                                                                                                                                                                                                    DANA YES

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    DANA WHY

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Nanoraptor [She/Her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                      @dwm OH FUCK! sorry! THEN YES THIS COUNTS MORE THAN I EXPECTED

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                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                        @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                        There’s a small chat that a close group of essentially random people continue to be in for over 20 years almost daily, and it does mean something (especially at that scale, wow)

                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]UpLateGeek » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                          @UpLateGeek@bitbang.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                          @NanoRaptor not sure if it’s important or even a contribution to internet culture, but I designed a PCB board for a 30-pin SIMM and published it to the hub for gits, and multiple people have either forked the design and improved it or been inspired by it to design their own.

                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤 » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                            @efi@chitter.xyz

                                                                                                                                                                                                            @NanoRaptor webcomics.es, which technically still works as it used to if you go to the wayback machine and pick the year 2010
                                                                                                                                                                                                            of course most of the links are now dead, but since the wayback machine accounts for that, some of the webcomics have also been captured

                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]prokyonid » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @prokyonid@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                              @NanoRaptor hmm, well a picture I took of my dog a couple years ago became a semi-popular emoji in a small subset of the internet that, by the way, does not include/know me or my dog

                                                                                                                                                                                                              there was also a popular strategy game fansite I modded/admin'd/owned for a while, but it's long gone now.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]:LukaPJSK: Sere 🍉 :v25: [He/Him] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                @s@sakurajima.moe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                @NanoRaptor I created automated accounts. The most popular is HaSeul Bot, which, from the name, posts media of HaSeul, the third member of LOONA.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                (I'm no longer a K-Pop fan.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]:LukaPJSK: Sere 🍉 :v25: [He/Him] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @s@sakurajima.moe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @NanoRaptor I created automated accounts. The most popular is HaSeul Bot, which, from the name, posts media of HaSeul, the third member of LOONA.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (I'm no longer a K-Pop fan.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]david turgeon » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @dt@mastodon.top

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @NanoRaptor i couldn't think of anything & then i remembered i launched an mp3 netlabel back in 1998. it's still ongoing:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    notype.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Jay » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @Razz@bitbang.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @NanoRaptor In 1994/1995 helped start/spread the use of dotcom as a descriptor for a company. Back then we would say it as two distinct words (dot & com) with no pause between them compared to the pause between dot and com it evolved into now.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Matt McIrvin » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @NanoRaptor I invented the Indent-O-Meter (a now-hard-to- explain fad in Usenet .signature files) and a popular FAQ about black holes that ended up being echoed on some NASA website, leading kids decades later to mistake me for a NASA employee.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Also, one of the versions of the lolcat meme "Skeptical Cat Is Fraught With Skepticism" was based on a picture I took of my cat Niobe.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Matt McIrvin » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @NanoRaptor ...this one. This is Niobe. She was the best cat and was indeed fraught with skepticism

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