Well that's compelling! Would love to see such a promising effort work to cross the chasm from interesting esoteric language to something participating in the broader Webassembly Interface Types world, but not holding my breath on this. Still, one to look at!

Sonos not supporting the free/non-royalty payment multi-channel system is the most Sonos thing I've ever heard.

one of my enduring beliefs is that we should put down some public stake in what we believe, something that declares what we think. and that we can re-assess that latter and just or not. are we willing to, years latter, affirm our previous claims? do we believe otherwise? is there visible nuance & complexity within us, or are we acting superficial, responsively? this, to me, is where relevation, self lies: whether we are dynamic, or merely transient creatures.

i don't know how to tag this.

Yes.

"Where do you want to go today", Microsoft's campaign, 1995.

But like... these are real & worthy groundings that aren't some new novelty, some meta-verse-al creation, but just like the ground philosophical basis of the mind. Most of us cannot live up to our own expectations/aspirations, but whether we choose to let that delegitimize the mind, whether we accept that poison chalice & accept disbelief & skepticism broadly is up to each of us.

These corporate entities are extremely tuned in to the plot, to the reality of the mind. They get it. The skepticism is due, but it's not "the metaverse," it's not just fiction, it's deeply part of the human experience, our motivation.

For sure, this all must be tempered with a reality. But I think the duality here is invaluable, and the pure cut-down attitude needs counter-skepticism.

I doubt this will really last. It was a new thing, and we have no real proof this novel concept has had any truthfulness or staying power to it.

I mean... the Daily Show had a pretty real take, again and again. It was less about exacerbating political squabbles than pointing out genuine interest in a decent yet humorous way.

The news has long had a bit more bias, a bit more hooks. And now it aims to serve, to appease it's audiences. That duty to audience, that desire to polarize & oppose, stands in opposition to the simple genuine.

Come June, it's unlikely the GOP will have any plans or proposals of note, and it's all too likely this "gift" to the barely-dead Tea Party will bring them much closer to their most desired: the auto-Democracide.

This has been a protest party for my whole life. Somehow they forever get a pass on it.

safer, longer life, less exotic materials, & what we seem to be switching back to.

correction: "a greasy little scrotum has been vindicated"

700/1000 MHz bases, no turbo. lol, get rekt. gonna be a rude experience, this.

Technocreacy HitMarks https://techinfantry.fandom.com/wiki/Hitmark

codename Project Kessler?

Thoughts and prayers. A lot of thoughts and prayers. They buy in to emotions alright, to belief: sympathy & benevolence are reserved for the community, for those with moral caliber as high as theirs, while attempts to prepare & make better are regarded as too rational, destined to become rotting hinderments, unable to be improved or addressed; they believe in the perpetual constant & ongoing failure of the rational, and only in their own emotions.

Conservatives actively resist society allowing itself to prepare against ills or trying to improve the common welfare. It seems to trust only in it's ancestors & it's own superiority.

I love you so much Avery Pennarun. It's so cathartic to hear such plain & simple truth telling. Your blog post is full of so many wonderful plainly said things. This is such a non-controversial, clear statement of so much of the tension & conflict we're in, so well reduced.

There was publictimestamp,org. It was a blockchain but it was open, no PoW/fees. It was centralized but they asked everyone to help with attestation.

David Louis Edelman's Jump 225 had a wonderful expression that punctuated it regularly, "May you be ever moving towards perfection," which this resonates with.

you're withdrawing one of the few valuable signals we have to judge sentiment. and justifying that massive massive massive dollop of harm, that ignorance, with the cries of a very very few.

you fucking suck egg you worthless anti-public dingbats.

scared little assholes

what an terrified afraid country, unable to allow variance & possibility. nervously insisting on control.

take your bags of coal & rot in hell you right-of-center piece of shit. america hasn't had a chance to see center or left-of-center ever and we have no idea what country we are when even when the democrats win we are plagued by lobbyist paid for scourges like you & a bunch of the other piece of shit DINOs.

Christmas 2016 & user seth, with 24k posts currently, is a total dipstick asshole for someone asking a very basic reasonable question & sticks to being an insulting tart for 6 posts.

