Notices by Hisham (hisham_hm@mastodon.social)

@Gargron I don't understand how they *kept* this change and had it deployed to computers, phones and TVs given how easy it was for me to find other people who had the same "oh no! is my monitor broken?" negative reaction as me. I'd expect YouTube's usability testing to catch this. But I guess it's not something you can infer from A/B test telemetry, you'd need user interviews for that.

Am I the only one irked by the subtle gradient on YouTube's progress bar which makes it looks like the monitor has red color burn-in problems?

It looks like either an OLED that's ruined by constant use or a CRT in need of a serious degaussing. Both things send me shivers on a visceral level.

fun piece of #htop trivia: I don't think I've ever seen an htop screenshot use this color theme (and neither do I use it), but from the very first version that supported themes, I've included this very MS-DOS-inspired "MC" theme as a tribute to @Migueldeicaza's Midnight Commander. MC's builtin editor "mcedit" was _fundamental_ to me when I first got into to #Linux back in... err, 1999?

The first versions of htop from 2004 to 2006 were all written in mcedit!

@Gargron They might even be public now?...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/28/threads-deepens-its-ties-to-the-open-social-web-aka-the-fediverse/ "Since June, users have been able to see fediverse replies on their posts if they enabled fediverse sharing in the app’s settings. (...) Now [August] users will be able to see the fediverse replies on other people’s posts, too" but it says that's a couple of extra clicks away.

Then this October post says that the ability to reply back is "under development".
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/threads-users-can-now-see-who-follows-them-from-other-fediverse-servers/

What is the current state of federation with threads.net? I see people boosting posts here. If we reply here on Mastodon, do our reply show up to other Threads users?

@mntmn shadow of the beast?

@mozilla "Ever since we shutdown mozilla.social and disengaged from Mastodon, the sentiment analysis on our social media posts regarding our AI initiatives shows positive reactions went up a staggering 857%! I guess everyone on X seems to like them! A great win for our sharehol—I mean, our sponsors!"

I don't NEED an MNT Reform by @mntmn.

But I would like to support the project just because I really want it to continue existing. Because "person with a dream actually made a whole computer" feels like the hardware version of how I approach software (see screenshot + alt)

But if I ever got one, I feel the moral obligation to build a whole new ARM64 version of GoboLinux to run on it. I wouldn't use it any other way!

Too many projects, too little time!!

@mntmn I haven't used it myself so I don't know if it is m68k-small, but: Guile Hoot perhaps?

https://spritely.institute/hoot/

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2339-scheme-in-the-browser-with-guile-hoot-and-webassembly/

@mntmn Duran Duran

I've never really used a trackball. I mean, I've played with them in kiosks and whatnot, but I never sat down to actually use a computer with a trackball.

Does anybody here use a trackball in a non-retro-computing environment? What are your impressions?

I'm happy with my regular mouse, just curious.

@mntmn imagine building your own computer down to the motherboard PCB and then having the *distro* have the gall to tell you you can't use the keyboard any way to like aaaarrrggghhhhasdsfhjgdsjsaoeuiuehekdbdqwertykduegqwertzwixhdbgsazertykduegeb

@mntmn my Teal compiler is one big tl.tl file and I know I should break it into multiple files eventually and I will do it

but I don't wanna

Day 0 - being a Pascal and Lua fan, I prefer 1-based counting, but as usual for an eurotrip from Brazil, it actually starts the day before. Just flew POA-GIG. Flight departed a few mins late, which made my tight-ish connection even tighter. But the GIG-AMS flight had a similar delay, so all is well!

Two people have already complimented my Firefox T-shirt.

My planned schedule for the upcoming days:

Feb 1 - Amsterdam
Feb 2-4 - Brussels @ #fosdem
Feb 5-8 - Ljubljana
Feb 9-11 - Paris
Feb 12 - back home in Porto Alegre

Day 2 - woke up way too late, lunch in Amsterdam (to the sound of Brazilian bossa nova!), then train to Brussels with Jack, where I ran into @catwell 's brother (a sign that it's a small world when we FOSS people get together!). Dinner with friends and we finished the night at the Delirium, where I had at last a pint of Red. Typing this from the bus on my way to hotel and I'm making way too many typos...I hope I'm not hung over tomorrow for the conference! Looking forward to the morning waffles!

Day 1 - Arrived in Amsterdam. On the train to my hotel, I spotted a young British couple, and she was actually using a paper map (one of those touristy ones you get at a kiosk or hostel). That was a nostalgic sight, from back when I used to rely on those to find my way around! Google Maps is convenient, but less poetic.

Boarding a KLM flight from Brazil: the further back in the plane you go, the less Dutch people look.

(My seat is 39D)

Day 3 - So... this just happened!

I guess I need a new profile picture (or a haircut? 😆), because @Gargron didn't recognize me at first, but he definitely did when he asked to see my profile pic (just kidding! ...plus it was a lot easier to recognize him in front of that banner!)

I'd watch the hell out of a retrocomputing YouTube channel focused on late-90s/early-00s Linux.

"Let's setup AfterStep widgets on RedHat 5.2!"