Notices by Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one), page 4

Because it was a year of experimentation, I also did stupid shit. Like making the first third-party Ubuntu Touch app of all time, afaik.

It was awful.

I also did further experimentation of my own, in preserving the spirit of the year. Like trying WindowMaker on my iPad (again, VNC). Or learning Forth on it (I didn’t get it but it was fun to write in RPN). Or writing my first Python “program” (a library that expected you to run it manually from the REPL), a wrapper for the REST API of a Bitcoin gambling site on it (I was ahead of the #gaming trends :blobcatdab: ). Or making mockups for Chrome Web Apps, like whatever the hell was this.

Also, in September, I started distrohopping! The first jump I ever made was from Ubuntu to ( :blobcatdrums: ) @elementary 0.2 Luna!

Got my first phone.

It was a Galaxy Ace.

so uh, fun fact: here’s how my desktop looked almost ten years ago, on April to July 2013

it was Ubuntu ofc

Sony Honda is now a car manufacturer, and its first brand attempt is called… Afeela

huh?

https://www.shm-afeela.com

Only way I’m interested on this is that they don’t DRM the hell out of everything (and instead DRM nothing at all)

Interesting thing that happened with the RISC-V stuff is that now I see right-leaning people commenting about how open and neutrality stuff is bad

because China

you people need to yeet off a little bit and learn about tradeoffs

@root RISC-V is cool because I like owning the libs :blobcatdab:

@GossiTheDog sadly I think the outrage is completely centered on AI art hate and not tracking overall, but I appreciate the efforts :blobcatheart:

current mood: really enjoying looking at the early history of IC CMOS MOSFET LSI stuffs, here’s how RCA (which fun fact: later gave birth to TSMC) promoted them, courtesy from @bitsavers http://www.bitsavers.org/components/rca/_dataBooks/1975_RCA_COS_MOS_Integrated_Circuits.pdf

There was a time where companies sold manufactured goods instead of permission to use legally locked down ideas, goodgood stuff :blobcatuwu:

@endomain reminds me of what @alcinnz is trying to achieve with Rhapsode? Agreeing on the subset is the hardest part tho imho – I’m sure CSS is where people will put up the most fights, yet it’s my favorite thing about the web and my biggest concern is its use for antipatterns and other abuse

@endomain @alcinnz There’s also the part about where you put dynamic code. His approach afaik, for instance, is merely considering the option of running WebAssembly as extensions, whereas I think that there should be a bigger focus in execution termination and granular permissions on top of the memory constrains WASM provides

til the VFX industry is quickly trying to adopt Linux by agreeing on what userspace to use https://vfxplatform.com/