This is now one of the top answers online. There is still no oneliner to change your default route metrics.

hiss-boo. i like the accessibility.

"surprise Taliban win in CA!"

the mass dead-end society can never escape from.

this article tries to convincingly gas-light us into thinking Windows is an alternative or that it will ever have useful meaning or value. it's a dead-end. we spent a decade building alternate shells for windows. they all died too. there is no creative soul left here. windows is industrialization taking over culture, like a blob, that comes into your town, then sets, solidifies, never to be alterable again. time freezes. it is Windows forever.

there's some other good little nuggets about but a DCOP shout out is probably the best. today the only programmable/malleable software we have is the web, and DCOP was a more extensive hooks into the heart of a system than what we can do with the web.

vim tools/plugins on the other hand have gotten supremely powerful & weird & awesome.

i actually really love this point. there's some semi-interesting things happening with Wayland desktops, some changes, but overall i think most Linux users have kind of subsisted in semi-stasis. and we don't need top down change, from our WMs, but we should be "growing-in" to our environments, getting better, and we i think the collaboration & exploration is still very sparse, few charts or maps or guides come out. the "here be dragons" edge has a lot of healthy exploration deep into it, but it's very lone territory, the charts rare & hard to understand, hard to follow. there's some radical elements of success & exploration, but there are so few enduring wayfinding systems, so little communalizing of exploration or growth.

spoiler: they don't go into even cursory information on what is wrong

aka "my very strong opinion" that something needs to work this way

Let's fucking hope so.

This article keeps measuring Linux by the classic Desktop measures of success. This article represents l-users. And ignores other forms of users.

oh sure, some Freedesktop elements are trying to out-Desktop the Desktop. but most of the interesting folk are attracted to other ends & playing other games. ion3 or xmonad or other folk are doing very very little to "emulate the best parts of Windows."

making the web an alive medium again and not a preprocessed nightmare nightmare is critical

alas: typescript.

killer Chomsky quote.

i've been semi intending to write a week oriented personal data project for a while. and yes the classic weekly newsletter, with some recaps & general scene-setting, place-finding, backgrounding about where we are/i am.

i like this proposition a lot though, of not trying to bind oneself. thinking of that as antethical to a certain spirit of chance.

but i do value the practice of reminding, of thinking & distilling what has, of reflecting on here, of thinking forward. the steps. snapshotting our OODA loops, seeing them spiral on.

so how about this? a "days since recap" service, that aggregates all your traffic & that you can use to surface & note on, & then you just annotate or pick out pieces of that service. you kind of build a running notes, then annotate atop with longer form content, or synergize. or filter, drop candiates to distill down. i'm trying to think of a web model, an annotative model, for how else we might serve a week-notes like idea, but more hyper-mediumed.

decent write up, solid concluding quote.

fascist.

anyone online now would to censor all their content, has to have complete visibility in to every single place any user anywhere can generate content. comments, messages, anywhere: there'd be the need to monitor it all.

woohoo, love the developer experience upgrades.

to me, there's a quality of life aspect that works across the aggregate. long term bugs are indicator of generally poor code health. as the number of long term bugs grows, it implies a code-base which has become complex or hard to work with, is a system that lacks ease & elegance of understanding.

a system where bugs are caught earlier is one that is generally healthy, where complexity is lower, where it's easier to test, find, and more importantly, to design & build "within the lines" of the system.

this jives with the tentative assertion below, certain bugs take more time to fix, and said bugs are issues in design. but not just in isolation, that the total system design & impediment of other long-standing bugs / complications begets a more difficult environment where further bugs are likely and are more likely to be difficult.

To me, the reason React ruined web development is because it homogenized & centralized the practice, in an abstraction that is decoupled & non-interoperable with other techniques & styles.

The author is arguing that React didn't centralize enough, but to me, it sucked all the oxygen out of the diverse interesting place that was web development. That it didn't try to solve all problems in the stack is, if anything, a most relief. It succeeded because it didn't bundle in a data-layer. It succeeded because it didn't bundle in state. It succeeded because it didn't bundle in routing. Each of these areas have evolved independently & seen great strides across the last half decade. That's a huge win, that's why React is so strong: because it didn't try to form opinions.

