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@aparrish "A system is what it does"

"But this system doesn't do anything"

"😐"

Like, as a software and web developer. I would prefer if possible to serve the Bhutanese community in a useful way. Just because it's a small country doesn't mean it's not important. If I found out there were a language or localization issue in an app I wrote impacting only Bhutan, I'd fix it even if it helped only a single user. But finding out that sales tax will now be collected, or not collected, in Bhutan, for my published Android apps. Even if I had an app. It wouldn't impact my behavior.

This has happened to me at least 3 times with Google.

- They offer a free service.
- I sign up for the free service.
- A couple years later, they say to continue with the free service you must now do something I don't want to, like pay monthly or agree to put my home address publicly on the Android store.
- I decline, and my account on the service is deleted.
- For literally the next 15 years, I periodically get inscrutable emails about service changes or minor pricing changes in Bhutan

@oblomov @grumpygamer it seems to me the chances of the process stopping must be low and must exponentially decrease the longer the process runs

@hruske @whitequark great, now you can ship your app to… desktop Linux users (but NOT to Ubuntu systems which are the most common ones)

@whitequark @ariadne @lina why is webrtc locked behind the microphone permission. i know what the web browsers *claim* is the answer to this question but imo the real reason is that they set out to make a fully granular permissions model, immediately discovered that had downsides, and have been backpedaling ever since

(I acknowledge the fully granular model is what works best for your goal of shipping an FPGA programmer)

@whitequark @ariadne @lina well, but that's exactly the problem i think. we built a fully granular permissions model where we really actually wanted a bimodal permissions model. and because the granular permissions model is so *incredibly fucking complicated*, the browser vendors go way out of their way to hide it, so it's not very useful.

browser vendors snowed us with the useless notifications/locations requests, and now are terrified to add perm popups because they got bad feedback on that.

@whitequark @ariadne @lina The era where Flash was the "escalated privilege" layer of the web, and click-to-flash plugins were common, was the only time either the developer or user permissions model here made sense

@whitequark @ariadne @lina a problem is we use the web browser for two totally separate purposes: as a way of looking at transient text/image/video content; and as the only surviving application platform. we want two totally opposite things out of these two different platforms ("control the computer" vs "touch nothing"), but insist on not delineating the two website metacategories. and microsoft/apple/android are only gonna keep making it harder to offload applications back onto "computers"

@grumpygamer you roll a die, and whatever number the die turns up with is the number of dies the die splits into. 1 = no splitting it just stays. 6 = die forks into 6 dies, in random directions. then when each of those dies come to a stop each of them fork. the "game" is how long the game can run on your computer before the process crashes (with the special super lose condition: you roll a die on pass 1)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116206435814818308

Okay, FINE, here's the actual song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAiM8j-vA9Y

But come on, the edit, it's hilarious! I think we're supposed to believe he's making actual cake in his mother's kitchen?

Note, whichever version you listen to, it's NECESSARY it be on a system with good, clearly audible bass. Do not rob yourself of this bassline.

What I'm listening to today: "Ghetto D", Master P

Master P put No Limit Records on the map, and made New Orleans the new capital of southern hip hop, with "Ghetto Dope", an *incredibly* catchy step-by-step guide to the production, distribution, and sale of crack cocaine. This unstoppable hit could not possibly get played on the radio, leading to this *incredibly* funny radio edit which is cut up to almost near illegibility making it sound like "Ghetto D" is a rapper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uxrtDtZ0mM

@aeva @cwebber Actually, yes

@cwebber I saw a headline this morning

Legalize transgenderism and ninja swords

*flips hair* More like Matt Mullen-wack

What I'm listening to today: "Southside", Lil Keke

What if I spent this entire week linking classic "dirty south" hip-hop tracks I loved from 97.9 The Box back in the 90s (which, I am visiting Houston this week and their selection is still excellent). No one could really stop me.

Here's known DJ Screw associate Lil Keke, dropping an effortless flow that stuck in my head for 29 years and my favorite instance of slide guitar in the entire corpus of music. Sorry Beck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg7cThO_vgo

Once again I've been startled by how nice it is the radio is playing a Notorious BIG medley on my birthday before I remember the other significance of that date

"why is everyone doing discourse about webp again"

*finds out why everyone is doing discourse about webp again*

"oh for fuck's sake"

sometimes i'm not certain that getting older is actually interesting but, i do like it when my age is a prime number