I have a degree in New Media, and an obsession with disenshittification and web technology. Basically always talking about systems and HCI. When it seems to you like I must have been living under a rock, it probably seems to me like you have been living under the wrong rock, just because it's bigger. With this account I indulge in pontification about the ways the world could be better. I rarely complain without coming up with a solution, too. If you catch me doing so, call me out!
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Last Notes npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…y3hg sounds great. I hope I can make it. I hope I see others in #DWeb and #decent9n around. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…eqrn what is this #bossless thing? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W #DigitalProvenance could potentiate a market for physical cartridges for game and app distribution on open systems (maybe SteamDeck) without necessitating a central (enshittified) platform such as Google or Nintendo (or Steam). npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…ynd9 woah never had someone scream "block me" quite so loudly. done! wtf. how often do you see that? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…ynd9 moving away has been in my backlog for a looong time. problem is always where to move to that isn't worse. like getting a job, probably the people are the biggest question, and hardest question for me to answer. very curious to follow your thoughts and decision. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W I think if someone trained an #AI model to generate #Metallica songs based on their music, the resulting court case might set precedent that AI infringes on copyright. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W I am so fried. I did not get my one thing done today. Partner got triggered and chased me screaming for hours again. I just can't handle it. I want to die. This is the real reason I can't work. Partner is not just bad at self regulation she is opposed to it on principle. I tell her her feelings are important. Please talk to me about them without yelling nor insulting nor blaming statements that would obviously inflame. Please start with feelings, trust that I love you, and obvious facts. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…hqk5 love it. Lanyards could be a bit more comfy, huh? Not a bad idea for my next project. Honestly defying gender norms is one of the reasons I crochet. Every way I can get people to question their assumptions about anything is worth it. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…ynd9 frequently purchased together! npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W what are these clouds? like long sleds or hooks https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/115/727/102/849/133/563/original/61411656884bb3ce.jpg https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/115/727/110/162/752/549/original/01e870078464b673.jpg npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W #nowListening Your Undivided Attention: What if we had fixed #socialMedia? starts out strong with a vision of how to fix it all #podcast #Episode webpage: https://your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com/episodes/what-if-we-had-fixed-social-media-WtKyeikp Media file: https://mgln.ai/e/1511/afp-955611-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/1beb2301-b954-4718-ac31-006197b9bf1b/episodes/87eee287-a57a-448e-b95a-1d1d7c01efa4/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=1beb2301-b954-4718-ac31-006197b9bf1b&awEpisodeId=87eee287-a57a-448e-b95a-1d1d7c01efa4&feed=rZ0cYk12 #enshittification npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…auef wonder if anyone is using a plan9 phone now. the date on that preso is 2012 and Android has had some big changes that the system level npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W Okay I guess I'm migrating my project to #Mill now that I've spent 95% of my limited time to work on it fighting with #Gradle. #Kotlin #JVM npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W memes on the net say poems are true but lines penultimate fray semanticulate grue fuckit @nprofile…dpyx npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…t0hh @nprofile…dd9k probably all our ancestors, going back as far as language does, talked to each other a lot every day. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W #softwareConcept from #FediForum ActivityPub-complete, a back-end (or a layer, like a persistence layer / DBMS) that enables new web apps to be built without reimplementing ActivityPub npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…fe4j I'm going to refer to my partner as my second thoughts now, because half the time she is screaming and throwing something npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W "kids are actually pretty darned clever. They don't graduate from high school thinking that their mastery of the 5PE is in any way good or useful, or that they're learning about literature by making five marginal observations per page when they read a book. "Given all this, why *wouldn't* you ask an AI to do your #homework?" @nprofile…qz4x have I told you lately that I love you? #education npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…fe4j depression support groups are contraindicated npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W I see markdown support with a lot of votes. Gotta toss in the unpopular / technically superior / no downsides option because if that wasn't my modus operandi I wouldn't be in FOSS. https://vote.fosstodon.org/posts/12/asciidoc-support npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…pp8p Yeah. I consider that a lot. Like, we just don't need all the stuff. We're working too hard. Scarcity is a ghost that we have reified with the concept of finance. We could actually just focus on our needs and support each other. Why the fuck not. Why not is because we can't imagine it. So the task becomes to build the system that enables us to imagine the lives we know are possible to live. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…4r49 wow. I tried KDE. I wouldn't say I was exactly "confused by functionality" but now I'm using Gnome. Not giving reasons in this context. Can competition be good? Must there be bad blood? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…7s4z bzip is so good. Probably even better algorithms now, that I don't know. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W My son just asked me what #hacking is. Shoot! I was not prepared! But I said, hacking is thinking about computers like they are a puzzle and being creative, whether you're fixing things, breaking things, or figuring things out. Whew. Did I do okay? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W I loved being a #FediForumAttendee this spring. Thanks @nprofile…zqxh for convening this wonderful group. I believe in this community, and I hope I can contribute more to the decentralized #SocialWeb in the future, so we can establish humanity's future enshittification-resistant digital nervous system. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W #decent9n #event calendar managed by @nprofile…hftj for #DWeb: https://dweb.events/ via #fediforum npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W #fediforum #livenotes I'm probably misinterpreting what @nprofile…vmmn was saying (so this is a riff) but I love the idea of an #identityPage as a format. It would contain the necessary cryptographic primitives for doing *cough* everything social *waves hands*. But when you look at it, it would look like a personal web page, with various parts having different constraints for usage. Kind of like a personal data locker in a file where your personal data is html. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W I'm tagging bookmarks on Pinboard with #fediforum but I'm not sure they're visible. maybe because I'm logged in I don't see my own? https://pinboard.in/t:fediforum/ npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W what are your #fediverse tools? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…avtr how and why do you farm slime mold? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W I wish I could block all posts with more than 9 hashtags. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…66tn fastest door stop I've ever seen npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…4new okay, you've nearly converted me. How about HEVC, since my phone records H.265, CR2, since I've got a bunch of old raw files from my Canon, and, I dunno, might take more at a special event or something. And import from smugmug? Even if my wishlist is anywhere on the roadmap that would be encouraging. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…4new aww I was just getting excited about your service, looking for HEVC support, and I came across your exif indexing. Exif not e2ee, huh? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…6naz yarp. why, after my first taste of a big company early on, I decided never to work with a highly vertical company again. What is profoundly frustrating to me, though, is how there isn't seemingly a side channel in HR and job search for small to medium (or at least, flat) business, where the title is less important, and the team dynamic and willingness to get your hands dirty are what matter. This is what I would hope for in federated business networking software. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…s2s6 seems to be working okay, I don't even need an account on mastodon.social. I just need to hit it repeatedly in a loop with curl? I wish I could leave the request open and continue to stream to file. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…s2s6 honestly, some thousands of posts from a few major sites would be plenty to work with npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W Is there a "firehose" of #fediverse posts? would you just look at all the servers' live feeds? I'm considering attempting to train an algorithm to classify * personal status (ate a sandwich) * hashtag participation * branding and promotion * conversational * memetics (cats/rats/moss) * identity assertion * etc This is awkward because I feel a bit embarrassed that I don't already know how to do this. #fediMeta #askFedi (btw, would be a final academic project for a machine learning course) npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…vn85 that's no amateur dance number, for sure npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…25dv I hate reading statements about drama, but probably less than you hate writing them so, *sigh* okay here I go npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…pvmf @nprofile…szyv me too npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…fe4j I did that a lot npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…u00v thanks, now every time I see cat scrunge I'm going to hear them saying "cheeeese" npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…fe4j iz a bug. shiny bug sez, "I NOT HERE! GO AWAY UNLESS U ARE YUMMY BUG!" npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…jpfa yyup. opportunists. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…k0f6 @nprofile…ahws I like what you're both saying a lot. My take is that one way everyone can take action is to counter the tactic of dramatic overwhelm. Reduce their footprint in your mind, not by ignoring them, but by *focusing* on the validity and goodness of those things you fear for. IE: Don't let your enemy distract you from your best self. I focus on topics important to me and those who are important to me, so that the important conversations and efforts may be strengthened. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…66tn wow. this one really speaks to me, but the depth and atmosphere in so many of these works is really inspiring. https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/055/083/832/879/079/original/995c81c20549e155.jpg npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…48vs hot! npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…48vs hold up I thought a side show was a fire blower, belly dancer, or juggler. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…g4yp @nprofile…plrl do chatmail servers sound like a competing but compatible software to other email servers, right? Like, can I still get email from chatmail with Thunderbird? It makes sense to me, if you're introducing an alternative to Thunderbird to pair it with an optional alternative to the server as well. I get that there is some awkwardness despite compatibility, like how on Mastodon, posts from Bookwyrm or blogs look a bit differently. This is the new problem, and I am glad to see it. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…5pwc boosted for #caturday npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…07t5 always do what it takes to be comfy npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…07t5 until you said "ugh" I thought you were living the life 👍🏻 npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…n9dm the advertising & marketing industry has always been hurting society, quite deliberately. all kinds of misinformation, excess consumption, etc (the list has no end) can be blamed on unscrupulous pursuit of profit. #AI is just the latest problem, and IMO, one of the mildest. If we can ameliorate the AI problem, the solution would also help alcoholism, eating disorders, depression, pollution of all kinds, and an infinite list of such. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…zwgs @nprofile…aqks I write Kotlin. How can I help @nprofile…fykc ? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…7x5v yeah the 80s brought color back. what happened. I need more color in my life, especially in the winter. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W Game of Life is too true https://weird.sha.codes/interactive #weirdWeb npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…lf57 draw for me solarpunk utopia with trains, animal corridors, and no glass npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…y6g5 @nprofile…qlpc Can I haz this? