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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

@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

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

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 

@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"

@noelle @maple They went and archived berries.space without actually, you know, asking anyone. :blobexpressionless:

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

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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

tired: Fullmetal Alchemist
wired: transition metal chemist
;=3

ok @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe I am putting you back on the hook

elon musk 

jalopnik.com/elon-musk-says-hy

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

housing, mh, (-), help request 

anyone know of any resources for a soon to be homeless person in the kalamazoo area?

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now onto Beauty and the Beast! yeah! (the GOOD one) (uh the good Disney one)

@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.

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.

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