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@charliemac
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Enthusiast for Lisp, graphics, geometric algebra, calligraphy, and all their intersections
I plan to stream #McCLIM things in approx. 40min at 10:30am CDT / 15:30 UTC (2026-06-05)
https://www.twitch.tv/endparen
I'll review my current IME state and then attempt implementing #Wayland text-input-v3 protocol's preedit event.
Juan Pablo Ugarte
Daniel KochmaΕski
vga256after years of digging and research, i finally found the toolkit that was used to make MS multimedia software Encarta, Dinosaurs and Dangerous Creatures.
when i fell in love with these programs, i imagined they were built with a rich multimedia authoring environment/IDE like Macromedia Director. e.g. dragging and dropping images, sounds, text and video onto a stage, animating it with keyframes, and then scripting it for interaction.
the toolkit used was, as it turns out, a very roughly hewn collection of individual programs. there was no IDE. all of the content was written in RTF files, which were then compiled with links to external resources like wavs and avi's.
i cannot imagine what a nightmare this was for the MS Home teams to work with. there is no drag and drop of any kind, no object linking and embedding (OLΓ!), nor animation editor. this is a dog's breakfast of individual programs written by different people.
i'm frankly amazed that the MS Homes teams put together such well-designed programs *despite* how painful this toolkit is to use
the one thing i can say in its favour is that it has one badass tetricube logo for cover art :D
huge thank you to @david_rysk and @philpem for archiving this extremely obscure piece of software
https://archive.org/details/microsoft-multimedia-viewer-2.0-rips-20210921-1.7z
Divya Ranjan 
So, we updated recently the #Emacs Canvas API and I went back to also update PALE to use the latest API, and after a bit of tinkering around we realize you can resize the canvas image just like any other image without any issue! That is, you can resize an animation, video, etc. whatever the Canvas is displaying in real-time. Here's a demo of me trying to display two videos in the same buffer and resize them:
John Carlos BaezOn Sunday I'm giving a talk "The Standard Model gauge group from octonions" at a workshop in memory of the physicist Ivan Todorov. With some help from David Madore, @pschwahn and I have proved a conjecture that relies very heavily on some work of Todorov and Dubois-Violette.
I think you can watch the talk on Zoom here at 14:30 UTC:
https://aubg-satellite-workshop.netlify.app/
It may not be recorded.
Very loosely, the conjecture says the symmetries of the Standard Model of particle physics are precisely the symmetries of an octonionic qutrit that preserve both an octonionic qubit and a complex qutrit.
This is a freaky weird connection between particle physics and quantum information which might be a coincidence or might be significant.
Here's what we actually proved:
Let π₯β(π) be the Jordan algebra of nΓn self-adjoint matrices with entries in the normed division algebra π - for n β€ 3 if π is the octonions, or all n otherwise. Suppose A,B are Jordan subalgebras of π₯β(π) such that
A β π₯β(π), B β π₯β(β), A β© B β π₯β(β).
Then the group of automorphisms of π₯β(π) preserving both A and B is the gauge group of the Standard Model, namely (SU(3) Γ SU(2) Γ U(1))/β€β.
LobstersMy Accessibility Stack and the future on Wayland
So, I have been silently working with @minad on #Emacs Canvas patch. We're finally working on having it in other platforms beyond GNU/Linux. Today, @tusharhero got hold of an old Windows laptop and asked me if he could test. And, to my immense suprise, with only very minimal code we are able to get Canvas rendered on Windows Emacs!!!! Here are pictures from Tushar's laptop:
