[HN Gopher] The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Window...
___________________________________________________________________
The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP
screensaver
Author : consumer451
Score : 501 points
Date : 2024-11-16 22:07 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (firehose3d.theo.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (firehose3d.theo.io)
| consumer451 wrote:
| https://github.com/theosanderson/firehose
|
| I just love that the open nature of Bsky is allowing people to
| hack things like this.
|
| Now that their growth is crazy, let's hope that the work they did
| on the protocol and corp structure keeps it this way.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| Yeah I was looking into the firehose as a potential way to
| source to discover new domains for my search engine. Even
| though it didn't pan out, I really appreciate how accessible
| the data is.
| morkalork wrote:
| Why didn't it work out?
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| I decided agains it because it had an incredibly bad signal
| to noise ratio. Almost all links I saw were either to big
| websites like newspapers, patreon, onlyfans; or behind url
| shorteners.
|
| Dunno, I may explore it further down the line, but for now
| the juice didn't seem worth the squeeze.
| dools wrote:
| I created a website like 10 years ago called birdmine
| that indexed every link you or one of your followers
| shared on Twitter, in a Solr search engine so you could
| search stuff that had been curated to an extent. It was
| pretty cool, I think I'm the only person that ever used
| it though.
| djbusby wrote:
| BSky could use a better search, or a better curation of
| feeds. I'm certain there is more room in the discovery
| play.
| mariusor wrote:
| I might have asked this before, but did you look at adding
| this type of ingestion for ActivityPub?
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| Briefly, but I've come to learn there's a contingent of
| aggressively search-engine hostile people that has made a
| home on the fediverse. The federated nature of it makes it
| somewhat tricky to untangle the search engine friendly
| people from the hostile.
|
| I don't need the inevitable DDOS:es and death threats you
| get when upsetting a clique of mentally ill people online.
| mariusor wrote:
| You're right, I forgot about the backlash that this type
| of efforts got from people that don't understand the
| technology and just make assumptions about element
| visibility in the network, though maybe calling them
| mentally ill is a bit much.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| The sorts threatening physical violence almost certainly
| are. But it's a minority to be sure.
| blitzar wrote:
| A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... there was a
| twitter firehose and people loved how the open nature of
| twitter is allowing people to hack things ...
| jauntywundrkind wrote:
| Also just saw this project, which is a little night sky scene
| where stars are posts. No real interactivity but fun to see the
| playing around! https://nightsky.hctr.dev/
| https://bsky.app/profile/hctr.dev/post/3lb3ywnxac22n
| billylo wrote:
| Love it! I seriously want to use it as a background for my
| server.
|
| (any chance to publish a version with a configurable speed?)
| theoretically23 wrote:
| (Creator here), sure I just added something so you can play
| with the URL: https://firehose3d.theo.io/?speed=0.9 (but if you
| slow the movement down too much there will just be way too much
| content because it's real time)
|
| For people on slow machines you can also reduce the number of
| messages with e.g. https://firehose3d.theo.io/?discardFrac=0.7
| billylo wrote:
| Perfect. Thanks!
| mbil wrote:
| This crashes my Safari browser on iOS.
| theoretically23 wrote:
| Yes, best in Chrome I'm afraid
| tsumnia wrote:
| Firefox ran it, but very broken.
| wkat4242 wrote:
| Weird, for me it worked great on mobile Firefox
| yazzku wrote:
| "Works" on Firefox if you can stomach 300-400ms pauses every 2
| seconds.
|
| Edit: I just profiled it and it spends 42% of exclusive time in
| texImage2D. It would be better to allocate a set of textures up
| front and then use glTexSubImage2D to update their contents.
| glTexImage2D allocates a new texture every time.
| theoretically23 wrote:
| Thanks - should be better now hopefully on Firefox
| DaiPlusPlus wrote:
| Still very stuttery before crashing in Safari on iOS on my
| iPad :/
| brookst wrote:
| Smooth and stable on iOS DB3 on iPad...
| yazzku wrote:
| This did get rid of that bottleneck and the stutters are
| slightly better, but it still has some more work to go.
|
| https://ibb.co/LgtJHMs
|
| You'll want to get rid of glTexImage2D completely except
| for application startup (allocate a pool of N images up
| front, then re-use them and update with glTexSubImage2D).
| And short of being able to optimize the text render, which
| seems to be awfully stupid, you'll want to render offscreen
| to those textures ahead of time before you need to render
| them on-screen.
| yazzku wrote:
| To be fair, you're crazy CPU-bound. This workload is
| peanuts for a modern GPU and there's no excuse for it not
| running at 500+ fps. But that's just how JS goes. You'd
| probably have better luck with C/wasm for this kind of
| thing if the web is your target.
| consumer451 wrote:
| For reference, while it does work much better on my old laptop
| now, on iOS 18.0.1 iPhone 11 Pro Max, it also crashes until I
| add https://firehose3d.theo.io/?discardFrac=0.6
| Angostura wrote:
| It's seems to work fir me ok on 18.1
| matsemann wrote:
| According to the title, perhaps try IE6 on XP ;)
| esperent wrote:
| This pretty quickly crashed my tab, using Chrome on Android.
| dicknuckle wrote:
| Works fine on Kiwi Browser on Android, although I'm using a
| fairly powerful ASUS phone.
| esperent wrote:
| I also tried it on Kiwi, using an s21 FE which is a few years
| old but not exactly a slouch and it crashed after about 10
| seconds, same as Chrome.
| zamadatix wrote:
| I absolutely love these firehose projects. So much fun. Makes me
| hope Bluesky gets 10x bigger soon :D.
|
| If you add the following line just prior to the return in
| createTextTexture() the blurriness goes away:
| texture.anisotropy = renderer.capabilities.getMaxAnisotropy();
|
| The perf could probably be largely solved with reusing texture
| objects as a pool instead of creating then destroying them as
| needed. I'm too lazy for that though :p.
| theoretically23 wrote:
| Thanks - implemented some texture pooling (via LLM). I think
| the blurriness may [accidentally] help with the retro
| aesthetic, but I'll try to get that the anisotropy in as an
| optional parameter.
| Etheryte wrote:
| Yeah, managing your own memory is a good performance
| optimization a surprising amount of time when working with
| large data sets in Javascript. I've seen it used in 3D code,
| graph problems, etc, and so long as you keep it isolated, it's
| not too much of a hassle.
| catapart wrote:
| This is fucking bonkers, bro.
|
| Love it!
| 999900000999 wrote:
| Cool, but this nearly hard crashed my phone. I'm on a OP12 which
| is one of the fastest phones you can buy.
| consumer451 wrote:
| The creator is here reading the feedback, and committing code
| as we speak. I wonder how much HN feedback will help. In any
| case, this is all a fun experiment!
|
| update: between when I posted OP and now, the site went from
| utter jank in FF to 90% smooth on my 7 year old ThinkPad Carbon
| X1 (5th gen, Intel HD 620)
|
| Nice! This is one of the coolest comment->commit experiences
| that I've ever had!
| petee wrote:
| For a comparison, I'm on a Pixel 8a mid-level device, and with
| Opera I get fairly smooth frame rates with some stuttering here
| and there. Maybe something else is running in the background?
| throwaway519 wrote:
| $100 Helio G85 with 6G RAM runs fine. Fennex browser.
|
| Check your OS or browser for problems.
| nektro wrote:
| crashed my firefox
| xunil2ycom wrote:
| I have no clue what "Bluesky firehose" even means.
| squigz wrote:
| Google to the rescue: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-
| guides/firehose
| infotainment wrote:
| Bluesky == A particular Twitter alternative
|
| Firehose == The raw live feed of all new posts from all users
| consumer451 wrote:
| Bluesky is a microblogging social network, like Twitter, or
| Threads.
|
| However, Bluesky is the only one with open access to the
| firehose, aka all the activity. Here is a different, less
| aesthetically pleasing tool to see it:
|
| https://firesky.tv
| jeromegv wrote:
| Mastodon is pretty open as well. Just won't be the entire
| firehouse due to the decentralized nature of it.
| consumer451 wrote:
| I should have included Mastodon in my list, my apologies.
| Theoretically, it's the most copesthetic project.
| CaptainFever wrote:
| There seems to be some projects that scrape(?) the most
| popular servers to turn it into a firehose, like this one:
| https://relay.fedi.buzz/
| pfraze wrote:
| The atproto relays are crawling aggregations of independent
| servers. There's no reason AP couldn't accomplish the same
| if they worked on it
| firecall wrote:
| Warning: May Cause Seizures
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Seeing some depth-sorting issues with the text on Safari (macOS).
| Some distant head-on text (not on the sides of the "tunnel") is
| being drawn over nearer head-on text. Also, sometimes top of text
| is being clipped a bit.
