@mcc mastodon has me considering it for the first time, too…but i suspect i’m like 10% not technical enough for even the newbie-friendliest of distros

@mcc
Euh, not sure I follow you ??? Mastodon is an OS agnostic software.
I mean sure you will have different implemetations according to the OS but you will find a client and server software for all OSes (hem server for MacOS ?? not sure)

@mcc my mind flipped between first person gaming and FPGA related while reading this.

@mcc had kinda forgotten about 100 rabbits, last time i read something was before UXN. lovely little thing 😊

@mcc this was such a relief to read. I never doubted that I would be reading such a thing but it was still great to read it. thank you, thank you, thank you for everything.

@mcc The response seems really grown-up to me – FWIW

@mcc much appreciate a level headed response!

@mcc I am so glad that I just started learning enough about working with Cmake just enough to understand this isn’t just compiling C code for raytracing using Cmake, but is indeed actually delightfully cursed

@mcc I've sent this to a friend and got this in return:

@mcc hey @ca1ne I've found your new favorite side project https://64.github.io/cmake-raytracer

@mcc @Sonic_Little Since there is an excess of the same hardware would it be possible to start a volunteer effort to support a Linux distro dedicated to security updates and drivers for that specific hardware? A community effort that allows older systems to have a new life while still getting security updates? We have charitable organizations why not open sourced projects to do the same?

@mcc This planned death of technology, for no real reason, other than to force the purchase of more technology, is absolutely disgusting. It should be illegal.

@mcc "you fool that was only my first captcha"

@mcc pictured this instead

@mcc@mastodon.social

"Federation will be enabled in six months": The new "Ethereum will be moving to proof-of-stake in six months"

I also, incidentally, run with my own very small userstyle. This removes the "ALT" badge on images with alt text, which I find distracting. (I think the *ideal* would be to put a "NO ALT" penalty badge on images that DON'T have alt text, but this is harder to do in pure CSS.) https://userstyles.world/style/9811/mastodon-remove-alt-penalty

2006 - 2022: Corporate content hosts are so cheap and easy that no one has an incentive to learn to self-host content, and people who were previously self-hosting content move over to big "social" platforms

2022 - … : Platforms close off in every imaginable way and start taking every opportunity to extract rents from users, benefits that originally got people to move over now gone, but the network effects are such you can no longer switch to open alternatives or convince other people to do so

You have been warned by the Android Police

So I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to tell if a particular app is running in Wayland or XWayland.

This is the answer I get off Stack Overflow. I'm thinking… No. No, that's too silly. It can't be the best way.

I keep researching. It's the best way.

You run xeyes.

Wayland has security that keeps windows from knowing about mouse events in other windows. XWayland doesn't.

Xeyes will track your cursor whenever you're over an XWayland window, then stop if you pass over anything else.

I was in the Rust help discord last night, and someone was having problems with async, and somebody said this. I don't think they realized how incredibly evocative this is.

…looking at this again, the avatar really sells it

@mcc and a barber

@mcc you're a treasure, thanks !

@mcc or anyone who understands how "loud" float.MAX_FINITE would be

(Caveats: Although the research is peer-reviewed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37148757/ many experimental medical technologies do not work out. The hard part with insulin is not making it but making it in a form that takes effect quickly and stably, and it's those modern "stable" forms of Insulin that are expensive, because they're patented. The plant… also appears to be patented, by the University of Pennslyvania, although growing an illegal plant to treat diabetes is also very Solarpunk.)

@mcc I'm excited for the day they give us "girl lettuce"

The thing that I *really* want— every application is running inside of a sandbox I fully control, such that all attempted OS-level changes are accepted from the app's perspective but actually logged and tracked, and then I'm allowed pijul-style to decide which "patchsets" of sandboxes are simultaneously active for any one piece of software— might be kinda hard to implement and implement efficiently. But it seems *some* third option must be possible

"What's that?" Y'all this is four features covering three and a half hours of seminal 80s-90s experimental dance, plus special features. I bought this JUST for a single 15 minute piece which is the best film representation of a Steve Reich piece I've ever seen ( https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110386487906550331 ) and there's so much other stuff in the box. It's oversize actually so either there's multiple DVDs in here or it comes with a nice meaty paper book

I use Reddit to obtain YouTube links of people playing synthesizers and I am interested in using Lemmy to obtain YouTube links of people playing synthesizers.

Also what is "Piped". Is that a thing at all