Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 44

Skimmed Ian Hixie's <table> tests, I think I'll draft my own. I'd be less confident then I would be in transliterating official tests, but it'll be something...

Finished my #nes entry for Alakajam. You can download the free rom (yay!) or play in your browser (boo!) at https://voxel.itch.io/nes-fish #gamedev

@futurebird @Jirikiha I believe SearchMySite.Net is more what you're after?

Which is built upon Solr & Scrapy, if you want to deploy your own. Takes a lot of work to gather an index.

Even if I do give my consent in one instance, that doesn’t mean I want my data being taken repeatedly.

When companies, entities collect our biometrics, behavioral data, that is then shared with other companies and entities and so on.

Despite what companies and governments tell you, our data is our data. It is not public data.

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@suricrasia actually at that low frequency you can probably do the FFT in a microcontroller

I'm designing Haphaestus for interaction via classic TV remotes, but once I get that working I think adding support for classic game controllers.

Basically: Add a joystick! Remove numpad.

This would allow me to scroll, & there's an "8pen" idea by which typing would be a lot easier!

Also I know someone who'd be interested in eventually building a ereader based on it... That would lead me to tackle hittesting (depending on hardware) & text-selection...

Silicon reverse-engineering: the Intel 8086 processor's flag circuitry - Ken Shirriff: http://www.righto.com/2023/02/silicon-reverse-engineering-intel-8086.html

Thoughts and impressions of AI-assisted search from Bing - Simon Willison: http://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/24/impressions-of-bing/#atom-everything

@alyssa Probably because you're the contributor who's strongest at advertising your work? Overworked journalists can be quite lazy.

I truly do wish I was one of the blind people who have the kind of brain to understand such technical stuff as the matrix.org website Iwas just looking at. It went right over my head really quickly. I will never be technically minded, and I guess that's okay, but I hate feeling so stupid while other people seem to get it and can wax poetic about all kinds of stuff like about scripting languages and technology and programming that I will never get.

@markhughes Yes, every alternative has to address issues! I'm running my own SourceHut Todo for that! Before that I created something rudimentary...

Can't say I've got too much issue if there's several servers/services. As long as everyone's not asking me to make an account, which they mostly are.

Though having something p2p would lower barriers to projects being self-sufficient in this regard. Definitely worth exploring!

Guess what?

@lanodan Sigh, there's such an opposition amongst a certain crowd against curation. As best as I can tell it's tied into the "dataism" philosophy, but I'm not grasping them well.

I'm certainly not convinced that curation is bad, and the alternatives are definitely worse!

@lanodan But curation is a violation of free speech /sarc (HEAVY)

Really wish corporate-friendly opensource didn't leave me digging through a pile of unfinished projects to find the good ones! "Is it in the Debian repos" is a huge timesaving hueristic...

I've just uploaded my threads over the past couple days on DejaGNU to: https://adrian.geek.nz/gnu_docs/testing#dejagnu

There's one more testrunner on my queue (though last 2 appears to actually be one split between 2 projects...), but I've got other items queued before it.

Soon: FreeType SFNT support
Then: Apache Solr's plugin system (in place of revisiting BinUtils)
Next: FreeType smoothing
Later: GNU Multiprecision

More such writing at: https://adrian.geek.nz/docs

Reverse-engineering an electromechanical Central Air Data Computer - Ken Shirriff: http://www.righto.com/2023/02/bendix-central-air-data-computer-cadc.html

I don't usually boost fediverse meta takes, but this one reminds me of my "Linux" take...

The Fediverse is Already Dead - Leonora Tindall "Nora Codes": https://nora.codes/post/the-fediverse-is-already-dead/

A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox - Henrik Karlsson: https://escapingflatland.substack.com/p/search-query (Substack)