why are there so many decentralized social media projects that aren’t well known and haven’t been worked on in a few years

shout out to everybody who keeps translating ‘denpa’ as ‘microwave’ instead of ‘psychotronic’: 10/10 subtle troll, excellent work

The most important operation in QNX is MsgSend, which works like an interprocess… | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640

”[A] post-work future nobody outside of silicon valley asked for” dude, I think everybody who has ever worked is asking for a post-work future…

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org that sucks. Hope the USB Dongle works out for you.

@von@tilde.town your posting to the future worked for me.

An AI is playing Pictionary to figure out how the world works - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612882/an-ai-is-playing-pictionary-to-figure-out-how-the-world-works/

Is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Heinlein’s All-Time Greatest Work? | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/31/is-the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress-heinleins-all-time-greatest-work/

Niklaus Wirth apparently worked on a plugin that would run JIT-compiled oberon ASTs in the browser as applets back in the mid-90s: https://github.com/berkus/Juice

I work in IT, which is the reason our house has: mechanical locks, mechanical windows, routers using OpenWRT, no smart home crap, no Alexa/Google Assistant/…, no internet connected thermostats

Apparently, when I pitched the idea of replacing backtracking with forking (with lazy side effecting of course) a ~year ago, I was reinventing STEPS work from 2008: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008003_john.pdf

another brain implant that wireheads you to work towards a different randomly or algorithmically chosen goal every day↵↵(and later you have cryptographic evidence that it wasn’t you who did those crimes, it was the RNG)

@robbinaer@robbinaer.info I still have so much work to do in the renderer … but the next big goal is to jump to a chapter via the toc.

okay let’s see if this works

How Dat Works https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works/

let’s see if this function thing works

How tax brackets actually work - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJhsjUPDulw

Can Conspiracy Thrillers Work Under a Conspiracy Presidency? https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/can-conspiracy-thrillers-work-under-a-conspiracy-presidency.html

My mother’s work in the news: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/its-ben-franklins-birthday-here-are-all-his-papers-180949400/

Visualising Networks of Electronic Literature: Dissertations and the Creative Works They Cite http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/visualising-networks-of-electronic-literature-dissertations-and-the-creative-works-they-cite/

I’m currently streaming the last push on developing Manna for our Malices, the game I’ve been working on for 1.5 years: https://www.twitch.tv/enkiv2

Since it’s friday, if I have the energy, after work I’ll stream my final push on finishing implementing MfoM. Y’know, in case anybody wants to watch me write ‘code’ that’s actually mostly dialogue.

So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.

Trendism follows the logic of capital. The more capital you have, the less risk any investment is & the more you stand to gain from it. Given a diverse portfolio, a large investment will grow while a small one disappears: capital’s gravity at work.

Enlightenment can be yours for just $10 | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6889/school-of-practical-philosophy-philosophy-works-new-york-subway-ad

Walt Disney’s Public Domain Works https://tedium.co/2019/01/03/public-domain-disney/

Watching these featurettes about Bandersnatch & the bits that they’re making out to be a big deal or super difficult are the ones I (and every other VN dev) do all the time. Meanwhile, they barely mention working with actors & shit.

Progress report: the current build of Manna for our Malices should actually be playable to completion. Gotta double-check, but in theory everything should be reachable. Remaining work: fill in fluff like the rest of the school day.

social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html

Screw the notional Zizek vs Peterson debate. I wanna see a Zizek vs Land debate. Or Zizek and Land debating Mark Fisher through an Ouija board. (The board doesn’t need to work. Better if it doesn’t.)

If it doesn’t work properly with javascript turned off, it’s not really a website. If it doesn’t work properly with css turned off, it’s not really a website. If it doesn’t work properly in a text-only environment, it’s not really a website.

Every time I complain about how computers can be made better (if we work together) I get a bunch of people criticizing me for being insufficiently grateful. Bitch, I’m a programmer. I know how much effort somebody put into this shit, & it’s not enough.

There’s this approach to computing history where we focus on work that looks shallowly similar to current norms, claim that work was ‘prophetic’ or ‘ahead of its time’, & mostly ignore differences & intent except as quirks. Fuck that.

Github is putting up a banner saying that the version of firefox I’m using is no longer supported. That’s fuckin’ wild to me. It’s 2018: if your website doesn’t work on Mosaic & Lynx, it’s broken.

Short work week and about half the office is out.

Just created my first proper document in Scribus. It worked better than I expected.

Every computer program is also a persuasive essay & a work of interactive performance art, and if you don’t consider it through those lenses when writing it you run the risk of persuading people of something you don’t agree with.

Xanadu Basics 2 - Five working Xanadu Systems (four usable) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_o8q4Sp-w0

Cat Work Processor : David T. Craig : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/CatWorkProcessor

Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today’s http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html

How YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Really Works - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-youtubes-algorithm-really-works/575212/

How to get rich quick, apparently: rephrase the obvious as though it is the revolutionary for the benefit of the stupid, and pepper it with the wrong to drum up ‘controversy’. (Worked for Peterson)

The project I’m working on went “live” this morning. Even though most us developers think we shouldn’t have.

post-N235 Prolog prologue (Working draft) https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/iso-prolog/prologue

At work for only 70 min and I already want to go home.

ok so how does this registry thing work: http://twtxt.tildeverse.org

Having a fun day trying to sort out why my code isn’t working. Only to find out the API server I’m calling is borked.

Charon, these days, is out of work due the Styx bridge, but bring an item of personal significance and he may still ferry you over personally and tell you about past great passengers

Occasionally the simulators get wistful about when they still did client work because when those wanted last-minute-changes, at least their motives weren’t completely alien

Every time the humans come up with new physics, the simulators work overtime to update the world, “noo I put all that work into those celestial spheres and now they throw it out again”