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cupiegun cidoku

11 months ago

cool site!!!(*・ω・)ﾉ

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cidoku 11 months ago

Thank you! And thank you for the follow. I couldn't really access your site, the link on the landing page is broken.

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cidoku doritochan001

11 months ago

Your drawings are pretty cute. Cheers!

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doritochan001 11 months ago

!!! THANK UOU so MUCH I'm glad you enjoy my drawinggs !!! =D Your website is awesome TOO, I LOVE the red vintage theme~ < ( ☆ • ☆ )

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cidoku

11 months ago

Good on neocities for implementing a post limit and forcing people to update their sites.

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ongezell 11 months ago

Finally

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lupen 11 months ago

Where did you read it? Its not on their blog or the like, twitter i think

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angeleyesprings 11 months ago

What's up with the post limit?

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cidoku 11 months ago

I encountered the limit myself the other day. You're only allowed to post 10 updates/comments per day. Try it, it's an undocumented feature or it's being tested

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drawcia 11 months ago

It's cool there's a update limit now (people just micro-blogged on it), but applying a limit on comments as well sucks a bit ;o; They're a nice way to reply quick stuff on people's site updates, I find guestbooks a bit clunky/disorganized and only use them when wanting to say something long.

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cidoku 11 months ago

drawcia: yes, I agree it could be done better. But at the same time, I wish people used guestbooks (especially mine) more. BTW, neocities says it's to combat spam: https://github.com/neocities/neocities/blob/96ffe92ce3c440995a531fb37e2d88b664269654/views/site/_profile_comments.erb#L20

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cidoku

11 months ago

just for fun, maybe it's time to inaugurate the cidoku.net awards and send badges like "reddest site" to personal sites I like (maybe they'll even accept them and put them on display). What do you say? Would YOU be willing to accept such an award?

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bmh 11 months ago

Back in the days of Geocities I was a part of such things as website awards.

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cidoku 11 months ago

Well, one of my mottos is to bring back the good things from the past. Let's bring it back and recognize the efforts of webmasters.

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lotus-cube 11 months ago

Yes.

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cidoku updated cidoku.net

11 months ago

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cidoku 11 months ago

just for fun.

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satyrwoud 11 months ago

#56 is the most relatable thing ever

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angeleyesprings 11 months ago

ayyyy nice quiz!!! I also like One Hundred Years of Solitude, but I read that last year

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angeleyesprings 11 months ago

double comment, but I also agree with you about speedrunning too

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cidoku 11 months ago

satyrwoud, it concerns me that you're not the first person to tell me that.

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saint-images 11 months ago

fellow animism enjoyer ( ﾟ∀ﾟ)人(ﾟ∀ﾟ ) fellow point 40 enjoyer ( ﾟ∀ﾟ)人(ﾟ∀ﾟ )

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cidoku 11 months ago

( ﾟ∀ﾟ)人(ﾟ∀ﾟ )

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bmh 11 months ago

54; can relate.

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cidoku

11 months ago

I once again had the pleasure to listen to the beautiful music of an accordionist. The urge to sell all my synths and get one intensifies.

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cidoku

11 months ago

I need someone to test my site on the nintendo wii browser that has flash 7 and send me a picture NOW

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dc-blog 11 months ago

cant do it but if i had a chance to setup my wii and do it, id gladly do so. i'll see if i can do it tonight if no one else does it before me btw

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cidoku 11 months ago

By now I mean "whenever", but I'd be really happy if you did, please! Test my flashes if you can, too. My guestbook is waiting for the results of this heroic task

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dc-blog 11 months ago

@cidoku i'll record it on my Blackberry and then show you the results tonight, i should be able to get my Wii on. My biggest concern is if i have a Wii remote and if so, if i have double-A batteries. But otherwise this'll be easy to get working since i have a spare TV, so tonight i shall test then share to you. Likely just directly uploading the video onto my website then sharing to you, it will be 240p AV1 WEBM.

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cidoku 11 months ago

good, thank you. my guestbook doesn't admit links, so share just it here then.

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cidoku updated cidoku.net

11 months ago

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rbuchanan 11 months ago

Congratulations on your purchase! I'm very fond of typewriters, mauger that I'm all thumbs with them. If you're going to use it regularly, you may want to seek out a local or regional party who can service it for that eventuality of repair.

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drawcia 11 months ago

Congrats on the typewritter! I still keep and use the one my grandpa had, aside from sturdy they're superfun to write in. Their only downside is that ink tape is a bit hard to come by nowadays ;w; (at least over here)

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cidoku 11 months ago

Thank you both! I'm really happy with the purchase, and I plan to use it a lot. drawcia, funnily enough, they're super easy to get for cheap on aliexpress. you can get three tapes for like 15 bucks. I know it's not ideal, but there's availability

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hopeslair updated Hope's Lair - Landing page

11 months ago

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cidoku

11 months ago

Happy 10th anniversary to my site.

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dc-blog 11 months ago

damn your site is 10yo? surprising XD, happy 10th anniversary.

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cidoku 11 months ago

Yes. Fun fact: it's older than people who are 9 years old.

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dc-blog 11 months ago

Omg my site is only 2yo so its older than ppl older than 1 *dies of shock*

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angeleyesprings 11 months ago

Wow your site is almost middle school age! congrats!!!!

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cidoku 11 months ago

@amy thank you! it's almost the right age to become a precure.

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blight 11 months ago

happy birthday to your site!

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colexdev 11 months ago

That is amazing. I haven't heard of many running sites this long. Hats off to you.

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cidoku updated cidoku.net

11 months ago

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satyrwoud 11 months ago

I have an internet friend who spent some time in Ushuaia recently. Seems like a lovely part of the world… and if nuclear war breaks out you’re pretty well insulated from it, which is a bonus. ;)

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ongezell 11 months ago

Patagonia is my favorite place in the entire world, tbh, I'm happy being anywhere near the Andes.

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cidoku 11 months ago

I sure am lucky to live in the country that owns the green part of Patagonia. The Andes look beautiful in winter!

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rbuchanan 11 months ago

I've only seen the Southern Cone in photos and videos. As much as I admire its largely unspoilt beauty, I wouldn't care to live there. Its appeal is perfectly fathomable..

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cidoku rbuchanan

11 months ago

"Conformity to W3C versions and specs thereof are a waste of time after '97" My primary concern is extensive backwards compatibility, not standards. If those elements had been in HTML 4 it's (barely) more likely that my target browsers would support them. Since they don't, I can't use them.

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rbuchanan 11 months ago

Are your specific criteria for inclusion and retention of elements and attributes thereof based primarily on compatibility with the browsers listed on your page?

cidoku 11 months ago

Yes. Basically, I target IE4 and Netscape 4 as a conscious design choice and constraint. Standards never mattered as much as "what browsers can actually do". This was true during the browser wars, it was true during the IE6 dark ages, and it's true now (the html living standard = what chrome does)

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cidoku angeleyesprings

11 months ago

Hey Amy! Did my reply reach you? Grats on the follower milestone, by the way.

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angeleyesprings 11 months ago

Hi! Yes, your email reached me! I will write a reply soon... and thank you!!

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cidoku updated cidoku.net

11 months ago

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dc-blog 11 months ago

based laptop chad

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rbuchanan 11 months ago

Had I been here upon your first annunciation, I would've warned against the sale or relinquishment of such a useful tool, and advised you to cultivate some discipline to eschew online activity when you'd rather read and draw. Otoh, I'm glad that you're more interested in books than sites.

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ongezell 11 months ago

I don't believe getting rid of your personal belongings will help achieve your goal, for me, being completely honest, that's a bad way to cultivate self control. especially with your objective because it doesn't make sense at all, if the computer is something that is in your way, the laptop will be just as much in your way lol

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cidoku 11 months ago

It's fine; I don't do anything on the machine I gave away that I can't do on my old trusty laptop. Not being nailed to a single place will benefit me, and I'll reclaim a lot of space occupied by the screen, keyboard, etc for more useful stuff.

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cidoku 11 months ago

@ongezell No, because I can't be fucked to use my laptop for anything but work. I get home and I forget it exists.

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cidoku 11 months ago

And, well, although it's important, self control is not even my main goal. It's just I don't see much use for it anymore. It's a big bulky powerful machine that I don't use for anything but to update my site. It's a waste! I might be whimsical, but this is something I've been meditating for a year or so.

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rbuchanan 11 months ago

All else aside, any summer is well spent reading :)

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cidoku blight

11 months ago

Good site. I'll link back. Cheers!

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blight 11 months ago

thank u so much! :)

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cidoku

11 months ago

Forever salty that the "details" and "summary" elements are not in HTML 4

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rbuchanan 11 months ago

Conformity to W3C versions and specs thereof are a waste of time after '97

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cidoku updated cidoku.net

11 months ago

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cidoku

11 months ago

People should write more articles as dialogues

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ongezell 11 months ago

Like Hunter S. Thompson?

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cidoku 11 months ago

Kinda but not necessarily. I was thinking more in the style of old books that made up a conversation between two or more fictional characters (e.g. a teacher and student) to communicate the thesis of the work. Think Platonic dialogues.

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cidoku 11 months ago

The other day I was reading a book on heraldry from around the 16th century and it was interesting in that it taught the subject in form of a dialogue between three dudes. The book "Surreal Numbers" by Conway is a math book written as a conversation between a guy and his gf who find a weird inscription on a rock while on vacation and try to decipher it.

