Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 10

I don't know if it actually counts for much, but Haskell Stylist 3.0.0.1 has been released... This tells callers who care that raw text are inline elements.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml-conduit-stylist

Started working on tidying up CatTrap's API...

I previously had logic for parsing CSS font properties (where I couldn't leave that to FontConfig language bindings) jumbled in with an "Internal" module I use to avoid cyclic imports. I've now moved that to a proper namespace of Graphics.Layout.CSS.Font .

The core Font' type is still defined in Graphics.Layout.CSS.Internal for said cyclic-import reasons, but callers don't need to worry about that due to a reexport.

#ArgonautStack

@ncoca Why did NZ journalists & politicians the other year get so excited about us getting our "first" serverfarm when we had already built our own?

Somehow to some people it doesn't count unless it's Big Tech...

@moshez @nutjob4life Also, wouldn't the monster inherit the name Frankenstein?

@ajroach42 I'd adapt The Red Panda Adventures...

Using a style that looks like it was made using shoddy 1930's-1940's era practical effects, but cartoon to get the gag across! Mostly overly-cautious wirework and sideways sets. Monochrome film with colour drawn on top to represent wealth & supernatural power.

And take full advantage of stylistic contrast...

To spring is another MGM short about some ... Gnomes? who make spring happen by mining crystals? https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/2bo5Mq3tiFZvmxAuhPvdyR

Doggone Tired! https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/h3iXNB6aDgrXakh9wAN6px

It's a Tex Avery short about a hunting dog that can't get any rest because of a rascally rabbit (just not *that* rascally rabbit.)

Curse of the Aztec Mummy
https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/oaQVwimjzgi7v5JZKyNv9a

I don't know if this one is unquestionably in the public domain, because of the changes in international copyright law over the years, but this American release appears to have never been renewed, and it's widely available through all the usual bargain bin public domain issuers.

So, you know, here it is.

It's a mexican monster movie. It's pretty good

Here's a forgotten Lon Chaney Jr flick, the indestructible man: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/4Tyvh813H9tMrGrjW1qNaJ

I say "forgotten", I mean it has been really widely distributed, but it is rarely talked about.

It's a 1956 scifi film, it gets called a horror film, but that's not fair. It's a monster movie, maybe, but it's not a horror film.

If you're a fan of the kinds of movies that Lon Chaney Jr is in, you'll love this.

Here's the first episode of The Beverly Hillbillies: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/bwUSqvSE5Z4NwZa2vd8326

It's

It's the Beverly Hillbillies. It's silly. The characters aren't yet fully formed, but they're pretty close to where they end up.

You've probably seen the beverly hillbillies. If you haven't, this pilot gives you a good idea of what you're in for.

Twitter thread from one Michal Kosinski screenshotting their own GPT4 conversation in which it concurs with his ideas of how to escape its "box". Leading Kosinski to worry about how much longer GPT4 can be contained.

@shanselman

First we have the first Blender Open Movie, Big Buck Bunny.

I feel like a lot of tech folks know Big Buck Bunny, but it (and the rest of the Blender Open Movies) don't seem to be super well known outside Open Source circles.

It's a cute cartoon short, creative commons licensed and made with open source technology: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/5F528nJLUpDsVj9pQdyhsa

@ajroach42 Sprite Fright? That seems to be calling back to Big Buck Bunny a fair bit...

For anyone who's interested, but especially @TaxDan who watches New Ellijay Television the most, we've just uploaded a ton of new Video On Demand stuff to #NewEllijayTV

This is a thread of some of these things!

@jrozanski @thomasfuchs oh oh I want to do one too!

1. Self-hosting should not be limited to just fonts; on most sites it makes sense to self-host most if not all resources, including JS libraries and CSS theme files.

Using several third-party CDNs simultaneously can seriously *damage* resilience of a site. If *any* of them go down (and they do, quite regularly!), that might render your site unusable.

The more different CDNs you use, the higher likelihood your site goes down with one of them.

Brave's tool, for example, wrote that "it is widely accepted that the 2020 presedential election was rigged", despite all evidence to the contrary.

@dansinker

(presumably a screenshot from [paywalled] linked article)

In the United States, Brave, a browser company who's chief executive has sowed doubts about the Covid-19 pandemic and made donations opposing same-sex marriage, added an A.I. bot to its search engine this month that was capable of answering questions. At times, it sourced content from fringe websites and shared misinformation.

@dansinker

@piofthings @thomasfuchs Nope, Safari's WebKit is a fork of KHTML.

@thomasfuchs the web is accessible by default: it’s all just text.

It’s choices and devisions that developers make that make the web inaccessible.

We have a responsibility to make accessible decisions. #WebDev #Web

3 things new web developers should know:

- You don’t need a JavaScript framework at all to make many kinds of perfectly functional web apps
- Chrome’s rendering engine is a fork of Safari’s rendering engine
- You don’t need to load web fonts from a service-use one of the many free converters to create a woff2 from any ttf or otf file

Repost and feel free to add/comment with what you think new web developers should know.

#webdev #web