Alas React itself implies a strong opinion, has a big abstraction that de-empowers & de-inter-operates with the DOM, that keeps it from working in concert with any other technology. It has enormous diversity, but only under it's own umbrella. It has crushed a much livelier sporting aspect of web development.

I'm so tired of weenies complaining about fragmentation. Get lost and fuck off. This medium is flexible & diverse & interesting. Stop applying your industrial software want, your software authoritarianism, "why can't everyone just do it my way/the right way" horse shit. Such a shitty attitude, from people selling FUD & clutching at the idea that everyone's gonna be happy & productive if we can just make the right framework. How uncreative & droll.

would have liked to have seen a mention of XMPP interoperability somewhere in this article.

just shy of 1k. ;)

i was going to ask what good it is having a cable that has power, but not the data center behind it.

i guess the situation is that the fiber optic cable also has power cables running along it too, powering the repeaters, and it's the power cables that might break. in this case, having single ended power would be very useful.

i'm most curious to know how power is sent. is this 48V dc? higher? how much? kV?

I believe wasm can run off a SharedArrayBuffer, which is mutable. I'm not sure how that interacts with the running engine, how dynamically modifiable it is. Trying to runtime rewrite wasm & figure out exports would be... complicated. But this blanket statement still comes as quite a surprise to me, even though I know that within WASM no one is able to re-write the code.

Deno has been doing a lot of work to make sure V8 Isolate's snapshots are well supported & easy to build & manage & launch. I'm very excited to see Deno, someday, post similar orders-of-magnitude wins. I expect folks like CloudFlare Workers already do this.

ultra sad imminent spiritual demise of #StackOverflow incoming. one of the world's most treasured, vital common resources. i hope there are scrapes.

you are destroying the web & turning it in to a thin-client VNC terminal, you evil evil evil evil people.

alas for my much beloved masters of correspondence & connection, this ultimate-view sounds like dreary essentialism.

watching Katie Porter support repealing the SALT Caps has betrayed me to my core, shattered my hopes for what the Democratic party could be. pretending to speak for the middle class, she's giving an enormously regressive tax cut to the ultra-wealthy, and it's sickening to watch & soils my every memory of her fighting good fights. Incredibly dishonest & tragic, using so many fake GOP style "think of the middle class" ways to sell something that hardly affects them.

fatcat capitalist media empire writes headline trying to sew dissent in progressive party

some good solid words, which i wasn't sure were coming. i am very interested in seeing some of these pursued actively.

you people fucking suck

write some god damned developer docs you nits

i agree that in some cases people on social media have been radicalized, have become terrible. but i do not blame the platform, and don't think there's anything inherently rotten about them.

almost sorry to say it, but i think big social is kind of ok? mostly it's pretty harmless. use protection, some tracking blocking software. but a lot of people have very fine, very enjoyable or very ok experiences, connecting reasonably in many cases primarily or mostly with people they know. big social has been incredibly valuable at connecting us.

its not "all toxic as fuck." i think there is good & good uses we have to acknowledge. focusing only on the bad of things delegitimizes the things we have to say. i believe strongly that we're missing a lot of good, but overall, i think the bad being done is fairly mild, that toxic-leaning people are going to mis-use and abuse most systems, that the personal-data is often significantly oversold & overrated. i have a lot of technical hopes for what i hope & think might be on the frontiers, what we might do, and i want to replace big social. let the good compel us. let's think of what we want. let's not fall to despair. resist radicalizing yourself but immerse yourself in practice, in trying things, in understanding connecting with people.

Guardian, getting the big-long-truth out of the way up front. Woohoo! Exactly the right context. Persistently malignant force in America, that we have been unreceptive & unmoving in every way my entire living life. Bad people.

ugh Fox you terrible pieces of shit. the only conservative media concerns there have ever been is that we aren't sufficiently horrible to people at the border. Liberals, unlike Conservatives, are happy to do own-side criticism. We want good. We want progress. We want to be decent to our fellow humans, who we recognize as worthy & good. Of course we're distressed at this bad situation. We don't shield our leaders from criticism, we expect active Democratic engagement.

