R. A. Dehi @radehi@social.cleverlibre.org

@reiver @alcinnz this comparison of Gopher from 1999 is worth reading: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~rohit/IEEE-L7-http-gopher.html

@hacks4pancakes I'm glad to see you here, and I'm glad is such a breath of fresh air for you!

@alcinnz Congratulations!

@mclare I see. I guess didn't want to be your first software-engineer employer, and have unrealistic expectations around hiring software people. Their loss!

@mclare These are structural engineering positions or software positions?

@freemo That really sucks. 😥

I hope you can find a refuge from the stress.

@freemo Because you ended with "Turkey".

@enkiv2 We were talking about standoff markup formats the other day, right? Have you looked at the representation of toots in ActivityStreams/ActivityPub?

@sachac @lxo Also I didn't know `ffmpeg` could do a waveform view, but that's a little less astonishing than the whole UI you built.

@cemerick @adereth Yeah, if you radically quantize colors without dithering you get radical posterization.

@sachac @lxo Right, I understood that that was what you were doing! But the part that amazed me was the whole `mpv` control thing.

@cemerick @adereth What do you mean?

@freemo Thank you for explaining! Which source file do I need to look at to understand why it's totally broken even within #Qoto?

@adereth @cemerick This also looks amazing.

@mmasnick @ambihelical @freemo I see, thanks! So @pwinn was totally right, which explains a lot.

@cemerick @adereth As palettes the adjacency provided by the Hilbert curve disappears, right? So this is just quantizing the RGB components to 1, 2, 3, or 4 bits respectively. Looks like Mathematica's `ColorQuantize` is doing some error-diffusion dithering, I think Floyd–Steinberg though I can't be sure.

Palettes taken from almost-continuous motion along the *n*th-order Hilbert curves (say, 256 or 512 colors along the 2nd-order curve) would be a way of letting the Hilbert nature bleed into the image.

Posterizing to 3 bits per component (quantizing the color without dithering) would also look pretty cool.