bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

@thor well, it would've probably been the same the other way round, wouldn't it? :) nothing better than schadenfreude combined with sparks flying :P

@thor haha :) yeah, probably. i still have an old valve radio here which works nicely. it for sure has a certain special sound, but i'm not sure if it is due to the valve or due to old circuitry in general :)

@thor i usually stay away from electronics because i always manage to fry something :D but there are really some interesting tricks like the soft power circuit you described.

@thor the worst thing with knowing these things is that one notices how incredibly shitty most gadgets are because they eat batteries because nobody cared to do these power saving things :)

@thor yeah, running linux everywhere is not the thing to do, especially if you run from battery. i only ever did some msp430 stuff, it's nice that you can just put the system into power saving states, waiting for interrupts. stuff can last years on a single button cell with those µc.

@thor i have the opinion that using frameworks is incredibly short sighted. trading a few weeks less to create a mvp for massive pain down the road.
this is explicitly about frameworks. glueing libs is perfectly fine if the libs are sane. nobody should reinvent a http client library as side issue.

@thor plain HTML, CSS and JS are gentle, but have you looked at the fuckery required to do anything with the framework stuff which is the "state of the art" today? that is outright unhealthy.
depending on the supporting libraries (UI toolkits) i'd rather write web apps in e.g. Go, yes. there are actually toolkits for Go which can be compiled to WASM: https://gioui.org it's not _fast_ but i'd say that's very likely due to the assorted cruft in browsers.

@thor yeah, but why not just remove the cruft and design a sane platform around WASM. one could even just include that into browsers, that way it would land on most devices via the auto updates. why keep the chimera of platform the web is.

@skadi i mean, you got more or less a continent there.. :)

@skadi
> I hate the cheap, interchangable soullessness of America

reading these things, i always wonder if the US are like this in every place, or if there are still good places?

@thor
i don't really like gemini, it's a solution waiting for a problem. the only thing you can do with it is blogging. gopher on the other hand is just different enough to be interesting (selectors vs. links etc.). i kind of like gopher but don't have a gopher hole myself.

what i _can_ see are the problems modern web has. i don't like it either. some ideas are pretty good (CSS is a good idea, not particularly well implemented, but it's still sane), some are outright idiotic (all the single page app react JS DOM fuckery nobody understands).

the web is foremost a platform to distribute documents with hyperlinks. it's so deeply embedded in it's legacy that this document serving part isn't going away.

i think for applications it would be more sensible to design a good VM and minimum feature set for rendering from the ground up. the idea of portable application is decades old (p-code), only the implementations all suck. java was/is a dumpster fire of bureaucracy, inferno never took off, ... so we are stuck with the worst possible thing, the jenga game of abstractions which browsers are.

i don't really know about the the exclusionary part. running/using gemini isn't especially hard and it seems to attract the kind of people who i don't particularly like (contrary to gopher). it feels like a variant of "do this cool hacker thing with arduino and these prefab modules!!1". looks and virtue signalling over merit, which regrettably got increasingly common in hacker culture in the last decade.

@schipplock@nrw.social krankenkassen könnten ihre kohle auch für sinnvolles ausgeben. ich wär aber eh dafür die alle dichtzumachen und eine gesetzliche zu haben. das sind alles körperschaften des öffentlichen rechts, am ende die gleiche suppe. wie viel geld man da sparen könnte! krankenhausbetten und pflegepersonal so weit das auge reicht!

@thor maybe she felt your troubles finding good questions :)

@nexusplasma@troet.cafe beratungspflicht wie bei abtreibungen? obwohl ich _keinen_ eingriff will? die beratung kriegt man doch eh nur bestätigt wenn man der pumpe im arm zustimmt.

ham echt alle zuviel gekokst.

zum bild aus der bild: aber die jahrelange immunität die das pei gefunden hat wird wieder ignoriert.

@becassine best way is probably living in a cabin without electricity and internet for a year to a) clean the daughters mind of all the cancerous beauty brainwashing b) for the father to get his fucking priorities straight and stop badmouthing his own flesh and act as an example.

@skadi iirc there is a hook for "new window" events now, which is pretty sweet. i was more than pleased that it still is developed anyway :)