https://old.reddit.com/r/scuba/comments/nionzq/do_you_ever_just_listen_to_the_sound_of_the_reef/

Do you ever just listen to the sound of the reef? The crackling and popping that you hear in the background that are not bubbles, are sounds of the reef. Fish doing fish things, shrimp doing shrimp things, etc.

Same as anything else. Go talk to people who you consider fascist, understand their point of view and concerns, and then make arguments to them in terms of those concerns.

Frankly, I don’t think that it’s likely an incredibly-entertaining task.

I also think that the term “fascist” has a pretty extensive history of being overused, though I suppose from the standpoint of this, doesn’t really matter much.

You don’t care about topic at all?

EDIT: Here are some 26 million phpBB forum pages:

https://www.google.com/search?q="phpbb+limited"

The first page of results is mostly related to phpBB itself, and the second page starts listing forums using phpBB.

Yeah, but that’s just a guess. Looking further, it sounds like it was indeed added by the printer, not on the artist’s end, but that the art they sent was just black-and-white, with instructions to the printer as to what to what white areas to shade:

https://thenib.com/color-archive/

Cartoonists don’t create these dots—they’re added during print production. Cartoonists started with pen and ink on paper. Starting in 1894, their drawings were shot as photographic negatives, which were then exposed under intense light onto photosensitized zinc metal plates.

To add tints, cartoonists (or often an assistant or colorist) roughly marked up their drawings, indicating which grays or colors should appear in which areas. Comics syndicates created a limited set of colors to choose from based on mixing tints at different percentages, and those numbers would be marked on the comic. Some cartoonists used color pencil or watercolors on their original or a copy as an additional guide.

In production, engravers took these zinc plates—a single black plate for weekdays, and four separate ones for Sunday color comics—and painted around each area that needed tone using a water-soluble material called gamboge. They applied an oily ink to a sheet in a frame somewhat resembling a silk screen called a Ben Day screen that was covered with tiny dots for the desired tint. The engraver then placed the screen over the areas on the zinc plate that needed tint applied and used a burnisher to rub down the Ben Day pattern. They then washed the gamboge off. They might have to do this dozens to hundreds of times for a Sunday strip.

It sounds like that analog process became a digital one sometime around the 1970s, but still had the “artist-annotated image” approach.

If you mean the dot pattern on the can, I believe that that’s halftoning, which would let a black-and-white newspaper print something other than black-and-white images. I’m not familiar with the process, but my guess is that the way that probably worked was that Larson sent in something with a flat shade of gray and then the halftoning was generated digitally for it and anything else that used shades of gray on the print side.

The CPU is maybe another couple hundred watts, too. I mean, it’s not just your case that’s going to need cooling. At some point, the room is going to start needing some kind of ventillation or something when the thing is spooled up.

Ditto, though the LoRA might explain it.

The base model, Pony Diffusion, doesn’t normally act like that in my experience. Maybe if you generated an enormous number of images and culled them.

The simplicity of the style might also help – less to change.

sounds like a jet engine

If you stick multiple of them in one case, I imagine that it can sound like a whole jet plane.

I’m pretty sure that the airspace around Heathrow is controlled, too.

Maybe hold off on the homicide. I bet someone has done something like that.

kagis

https://andregarzia.com/2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hypercard.html

LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard and everyone who used HyperCard will feel at home at it.

LiveCode runs on macOS, Windows and Linux and can generate standalone binaries for all those platforms plus Android and iOS. You can get it from https://www.livecode.com/ or you can get a GPL version of it from https://www.livecode.org/.

The language looks reminiscent of my memories of HyperTalk.

https://zenit.org/2024/08/29/vatican-citys-immigration-law-one-of-the-strictest-in-europe/

Vatican City’s immigration law, one of the strictest in Europe

In May 2023, Pope Francis approved a new Fundamental Law for the Vatican City State, reinforcing strict criteria for citizenship and residency. This law stipulates that Vatican citizens include the Pope, cardinals residing in the state, and individuals whose roles are essential to the Vatican’s functions. Residency, similarly, is granted under tight conditions and can be revoked at any time, underscoring the transient nature of living within the Vatican. Marriage and family ties offer no guarantees for continued residency, with the law stating that permissions for spouses and children cease under specific circumstances, such as annulment or separation. Furthermore, children of Vatican citizens lose their citizenship upon reaching adulthood, unless specific conditions are met.