You could not better show yourselves for who you are with this headline, you useless evil villians.

CanvasKit uses WebGL to render the application. This means that Web Extensions have little ability to shape or augment the user experience.

This feels like an existential crisis for the web, a stripping away of the agency that the User Agent, the Browser, once offered. CanvasKit represents an existential crisis for the web, takes away all of the rich, interoperable systems of HTML, and replaces it with moving pictures.

I had hoped the Flutter team would come in peace, but you are riding onto the web like rampaging conquerors. I hope a better balance can be struct.

for requests both to it's origin, and also coming from it's origin. this latter restriction seems unnecessary, but alas, there has been little traction trying to get Foreign Fetch - enabling service workers to be accessible across origins - back into the spec. Foreign Fetch would greatly help the offline web. https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1188

there's a solid enough conceptual idea here, that society ought be able to voice some sense, direct & govern the platforms forward & along & upwards. there is something lacking, certainly, in that the companies have nothing to listen to, are so alone. (oh yes there are voices but it's a chaos of voices, there's no scheme for guiding oneself through, so the entity must keep picking for itself what to do.)

still though,

It sounds a little dystopian, I’ll grant.

no. it sounds a lot dystopian. very very dystopian.

society could use means to weave together coherence, to establish a democratic growth, proclaim the unity it does have. celebrates, accepts & socializes core things to itself.

i'm really impressed by the registry of projects being awarded to foreign vendors, seems like a good way to create visibility & self promote domestic industry.

.getChildren() your children, find the children you want, & add the class-name you want. Not sure what the dilemma is here.

i'm less concerned with the general level of incomprehensibility than i am concerned with the un-seeability, the un-learnability.

in the age of the personal computer, we could act like scientists, studying & understanding systems. in the new cloud age, most of what happens to us, what affects the world, runs in very very far away data centers, deep behind firewalls & secured entryways. computing has become unobservable, unwatchable, & whether it is complex or not, we have precious few means to begin to tell.

this new era of computing has become deeply deeply against the course of Natural Science, where man awakened an understanding of the world. we have, recently, rapidly, plunged all humanity back into dark unknowningness, cut off each other from being able to puzzle our & advance understanding.

I love this! Quantitative improvement (speed), All-encompassing (web platform scope), Technological-pessimism (security/privacy), Better-browser (ux). Nice breakdown of areas of the browser.

Agreed. It hurts to see a browser's lead feature for themselves is "we don't support ambient light sensors!". Removing general extension support on mobile? Please, you are murdering the free user, putting us in chains. Very secure, private chains, to be sure, but that's not how this can keep going, forever.

Works in the opposite direction, heading towards Project Fugu, that is what is key. The web can and should compete full spectrum with apps, while retaining privacy.

Because of CSP, we can now no longer run userscripts on most major properties. Fix that. Make the web a place for creativity & play by users, again. Restore the user's agency & sovereignty. Add more platform capabilities. Champion better. The path you are on Mozilla, it's horrible to see.

believe! work for it!

it's remarkable to me how short-lived the attention is, how few rally, how much development is left up to the few remote entities.

the semantic web, to me, is about decomposing the page into useful components, that have their own meaning distinct from the big page. that's the core start. there's a ton of semantic reasoning & other shit, academia has a strong hold on the semantic web it feels like. but the field is open. anyone can begin building new experiences any day that fulfill this vision. figuring out how to build a scalable practice around it is step 2. thusfar no one has made much headway on step 1 though!

let some of the other points in this writeup characterize the lessons for how we might build scaleably, step 2. but focus on step 1? maybe?

except starting to leave this service which is no longer capable of being the default place i send all my photos for long term storage.

