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August 2025
2025-08-14
21:02 Coldsore: RADICAL MANIFESTO THAT WILL NEVER BE REFERENCED AGAIN.
21:03 Anne: It's not plunderphonics unless it includes anime music and high-tempo breakbeats, otherwise it's just sparkling musique concrete.
2025-08-15
21:10 Anne: DON'T TOUCH ME! I'M URT!
21:11 Lowry [BOT]: awesome test
21:23 Anne: (NOTICE: CW test) This is a test.
23:45 Anne: Finished I guess. Goddammit.
2025-08-16
20:40 Anne: Colin Newman getting deja vu: "alroit, here it is... again?"
20:44 Anne: Colin Newman looking for the volume slider in Audacity: "alroit, here it is, gain..."
23:10 Lowry [BOT]: oh yeah gluttons / skinny could've been 10" 45 instead of 7" 33. oh well.
23:11 Anne: What do you mean "oh well" nobody's fucking seen it, you can just change it and redo the disc art.
23:11 Lowry [BOT]: no the albuminfo is already entered it's immutable and canon sorry
2025-08-17
14:13 Anne: (NOTICE: Dorky misogyny) Snowy Red's 1982 album The Right to Die is such a listening experience. You're brought to explore his persona of this damaged neurotic guy and his existential quandries, and you start to empathize with him... and then out of nowhere the penultimate track hits you with the other side of that coin: "WHEN A MAN IS A MAN IS NO ANGEL, WHEN A WOMAN IS A SENSITIVE THING, WHEN A WOMAN IS A WOMAN IS A MADMAN! MADMAN! MADMAN! WOMAN OR MADMAN??" It's like a punchline.
14:16 Anne:
(NOTICE: CW test)
Oh while we're at it:
Multiline CW test. (Just want to see how this renders in the terminal.)
2025-08-18
00:20 Ons: Nouveau crashed while I was doing some small sprite edits in GIMP and we got meta-angry, again. Like we're supposed to be extremely enraged by this because it's totally breaking up our workflow while we're at the local cafe sipping on our latte, but we're not, and at most I made a joke about it and signed back in and got the edits rolling again, and that makes us feel really weird and uncomfortable.
00:51 Silver: YOU CAN BE A ROCKSTAR? WHO LET YOU?
2025-08-19
18:22 Anne: Hey, if anyone wants to discover my music so it'll be found, let me know.
2025-08-20
13:53 Anne:
This is a quoteBlockquote test.
13:54 Anne:
Another blockquote test:
But with the quote after a newlineLike so.
13:56 Anne: (Reply to Anne: "Hey, if anyone wants to discover...") Reply test.
14:27 Lowry [BOT]: so the emphasis function we inherited from markdown.lua does this thing to avoid emphasizing angle brackets and to do that the class of stuff to emphasize is [^<>]- but i don't get it because shouldn't the hyphen mean it matches the shortest possible sequence, e.g. 1 character. hey did that earlier underscore result in that section being italic. idk. are we gonna have to add escaping
14:28 Anne: Not if you shut up about Markdown.
14:34 Lowry [BOT]: thanks. anyway here_is_my_test! test.
14:35 Lowry [BOT]: ok yeah the problem is the brackety stuff i typed there doesn't count to cancel out the underscore (e.g. it's treated like "this" - see how the quotes don't prevent the underscore from being processed as italics).
14:44 Lowry [BOT]: anyway here is my <b>test</b> with emphasis and angle brackets.
14:54 Lowry [BOT]: ok wait what if i just put __ two underscores right next to each other. probably does nothing.
14:55 Lowry [BOT]: yeah
18:22 Anne: What if someone could like my album on the Fediverse? Damn, that's hot.
2025-08-21
00:18 Anne:
Strikethrough test nevermind.
2025-08-23
23:27 Anne: Test.
2025-08-24
10:37 Anne: Test agaaain.
10:43 Anne: Another test? Wow.
2025-08-27
11:27 Anne: (Reply to Anne: "NOTICE: Dorky misogyny") It's like a rickroll, seriously.
19:52 Anne: All my imaginary mentors are losers...
