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lightspill

@lightspill@tailswish.industries

Possibly a figment of your #imagination ⚡ Maniacal Genius ⚡ Drinking #tea. LOTS of tea ⚡ The world is /full/ of most wonderful things ⚡ Ever on the hunt for knowledge, and the best hunters catch enough to share ⚡ Total war against despair and hopelessness ⚡ Open sorcery ⚡ Hope powered dynamo ⚡ #greymuzzle ⚡ A bit shy until I get the feel of someone ⚡ Wholesome Macro/Micro Fun ⚡ Really, really good at liking things ⚡ Death penalty for corporations, not people ⚡ No time for doomer nonsense

Feel free to ask for IM contacts, but I may say no.

Visually impaired, thus I have deep, passionate feelings about UI design.

Please avoid replying to my posts with anything lewd.

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lightspill, to random
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  1. The fox is not cat software running on dog hardware. The fox is foxware running on foxware.
  2. The fox looks into a mirror. Some bozo asks “Are you a cat or a dog?” the fox gives the bozo a contemptuous glare, says “Neither.” and when the bozo goes away they scream in frustration.
volpeon, to random

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715333/the-decline-of-the-user-interface.html

RE: https://is-a.wyvern.rip/notes/9t4m4ctukzlk03rq

lightspill,
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@volpeon I have particular wrath about the number of websites designed to showcase ‘branding’ over actually having a decent interaction pattern.

volpeon, to random

There needs to be an official Unicode sequence for 🦊ZWJ🦇ZWJ🐍 so I can express fluffy wyverns in no-custom-emoji land

lightspill,
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@volpeon Definitely needs to be 🦊 and COMBINING SQUIRREL

lightspill, to random
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Static websites are decentralized:

  • Anyone can link to them without needing to do anything special
  • Anyone can read them with common tools
  • Nobody has to create an account
  • They’re a static chunk of files. You can always pick them up and move them if you have a disagreement with your hosting provider.
lightspill, to random
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@hourlyfops has posted the prettiest fox!

RE: https://mastodon.tinyfox.dev/users/hourlyfops/statuses/112502794710747623

lightspill, to random
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I really like corvids. Corvids are good.

deadsuperhero, to random
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It’s so messed up that OS vendors just assume it’s okay to throw ads onto your desktop or your phone. My Samsung just started throwing them in my notifications, and there’s no way to turn them off.

I didn’t want to have to root my phone and install a different version of Android on it, but this is downright hostile.

lightspill,
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@deadsuperhero Even with stock Android, it’s just kind of disgraceful how awful the Google Play store is. “Let users find and install apps they’re looking for” seems to be dead last in their feature checklist.

lightspill, to random
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I had been wanting white tea for weeks, and since I’m not supposed to be drinking caffeine habitually for a bit i didn’t buy any…but I found a compressed puck of really high quality white tea sitting on a shelf in the back of my cupboard behind some junk, just enough for a single gongfu session, and it was so delicious, so generous, taking infusion after infusion and not losing depth of flavor.

It was wonderful #teaTimeWithLightspill

(One session of Gongfu does not ‘habitually’ make.)

alcinnz, to random
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How computer scientists think about performance boils down to: Reduce loops & loop iterations! Especially nested loops!

They write highly-approximate (CPU-independent) formulas describing how much the CPU-time & memory-space used scales with the amount of data processed.

Modern CPUs though want us to show a heavy preference for arrays...

lightspill,
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@alcinnz This reminds me of how Bjarne Stroustrup is trying to get people to use std::vector even if there are occasional insertions in the middle, because of just how fast memmove primitives are and how badly linked lists work with caching.

volpeon, to random

However Chrome simply never implemented it leading to it being removed. And it was removed because Chrome never implemented it. As a result, if Chrome doesn't like something in the specification they can just veto it without consequence.

(https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/ )

Another case for the "Google has too much control over the web" evidence collection

lightspill,
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@volpeon Which is ‘it’ in this case?

lightspill,
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@volpeon I’ve been kind of mad at WebAuthn for being /too web/…but this is awful.

…and they did something similar to Keygen which would have given us actual public key authentication with an actually usable interface, too

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