FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

‪adults write stories about kids because we feel that kids are allowed to dream‬

‪“why do you like anime, isn't that [usually] for kids?”‬

‪it's made by adults who are proud of their work, and because it's “for kids”, they're allowed to make it joyful.‬

i think certain children's media have such enduring appeal with adults because they have this earnest joy to them that the adult world tries to suppress

@whitequark javascript is a workground that occasionally has a language in it

apparently the only way to get the JavaScript engine to run memcmp() on two typed arrays is...
...
...
to use IndexedDB. which provides a comparison operator. for typed arrays. in the Indexed-fucking-DB namespace. `indexedDB.cmp`. 🤡
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21553528/how-to-test-for-equality-in-arraybuffer-dataview-and-typedarray

time for my favourite european new year's tradition: it's time to watch „der 90. geburtstag“ aka ”grevinnan och betjänten” aka “dinner for one” as it's variously called

Knives are cutlery, forks are stabblery, spoons are scooplery

In 2009, I join Twitter.
I make friends there.
I can see their posts.

Twitter has a Nazi problem.
I pre-emptively join Mastodon.
But I don’t really use it yet.

Elon Musk buys Twitter.
My friends start leaving.
I no longer see their posts.

I want to see my friends’ posts.

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I find my friends again on Mastodon.
Now I have two apps to keep track of.
But I can see my friends’ posts again.

My instance admins get in a fight.
Friends’ instances defederate from mine.
I can no longer follow them, nor they me.
I am told about this by a friend who noticed.
There is no indication given by the software.
I am not notified of the connections I’ve lost.

I want to see my friends’ posts.

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A friend invites me to their instance.
I accept, and migrate my profile across.
I re-follow missing friends I can remember.
And I can see my friends’ posts again.

A friend posts photos on her instance.
But those photos are not visible on mine.
Her profile appears, to me, devoid of images.
My new instance seemingly media-blocks hers.
There is no indication given by the software.

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I just want to see my friends’ posts.

Am I wrong to want that?

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https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/i-want-to-see-my-friends-posts/

Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie

‪i'm calling it: let's make 2024 the year of unironically enjoying things.‬

‪in 2024, let's make a less cynical world, together.‬

in 2024 let's shine together
chase dreams and find joy
be the selves we need to be
make the world we want to see

wait so… do eu citizens moving to germany just show up at their local registration office and register themselves almost exactly like if they'd moved house within germany? it's not even a different form? they don't need special evidence of the basis of your right of residence???