FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

need a girl to want me to be trapped me in a closed-circle mystery #光ハルヒHoliday 10

‪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