mitch

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[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 8 points 2 weeks ago

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 4 points 2 weeks ago

Judging by what little I have at my disposal (my Proxmox summary), netin is the lion’s share of it.

Here is a clip for you:

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 7 points 2 weeks ago

Hmmm. You just reminded me to update, thank you.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I run a single-user PieFed instance and am happy as a clam with it.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

YouTube blew up the year I went to college and got access to a T3 line. 🤤 My school had pretty robust security, but it was policy-based. Turns out, if you are on Linux and can't run the middleware, it would just go "oh you must be a printer, c'mon in!"

I crashed the entire network twice, so I fished a computer out of the trash in my parents' neighborhood, put Arch and rtorrrent on it, and would just pipe my traffic via SSH to that machine. :p

Ah, and the short era of iTunes music sharing... Good memories.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah I am not sure. I just assumed it was W3C.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My unpopular opinion is that Flash was perhaps one of the greatest media standards of all time. Think about it — in 2002, people were packaging entire 15 minute animations with full audio and imagery, all encapsulated in a single file that could play in any browser, for under 10mb each. Not to mention, it was one of the earliest formats to support streaming. It used vectors for art, which meant that a SWF file would look just as good today on a 4k screen as it did in 2002.

It only became awful once we started forcing it to be stuff it didn't need to be, like a Web design platform, or a common platform for applets. This introduced more and more advanced versions of scripting that continually introduced new vulnerabilities.

It was a beautiful way to spread culture back when the fastest Internet anyone could get was 1 MB/sec.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 117 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

Honestly it's a little staggering how much better web video got after the W3C got fed up with Flash and RealPlayer and finally implemented some more efficient video and native video player standards.

<video> was a revolution.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 100 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Godspeed, you hero of gyros, you hoagie heroine, you rigoletto of Ruebens...

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 2 weeks ago

You don't have to explain that kind of stuff, you know. I understand the notion, but, I promise you, it is immaterial to the joke I was making on this shitposting forum.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 2 weeks ago

in that case, mewtwo is basically just a ripoff of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” what other public domain classics did Pokémon manage to repackage and resell to us?!

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hank: “Bobby, when I was little, we had 151 Pokémon, and that was plenty! We didn’t even have confirmation that Mew existed until maybe a decade later, and we were all so happy that we threw a party! Remember, Boomhauer?”

Boomhauer: “Well I tell ya what man igottagetyaonthepokemonromhacksbecausebackthentheydidntknowgaddumnallaboutjapaneseso (chuckling) theyjustchangedthejapanesecharacterstoenglishones man andnobodycaredtheydjustsitthereonno$gbandmakeuppokemonnameslike ‘turt’ or ‘hors’ andwe’dalljustlikestumblethroughthebarelytranslatedgames tryingtofigureoutwhattodoman it was a joy to be included”

Hank: “Yeah.”

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