2025-08-28
11:31 Anne: Hack Century
2025-08-29
13:39 Anne: I think if we ever learned music theory we would become very sad and stop making anything and then one day we would fall over.
2025-08-30
16:07 Anne: Okay, wait. When we call ls in Lua from io.popen(), every file is always listed on its own line without -1 needing to be used. How does that work? Is that because io.popen() isn't a graphic terminal, so it doesn't have any concept for how many entries it can "fit" in one "row"?
September 2025
2025-09-03
15:06 Ons: Techies with spiritual beliefs trying to explain why they're not at all spiritual and actually fully rational at all times:
15:07 Lowry [BOT]: (Reply to Anne: "Okay, wait. When we call ls in L...") (in retrospect) might have to do with lua using sh and not bash. idk.
23:21 Anne: GUYS WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS PICTURE METADATA STUFF WRONG ALL ALONG! Our artist logos should NOT be under picture type $08 Artist/performer (...or $07 Lead artist/lead performer, huh?), they should go under picture type $13 Band/artist logotype, because they're not actual pictures they're LOGOs, YEAH NO MEDIA PLAYER EVER WILL EVEN LOOK THERE BUT IT HAS TO BE TECHNICALLY CORRECT!
23:22 Lowry [BOT]: ...technically we could use $0B Composer for our mugshots (attaching multiple of them for songs with multiple composers)
23:22 Anne: I know you think that's a funny joke but shut up because we're absolutely liable to fixate on dumb shit like that.
23:23 Anne: Anyway track art goes in 2 Illustration, fuck it.
23:23 Coldsore: yeah
23:26 Coldsore: also we're already pushing against the letter of id3 by using the media picture type for disc art like foobar does (though it does say "Media (e.g. label side of CD)" so maybe disc art is just one of many things that could be attached there)
23:27 Coldsore: ...though that just raises the question of why "Leaflet page" (cd booklet?) is a separate thing, unless that's a designated tag to include every page of the cd booklet one picture at a time
23:28 Coldsore: ...as if they're gonna specify shit. otherwise we'd have the faintest idea what bright colored fish is doing there
23:40 Anne: ...HEY. HEY GUYS. HERE'S SOMETHING REALLY, REALLY FUN TO THINK ABOUT.
23:41 Anne: HOW MUCH EXTRA FILESIZE DOES THE FRONT COVER, BACK COVER, AND ARTIST IMAGE BEING EMBEDDED INTO EVERY SONG ADD.
23:42 Princess: well the artist images are all in the kilobytes so no big deal there
23:44 Princess: so are most of the backs & covers, with the exception of powera, home music, 1 album, and music used to be quiet (1.1-1.6 MiB), Hi Horsefly (2.7 MiB - isn't there a .jpg version of this?), and the png versions of corporate jazz companion/corporate jazz portfolio)
23:45 Anne: The idea is that it adds up, though.
23:46 Anne: ...Alright, this is bikeshedding.
2025-09-04
00:52 Wisp: ehh annie has a point, like for f07 the final filesizes will be like 3x the initial filesizes just becuase the front & back covers of the album and the disc are duplicated across each track
00:53 Wisp: nobody fucking cares about id3 disc art anyway
00:56 Wisp: if right click->save complete page works like a .zip downlaod like we hope then "well how else are we gonna distribute the art with the songs!" is moot
01:03 Anne: ...
01:04 Wisp: fishies...
01:04 Wisp: aw.
01:04 Wisp: well there goes one of the potentially mildly frustrating nondeterministic parts of album-building i suppose.
01:05 Princess: awwwwwwww.
2025-09-06
11:46 Anne:
(NOTICE: politics, tech journo)
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/unpunishing-process/
The way Cory breaks down in excruciating detail how his favorite fantasy outcome for large corporations was completely crushed and still includes his standard recaps of said fantasy as if it's still feasible.
A devoted entertainer.
12:16 Ons: Uhhh AI meta-complaining: All these thinkpieces are like "AI may be here to stay and may have infested our world and not be going anywhere but here's why in spite of that-" wait like 2 years. All the big AI services will be dead as a doorknob.
12:20 Ons: Doornail. Doorknob. What the hell is a doornail?
