@frogor@www.frogorbits.com compared to the Iphone 7. XR might be more powerful but it’s clumsy to hold as big and heavy. Does not feel like a phone at all.
I feel like I only scratched the surface of what Vim really is capable off.
@johanbove@johanbove.info a random question from someone who’s used Gopher clients a little bit recently but doesn’t quite understand all the memes: Why are numbered directories like “/0/” common on Gopher holes (but not websites)?
@kas@enotty.dk doesn’t seem like a bad idea. I suppose I should do that one day too eventually, but I haven’t livetweeted enough Apple events to bloat my file to where I’d want to bother.
finally hacked ijanet up to behave like the scheme REPL. very excited about this!
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net @adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com I’m really not into MacOS so I had no idea what Catalina might be. But I like the zsh. 😃
Woohoo, sent Färjestad Karlstad home with a 2-1 so München is already qualified for the knockouts. 😃 It’s always like winning a trophy when a german team beats a Swedish team. #CHL
@von@tilde.town I moved my family to xmpp. For friends you might consider quicksy that works like WhatsApp but you can reach them via normal xmpp. Maybe you will also find some interesting groupchats there: https://search.jabber.network/rooms/1
gameboy color speaker replaced using ds lite speaker. sounds quieter than I expected. but better than no sound at all. this, combined with the new case I got for it, makes it almost feel like a brand new device :)
rx pixel editor looks seen on HN today looks interesting to me (and the sort of thing I’ve wanted to build), but the vulkan support seems like overkill. Also, my graphics cards drivers are broken on Alpine, so the program probably won’t run. trying anyways.
@kas@enotty.dk It looks like the message is f***ed up by the #xmpp library I am using and not by my code. :-/
@kas@enotty.dk Indeed, it looks like my bot is doing something wrong. I just wonder why as I didn’t have problems with special characters or even emoji before…
@kas@enotty.dk I don’t know. I will check what txtnish output in the terminal looks like. Right now I only access #twtxt via my #xmpp bot.
Voidcall – Making Of
Like last year with Underrun, 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 Voidcall, a Real-time Strategy game.
Play Voidcall – A WebGL Real-time Strategy game in 13kb of JavaScript
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I’m not sure I like how homebrew will try to build a package if the download fails. I don’t need a second go binary, really.
@von@tilde.town no worries, I have days/weeks/years like that
the first forms of life were much like fire, waves of chemical reactions that swept the primordial soup until exhausted, and only after many attempts life learned to survive
WebP is kind of disappointing. Not because there’s anything wrong with it, but because I tend to not really need it, even though I’d like to use it.
@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com Looks nice. But it supports strange things like telegram, hipchat and so on but not the standard #xmpp 😡
@ckipp@chronica.xyz @neauoire@wiki.xxiivv.com Glad you like my little experiment! I’m tweaking it daily, I’ll try to release the code properly once it’s clean enough.
@mox@tilde.town I am also using #i3 for some month and really like it. Also I switched to TUI/CLI programs for some tasks: https://blog.mdosch.de/2019/06/06/tui-programme/ (#German). It’s a lot more efficient when you don’t have to change between keyboard and mouse/touchpad so often.
/meta @ckipp@chronica.xyz About images, sure, I understand it’s useless for CLI-only use. But if we added our own format, maybe something like Markdown
would work?/meta @ckipp@chronica.xyz Also yes, a simple string search would be fine. I’m not JS-savvy enough to be sure, but I guess it would work a bit like tags?
I totally prefer #XMPP over #IRC. I like it being federated and with #Conversations you have a good mobile client, also you don’t need to setup a bouncer.
/meta I really like how this place looks. Is there any plan for some kind of pagination to browse older posts?
drinking a ‘Mas Agave’ from Founder’s Brewing Co. http://0x0.st/sna … tastes just like a margarita
i really like the music that comes thru on bandcamp daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/07/01/best-new-ambient-on-bandcamp-june-2019/
Looking for a reason to use Firefox more when developing sites? on macOS it’s the browser that smashes into the least horizontal space. Good if you like having a browser window running all the time. Doubly good if you like running it in Split View.
the year is 2119, the first antarctic city is being built with the assistance of sentient utility fogs, protestors are waving signs like “At the Mountains of Madness was not meant as an instruction manual
, at which point she reaches out to the horizon (a trick of perspective, sure), lifts one of the trees to her lips like a chalice, and drinks the light that’s collected in its crown
It’s not like YHWH is dead, but these days he’s just hopelessly outclassed by Science: Recursively self-improving doctrine, a steady stream of mana from animal and sometimes human sacrifices, a priestdom of millions
The 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐱 (𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑥 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑟) is a passerine bird of medium size known for spreading bushfires, which is a vital part of its reproductive strategy since its eggs will only hatch when cooked. It is a likely inspiration for the greater phoenix myth,
In spring, they rematerialize from the leaves, like slow-motion whirlwinds flocking in the canopy before touching down
MPEG1 Single file C library
If you want to play videos in a native app or game you basically have three options:
Looks like these liberapay guys are not really open to criticism about their usage of third parties: https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/102234891507030801
That looks like my local Apple Store. I wonder how similar the normal ones are to each other.
