Posts by alice@marrow.haus
(DIR) Post #AY1mQnQEhFoq68IZ16 by alice@marrow.haus
2023-07-24T18:31:28Z
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@onan Fuck you!You're right!:ferret flips out on couch,crushing itself with cushions:Fuuuuuuu…
(DIR) Post #AYCWfixrUvhxXkt0Vs by alice@marrow.haus
2023-07-28T13:48:47Z
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@basisbit @pjohanneson @mdreid I haven't Linux'd in a while, but is it not still incredibly modular? I was always able to pair it down shockingly well. Back in the day, Emacs-as-init boot floppies still worked.All you need is a kernel and Emacs.Really.Emacs is browser, Emacs is IRC, Emacs is e-mail, Emacs is love, Emacs is life. 🤪
(DIR) Post #AYCWfkkoqOSn5sncSe by alice@marrow.haus
2023-07-28T14:19:02Z
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@pjohanneson @basisbit @mdreid Yeah, I actually Vim extensively. I wanted to see if things could be simplified down to a system that is /only/ a kernel + Emacs.And I could. It was kinda mind-blowing, and proved the "yo dawg, I heard you like operating systems so I put an operating system to operate in your operating system so you can operate a system while your system operates" joke.All config here: https://github.com/amcgregor/dotfiles/tree/dotfiles [makes note to update submodules…]
(DIR) Post #AYyhLRTohW5CX6vJyq by alice@marrow.haus
2023-08-21T17:40:15Z
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@evanengel Wait until you see the literal fields full of abandoned main line tanks.https://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/12/18/congress-again-buys-abrams-tanks-the-army-doesnt-want.htmlPhoto from https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-home-base-providing-a-second-life-for-army-equipment/Wait until you see the multitude of wholly abandoned military bases, even just those on US domestic soil… https://urbexunderground.com/7-abandoned-military-bases-in-the-us/With one quarter the DOD budget, I could end food scarcity in America. Not just hunger, but all anxiety surrounding sourcing food.But nah, war readiness is far more important than the citizens.@mashbooq @kevinrothrock
(DIR) Post #AYyhLTcOka8TAIxCdM by alice@marrow.haus
2023-08-22T00:33:23Z
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@maelduin13 @evanengel @mashbooq @kevinrothrockOne quarter the budget.🤔 I wonder how many fields of unused, decaying tanks that’d be equivalent to per year.
(DIR) Post #AZGBjBd1aWlqdHmsrY by alice@marrow.haus
2023-08-30T15:13:04Z
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@KimPerales That's some good progress.But still little interest in LFTR solutions. (Liquid fluorine thorium reactors, using a molten salt as the fuel.) For a nuclear reactor, it's perfectly safe at atmospheric pressures—not pressurized like a CANDU—and can be switched on and off in a matter of hours, not days or weeks. If the reaction begins to run away, it turns itself off in a physical way, preventing further reaction.It does not require power to maintain this safety, w/ no pumped coolant…
(DIR) Post #AZGglPYPsgFGyrAlwu by alice@marrow.haus
2023-08-30T21:00:38Z
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@tante As a professional geek, having run servers (web and otherwise) for many years, if someone gets heavy-handed in recommending Linux without a more… holistic… approach to consumer usage patterns, I can quip back::Wonka.gif: "Oh, so you want me to use a UNIX-like hybrid vendor operating system… GNU/Linux, was it? I prefer something actually UNIX certified, thanks. Like my Mac."They so often forget to mention GNU.Linux is "just" the kernel.Mac?!! Watch for the eye tic.It feels good. 👹
(DIR) Post #AZKBNyfXLxjqzTgmae by alice@marrow.haus
2023-09-01T13:26:02Z
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@qdot In one GitHub org, I maintain 53. It's… well, it's a burden. And with work being programming, too, I'm too often too burnt out to roll releases at night. At least their in-house changes are pushed to a public branch. 😭It's a TON of work.(Another 28 on my personal GH.)
(DIR) Post #AZKYoIDDc1ei4sxbgu by alice@marrow.haus
2023-09-01T17:50:31Z
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@lowqualityfacts How much water does it take to process them?All of the water.It's a **serious** problem.
(DIR) Post #AZMLgyqyHNrSvFeoD2 by alice@marrow.haus
2023-09-02T14:32:54Z
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@onan All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.All wOrk ANd no pLaY maKes JacK A dUll BOy.…And damn, my detailed SVG of a typewriter with that written out isn't permitted as a media attachment. 😶 Dangit, Mastodon, let me be sarcastically supportive with a little effort put in.It's this one, though: https://specificity.webcore.io/img/typewriter.svg
(DIR) Post #AZV9xd5ilQg8v3qOTg by alice@marrow.haus
2023-09-06T20:33:21Z
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@EU_Commission As a strange aside, I wrote software for iOS around iOS 1.4, prior to the existence of an official SDK (Software Development Kit). It wasn't that difficult, and there wasn't even an App Store at the time.Though there were already alternatives, such as the Cydia front-end for APK. And they still exist, so does Apple already pass muster on that front?You have also been able to remove pre-installed applications, just like third-party installed ones, for some time.