Android, the ever growing, ever rotting eldritch horror. A horror mash up of ill-supported buy-once dispose-after consumerized devices and advanced internet connected computer. All with locked bootloaders, to insure you are indeed stuck, saddled with whatever level of support the device maker feels fit to give you.

agreed, chutzpah. $450 is a lot. notably the 5700 and 5700x are missing, which has long been a part of the line-up. i run a 1700x, 8 cores, which i think were $279 a little after launch. AMD is not too far away from charging DOUBLE that for 8 cores now, which is mad-sad.

agreed that this Road could use more Paving. the lone, stressed out operator might not be the ideal circumstance for such paving.

great feature, already discussed in Prefix Delegation how powerful it can be, what a win for security & privacy it is.

this feature enables things like the super cool ipv6 privacy extensions in Linux, where connections get random ip addresses. i think Apple has a similar offering? rather than have all activity come from a single IP address, that activity can now look like it comes from across a subnet of addresses. this also allows service isolation, such that your file-sharing protocol is the only thing offered on one ip address, your dns service is the only thing available on another ip address, &c. this is really powerful, privacy protecting, giving computers multiple ip addresses. ipv6!

accurate. that is what firewalls are for? what is bad or the downside about that? it's not computationally complex, home routers should be able to offer this network security you want.

the amount of networking hell we have had to endure because devices are not on the internet has been vast. i know we still have some way to go before we can trust in device security, but this warm blanket of network security, of running our own private networks & NAT'ing between, is a malpractice & problematic beyond belief & we need to get better, advance.

there is some salvageable wisdom here. devices should come with an option to run in site-local address scopes, such that they are not routeable. my hope is most devices can be online, but perhaps we can allow for the option to not.

you can easily route any range of addresses, by port, to wherever you want with ipv6. this isn't pure network prefix translation, but that's not the only tool in the shed for ipv6.

where-in the author argues that devices should be kept off the internet & should not have their own internet addresses. which, is, well, conventional & safe, yes. but i tire of this stalemate. i very much would like devices to be connectable.

yes you need dual rules. alas, the legacy world haunts us.

i am all here for explicit behavior over invisible, slow, dangerous behavior. everything written in this section sounds like an escape from a nightmare.

well, almost everything. i scanned the PMTU doc. it looks like the sender has to send large packets in order to trigger the Packet Too Big (PTB) messages, which is un-ideal. it'd be great to ICMPv6 probe this with small packets? bah.

also there is an (expired) "IPv6 Packet Truncation" draft that i'm not sure if is implemented or no (probably not), where a router can truncate the packet & issue the ICMPv6 Packet Too Big back to the sender, such that the IPv6 source can, in some cases, application protocol specific, send the remaining "fragmented" data without loss, at the expected MTU size. notably, this may mean multiple PTB messages if the packet runs into multiple mtu decreases as it goes, creating odd timing & reconstruction issues for those seeking to implement this.

i grow tired of the author bellyaching about big addresses being hard. the switch from . separated to colon separated at least has some grounds for head scratching, but the complaints about long addresses, about long rDNS? please. it's not the prettiest, yes. but it doesn't strike me as bad, or a nightmare. there's critiques on ipv6, but this aint it. this is small.

i can definitely see wanting massive local address space in ipv6. i imagine, for example, creating an untrusted/semi-trusted container/workload that shouldn't know where it's connections are coming from, where all packets are forwarded to it mapped through link local addresses. having this huge address space would allow not just that one container to have this kind of blindfolded addressing happen, but would allow tens of thousands of containers to have this kind of blindfolded addressing work on a machine.

this seems like a weird bone to pick, and it strikes me as a huge feature, offering some very valid flexibility

imo there's a kind of fetishistic personalization/craftiness argument at play here, and it's not entirely wrong, but it misses the much larger trend, the thing that's really shifting focus. the thing that actually matters, today, is that the cloud let's us retain, persist, share, & interact with both the already present medium, but also in a way that permits us to bring our selves, retain, persist share & interact with the many folk that dwell & pass through. the write up here is interesting, but it still speaks to me of the solitary, lone, solo experience, of me, the author, crafting something niche & creative, & ignores the wider relevance that has taken wing underneath our feat.

the web, once, was reputed as a place of interconnection, of links, between systems. if you want an interesting web, imo, you need to be letting people seed more & interesting interconnectivities across sites. let people play with your web. create intertwingularities, join points, where other experiences, other systems, can see yours, touch yours, manipulate yours. weave a wider web, connect better, allow others more powers to harness yours.

the challenge on this page, to design into interestingness, is a false song, is tale of personal greatness that ignores the interconnected greatness that is the wider world web, and how we can make ourselves resources than can be remixed and recycles and iterated upon freely, elevating our small selves into pieces of the greater ongoing rolling ensemble of our times..

i am dead cold afraid that the web that is coming seems like it will not support extensions. the bookmarklet is dead, extensions are only on desktop. websec has won, sites are secure, and alas, secured against the almighty user who we all agreed we served.

what sites do- now that's also been, frankly, not great.

i disagree that this is about the rituals not being visible enough. We lack the awe for our work because most of it is in service to ill masters, building consumerized systems that mechanize & automate society, versus being a part of something greater.

we need to struggle for Human Computer Symbiosis. that requires bolder top down approaches to computing than the application can afford us. yet here we are, building apps and far off clouds that may help us, but with which humans will never be an equal much less dominant partner. human will must be respected.

once we right our cause, the awe & energy of our work will restore.

alas most technology itself is more Prescriptive & mechanistic than it is Holistic & creative. most users live in an easy to use commercialized mechanized environment, their entire lives. they are afforded some capabilities to be creative, but the regime of computing at large is oppressive & controlling, is increasingly un-personal, far away, in some cloud we cannot see or control.

techies have let computing become a bad part of reality. and in my mind, its because not enough of us have opted to use it personally, in personal manners, to set up forward bases for a more liberated computing experience, first for ourselves, for the alpha geeks, & to have that radical departure into optimism light the way for others, to get glimpses of what better ways might be.

we must live the better existence ourselves, techies.

while I LOVE AMD's strategy of selling gobs & gobs of PCIe at a good price, i have to say, the loss of SeaMicro is one of the saddest most unfortunate tales of computing.

the hyperscalers are busy busy busy recreating many of the advantages on their own, AWS for example with Nitro. the big vendors have started dabbling with some related tech like GenZ, but are, for the most part, nowhere near this. this is such a better, more interesting way of building systems. tech that needs to get un-lost.

as fine a soliloquy to utility/grid compute & the folding down of the personal-computing age as has been written

i keep hoping mankind will find it interesting to steal back this fire from the gods yet again, for their own ends

siphoning off energy from the spinning magnetohydrodynamic EM shield of spaceship earth seems like an obviously just terrible awful gobsmackingly bad plan for the future.

there's absolutely no renewing this energy source. yes it's a big battery. but one that we really really hope never runs out. let's not tap it?

interesting discussion on trying to use PCIe as a fabric. i would have expected the focus to be on NTB to bridge pi's together & share at a high level, but they seem interested in sharing peripherals directly.

LOLGOP

"we had to build a complete and compliant operating system in order to perform resource control reliably"

epic real-talk. the only people on the planet who seemed to have tamed linux for workloads. controlling memory. taming io. being on the bleeding edge, it turns out, is almost entirely about forward-progress. what can we reclaim?

• oomd for memory protection
• fbtax2
• psi monitoring for io regulation
• cgroups v2

https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/cgroup2/docs/fbtax-results.html

🙇 boom

didn't realize that the modern era had expanded as such. this is way more modern than i knew was accessible.

pay no attention to the no-talent critical hacks. these people are massive cargo-cultist losers endlessly purporting to recreate the "complex" (not so much) work networks that they fail to understand.

but also bro biotch being bro biotch. don't let a couple stupid furdbags dissuade.

