Gregory's ServerExtremely cursed idea: The Hepburn romanization for Japanese doesn't use up all the letters in the Latin alphabet, so we can borrow an idea from Nihon/Kunrei-shiki, "one kana, two letters", and the c, q, x from Mandarin Pīnyīn and replace Hepburn's ts -> c, ch -> q, sh -> x. Now I know all the linguists out there are screaming since the first two are aspirated Pīnyīn letters representing unaspirated sounds in Japanese, but it's fun to put those unused letters to use and make everyone angry!
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I was wondering if lossy compression for text files exists, and I found a project that compresses text files by replacing words with shorter synonyms: https://hackaday.io/project/5689-lossy-text-compression The command `time read` makes for a nice stopwatch, but then I just got addicted to trying to stop the stopwatch as quickly as possible and managed to do 50.29ms. For some reason I've started using "Shreks" as a unit of time, which is actually kinda convenient because the running time of the original Shrek movie is 90 minutes. I just thought of the cursed idea of playing chess on a continuous instead of discrete board, so for instance, queens could move in any direction for an arbitrary distance as long as the path doesn't bump into any other pieces. But it turns out something similar already exists: https://www.chessvariants.com/other.dir/continuouschess.html https://github.com/ehulinsky/AnalogChess "un頂able" is now my new favorite Cantonese word. (definition at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/un%E9%A0%82able) There's also an updated Unicode 5.0 version but they wisely decided to leave out CJK characters and Hangul syllables so that book is half the size. I have this crazy idea to print out all of Unicode onto a bunch of pieces of paper and tape them to a giant canvas that I have... sort of like a physical version of https://unicode.exozy.me (warning: may crash your web browser) "Any sentence consisting solely of the word "buffalo" repeated any number of times is grammatically correct." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo#Usage If you make a div with overflow:scroll;transform:skewX(45deg); and give it a child element with transform:skewX(-45deg); you can make a diagonal scroll bar. It seems pretty useful if you want to hurt people's eyes. Demo (with some text slightly more interesting than loren ipsum): https://diagonal-scroll.exozy.me  OK, remember in your next fanfiction that you write that Mikasa Ackerman (blood type AB) from Attack on Titan ABSOLUTELY CANNOT give a blood transfusion to Tuzki the rabbit (blood type A) but it's safe for Tuzki to give a blood transfusion to Mikasa Ackerman (rabbit and human blood group differences aside). Wait no, they could get screwed over by the rhesus factor if it turns out they're A+ and AB-... Fun fact: "up" is "dn" rotated 180 degrees. I discovered this by rotating a keyboard 180 degrees at 2am and noticed the pgup and pgdn keys still looked kinda correct. Thought-provoking article: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html I do agree that decentralization is the wrong ideal to aim for. I'm working on ForgeFed not because I want to decentralize code hosting but rather because I want to help create a libre and interoperable ecosystem for code collaboration.  @a I think a reasonable amount of decentralization — Ie., 10 large ‘instances’ federated together, with a very long tail of others — is a LOT more plausible than an Internet ‘democracy.’ This is a ‘balance of power’ approach, and it has been a stable approach to prevent total control for centuries. I wish this wasn’t the case, but I suspect it is. @a while there is certainly something in this article, it misses some salient points entirely. There are, actually, a fair number of smaller instances that have chosen not to federate with the largest instances, just for the reason that they are too big. Even if this isn't applying a reasonable amount of pressure on the large instances to encourage people to move to smaller instances, that still doesn't mean "federation is dead". @a I enjoyed reading this article, but the author's points are not strictly correct, so I don't agree. However, they are right to note that there is something wrong with user distribution on Fediverse! Top 10 CS terms that would be perfect as the name of a sci-fi dystopian anime: 0. Fixed-point Combinator Tomorrow I'm giving a talk about ActivityPub at MIT, so I'm printing out this poster for it! It's basically just https://a.exozy.me/posts/activitypub-eats-your-brain/ but as a live talk. I'll upload a recording of it to my PeerTube! 12
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@a I still think about this