Notices by Hisham (hisham_hm@mastodon.social)

htop's visuals was also very centered around its color scheme. I picked cold colors deliberately, focusing of cyan (because I like it) and green (for that Matrix-y look; it was 2005 after all, and I wanted to use a UI like the ones we saw in movies; top circa 2005 looked like an 80s bank terminal). Hot colors only appeared in the htop UI very sparingly, as red accents ("red alert!").

Seeing other top-like tools use the same colors made me feel like "I made it" as a dilletante graphic designer.

I just saw screenshots of the Amiga classic "Another World" zip through my timeline (https://mastodon.social/@scummvm@manitu.social/114670326936528377)

and it really drove home to me how distinctive the _color palette_ is in that game. That game is praised for its art style and I think people most often mean the shapes, but the colors play a part that is just as important into building its aesthetic.

My artform of choice has always been music, but amusingly enough a friend once called me a "visual" person and I think that comment wasn't too off the mark.

Ultimately, I exercised my visual muscles through software. I always paid attention to colors, and thinking about this made me think of how I centered the GoboLinux visual identity around its palette back in the day (2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060218213031/http://www.gobolinux.org/ ). It was weird seeing that color scheme become a tech cliché for startups 10-15 years later.

@feld @ThatOneGuyT_T Territorial waters of Israel or of occupied Palestine, according to international law?

Another reason why I hate when people think of web PAGES as "apps".

I'm organizing different topics in different tab groups, but for some reason, I can't maintain two different Element chat rooms open as part of different tab groups:

> Element is open in another window. Click "Continue" to use Element here and disconnect the other window.

If you're serving me HTML over an HTTP connection, you're not an application, you are a web page. Please behave like so.

I have become a user of tab groups since the last week or so.

I think that's the first major browser feature I adopt in my workflow in years.

@evan is Duolingo a game? 🙈

@michal who would have thought that all those kids whose parents were powerful businessmen, who grew up reading sci-fi novels about powerful businessmen controlling the world with an iron grip, would end up identifying with the powerful businessmen of the stories

"The doomsday device is cool if *I* own it!"

@Gargron I found it funny how he couldn't help but sound a bit sarcastic when describing the bit about "rock law" but then his demeanor completely changed when he talked about "jazz law". It's literally the difference about understanding something and feeling something.

@deech Alternatively: petition to get Pedro Pascal to legally change his first name to Turbo.

@mcc the conclusion I arrived to in one of my talks on minimalism at FOSDEM is that programming tasks have an inherent complexity to them, and it can either be represented in the program source or not, in which case it is living in your head. In dynamically typed languages, you're still running a type checker in your head. In C, you're doing lifetime tracking in your head. We're always running the most complicated dependently-typed checker in our heads, if the problem itself needs it.

@liaamancio

We should have raised a red flag the moment people started using the word "disruption" as a positive thing. This is just too, to use an overused term, orwellian. "Disruption is Progess" could easily be a slogan in 1984, because the dictionary literally defines disruption as "to interrupt or impede the progress of". As in "there is a disruption in Line B of the metro".

Nobody wants disruption in their lives.

When you come from the developing world and visit places like the US and Europe, you can't help but be surprised at the number of little things in daily life that work based on the honor system. People basically agree collectively to not exploit and break the system, and basic things like public transit without turnstiles, etc, work.

We're seeing now that this honor system actually extended all the way up. There were never real checks and balances, everything was always ripe for "disruption".

@glyph Clearly the techbros don't see a difference between these two things. And to be honest, I'm not sure there is a difference. If you look at the transportation industries disrupted by Uber (in those cities where the local government wasn't strong enough to fight back), or the hospitality industry disrupted by AirBnB, the victims of disruption had their functioning disrupted in a very traditional sense.

@glyph Look at what AirBnB has done not only with hotels, but with the rental market of many major cities, pricing locals out. It's very exploitative, and it is done by working around regulatory systems which were put there democratically—literally, as in "put into law by an elected legislative body"—for a reason. All the piracy feeding every AI system. The examples go on and on.

Tech bros always operated by breaking the law. What is happening in Washington is no different.

@glyph This "greater efficiency" of these disruptive businesses is mainly at the expense of workers. Look at cities where Uber either left the market entirely or plays by very different rules as to become effectively just a taxi frontend. The difference there is that drivers in those cities actually have a welfare support system. That's it, that's the big difference.

@lanodan meh, modern Irish barely has it, and only followed by the number two, which takes away much of its fun/usefulness! Also the article says that dual is considered archaic in Lithuanian, they don't even put it in the summary list below.

You folks have no idea how natural, fun and useful it is to have singular, plural and DUAL in a language until you actually try it.

According to Wikipedia, it looks like the only Indo-European language that's an official national language to have it is Slovene. Everyone else is missing out!

@hub Nothing has more of an "it wasn't meant to be an instruction manual" to me than all those dystopian sci-fi books and their libertarian undercurrents. When you see techbros literally quoting from them as inspiration for all this stuff they're building, you can really see how influential they were into priming them for a proto-fascist mindset that leads them to putting in power the people who are turning the Handmaid's Tale into reality.