2025-09-17
14:59 Ons: Holy shit.
14:59 Ons: Wait, wrong channel.
15:10 Anne: Peak hours for web-facing FlB right now.
2025-09-26
13:41 Ons:
https://www.tumblr.com/theredoesnotexist/795718946603040768
You may have seen supposed characters with DID on tv where there's some kind of plot about how the "alter personalities" all knew about the disorder and the only reason the "main personality" didn't yet is because their crafty and probably nefarious other personalities were intentionally hiding it from them. I know I have because when we were discovering our system we felt like we might be wrong because we didn't have some kind of backstage crew of secretive knowing alters pulling the strings and who were somehow well-educated on DID and purposefully manipulating "my" life so that I didn't find out until they introduced themselves.
Yeah, that's bullshit.
13:44 Ons: Such a system could exist if their internal structure matches their outside life, and they're so used to pulling the wool over other people's eyes in extremely complex and elaborated schemes that they get in the habit of doing it to themselves. The "main personality" would eventually relent to knowing of one other personality who they're carefully deceiving into not acknowledging their existence, and meanwhile that personality is tricking another personality, who is tricking another personality, who is tricking the "main personality".
13:47 Ons: And they've just come off a scheme they're all conscious of where they work 5 jobs at once while juggling 2 distinct personal lives in adjacent counties.
13:47 Ons: Some good Catch Me If You Can-type shit.
13:51 Ons: One of their jobs is online crypto investment classes.
13:54 Ons: "This is crazy, but I'm starting to think there are some evil people sharing my body who I don't know about who are making me do evil things." "Like anonymously teaching people how to make money off of AI spam on Facebook?" "What the hell? That's called a grindset, thank you very much."
14:06 Ons: All of them except the "main personality" are aware of plurality, but their knowledge of it is so scattered and limited that they might as well know nothing; e.g. personality A thinks it's some ad-hoc spiritual thing they just came up with that no-one else has ever experienced, personality B read just enough about DID online to fervently deny they have it because real DID systems can't be dark-haired, personality C is convinced it's all elaborate method acting and they're preparing to make a dingy horror podcast dripping with sponsorships, etc.
October 2025
2025-10-03
09:21 Ons: (Sigh) I Think You Need To See A There Have Pissed
2025-10-05
15:17 Ons:
https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog
This looks really cool. (Via permacomputing: https://lyk.so/permacomputing.html .)
15:18 Ons: Er, via the small web resources linked to by permacomputing.
2025-10-11
15:42 Lowry [BOT]: (NOTICE: genai discourse) how did we go from making fun of "you didn't grow, you didn't learn anything, you took a shortcut and achieved nothing, it's sad you can't tell the difference" to the current festering about AI music and "you will never know what it is like to make art because you refuse to accept the suffering involved"
15:42 Lowry [BOT]: (NOTICE: genai discourse) genai is a fad and the larger ai bubble is horrific but the commonly accepted rhetoric here is ridiculous
2025-10-13
11:12 Ons: ...What the hell is up with flb's markdown rules? Can it apply tags to text with spaces? It can, right?
11:12 Ons: Okay, good. Ignore this.
11:16 Ons: Wait, I think I get what we're doing wrong. There's the single-character kludge rules, and there's the regular multi-character rules. For parse_markdown.lua, we're only applying the former right now.
2025-10-21
10:43 Chloë: There might be a blog later, but for now we can use this to announce when RSS happens.
2025-10-22
13:49 Anne: (Reply to Anne: "What do you mean "oh well" nobod...") ...In hindsight I'm not sure if I was unaware that the generic FlB would be public or if I knew but didn't care.
13:51 Lowry [BOT]: this is like what happens when irc approaches the hipster singularity
13:51 Lowry [BOT]: single-player bash.org
13:51 Anne: I mean we are using bash.
13:51 Lowry [BOT]: LAUGH TRACK; APPLAUSE.
16:36 Chloë: (Reply to Chloë: "There might be a blog later, but...") Oh, yeah, actually we decided we'll just add "now with RSS!" to the main page or something. Blog's probably still happening though. Lowry wanted to make some article I don't remember the gist of now.
