Notices by Rob Isaac (rmi@cloudisland.nz)

Members of the jury, I bring you the Not So Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE), a painstakingly recreation of the janky UI mess that cursed every 90s UNIX workstation.

https://imgur.com/gallery/nHkw35X

This is a real project, by the way. I still can’t quite tell if it’s performance art or not, but it works.

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE/wiki/NsCDE---Frequently-Asked-Questions-(FAQ)

@a2_4am tiny trivia: this is actually the first Infocom game I ever played, before I knew anything about the genre or the mechanics. The beloved Zork came much later. It was a _brutal_ introduction because the game is basically unwinnable without the feelies.

@thomasfuchs can you IMAGINE the weeping and rending of garments that would follow such an acquisition

@thomasfuchs I recognise the little Apple friend, although mine died a long time ago. What’s the black one?

STOP USING FLOATS

@thomasfuchs Is the wireless 2.4GHz or Bluetooth, and is there a 9-pin Amiga receiver?

@thomasfuchs more like verified organazi am i rite

@thomasfuchs I’m glad you asked about the current date and time. Many people feel like it’s too early for that date and they are just trying not too hard on the date to be honest and not so hard to find something to wear to work and not have a problem getting it to work for them or they are not gonna have a chance at getting the job they need it for so i can just keep it for the next few weeks or maybe a month or two before i get the chance and then go to the next job again.

@thomasfuchs as soon as you add react, kubernetes, and some sort of stablecoin, this thing will really take off

@thomasfuchs I desperately want to use this with the old Windows shell that let you embed an HTML renderer as the desktop wallpaper.

@thomasfuchs is it possible to do a similar calculation for vertical height? In Safari/iOS with chrome visible, it fills the screen and does not scroll, but once added to the home screen, the resulting chromeless window has a wobbly vertical scroll.

@thomasfuchs also, while doing that tiny scroll, there’s a z-index bug where parts of the day indicator override the style selector and parts don’t.

@thomasfuchs (it’s beautiful, and I’m sorry my first correspondence is all grumbly-sounding.)

BEES

@thomasfuchs You’ve come to the right place

This morning I woke up, got out of my AI bed, went into my AI kitchen, and made some AI tea using my AI kettle and drank it out of my AI mug. I looked out the AI window at the AI city, then used my AI phone to take an AI photo.

When everything is “AI”, nothing is. It’s just a language model. A fancier autocorrect. They’ve been around since the 70s. These people are bullshitting you so they can make money, which is ALSO a very old technology, and big dumb tech companies falling for it and turning their products inside out to buy it is a healthy clue about the quality of their leadership.

@thomasfuchs Is that a … spreadsheet _appliance_?!

@llewelly @thomasfuchs I didn't hear no bell!