from the archives: tired of using the trash to delete files? might I recommend chucking unwanted files in T̷͖̅Ḧ̴̟́Ȇ̴̢ ̶̜̽H̴̺̕Ò̶̜Ḽ̸̏E̴̘͆
i live streamed making this a year ago. you can watch the first hour but the video freezes after that lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fscfSY7OLO4&t=5579s
Creating a Black Hole UI Animation in Apple Motion (Live)

YouTube
and here are the source files if you wanna pick apart the comp https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qtBdO339ROMeI8oRZG_O-85FThJYzqmz
Blackhole Delete – Google Drive

@samhenrigold Unfortunately it never gets deleted, just appears poised at the edge.

@WhiteCatTamer @samhenrigold

Yes! Time flows more and more slowly, as the document approaches the boundary of the singularity.

So the file never does actually go "in!"

There's an unbounded amount of "uncollected garbage" right at the edge!!!

@JeffGrigg @samhenrigold Just like my laundry hamper..,
@samhenrigold I would pay for this app
@matt @samhenrigold Of course you would, it's macos :P
@samhenrigold I realized, the moment I fell into the fissure, that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned. It continued falling into that starry expanse of which I had only a fleeting glimpse. I have tried to speculate where it might have landed, but I must admit, however—such conjecture is futile.

@samhenrigold fans of Extraordinary might enjoy this take on The Void.

Is there a pricelist for various things that can be dumped in The Hole?

@samhenrigold that looks... unexpectedly peaceful. From the text, I was expecting more eldritch horrors.
@samhenrigold the hole has an unfortunate side effect due to conservation of energy, which will cause your files will exit another users hole and randomly turn up in any folder on another users device.
@samhenrigold But does this overwrite my data with 1's, then 0's, then 1's again?

@xi it undergoes spaghettification, which obliterates the structure of the file. after which the remnants of the file would fall into the singularity at the center of the hole. what happens to the data itself is however you choose to interpret the black hole information paradox. anything entering a black hole is lost forever, but information cannot be destroyed. so. there's that.

...honestly we should probably just zero out the file to be safe

@samhenrigold but what if the file is already spaghetti? Like a png of spaghetti or spaghetti code?
@xi they cancel each other out and you get a duplicate file

@samhenrigold okay here’s my idea to solve world hunger

1. Make a black hole using nuclear fusion
2. Put spaghetti in the black hole
3. Spaghettification occurs
4. Unlimited spaghetti

@samhenrigold that sounds like something doable in a Gnome extension
@samhenrigold @shortridge Does it work only for files? I’ve got a little list; they will never be missed
@wendynather apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind?
@samhenrigold ah - looks like yet another attempt to parse HTML with regex.
@samhenrigold Basically goatse, but for files? 🤔
@samhenrigold Mac OS X Leopard aesthetic
@samhenrigold Whoa, is this a real thing? o.o
@samhenrigold @alienmelon Oh no, I know where this goes. This is how you accidentally invite strangers to link to your weird island full of puzzles.
@max @uliwitness @samhenrigold @alienmelon Myst island but every page is RESUME_v1_(old).docx and allstar.mp3.incomplete-download
@samhenrigold hey @gnome, please implement this as the default trash experience in Gnome... its sooooo good.