There is just something about the way Gemini capsules all have similar visual language by design and that I, the user, am in control of things like which font family is used, pleases my neuroatypical brain.
The page author decides the content and its structure. I decide the details of rendering, for the most part -- though Lagrange supports ANSI escapes[1] for foreground and background colour and font variant -- bold, italic, underline, etc.
I consider that a fair compromise between user and author.
[1] Hot take: If you write a Gemini client, you have two options for ANSI escape sequences: You can either implement them, or filter them out. Showing visual garbage that's never meant for human eyes is just lazy.
One very good reason to like Gemini in my book is that Gemtext is simple enough that features like automatically generating page outlines for navigation is entirely practical in a one-person project like the Lagrange Gemini browser, which by the way is available for both GUI and TUI users, with as much feature parity as is reasonably possible.
If you're interested in breaking into music theory, I cannot recommend @bd's cheatsheet enough.
https://badd10de.dev/notes/music-theory.html
Imagine paying $3,500 for a VR headset and then needing to get permission from multiple corporations before you're allowed to run software on it https://isfeeling.social/@matt/113234358188481174
> The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey Internet Application Suite (see below). … Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.
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https://www.seamonkey-project.org
I hit View, Apply Theme, Get More, and got Metal Lion. Look at those chunky dark scroll bars!
#seamonkey
"Data centers and their associated transmission networks have become a primary driver of global energy consumption. At present, this accounts for 3% of global consumption, emitting as much CO2 as Brazil."
"A rack of traditional servers in a data center runs on 7 kilowatts of electricity, while a rack of AI servers with increased processing power uses 30-100 kilowatts."
😳 Wow that's a lot more energy.
#AI #energy #USA #data #news #technology #Climate #Environment
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2024/05/23/ai-is-pushing-the-world-towards-an-energy-crisis/
Finished the slots on the new backplane for the Z180 build: seven Z50Bus slots, and three 80-pin #RC2014 slots. That’s 590 solder joints, if my arithmetic holds.
Want to get good at through hole soldering? Do kit computers.
i now have in my possession, tangara with 100% production parts number one
gosh i wish mozilla's browser, "fire fox" still existed. remember that thing? back in the early '10s it filled me with such optimism. tragic that it then died suddenly, and so young. at least we can reminisce about it and experience only fondness, happy memories, and hope for future projects
Thesis: everything always happens
Antithesis: nothing ever happens
Synthesis: There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
I'm a straight cis dude. I have never felt any gender dysphoria or even thought about trans people at all until I made a couple of friends who happened to be transgender.
I was exposed to a few more trans people through my friends, and a few more on Twitter. Then I moved to Masto and was exposed to many, many more transgender voices.
Not once in my more than 5 decades of this mid existence have I ever seen any trans person talking about how they regretted it, or was having second thoughts. To the contrary, all I have *ever* seen is joy. Folks who are happy that they can be themselves and feel comfortable in their own bodies.
Republicans are trying their damndest to marginalize and erase trans folks, because they're terrified that people like me, who otherwise never gave it a second thought, might be exposed to the joy and realize that trans people are just people. Republicans want to portray anyone who's not cis, straight, and white as some kind of deviant. Don't fucking let them. They're wrong.
#drawtober 03
feat puffy the last hacker of the open clan #unix_surrealism and the varvara mascot
made with #oekaki
also @nonnullish wrote a beautiful blog post about running a website on a microcontroller powered by possibly the weirdest solar panel ("solar bag") i've seen. it has speakers! fun!
i think my one wish this halloween is to see a kid in a skibidi toilet costume
I'm looking for a student for an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Calgary. *This is a fully funded position.*
The project: building tools to help understand how "retro" video games were made under amazingly constrained circumstances. While it's a CS position, this is interdisciplinary work done in collaboration with archaeologists and others.
Needs: strong coding skills, good writing abilities. Ideally: low-level, reverse engineering, or compiler experience.
*buying two USB-C cables on amazon* I have literally no idea if these cables will work for the purpose I'm purchasing them for
in the same way hotdogs could be considered sandwiches, would you say floppy disks are cartridges?