|
| Very cool though.
| theoretically23 wrote:
| (Here's a version without that problem:
| https://firehose3d.theo.io/babylonjs.html)
| tholman wrote:
| Crashes like a Windows ME screensaver. Jokes aside, it's very fun
| to see open firehose access like this. I seem to recall that
| Dorsey had said that twitter limiting their api access was a
| mistake, hope we can keep this going.
| consumer451 wrote:
| For people experiencing crashes, Theo mentioned that this will
| likely work: https://firehose3d.theo.io/?discardFrac=0.6
| djbusby wrote:
| I was hoping it was some RegEdit hack to fix driver settings.
| valeg wrote:
| Whoa!
| jaimex2 wrote:
| Not sure about your feeds but I got a lot of moping over
| Twitter/X.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Whoa, Johnny Mnemonic (1995) calling.
|
| Also, these experiments are good fun, anytime there's a plethora
| of data available to play with it's a good time.... but anyone
| else get the weird sense of having been here before? Early
| Twitter days lots of this kind of thing was going on too with all
| the tweet data. Until they weren't. When everyone at Twitter woke
| up and realized it wasn't sustainable financially and technically
| to keep open firehoses out there. And then the API limits started
| creeping in and never really stopped. Just saying, we've been
| here and it's hard to see it playing out a different way even
| with ATProto's sorta decentralized whatever future.
| TheJoeMan wrote:
| There could be some pessimism or learned hesitancy, but on the
| other hand perhaps we can just enjoy it while it is here? I
| thought the same thing about people building businesses on top
| of ChatGPT, yet they managed to have exits before any rug-
| pulls.
| smusamashah wrote:
| Which windows screen saver was this exactly? Is it maze?
| djbusby wrote:
| I think they just mean feelings of early OpenGL (was that what
| it was?)
| poglet wrote:
| It appears to have elements of '3D Maze' and 'Flying Windows'
| (Windows 3.1).
| leonewton253 wrote:
| Really cool! Works smoother in Firefox than Safari
| qingcharles wrote:
| This is trippy as hell on my 40" ultrawide. Love it.
| metadat wrote:
| This is incredible. It's all I ever wanted.
| pinerd3 wrote:
| This is SO cool I love it. Feels like I'm reading snippets from a
| million people's diaries one after another. Humbling!
| oksurewhynot wrote:
| I would like to know how far through the firehose I have traveled
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Use the force to sense how many pixels you've traveled.
|
| Then, when you get to the exhaust port, fire the proton
| torpedoes.
| ulrischa wrote:
| I like the possibilities given by the openness of bluesky
| nyanpasu64 wrote:
| I noticed that for messages facing the camera, ones further away
| from the screen occlude ones closer to the screen. I assume
| there's an alpha layering/rendering order error going on
| (assuming no order-independent transparency)?
| theoretically23 wrote:
| Here's a version with that fixed
| https://firehose3d.theo.io/babylonjs.html (will probably
| replace the current one soon)
| issung wrote:
| Reminds me of this old website I used to stare at for long
| periods, found it very relaxing: "Listen to Wikipedia"
| http://listen.hatnote.com/
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Wikipedia Recent Changes Map_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32649091 - Aug 2022 (36
| comments)
|
| _Listen to Wikipedia_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25560953 - Dec 2020 (34
| comments)
|
| _Show HN: A Billboard-like chart for Wikipedia articles_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10730695 - Dec 2015 (7
| comments)
|
| _Listen to Wikipedia_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9972781 - July 2015 (63
| comments)
|
| _Listen to a melody made by Wikipedia article changes_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588576 - Nov 2014 (10
| comments)
|
| _Listen to Wikipedia_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182576 - Aug 2013 (1
| comment)
|
| _Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5693189 - May 2013 (13
| comments)
|
| _Wikipedia Recent Changes (Live) Map_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687722 - May 2013 (1
| comment)
|
| _Rcmap: real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits around the
| world_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5645256 - May
| 2013 (3 comments)
| issung wrote:
| Wow all the way back in 2013, I have visited it many times
| over the last 11 years :)
| bitwize wrote:
| Needs more Ellie Goulding: https://helloenjoy.com/lights/
| WithinReason wrote:
| You can increase the texture resolution if you "zoom out" of your
| browser (ctrl+scrolldown or ctrl+- in Firefox)
| null0pointer wrote:
| A lot of commenters here are having their minds blown by this.