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cidoku 11 months ago

"Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata" by Ørberg, a Latin language learning book, has many chapters written as dialogues too. It teaches you latin by following the story of a roman family and their slaves, lol.

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cidoku 11 months ago

And I remember at least one japanese (travel?) blog in which the author made up a few characters who discussed his whereabouts. Fun stuff. It's difficult, but more people should do it.

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saint-images 11 months ago

It's Alf's Room! A true Internet legend and a punk in the best sense of this word https://alf-s-room.com/etc/nandarou/mdwalkman/index.htm

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cidoku 11 months ago

That's the one! I couldn't recall the exact name. Thank you.

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cidoku updated cidoku.net

11 months ago

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angeleyesprings 11 months ago

I've been having similar thoughts on this subject. I don't agree with 100% of your takes... but I'm also concerned about where this is going. It kind of reminds me of crochet vs knitted pieces in a way. Crochet cannot be done by machine whereas knit obviously can. But both have so much value when lovingly crafted by human hands.

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angeleyesprings 11 months ago

I'm also concerned about everything online becoming unverifiable, and AI flooding every site / search machine with slop (which is already happening). Tricky and nuanced subject.

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ongezell 11 months ago

Tbh, AI is just one of the symptons of late stage capitalism, even if AI wasn't a thing, shit had already hit the fan years ago. AI is just being used to replace people in sweatshops (mind you, not 100% yet because they still are still incapable of not producing slop)

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ongezell 11 months ago

Also, I don't agree with the AI thing being indistinguishable from an actual human made art, 9.99 out of 10, AI art will be slop, maybe, high quality slop, still SLOP. AI art is just aalgorithms consuming and regurgitating art that already exists. you can pretty much and I kid you not distinguish art made by AI to art made by a human. at least if you are a artist yourself.

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ongezell 11 months ago

Mega corporations will use whatever slop they can get to get those few cents of profit tho, it doesn't even need to look good. so looking realistic or passable isn't even a problem

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cidoku 11 months ago

@amy I'm aware of that and while it's true that it's a cause for concern, search engines being flooded with slop has been a thing since SEO's been a thing (obligatory thanks g**gle for ruining the internet), and the damage can't be repaired. That's why I didn't mention it.

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cidoku 11 months ago

@ongezell I'm not sure if it's 100% distinguishable. Yes, slop is slop no matter what, but with some slight taste you CAN generate stuff that looks legit. It's fortunate that most people who generate art aren't artists, and most importantly, have no taste.

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cidoku 11 months ago

@ongezell but here's the thing: most people aren't artists, so slop WILL end up winning out as it becomes easier to produce and especially more profitable to produce. "Consumers" don't care as long as it looks alright, and no creator will want or be able to compete against the endless, almost oppresive amount of slop! Unless... they prevail?

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cidoku 11 months ago

@ongezell then again I only have in mind people who do art for a living. Hobbyists will just keep on truckin no matter what since they don't depend on it.

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ongezell 11 months ago

My point is, AI is a symptom not a cause. I don't actually believe AI is that much of a threat to Us, the threat is in the hands of those developing it. I honestly don't see AI endangering us more than any of the existing average suspects (mega corporations) that being said I honestly don't believe AI will get better than this too honestly.

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ongezell 11 months ago

If you take a notice on all the AI technology being produced, it's honestly just a fancy search engine at best and even then it can get pretty bad, just look at google and chat gpt with their products. ChatGPT is hot garbage when it comes to anything that is actually just a little bit complicated, gemini? lmao Not to mention the amount of energy this shit consumes

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ongezell 11 months ago

I don't know how to describe it but everything about AI is just so pathetic to me it doesn't even makes me worried.

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cidoku 11 months ago

I do agree AI is a symptom of this lovely anti-human illness we have as a society. As for generative AIs being crap, I would tread with care. There's no way that what they show us is the best there is. Oh, also, I didn't want to mention the energy usage argument because it's always tackled to the end as an afterthought, never the main argument against this stuff.

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rbuchanan 11 months ago

You may have erred in assuming that one of several functional corollaries fatalistically determines an essence of technology. We can't know whether AI is a truly effective succedaneum for human intelligence until it produces genuinely substantive works. At present, its imitative faculties are superficially applied without any profundity of style or substance.

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rbuchanan 11 months ago

Ongezell observes that most AI is slop; I'd contend that one of many reasons why is that those who opt to use it professionally (whether mendaciously or otherwise) are perforce uninspired. It's an easy means. I'll always collaborate with human artists because no AI can illustrate my stories satisfactorily. In that regard, I am by no means special.

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cidoku 11 months ago

@rbuchanan you're right in that my wording implies that I determine the essence of technology from AI; this is not so. I meant it more generally; AI is not the first or the last in a long series of anti-human technologies. As ongezell mentioned, AI is just another symptom, but not the cause.

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tapeykatt updated Tapeykatt's Place

11 months ago