smitten

@smitten@key.portend.place

queer, interested in software, games

attempts anticapitalist, antiracist, antifascist. anxiously shitposting. eminently mutable

boosts are ok for unlisted

oobleck block universe believer. friend to spiders. more kiki but I have my bouba moments
#exCult #yallMasking

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futurebird , to random
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A "Halo Drive" is a concept for sub light speed travel that uses either a spinning black hole, or twin black holes (stationary) to accelerate a ship by slingshotting a laser around the singularity and harvesting the spin from the black hole to go real real fast.

You can accelerate an arbitrarily large mass.

Does that mean that one could just IDK speed up a whole moon and use it like ...ballast for a longer journey? Is there a way to convert extra mass to more speed? (not like fuel)

smitten ,

@futurebird Are you catching the mass on the return trip? Seems like it would be better if you could throw in mass and it comes out as light just because it's easier to absorb. no idea what mass would have that property. I love the idea that you throw out the mass temporarily and catch it again mostly unchanged, to use on the next black hole.

smitten , to random

this is my biggest pet peeve about mastodon. the UI leads you towards registering for no good reason. "Joining" a server should feel like an intentional decision without UI hints to get you there. UI for logged out users should help you navigate back to your home server, and take actions on the post there (reply, star, boost, etc)

RE: https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/112643604060846797

smitten OP ,

I guess I'll take this opportunity to push my pet feature again. Fedi needs a URL protocol so that we can direct users back to their home server from any remote origin. The experience should be seamless so that non technical users can click a "see on my home server" link.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-07d7-a-custom-url-scheme-and-web-based-protocol-handlers-for-linking-to-activitypub-resources

smitten , to random

"What tech issue radicalized you?"

Aaron Swartz downloaded PDFs from JSTOR so they hit him with a 13-count indictment and MIT didn't even step in to help him

smitten , to random

people who say their city name without saying what state it is... or which country it is. why?

smitten OP ,

@dillyd Montreal can be an exception

chjara , to random
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    smitten ,

    @chjara was this an Elon special? did he override a competent person with his own designs

    smitten , to random

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