Notices by josef (jk@mastodon.social)

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the problem is i think. if a linux distro was actually good enough, it would annihilate all the other distros. and that would go against the whole point of there being distros. so theyre not allowed to make a distro thats good. they're not allowed to be like "look we're actually gonna do it this time, we're gonna make the one true linux", they'd get tomatoes thrown at them. they can only make a distro thats "okay, but then in 5 years it Goes Wrong and everybody hops to the next popular distro"

naan cat

in the future we'll eat a kind of starchy, molecule-scale graphene-based spaghetti called 'nanopasta'. it will have a flavor best described as 'curly dust' and a texture that varies from 'slimy yet dry' all the way to 'what if regolith was cotton-candy'

what the actual fuck they made my idea a reality in less than a week

anyone got any statistics on data integrity (not reliability) over time for SSDs? ive had two fail catastrophically within the first 5 years and all the others ive ever seen have been working perfectly since the day they were born. Allegedly. but are they. i assume theyre internally overprovisioned and wear-leveled and parity’d up to the eyeballs but somethings got to give eventually right

when i was a baby my parents used to put a rembrandt hat on me and point at me and say “rembrandt”

scientists have discovered mice

the first time i played pokemon. i was like. this game is really cool im excited to get to the next level. when am i going to get to the next level? and then it was like CHARMANDER grew to level 6! and i was liike. ok. but what about ME though. im the one playing the game. when am i going to get to the next level. when am I gonna get to level 6

i think a lot of stuff starts to make sense when you realise the entirety of web dev is kind of a goofy hack that should have been reverted

"i've made it so my site has a counter at the bottom. it increments when someone requests the page" "neat hack! but it does introduce a dependency, you've added some kinda state to your website" "yeah it kind of ruins the idea of a website really, it was mostly just put there as a joke, but i agree it's wrong, so i'm going to remove it" "yeah best to remove it and never try anything like that again" "yeah. im gonna get back to work on laying out the tables for my downloads page now"

you ever feel like. hypertext is supposed to be a thing written by people. or authored using a rich-text editor or something. but like, making a program that emits html on-demand. it's just not really it, is it? like you call up the server and ask it for a file and it's like "yeah sure i do happen to have a file with that name" and then it just makes up any old bullshit and sends it to you. it seems like that goes against the design, like it's a hack. we all just accept it. but it's wrong. imo

like i feel like it should be allowed, but as a weird hacky thing that people do as a novelty thing. like "check it out, each time you refresh this page the servers sends something different" "hah thats cool. anyway. time to get back to some actual hypertexting where we make sites with content and stuff"

what’s the simple modern day program for windows that lets you WYSIWYG edit an HTML file frontpage/dreamweaver style and e.g drag and drop images that are already in a lower directory. i swear i saw one a while back that was like an actual real program like what programs used to be like and wasn’t some web app embeddable bullshit

ive noticed when communicating with people solely using sequences of 2-5 emoji, we usually tend to write in "subject object verb" order. but if there are two subjects, it's "subject verb subject" usually. like 🐱💻🔥 makes more sense than 🐱🔥💻 because the fire is the punchline. if cats were running from a fire, you'd write 🔥🐱🐱 , if the cats were fighting and started a fire you would write 🐱🔥🐱 whereas if the cats were conspiring together in order to start a fire you would write 🐱🐱🔥

as a kid i always used to spell 'warm' wrong. like i always used to think there should be an l in the word. if 'calm' gets an 'l', then surely 'warm' does. maybe in the mirror universe the l and r are the other way round

im a big fan of having as many different flight control surfaces, canards, variable geometry wings etc as possible. it really broadens the range of expression the aircraft is capable of, and increases its capacity to react and emote with dramatic or subtle gestures and body language

saw someone describe LLMs as "an encyclopedia on steroids" and i think that's basically incorrect in every way, isn't it? i would have gone for something more like "a thesaurus on acid"

if i go into town to buy a radio. can i? just a radio. just something anyone has been able to go and buy for the last 70 years. can you still just buy "a radio"? a lot of the general home department store type thing has been shutting down lately. the tech type places just sell computer stuff and phone chargers. big supermarkets with a large electronics section probably have a cheapest-of-the-cheap shower radio in the shape of a seahorse hopefully. a seahorse for your earthquake/hurricane go-bag

all the other classic software mascots are on the level of "a planet with a face" or "this is the window manager gremlin Hehe" or "our distro is represented by The Boot from Monopoly" or something. at some point they started either getting motivational, like "we all stan Software Project-chan and want her to succeed!!" or just becoming abstract logos, rather than characters which is a shame. like, when i boot up the gamecube emulator i want to have a chat with a fully-animated dolphin, please