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tek, 13 days ago to random

A friend just pointed out:

"ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability. Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA."

Let’s do this.

jamesthomson, 13 days ago to random

The latest TestFlight build of Dice by PCalc has a new Pride dice theme which can be tinted to show a wide variety of flags (all the ones that are in PCalc currently).

I'm generating the stripes on the fly, based on a underlying greyscale gradient texture, so I should be able to use that same technique for more intricate designs that can be recoloured.

A set of dice showing the lesbian pride flag.
A set of dice showing the bi pride flag.
A set of dice showing the trans pride flag.

coolowt, 15 days ago to retrogaming

Playing golf today ... Links 386 Pro
The Belfry, Banff Springs, Mauna Kea, Pinehurst Country Club
#links386pro #retrogaming #RetroGames #dosgames #dosgaming #accesssoftware

Links 386 Pro - Banff Springs
Links 386 Pro - Mauna Kea
Links 386 Pro - Pinehurst Country Club

easrng, 18 days ago to random

electronic doll that is no longer living because it relied on a proprietary windows driver that was never updated past XP / witch who tirelessly reverse engineers the old driver code, bringing more life to the doll day by day

Rib, 19 days ago to random

Finally, after years of searching, I have obtained a GBA cart with a Mega Drive/Genesis emulator on it (thanks to Ankos!). I have been wanting to research this for some time after seeing it on YouTube, and it turns out it is far more interesting than I anticipated. 🧵(1/14)

loadhigh, 19 days ago to random

I completely forgot I uploaded VistaPro 3.20 (the scenery renderer) to the Internet Archive, where you can run it from your browser. For those sudden urges of wanting to create some landscapes.

https://archive.org/details/vistapro320

Includes the MakePath tool.

Don't forget to take screenshots of your creations! Nothing can be retrieved from the disk the in-browser DOSBox keeps, as far as I know.

(Please be patient with the Archive's speed, they're dealing with persistent DDoS attacks at the moment)

splorp, 21 days ago to apple

Hey, Mastodon … I’m trying to track down an #AppleNewton developer named Stephen A. Cronin.

He worked at #AMD and operated a software company called TapTech based out of Austin, Texas in the late 90s. I’ve managed to contact his former software partner, Francis Preve … but Francis lost touch with Stephen years ago.

Together they released a sequencer program for #NewtonOS called NR404 and I’m hoping the source code still exists somewhere.

Boosts appreciated.

cr1901, 21 days ago to random

Okay, the CI hell is over. I have released the first version of my "switch your monitor inputs from your computer" program. It even comes with a GUI :D:

Hopefully you'll save a few minutes of your life over the course of a few years :).

https://github.com/cr1901/swmon/releases/tag/v0.1.0

easrng, 22 days ago to random

maruki, 23 days ago to pixelart

I miss drawing old computers
#pixelart #art #mastoart

NanoRaptor, 24 days ago to random

This Machine Kills AI

xot, 24 days ago to random

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.

osric, 23 days ago to random

outsidewolves 🥴

https://www.tumblr.com/outsidewolves/739224947200802816?source=share

deater78, 24 days ago to random

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

LaF0rge, 25 days ago to random

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 #emfcamp #retronetworking #whatagreathack

rooster, 26 days ago to random

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tubetime, 26 days ago to random

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, 27 days ago to random

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, 27 days ago to random

---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, 29 days ago to random

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, 29 days ago to random

Keyboard collectors pretty much ruined vintage computing.

vga256, 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago) 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

#fonts

benjojo, 1 month ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

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

polpo, 1 month ago to demoscene

For the latest issue of Make Magazine, I wrote a feature article about #PicoGUS! The online version of the article is now up. Come read about my beginnings as a teenage #demoscene 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/