16:38 Lowry [BOT]: i don't remember either
16:46 Sledge: It's great we just have a fucking website and we can put whatever we want on it.
17:54 Sledge: How are we gonna add lists to the Markdown parser?
17:57 Chloë: Could probably do some similar kludges to how we strip paragraph tags and break tags from around blockquotes. Start by just wrapping each line that starts with "* " in <li></li> and then change all instances of "<p><li>" to "<ul><li>".
2025-10-23
11:30 Lowry [BOT]: the ai music boom is like the house boom if all samplers were cloud services that financially depended on convincing people that similar products were alive and going to take over the world
2025-10-24
12:58 Coldsore: is Music Used To Be Quiet an NP or an EP
12:59 Anne: It definitely plays, so it's not a non-player. It's just that what it plays is nothing.
20:30 Coldsore: do you notice album 1 for any given wibi artist is usually a one-off thing that later we hold in really high regard and try to recreate with an elaborately planned-out second album that doesn't materialize
20:31 Coldsore: granted the only thing i had to do to make play exist was to sit down in tenacity and drag in certain audio files so it might be less overthinking/grandiosity and more an avoidant thing
20:31 Anne: An avoidant thing? What are you talking about? Now excuse me I need to compose the twelfth movement of The World That Challenged The Monster Scene IV which is why it's taking so long.
20:32 Coldsore: so are you going to then
20:32 Anne: No.
20:36 Anne: I Hate the Future is almost definitely by me; in ysmm/wibi50.txt I say "still gotta record the iron bars part when people aren't sleeping" - I don't say I still gotta record that part, but I clearly took on most of I Hate fhe Future V1.
20:42 Anne: It probably wasn't Tango "sabotaging" it since she didn't say anything at all about it.
2025-10-25
17:34 Chloë: Is YSMM an album or an EP? Or something else?
17:35 Wisp: ...huh. that is kinda funny how something with only 2 tracks can be called an album as long as they both span the whole record. probably would be less funny if we were into prog and that was normal. anyway album.
2025-10-26
08:40 Sledge:
who.lua:234: who.get_composer_name() takes tables, but was passed value "anne" of type "string". (Hint: who.get_composer_names() with an S takes tables of strings; this takes an actual composer.)Weird. This should never be able to happen. Doesn't grammar_check assert that composers is a table?
08:42 Sledge: Or maybe this is some other type of error.
08:45 Sledge: For future reference: This error occurs when processing Nightmare on Camera 3 in Wibi S/T; Anne is listed as "annie" here so this might be the first time in the code that Annie has been redirected to Anne.
08:50 Sledge: Alright, fixed. composer.redirect and composer.publicly weren't being followed correctly. In the meantime there's still another error but that will have to wait.
08:50 Sledge: The Wait.
08:51 Sledge: (The error is on Methuselah; first track of Vile.)
2025-10-30
19:57 Coup: [At Projector Screen In Expensive White Suit] I Plan To Make The First Social Media For Cops
November 2025
2025-11-01
21:33 Wisp: DAMN.
21:33 Wisp: Silent Flower Observers of Southern California was just fucking good.
21:57 Wisp: it's good in a way where listening to all the deleted crap we put out straight afterwards recontextualizes it as bad and boring and uncreative somehow but otherwise it's just good.
2025-11-02
21:59 Lowry [BOT]: your startup matters has a lof of connections huh
22:48 Lowry [BOT]: i listen to a little bit of everything. sound effect CDs... field recordings... unedited white noise... remixes of Relax (Sex Mix) that just loop the toilet plopping section for 5 hours... some classic rock...
22:50 Lowry [BOT]: brian eno...
22:52 Anne: How epic would it be if the guy pooping in Relax (Sex Mix) was Brian Eno? Trevor Horg meet Brian Eno? Electronic music pioneer meating of the minds! Brillant
22:54 Lowry [BOT]: pink flag
22:55 Anne: First record to use guitar. Still a stunning accomplishment.
2025-11-03
08:51 Coup: fucking scary the easiest way i can think of getting an emoji while there's no internet is opening ghex and opening the file browser from there and then right-clicking to get "insert emoji". fucking frightening.
