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... please,,,

making a font with :3 as a ligature to center it

putting large binaries(videos) in its git repo(website) and no one can stop it

git-lfs is for cowards

(in seriousness git handles large files fine. the main draw storage-wise of git-lfs is being able to delete old versions without rewriting history, but it doesn't care about that)

setting nixpkgs.config.allowNonSource = false; on its nixpkgs config and seeing how many binary (as opposed to non-binary) packages it has

https://codeberg.org/5225225/microfortune/src/tag/2248 update on the fortune thing: this works (2248 bytes) though is a pain in the ass to compile with nixpkgs (rustup needed both for build-std and nightly, didn't really feel like involving fenix or whatever into its system flake to build this so it's just made it work (on the main branch) with a standard stable rustc, without no_std.

but the premise that rust can make pretty god damn small binaries and not be miserable to work in is demonstrated.

now time to build up a collection of robot/drone/various Gender(tm) quotations. and since it implemented comment support in this, it can cite sources.

having autoplaying emoji disabled is so funny

seeing a neocreature and wondering if it's going to explode or not, hovering on the post to find out

if it never gets hovered on is it actually fine

algorithm description thoughts: ... is pseudocode good? ever?

as far as i can see it's just "what if we made a language that isn't formally specified and isn't executable, so you just need to stare at it in order to find bugs"

like, maybe it would be nice if you could throw the wikipedia article on "binary search" into a SAT solver and prove that "yes, actually, all of these work as binary search algorithms" (and be told when they break), or something

if you implement "wrapping integers" as a type then you can even demonstrate why (Low + High) / 2 to get a midpoint is incorrect, and why you have to do Low + ((High - Low) / 2)

heartwarming: rust feature that would be really useful was just made stable in the latest release

(heartbreaking: nixpkgs doesn't have it yet since it's in staging because of everything that needs to rebuild against it, and it doesn't Particularly feel like running its system against staging-next. might drop the nixpkgs.follows until it gets updated though)

hmmm linguistics question: is there a name for "title case for emphasis", Like This? or messages like "I Don't Think That's What It Means."

there's a lot of typing habits that are only really visible on text and it'd be fun to go into how long they've existed and such.

richard nixos

concept: site that collects screenshots of websites that block tor/public vpns (and also measures which websites block them. tor is just the easiest to measure and probably one of the widest blocked since free.)

ko-fi's

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is particularly egregious in its dishonesty imo. yes that's a block page.

darkweb is when you have a black background and clearnet is when you have a transparent background

hidden service is when you have a server in your room that responds to pings that you can't find

does anyone have strong opinions on chat application message formatting wire formats

discord using markdown, matrix using (a subset of) HTML (generally speaking), telegram having character ranges

i think the telegram approach of "the body is plaintext and you have attributes attached to characters" is interesting, though i'm not sure how well that works for inserting formatting that doesn't really correspond to any particular text

something that lets you explicitly define fallbacks would be interesting. like

<first-supported>
<geoloc coord="125,64" />
<a href="geo:125,64">Location</a>
<span>Location (125,64)</span>
</first-supported>

for better backwards compatibility with old clients seeing new messages

concept : stickerbombed robot

a bot sitting in public absolutely covered in various stickers

( it is considering paying someone to draw it like that , but also that must be an utter pain in the ass to draw.. @ artists? :) )

for security reasons please tombstone your matrix rooms every 90 days

finding new beeps to befriend by beeping and seeing who beeps back

beep!

the mathml <mrow> element sends me every fucking time i see it

kitty cat in my math???

there are two wolves inside me[not like that]

one is "copyright isn't real, public domain everything you make"

the other is "fuck corpos, AGPL (or similarly restrictive (this is not an invitation to argue about the AGPL, you know what i mean)) everything you make"

my gender is xen[half life]

a lot of people hate it but its actually really cool

there's sleepy beepy and wakey drakey for sleepy bots and waking dragons,,,,

but what about a waking bot

what do you say then,,,

are bots just always sleepy