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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 14:25:55 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    Addendum to something I tooted recently...

    What do I call speech-synthesized ebooks? ebooks!

    Any ebook can be speech-synthesized, so we shouldn't use a special term for them!

    We should reserve the term "audiobook" for when a human is giving a proper performance!

    (Incidentally there's a fuzzy line between audiobooks & my favorite medium of audioshows...)

    In conversation about 3 days ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 14:25:14 JST alcinnz alcinnz
    • Technology Connections
    • Gerry McGovern

    I'm wondering whether @gerrymcgovern is getting a bit too cynical. He's been ranting against renewables on his blog.

    And while I agree that they're not the entire solution (we need to be more radicle!), I am convinced that they're part of it. I'm not seeing it acknowledged that with renewables (apart from nuclear), the mining is no longer a consumable.
    It gets to me when he off-handedly vilifies heatpumps at the same time!

    @TechConnectify has pushed back on this narrative, & I agree with him.

    In conversation about 4 days ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 03:54:22 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    A modern theme for cgit - Inane Observation:
    https://yingtongli.me/blog/2025/05/16/cgit.html

    Personally I prefer the old theme (my webdesign taste is to rely primarily on typography!), but I appreciate not everyone agrees. That's beautiful!

    In conversation about 7 days ago from floss.social permalink

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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 09:49:26 JST alcinnz alcinnz
    • fluffy 💜

    @fluffy If it helps: The default Anubis configs only challenges user agents that claim to be "like Mozilla".

    Feedreaders will be fine!

    In conversation about 7 days ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 06:41:34 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    O.K. I feel ready to delete my filter on "AI" chatter, please don't abuse it!

    My position:
    1. I despise the notions that "we'll be left behind" if we don't engage with AI, or that its wrong to get in the way of its technological progress. I believe these notions are actively harmful!

    2. My understanding is that it barely even qualifies as new tech, from a compsci perspective.

    3. I suspect I can blame my recent sys-admin difficulties on AI companies' crawlers... Others can!

    In conversation about 9 days ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 05:49:54 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    Inspired by Erlang I've pondered the notion of building an OS which could be updated in place, without requiring anything to be restarted! That is once an update is downloaded, you're already using it!

    If we're imagining rewriting all the software anyways...

    The main requirements would be to split the OS into short-running programs that can be individually updated, & a culture of resilience in the face of unexpected errors from upgrades.

    Networking code already needs that resilience...

    In conversation about 11 days ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 07:24:21 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    I must remark: GRUB's a veritable computing museum!

    A showcase of low-level code for a wide swath of machines from the 1990s (or earlier?) to the present!

    Its a lot of code, but I'm enjoying reading through it all!

    In conversation about a month ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 04:13:26 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    Why care about the no-JS experience? - Go Make Things:
    https://gomakethings.com/why-care-about-the-no-js-experience/

    In conversation about a month ago from floss.social permalink

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      Why care about the no-JS experience?
      Earlier this week, I wrote about how I’m building a UI library for people who love HTML. I also published a YouTube video about it. I got a lot of excited responses and comments about it, but also a noteworthy handful asking something along the lines of this… People should not be prioritizing no-JS users. No one turns off JavaScript. Today, I wanted to talk about why that’s wrong, and why you should care about the no-JS experience.
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 09:51:05 JST alcinnz alcinnz
    in reply to
    • silverwizard

    @silverwizard They do have a good adversarial relationship, & they know it!

    In conversation about a month ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 09:32:40 JST alcinnz alcinnz
    in reply to
    • silverwizard

    @silverwizard Yes, it was!

    In conversation about a month ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 06:40:21 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    Black Jack Justice s4 was a fun one!

    In e1 "A Midsummer's Night Noir" a woman heard her name used as a codename in a B-movie which had a mcguffin resembling something at her work. So she stole it & took it to a hotel like happened in the movie. A bunch of other ladies recognized what happened when they read of the robbery & tried being amateur detectives, just to get handcuffed & tied to furniture in that hotel room. Jack Justice had to rescue his actual lady detective, to her chagrin.

    1/2!

    In conversation about a month ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 03:33:13 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    CSS Naked Day 2025 - Eric Meyer:
    https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/04/09/css-naked-day-2025/

    In conversation about a month ago from floss.social permalink

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      CSS Naked Day 2025
      meyerweb.com goes au naturel, mostly, in observance of the annual CSS Naked Day.
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 13:15:49 JST alcinnz alcinnz
    in reply to
    • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

    @lanodan Wow, I'm surprised how straightforward that code is!

    In conversation about a month ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 12:43:26 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    My upcoming threads:

    On my Ink&Switch schedule (relating their writeups chronologically to my hardware-communicator hypothetical)... Tomorrow: schema versioning "Cambrian", next: exchanging crypto keys "BackChannel", then: richtext "PeriText", later: drawing dynamic models "CrossCut".

    On my Linux From Scratch schedule.... Next couple days: Finish Groff (getting close), to be followed up with GRUB.

    Between which I'll finish studying LibShumate, followed up with emulators for game consoles!

    In conversation about a month ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 12:43:24 JST alcinnz alcinnz
    in reply to
    • Le Bottin des Jeux Linux

    Talking of which... What's your favourite NES/Famicom emulator?

    Which one should I study?

    If I don't get an answer, I'll study the one @Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux recently promoted...

    In conversation about a month ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 06:43:30 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    I recall reading Ian Hixie (major WHATWG editor) expressing a loss of faith in the web's vision & pushing to move everything into WebASM.

    I haven't lost that faith but... Yes, please!

    I don't like the web as an app platform, let alone The cross-platform platform. I like the web as a library, as The library!
    A split could do it some good... Not that I can bring myself to care about the app-web...

    In conversation about 2 months ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 03:51:56 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    The candid naivety of geeks - Ploum:
    https://ploum.net/2025-03-28-geeks-naivety.html

    I take it he doesn't us geeks, I don't see too much of this in my circles.

    In conversation about 2 months ago from floss.social permalink

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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 03:06:33 JST alcinnz alcinnz
    • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
    • Wolf480pl

    @irrlicht @wolf480pl @lanodan Btw: I'm aware of a fair few solid efforts like mine for when you don't demand JS support.

    My perception is that things get exponentially harder with even higher expectations for compatibility when you do implement JS. I wish client-side scripting never became a part of the web!

    Yet there's disagreement over whether these efforts count.

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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 04:54:01 JST alcinnz alcinnz

    I've offered to speak on my hardware-browser hypothetical at Limits2025, it seemed like the sort of thing they were asking for. But we'll see if its accepted, I'll attend regardless!

    https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/

    Btw I needed to give this hypothetical a proper noun to apply (I've been using pronouns to avoid the need to name it, & to emphasize that its not real), so guess which one I picked?

    In conversation about 2 months ago from floss.social permalink
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    alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 04:53:59 JST alcinnz alcinnz
    in reply to
    • small circle 🕊 in calmness

    @smallcircles Hint: I've got a naming convention...

    In conversation about 2 months ago from floss.social permalink
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    A browser developer posting mostly about how free software projects work, and occasionally about climate change.Though I do enjoy german board games given an opponent.Header picture is of Mordecai from Lackadaisy by Tracy Butler.Pronouns: he/him/whatever#noindex

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