| And while I also love this I get the sense that many others here
| are maybe too young to remember that this kind of open access to
| data used to exist for lots websites. It inspired companion sites
| and loads of creativity. I find it tragic really, what the
| internet has become. I hope federated, and even more-so p2p,
| protocols take significant foothold on the internet and help
| revive this spirit of the web. The corpo-web is so fucking
| boring.
| paulgb wrote:
| It's worth noting that _twitter itself_ owes a lot of its
| popularity to its openness in the early days. In the early days
| there were third-party clients, RSS feeds, XMPP support, etc.
| You could post from a curl command in a cron job, leading to
| all kinds of interesting automated feeds. Then they walked it
| all back in the early 2010s.
|
| I like that Bluesky's federation model makes it harder for them
| to do an "open platform" bait-and-switch like Twitter did.
| AshamedCaptain wrote:
| > I like that Bluesky's federation model makes it harder for
| them to do an "open platform" bait-and-switch like Twitter
| did.
|
| Why would it? They can still lock everything down and few
| Bluesky users will even notice. This is similar to what
| Twitter did, or what Google Chat did, etc. Compare this to
| other federation platforms where a server that locks itself
| down loses access to a huge chunk of the network, once the
| other servers reciprocate.
| diggan wrote:
| > Why would it?
|
| Since migrating your personal data was a thing they thought
| about since day one, migrating to another network than the
| current one would be way easier than any centralized
| service and also easier than ActivityPub.
|
| Seems there is one piece of the puzzle missing yet
| ("AppViews") in ATProto to be able to run completely
| independent, but seems they're currently working on getting
| that in place now.
| AshamedCaptain wrote:
| You could still migrate all _your_ data to another
| service in Twitter quite easily, and most definitely you
| could in Google Chat. This did not change things.
| diggan wrote:
| > You could still migrate all _your_ data to another
| service in Twitter quite easily
|
| Yeah? I don't remember being able to migrate from/to
| Twitter and taking followers/following etc with you
| without having to ask/request others to do something too.
| AshamedCaptain wrote:
| But I'm guessing that you'll also have to request your
| followers to use a different AppView if Bluesky did a
| Twitter.
| shafyy wrote:
| You can host your personal data, but as long as Bluesky
| Social, PBC is running the main Relay and AppView, and
| there's no easy way for Relays to talk to each other
| (like e.g. it works in Mastodon), they are in reality a
| centralized service.
|
| Oh yes, and they are the only ones owning and developing
| AT Protocol, which makes it much more a currently-open-
| sourced protocol rather than a standard that is jointly
| developed by the industry.
| rakoo wrote:
| The big central place is still the PLC directory that
| effectively means _all_ accounts are centralized at
| BlueSky, even if your posts are not. They haven 't
| planned to make it any decentralized in the future.
| cma wrote:
| They are a public benefit corporation that use that as a
| selling point but then don't disclose their charter. That
| seems really shady to me, but less than what twitter has
| become.
| glenstein wrote:
| >In the early days there were third-party clients, RSS feeds,
| XMPP support, etc.
|
| Right. This is something I keep pointing out in threads about
| RSS. Some people will say RSS never left. Well, it left
| Twitter for one. Google News and Craigslist for others.
|
| I almost wonder, to GP's point, if people have just
| completely forgotten all of this, which is why they think
| nothing was lost.
| echelon wrote:
| The 2000s Internet felt way more innovative than the one we
| have today, despite all of the WASM, WebGPU, JIT
| optimizations, and other technologies that have been
| developed in more recent years.
|
| We had torrents, open data, open protocols, and people were
| sharing data and remixing it freely. Mountains of stuff
| like this Bluesky demo was released every single day. We
| had link aggregators to point to the cool things that were
| happening, and we even had tools that let you pipe data
| sources between various APIs to enrich and recombine things
| easily.
|
| Platforms stopped this. Facebook, Google, and even Apple
| put an end to the wildly evolutionary behavior by
| delivering a canned experience to the masses.
|
| We need a return to P2P where single platform silos and
| their army of product managers don't shape how we interact
| with technology and the bulk flow of information.
| hn72774 wrote:
| I see 2 way to do this. A company (and PM) sees demand
| for the feature and they include it, ot it is forced by
| regulation.
|
| A lot of these companies that originally had open
| standards formed with huge amounts of VC money and they
| prioritized growth over everything else. Then when they
| reached a certain scale, investors valued profitability
| and they slowly squeezed and monetized users until all of
| those open standards features were gone.