So now we have Trump aiming to score political points by trying to project an image of restrictive immigration policy while continuing to run permissive policy and the Pope aiming to score political points by trying to project an image of supporting permissive immigration policy while running restrictive immigration policy.

EDIT: I see that someone else pointed out the same thing.

ARM: Powering 95% of smartphones globally.

Physical presence matters - can’t build rockets remotely

ARM – a fabless design company – doesn’t seem like a very good example to be using if the argument is “manufacturing and design need to be physically colocated”.

Steve Jobs doing a hiring interview in Apple’s early days:

https://folklore.org/Gobble_Gobble_Gobble.html?sort=date

In January, we began interviewing candidates for the software manager position.

As soon as the guy walked into the room, I knew it was going to be problematic, because he seemed extremely straight-laced and uptight, dressing more like an insurance salesman than a technologist.

I could tell that Steve was losing patience when he started to roll his eyes at the candidate’s responses. Steve began to grill him with some unconventional questions.

“How old were you when you lost your virginity?”, Steve asked

The candidate wasn’t sure if he heard correctly. “What did you say?”

Steve repeated the question, changing it slightly. “Are you a virgin?”. Burrell and I started to laugh, as the candidate became more disconcerted. He didn’t know how to respond.

Steve changed the subject. “How many times have you taken LSD?”

The poor guy was turning varying shades of red, so I tried to change the subject and asked a straight-forward technical question. But when he started to give a long-winded response, Steve got impatient again.

“Gooble, gobble, gobble, gobble”, Steve started making turkey noises. This was too much for Burrell and myself, and we all started cracking up. “Gobble, gobble, gobble”, Steve continued, laughing himself now.

At this point, the candidate stood up. “I guess I’m not the right guy for this job”, he said.

“I guess you’re not”, Steve responded. “I think this interview is over.”

We’ll see “which” 196 ends up being the de facto, but my money’s on .world just due to user numbers

investigates

As of this writing, it looks like the userbase on each is:

EDIT: !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone has 16,800 subscribers, but if you figure that it’s been around for a while and probably some of those accounts aren’t active or are duplicates from people changing home instance or the like, active users might be a better metric. It’s had 1.46k users active in the last day, 5.38k users in the last week, 9.8k users in the last month, and 19.4k users in the last 6 months.

The 196 mods say that the Drag controversy is unrelated, as Dragonfucker had been banned from 196 long before for unrelated reasons.

Although…this is some sort of spat relating to pronouns, and as I recall, isn’t that guy’s thing referring to himself using the third person?

Hypercard was free for a while.

Yeah, and I wrote some stuff in HyperTalk, but IIRC it turned into some sort of Hypercard-the-authoring-environment and Hypercard-the-player split, with the player being redistributable.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

At the same time HyperCard 2.0 was being developed, a separate group within Apple developed and in 1991 released HyperCard IIGS, a version of HyperCard for the Apple IIGS system. Aimed mainly at the education market, HyperCard IIGS has roughly the same feature set as the 1.x versions of Macintosh HyperCard, while adding support for the color graphics abilities of the IIGS. Although stacks (HyperCard program documents) are not binary-compatible, a translator program (another HyperCard stack) allows them to be moved from one platform to the other.

Then, Apple decided that most of its application software packages, including HyperCard, would be the property of a wholly owned subsidiary called Claris. Many of the HyperCard developers chose to stay at Apple rather than move to Claris, causing the development team to be split. Claris attempted to create a business model where HyperCard could also generate revenues. At first the freely-distributed versions of HyperCard shipped with authoring disabled. Early versions of Claris HyperCard contain an Easter Egg: typing “magic” into the message box converts the player into a full HyperCard authoring environment.[15] When this trick became nearly universal, they wrote a new version, HyperCard Player, which Apple distributed with the Macintosh operating system, while Claris sold the full version commercially. Many users were upset that they had to pay to use software that had traditionally been supplied free and which many considered a basic part of the Mac.

