Notices by alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social), page 2

Whee!
Been a good while since I bought a new game on release.

We'd need to keep our operating systems simple, to avoid taking space away from the data we'd wish to store.

Vector monitors are attractive that way, since it'd take less software to render abstract data to those displays. By rearranging hardware rather than adding more of it.

Speakers are even simpler to build, without needing more software abstractions. Though it does require a multiplier.

Making the OS a programming language interpreter is a proven strategy for simple OSs.

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With my rough idea I explored yesterday of what collapse-era computing might look like, what sort of OS would fit?

Most places who care should be able to build 1970s if not 1980s-era chips, maybe even 2000-era. If we can continue obtaining wafers, not guaranteed!

The biggest challenge would be designing large RAM, & other datastorage.

Keyboard input & audio output would probably be the most feasible I/O, with mice & vector-monitors being secondary.

1/2?

Reading Seymour's complaining about being painted as a caricature... Doesn't do much to dissuade the caricature I perceive in him!

Someone who fails to understand the distinction between equity & equality, institutionally incapable of admitting that the march on The Beehive represents kiwis better than his own filter bubble.

Someone who fails to see his own culture as such, whilst decrying others as "woke".

My stance for any new followers: "AI" isn't so much a (new) technology, its a narrative.

Its this narrative, this hype, this misinformation which is causing all the harm. And its far from the first time we've been through it.

The tech, also known as "machine learning" or more specifically "neural networks", is well established & already had some invaluable uses before the hype!

Please don't expect me to be interested in it being larger than ever now, or insist I must use it!

@dev Is it like the PS3's "Cell Processors"?

@dev I still struggle to understand from that reporting: What do DPUs aid with?

O.K., I think I'll be able to discuss Willow in the context of my hypothetical hardware-browser tomorrow...

The Floater Manifesto - Ernie Smith "Tedium":
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16891536/operating-system-floater-manifesto

Attribute styling - Go Make Things:
https://gomakethings.com/attribute-styling/

Make creative borders with background-clip border-area - WebKit:
https://webkit.org/blog/16214/background-clip-border-area/

Digital Infrastructure and Why Open Source Is Not Enough Anymore - Hagen Terschüren interviweing tante:
https://ausnahmsweise.net/podcast/digital-infrastructure-and-why-open-source-is-not-enough-anymore/ (audio with transcript)

"Reducing Complexity" - John Cutler "The Beautiful Mess":
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-321-reducing-complexity

Bret Victor - De Programmatica Ipsum:
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/bret-victor/

Synopsizing...

The Future of Programming - Brett Victor @ Dropbox's DBX conference (2013, pretending to be 1973):
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4 (YouTube via Invidious)

Two books, no longer apart. - Ethan Marcotte:
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/books-no-longer-apart/

‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high - Damian Carrington @ The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/13/no-sign-of-promised-fossil-fuel-transition-as-emissions-hit-new-high

I never thought I'd say this, but I miss Win32-style UIs. Electron is nice for what it's good for, but it does mean I have to relearn basic UI vocabulary in every single application. I lost the link to it, but there was a great article I saw a little while ago cataloguing how much even check-box vs radio-button vocabulary has completely broken down.

if I then use it to blog about how I use it, I can probably distill a user's guide out of that. no reason not to share that too, it'd already be on my blog as I wrote it.

if people hit me up and tell me about bugs they found in my stuff, I could look at fixing them. if they pointed towards a fix I could use their fix.

@LovesTha @alilly Here's @TechConnectify 's video on the subject: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=3DdUvoc7tJ4

Inter 4.1 from @rsms is out!

https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases/tag/v4.1

It includes a bunch of little fixes and improvements, but my favorite (and relevant to GNOME!) is that the automatic contextual alternate converting NxN to N×N has been disabled; this was pointed out while testing on GNOME, where it would feel weird seeing e.g. filenames or URLs where the letter “x” would unexpectedly look like the “×” multiplication symbol.

#Inter #GNOME #typography #typefaces #typeface #font #fonts #OpenSource