[after mindswap]↵”hey this is an outrage why do I still have the same body”↵”well we had to take care of body image, muscle memory, the parts of your aesthetic preferences located in your guts and skin, etc etc, it adds up”
How to Suffer Well: Sympathetic Characterization in Madoka and Magical Girl Site - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kmaba2TopE
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Paradox - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlkt5Q9a9Ek
In the grim dark future of 2020, nobody goes outside without first applying temporary tattoos of additional eyes to their face. Positioning of these additional eyes must be rotated every few hours for security purposes.
Despite a really crappy title, this is a good article: https://medium.com/s/story/were-primed-to-be-addicted-to-social-media-b6b31cfc4099
idea for a nonlethal drone weapon: swarm of drones with strings tying up the target to carry it away afterwards
No I know they’d like to study it harder, but now imagine something that’s both as ravenous as life and as competent as technology hitching a ride back up and escaping onto the interstellar stage, we’d lose that whole galaxy
You see, this planet has developed technology and life, remarkable really, problem is that all the probes we sent to study its biomechanosphere have so far either been eaten or shot down by local wildlife, so we’ve quarantined it
Not having a CoC is the closest thing to achive what a CoC is supposed to achive.
at last, first contact comes - from the storms, then from the waves, then the mountains, “sorry we didn’t realize animals could be intelligent, to be honest we wrote you off once you left the oceans, how dumb is that hahah
The Joe Rogan Experience Is a Safe Space to Launder Bad Ideas - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kv9qd/the-joe-rogan-experience-is-a-safe-space-to-launder-bad-ideas
Underrun – Making Of
I participated in this year’s js13kGames, a JavaScript game development competition with a file size limit of 13kb, including code, assets and everything else. My entry was Underrun, a twin stick shooter using WebGL.
Play Underrun – A WebGL shooter in 13kb of JavaScript
For this competition I set out to produce something with a dense atmosphere – which is inherently difficult to do with so little … ⌘ Read more
Tell Me It’s Going to be OK | Miya Tokumitsu https://thebaffler.com/salvos/tell-me-its-going-to-be-ok-tokumitsu
[disclaimer for those into factual accuracy: I expect that if regression to the mean is applicable here, it would play out over a few years and not 30]
if human civilization really did survive a few decades of quantum suicide during the cold war, shouldn’t we be seeing regression to the mean by now↵↵instead of, you know, the opposite
On The Road To Chaos In East Berlin (published MONDO 2000 1991) - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/09/17/on-the-road-to-chaos-in-east-berlin-published-mondo-2000-1991/
If you mixed human ashes into concrete (say, to make a cornerstone for a building) would the concrete still set properly? How much corpse-ash would you need to add before it started to compromise structural integrity?
How To Kill Your Tech Industry https://logicmag.io/05-how-to-kill-your-tech-industry/
Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html
The global economy: gamblers betting on the effectiveness of bad assumptions made based on wide but shallow surveillance in influencing the distribution of ads that don’t work for products that nobody wants and nobody can afford to people who are using adblock.
From: A. Causal <mail.⇋⇋.⌱⌛>↵Subject: Unique investment opportunities in YOUR past!↵↵attached file contains vital information on how to reclaim negentropy from the past, kindly open and run
It doesn’t pay to be smart in interstellar space - once out of the gravity well, most races lose their sentience in favor of longevity, radiation tolerance and stealth
Hot take: a thick skin is a really useful skill to develop, but having it isn’t really correlated with other useful skills, so we shouldn’t use it as a proxy for who gets to contribute to things.
Pet peeve: folks who identify the neoliberal techno-utopian california-ideology currents with cyberpunk. To the extent that the cyberpunk literary movement had consistent politics, they were critical of Regan-flavored capitalism.
Hot take: the profit motive is incompatible with goals of social equity simply because those who can afford to pay for their services will always be privileged by a profit-motivated organization
Proposal for a book to be adapted into a movie starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson https://www.robinsloan.com/proposal-for-a-book/
Advertising is obsolete “ here’s why it’s time to end it https://theconversation.com/advertising-is-obsolete-heres-why-its-time-to-end-it-101639
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net: As long as they are dimmable or relate to the screen brightness. I’m often working in the dark with 1% screen brightness.
Bad idea of the day: Current prisoners have mandatory voting while non-prisoners (including ex-prisoners) have the option to vote
Should People in Prison have a Right to Vote? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXXZucuS7s4
When Will Security Go Back to Normal? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyzd_a6vLWY
TFW you’re trying to balance your desire to recommend a long list of books on some subject with your distaste for the concept of a canon, and then realize that it’s probably OK because you don’t have enough power to impact what people actually read
Splain it to Me | Status 451 https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/
…when you realize that the automated API you’re using is really just sending an email to someone who will perform the task.
What To Do If You Do Not Own Your Website’s Domain Name ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/owning-your-website-domain.shtml
Band name of the day: conspiracy to riot
Since homing pigeons are extinct, I guess we will need to distribute our SSB micro flash cards via trained falcon.
