Notices by Brian Swetland (swetland@chaos.social)

@AzulCrescent The worst ones are where even the bowl is an add-on and the default experience just gives you a handful of flour.

Hey, #ActivityPub folks.

I'm curious -- has there been thought given to making some kind of simple HeyFollowMe button on web pages that could work as smoothly as RSS buttons did for RSS using folks back in the day?

Ideally not requiring one to copy and paste a URL into a #Mastodon search box or type your home server address into a Follow dialog box on another site's page.

I'm assuming there's some reason such a thing isn't already out there.

#Question

@mikolaj @msw Maybe they're thinking about whatever happens with the inevitable fork(s) of the pre-"source-available"-licensed version of Redis...

@thomasfuchs @anildash I'd potentially be interested in AR if it could be delivered in a form factor not much different from the actual glasses I already wear (as opposed to something on the ski-mask to motorcycle-helmet spectrum) with sufficient resolution, battery life, integration, etc.

Of course the killer use-case of "remind me who these people are I'm talking to" immediately falls into a huge pit of privacy and invasiveness concerns for everyone on the other side of the glasses.

A thought: Which is the last generation that remembers computers that just hard crashed all the time?

Where you learned to Save Often and Make Backups because even if the App worked great, the whole machine might just blow up at any moment.

I feel like, for me, this pretty much stopped being a thing by the early 2000s. But I also started using Linux as a primary OS in the mid-90s, so mostly saw Win95/ME/etc from afar.

I do remember when X11 would sometimes just explode, killing all my apps.

@mos_8502 I'm doing this for my little systems language compiler project as a bootstrapping mechanism -- a minimal transpiler that generates C from a subset of the target language so I can then write the full compiler in itself.

Previously I was writing a full compiler in C with the thought to do a mechanical translation step after, but as I started digging deeper into optimization, etc, I was unhappy with the complexity of both the code and the translation process. Thus this new approach.