~b @torresjrjr@qoto.org

Reading a paper written by @cwebber, and this stuck out to me:

Do you and I mean the same thing? Lojban enthusiasts clearly solved language, creating something completely syntactically unambiguous! Except, oh no, turns out syntactic unambiguity does not mean meaning unambiguity. What’s a bear? From an evolutionary standpoint, something moved from a pre-bear state to a bear-state, but evolution didn’t put a pin in it… this was rough, statistical, approximate. Not to mention, what’s a “dead bear”? Is it still a bear? When does it decompose into bear goo? And when does it decompose beyond that? Vocabulary thus seems to be a tug-of-war between fuzziness and crispness.

“Bear Goo” is a fun metaphor.

https://dustycloud.org/tmp/interfaces.html

I'm working on the standard library of the language we're developing. Here's datetime::arithmetic, a lot of fun to work on :)

https://paste.sr.ht/~vladh/36b8032168a7ea6eb7c54420129f5e985eac2b86

Working on OpenGL support for our language. Self-implemented math stdlib, linear algebra functions, OpenGL bindings.

@w @p
I love good serif monospace fonts. A favourite of mine is Triplicate.

https://mbtype.com/fonts/triplicate/

You can see it being used throughout this site:

https://beautifulracket.com/explainer/contracts.html#a_fzPMp

this violates every single one of my senses 10 times over. I love it. https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

:9front:front ships with /lib/font/bit/vga/unicode.font, but not with the old-timey MacOS font, "Chicago". So I found a TTF, used ttffs in Inferno to convert it to the Plan 9 bitmap format, and then made a tarball. Here's the tarball. You can install it by un-tarring it in /fonts (Inferno) or /lib/font/bit (Plan 9).

I couldn't find a monospace version; I don't know if one was produced. Code is more readable than expected, but Pike be damned, variable-width fonts are terrible.
chicago.png
chicago.tgz

@devinprater Terminals are not "more accessible" to blind users because they lack metadata. Screenreaders need to know when a piece of text has a different locale because they can switch TTS settings; they need to know semantic meanings because blind users can't just "see" text with different meanings.

Single-locale line-mode interfaces without any ascii art or other prettification *is* quite accessible, but this is a subset of programs for the terminal.

I say this as someone who hardly uses GUI apps besides the browser and inherently graphical tasks (e.g. viewing images/videos). Whenever I do a "blind for the afternoon" challenge (something I highly recommend), accessible widget toolkits (ideally supporting AT-SPI) are ten times easier to operate.

I'd recommend reading documentation for assistive technologies/standards like AT-SPI to see what all is required; not all of this maps well to a terminal.

TIL about https://lichess.org/ , one of the world's most popular chess servers, run entirely on free software by a nonprofit, ad-free, supported by donations with a budget of ~$420K/year according to https://lichess.org/costs

They've been around since 2010.

As awesome as this is to see, imagine how many free/open nonprofit alternatives to Big Tech platforms would exist if, down to the municipal level, we decided to support them with funding & infrastructure.

New official #Gemini news feed:
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/news/
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/news/

We have closed the loop.

The launcher can now assemble tal files on the fly, you can use Left to write #uxn programs, Nasu to make graphics, Dexe to include them into your projects.

That means you can have a complete workstation on a NDS, GBA, Playdate, etc..

Thanks to everyone who helped to put this together.

>[centralized service] banned me
>oh i know i'll sign up for [different centralized service]
>it'll be different this time
>

“wow the fediverse federates… let’s keep it to 2 or 3 instances guys, let’s never use this awesome power to actually do anything”