Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

semi-relatedly, double-escaped entities is the single most cursed aspect of X·M·L

it was indeed a bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/655

The first Snowflake Challenge™ is always to update one’s fannish profile, which is awkward in my case as I don’t really have a fannish profile to speak of. My profiles on A·O·3 have gotten progressively more light over time as I have increasingly tried to divest myself from that platform, and I don’t spend much time frequenting fannish social media spaces or forums. This #SnowflakeChallenge feed might well be the only significant fannish online space I am currently actively putting energy into.

With that in mind, here ⁜is⁜ my current profile: My name is Lady, I have a bunch of other monikers I go by inside and out of fandom (too many to list here), my fannishness derives primarily from the fact that thinking about and creating stories is one of the ways that I process and engage with media, my first fandom was ‘The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’, and I mostly spend time in that and other Nintendo (or Nintendo‐adjacent) fandoms, despite not being particularly satisfied with any of the scenes there.

I listen to a lot of music and making playlists is a part of my process when it comes to thinking about and writing fanfiction. I love listening to other people’s playlists as well!

<https://www.ladys.computer/about/#lady> has a more generic profile, including contact information, which is still current. The rest of my fannish online presence is still a work‐in‐progress for now.

#SnowflakeChallenge

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The “Snowflake Challenge” is a celebratory Ⅎandom* event, hosted primarily on Dreamwidth (but also on other platforms). It’s about celebrating the uniqueness and diversity of fandom and its participants. The name is explained as follows :⁠—

« The band My Chemical Romance put in a guest appearance on the kids show Yo Gabba Gabba that December, singing about every snowflake being different, and that was what I wanted us to celebrate—how each one of us was unique and beautiful, broken and imperfect and intelligent and talented and lovable. »

(You can read <https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/69208.html>="their post introducing the 2024 challenge" for more on the challenge and what it is for.)

I normally keep a pretty low fandom profile so I thought it might be fun to spend a little time this January exploring it (in public) a bit more. I’ve never done one of these before, so we’ll see if I love or hate it by the end.

As with everything I post to status.ladys.computer, all of these posts will be crossposted to Mastodon, and you can also follow along via <https://status.ladys.computer/topics/SnowflakeChallenge.atom>="the SnowflakeChallenge Atom feed" once I make the first post.

* “Capital‐F Fandom” has already been taken to mean something somewhat different, so I’m using “Turned Capital‐F Fandom” for this iteration.

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« Like King Charles III of Britain, Prince Frederik, who will soon ascend to his country’s throne, is part of a younger generation of royals »

King Charles III:

honestly wild how many of those tracks have bandcamp links

music is getting good again

01. “End of Everything” by Mega Bog
https://megabog.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-everything

02. “To Me It Was” by Samia
https://samia.bandcamp.com/track/to-me-it-was

03. “Worst Case Kid” by Tommy Lefroy
https://labrecords.bandcamp.com/track/worst-case-kid-2

04. “Close” by Dizzy
https://dizzytheband.bandcamp.com/track/close

05. “More to Lose” by Shit Present
https://shitpresent.bandcamp.com/track/more-to-lose

06. “Radial Chatter” by Janice Kwan
https://janicekwan.bandcamp.com/track/radial-chatter

07. “Fading” by Swimming Paul
https://headroomrecords.bandcamp.com/track/fading

08. “Purple Tiger” by Milky Chance
https://youtu.be/7mVydFThdp4

09. “NAKE” by SAI
https://youtu.be/xbihHyu188U

10. “The Heat” by Paper Bee
https://paper-bee.bandcamp.com/track/the-heat

11. “Jo Jah Jo” by Afriquoi
https://youtu.be/H5iqfGa36Fs

12. “You Know How” by Vagabon
https://vagabon.bandcamp.com/track/you-know-how

13. “Hesitate” by Hazlett ft. OSKA
https://youtu.be/aJ492Cqvrng

14. “Into Your Room” by Holly Humberstone
https://hollyhumberstone.bandcamp.com/track/into-your-room

15. “Bell Ringer” by TRUE||FORM
https://truellform.bandcamp.com/track/bell-ringer

mozilla’s current c·e·o is bad, but friends, mozilla’s old c·e·o was also bad

mozilla didn’t just directly profit from a situation where only large browsers manufacturers had any say in the direction of the web, they actively created it

remember when W3C leaned too hard into user-centric design and modularity and new X·M·L technologies

and Brendan Eich, noted homophobe, grew concerned with this, not because of its impact to ordinary people, but because he thought that monolithic web browsers manufacturers would wind up losing out to newer, bespoke applications

and so he got Mozilla and Opera together to write a letter saying that the future of computing on the web should take place entirely within the web browser using nothing but HTML, CSS, and a whole lot of Javascript (a language he created)

and they forked HTML from W3C, setting up WHATWG, an organization controlled entirely by web browser implementors, to decide the future of the web going forward

and then Mozilla used the fact that they were “the only nonprofit with a seat at the table of standardization organizations” in their fundraising campaigns for the next decade

nobody writes programs which solve real people problems anymore

has anyone created a better rich text editor for macOS than Bean, a program i first learned about on Open Source Mac Dot Org in 2010

or has innovation well and truly stalled since the early 2000’s

first commit of the new year

https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commitdiff/ec88b220b74e7a92e727a104be39c7b4a6b03dc1

(it may not work on Linux; i might have used an incompatible option for `touch´)

this is very much just a minimum viable implementation right now; there’s more to add but this WORKS

https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/blob/HEAD:/README.markdown

• they know they have an image problem and are entirely disinterested in fixing it

• they are far from the only open-source/tech advocacy nonprofit on the planet and others do it better

• dunno why people keep defending them considering the above

is there a frontend for these yet which isn’t mozilla-branded

did i just discover a bug in libxml2 or

played “My Best Friends” for @Satsuma and they were NOT having it