santiago

santiago, 8 months ago to random

The kids wouldn’t believe it but when I was young you could google for a one-line command and not end up on three different fucking Medium Paywall articles “How did I convert *.png to *.jpg with ImageMagick - Subscribe to enjoy more of my exclusive content” from industry leaders.

santiago, 6 months ago to retrocomputing

It’s not #Caturday yet in this country but Marx 🐱 is already posing on his favorite :apple_inc: #RetroComputing devices.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Apple #Mac

santiago, 9 months ago to random

I didn’t remember exactly what was the deal about Sinéad O’Connor and the Catholic Church in the 90’s that caused so much anger.

Turns out she publicly implied the Catholic Church was hiding cases of child abuse.

I guess we can say it know: well of course.

santiago, 9 months ago to random

Does anyone have pointers to the 8x8 (?) pixel font that Xerox once used in its matrix printers back in Alto times ?

I only read about it in a book and would like to see it in action. Idea was that the font had most useful monochrome combinations and was used to send images with very little data. A bit like PETSCII but exclusively graphics.

santiago, 8 months ago to random

How to chose a browser in 2023:

• Chrome, belongs to the largest advertising company

• Firefox, gets most of its income from making Google (the search engine of the largest advertising company) the default choice

• Safari, could afford to be different but “privacy champion” Apple gets about 15 billion per year for the ad company’s search engine to be the default

santiago, 10 months ago to random

Microsoft wanting to move Windows fully to the cloud is purely a revenue-flow decision, not a technological one. An attempt to stay relevant through lock-in as usual.

Capitalism is a cancer that is harmful to both people and productivity itself. You just cannot have a thing that works and stop there. Shareholders require constant cash flow and therefore constant and often useless changes.

santiago, 5 months ago to acab

On #ACAB day here’s a gentle reminder from Brazil about who the police serves. This is the symbol for the military police of Rio de Janeiro.

The royal family on top, weapons for violence and of course a sugar cane and a coffee plant on each side because that was the business at the time. Slavery ended (legally) in 1888 in Brazil.

santiago, 7 months ago to Emulation

The 40 inch TV above my desk is too large for #emulation but looks great at 1920x1080 with a :rpi: 4 running Amiberry in a borderless 800x600 window on Ubuntu desktop. I quickly adapted a Commodore monitor image (stolen on DeviantArt 😅) to just fit behind the window’s default position.

At “native” 800x600 you get both a usable workbench and the right size for old school #Amiga demos & games with 2x pixels & scanlines.

#retroComputing

Detail of monitor image running Odyssey demo at initial Alcatraz logo
Same monitor holding 800x600 workbench
Detailed of Odyssey logo shows well defined pixels and scanlines

santiago, 6 months ago to animals

Marx 🐱 on a Sunday mood by the pool

#catsofmastodon

santiago, 5 months ago to Cats

Marx 🐱 loves the smell of the rain forest 🌳

#cats #catsofmastodon

A tabby cat on a large wooden bench smells the air. One can hear birds and a poop pump (which the iPhone’s camera always exaggerates somehow).

santiago, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Ok so that’ll be the final #caturday shot for the day. Didn’t even notice this picture was special initially.

santiago, 2 months ago to Mac

Did you know Brazil had a Mac clone in the 80’s that was compatible with 68k Mac apps ? Of course it got smothered under pressure from US government (threatening to block other imports).

This is why today you still import Brazilian commodities but rarely tech. True for many countries of course.

If you don’t speak Portuguese you may want to turn on your translator to read this story by @augustocc
https://trilux.org/2024/03/relembrando-o-unitron-mac-512-o-primeiro-clone-do-macintosh.html

#Mac #retroComputing #capitalism

santiago, 9 days ago to animals

Queijinho 🐱 gathered wood in the forest

#CatsofMastodon too late for #Caturday

santiago, 1 month ago to animals

Marx 🐱 gets some sunshine

#CatsofMastodon

Same cat looking down with a cute expression from the border of a pool with the ladder on his sides. A perfect blue sky and some banana leaves fill the background

big_louse, 5 months ago to random

i really wish my fellow americans paid more attention to latin american politics, especialy mexico and the carribean where so many of your friends and peers came from, ya know, learn a little geography

franco_vazza, 18 days ago to Futurology

Things you can find for dinner in Florence after a talk about the cosmic web and the human #brain
: fried brain 🧠 (of veal).

I am vegetarian so no chance, but you think my neurosurgeon colleague took?

santiago, 24 days ago to random Portuguese

Alguém conhece um equivalente Brasileiro disso ? Em Paris esse coletivo de desenvolvedores trabalha numa cooperativa que reparte os riscos e lucros igualmente entre os trabalhadores.

https://les-tilleuls.coop/en/the-co-op/were-hiring

santiago, 23 days ago to pixelart

Found a few iconic icons by Susan Kare on other instances so obviously I stole them for my instance , as great artists do.

:kare_mac: :kare_news: :kare_prompt: :kare_bucket: :kare_bomb: :kare_sad:

#pixelart

santiago, 23 days ago to random Italian

“Come sfuggire al ‘Merdocene’ e costruire un
Internet migliore”

Feat. @pluralistic

https://youtu.be/Z5NC2EZCYBg?si=Se-LAEI4eftuBVKd

santiago, 23 days ago to random Portuguese

Não tá vendo naves alienígenas ?

Consulte seu UFOtalmologista !

santiago, 21 days ago to animals

Marx 🐱 visiting mommy’s desk

#CatsOfMastodon #cats

santiago, 10 days ago to random

I read a 350 page book about NeXT and it took me about 100 page to realize it was from 1993 so it missed all recent events including a billion iPhones running its descendent.

In 1993 NeXT was a (financial) train wreck and Jobs was a loser in addition to the usual asshole. It’s amusing to read this in 2023. Not a very good book for me as it has really few tech details. It’s mostly about business.

santiago, 19 days ago to random Portuguese

Assistindo entrevista de fã apertado na grade e que diz estar usando fralda fico ainda mais feliz dessa nossa decisão de lockdown voluntário.

#Mastodonna

santiago, 15 hours ago to animals French

Marx 🐱 le chat empoté

#catsofmastodon #chats #cats #gatos

Le même chat vu de plus près en trois quart semble sourire. Le bout de son museau tend vers le beige-brun
Le même chat vu de très près de côté

Migueldeicaza, 19 days ago to random

Me: Ok, I am going to embrace Swift Concurrency and show the world.

5 minutes later: