Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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
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Good Girl Energy
tired: Fullmetal Alchemist
wired: transition metal chemist
;=3
ok @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe I am putting you back on the hook
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elon musk
https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-says-hyperloop-tunnel-is-now-just-a-normal-1835024474
Elon Musk's hyperloop project is now literally just a tunnel
His company spent two years and fuck knows how much money developing a tunnel
I can only imagine that the BFR is just a catapult at this point
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housing, mh, (-), help request
anyone know of any resources for a soon to be homeless person in the kalamazoo area?
argh I can't watch the Beast change back just can't
now onto Beauty and the Beast! yeah! (the GOOD one) (uh the good Disney one)
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@Alyx I know someone that really likes write.as but that is about all I've heard anyone using a Fediverse adjacent blogging / writing platform.
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selfie, eye contact, kinda see thru shirt, boosts/thirst/flirts welcome
getting ready for a trip~
these are our pro-otherkin horns uwu
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If you ever want to say something to a trans woman you don’t know just compliment her on a specific choice she made.
It’s the best feeling.
