Notices by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe)

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@ratkins @jk

Correction: the web is an *OK* hypertext browsing system.

it is inherently very hard to explain how to do something in a GUI, and very hard to implement a GUI for almost any task that does not need to be explained. it is, on the other hand, very straightforward to explain (and make explainable) CLI tools -- but people don't bother.

@technomancy @mwl

Yeah, I get the impression that when Carpenter made Escape from New York he *thought* he was making Escape from LA but he was accidentally too subtle. Certainly a mistake!

@technomancy @mwl

I always thought it was an over the top parody of conservative fears. (Like, Escape from LA clearly was -- I figured that twenty years earlier, EFNY came off as much sillier)

A lot of 80s movies have the problem that they were aimed at adults and starred over the top satires of toxic masculine behavior, but then became popular with (and targeted at) kids who didn't get the joke, whose interpretation dominated the cultural memory. (Like: Star Wars was supposed to be an allegory for the Vietnam war from the perspective of the Viet Cong -- did intelligent adult viewers at the time pick up on this? A lot of the time, the adults don't catch on to particular interpretations either, or don't "get the point" for 20 years -- we all basically accept that The Matrix is partly about the trans experience, but imagine trying to convince someone of that in 2005.)

the goal of being poly is to maximize the number of metamours you have. so, the winning strategy is to get a new partner close to poly saturation from several distinct polycules, like an ancient trading empire

Band name of the day: putrefiction

@noracodes @r14c @futurebird

To be honest, I'd like to see more totally-independent AP microblogging codebases, but I'm not sure if implementing one is genuinely an unavoidable hassle or what, because even the small ones are too big for one person to maintain?

Like, a tiny reference implementation with barely any features is the best thing for any protocol to have, because once you have that there's a pressure to keep the protocol simple enough that the reference implementation stays small, while at the same time, the small reference implementation can be easily forked or ported by anybody who doesn't like the behavior of a major implementation.

Mastodon is the opposite of a good candidate for this (and actually, this problem also affects SSB): it contains both frontend and backend code (whereas what you really want is just the server portion and let somebody else build a client -- frontends are always full of fiddly bullshit that needs to be tuned, and users should have control over their frontends anyhow), and it's full of features somebody requested that maybe somebody else doesn't want.

Often the cost of forking is just downstream of protocol design; there are a billion gopher clients because anybody can build a gopher client in an afternoon, and there are exactly two full-featured web browsers (firefox and various chrome skins) because a small group could not write a modern web browser in a lifetime.

the first grand twitter -> masto migration was not last year; it was in 2017. this migration brought in a lot of gay & trans people who were boycotting twitter over moderation policies on organized harassment by gamergaters, TERFs, and the alt right, and it's a major reason why fedi is *so* trans so it feels really weird for people to act like it never happened just because they're noobs.

the first grand twitter -> fedi migration was in the identica days, back when twitter was competing with google+ and ello... so 2009ish maybe? this was related to excitement over distributed, noncommercial social media, and brought in a lot of anticapitalist & FOSS people. this was during a period when twitter still had the fail whale, to give you a sense for the time.

there has been at least one major migration-wave to the fediverse per year since 2017, more or less evenly split between people moving because they don't want to give a rich guy more money and people moving because centralized moderation sucks. the one that happened after musk bought twitter was unusually large but not different in kind from any of the others.

Hypnotist Gets Doom to Run on Volunteer’s Mind https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/hypnotist-gets-doom-to-run-on-volunteers-mind/

tomorrow, all my games and such are on deep discount for my birthday. if you were considering checking them out, now is the time. https://itch.io/s/116290/birthday-sale

is there an independent (non-governmental) non-profit people can donate to that specializes in art grants for weird low-budget film making?

@HauntedOwlbear

Absolutely. There are places I've avoided submitting to because I'd have to functionally join their club and I don't have the spoons. (Particularly, voice & video chat is something that's stressful for me & so I try to limit it to groups I'm already comfortable with.)

Well, we've got a lot of small presses with discords because we've got a lot of small presses, right? Basically, the economics of self-publishing has gotten good enough that it doesn't take much capital to run an imprint. So we should expect some to pop up with completely different styles, as well.

@HauntedOwlbear

I definitely agree with the sentiment, though I've noticed that a lot of the small presses with discords that I've encountered have basically developed an artistic community of writers via the discord, which could be very productive.

On the whole, I compare them favorably to the discords for open source projects, basically because while open source had previously had a good, accessible ecosystem for project communities (irc+listservs+forums+bug trackers, etc), having a small press develop a community (versus being established to serve an existing scene) seems to be a new development. What's more, people are using discord features in an interesting way (Tenebrous uses voice chat to do pitch party / brainstorming events, for instance).

It's kind of stupid *not* to take email submissions, but I guess it gets rid of the need for a slushpile if you're basically socially vetting every author & getting involved with prospective authors before they even start writing.

One thing movies used to do that I liked is having guys who are just, like, buddies, on the same wavelength, in a way that the audience is supposed to recognize but not participate in. Like, the actor with one line says it to another guy who's an extra, and he chuckles, and we realize these guys are buddies and this is an in-joke and we're not buddies with these characters so we'll never get it. Maybe later in the movie one of these guys dies and the buddy is sad about it, or one guy is in trouble and the other is worried. Just having a movie world that has social relationships not organized around the leads

@CosmicTrigger

Yes, that's exactly what I'm referencing

@CosmicTrigger

I thought "oh man, I really want a piece of postapocalyptic media where the bondage weirdos are the heroes and the villians are neonazis" and then I realized that was just The Invisibles

@HauntedOwlbear
Thanks, I'll check it out!

i took french all through high school, and i'd like to brush up to the point where i can maybe read serious books at some point. so, i'm thinking of starting with comics. anybody got french graphic novels they can recommend i read in the original language? is it worth investing in some tintin and moebius collections?

@annika

huh. i heard people talking about maybe implementing something like that a couple years ago, but i thought it was dropped since it never seemed to show up

is it a heavily-used feature?