This is the kind of nerd thing I’d like for my working out, especially since I’m getting into cardio a little bit more.
Never thought I’d see a night-owl-pride thingo like this.
@mdosch@mdosch.de I’ve tried to play games on my phone and iPad but none of the games I’ve ever played on them seem to stick. I’ve had fun — briefly — with Threes and FTL and Really Bad Chess and so forth, but I don’t seem to stick with any one game on my iOS gizmos like I have with, say, FTL-on-Steam, much less TF2 or Dota 2.
a game many immortals enjoy is to build houses and cities and then watch them grow and change and erode over the centuries, much like watching rivers or fires
Are there any free AS/400 emulators floating around that would give a feel for what it’s like to use the system? (Support for running arbitrary IBM binaries optional)
a church just like a gothic church but without a roof, because through divine intervention or just clever weather manipulation, no rain ever falls in
One thing that Pet Sematary (2019) has over the 1989 version is that it actually looks like it was shot in the north country & people actually dress, act, & decorate like that’s where they are.
Hey, does Amazing Stranger share staff with Battle Programmer Shirase or is there just a lot of accidental style similarities for, like, budget and format reasons?
‘Sasuga Kei’ is like, the most absurdly dad-jokey pen name I’ve heard.
idea for a sense: decode emission/absorption lines of celestial bodies into smells so that one can identify atmosphere types at a glance/whiff, maybe make hot blackbodies smell like ovens and free oxygen like rain
I think DEVO might have got their math wrong in We’re Through Being Cool. Have I met 2 dozen members of any social group? That’s like 20% of my dunbar allocation.
You know, Desert 2 is probably the best static Mojave wallpaper. It has enough light parts for the daytime, yet it also is generally dark enough to work well in dim lighting. Not many photographs are like that.
Philosophical writing should read like a letter written to oneself | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/philosophical-writing-should-read-like-a-letter-written-to-oneself
she wears a necklace of raindrops, has hair like spiderwebs on a dewy morning↵↵eyes like the gaps between far-away trees, and a smile like the sun between branches
Hot take: language is like sculpture, in that each word acts as a constraint that cleaves off parts of the infinite space of possible meaning.
OK I can’t fault the DomeKano anime for dropping a younger girl who looks almost exactly like Hina & is tsundere from a scene that would be in the last episode but if she doesn’t become a repeat character I will be shocked
The most unrealistic part of Super Dimension Fortress Macross is the way that the translated ancient pop song could be broadcast on the radio. All the ancient sumerian pop songs are shit like ‘let’s cover each other in honey and lick it off’
People whose dating profile consists entirely of their nationality are incomprehensible to me, but not quite as incomprehensible as the ones that are blank or have some useless placeholder like ‘ask’. The point of a dating site is that you get to see compatibility before starting a convo, y’know
Reading the DomeKano manga, I keep running into stuff where it’s like, I don’t remember them happening in the anime but they must have, but at the same time I would have thought I would have remembered them. Maybe the constant bombshells produced twist fatigue.
despite the temporary break of last weekend, i still feel like i’ve been going at full power
Analogue Mega Sg Review: Sounds Like a Winner https://tedium.co/2019/03/26/analogue-mega-sg-review/
the pattern on charmin toilet paper looks like eyes & even though it’s almost definitely accidental i sitll find it wonderfully suvbersive
In case you haven’t read the Oshiete Galko-chan manga & have only heard about it: it’s gorgeous, in a really innovative style, heartwarming & funny, & also people’s tshirts say things like ‘camel toe ’ and ‘snowman porno’
holy shit did the domekano anime cut like most of the literature club shit? i don’t remember them going camping & hina getting stung by a wasp
“You like horror movies, huh? What are your favorite genres?” “Well, mostly gothic & art deco, but Burnt Offerings was a fantastic greek revival flick”
OK so one thing I don’t like about the DomeKano manga is the way the plaid bottoms in their school uniform are so clearly done with a single sheet of overlay per frame (or maybe even per page). It’s distracting, the way they don’t match the fabric folds.
I want to like exa, but its default color choices are hot garbage. Don’t these people who use purple ever try using a terminal with a black background?
Hot take: Mondo 2000 should do what Fangoria did & release a very fancy very thick periodical like once a year for about a hundred bucks.
most of my professors prefer that students leave computers in backpacks anyway so it’s not like classes will be harder
Five Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist | EDUCAUSE https://er.educause.edu/articles/2019/3/five-principles-for-thinking-like-a-futurist
This Is What It’s Like To Wake Up During Surgery - Digg http://digg.com/2019/waking-up-from-anesthsia
A good user interface is a lot like a standup routine: you take the deep knowledge of an audience and twist it in creative ways so that they now understand something they couldn’t have imagined on their own.
