I'm thinking on some valid subset of #HTML that would look fine when displayed as-is, but can be preprocessed and enriched into something else. One of the elements I already implemented is captioned <pre> block:
<pre c>
auto var = 3;
</pre caption for this block>
that turns into
<figure>
<pre lang=c>
auto var = 3;
</pre>
<figcaption>caption for this block</figcaption>
</figure>
The magic here is that both forms are valid HTML, so I can preview both of these in the browser, and it will mostly be similar!
The goal is to have as many of these vanilla-looking elements. Elements that are progressively expanded to more complex and useful entities in my build scripts. But it will certainly take some time to come up with smart ways to exploit HTML for this.
It's interesting to me that after the Steam Deck encouraged devs to support Linux (at least through Proton) and proved that Linux is decent for gaming, that some people (albeit people already more technical rather than normal Gamers™) deliberately switched to Linux for gaming, just so they could use Gamescope and Gamemode
New video! I'm putting together a Commodore 64C with a relatively rare cost reduced case and then future proofing it.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/xsCXn19azSI
PeerTube: coming soon
#Commodore #C64 #Commodore64 #Restoration #Refurb #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
finally getting around to reading leibniz's discourse on metaphysics, it's quite short so i will be done soon.
i reread parts of kant's first critique to settle me into actually reading leibniz in his own words. leibniz is one of the few philosophers kant mounts systematic argumentation against in this text.
it seems to me that kant was much more influenced by hume than i realised--i used to enjoy the savaging of the 'scholastic rationalist' leibniz by kant, but now after having given leibniz independent attention i am fed up with the whole noumena/phenomena distinction.
and, frankly, kant's whole philosophy strikes me as far too skeptical. hume may have awoken kant from his 'dogmatic slumbers' but is the alternative adopted actually any good?
having spent a long time as a post-grad, i can tell you that in analytic philosophy you are only permitted to speak favourably of hume, and to some extent kant. metaphysics, plato, rationalism--everything linked to leibniz is taboo.
An intriguing blurb for a book with free epub and pdf options:
"When was the last time you participated in an election for a Facebook group or sat on a jury for a dispute in a subreddit? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In Governable Spaces, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences of this arrangement matter far beyond online spaces themselves, as feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian tendencies among politicians."
https://nathanschneider.info/books/governable-spaces/
@ntnsndr
i'm rehydrating my 20 year old readings on cybernetics, with some history i didn't know of back then.
TIL stafford beer and dozens of chilean programmers and engineers built a cybernetic economy simulation computer and software, designed to help coordinate/plan Chile's manufacturing sector and economy in 1975. it ran custom software on an IBM 360, which collected data from 500 telex machines, operated by factory employees.
the control room, designed by gui bonsiepe, is a modernist wonder to behold (this illustration is uncredited)
Fizzbuzz in Self.
https://sin-ack.github.io/posts/a-tour-of-self/
capitalism is all about waste. ultimately the reason why is the reign of private property.
i do not see any reason why we should not treat computer resources the same as any other under capitalism.
so perhaps the observation that modern computers are still slow is due to the fact we are wasting significant amounts of their power.
this could be a good direction for the @permacomputer project.
web browsers, mandatory AI at the operating system level, computer languages with huge runtimes... all these are a target for ruthless criticism.
The "see also" section of Wikipedia page on "Memex" [1] is a treasure trove of cool concepts that ended up nowhere. Inspiring stuff, makes me want to implement my own knowledge indexing system! (The fact that I don't have much knowledge is ignorable for now.)
Ever since I've upscaled þe font in Left, þat tiny 8x8 cursor became much too easy to loose track of, so I've snatched Symbolics Genera's pretty 8x16 cursor and will use it instead.
i love this. /u/The_Inventer has written some python software that lets their HP 48GX dial into a bbs using a laptop as a serial proxy:
HP48G's being the only real alternative to a TI-85. 😎
Interlisp windows have no visible close button as the system predates modern GUI conventions.To close a window right-click on the title bar or inside the window (unless the application overrides the click) and select Close from the popup menu.
The menu lets you also clear (Clear), send to the background (Bury), redraw (Redisplay), move (Move), resize (Shape), and minimize (Shrink; middle-click to expand) the window.
funny news points for the first person to try out tiktoks recommendation algorithm for a fediverse server
https://github.com/bytedance/monolith
XBONE YEAR IN REVIEW 2024
Total time
2,170h
Games played
41
Preferred platform
Xbone Console
Top 1% of players for time played
#1 top played game
Hogwarts Legacy
Time played
874h
#2 top played game
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Time played
336h
#3 top played game
Biomutant
Time played
201h
Other Favourites
4 - Borderlands 3
5 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
6 - STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
7 - Fallout 4
8 - Omno
9 - Stellaris: Console Edition
10 - Cyberpunk 2077
11 - Battlefield™ 1
12 - Subnautica
13 - Destiny 2
14 - The Outer Worlds
15 - Another Crab's Treasure
16 - Minecraft
17 - Cocoon
18 - Path of Exile
19 - ASTRONEER
20 - Risk of Rain 2
I've decided to offer *512GB* NVMe SSDs, instead of 240GB NVMe, on the base specs for all computers sold at https://minifree.org/
1TB/2TB NVMe upgrade also available like before. The 512GB option is the same price as the 240GB option was.
Libreboot pre-installed, replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. Your choice of Debian Linux, other Linux distro or a BSD system.
Libreboot offers greater security and boot speeds than the vendor firmware. I'm Libreboot's founder; sales fund development.
Scotty: "Admiral, there be whales here!"
