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foone

@foone@digipres.club

Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

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maruki, to pixelart
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I miss drawing old computers
#pixelart #art #mastoart

NanoRaptor, to random
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This Machine Kills AI

xot, to random
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Sierra On-Line accidentally included the source code to their AGI adventure game engine on some copies of Space Quest II. Its presence is not obvious but with enough sector sleuthing it is possible to recover about 70% of it. The recovered source code is peppered with illuminating comments regarding its history and authors. It can be examined in a GitHub repo linked in the article.

"The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder"
https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html

The C source code shown reconstructed.
In-game scene showing a status line produced by the source code.

deater78, to random
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digging through my Apple II collection I found everyone's favorite obscure crossover. She always seemed to be hiding in Ae'gura

LaF0rge, to random
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CompilerFax: Sending C source code via telefax to a compiler-as-a-service which then faxes you the output of your program; demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-25-pRhpY git: https://github.com/lexbailey/compilerfax intended for

rooster, to random
@rooster@chaosfem.tw avatar

Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man are the same person right isn't that why they were running around eating pills

tubetime, to random
@tubetime@mastodon.social avatar

i've published a guide on iFixit that will show you how to disassemble an IBM Thinkpad 700C!

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/IBM+Thinkpad+700C+Disassembly/173038

cyborgurl, to random
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my home is basically uninhabitable and my landlord is fucking me over and i basically have to move extremely soon. it's a great day to buy any of my recent games, like Forgotten Palaces, The Dashing Young Captain or The Hole in Your House!

https://w.itch.io/

Gammitin, to random
@Gammitin@mastodon.social avatar

---Curriculum Vitae----
My Hobbies and Interests

  • Installing Operating Systems on really old computers.
  • Cleaning dirt, dust and suspicious stains off old retro computer hardware.
  • Pro-Tetris stacking computers into impossible storage space areas.
nicole, to random
@nicole@bitbang.social avatar

New blog post! I take a look at the Yamaha MDP-10, a boombox that plays floppy disks, and my computer crashes while trying to play Sonic and Knuckles. Connection? You'll have to read it to find out https://nicole.express/2024/elementary-midi-watson.html

twylo, to random
@twylo@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

Keyboard collectors pretty much ruined vintage computing.

vga256, (edited ) to Fonts

oh hell yes. i think i just found the original typeface used: it was LTC Spire by the Lanston Type Company

edit: it led to a fascinating web preservation backstory about the origins of the font itself:
https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/112460660100094359

benjojo, to random
@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk avatar

Ha! The Discord GDPR/Data Export thing reveals that it's running models to figure out what gender you are. If you go to /activity/analytics/events-*.json and grep for predicted_gender you get something like:

<span class="st">{</span>
  <span class="st">"user_id"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="st">"282657081457115136"</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"predicted_gender"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="st">"male"</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"probability"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="nm">0</span><span class="op">.</span><span class="nm">8413839340209961</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"prob_male"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="nm">0</span><span class="op">.</span><span class="nm">8413839340209961</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"prob_female"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="nm">0</span><span class="op">.</span><span class="nm">11650349199771881</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"prob_non_binary_gender_expansive"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="nm">0</span><span class="op">.</span><span class="nm">04211260750889778</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"model_version"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="st">"2024-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z"</span><span class="op">,</span>
  <span class="st">"day_pt"</span><span class="op">:</span> <span class="st">"2024-05-15 00:00:00 UTC"</span>
<span class="st">}</span>

Anyway, they seem to have this datapoint over time! Meaning you can make a graph of how male/female/NB you are according to discord, here is mine:

glyph, to random
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The difference between “continuous deployment”, “continuous delivery” and “continuous integration” is the difference between the eternal torments of sisyphus, tantalus and prometheus, respectively

polpo, to demoscene
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For the latest issue of Make Magazine, I wrote a feature article about ! The online version of the article is now up. Come read about my beginnings as a teenage fan, how I was introduced to the GUS and how I decided to make an emulator for it so many years later. https://makezine.com/article/technology/computers-mobile/democratizing-the-demoscene-picogus-brings-the-90s-tracker-sound-to-the-masses/

misty, to random
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And this is why you don’t store floppies next to acidic paper.

