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"Generating a Firefox static theme from a web page"

wherein I try to elaborate on that thing I said earlier about generating a zip file from client-side JS code

typing.lmorchard.com/2018/10/0

I've always thought it was silly that scifi space ships with artificial gravity could have dangerous falls. I mean, just reshape the fields for safety where there'd be long drops.

Doesn't work for brute force spin gravity, obviously, but should work for technobabble field generators.

@sorin I'm thinking probably not, given large enough images. But, it's seemed super fast for what I've thrown at it so far. Could consider tossing it at a web worker if need be

Turned on the TV, it was on a news channel. Stressed me out after 10 minutes. So I switched over to How It's Made on the Sci channel for self-soothing

@Insultron2000 honk honk

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I am stupidly tickled by that Banksy painting that self-shredded at auction boingboing.net/2018/10/06/dead

@fluffy Yeah, like I'm reading some reports saying the painting is worth 50% more since it self-destructed, just for the concept of the thing

@fluffy Heh oh yeah, I remember that one

Watching this How It's Made episode from 2008 on how player piano rolls are made.

The factory still uses an Apple ][ to run the equipment that punches the holes in the rolls.

youtu.be/x-K-8nEcIxo?t=76

I'm probably off by orders of magnitude, but sometimes I wonder if rather than all the money & effort spent on self-driving AI it wouldn't have been cheaper & easier to just run more rails everywhere

Is it just me or does a Mastodon instance throw an awful lot of traffic at w3.org, w3id.org, and web-payments.org for JSON-LD contexts? Maybe it's just my dev install

It does seem weird that the ActivityPub stuff I've been working on gets a lot of Delete activities from instances all over. Seems like Mastodon shouts at every known endpoint when a user deletes their account?

So, Hulu is annoyingly takes like 8 clicks of "are you sure? want free stuff? maybe a pause?" to cancel.

Netflix is annoying because they make me type my 32-character-long random password when setting up the teevee

Somebody once told me that bittorrent & kodi are pretty good

2018/10/07