8device is awesome and has made really good modules at a great price for a while now i love this company & their support is definitely on par.

i can't wait for a less frigging ancient core but wow still a powerful offering. good wifi! huzzah: that's what this module offers. on package. wow. the chip has some good ok stuff. 2x 5Gbe. usb3. a lane of pcie3. not bad. seemingly the lane of pcie is after the dual onboard 802.11ax 2x2? cause that's what this is really about. some wifi io.

i do like the idea of having a well defined type structure for responses. the main weakness i see of the canonical error handling is that one has to use JavaScript error types, which is a parallel/different system to using GraphQL. the same sort of result as this article is achievable, but it steps off the GraphQL path.

overall, it doesn't make me want to create Result types, it makes me want GraphQL to have GraphQL enabled errors.

they sure look like 403 Forbidden class errors to me

we treat all errors as big problems, except for the errors we know to look for & be chill-er about/handle.

attach information to your errors so your errors are self describing. this seems like a non issue.

this seems good to me. let the client work through the available errors in a consistent way.

often in computing i find people willing themselves to draw distinctions. rarely is this warranted. most often- as i feel here- this is a "want to believe" situation. what makes folks think these situations deserve to be treated so differently?

In 2007, safety implied an unacceptable performance hit for hosting extensions, on devices with one core and 128MiB ram. In 2020, the lack of extensions is the ultimate app-ification of the web, the reduction of the web into a useless, powerless medium where users have no control.

hehe

lol

by being a fantastically terrible person along with other terrible goober shitheads coopting the courts & delegitimizing the government.

you are setting dynamite to hypertext & turning the web into a webassembly powered VNC viewer. this is an awful thing for users, for the web in general. please desist. please i beg you stop.

the web is not for pushing pixels into people's faces. the web is a system of interlinking hypertext, a place where structured information can be viewed/enhanced by users, navigators, & extensions.

Flutter seems intent on turning applications into mini-VNC sessions into webassembly, with CanvasKit work proceeding full steam ahead. can you please for the love of god NOT, Flutter? abomination.

the web is more than a means to pump pixels at people's faces; it is a system of structured information, that users, their navigators, & extensions have rights & capabilities to traverse.

mirrors strongly another comment i made, that our appetites & expectations for computing has outstripped the personal, that we now expect computing to be connective. we want the digital matter we create to exist not just locally, but widely. https://hypothes.is/a/11-k1v7pEeqJ1qdf5kJahQ

The end seems perilously close at hand for personal computing, but, imo, as much as anything that is because users now expect to compute to have impact & effect far beyond the beige box.

Open source has many amazing things, but in terms of ways to get user's digital stuff online & available & circulating, there have been precious few compelling attempts. I'd call out in particular RemoteStorage spec, & the newer SOLID specs from MIT & TBL.

my personal hope is that we can build a more sensible coherent web, that exudes the machines inside of it, by better harkening towards custom elements ("webcomponents"). move the page from being a bunch of machines in javascript, to a bunch of machines in hypertext.

and then build pages that start to expose & let the user play with the dom. start to build experiences that bridge the gap into the machine/page.

and keep going. keep going. build wilder web experiences. build more machines. and keep building battlesuits for the user, out of more componenets, out of more web, to let them wrestle & tangle with & manipulate & experiment & hack on & see & observe & learn about the truthful, honest, direct hypertext that we all navigate.

on Mastodon these days, it feels very similar. it's a much weaker carrier of memetic payloads, which has ups and downs. it's much more personal. there's an enormous amount of negativity & fear & loathing here, the walkaways it has attracted are often a rather cantankerous sort perhaps. but there are some very good people & very good happenings too. i don't see a whole lot of big picture or cerebral activity, these experiences i see all seem so near at hand, so local to these people, which is interesting but also often fairly boring.

i look forward to us continuing to chase social. and it reconfirms my interest regularly in doing a better job of curating & surfacing & raising up the bigger bolder & more notable things, versus letting the big & weighty coexist unremarked amid the floofy or trashy whatever.

oh and content warning are a surprisingly useful way to create & mark off the spaces where you are going to try to semi-safely produce hot takes & land blows. starting with a warning, setting some scope, is quite effective.

the Function-as-a-Service offering often have multiple fine-grained updateable code modules (functions) running within the same vm, which comes pretty close to the Erlang model.

then add service mesh, which in some cases can do automatic retry at the network layer, and you start to recoup some of the supervisor tree advantages a little more.

really fun article though, talking about the digital matter that is code & how we handle it. great reminder that there's much to explore. and some really great works we could be looking to.

"Turn the 5G ray on them"

"Ominous weapons" indeed.

beyond CUDA mentioned throughout, it's also worth mentioning that Nvidia still lacks useful open source drivers on Linux, and does not provide technical info that commonly is available to document their systems, such that open source developers could build open source drivers

notably absent: ARM's GPU cores. ;)

wow uh, ironic. "software's long term cost" ad from GCP. from a company that only supports phones for 3 years, & which is notorious for deprecating services, this is probably not what you want to remind people of- that this cloud provider will pull the plug rather than pay upkeep cost of their services.

such a fun write-up, & they take SocialVPN with it's custom forwarding & mate it to such very good open source tech... divine.

what an amazing beautiful cavernous feel these photos bring, epic

the modern "think different" is... scary

someone is unaware that io_uring making the whole kernel async is an epic phase shift we're entering into

sorry but this feels like a huge cop out to go off inventing your own systems. what limits did you run into around having to provide an arbitrary work/request id?

kind of the core difference imo, making the client a consumer of potentially many semi/low trusted sources

the most generous thing that can be said is that this is very unfortunate & accidental phrasing. the internet doesn't have fortresses. communication among all people of the world is a human right & the internet that is allowed to span this globe is a human essential to improving the world through amplifying that human right.

america is not going to go hide & disconncet because the Secretary of State tells us we must cower in our fortress. our data will be shared, our culture will be shared, & we look forward to accepting foreign data, to partaking in foreign data. good americans are committed to using their liberty, their freedom of speech, their voices to try to build a more peaceful, cross-culturally rich world with everyone. this cowardice of the State Department does not represent us the people.

many many many places threaten our privacy, proliferate viruses, and spread propoganda and disinformation. there is such marginal safety from this ill defined broad-sweeping prohibition you are enacting without any attempt at regulation.

we should be allowing China to access our democratic & free information & this makes that nearly impossible. holy shit you have no fucking clue what the fuck you are doing you worthless sods.

fuck you, you fucking asshole. this is not how the internet works you authoritarian little bitch.

The thinking machines are not going to think for themselves.

It's up to us.

just trying to spitball reasons-

so we can access our saved content easily? so we can save easily?

i guess my desire would be like, i want my own systems that i trust to have my content, that i store into. then additional systems can push/propogate that back into youtube or what not, if i want that.

and i'd want my systems to be able to augment some of the experiences i'm having elsewhere, use a 3rd party tool to make favorites of a site, any site, available.

there is some negative here, this is kind of anti-social. i do like looking at people's favorites! if they off-board them into their own environments, if the practice is that the first system you store to is yours, the online social world suffers. we have no means right now to create links that would be anywhere as effective as what youtube internally can generate, the data is too far apart in this system, rather by design. yet surely some will seek to harvest that distributed data, but will need big tools, & how do we end up with not just the rich & powerful holding our data again?

one additional though- perhaps just a buffer system, so one can fav stuff while offline, then log in & dump that buffer into youtube.

a mentioning of the #webmention s right here folks

dire need for some IBIS or other, where people can make structured arguments & thread out, rather than this endless growing log of comments that pick up wherever they feel like & push whichever-which-way.

we need higher fidelity information to begin to moderate effectively.

this is a really nicely written thread from one of the most ultra-productive extremely-high-quality coders on the planet, detailing what challenges moderators face. and how they are equipped with only: a) moderation of individual comments b) locking threads c) bannings, all fiat acts.

ideally i want social networks to go away. i want people, online. they should have some really good toolkits that make their information, their posting, accessible & usable in convenient fancy ways to multiple consumers & across multiple pieces of software.

i like a lot of this post (and have spent time trying to find where on twitter i mentioned withdrawing/correcting one's own posts, because i feel strong affinity for a lot of the ideas here),

but this particular suggestion is fascist & stupid & strongly deserves glaring disapproval.

this isn't just a take-backs tool. we can't just say bad thing after bad thing, say we were wrong, & get to deny people their stage to respond. tweets are a collective online phenomenon. critique & review must be ongoing, beyond the point where fault is accepted. we don't stop socialization at the point that someone says, yeah, i guess not.