FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.

Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

There once was a corgi named Tab
Who thought she'd give lim'ricks a stab
But then she got stuck
And decided "Well fuck,
I might as well end with a crab 🦀"

its kind of wild to me that there's been so few new features in browsers

i mean like, i just found myself disliking the size of an image, so i wanted to scale it up. ok fine i can zoom the page in

but why can't i just zoom the picture???? that's the only thing that was too small to read

@irenes @beka_valentine Okay. At a fundamental level, the web is and always has been about hypertext -- documents that link together. It did that well from day one, so it was natural that they'd keep adding features. Inline images, fonts, things like that are no big deal. It all more or less worked.

And then webmail came along, and it started training users to expect more from their browser -- they expected not a browser for linked documents with images and such, but a whole (shitty) OS that they use inside another (usually shitty) OS -- and training them to think that's normal.

The way it's supposed to work is that an email application on OS Y and one on OS Z speak the same protocol, so it doesn't matter that they might look different because they're both native to their platforms -- but instead, now everyone gets an equally shitty experience, and nothing is as fast or maintainable as it could be.

browsers are fossils now. instead of being hypermedia browsers with ever improving features for how you can interact with and utilize that hypermedia, they're vehicles for web apps that define and constrain behavior

i hate it

Boy it's hard to get around the modern internet without anything like a scroll wheel. Everything's designed around just being a quick swipe. Scroll bars are too narrow to grab, arrow keys are often interpreted as "next/prev item", pgup/pgdn go...well, an entire page at once.

welcome to the future:
where even your CAD program is actually chrome

CPU emulation begins now.
hello, world
thread 'main' panicked at 'Attempted null-page access at 0x0 (0x4 bytes)', src/mem.rs:287:9

YES

YESSSSSSSS

I AM BECOME GOD

fandom keeps finding incredible new ways to suck ass

@RecursiveElegance Sites covered by #Cloudflare captcha can also block non-web clients like #RSS readers, as I discovered with Medium (I was trying to bypass its interface nagging & nonsense, so I figured I'd check its support for #webfeeds).

RSS readers do not typically implement interactive web display, so even if they had a #Javascript interpreter, it is impossible to answer the captcha query. This breaks the endpoint entirely.

"Is this a yeag?"

I give you a bunlith meme in our trying times.

Are you going to boost this poll for a larger sample size?

brb retitling my gpu/graphics cv with this: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/110921126413493477

Oh gawd this feels too real.

#satire #funny #starwars

Incidentally, this is one of the central points of the Go article that keeps getting posted to HN and causing a flamewar each and every time from
@fasterthanlime; Go reduces complexity and makes things "simple" by just making it your/someone else's problem.

And it's absolutely not any better in terms of workability or final product.

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