| 1024core wrote:
| > The 2000s Internet felt way more innovative than the
| one we have today
|
| Because it seems like this stuff is taught in Management
| 101 in all of the business schools: once you establish
| yourself with all this talk about "openness", etc. then
| the only way to succeed is by creating a walled garden,
| either through abuse of your monopoly position or by
| regulatory capture.
|
| Cases in point: OpenAI _and_ Anthropic both pushing for
| regulation of AI, now that they have a dominant position.
|
| I swear, the moment MBAs get involved, they try the same
| crap everywhere.
| threeseed wrote:
| It's a common trope to blame MBAs for all the ills in the
| world.
|
| But the reality is that having a moat and how to defend
| it is a fundamental strategy that every CEO is expected
| to know. Because it will be one of the first things you
| get asked from YC, investors etc.
|
| And using regulation to lock out competitors definitely
| did not start with OpenAI and Anthropic.
| 1024core wrote:
| > And using regulation to lock out competitors definitely
| did not start with OpenAI and Anthropic.
|
| That's what I'm saying: it started with the MBAs.
| larodi wrote:
| Indeed.
|
| Question is whether this all that was in the 90s can
| again be relevant for the young who grew with TikTok,
| insta and fb.
|
| I don't have the answer, only doubts...
|
| Now with GPTs more than ever people can regain their web
| presence. But do they do it? I guess not as much as one
| would expect.
|
| You may say we need to go p2p again and perhaps Tim Berns
| Lee actually meant p2p with the HTML, but are people
| aware of this daring need?
| threeseed wrote:
| This is just revisionist history.
|
| We still have all the tools you talk about today. But
| with the benefit of much simpler languages and SDKs and
| tools like LLMs to help generate code. I've seen children
| learn programming far faster with Swift Playground on
| their iPad than I had to with C++ books.
|
| And these sort of canned experience are what helped bring
| technology to everyone. Which was always supposed to be
| the main goal.
| FranOntanaya wrote:
| irssi had a plugin to read and post to Twitter from IRC, it
| was neat.
| ideashower wrote:
| I'm struggling to recall some of those early fun accounts. Do
| you remember any interesting automated feeds from Twitter's
| early days?
| paulgb wrote:
| I used to run a cron job that would scrape my university's
| daily bulletin and post every day right after it was
| updated. It may have been the first "presence" the
| university had on twitter. I remember following things like
| weather stations that had automated accounts, as well.
| AI_beffr wrote:
| BS is a cynical data-grab and will lock down and back-stab its
| users as soon as it can do so and be competitive.
| ericjmorey wrote:
| I'm thinking that it's a cynical way to put all the data on
| an open network rather than a gated and paywalled one. As far
| as I can tell, Bluesky is still entirely funded by Twitter
| and that will eventually be cut off. They're betting on the
| Google/Mozilla type relationship to be maintained for now.
| They need to make the indexing service easier to replicate
| before that happens or the network will collapse when funds
| dry up.
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| They have nothing to do with Twitter anymore. Last round
| was funded by Blockchain Capital
|
| https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a
| davidcbc wrote:
| Even if true, which I'm skeptical of, social media sites
| don't have to be permanent. It's no different from any other
| service being enshittified, just use it until it sucks and
| then stop.
| threeseed wrote:
| As opposed to X, which told users it would be using their
| content to train Grok.
|
| No matter which way you spin it, Bluesky is significantly
| better than X.
| AI_beffr wrote:
| except on X you can actually say what you think.
|
| https://x.com/search?q=bluesky%20banned&src=typed_query&f=t
| o...
| bloopernova wrote:
| A long long time ago, LiveJournal used to display all new user-
| uploaded images in a firehose type page.
|
| It was a fascinating glimpse into the shared lives of people
| all over the world. It was definitely from a simpler time;
| there's no way something like that would be available now due
| to the violence/abuse material that gets uploaded.
| weberer wrote:
| I'm not too up to date on Twitter clones. What's the difference
| between this and Mastadon?
| geek_at wrote:
| Mastodon has about 1 million active accounts, bluesky has 12
| and you can also host your own data. Threads (by meta) has
| 100 million but you can't federate it yet so bluesky is the
| way to go currently for selfhosters and privacy advocates.
| gdubs wrote:
| Mastodon is also confusing for a lot of people and when you
| point it out techies will appear to yell at you and tell
| you that "no in fact it isn't."
