Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)

I should say:

1. I have added to that list of links just today! To include Expedition Sasquatch, Destination Nerva specifically for a Doctor Who audio adventure, & Welcome to Night Vale.
2. If you have/are making something you want me to consider adding to that list, please contact me!

Other the last week I've pretty much listed all the recommendations I have for now, but I'm still looking for more. I have a list and I'll continue posting recommendations as I find them, both here and to https://adrian.geek.nz/movies.html

I'm focusing on DRM-free fictional movies & (audio) shows because I find them the hardest to locate. And because I enjoy those mediums!

Today's #YoutubeWalkout recommendation: The Red Panda Adventures https://decoderringtheatre.com/shows/red-panda-adventures/

Made between 2005-2016 this cheesy follows superheros The Red Panda and The Flying Squirrel guard Toronto, Canada from mobsters, colorful supervillians, mystical beings, and evil nazi scientist Dr Von Schlitz with his army of mind-controlled cyborg-dinosaurs throughout the Great Depression and WWII.

Download it today for all the cheesy adventures you can stomache!

Most web browsers, as well as basically any elementary or GNOME3, apps have opted to combine their toolbars and titlebars, and Odysseus follows suit.

GTK's widget for this is the GTK HeaderBar. Tonight I want to describe how it, and GTK's layout infrastructure, works.

@emsenn I also quite enjoy "Kittens Love References": https://invidio.us/watch?v=qAPy8bHI-ms

"Sure, page by page, the web looks better than it did 5 or 10 years ago. But at the cost of becoming more homogeneous. We swapped ugly for boring."

https://practicaltypography.com/websites.html

I'll have to bookmark to recommend to people looking for ReCAPTCHA alternatives: https://kevv.net/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/

Great overview of the topic! And the sheer volume of links he had for hated that service is was amusing.

Reminder: if you don't use JavaScript, you don't get crashes. And don't need loading screens.

I'm liking this post: https://dev.to/winduptoy/a-javascript-free-frontend-2d3e

@Shamar But to be super clear, where I'm coming from is that I want to find ways to make enough money from libre software development in order to live on without infringing the Four Freedoms. I think it's vital for that to be possible, and I'm not really interested in debating that.

And while I do think many projects do need to be openly governed, I don't think every project needs to be. Closed governance may be one path, as long as those projects do not complain about forks.

Please develop your software on low-end machines, so you you know it's performant enough for anyone. I do!

https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.html

Please humor me as I theorize about an alternative CPU architecture.

That hopes to be simpler than what we've got whilst doing a better job at extracting parallelism and protecting sandboxes. Because I don't think imperative programming was the correct paradigm for machine code.

Functional would've been better.

@teleclimber @Denderix @kosinus Sometimes I wonder what computers would bey like if we switched to a system based on a functional machine code.

That could've been easier for CPUs to extract parallelism from. So much so that we might not have needed to do it in software.

"That little tangerine bubble [(RSS)] has become a wistful symbol of defiance against a centralized web increasingly controlled by a handful of corporations, a web that hardly resembles the syndicated web of Werbach’s imagining."

https://twobithistory.org/2018/12/18/rss.html

@drb Yes it is.

Perhaps one reason it hasn't taken off is that there's a lot of complexity in making sure the tags different sites use map over cleanly. That's what SKOS tackles.

And yes, it is sad how the standards aiding whizz-bang fancy UIs are taking precedence over those that actually extended what can be achieved with the web.

Open source's nature is to fade into the background and go unnoticed except by those whose work touches it directly. It is the plankton of computing. We all breathe, but few of us stop to think about where the oxygen is coming from.

-- "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel

The Vala language, in which I implement Odysseus, is (much like CoffeeScript is to JS) a relatively simple transpiler to C. One who's main job is to add additional typechecking & abstract most uses of function pointers, void pointers, & memory management away behind pretty C#-like syntax.

That is it parsed it's own Syntax to an AST, typechecks it, compiles it down into an AST for C, and has the C compiler parse that again to output assembly.

Not a bad language, I much prefer it over Java.

@bob

If you ask TBL what Web 3.0 is, he'll say it's about sharing data rather than documents or apps representing that data. That never really gained mainstream excitement (rather a slow but sure growth), but it'd certainly be part of your concept of Web 3.0.

And his formulation of that is certainly a part of ActivityPub.

But I don't know what'll gain adoption next, yet I will be throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.

I'm very much "protocols over platforms". As the protocols empower people, especially if they're unaware of them, whereas platforms end up locking them in.

Though it is sad the hype is the other way around.

Odysseus 1.4.2 is coming out soon!

Now it'll no longer be wasting time wasting memory on your computers!

I really sympathize with @Gargron, and I believe him when he says he spent all nighters dealing with community input on trending feeds.

As for my project I've started out fixing anything and everything brought to my attention, but then my community said "stop fixing these little things & chase your vision by implementing the larger ones!" So that's what I'm doing.

At the same still field pull requests, and will make one-liner fixes.

But my community is about 50+ people, so it's more coherent.