oof.

fun fact: Windows uses 9p for bridging the Windows and Linux filesystems with WSL2. the devs had excellent taste in protocols.

Isn’t jfx still actually using HTML and CSS, though? like it’s cool that the UI logic is in Java, but doesn’t using CSS mean you still need to lug a rendering engine around, even if not a whole browser?

Java (and Object Pascal, I’m assuming) have very old-looking UIs. Discord’s gonna have trouble attracting users if their client looks like a billing system from 2005. Also, what do you do about the web client? Implement the UI once in HTML/CSS/JS, and again in JForms?

So if you’re picking one UI to make cross-platform, and you need a web client, do you pick JForms and make it work on the web? or React and make it work on desktop?

and I was just looking at a 100Tbps backhaul the other day… that’s what, a billion times more bandwidth?

I read CS papers from the late '80s/early '90s and it feels like unearthing cuneiform tablets. Lots of good ideas, just everything felt so raw and new.

He might have a connective tissue disorder? EDS in particular causes stretchy skin, though I’ve never seen the scalp do that.

t. EDS patient. it’s pretty crippling and painful but I have some fun party tricks!

And Dimitry Prigozhin was Putin’s chef! Before he founded PMC Wagner, helped invade Ukraine, led a failed coup attempt, and got blown up.

Truly the soul of Russia is in its cooking. 🪆

Lemmy has a grand total of one (1) spambot, a scammer posing as “Nicole.” in a way, this is Lemmy World Heritage in the making.

is there an AMA sublemmy?

wait, why would you need to bypass guardrails for this?