TimeSquirrel

I’m here because I DON’T want to have to read fucked up opinions. People here are mostly nice compared to mainstream platforms.

I’m all for difference of opinion, but not when one of those opinions is “we should oppress LGBT people” for example. 10-15 years ago, I’d have been more receptive to discussing opposing opinions, but shit has changed. A lot of those opposing opinions are now simply unacceptable to even entertain, because they’ve become a real, actual threat to my well-being. People aren’t discussing tax policy anymore, they are discussing imposing states of emergency to do some kind of purge on undesirables.

Some people call it an echo chamber, I just call it chilling and having fun with like-minded people. There’s nothing wrong with that. That’s what forums have always been.

I would also go as far as hiding a mini snake game as an easter egg

If you want some code for that I have my own C++ version I made for an ESP32 with OLED screen, it can easily be adapted to most other languages. I did it to get some programming practice. I have Tetris too. All you gotta do is replace the GPIO button inputs with keyboard inputs (or some other boolean on/off user input element) and replace the graphics framework and routines as well (it’s only simple stuff like lines, boxes, and setting individual pixels). The whole thing runs in a “neverending” while loop, first checking inputs, then checking collisions, then redrawing any objects that need to move to another position.

I can upload to my GitHub and link them later after work. They do use OOP though, treating each sprite on the board as its own object, and feeding pointers to them into a collision detection routine every game tick. I dunno, some people have a visceral hate for OOP.

You don’t have to be a dick, you know. There are other ways to live.

That’s what German did. They call it Haifisch.

We went from fixed-length elements that don’t scale with the browser, to the golden era, and then back to fixed-length elements that don’t scale with the browser.

We aren’t taught or encouraged to explore or experiment by our educational systems. We are taught how to do something, and then don’t question it. There are tons of people that cannot meaningfully play with Lego without assembly instructions. The idea of trying something out of the norm from what they already know never enters into their head.

Like, back in the day, I literally discovered I could drag and drop files directly into the “upload” area on some websites and it would automatically post the file to the site. I didn’t even know it was possible, I just out of the blue wondered if a browser can work like a drag and drop file manager and just went ahead and did it.

I’m getting annoyed that every damn thing is turning into a web app now and JS/Chrome is even infecting desktop programs that traditionally were written in a real systems language like C or C++. The technology world feels janky and bloated now, built like a house of cards where one thing is relying on 20 other things, some of them in the cloud, to work right.

Programming these days seems to be more about glueing various services and APIs together to come up with a solution instead of actually coding it.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

Feature requests, issues, and bugs would probably be better responded to there. We really can’t do anything about that. It’s open source. There’s also always the option of forking.

The people you are probably referring to exist on like, two instances. Everybody always ends up on the “.ml” ones for their first experience and is immediately horrified by the hardcore tankie content. That’s because those specific instances are run by actual Marxist-Leninists.

I had a setup with a Raspberry Pi where I could say a command to a Google speaker to view my front door camera, which would turn my living room TV on, switch to the Pi, load VLC, and stream the camera via it’s built in MPEG server. It was a pretty shaky Rube Goldberg-esque system triggering a bunch of stuff using IFTTT.