@mdom@domgoergen.com my own custom client I wrote, I use cron to run the update my timeline every 20 mins. My update process also processes 10 curl calls at time. I did that to save time when I poll everyone.
Lisa Hanawalt of BoJack Horseman Talks to Heather Havrilesky https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/lisa-hanawalt-of-bojack-horseman-talks-to-heather-havrilesky.html
How psychoanalysis came to Japan and was turned on its head | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-psychoanalysis-came-to-japan-and-was-turned-on-its-head
Intro to Hegel (& Progressive Politics) | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNt1C72B_4
A Time-Twisting Visit to the Museum of Capitalism - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/museum-of-capitalism-boston
And we still could use range requests to just get updates, if everybody uses sorted twtfiles.
If your subscribed to 1000 users, you have other problems. None of our clients would handle that gracefully.
And we still could use range requests to just get updates, if everybody uses sorted twtfiles.
If your subscribed to 1000 users, you have other problems. None of our clients would handle that gracefully.
And to be honest, http 1.1 is (mostly) fine, it’s the stuff that is usually transmitted with it that worries me :)
And to be honest, http 1.1 is (mostly) fine, it’s the stuff that is usually transmitted with it that worries me :)
@mdom@domgoergen.com did you think about not putting all followers into the twtxt file, but a URL to a follower list? Think performance. If the network grows to 10000 users, you’d have 10000 extra lines in each twtxt file.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org If everybody is happy with the format, sure! Writing a new spec is on my todo list for a long time. Maybe that’s a good reason to do it.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org If everybody is happy with the format, sure! Writing a new spec is on my todo list for a long time. Maybe that’s a good reason to do it.
@mdom@domgoergen.com That’s interesting. So does txtnish read that metadata? or would an end user just look at the file to see it? Is the meta data going to be the standard?
New feature for txtnish: After setting add_metadata to 1, txtnish will, uhm, add metadata to your twtfile. Currently i only add followings, client and your gpg fingerprint. See my file for an example.
New feature for txtnish: After setting add_metadata to 1, txtnish will, uhm, add metadata to your twtfile. Currently i only add followings, client and your gpg fingerprint. See my file for an example.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net It’s nice to be way ahead of the curve no? LOL.
@kas@enotty.dk the only thing I can think is that people are finally re-figuring out that static sites are really fast because the content doesn’t need to generated on the fly. I noticed there were a lot of static content generators out there.
dummy tweet to fix my gopher page #wontfix
In other news: I’m doing my first ever diet. I lost 5kg already. No big deal really. Just reduce calories. I don’t understand all that fuss about diets… just eat a little less and stick to it.
@mdosch@mdosch.de: Yes. I first thought gopher would be a good protocol for this purpose. But HTTP has the advantage, that you don’t always need to fetch the whole file. You can do a HEAD and check for last-modified header.
@sdk@codevoid.de I see as I am reading your tweet. Just tried to add you and it works. 😃
Nothing says that the other room has to be static, imagine for example having your morning coffee in there, setting down your cup, and the cathedral’s pillars curl up like ferns to reveal the sky
Well that was disappointing. Was all set to run my Savage World game on Roll20 and 3 of the 5 players had to cancel.
@sdk@codevoid.de Well I’ve added the special datetime to my kitbashed client. I store the URL it gets but I’m not doing anything with it right now.
@sdk@codevoid.de as for the 140 character limit. I swear I read somewhere that the limit was really more of a suggestion than anything else. I don’t think any of the clients I’ve looked out enforce it. As long as it’s on a single line, no one seems to care too much.
unicode 2040 features (2):↵- support for 2D writing systems, lines can now turn by multiples of 45°↵- in-band parsing directives for ligatures (finally with context-free grammar support)↵- in-band layout directives↵- camera glyph can now store up to ten seconds of video
QOTD: ‘The web is broken because it is a half-hearted, incomplete implementation of Xanadu.’ (Source: https://dev.to/tux0r/comment/586n)
QOTD: ‘I am now at work on an apparatus by means of which, when it is perfected, I hope to manifest in their essential purity the radiations of malign force.’
It’s not that anonymity produces bad behavior, but that the absence of the ability to ignore or remove bad actors makes it difficult to prevent bad behavior, and persistent names assigned to persistent identities provides a convenient handle for dealing with individual bad actors.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: Either that, or provide URL to a follower file: #followfile https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt
@sdk@codevoid.de you know the more I think about it, it might make sense to have it the twtxt file. It would just need to be a comment line something like “#follows sdk gopher://codevoid.de/0/tw.txt” on a single line. That way it would be easy to parse out those follows by finding the #follows.
When they sense death approaching, they withdraw into pocket universes, unmoor, and die there so that their remains may be a Garden of Eden to whatever follows
@sdk@codevoid.de a random mix into the the twtxt file seems less clean to me. The former would be easier to implement and simpler for another program to get and parse.