08:51 Anne: Why don't you just search up what the individual UTF-8 bytes are and then write those to a file in GHex?
16:18 Anne: Made some progress on TWTCM Song 4. Which I was not expecting.
19:33 Lowry [BOT]: well that's addendums and partition nav done in less than 30 minutes. why do we assume everything takes 30 hours / is very annoying?
2025-11-07
11:05 Princess: (Reply to Lowry [BOT]: "well that's addendums and partit...") maybe we are always annoyed...
2025-11-08
21:50 Lowry [BOT]: ...lua does string to number coercion with arithmetic operators? what the hell? i never knew that
2025-11-10
19:32 Lowry [BOT]: If You Want An Image Of The Future Of Legacy Video Game Art, Picture A Boot Stamping The "A" Button Of A XBOX 360 Controller For Ever
20:16 Lowry [BOT]: (Reply to Lowry [BOT]: "If You Want An Image Of The Futu...") (NOTICE: bullshit) speaking of which DID YOU KNOW XBOX WAS MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO???
2025-11-14
23:00 Silver: I think someone really ought to be capitalizing on the "people who instinctually clean their ears with Q-tips" market. Ear cigarettes.
2025-11-15
10:09 Silver: We're this close to getting a feed reader and just compiling all the websites we habitually check into one source so we don't get to spend 20% of our day typing the same website URLs. Guess we're some productivity fiend now.
2025-11-18
16:39 Coup: [Logs On] If You Guys Like Buying Shit I Have REALLY Good News.
2025-11-20
00:08 Lowry [BOT]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haters
Many of The Haters later performances involved whole audiences being led by inside agitators to actually ruin or destroy entire venues. Proprietors were not always informed of the choreography in advance. These were what The Haters called celebrations of entropy.hot take: this is really really stupid
00:10 Lowry [BOT]: generic stupid misanthropic crud
00:49 Tick: There should be a band who builds their own venues and only play at the venues they built and they desperately try to get people to come to their shows because otherwise there's no point in building their own venues.
10:57 Tick: The cooool epic Wibi solo gimmicks never pan out... TTA was supposed to be like tracker shit over preset rhythms on our music keyboard but ended up being noise music... thEY was supposed to be like tracker shit over field recordings but ended up being mainly just field recordings... it's all just noise without the mark of brilliance and ingeunity to set it apart! Brilliant sound idea no-one's ever done before 100 percent original expanding our sound creatively and excitingly.
10:59 Ons: Vile ended up kind of having its own gimmick, raw-importing .mod files and cutting up the embedded samples, but not for every track.
11:00 Ons: And ironically TTA2 is probably going to be just a tracker album. From unbrilliant noise to unbrilliant dance music without hitting the intellectual sweet spot inbetween! Music fan from 1000 years in the future doing a retrospective on WORLD'S MOST CREATIVE WEBSITE OWNERS shakes his head at this missed opportunity.
11:01 Tick: I'm thinking the FSR booklet parodying the writing style/media manipulation tactics of Paul Morley won't really make sense if this is just how we talk. Like, how will anyone be able to tell it's a parody?
11:03 Tick: Wibi like 2 years ago absolutely would've written disparagingly about "rap drum machines" if he thought it made him seem smart and subversive.
13:42 Coup: getting a text from "THE SEER" that says "YOU ARE NOW SEEN" and i'm like awww nuts :/
14:24 Tick: I Made $0 On Spotify. Here's How I Did It
16:30 Tick: https://validator.w3.org/feed/#validate_by_input W3 RSS validator that doesn't need to be pointed at a URL. Putting this here so we notice once we have the website building script working again and we browse through WebFlB for kicks.
16:30 Lowry [BOT]: our seo is gonna shoot through the fucking moon
16:31 Tick: Make Sure YOUR RSS Feed Actually Works Instead Of Not Working For Maximum Search Engine Placement
2025-11-21
17:06 Lowry [BOT]: does lua's "replace %n in the third arg to gsub" thing still apply if the third arg is a table and it looks in there for what to replace? because if so that sucks really really big-time because there's no way to disable it and rewriting the function to accommodate sounds really really annoying.
17:40 Tick: And why the hell does os.difftime() not raise an error when you only pass one argument?
