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Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by smcl on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:34AM (#26034579)
I googled Peter K Joneleit after your description of him in the README and I was curious if you were just having a bit of fun or if he was involved in defining these web standards. Hooooo boy I was not prepared for his Twitter, it is wild
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by so_this_is_me on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:53AM (#26034667)
Wow you're not wrong about his Twitter, that was an adventure. It's so over the top I actually can't tell if it's meant to be satire.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by jcuenod on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:02AM (#26037001)
Probably just a hacked account
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by tyingq on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:19AM (#26037932)
I don't think so. The "SOL" link on his page leads to even worse stuff.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by anamexis on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:00AM (#26037691)
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by smcl on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:43PM (#26038978)
I deliberately did not include it as it has some pretty awful stuff
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by jtwaleson on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:55AM (#26034675)
I was just having fun when I wrote it. Just saw his twitter feed... wow...
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by jtwaleson on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:00AM (#26034700)
To be honest I did see some conspiracy stuff on his website, but I decided to ignore it and just focus on the beautiful Flash animations. Not sure how I feel about it.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by smcl on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:08AM (#26034740)
I think it’s ok to separate the art from the artist, so to speak. The original site is indeed interesting and a nice example of Flash web design from the era, the Twitter acct doesn’t change this
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by fortran77 on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:53AM (#26036898)
I'm sorry. I looked at this website, and he explicitly blames me and my people for controlling and destroying the country (and the World Trade Center) and wants me destroyed. I can't look away from that. It's sad that that's OK on Y Combinator's Hacker News, but at least I know what I'm dealing with here.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by smcl on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:06PM (#26038508)
If you interpreted this thread as an endorsement of anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists then I think you ought to re-read it. To restate in case it is unclear: the original author of the page turned out to have hateful views, but it needn’t reflect at all on the homage that jtwaleson made and they shouldn’t feel bad about it.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by superdisk on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:58AM (#26037669)
He's clearly an insane person. There's no use getting worked up about what some digital hobo is screaming.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by patates on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:39AM (#26034910)
I don't think you should feel bad for admiring his work. I'd hesitantly say that he may have some mental troubles and we should rather feel bad for him, which I personally do, sincerely. It's like how many admired TempleOS.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by lfowles on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:54AM (#26034995)
Whew, "some" is putting it lightly.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by kylowinter on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:52AM (#26036281)
When trying to recreate the site in HTML5, how did you not notice the big "SOL" button on the flash page linking to his blog about how the Jews did 9/11 and other nonsense?
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by jtwaleson on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:46AM (#26036801)
See my other comment. I gave it a cursory look and ignored it and I'm not sure what I feel about that. I agree with some others in the thread and try to look at the "art" separately from the "artist".
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Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by jtwaleson on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:54AM (#26036902)
I can assure you that I do not support this.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by newswasboring on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:23AM (#26035531)
As soon as I saw his handle is literally "GodSend14" I knew I was in for a nice ride.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by someperson on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:16AM (#26035948)
Eccentric like the late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS creator
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by newswasboring on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:51AM (#26036268)
Lets call a spade a spade. Its not "Eccentric", he either has serious mental health issues or is an American far right conspiracy theorist. And don't you go implying that all American far right conspiracy theorists have mental health issues, that is not proven or even logical in many ways.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by andai on Saturday February 06, 2021 @02:44AM (#26044902)
The man's talking about prophecies, comets and reptilians.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust by newswasboring on Saturday February 06, 2021 @03:37AM (#26045181)
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is a member of United States congress literally blamed forest fires on Jewish space lasers. It's hard to discern these days who has mental issues and who is just conspiracy theorist. Unless a doctor has diagnosed someone I will reserve my judgement