Thinking about how bsky has the most horrible setting turned on by default that says "i don't want to see any other languages except English" and if no one tells you to put it on "no selection" you straight up won't see posts from people set to different languages on your TL.
bsky.app/settings/lan...
A sleepy Cinnabar moth clinging onto a prickly leaf. See close to home this morning. #moths
Two panels—one on top of the other—with each panel showing black-and-white illustrations of two walruses. In each panel, grey triangular fields extend from one of the walrus' eyes, showing the field of view. The walrus in the top panel is looking over its shoulders at the second walrus; a walrus in the bottom panel has its head raised and is looking straight ahead at the walrus in front of it.
Two panels—one on top of the other—with each panel showing black-and-white illustrations of walruses. In each panel, grey triangular fields extend from one of the walrus' eyes, showing the field of view. The walrus in the top panel is looking down at a smaller walrus; the walrus in the bottom panel is looking down at the seafloor.
Please enjoy these delightful images from a 1993 paper on walrus vision, showing estimated visual fields in different poses (I especially love how they look like alternate covers for a scifi novel about space walruses with ray-shooting eyeballs)
Source: www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/wp-content/u...
My new video, Notes on Vanishing, is out now.
I keep returning to an unthinkable question: is it time for trans people to make ourselves disappear?
Enjoy 🌃
youtu.be/cqhiup5qSY8
here's a new post just in case anyone needs another post to look at
I wish more spicy foods used the scoville scale to describe their level of heat
It'd be very useful for both learning the scale, and for being able to more-consistently get what I want in terms of spiciness
opinion: tech companies using "diagonal inches" in their advertising is bullshit, orthogonal dimensions are so much easier to interpret for things like figuring out "will that fit in my space"
Centralized platforms offered solutions to both of those problems! And so they took over. That isn't to say they don't have other advantages, but those seem like the most significant reasons to me and my memory of how things went down.
Big reason #2 is moderation and spammers, especially bots. This is why "dead forums" couldn't just stick around as husks of their former selves; moderation is a sisyphean task against the relentless automatons, who would use any means of "interaction" to make the world a worse place.
Modest images are still significantly larger than big html, so the cost of webhosting became prohibitive for platforms without Investor Money. I think there was some vague idea that ISPs should provide hosting—and I believe some tried!—but webpage management didn't catch on with "the public"
Big reason #1 is image hosting. As internet speeds capable of handling large images and consumer digital cameras (incl. phones) became more popular, The Internet That Was completely failed to provide adequate storage. I think the idea that ISPs should handle that, but it never materialized.
May as well muse about this here: For all the nostalgia my generation has for the Internet's Golden Age of forums and blogs instead of these monolithic platforms, it's worth reflecting on how and why those monolithic platforms were able to defeat and replace them in general use.
checkin' out a new webapp, still not sure how much I'll use it
