Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Do I have any #sparc64 friends that would like to help me port #dlang to sparc64?

I believe there is only one remaining blocker, but I don't know enough sparc64 assembly to do it right I don't think.

Boosts welcome.

"They say disk space is cheap. This is not true, not for the root devices of modern computers. Built-in storage has in fact been shrinking." ♥

https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future

> The [Apple Computer] garage is a bit of a myth. We did no designs there, no breadboarding, no prototyping, no planning of products. We did no manufacturing there.
> The work was being done—soldering things together, putting the chips together, designing them, drawing them on drafting tables—at my cubicle at Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino. That was an incredible time. It let me do a lot of side projects - Steve Wozniak

The Apple I computer was "slacking off at work" in action. Just imagine doing this today, good luck on not getting your copyright claimed by the company. #retrocomputing #apple

I drream a native #gnome framework made with a browser copied form the #smalltalk browser

For browsing files hierarches

But also email folders

toots (the articulation of categories in ths case could be invented)

forums

trees of todo tasks

git trees

databases

whatever

things could be represented logically with vocabularies and triples and managed by a system wide service

And then the same browser could allow you to browse anything

#daydreaming

Political polling would be much more insightful - and potentially more useful - if it asked people how they would vote on specific issues in a hypothetical referendum, and abandoned the narrow focus on the hypothetical electoral fortunes of political parties.

#NZpolitics #PoliticalPolling

7 years after the release of the #Fairphone 2, the company is still providing security updates and improvements to the phone. Kudos to them!

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp2-fairphone-os-and-fairphone-open-21-10-0-rel-2/78115

@freemo
You're wrong. Apples could fly, not people.
@Science @funny

@digital_carver There are plenty of reasons to hate science nerds, and yes this is one of them :)

Here I sit, broken hearted,
Tried to shit, but only farted.

Could be worse, you must admit,
than if you try to fart and instead you shit.

#biden #USPol #BidenPoopyPants
#Biden #PoopyPantsBiden #lgb

@fitheach @kensanata So....no. All devices should not have the same current and voltage.

Imagine a larger device, something that has a much higher current draw. Then imagine having to use the LARGE powerpack for that device for charging your Switch, or powering an external USB hub.

That's why they are not standard, because the upper ranges would end up defining the standard, leading to needlessly large supplies.

And that's why the connectors are not standard either, to prevent overdraw.

website made by someone who describes themself as "a dipshit who doesn't know how to use computers" and hosted on a raspberry pi or some random VPS: loads instantly, well designed, easy to navigate

website made by fortune 500 company, with teams of designers, programmers, and servers in 8 countries: takes a full minute to load, layout shifting around the whole time, breaks if you have 1 browser add-on, the page you want can only be accessed via a third party search engine, gets worse every year

i am very interested in computers, which is why none of my computers work

@acdw That's what bookmarks are for ...

for saving cool websites so you never look at them and end up with massive list of bookmarks.

I want to gather data off my existing PCs onto the hard drive of the laptop I just got. I could buy an external hard drive to copy it all onto, then copy to the new laptop. But surely there's some way to do this over the net, ideally on the local network? To avoid the extra purchase and double copying. I've had success doing this with SyncThing in the past, but the last time I tried it didn't seem to be working. I'll try again, but any other suggestions?

#FileSynchronization #SyncThing

Accusing critics of "free trade agreements" of xenophobia is tired and lazy, as is the claim that they are necessary to bring skilled labour into Aotearoa, when it's well established that progressive immigration policy can be crafted to achieve the same thing. Outsourcing service jobs to overseas companies risks starving out our local capacity to perform or afford them. Just look at what "free trade' has done to local manufacturing and food prices.

We really need to invent a separate web at this point, right?

"This is an HTML email, please update your email client to view."

No! Please update your email generation system to send plain text email. Putting aside the risks of opening HTML in email apps, where browser security isn't protecting users from the most common HTML-based attacks, HTML email is the digital equivalent of packaging products in 3 layers of plastic when 1 layer of cardboard would do. It's a waste of bandwidth and energy.

#TimeBanksUSA #HTMLMail

Frankly I'm surprised that pressing F12 while running a web browser isn't illegal by now

@vandys @thegibson Unfortunately not, at least not from what I can see. Won't stop intolerant lefties from blocking it tho, a lotta the #Fediblock crowd blocks #Gab no knowing that they defederated and are never coming back to the #Fediverse lol