eniko, to random
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sitting here wondering if i've ever actually fully completed any final fantasy game and uhh

... i dont think i've finished literally a single one despite having played 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, crisis core, tactics, and tactics advance

i've gotten to the end in 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 but something always happened that stopped me from beating the final boss. my save corrupted in 5, idk wtf happened in 6, i recall getting frustrated in 7 and 8, and in 10 i decided to get all the ultimate weapons and quit playing in disgust after finally beating the stupid chocobo race

weird thing to realize

eniko,
@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar

anyway if you enjoyed the mechanics of the job system in final fantasy 5 then you should definitely check out my roguelike midboss, where possessed enemies function like jobs. and oh look, its on sale on steam right now! how fortuitous! https://store.steampowered.com/app/561740/MidBoss/

this was an excellent segue into promoting my stuff. i am good at marketing

andybaio, to random
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Finally, a way to replace your cursor with a long cat’s paw. (Windows-only for now, sorry!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXFsE9mNhks

aclark, to random
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Hey folks!

I'm the creator of Python @pillow & today is my birthday. Can I ask you for a favor?

I'm looking for a new role & I'd appreciate a boost. Check out my resume here:

I'm passionate about Python, open source & making a living with open source. What's the next move?

Thank you @willmcgugan for the nudge ❤️

eniko, to random
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For my birthday, I'd really like it if my beloved fedi could spread word far and wide of Kitsune Tails. It's a platformer with a heartwarming story featuring queer main characters and personal discoveries in classic SMB3 style. You can find trailer, screenshots, and wishlist links here: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

It's coming out this year and the team and I have been working hard on it for several years now. Most of the team is queer in some form so by boosting you'd not only be making me happy on my birthday, but supporting a bunch of queer creators making queer art as well

yuzu kitsune tails, a purple haired fox girl, picks up samurai armor in a tower that's rapidly filling with lava. she jumps away from the rising lava and sticks her spear in the wall, doing a dashing twirl to get on top of it. she walks off the spear and into a new scene, fighting a ghost fox with armor and spear. it stabs and she jumps over, but is caught by a follow up stab. the ghost fox over extends and its ghostly powers wane, giving yuzu a chance to bop on its head

xot, to random
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Quinn Dunki's clean-room reverse engineering of Dan Gorlin's Choplifter for Apple II.

"The source code here is fully documented and will build and run to a version of Choplifter that is binary-identical to the original..."

https://github.com/blondie7575/ChoplifterReverse

HadroSoft, to gamedev
@HadroSoft@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

"Enigma Heart," our new Zelda II-style action RPG, is in development now! Progress is going really well, it's looking good, and it's fun as heck!

https://www.hadrosaurus.net/enigma-heart

Zalia stands atop a complicated structure, having climbed a ladder to get up here. Below her, in an alcove blocked by several fragile-looking stone blocks, is a miniature doll of her, probably a 1Up. A green goblin wielding a spear, and a trilobite-looking bug creature await her. Behind her, a bat hangs from the ceiling above a large archway looking out onto the desert beyond. The arch is adorned with red banners featuring a yellow skull, and two massive statues of an armored, helmeted knight.
Zalia is in a boss chamber. The room is adorned with red hanging banners and teal-colored fan bunting. Standing in wait is a knight in flaming red armor, with the head of a horned skull.

mydadisdracula, to random
@mydadisdracula@mastodon.social avatar

hi son 💾

LukaszOlejnik, to random
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"The theft-prevention system installed in Seattle rental cars by a car-sharing company was designed to prevent cars being towed away by thieves. It disabled the cars remotely if they were detected to be moving with the engine off. Renters taking the boat ferry found themselves unable to restart their cars when the ferry docked. An anti-theft system in a car caused major delays to a regional ferry system" https://www.ft.com/content/178ab808-21ff-4ac2-a81f-f831326c22d4

Unixbigot, to random
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Sufficiently Advanced Bodging™ is indistinguishable from having used the correct pinout.

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