(DIR) Post #AZdHkqSq5C9G4LCm5Q by alice@marrow.haus
2023-09-10T18:38:51Z
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@lowqualityfacts Was proud to grow up in a hometown with one of the larger intact plesiosaur skeletons. We'd go for expeditions to a local riverbed to dig up small Cambrian period arthropods. Pretty much just eroding out of the river edge all about the place.The local museum camps growing up gave me the knowledge to answer enough of the questions the Royal Ontario Museum tour guide couldn't, that I was invited to have a chat with the curator!☺️
(DIR) Post #AcJ7qV0nOhEqDdNbxA by alice@marrow.haus
2023-11-29T18:49:49Z
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@lowqualityfacts Two chemists walk into a bar.The first orders H₂O.The second begins, "I'll have some H₂O," pauses and glares at his coworker before continuing, "as well."MURDER PLOT FOILED… uh … sorry. Not an employee, but read that as a request. 🙃(And yes, a chemistry gag is my go-to "X walks into a bar" joke. H₂O₂ would be hydrogen peroxide, a form of bleaching substance, and very un-good for you. In case anyone coming across this is not a fan of chemistry.)
(DIR) Post #AdP9YGYA8Dx40GOSie by alice@marrow.haus
2024-01-01T14:28:51Z
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@mmu_man :shakes a bitter fist: 2-bit greyscale was good enough back in my day!😶 Okay, it was 2-bit greenscale, but…
(DIR) Post #AdPKHQiiAITa7OVCi0 by alice@marrow.haus
2024-01-01T16:28:55Z
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@brewsterkahle Here, have an anti-adblocker blocker snippet of CSS. I use Cascadea, but there's also UserStyles:/* Slate */ .tp-modal { display: none !important; } .tp-modal-open { overflow: auto !important; }
(DIR) Post #AdPZqMfOj5O6zj4JTU by alice@marrow.haus
2024-01-01T19:24:02Z
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@fsf :winces:GPL is verboten under a wide variety of my situations due to virality and, ironically, patent encumbrance. That is: the strict ideological rejection of them. "Freedom. But only _our_ kind."Practicality beats purity, which is why all of my FOSS (82 libraries) is MIT licensed. Actual freedom. And usable on work-related projects as a result. (I'll skip my Mars quip.)And yup, our code is regularly audited. Even finds snippets copied from StackOverflow… which are also verboten.
(DIR) Post #AdTCbKllyd9cSAkoEa by alice@marrow.haus
2024-01-03T05:47:40Z
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@noellemitchell I used to build systems like these as customer service, diagnostic, and performance analysis tools. Here's a really early one from one of the earliest versions of my Python web framework, WebCore.The "alt text" explains the images quite a bit. Later versions could "watch live" (like Remote Desktop!) by user or specific session to aid in live support. Chains of requests leading to a bug could be replayed in development, to aid in reproduction, correction, and regression testing.
(DIR) Post #AdTCbNkosdAri5KafI by alice@marrow.haus
2024-01-03T05:48:51Z
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@noellemitchell WebCore version 0.6.1 (from the footer of the pages) was released on February 9th, 2010.And, funnily enough, I did not actually include this as a framework feature due to the risk of it being "too evil"—too easy to abuse or unintentionally expose to data theft. Does everyone really check that they've properly configured all of the sensitive variable names, so they aren't captured?I've worked with PHP in the past.Everyone does not. 😜
(DIR) Post #AdeUfifWDQxBvXd0XA by alice@marrow.haus
2024-01-08T02:33:47Z
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@dangillmor Remember, folks. "In the name of open-source collaboration" Google raised a middle finger to WebKit and forked it to be Blink, the engine powering Chrome, Chromium, and about 90% of the ecosystem including Microsoft Edge.They're rather successfully stealing plays from Microsoft's book, harkening back to the Internet Explorer days. "Embrace, extend, extinguish". [Thanks Brian!]Monopoly.Quite the contrast to Apple's day-0 KHTML/WebKit philosophy. https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=104197092318639
(DIR) Post #AdeUfmwgJZ3jBvglqC by alice@marrow.haus
2024-01-08T22:16:33Z
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I'll add an important note: KHTML was heavily tied to Qt, especially in memory management. Apple's initial effort was largely to divorce the layout & rendering engine (and JSCore) from Qt.There was actual reason to fork.Chrome's multi-process isolation model was, theoretically, a relatively good reason to require a fork rather than contribute patches, except…WebKit2.From 2010.Ground-up abstracted design.Strict process isolation.