Other ways in which UX is like stand-up comedy: if you omit the setup, the punchline won’t land; reading the room is a vital skill
@kas@enotty.dk I wanted to like Kakoune but I liked having my option key not be an alt key more. Shame, really.
The only outright negative review my game has gotten thus far starts with the reviewer saying making a VN should be a crime against humanity. Like, thanks for leading with the admission that you’re not part of the target audience & your opinion doesn’t matter.
People love to talk about the potential security impact of exotic state-of-the-art shit like GPT-2 and deepfakes, but they’re neither convincing nor the lowest-effort effective way to create disinfo. Spinners scale better than GPT-2.
April 19th: Shitty Campbell vs Cocaine Lacan. (It’s obvious who will win, but it’s equally obvious that the loser will just claim to have won & his fans will believe him, just like they did every other time.)
What It’s Like To Write About Race And Video Games https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-write-about-race-and-video-games-1832886047
An anime being ‘big in america’ is like a punk band being ‘big in japan’: a common but rarely intentional side effect of globalization, notable mostly as trivia.
DomeKano is like the Mayoiga of harem-drama and I love it.
A lot of people are going to start watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, and then say ‘this looks like trash’ and stop watching it. They’re right, and it’s a shame. Higurashi had the same problem.
I really like the concept of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka: a mahou shoujou show where the focus is firmly on the combat PTSD of child soldiers. It’s a shame that the production Quality was melting from frame 1.
but i still feel like i’m not super good at directing all this productive energy that i now have towards actual school
i feel like i’ve been getting a lot more done with the radio station than i ever have been able to do…
Lemurs are like catfoxmonkeys
A lot of large software projects are so bad that liking them should automatically disqualify someone from working on them, unless you like them in a masochistic semi-sexual way.
This movie is fuckin’ wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYeJfYso9os It’s like Contact meets The Parallax View with Charlie Sheen
Public service announcement: markets & capitalism aren’t the same thing. You can have non-capitalist or even anti-capitalist markets (ex., cases where progressive taxes actually make rentseeking infeasible, or markets without private property). You can have capitalism without markets (like inside a corporation).
I feel like the simplified and cliched ideas about slashers that informed Scream kept me from discovering the strange and wonderful world of actually-good slashers like Sleepaway Camp, Happy Birthday to Me, Tourist Trap, etc. Like, a lot of them are surreal and moody and great.
All of the negative reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when it shouldn’t, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & it fits 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”
All of the positive reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when you don’t expect it to, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & does the best job it possibly could fitting 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”
It looks like OpenAI has announced their marginal progress on the coherence problem in narrative prose generation in the most clickbaity possible way again: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47249163 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction
The most important operation in QNX is MsgSend, which works like an interprocess… | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640
Today is St. Valentine’s day. Celebrate by ressurecting vats of minced and pickled children, like St Valentine is most famous for doing
Fragments of a Dream-like City: Collages by Tali Bayer “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/11/28/fragments-of-a-dream-like-city-collages-by-tali-bayer/
An enormous presence, like the shimmer of heat in air | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/an-enormous-presence-like-the-shimmer-of-heat-in-air
MfoM is like Groundhog Day meets The X Files, while Happy Death Day is more like Groundhog Day meets Scream. (Actually, less like Scream than Happy Birthday to Me, but nobody’s seen that one.)
I’d like to play a horror game that’s lit like Suspiria is during its most extreme moments: backgrounds & characters in bright monochrome washes, a cypher of harsh shadows, as though lit by single-point neon.
a technology like writing but for body movements: little stick-and-thread figures that show you how to dance, rope-and-pulley gloves you can wear and that guide your movements to teach knitting by example
COOKING TIP: if you are frying literally anything, fry it in a lot of butter and then add like a sip of beer (preferably dark beer, like a tripel or a double-ipa). It makes the flavor a lot more complex
Are there sports video games that, RPG-like, allow a user-created character to progress by getting access to better personal trainers & medical support by winning games while in constant fear of breaking their legs?
Occasionally, a sunray escapes the inner layers of the matryoshka brain and blesses the outer orbits like rainfall a desert, a single piercing life-giving flash that decides the fate of whole societies
Digi & Geoff fighting is like Grant Morrison & Alan Moore fighting. Their criticisms of each other are accurate but comical because they make basically the exact same mistakes.
Nadesco is a cynical mecha parody about how genuine & unironic straight mecha is good & cool actually, because exactly the things that make it cheesy make it valuable. Wholesome themes like solidarity in the face of difficult odds are cheesy because they should be obvious (but aren’t).