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2024-08-04 23:04:04

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there is also a component of the old embrace extend extinguish too. There has always been a low wail of people wanting to replace the open web with some proprietary product, and microsoft and facebook may have actually succeeded with typescript and react

2024-08-04 23:00:42

I feel like actually, a grand bulk of how “front-end” works now is interesting workarounds for browser limitations that don’t exist anymore.
but because change is expensive we just kinda kept using the elaborate workarounds despite not needing them
and because institutional memory can’t exist in an industry with a 5 year 95% turnover rate, most people don’t remember that we don’t need most of this shit anymore

2024-08-04 03:31:58

I’m not sure how to say this but WASM isn’t a cheap way to avoid “needing to” write javascript. You use wasm when you need to optimise a slow core loop (most commonly, bitcoin mining); or when you have an existing codebase you are trying to port.
If starfing with no wasm; and add wasm, you’re adding the complexity of a build targeting an unstable api surface, to create opaque blobs that more likely than not will wind up unmodifiable in 3 years as the build tool chain used to create it bitrots

2024-08-03 04:41:41

Full source code for DOOM SNES released
https://gbatemp.net/threads/doom-for-snes-full-source-code-released-by-former-sculptured-software-employees.657118/

2024-08-02 11:43:23

finally, a batman that beats up cops.

2024-07-30 08:23:19

what are your favourite color pickers?

2024-07-29 13:31:16

Maybe the world would be a little better off if we all stopped trying to think of ourselves as "a good person" and instead just did whatever we could to "do good things" instead.
Y'know.
especially if you're an atheist or similarly don't consider yourself christian, or religious, you could do better at acting like you don't believe you have an eternal soul that will be judged when you die
and just work on what's in front of you right now.

2024-07-29 08:33:08

Oh wow. This is kind of amazing: The original legend of zelda game engine ported to the web with a zillion user submitted quests
https://web.zquestclassic.com/play/

2024-07-26 00:28:11

concept: The compose email screen as primary “command line” and scripting interface

2024-07-22 02:22:24

an entire planet of kowloon walled city

2024-07-21 23:12:01

it’s interesting how many ghost stories and legends involve a supernatural entity impersonating a living person, and engaging in some horrifyingly taboo sex act.
And ancient people were all like, yeah John, you sleeping with my wife *would* be wildly out of character for you. Zeus descending from mount olympus and impersonating you is the much simpler explanation.

2024-07-19 03:56:17

so Display Postscript is an awesome little system used in NeXT and NeWS OS: it’s a way nicer system than Xwindows.
When Apple purchased NeXT snd wanted to make it into their OSX for Macs, they decided the licensing fees for Display Postscript were too much, so they built Quartz to replace it; which was the same API but without the forth-like stack language attached.
then Apple created the html5 Canvas API which was just javascript bindings to quartz
<Canvas> is display postscript

2024-07-18 02:47:32

fediverse is the kind of place where I can ask a question of “let’s say we’re designing an operating system from scratch. Clean slate. Let’s throw away all our old habits and legacy decisions. what’s the minimal set of applications we need to make a new operating system useful”
and the top replies are vt100 emulator, virtual machine to run other operating systems, and c compiler to port vim
like y’all are missing the point of the question!

2024-07-17 21:56:49

sometimes you need to take a step back and ask “should I be using a computer for this?”
and then take another step back and ask “should I be doing this at all?”
and then take another step back and ask “Should I be doing anything?”
and then take another step back and lay down in bed and go to sleep

2024-07-16 02:49:39

a huge formative experience happened when I was 16. I was brought into my mother’s office and hired to compell a guy to use his computer who was refusing to use his computer, and exclusively used his IBM selectric.
First up, the guy was an unlikable jerk. However, first thing he does when I get there is refuse to even talk to me about the situation until AFTER I read The Invisible Computer by Donald Norman.
It’s a good book I cannot summarise in the 50 characters I have left in this post

2024-07-09 09:19:28

new alternative to magnifying lense icons just dropped
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/112/755/781/247/305/131/original/ec0609d126a621ae.jpeg

2024-07-09 00:25:38

So “table” as in a listing of numbers, why is it named like the furniture?
it turns out it is the other way around, and tablet is a small table; and a table, is a board with grid lines on it, for numbers to go on. In france it became common to put legs on these when you’re using them for games.
so table top games aren’t named after tables
tables are named after table top games.