The Art of Good Ecchi - How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC6wit4Epeo
All It Takes to Create a Ghost Is a Good Story - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/true-ghost-stories-portland-oregon
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: It’s just an idea. Not a clean one thoug, as clients would not know upfront who serves such a fiele and who not. Another idea would ne to mix a number of random followers into the twtxt file, which are updated when a person tweets.
@sdk@codevoid.de That’s an interesting thought. I Know most are text files but at one time there was someone that used a python CGI Script. That person would have had to make a script for the follows.
Confirming the intelligent designer’s existence, and using its intelligence to solve otherwise intractable problems by making them look like niches for life to settle
Computability theory but for telos:↵* What can be achieved with certain overarching goals like Survive, Understand, and Profit?↵* How would a society balance them to get off this rock?↵* And how would you deal with something like Profit emerging?
Humanity’s nascent hivemind, so far, is a blind writhing mass of pain and reflexes, simply not conscious enough to warrant contact yet
Silicon Valley’s attempts to self-police are anti-democratic. They’re also not new. -… https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/silicon-valleys-attempts-to-self-police-are-anti-democratic-theyre-also-not-new/2018/08/17/cd44fb22-9b1d-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html?noredirect=on
How to teach yourself hard things - Julia Evans https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/01/learning-skills-you-can-practice/
We live in a world where both Guy Madden’s The Heart of the World & Matmos’s Ultimate Care II exist, and that has to count for something.
Any thoughts about decentralized ways to discover twtxt users? I’ve set up https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt which is my following list plus whatever comes in via user-agent. If everybody would set this up with the with an added .following we could fetch each others list and discover users that way.
My search forwarder https://codevoid.de/q=%s is now forwarding to the JS version of duckduckgo with a dark theme applied and safe search off. I’ve pretty much set my own preferences to it. If you prefer the html version, you can still just turn JS for DDG off and DDG will forward you. I find the html version totally usable, but it’s not customizable at all.
Hot take: anything with more than 200 people in it is necessarily too diverse and internally schismatic to be called a ‘community’ – if it has shared norms, it’s at best a ‘subculture’, & if those norms are being imposed by a corporation, it’s not even that.
While certainly not a solution to everything, I find I’m using temporary SQLITE database a bunch to solve problems with a few lines of sql and less then 50 lines of code (to insert data into the SQLITE DB) instead of several hundred of lines of code and a bunch of arrays.
@sdk@codevoid.de I have to admit that’s true. While I don’t call myself an expert, I almost always wore several hats at places I’ve worked. Programmer, Server Admin, Network Admin, Cable Puller, Telephone Admin, PBX installer, Database Admin, etc
Migration successful. My page (http version) is now running on gopherproxy-c. Unfortunately not without functionality loss. If you used my site as search engine, you need to replace the smiley with “q”. The redirect is now handled by nginx and nginx can not read emoji variables.
Translating HyperTalk to JavaScript http://lexnet.bravepages.com/HTMLJS.htm
you might want to consider whether you really want your decisions to be based on what random people on the internet say.
One thing for sure on this project I’m working on, being able to run multiple CURL requests at once has been a real time saver.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net My take on this is… let’s let people ruin the web. Let centralized services control everything. But let us tech savvy people stick together and provide an alternative space for us. A space that’s welcoming to those that want to join and learn. Maybe people will come over when their online actions show real life consequences. There are statistics about decreasing social media use in Generation Z. Maybe they want to learn from us Internet-Dinosaurs :)
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net This is completely contrary to what people want. People don’t care about how something works. They want to use something that’s premade and that they can use without learning anything about it. Decentralization is a technical Detail, nobody cares about. Just like security or freedom. It’s all nice to have if it comes for free, no time investment and no convenience cuts. So the only way to establich decentralization is by making it better, cheaper and easier to use than centralized services. #sadtruth
My feed will be deader than usual for a while so I’m going to be automatically posting a medium story I clapped for every 4 hours. Set your filters accordingly.
Bad idea of the day: using spaced repetition software to remind yourself to meditate on open questions
Im sorry twtxt, I dont mean to ignore you… things are fine here, except my brain is made of snail poop
You can now use https://codevoid.de/?q=%s as search provider in your browser. Requests that do not start with gopher:// will be forwarded to the non-JS version of duckduckgo. Gopher will be shown directly. I’m not logging anything. But you must be aware that your search terms would touch my server first.
The workflow app on iOS is magic. I now have a button that asks me to select a picture, then converts it to png, resizes it, strips the metadata, scps it to my jumphost, scps it further to my gopher jail and into my paste directory, constructs the http proxy URL and opens it in safari. All without user-interaction. Now I can share my mobile life with you guys! Prepare for cat pictures!
do you ever get wistful about having a merely human body plan because you’re listening to a track you’d need a dozen, maybe a hundred legs for do it justice, just some proper undulation