mindbleach @ mindbleach @sh.itjust.works

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Copyright is only a monetary incentive. If Riot's not going to do anything with all that work and art, it should be public-domain.

"Where have all the communities gone?" is a question.

"Where all the communities have gone" is a statement.

"A task perfectly suited for a creature so limited in its doingness."

Oh that's why it's called Operation Clambake.

Have you ever seen a calzone?

Thirteen furries just had an aneurysm.

how many ways can you really communicate with a cell tower?

Analog encoding assigns each device in a cell its own frequency range.

Time-domain multiplexing assigns each device a fraction of a second to transmit.

Quadrature phase-shift keying alters the timing of a signal to convey data.

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing has each device transmit the same signal over P out of Q bands, such that each device's signal can be reconstructed by knowing which bands it transmitted on.

There's a fucking reason your phone is faster now than in 2010.

How cell phones work is ridiculously complicated. Going from analog, to time-domain shenanigans, to binary wizard math, is why you can watch 720p video and whine that it's not 1080p.

Not aided by how many instances fall for the cult of civility.

Saying "fuck off, Nazi" needs more protection than being a fucking Nazi.

Would it always be in response to Nazis? Nope. But sometimes it is, and the reason we have human beings as moderators is so they can tell.

American politics are kind of fucked.

Yeah sometimes that neuron hasn't fired in a while.

There's an Ahoy video about tracker music, and when it played the first three notes of "Foregone Destruction," that fucker released aaall the good chemicals.

Wackiki Wabbit. Set on Humuhumunukunukuapua'a'a'a Island.

We had the second Care Bears movie on the same VHS tape as A Wish For Wings That Work, the Bloom County adaptation briefly featuring Robin Williams as "Sudy Nim."

Dark Heart might've been a bisexual awakening.

Bill Hicks was right.

It was fine, if it ran.

Windows XP wasn't even secure and reliable, at the time. At this point it's indistinguishable from keeping Windows 95 on a full tower from Gateway because nothing else supports your vintage scanner. You're one step from the tech-priests waving incense as a ritual against crashing.

Yeah, adoption's not a feature you can design.

The general idea may show up in any extensible format. Like a PNG encoder that only does Sub filter can encounter each pixel once.

... wait, PNG filtering is byte-level? It doesn't change with bit depth? Christ.

Minecraft but better
Minecraft but not Java

Cautionary tales demonstrated by Minecraft itself.

Possibly the final version. Quite Okay Imaging (QOI) achieved similar compression with none of the complexity. Lossy + difference = lossless formats are surely the better option where performance is not crucial. Even the fact they fffucking finally made APNG official is decades late to replace GIF, since several image formats are now literally video formats.

The future is webp. And telling software patents to burn in hell.

Lady Marshmallow travels like a Wooloo.