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30 years of the World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Consortium #w3ctpac

in 25+ years of retro gaming and sierra, i've never once seen someone mention Hoyle's Book of Games

despite its small stature, it was one of the most financially lucrative sierra titles, and spawned an entire series of games.

what makes it special is that opponents are (for the most part) characters from sierra titles, each playing in a style expressive of the character's personality. graham and rosella are friendly and not overly competitive, larry is silly and aggressive with his cards.

the dog? the dog is a real shithead.

#sierraOnline #retroGaming

me reacting to various computer programs' scrollbar styling / usability in 2024:

Wow... Winamp is open source now?

https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp

I mean, I'm using Jellyfin these days but I can't say I'm not at least curious about this development. Hopefully the chiptune situation on linux can get better as a result. #linux #audio #opensource

Here's a way to turn anti-AI rage into action:

Normalize crediting.

I can't tell you how many times an invite, email, blog post, random bit of social media content goes out with some kind of unattributed lovely art.

CREDIT ARTISTS. ON EVERYTHING. It's easy. And if we normalized crediting enough, the generated images would stand out on their own for absence of credit.

#AI #art #GenAI #artists

ClanATG.wsz

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/5652dd15c47585214866f48f29e2430d

#fediblock feministwiki.org / fedi.feministwiki.org

The main address is literally a pro-TERF wiki. The fedi account is boosting spinster.xyz and cawfee.club accounts.
https://archive.is/vgJgv

Ok, I should be sleeping right now, but what's happening is SO FUCKING CRAZY.

Long story short: WPEngine is suing Matt Mullenweg, Automattic and the WordPress foundation for slandering them. In return, Matt is suing them for trademark violation.

But, BUT, WPEngine has fired their first shot. And what a shot it is, friends:



Link to the full letter

Some extracts:

Stunningly, Automattic’s CEO Matthew Mullenweg threatened that if WP Engine did not agree to pay Automattic – his for-profit entity – a very large sum of money before his September 20th keynote address at the WordCamp US Convention, he was going to embark on a self-described “scorched earth nuclear approach” toward WP Engine within the WordPress community and beyond. When his outrageous financial demands were not met, Mr. Mullenweg carried out his threats by making repeated false claims disparaging WP Engine to its employees, its customers, and the world. Mr. Mullenweg has carried out this wrongful campaign against WP Engine in multiple outlets, including via his keynote address, across several public platforms like X,YouTube, and even on the Wordpress.org site, and through the WordPress Admin panel for all WordPress users, including directly targeting WP Engine customers in their own private WordPress instances used to run their online businesses

During calls on September 17th and 19th, for instance, Automattic CFO Mark Davies told a WP Engine board member that Automattic would “go to war” if WP Engine did not agree to pay its competitor Automattic a significant percentage of its gross revenues – tens of millions of dollars in fact – on an ongoing basis. Mr. Davies suggested the payment ostensibly would be for a “license” to use certain trademarks like WordPress, even though WP Engine needs no such license. WP Engine’s uses of those marks to describe its services – as all companies in this space do – are fair uses under settled trademark law and consistent with WordPress’ own guidelines. Automattic’s CFO insisted that WP Engine provide its response to this demand immediately and later, on the day of the keynote, followed up with an email reiterating a claimed need for WP Engine to concede to the demands “before Matt makes his WCUS keynote at 3:45 p.m. PDT today.”

In parallel and throughout September 19 and 20, Mr. Mullenweg embarked on a series of harassing text messages and calls to WP Engine’s board member and also its CEO, threatening that if WP Engine did not agree to pay up prior to the start of Mr. Mullenweg’s livestreamed keynote address at 3:45pm on September 20, he would go “nuclear” on WP Engine, including by smearing its name, disparaging its directors and corporate officers, and banning WP Engine from WordPress community events.

In the final minutes leading up to his keynote address, Mr. Mullenweg sent one last missive: a photo of the WordCamp audience waiting to hear his speech, with the message that he could shift gears and turn his talk into “just a Q&A” if WP Engine agreed to pay up

These days coding for retro computer system is a recreational and learning activity. But sometimes it's essential for maintaining mission critical legacy software, like in this case of writing a new x86 C compiler for Windows CE.

https://building.enlyze.com/posts/a-new-windows-ce-x86-compiler-in-2024

#WindowsCE #windows #retrocomputing

"And you're taking me to a secret hideout so I'll be even harder to steal. What a smart Son I have!" 🥧

new blog post: almost perfect.

https://blog.dante.cool/almost-perfect/

a bit of an expansion on some thoughts I was having earlier, on the value of franchise work that is allowed to be "kind of stupid sometimes", and how that elevates the overall work because of it. image stolen shamelessly from heather flowers. also some ideas stolen from sarah zedig's great video essay on doctor who (linked inside).

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New on the Secret Area: The Version Everybody Knows: A small rant about how tough it can be find alternate mixes for songs in the streaming era.

Likes, shares, and comments appreciated, as always.

https://asecretarea.com/2024/09/20/the-version-everybody-knows-streaming-rant/

~Project Orihime: buttons and system font~

Project Orihime is a concept of a modern user interface for EGA and VGA displays running in 16 colours, aimed primarily at FreeGEOS.

The goal here is to bring an eye-candy interface and good UX to the 1984 IBM PC clones.

This is not a real UI (yet), but it gets more and more fleshed out, and I think it looks great on both CRTs and LCDs of the era.

I want to try and document some of my progress for your enjoyment. It also helps me to make better sense of design decisions I am taking on the go. Thread!

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