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You can tell me about the weird dream you had last night. I don't mind.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115011446400389572
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Also apropos nothing: I hate being scraped by "AI" mulchers BUT other than that one usecase I fucking love having my stuff scraped. My writings or my video games or my abrasive experimental ambient music. Web servers are fragile things. One day that endpoint will stop responding, anything not saved will be lost. Let all that is good be packrat stashed in as many Downloads folders and USB keys as possible. Just as long as it's humans and not corporations that get to reap the benefits
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Hey does anybody know how to use the Pipewire C API. Aeva is trying to do a relatively basic thing and she cannot get the library to do what it seems like it ought to. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/115005399025047027
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Unrelated to anything: "Pull request" has always been a bad name. Always. They should have been named "Push requests".
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"Normal" VCS hosts (BitBucket, Codeberg, the increasingly "ask"-filled GitHub) are not as good about this as they could be. The README being scrolled offscreen by a file listing is unfriendly¹. I've seen so many cases of non-coders landing on a Github page and not understanding they need to be clicking on the "Releases" box on the right.
But SourceHut feels like, at a design level, it's intentionally hostile to non-coders.
¹ Bitbucket lets you set the wiki as the landing page. I miss that.
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The SourceHut design gives a strong sense that it's the byproduct of a set of intentional choices. But I don't agree with those choices. Simplicity and unpretentiousness in design are good, but simplicity isn't an end in itself. Even in minimal designs you want to guide the eye & cleanly separate functional areas. SourceHut is a big expanse of blank white with certain elements shaded gray but others arbitrarily not. The eye gets lost. If you stop and read the labels, the names are idiosyncratic.
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The reason I don't use or consider using SourceHut is… well, look at it.
https://git.sr.ht/~bacardi55/houston
To me a site like GitHub/SourceHut/Codeberg has two functions, one is to actually host the VCS, but the other is to be a useful, inviting public presence for your project. People with little-to-no knowledge of source code should be able to get useful information out of your project landing page.
But every Sourcehut page is bewildering to me at first glance, and I've contributed code to DVCSes!
mcc@mcc@mastodon.social
"Normal" VCS hosts (BitBucket, Codeberg, the increasingly "ask"-filled GitHub) are not as good about this as they could be. The README being scrolled offscreen by a file listing is unfriendly¹. I've seen so many cases of non-coders landing on a Github page and not understanding they need to be clicking on the "Releases" box on the right.
But SourceHut feels like, at a design level, it's intentionally hostile to non-coders.
¹ Bitbucket lets you set the wiki as the landing page. I miss that.
mcc@mcc@mastodon.social
The reason I don't use or consider using SourceHut is… well, look at it.
https://git.sr.ht/~bacardi55/houston
To me a site like GitHub/SourceHut/Codeberg has two functions, one is to actually host the VCS, but the other is to be a useful, inviting public presence for your project. People with little-to-no knowledge of source code should be able to get useful information out of your project landing page.
But every Sourcehut page is bewildering to me at first glance, and I've contributed code to DVCSes!
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What I'm listening to today: "New Instrument, new sound!", Fron Reilly
A short demo of a musical instrument created by this YouTuber/woodworker. It's… kind of a brilliant idea, actually, simultaneously shocking and in-retrospect obvious.
The video is 100 seconds of abstract noises that, if you'd played it for me without the video, I could tell you how to create with FFTs and DSP techniques but would not have believed was a recording of a completely acoustic device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGHIcU3g8Ps
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What I'm listening to today: "The Terrorist", DJ Vadim & Motion Man
Motion Man is an Oakland rapper so far under the radar he has no Wikipedia page and at least one album of his I've listened to is not on Allmusic. If you know him it's probably from a guest spot he did on someone else's song, probably Kool Keith's, and you remember him because he absolutely steals every track he appears on.
Here, for a 1999 DJ Vadim single: Villainous pronouncements over supersaws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rOYGk6TV_o
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On a related note: Is there any existing software that can act as a "static site generator" for a git repo? Like just generate the branch/code explorer pages that GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/Forgejo would have, but instead of doing it dynamically you do it once and then serve static pages. The main thing that worries me about self hosting Forgejo is that a badly written "AI" crawler will find an expensive endpoint I don't know about and hammer it repeatedly. I want zero endpoints.
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This is a good thread overall https://jawns.club/@skyfaller/114989129643625908
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@Voline@kolektiva.social @foolishowl@social.coop Yes, it's just a legal reshuffling and any difference is entirely symbolic.
But the symbolism is that Microsoft does not care about the development of any software except that which is extruded from their "AI".