Hmm. Sounds like the interaction was more-complicated than just that.

main mod (Ada?)

Ada isn’t a mod of !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone. Ada is the admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone.

EDIT: While I’m not subscribed to 196 – not really my cup of tea – and I haven’t been following whatever the issue is, I probably would have moved it too, for more-general reasons. While lemmy.blahaj.zone doesn’t, as far as I know, have any real restrictions on non-trangender content, it’s really a special-interest instance aimed at transgender stuff. It’s kind of like setting up a community about Shakespeare on yiffit.net – it’s not like the yiffit.net crowd is going to take issue with it, but it’s a special-interest instance aimed at adult furry stuff, and that probably isn’t what you’re going for unless your angle is specifically an adult furry take on Shakespeare. Which, I mean, I guess someone could be, but I don’t think is the case with 196.

EDIT2: A curious search on Kagi reveals that apparently there is a published dating sim game on Steam specifically dealing with furry Shakespeare with multiple DLCs. I’ll be damned.

The continuation of /r/196.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=r%2F196

r/196

A subreddit that gained popularity due to only having one rule, which is to post before leaving. The sub started after it’s predecessor, r/195, was shut down by the moderators.

Today’s users have massive amounts of computer power at their disposal, thanks to sales of billions of desktop and laptop PCs, tablets and smartphones. They’re all programmable. Users should be able to do just enough programming to make them work the way they want. Is that too much to ask?

Smartphones – and to a lesser degree, tablets – kind of are not a phenomenal programming platform. Yeah, okay, they have the compute power, but most programming environments – and certainly the ones that I’d consider the best ones – are text-based, and in 2025, text entry on a touchscreen still just isn’t as good as with a physical keyboard. I’ll believe that there is room to considerably improve on existing text-entry mechanisms, though I’m skeptical that touchscreen-based text entry is ever going to be at par with keyboard-based text entry.

You can add a Bluetooth keyboard. And it’s not essential. But it is a real barrier. If I were going to author Android software, I do not believe that I’d do the authoring on an Android device.

When Dartmouth College launched the Basic language 50 years ago, it enabled ordinary users to write code. Millions did. But we’ve gone backwards since then, and most users now seem unable or unwilling to create so much as a simple macro

I don’t know about this “going backwards” stuff.

I can believe that a higher proportion of personal computer users in 1990 could program to at least some degree than could the proportion of, say, users of Web-browser-capable devices today.

But not everyone in 1990 had a personal computer, and I would venture to say that the group that did probably was not a representative sample of the population. I’d give decent odds that a lower proportion of the population as a whole could program in 1990 than today.

I do think that you could make an argument that the accessibility of a programming environment somewhat-declined for a while, but I don’t know about it being monotonically.

It was pretty common, for personal computers around 1980, to ship with some kind of BASIC programming environment. Boot up an Apple II, hit…I forget the key combination, but it’ll drop you straight into a ROM-based BASIC programming environment.

After that generation, things got somewhat weaker for a time.

DOS had batch files. I don’t recall whether QBasic was standard with the OS. checks it did for a period with MS-DOS, but was a subset of QuickBasic. I don’t believe that it was still included by later in the Windows era.

The Mac did not ship with a (free) programming environment.

I think that that was probably about the low point.

GNU/Linux was a wild improvement over this situation.

And widespread Internet availability also helped, as it made it easier to distribute programming environments and tools.

Today, I think that both MacOS and Windows ship with somewhat-more sophisticated programming tools. I’m out of date on MacOS, but last I looked, it had access to the Unix stuff via brew, and probably has a set of MacOS-specific stuff out there that’s downloadable. Windows ships with Powershell, and the most-basic edition of Visual Studio can be downloaded gratis.