Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

@brody Pretty sure it's their own fork of something. That's why both their forums and their answers sites are borked now. Because they forked them from free software and then never maintained or merged or updated them.

@brody Every time I go back, I just see endless toxicity within a minute or two. Makes my blood boil and then I close the tab and come back to mastodon and feel a sense of serenity wash over me.

Like, just the difference in general vibe is so crucial.

@gnusuario As I understand it, it's on a custom fork, so it takes a bit of extra time for mainline changes to propagate.

@Nick_Craver They must have detailed profiles for how every game ever made should run on that GPU for that space... wtf

@b0rk @palin They're used sometimes on old embedded hardware, or at least they were back when embedded hardware had more restrictions on space/memory. For color palettes and the like.

It's related to how some programmers will still try to pack 8 booleans into a single byte despite the fact that 8 bytes is nothing to a modern computer.

@b0rk I really doubt it.

I mean, I'm sure we could have standardized it at other sizes, but whatever size we picked would have had to have been a power of two, right? Just due to the nature of binary storage, it makes things way easier.

@lours_jo Of course it's not acceptable.

I'm not sure I had a point besides pointing out the contrast, but if I did, it would be that we need to draw a stronger distinction between behaviour that society finds unacceptable and behaviour that deserves jail time.

Obviously, I wasn't there; I don't know the details of your situation, but from the way you described it, it was just speech. And nobody deserves to be hauled off to jail for some mean words that didn't result in violence.

Then again, as I've learned over the years, the idea that governments shouldn't punish people for mean words is apparently a distinctly American ideal.

@gpowerf Ahhh. I mostly use social media on desktop. I forget most people use it on mobile. I can see why there'd be some extra friction there.

@gpowerf I don't understand this (and you're not the first person I've heard say this). What's so intimidating about writing a brief description of an image?

@lours_jo In America, the police also wouldn't investigate that, but for a different reason: because it's not a crime.