2024-06-26 05:06:57

Linux Dev: But the manual for systemd-tmpfiles --purge was on display
User: On display? It was in the server room. I eventually had to go down to the cellar with a terminal
>That's the display department
With a flashlight app
>Ah, well, the lights had probably gone out
So had the network
>But look, you found the manual, didn’t you?
Yes, I did. It was 'on display' in the bottom of a locked git repository, stuck in an obsolete branch, with a commit message saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’

2024-06-26 03:13:58

“supply chain attack”
i dunno this just looks like the normal extreme levels of risk you take linking to third party javascript.
just cos that is normalised doesn’t mean it has ever been safe

2024-06-20 02:26:04

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@npub1qu5…4evr oof this gives me some ideas

2024-06-20 01:22:19

me at a design interview
“can you explain this gap in your resume?”
me: “yes, that’s called a gutter. it’s used in typographical grid systems to introduce visual rhythm”

2024-06-18 12:07:27

let’s drop the -pi naming scheme for small computers. how about:
A Computer on A Board

2024-06-14 03:26:20

so back when i was a kid, we had to power our internet with a wood burning stove. one log got you about 30 minutes of dialup internet time. this is why it’s called “logging on”.
but we weren’t cavemen, so there was a conveyer belt to continuously feed logs into the burner. so a log on, was on line (on the conveyer belt)

2024-06-09 12:14:33

a spy who is posing as an undercover
cop posing as a private investigator

2024-06-08 02:41:35

“average person asks 3 questions a year” factoid actually just statistical error. average person asks 0 questions per year. Curious Georg, who lives in library & asks over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

2024-06-07 15:07:26

Kisses to @npub1kjf…xxw2 who wrote some great #alttext for this comic I spent the last few days working on.
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/112/578/240/964/506/228/original/ad481717fa4cd394.png

2024-06-04 05:37:12

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@npub1qu5…4evr a stack based vm is often the easiest way to implement a lisp, as you have noticed, converting from one to the other is not at all complicated

2024-05-23 08:31:54

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@npub19xu…e8yd no i don’t mean that the results are bad. I mean they are currently missing entirely. so technically google *is* better, right at the moment.
https://downdetector.com.au/status/bing/

2024-05-23 08:09:47

Bing is extremely broken right now. which means that since duckduckgo uses bing under the hood, ddg is also extremely broken right now.

2024-05-23 06:19:27

i feel like a usage for generative neural networks that i keep waiting for, but sadly don’t see a whole lot of energy for; is real time or near real time fluffing up of 3d renders. Like, imagine google earth zooming in and doing an image 2 image transform of a heightfield using street view images as a reference for generating novel views.
Or creating a lofi 3d model and “texturing” it by painting over several views, and rather than uv mapping the paintings, “deep faking” them onto new renders

2024-04-24 04:32:17

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@npub1gnx…d5kh i’d be looking at temperature and power draw

2024-04-21 03:10:13

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it sorta makes me think of zillions of miniature hourglasses. except instead of sand you have electrons and instead of an hour you get 6-36 months

2024-04-21 03:04:47

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i once lost data after 6 months of an sd card in a draw
you may get longer, maybe even much longer
but do you wanna rely on that for something important?

2024-04-21 03:02:14

has it ever occurred to you that flash card memory cells are very much *like* the battery backed ram of old NES and gameboy cartridges? the main difference is they replace the single watch battery with many many miniaturised silicon based capacitors.
but this is why the tech (which is in switch carts, 3ds carts, ssds, sd cards, usb keys)
need tiny sips of electricity constantly, to feed those capacitors which can last for quite a while but

2024-04-16 02:28:58

after some considered thought I have concluded sandworms are technically lichen.
they consume silicon, sulphurs, minerals and water, and produce heat and oxygen.

2024-04-07 04:31:10

what if
“not actively maintained” software
was genuinely a good thing
that just meant the software was finished
had no bugs
and needed no new features or fixes

2024-04-06 01:42:51

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@npub10fm…x0qg so you’re saying… probably just use the dewey decimal system?

2024-04-05 08:50:16

Star Trek race: humans
appearance: no bumps. karatin fibers on the crest of their skull they call “hair”. round ears.
strength: below average
special abilities: none
intelligence: slightly smarter than pakleds
emotions: annoying
easy to care for as pets
they only need enough hallucinatory drugs

2024-04-05 08:00:32

Marvel casts a woman as Silver Surfer and internet heterosexual men prove how much they love women by expressing massive amounts of rage over it.

2024-04-04 23:49:18

it’s not you, it’s Capitalism

2024-04-04 23:10:42

“Toll Bridge” means almost literally the same thing as “Bill Gates”

2024-04-03 05:09:50

you should know that the following things are antisemitic tropes (though i know you probably don’t mean them this way, you just copied a meme not realising its origin):
- zuckerberg as lizard person
(plays into new world order, illuminati, protocols of the jewish elders conspiracies)
- “cabal” (the word is from qaballah, the catchall for jewish mysticism)
i won’t tell you what to do with this information but you should at least know what you’re actually saying

2024-03-29 05:28:14

heraldic language but for 88x31 badges
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/112/177/327/553/900/647/original/996dee708be9528a.gif

2024-03-25 23:04:01

once again I must point out
user to instance blocking does not actually block the instance.
it’s just a mute
blocking threads as a user will do nothing to prevent Meta scraping your posts and showing them to users
they are not doing that yet
but when they do, they will not even know you’ve blocked them

2023-06-18 04:02:54

it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman on the internet in posession of an opinion must be in want of a correction