clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 / is on Nostr

Flawesome. GNU/Linux is my daily driver OS since 1995. On Fedi since 2008. Working in Racket, Tcl, Python, whatever gets the page up. Solving yesterday's problems tomorrow. A dad. Freddie Mercury is my spiritual advisor.

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2024-06-28 02:33:00

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Will I see on the comedy news shows tonight who has been talking about "gerrymandering" the Presidential election?

2024-06-21 21:45:35

Modern Vintage Gamer: "*Doom didn't kill the Amiga...Wolfenstein 3D did*"
Great overview of one strong technical reason why the Amiga faced challenges in 1992, as well as an overview of what's been happening in Amiga 3D or pseudo-3D gaming in the three decades since.
I have one quibble with the narrative: "chunky mode" isn't called "chunky" because of low resolution or anything else about how the output looks.
It's "chunky" because you can write a pixel in one write, one byte, one chunk of bits, instead of it being spread over multiple bit planes.
The comments explain why even fast chunky-to-planar conversion or a faster CPU wouldn't have helped -- the Amiga's Chip RAM simply had too low bandwidth.
I would love to see a video on the technical details on how 2020s 3D games for the Amiga manage to get around that and create an experience for the Amiga 500 that nobody in 1992 managed to create even for the double-bus-width, double-clock-frequency, fewer-cycles-per-instruction Amiga 1200.
[farside.link/invidious/watch?v…](https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=wsADJa-23Sg )
[youtube.com/watch?v=wsADJa-23S…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsADJa-23Sg )
#Amiga #Amiga500 #Amiga1200
#IDSoftware #Wolfenstein #Wolfenstein3D #Doom

2024-06-17 01:06:05

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You're all in on sarcastic one-liners this week! 😄

2024-06-12 12:33:36

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Acknowledging privilege is quite different from shouldering original sin.

2024-06-01 01:00:13

Swedish under-the-lip snuff ("snus", /snoos/) goes under Hong Kong's "smokeless tobacco" law and is illegal to import, sell or possess for the purpose of selling or otherwise delivering.
According to importers of Swedish goods, this extends to snus-like products that don't even contain tobacco. Like, there are mint-flavored packs you can put under your lip. But, tobaccoless smokeless tobacco products? How does the scope of this law even work?
I don't use snus myself, I just read Swedish Hong Kong groups and stumbled over this and it boggles me.
Does tobaccoless snus still have nicotine? I don't even know. If it does, I guess that's how it'd be in scope.

2024-05-15 03:12:57

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That's a cool timeline! And you actually have a receipt for "fediverse" in 2012-05, that's awesome.
I agree that it wasn't in general use. The skilledtests group "fediverse", e.g., wasn't created until 2013-07.
My timeline is based on people who were there agreeing that by the time Katsma was using it on Twitter in 2013-01, it had an established meaning.
The term was in use before identi.ca left OStatus, as people were creating more servers and moving away ahead of time. I haven't been able to find a hard source for that claim though, sorry.

2024-05-13 21:03:55

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It was becoming clear that Qvitter was the future of the Fediverse. It was being called the Fediverse now, at least by some people, since around May 2012 if I remember our fedi archaeology accurately.
GNU Social / StatusNet was looking old-fashioned and Qvitter was the new and cool web application that looked like Twitter 2013 instead of Twitter 2008. Unfortunately it also broke the Wayback Machine, so today I'm grateful to the sites that retained the old-school UI as their default.
Early on quitter.se seems to have kept old-school the default, so we can see my profile page and that I joined on 2013-07-21.
[web.archive.org/web/2013072317…](http://web.archive.org/web/20130723170450/http://quitter.se/clacke )

2024-05-13 20:42:21

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As parlementum was being wound down and encyclomundi withdrawing from online life in 2013, I took temporary refuge at unlimited.status.net, one of many general-purpose *.status.net servers Evan's company StatusNet was running, experimenting with different maximum post length. They had names like 280, 560 and ... unlimited.
This was during the #pumpocalypse. identi.ca was already running pump.io at this point, but *.status.net were still on StatusNet and OStatus. I was already on the pumpiverse with an account on microca.st, but wanted to stay on the OStatusverse as well. It was not yet clear what that verse would look like without its flagship.
[web.archive.org/web/2013050608…](http://web.archive.org/web/20130506084230/http://unlimited.status.net/clacke )
We can see one of the last parlementum posts reposted here:
> FINAL WARNING! !parlementum SN site & hyacinth server are shutting down during the day of 15 April PDT.
> about 22 days ago from parlementum.net at Wheel Estates Mobile Home Park, Washington, United States Repeat of encyclomundi

2024-05-13 20:26:55

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2011-11-29 I joined parlementum.net. What's the point of being on a federated network if you're on the same server as everyone else?
[web.archive.org/web/2013030121…](http://web.archive.org/web/20130301212836/http://parlementum.net/clacke/detail )
Parlementum was run by encyclomundi, who after a while would come down with life-threatening illness and disappeared off the net for several years. When he resurfaced we said hello on Twitter, but I never met him in person before he left this world for good.
This loss was the point at which I decided I should travel to meet more fedis, so if you meet me in Portland, OR in August this year, it will be partly because Charles "encyclomundi" Roth, his generosity and his kindness made such a deep impression on me.
🥰 GNU encyclomundi 🥰
[web.archive.org/web/2011082708…](http://web.archive.org/web/20110827080140/http://parlementum.net/cer )

2024-05-13 20:14:01

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A brief timeline of Fedi and my life on it:
2008-05-18 @npub1764…nuj0 fires up identi.ca, the beginning of it all:
[web.archive.org/web/2008061816…](http://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1 )
> This is my first post.2008-10-14 I joined identi.ca. I don't know what my first post was.
[web.archive.org/web/2008121206…](http://web.archive.org/web/20081212063841/http://identi.ca/clacke )

2024-05-13 20:07:45

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Tonight when I should have been sleeping or writing some stuff for work, I accidentally took a walk down fedi memory lane. Someone posted on their profile which accounts they had when, and I was inspired and made yet another attempt to locate some fragments of posts on servers long gone.
This time I was successful!
RE: [libranet.de/objects/0b6b25a8-1…](https://libranet.de/objects/0b6b25a8-1866-4256-be8a-4aa505467403 )
#note12uz…d2lx

2024-05-13 20:02:56

On Saturday, the Fediverse is celebrating it's 16th anniversary!
How are you celebrating?
#fediverse16years

2024-05-13 18:06:54

Hahaaa! I found a still running old school GNU Social that has a shadow profile of my old [#quitter.se](https://libranet.de/search?tag=quitter.se ) account!
[chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/43…](https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/4342 )
Thank you for hanging in there, Professor Steve. 🥰