Notices by LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz), page 4
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 18:40:29 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki @david It does.
"Free" as "free of cost" (i.e. gratis) is very common parlance.
Russian doesn't have this issue. Ukrainian doesn't have this issue. Neither does Polish. Nor French.
It's just English doing it wrong. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 18:34:53 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki @david This is just English being an awful language.
Few other languages have any ambiguity between gratis and free/libre. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 22:01:26 JST LisPi
wtf, why would you sell an SSD and not include *anywhere* even in its manual or spec sheet that it actually implements deterministic zeroed TRIM properly? It shouldn't be something I only learn by checking the smartctl output of it.
That would actually go a *long* way to justifying its price, since that makes it properly compatible with most SAS HBAs. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 10:03:47 JST LisPi
@anemone Might be more competent, since they wouldn't purposely hamper eachother through corruption. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 22:24:04 JST LisPi
@dalias @broadwaybabyto @froge @ErickaSimone @aral I don't think they've considered what happens when the population goes hungry. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 21:20:26 JST LisPi
@dalias @broadwaybabyto @ErickaSimone @aral @froge How do they expect to make a sale instead of having it shoplifted? -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 13:26:14 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki @lxo @quasi @tennoseremel @LorenzoAncora > That should be native software like GNU Jami.
Yes.
> I am posting to the fediverse without JavaScript with BloatFE.
Emacs for me.
> Most of such sites are static sites, except instead of implementing them in FastCGI, they are implemented worse in JavaScript.
I miss when they weren't Javascript, they were legitimately superior and performed better.
> Static HTML pages with maybe some images and videos are best for learning, as that way there are no distractions.
There are actually some legitimate use-cases for interactive environments.
Consider Lisp CLIM, Smalltalk & their potential for various things. Computational notebooks are useful educational tools.
Active engagement's positive effects on memorization and learning are well researched by now.
They could also not pretend to be using HTML and could be fully Free/Libre Software (environments) distributed as such, rather than abusing HTML & web-based technology.
> None of them need JavaScript and should NOT have JavaScript.
Correct. They should be using Lisp.
But most of them also don't need a dynamic interactive code environment at all.
> Working without JavaScript is the minimum acceptable quality standards for any website.
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 13:00:54 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki > I'm not sure about Li-Fi, as I reckon many manufacturers couldn't help but to crank up the TX power and blind people.
It'd clearly need to be adjustable, because risking the triggering of seizures or blinding (whether temporary or not) would be unacceptable.
I think infrared signaling would be a potentially interesting option there. It doesn't need to be particularly powerful for electronics to receive it and very few user-oriented items emit it in a way that couldn't be fairly easily filtered out/tolerated as noise.
> It could be a device-to-device meshnet, with many base stations, provided all the devices are in visual range (with maybe a backup wireless link), but sensitive enough detectors that can pick up for example a stream of single photos are patented up the wazoo and such sort of bandwidth and connection sharing arrangements are prevented as much as possible.
Basically all of those patents should be invalidated for prior work (of which there is quite a bit online), but mostly I think they should all be invalidated because the entire patent office should be invalidated as harmful to scientific and societal progress. (A lot of energy/resource efficiency improvements that we *need* with the climate crisis are locked away by patent rentseeking.) -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 12:38:18 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki @strypey Another thing that would help is resorting to LiFi.
Short-range high-speed wireless communications backed by fiber and with little to no interference issues unlike LTE, 5G and WiFi.
Obviously this requires a hub architecture and doesn't provide direct-to-device connectivity.
> but due to patents, any working technology will be unusable until at least 20 years after practical devices are made available.
We should get rid of those, they're generally harmful. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 06:52:10 JST LisPi
@yassie_j Awww, so we won't get to see Canada & Mexico get rid of "IP" law? -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 23:28:50 JST LisPi
> 1) commercial photoresist is expensive – modern photoresist can be upwards of $8,000 per gallon. And you thought gasoline prices were bad?
- Zeloof
Holy crap that's still cheaper than printer ink lol @pluralistic -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:06:14 JST LisPi
@dalias @kcarruthers It's also an artifact of the times.
Paper diaries were the technology people used for personal notes and had available to them. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:06:13 JST LisPi
@kcarruthers @dalias The important part in this case though would be to ensure some escrow or secondary copy, because the diaries or logs just dying on some encrypted storage wouldn't amount to much. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 12:48:57 JST LisPi
@dalias @cOborski If they're all next to eachother, why is it more safe single rooms than multiple?
Though there *is* a kind of safety I'd like to see studies about, and it is disease spread in single occupancy rooms vs multi-user rooms. I suspect single-occupancy would be correlated with lesser spread of quite a few (the times I've seen people just coughing all over without a respirator...) -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 11:39:41 JST LisPi
@alwayscurious @swordgeek @theearthisapringle @dalias @hayley > every property access is semantically a dictionary lookup
Oh, it did the Python silliness. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 21:50:55 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki @Yingwu @davidrevoy Well, that or a browser could decide to either grab all modal-gated remote resources or alternatively none of them per the user's command. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 21:36:12 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki @Yingwu @davidrevoy Not selecting it also gives a bit of fingerprinting, ultimately.
Preferably the way to fix this would be for the user agent to not provide the remote endpoint with a way to extract this data at all. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 20:46:51 JST LisPi
@Suiseiseki @SuperDicq The only real alternative to PulseAudio/Pipewire is JACK, because one can then at least plug the individual programs into a mixer or other virtual sound equipment/software to do the required modifications one wants. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 11:04:30 JST LisPi
@anemone At least without some serious desert reclamation efforts to maintain it sustainably. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:24:22 JST LisPi
@dalias Going to do a build writeup and/or references recommendation?