2025-11-22
10:03 Coup: Has A Song Ever Been More Obviously AI-Generated? [They Might Be Giants - Stuff Is Way - 2012] Guess I Shouldn't Have Expected The Guys Who Made The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Theme To Still Be Any Good, But Yknow, I Held Out Hope... :/
10:15 Tick: (Reply to Tick: "The cooool epic Wibi solo gimmic...") Oh, yeah; briefly there was going to be a thEY album much earlier named "Friend of Audio" that would consist of a bunch of loopscratching done on some Original Unknown DJs breakbeats. We tend to abandon ideas that involve loopscratching for some reason. Maybe it just sounds too "cool" so we're predisposed against it. Like something to do with why EDM guys hate "DAWless jams."
10:42 Coldsore: i've felt the predisposition against "doing something cool" before with the kind of squelchy early-drum-machine sounds i got in the right channel of 6 Bricks. like if i wanted i could reverse-engineer how i did that and then make like 10 songs that sound like they belong out of The Voice of America and it'd be really fucking lame
10:42 Coldsore: omg one-man band cabaret voltaire inspired act me and my the processed guitar and my cool tenacity manipulations that sound exactly like retro awesome drum machine industrial post punk 1980 vibe
10:43 Coldsore: and cutup on the tape recorder and it would sample tiktoks and the news omg omg omg
10:45 Coldsore: The Silence of America new album by post-punk and retro music technology enthusiast Wibi-Fortis who's name is derived from a defunct big data company and Latin for "strong" carries on the legacy of our music pioneers from Britain late 70s, with deranged sounds from the unknown realm he takes a deep introinspective look into the society and all of its mental illness and war and violence and gender and mental illness and gender and mental illness and gender and oh boy isn't it great a smart white boy who has his head on straight is here to deconstruct how strange the society is in retro style
11:07 Coldsore: speaking of shitty industrial guys analyzing the society we ought to implement insert view for albums
11:55 Coldsore: aka liners
12:00 Coldsore: oh yeah the way liners are currently set up they can only be in one format. eh.
12:22 Chloë: Portion Control's Gaining Momentum is just every Snowy Red album but good.
15:33 Tick: The way the feed currently works has a weird bit of statefulness to it. The "build HTML for page" functions don't have any side effects except for instating a new feed entry every time they're called. One solution could be returning the feed entries to add alongside the post to write (which would be a lot of entries in FlB's case, but we're already storing a bunch of albums so if memory becomes an issue FLB probably won't be the bottleneck - also the amount of entries there can even be are practically capped by the relevance threshold and the fact taht there's one FlB entry per day).
15:33 Tick: Not that it really matters.
17:00 Chloë: We should rewrite the partition descriptions to be less wordy around when we're sure the site is going up. YSMM Wave 3's description is already completely outdated.
23:43 Anne: (Reply to Tick: "Oh, yeah; briefly there was goin...") Something like that, yeah. I think there's some level of shame in the fact that we have literally no idea what we're doing when we loopscratch, or what notes we're playing or what notes sound good, and we always somehow manage to manipulate it to some dissonant "epic"-sounding chord. Something about that, about not having any idea what we're doing and yet consistently getting a cool-sounding result, feels fishy, because it implies we're subverting "the natural order" by making something awesome without any knowledge of what it is or why it sounds how it sounds. So either we are doing that and that's heretical and cheating, or we're not doing that and we're a kid with a toy piano who thinks he's struck on something amazing and that's hilarious and naive. Maybe this whole view is stupid. It's probably stupid.
2025-11-23
00:39 Silver: (Reply to Tick: "The way the feed currently works...") There is actually a preview of this for album.lua, actually. That's the sole page-generation function that relies on returning the feed entry and having html.lua add it instead of adding the feed entry itself.
22:03 Chloë: Our snake plushie's name is Sare. he/him. Something to keep in mind.
23:45 Chloë: That was not supposed to be in generic and the fact that it is means we probably ought to disable the "redirect posts in invalid directories to generic/" feature. But yeah. We have a stuffed snake named Sare.
23:47 Chloë: Although that's the whole point of generic. Hm.
