Posts by mdhughes@appdot.net
(DIR) Post #AWTXHyjjkDcpiuaxhA by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-08T08:09:35Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@art Nobody's ever gonna carry one of those Motorola mobile phones. Those are so big and ridiculous and expensive. "Can you hear me now?"Nobody's ever gonna use a PDA like a Newton. They're too big for pockets and you can just keep lists on paper.Nobody's ever gonna use an iPod, it has to be "synced" with a Macintosh! And vinyl is cheaper and sounds warm.— sent from my iPad, while my iPhone plays music.In not too many years, that'll be "sent from my VisionAir"
(DIR) Post #AWfkTOyyTBqyZrAzMO by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-13T00:31:22Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@dredmorbius While I've had some really awful interactions, vast majority were positive ones. And I got a lot of great information from reddit, new books, shows, RPGs, retrocomputing. Some of the computing subs are fine, others are nonsense.I don't care how awful the tools are if the people & content are good. Redditors were not perniciously evil VC-cock-suckers like h4xx0rn00z, or petty tyrants like most Discords.But the company's just shit. Has been for a decade.#reddit
(DIR) Post #AWfkTeOh9qLANyKF28 by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-13T04:34:43Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@dredmorbius But good tools don't bring back good people to a site full of shitty people. Anyway, now it looks like all the big "social" sites are just trashed. Only little villages like fediverse will survive the apocalypse.
(DIR) Post #AWfkUdnyqRoMq3cnPk by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-13T06:53:30Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@dredmorbius I can't think of *any* example of a social site that fell apart, abused the community that had formed there, and survived. MySpace and Livejournal are, as I've noted elsewhere, probably criminal fronts now. Freenode was a hostile takeover much like bird site, and the community just left and made libera.chat. Zero chance anyone will ever go back, that "new blood" will fix it.Facebook remains an aberration. It's lost everyone who started, but old/clueless people remain trapped.
(DIR) Post #AWfkWTanmn0TkCKshU by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-14T05:28:23Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@teledyn @secondlife @dredmorbius I had a good development business in SL, until LL made gambling & whoring "illegal" to preserve their banking arrangements. That drove out the highest-profit businesses, and that drove out the money for everyone else.But LL never really harassed their users, so at least the furries & other fan groups stayed, it just got quieter and never grew.They really needed to make opengrid/opensimulator support easier if they wanted to grow.
(DIR) Post #AWlpgaVlPZ34iSDw7E by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-17T03:43:33Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@art https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008
(DIR) Post #AWlzNvyaNe0fKNRtia by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-16T15:20:28Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
Anytime someone shits on the community for a little bit of money, we should call them a spez.#reddit #spez
(DIR) Post #AWnS2IGnu4bZvdxnlY by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-17T22:20:10Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@art I do have:1. CD player on the stereo stack, haven't used it in 10 years.2. Superdrive™ for my computer, which I use to rip CDs, DVDs, CDROMs.3. PS3 (woo) is largely a streaming/DVD/Bluray player to me, but could play CDs thru the same stereo.4. Car had a CD player but it crapped out, so now I just use radio or a lightning→tape adapter to play from my phone. Because I fully commit to the bit, I only play "mixtape" playlists of pre-2000 music.#cd #music
(DIR) Post #AWoMzPuCkku281A5dw by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-18T02:46:15Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
And since I'm flooding everyone with Scheme propaganda today, the anime OP:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhSwBgF-g4I#scheme #lisp #evangelion
(DIR) Post #AX5fBBBQtU37eDuz7A by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-26T15:13:29Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Any time I consider Common Lisp as a practical language, I read a little of #lisp in IRC, and there's a number of flaming psychopaths in there who dissuade me, just like they did back in the '90s.Language quality doesn't seem to be correlated with user quality at all. I could make examples, but obvs that's not nice either.
(DIR) Post #AX5fPHO4cnTawWYQ9w by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-26T17:39:34Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@galdor Yeah, happily I mostly use #Scheme which has a medium tolerable community; there's very nice people and some assholes and some people I just mute to avoid dealing with, but nobody's peak asshole in it.But it's useful to have new idea sources, people to bounce things off of when building anything new. So going completely community-less isn't great.
(DIR) Post #AXBSXjsaRUi5AeI0w4 by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-29T12:36:35Z
1 likes, 1 repeats
@izaya Speculative shenanigans
(DIR) Post #AXCk5gv7qLSaDaDER6 by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-30T03:34:28Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@izaya I think not, it was mostly US/CA products. Bits & Bytes and some others on OldTimeyComputerShow do:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZWzbNGDMtBtzNERJnblkFIK7mkoBmMONAG7svG1lyDU/edit#gid=0
(DIR) Post #AXCmLiK6awXX6vfG64 by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-06-30T03:39:59Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@izaya The list does show a RISC ep:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Computer_Chronicles_episodes
(DIR) Post #AXEpkdaq0ThdrIzFey by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-07-01T01:40:44Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@Ricardus Role model for slobs with some brains. Quincy fan for life.
(DIR) Post #AXF47c8UzNGnMHa8MS by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-07-01T02:52:58Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Repeatedly called out by comics today.https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/retiring/
(DIR) Post #AXMCKfPeHFGt1c3etc by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-07-04T17:03:25Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@deadsuperhero It's almost malevolently minimal to the features Eugen wants his subjects to have, and all of his aesthetic sense on display in it.Just recommend anything else, it'll be better.
(DIR) Post #AXOObmlplHY8XAHftI by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-07-05T18:30:49Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@lowqualityfacts I do comp sci and the kind of (amateur, game dev) physics that would use calculus (which I struggled with, but passed). I never do, it's always easier to rig up a monte carlo solution or some other hack. Fuck Newton & Leibniz both.
(DIR) Post #AXP1MlyaKT1rwH53ZI by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-07-06T01:40:23Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@textfiles @lmorchard Also TSR used Futura bold & book style up thru 1980-ish, so a lot of us OSR gamers use it to set "old stuff" tone.
(DIR) Post #AXksgI7b4BDscwjEki by mdhughes@appdot.net
2023-07-16T14:51:27Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@MikeTRose I still believe "Wimble Don" and "Tennis" were invented by Monty Python, and they've since made it real with only Human (and sometimes Scottish) players.