|
| Whereas Bluesky has a familiar consumer app feeling to it.
|
| Each of these sites also has a distinct vibe. Threads, for
| example, feels a bit like when Time Square turned into a
| kind of Disney property. It's clean and safe! But it also
| lacks a bit of soul.
| threeseed wrote:
| Threads has about ~300m MAUs so far higher than 100m
| accounts.
|
| And you can federate it with ActivityPub just not fully
| supporting it yet.
| yonders wrote:
| It's a nice visualization, but it reminds me of why I avoid
| social media. Endless, worthless garbage spewed out into the
| void.
| globalise83 wrote:
| This is also social media.
| Kye wrote:
| It feels like Clippy is about to pop out and kick my butt. The
| authentic XP experience.
| tkiolp4 wrote:
| Would be interesting to know how the app is deployed. I see there
| are some k8s yaml files: does the deployment happen manually
| (e.g., run kubectl commands inside the cluster)? Is there some
| sort of pipeline perhaps? (I don't see any in the repo)
| nemo44x wrote:
| The firehouse will allow the scolds and hall monitors to more
| easily hunt down the blasphemers and wrong thinkers.
| mouse_ wrote:
| weird take
| asacrowflies wrote:
| That seems to the only purpose twitter ever served even
| before it was "ruined" was social witch hunts and mass mob
| forming.
| pessimizer wrote:
| It also seems like that's a major attraction of Bluesky.
| Mass reporting of people you don't like still works, and
| you can grab the names of people you don't like on twitter
| and impersonate them there. Meanwhile, you can still spend
| most of your time in your twitter burner, telling the
| people you hate to kill themselves.
|
| Another effect of the lack of staff, infrastructure, and
| any policy other than pandering to Musk-haters is that CSAM
| is back in play at Bluesky.
|
| The impression I'm getting is that it's a cesspool, and
| that it's sadly not having the effect of causing a lot of
| people to _leave_ twitter, but serving as a base for many
| to plan _raids_ on twitter. It 's doomed to become an
| almost carbon copy unless they really take
| decentralization, and intelligible user controls over that
| decentralization, as a priority. They've got to commoditize
| _themselves,_ and not just pretend to be a public service.
|
| edit: the future of microblogging isn't a service filled
| with Trump and Nate Silver reply guys. You couldn't find
| more mean spirited, disruptive people on the internet.
| Nihilartikel wrote:
| This is cool! A long time ago I wanted to make something a little
| like this for my 20% project at Google/YouTube - a page that
| rained thumbnails of uploaded videos as soon as they became
| available.
|
| Unfortunately, the idea was nixed since it had a pretty high
| chance of exposing ugly stuff that would otherwise have been lost
| in obscurity and never seen.
| do_not_redeem wrote:
| Do you think your idea has any more risk than sites like these:
|
| - http://astronaut.io/
|
| - https://obscuretube.com/
| ipython wrote:
| Absolutely 100% yes. Difference is these projects themselves
| are obscure. Opposed to an official Google branded service
| that will see significant publicity.
| rightbyte wrote:
| Really neat. Feels kinda surrealistic. A bit heavy on my broswer
| though.
|
| Is there a way to run stuff like this as an actual screensaver
| (on Debian)?
| marifjeren wrote:
| I was like.. "Why do so many of the non-wall posts seem to have
| fire emojis in them?"
|
| Turns out:
|
| if (text.includes('fire-emoji') || wall > 3) { wall = -1; }
|
| It's funny how palpable this snippet is while looking at the
| firehose.
|
| https://github.com/theosanderson/firehose/blob/77225acb28985...
| sandworm101 wrote:
| Once upon a time, browsers had a stop button to pause animations.
| Now im hunting menus for that button so i can pause the firehose.
| jcpham2 wrote:
| Totally crashes chrome on iOS - repeatedly in strange ways
| brookst wrote:
| This is really cool, and within the first 5 seconds gave me a
| phrase that will be stuck in my head for a long time: _arrogance
| is not a substitute for intelligence, Sebastian_. IDK who
| Sebastian is, but I will be sure to let him know if ever I meet
| him.
| 0xEF wrote:
| This is like a visualization of my anxiety. Too much coming in at
| once to possibly process, so higher order cognitive function just
| goes _welp_
| rishabhd wrote:
| The internet, was supposed to be like this. I used to perceive it
| like this in its early days. And then it got enshittified.
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2024-11-17 23:01 UTC)