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…s06p I have a little fantasy where all the cars are self-driving, and we all realize we could put down rails instead of pavement, drop the high tech, and save a bunch of money on our car insurance by switching to trains npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @nprofile…s06p very. Boy is this a bag of mixed feelings. The scented one is the deserved object of all kinds of ire, but like it or not, they're heading up the global test of self-driving tech, which *should* reduce accidents a lot because people are bad drivers. I wonder if the assisted-driving mode is just too hybrid. People using it obviously don't want to drive. But they're still supposed to be driving. Bad recipe. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1uul…dkn7 how are farmers who employ immigrants reacting? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W I want my timeline not to be in terms of time, but in terms of post frequency for followed accounts and hashtags. IE rarely updated accounts won't be lost in the deluge when unseen. #Mastodon npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W It seems like there should be some way for people attending online #conferences have in-person conversations with other people nearby "attending" the same #conference. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W I believe the value of #LLMs and #generativeAI is that it is a static representation of culture. It is *not*, as common usage implies, a repository of knowledge. The knowledge isn't encoded. That's why they fail when there isn't something quite like what you're describing in the training data. The problem is that *you're* being creative. IE: using "generative AI" to create novel works is erroneous because the only novelty is your prompt. It's like an "index miss." Not knowledge. Culture. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1alm…yeul I guess I should sleep but I haven't finished the web yet npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W when a #privacy notice contains "we may collect and use personally identifying information" it should be called a "LACK OF privacy notice" npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub13w7…mktw me too, both I'm taking this as an opening to rag on Spring for inventing a new SQL dialect that is harder to use than SQL because SQL is supposedly hard. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub13w7…mktw yeah just don't do Spring But also, you must be digging through some legacy there npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1g7j…7unj its feathers don't look well preened. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1hyk…3p33 how much of The #Bezzle is not fiction? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1a24…etnp @[email protected] Yes but I don't go much. I suppose I could just find a shop that says "tea" and ask for pu'erh? That would be too easy. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1a24…etnp Is life without media so terrible? Our ancestors sang and danced. My best guess is that having all the music in the world at our fingertips doesn't make us happier than having folk dances and ancestral songs. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1a24…etnp @[email protected] I wish I could bum a cup of pu'ehr off you some time. I used to get it from Peets, but I'm guessing the markets didn't work out for their supply chain. Now I feel like I need to know the right people to even buy it. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1qag…9gyn them's fightin' words, pardner. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1qag…9gyn the period of time doesn't matter. The error is the conflation of intelligence with sentience. Regardless of intelligence, we cannot know if a questionable entity is sentient. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1sua…szrk I've shortlisted it due to your review. Thanks! npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1u27…3qfq got a food processor on your wish list? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1hyk…3p33 hope I can find the links and references for all these things you're mentioning, Cory npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1upk…tcwy I have to ask: What solution did you find? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1u27…3qfq Newegg seemed to take a turn for the worse many years ago. I don't know why. Do you still like them? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1a3h…m44m there's also JOOq… and some similar type safe sql dialect things. Those are not really strings tho. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1a3h…m44m you'd pass a GString to your persistence layer. Certainly, you'd need the library/framework to inspect it and use it properly. The GString contains no logic. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1a3h…m44m I'm not a big proponent of gradle (I think it's fine) it's just a very common use of Groovy. Or Kotlin sometimes, more recently. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1a3h…m44m https://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/documentation/index.html#_string_interpolation npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1a3h…m44m heard of Gradle, the build system? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1a3h…m44m Groovy had g-strings. Parameterized strings where the params were part of the data structure and evaluated later. I'm a fan, though I avoid Groovy in favor of Kotlin at this point. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1t7d…pqpp when, oh when, will people start referencing software by content hash? hell, a single-byte crc would fix issues like this. There will *never* be a universal single source of truth for names-of-things. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1gl5…7hk0 I wish the ThinkPad X1 Fold were on that list! npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1gl5…7hk0 I didn't know much about Btrfs, so I quacked it and … uh … https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linuxs-perpetually-half-finished-filesystem/ This article was a few years ago, but has Meta been working on those issues? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1a3h…m44m Ubuntu Edge still looks like a nice phone I'd buy. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub17pe…wgmy Mind if I ask what b2b services you use to support your work? I'm a big fan of garage and cottage industry and makers, and I wonder how to expand the market in all ways. I'd go work at a company doing such. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub1j43…jvze @npub1mev…23jg 255^3 colors if you're working with common rgb bitmap graphics (the six hexadecimal values you might have seen in CSS and elsewhere), though they've started even adding a few more bits of precision, for obviously no reason whatsoever. Now you got me explaining things. Sorry. npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub16ur…mx4u at least the tablet can come with up to 1T ssd. I'm bookmarking that one. Why can't a pinephone do that? npub162uav7u6n9qtjtx5datfyrzxfzx0a4l2yx2rqshy29c4n6dvt2fs3k3qnp Travis F W @npub16ur…mx4u I'm just looking at the specs. I "need" a certain amount of ram and storage. Seems like linux phones and tablets are always low-end. I don't even care how slim or slick it is, so long as it's stable.