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One of the great things about doing ham radio in a park like this is the endless stream of kids that come up to ask you what you are doing.

"ARE YOU MAKING A TIKTOK?"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO INTERNET"

"HOW IS THIS TALKING TO JAPAN"

Invariably the parents are as interested, but it's always the kids that are uninhibited enough to ask.

#hamradio #amateurradio #ft8

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looking at some malicious code that’s been obfuscated with nonsense variable names, like a normal utf-8 string bundled in a struct with “length”, “width” and “depth” properties. hot dang they’re out here inventing three-dimensional unicode

software dev looking for work (1/x) 

hi fedi! i'm looking to exchange my time and skills for money

i do software development, primarily in the back end, with rust, python, or whatever the project calls for
i enjoy designing&building electronics hardware, and i dabble in ops-adjacent stuff (run my own server for example)

being able to work remotely is critical to me

i live in germany, and to reduce headaches having the company located in the EU (ideally germany) would help

#GetFediHired

this is definitely the most perverted, obscene thing i've ever done with a compiler. to my friends who work at Apple, have worked at Apple, or are possessed of such a shining divine Purpose that they have accumulated more Apple knowledge than any Apple employee could possibly know… you're allowed to kill me for this. well not really but

I am now cross-compiling to 32-bit iOS using upstream LLVM and no Apple headers, on Windows!

fear me

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/actions/runs/5937842048

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. :trantifa:

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 🦀"

@mos_8502 @irenes @beka_valentine tbh I think this is a consequence of failures in desktop app development more than anything. The Web and the ability to build apps on it came about at just the right time to act as an offramp for developers just as more ui focused app development platforms from the hypercard->vb line of systems became unfashionable.

Everything about writing desktop apps since then has gotten harder, while writing apps for the web has never been exactly as easy as RAD stuff was, it is at least very UI focused in a way other systems aren't. Throw in cross platform (sort of) by default and I don't think it was ever going to go another way.

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

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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

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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

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abortion is a medical need that needs to be accessible to all pregnant people, including trans people, intersex people, and/or children. all 3 of those groups have special access needs when seeking reproductive care that should not be erased.

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@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.

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