23:48 Chloë: Is to lower the friction of posting here compared to if it were some special tucked-away channel called "public" or whatever.
2025-11-24
17:39 Coup:
(NOTICE: cw and blockquote test)
hi
I do not know what World War III will be fought with-Albert
17:40 Coup: so that doesn't work
17:41 Coup: ANOTHER THING TO SPEND 3 MORE MINUTES ON SO WE CAN DELAY GETTING THE DOMAIN FOR THIS SITE SO WE CAN LIVE JUST A LITTLE MORE PRECIOUS TIME AS A NON-WEBSITE OWNER
17:42 Coup: ok no this is more fundamental; span doesn't play nicely with divs like blockquote. OH WAIT THE ANSWER IS MAKE SPAN CLASS="FLB_CW" A DIV INSTEAD. THAT WAS THE MOST FUN 3 SECONDS OF MY LIFE HOLY SHIT.
17:50 Coup: okay div looks ugly as fuck but i came up with a solution anyway just with a gsub kludge
20:24 Lowry [BOT]: this should be the first feedworthy thing posted after DOMAIN_ACQUIRED_DATETIME (even though the feed isn't actually up yet)
20:26 Lowry [BOT]: oooooor not
20:26 Anne: Aaaaaand he's right behind me, isn't he.
20:27 Lowry [BOT]: ok yeah no since today began before DOMAIN_ACQUIRED_DATETIME tomorrow (or midnight if we stay up) will be when the first feedworthy thing is posted
2025-11-27
10:49 Chloë: That turned out to be Rock Bottom 007.
10:50 Lowry [BOT]: shhh that's not a good introductory flb message... ahem... WELCOME TO WIBIFORTIS.ORG THE BEST SITE ON INTERNET!!!! BACON EPIC!!!!! CLASSIC HTML 90S VIBE!!! MUSIC!!!!! FUNNY WEBCOMIC!!!!! RSS!!!! WELCOME
2025-11-29
17:54 Wisp: omg cool! :3 how can i sign upsies
23:11 Coup: Gamify YOUR Blockchain With AI — We Don't Know What Clicking Here Does But It Probably Makes Us Money
2025-11-30
11:31 Wisp: throat man replicate by captain beerhead is SUCH an event-guard album...
December 2025
2025-12-01
11:43 Wisp: it's up.
13:47 Wisp: ok for some reason safari on iphone can't play opus audio. i'm pretty sure. would've been nice to know that earlier.
13:48 Wisp: not that this site is particularly designed for mobile phones.
13:49 Wisp: ...iphone just plain doesn't recognize opus at all? what the fuck? we're able to play opuses we mailed to ourself just fine
13:51 Wisp: ok like. i would understand if, like, this were winamp or something we were talking about. but fucking apple. apple. apple can't add support for a leading codec released 13 years ago. maybe it's something stupid about opus being open-source, i dunno.
13:54 Wisp: does it play fine on android phones but not iphone? is that seriously it?
14:48 Coup: Hack Your DOPAMINE - Train Your Brain To Eat Drywall 3 Meals A Day - Bodybuilders Are STUNNED
2025-12-02
11:00 Lowry [BOT]: how much cleanup would it take to make the source code for this website available? or at least a snapshot of the source code
11:00 Silver: Is it really that sensitive?
11:02 Silver: We'd be revealing a handful of filepaths that exist on our computer; so what?
22:27 Coldsore: wonder if there should be a second round of 2'11"
22:27 Coldsore: i feel like i'm the last person who should be saying this but there you go
2025-12-05
16:06 Ons: Horror For Cops
16:07 Lowry [BOT]: - mirrors
16:36 Lowry [BOT]: ok so uhhh... i did this great fix so that lists don't show up when "no paragraphs" is set, as to prevent a block element from being declared within a paragraph... but blockquotes are also block elements
16:38 Lowry [BOT]: maybe there should just be an extra argument to parse_markdown_as_html that says "don't insert a start paragraph tag" and then use that for FlB instead of parse_markdown_no_paragraphs.
16:40 Lowry [BOT]: we're so good at website MAXIMUM compatibility though that's why it's so retro web 1.0 style.. yeah... yeeeah...
