Soni L. @SoniEx2@witches.town

Here ya go, now go comment on it https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6304

I might go back to Twitter for this reason alone.

Twitter: organized replies, ppl reply to news tweets so you can see what ppl are saying about it.

Mastodon: subtooting, subtooting everywhere

@szbalint here be 3 computer worms @@@ please take care of them, I want them to grow and spread.

Reminder that #rust std::mem::forget is safe.

@nightpool @a_breakin_glass @MightyPork *has made lots of things in raw OpenGL, recommends everyone tries it some day*

metaprogramming in the type system is the only true way of using #rust.

@jk don't worry, I can write 68k assembler in 100% javascript. https://github.com/SoniEx2/ssu

@drpeeper @jjg memory leaks are safe

I'm sorry I can't help but read 🔞 as "minor" or more specifically "not 18" at least that's how it reads to me y'all are minors.

Like, what's wrong with you ppl? Why's it so hard for you to support neurogenders? What did they ever do to you?

It saddens me that "plural genders are real and valid" is so controversial that I get thanked for saying it. #neurogenders #gender #trans #nonbinary

@impiaaa Well, you'd have animated .txt files...

Pure plaintext animated Unicode art...

The main use-case is trivial stuff like s/z, really.

@impiaaa Nope. It's all manual. You just shove 100 languages in the same webpage using what I call "alternations" - special Unicode constructs that alternate between different... bits of text.

Language recognition is easier than translation, but this has other uses: the simple "internationali(s|z)ation" case is English and so it should display both the "s" and the "z", alternating between "s" and "z".

Another option would be to perhaps include a country code "flag" after each alternation. Anyway let's stick to the simple case, really, just simple alternations that alternate between multiple options.

@impiaaa (This should only work for text tho, so you can't have "internationalized HTML" that switches the whole DOM once per frame.)

@impiaaa (I have actually seriously suggested this before. So I'm still seriously suggesting it. I'm sorry if you think it's a bad idea. They should be nestable and some operating systems could attempt to pattern match known languages to automatically show the user.)

@impiaaa I also want it to work for arbitrary text. so "(good morning|bom dia|etc)" would provide free internationalization for all! Language selectors be deprecated!

@impiaaa all I want is "internationali(s|z)ation" to work (switch between the "s" and the "z" once per frame).

@enkiv2 I take it you don't miss windows 95

tired: compatibility, the state of being compatible

wired: compatibleability, the possibility of being compatible

(re: mastodon-compatible activitypub implementation. you shouldn't make a lib that imposes a specific usage on the library user. instead, you should make a lib that uses the typesystem/zero-sized types/zero-cost abstractions to support that usage.)