Endymion_Mallorn
@Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
- Comment on Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story 6 days ago:
Ah, my sympathies then.
- Comment on Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story 6 days ago:
Garish yes, but it was great for color-blind people.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 2 weeks ago:
ECMAScript was such a mistake.
- Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users 4 weeks ago:
Ah, fair enough then. I'll be honest, most video I've got in my storage is still MPEG-2. A tiny amount is MPEG-4. I don't really have anything that's nominally in H.26x
- Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users 4 weeks ago:
How many users are watching H.265 content? Is that what YouTube uses on desktop?
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 1 month ago:
I mean, isn't that first part exactly what the legislation was about? They want to ban porn and make people angry and desperate for a revolution. They're removing the circuses to go along with the removing the bread thanks to SNAP and other funds being frozen. They absolutely must want a violent revolution.
- Comment on The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows 3 months ago:
Or, in more realistic terms, the internet is already mostly dead. Half of the stuff that should be available on clearnet or the visible web is now hidden in Discord chats. The hope lies in things like Gemini, Tor, and Freenet, but even there the braintrust is in Matrix.
- Comment on The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows 3 months ago:
If you mean it's the hot sheets and they're never wrong, I don't disagree.
- Comment on The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity 3 months ago:
Techlords? Wait I've heard this before.
No, wait, that was the Teklords. But they're still evil enemies of humanity that need to be destroyed.