And now to scramble the pw to this account as well. That's it for me. No more socks left.
Give yourselves a round of applause, Silicon Valley et al.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell
But as so many even here keep repeating so idiotically, "We live in a society. We live in a society. We live in a society..." Gotta keep trading that liberty for more safety. Gotta keep 'em safe.
Anyone see the new messages you get on Twitter when its AI pre-judges your tweet to be Intellectual Spam?
Good job Twitter employees, if you're reading. Keep up the great work. Keep us safe from code points arranged in wrong orders.
For the worst ever in all of human history, I submit the official Unreal Engine docs. They never finished them, and they ain't gonna. If it didn't come with full source I'd never get anything done because I'm not about to sit through 100 hours of YouTube videos to find the details I need.
A lot of software relies on user-created documentation these days. And it's not even a decent wiki anymore. It's more likely to be YouTube and a Discord. Damn kids.
It's quite a different context, however I felt sort of similar about John McCain, mostly for what he endured as a POW, and what he nevertheless went on to accomplish in politics.
Taylor's uncle is Roger MacDonald, founder of TV News archive:
https://archive.org/details/roger-macdonald-tv-archive
https://dicktracyonline.substack.com/p/who-is-taylor-lorenz
And of course you've already begun downvoting.
Taylor's uncle is Roger Macdonald, apparently a fairly prominent operator within the internet archive:
Also, one question. Suppose we do change the laws, and Kiwi Farms continues to operate within those new laws. Will that be enough, do you think? Because the US would have to outlaw dead naming and misgendering for it to be enough for the activists.
What? Testing it? To make sure we can actually exercise it in practice? Because "be careful how you use it or you might ruin it for everyone" wasn't ever how the 1st amendment was meant to work. Like, what would be the point. Let's let the 1st amendment say you have to check in with anyone sensitive and if they don't like it, you can't say it, because "we live in a society" Let's have a new Mandatory Courtesy and Respect amendment.
I am so utterly ashamed of the tech industry at this point. I'm glad I retired and don't have to pretend to your faces.
"The Internet interpretes censorship as damage and routes around it." Oh how naive and libertarian us techies were in the reactionary nineteen hundred and nineties.
Ever think the feds have half a brain among them, and know there's no threat?
I know how gullible people are in these culture-warish times, but I still hope you've lost credibility with some significant fraction of us. Maybe those of us old enough to remember when the average techy was libertarian and opposed censorship. The Farms is right back up, by the way. But at least now you can wash your hands of it. Don't think Twitter will stop coming at you though. You need to understand those people want to punish and teach.
Do you see that plain-looking dropdown menu with the rounded orange highlights? That is Internet Explorer. Just this one menu. It's an in-process instance of Trident, IEs old HTML rendering engine. So that little window is the equivalent of somthing like chromium embedded. I don't know why that menu is an instance of IE's HTML renderer. Someone wanted to style it with CSS, I think. So they embedded IE. That flyout to the right is probably another Trident window. In order to meet accessibility requirements, I had to grab the running instance of the root IE COM interface, and route keyboard events into it. With raw C++ COM. There were other hooks going in the opposite direction so the menu / browser window could tell the app about clicks.
Here, I released this in 1996:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Aspetra_1996
I knew people still played it, but I had no idea it had a freaking URL now!
Edit: Oops. Now I'm thinking this would probably break all code analysis features. It would be nice if there was a notion of a 'view' that is very superficial and doesn't impact the code analysis.
What I am imagining is this: The underlying file format does not change. You can specify some sort of bidirectional transformation, via regexes or maps or something. The editor presents you with an editable view of the text, with this transformation applied. When you make edits, the reverse transformation is applied to the underlying file.Think of it as a vastly expanded version of git's...
I personally guarantee that this is the highest-quality PC game about making binary logic circuits with dominos in existence.