misty

misty, 2 months ago to random

I need you to listen to the deeply broken text-to-speech narration from this Google blog post. (They removed it after people pointed out how bad it was, but I promise you this was actual audio on a real official Google blog post.)

https://cohost.org/SnepShark/post/5195186-real-i-broke-ikea

misty, 2 months ago to random

I feel like the funny thing for me with the Tiktok ban is that a lot of Americans, on either side of the debate, don't seem to realize that Tiktok feels to Americans like every single social media platform feels to people outside the US. You're telling me the app is located outside your country and your government's control, and you don't know how its data gets handled in that country? That's every app, to me.

misty, 2 months ago to random

Hey! Would you like to work with me? @axodotdev is hiring, and I happen to think it's a great place to work. If you happen to be passionate about making high-quality devtools like I am, you should think about joining me!

We have positions open for a systems engineer (permanent full-time), a front-end engineer (contract full-time), and developer marketing (contract part-time).

https://axodotdev.notion.site/Join-the-Axo-team-3a42ab51bf5740d88eb12cfd4a2fb0cc

misty, 2 months ago to random

Doing okay over there GitHub?

misty, 2 months ago to random

The most old-fashioned thing I do as a developer is wrap names in terminal output using `' instead of ``.

Ever wonder why you see things formatted like `this' in commandline tools? It's because in the old fonts used by early versions of Unix, the backtick actually looked like an open quote while the ASCII single quote looked like a closed quote. If you viewed it on the machines those tools were written on, it looked like smart quotes. You still see it in many manpages.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

mcc, 3 months ago to random

Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

misty, 3 months ago to random

macOS being optimistic here

misty, 3 months ago to random

Looks like it's official - Akira Toriyama, world-famous manga artist, passed away on March 1. The website is failing under load, so here's a copy of the letter.

https://en.dragon-ball-official.com/news/01_2499.html

foone, 3 months ago to random

I finally lugged my Highscreen SkyTower AT tower up to my office. This machine is beautiful, even when it's yellowed and dusty and grimy and rusty.

misty, 3 months ago to random

Spotted two birds on a cafe date

misty, 3 months ago to random

I wish Apple didn't have to be pressured into this but, hey, EU government pressure actually works! https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/01/apple-home-screen-web-apps-ios-17-eu/

misty, 3 months ago to random

New blog post! I set out to dump an arcade game and correct MAME's database, only to end up discovering that this game revision didn't actually exist in the first place - or rather, once properly dumped, it was actually a duplicate of another one.

A real #digipres lesson here, and a reminder that even widely-used and well-maintained catalogues are fallible. It can be just as important to deduplicate entries and remove phantom ones as to discover new ones.

https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2024/03/01/that-time-i-accidentally-deleted-a-game-from-mame/

philpem, 3 months ago to random

Good news on the #AnalogCable front: the Ghidra team have fixed a bug in the COFF loader. It can now load SysV (ISC) binaries!

I've been ripping into the ANIC utilities this evening. The ANICDownload utility (which boots the ANIC) has full symbols. Sadly the "LXTest" utility has been stripped...and seems to be written in Pascal! (it's full of Pascal strings)

mcc, 3 months ago to random

Sometimes when I open up my Lenovo+Linux laptop, I find it's just sut off, for no apparent reason. Sometimes it does this even when battery is at more than 50%. I feel like this really shouldn't be happening.

misty, 3 months ago to random

Come on! Waku Waku Mirai!

Multimedia advertisement. From a December 1994 issue of Micom Basic: https://archive.org/details/basic-1994-12/page/n15/mode/1up

onelson, 3 months ago to random

Criterion gave me a $10 coupon AND ALSO put on a sale so naturally I'm shopping movies, online.

misty, 3 months ago to random

From the archives: I wrote about Ganbare! Inuchan, a CD-ROM game about a dog who starts a band. Based on a comic by a real-life indie rocker, it's a real love letter to genuine DIY - the intentionally crude MacPaint artstyle and frequent references to Mac tools tell the player "you can do this too".

https://cdrom.ca/games/2022/07/26/ganbare-inuchan.html

misty, 3 months ago to random

It's official now, so I'll put this out there: if you're looking for a tumblr-inspired site that won't sell your stuff to AI companies, try https://cohost.org. cohost dot org: it's a website that's nice. That's the eggbug promise.

https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

so infuriating. open source maintainers have a hard enough time without random people shitting up their repos trying to score crypto tokens.

https://hachyderm.io/@web3isgreat@indieweb.social/112003997836479406

vga256, 3 months ago to animals

when it is -20C with a windchill of -30, these two know exactly what to do 😅

#CatsOfMastodon

misty, 9 months ago to random

This is a fascinating concept for games studies - "quotes" of a game that don't just show you a clip of gameplay, but actually let you take control and try it out. It trims the ROM down to only what's needed to run the quote, so this might even pass a fair dealing/fair use test in court if it came down to it - just like quoting a passage of text, or a clip of a movie.

https://tenmile.quote.games

mcc, 1 year ago to random

For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7