Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
@maple those tuning fork crystals are cool
@wigglytuffitout "it's like the internet is full of pushy salespeople swarming you" ya think? X=3 the internet's really never recovered from not knowing any other way to support itself without nonstop advertising. like, not sure what the answer would have been, maybe it'll take a whole different culture and civilization before it's even possible to have an internet that's not awful
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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@Alyx GOD yeah
i kinda miss when the hotness was a tiny window of content and lush - but STATIC. - window dressing around it
tbh the last time i shopped for something at e.l.f. i got a 'take a survey!' and just went on a screed about how their web designers should feel bad, because the number of clicks and scrolls to get to a thing i clicked to see was absurd. it's like the internet is full of pushy salespeople swarming you, when you just want to look at the shelf
@wigglytuffitout I mean...it kinda _was_? that's the crazy thing, it's not like web pages were totally unusable back when having 800x600 pixels seemed like unimaginable luxury
now having 1920x1080 doesn't seem enough. web pages have gotten so damn BUSY
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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@Alyx same, tbh
...let's not discuss the i-frame craze that followed the great Side Frame For Navigatio Or No battle. i'm trying to forget the time in my life when i thought 300x500 px was more than enough room to read all content contained within it, with a pastel-colored scroll bar and text at negative fuckyou pixels
@wigglytuffitout (like, I legit think all the fun went out of computing, or at least I've never been able to see the newer shit as fun at all)
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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honestly the last time i felt like i knew computer science type shit and web design was when i was able to hand-code a simple webpage in notepad with all my knowledge gained from making neopets webpages.
and i'm pretty content with that being the zenith of my cs career
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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re: archive.org discourse
@Alyx *nods*
they're both downloading sites and hosting them on other servers for archival purposes and their names start with the same entire word, so
you and like half the fediverse probably
re: archive.org discourse
@packbat ohhh ok, guess I conflated the two
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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re: archive.org discourse
@Alyx I feel obliged to point out that the berries.space thing was done by Archive Team, which is like archive.org except explicitly opposed to anyone saying "don't archive this, please" with a robots.txt (and probably in general)
like, if we're having a conversation about the ethics of archiving people's public content on the internet, that needs to include archive.org, but what happened with berries wasn't even that ethical
archive.org discourse
bleh. I think someone ought to be doing what Archive.org does--a LOT of someones, in fact--but we've gotta improve how we do it
Archive.org kinda...does whatever. it's like the Wild West days of the Internet, and I don't think that's a good thing
I want actual curators and librarians archiving things, not just some dudes with a server farm and an attitude of "oh yeah put whatever in here, we don't care"
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe I should punish you anyway
thought maybe I could mechanize a device that was like those tubes filled with beans or whatever, that make a kinda watery sound when you tilt them
a more out there approach, make a white noise generator based on avalanche breakdown or some other source of physical noise, then figure out some analogue effects circuitry that would make it sound oceany
or, I dunno, maybe a totally closed water feature? seems like it'd be too quiet
kinda want something that'll make watery sounds in my room at night that is both, like, an actual physical artifact (so no recorded sound) and doesn't use water
had a pump fountain for a bit, it gets filthy after a while. thought of putting some copper sulfate in the water but I don't wanna poison the cats
@maple ah, well, he exists - https://youtu.be/K_AeHbUkmSg
tasteless Manchurian Candidate joke
@Canageek@cybre.space uh? link to what show
tasteless Manchurian Candidate joke
@Canageek@cybre.space yeah I have seen a couple, they were actually my intro to the show, I hadn't ever watched one before
tasteless Manchurian Candidate joke
ugh "Murder She Wrote" isn't good but I kinda wanna watch another anyway. damn you Angela Lansbury, you got me brainwashed or something
