Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

this is a good policy

Cynicism is easy. And it's understandable. Life is hard, made harder by people in power who only serve themselves. So I get it. But every real life activist I've ever met, every longtime volunteer or long-suffering advocate, was ultimately an optimist. It's like being a gardener. You don't plant a seed unless you expect, or at least hope for, a future capable of growing a plant.

Hope takes a lot more work than cynicism. But it's also smarter, cooler, and a hell of a lot more useful.

Kitsune Tails will be a platformer to remember, full of mini-games and powerful modding tools https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/kitsune-tails-will-be-a-platformer-to-remember-full-of-mini-games-and-powerful-modding-tools/

#Linux #SteamDeck

Them: “You’re not trans, why are you always defending them?”

Me: “I am also not a domestic cat, and if I see you abusing one of those I’ll kick your ass too.”

You have lost the game

How did they do it? Well, if you've ever tried hooking up a GamePad Pro or another digital controller - like the original Microsoft Sidewinder, or a big Logitech Wingman - to a USB to gameport adapter, and then looked at it under Game Controllers, you'll have seen buttons 1 and 2 blinking like mad. This isn't a broken controller sending spurious button presses - this is actually how it communicates with your PC! It works kind of (kind of) like Morse Code.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing

Enter the GamePad Pro, with its *ten* digital buttons as well as the customary D-pad. You could argue (many have) that it's a complete rip-off of the original PlayStation controller, but there's more to copying electronics than tracing around the outside - the PS1, like other consoles, used a digital protocol to talk to its controllers. But the PC gameport was totally analogue - no smarts at all, just four little lights that flickered, and four more that dimmed. So Gravis had to get clever.

Here's a thread on how the Gravis GamePad Pro - a game controller with ten digital buttons - was made to work on the PC gameport interface, which actually only supports a total of four buttons. You've probably never actually wondered about that, but you very probably *have* wondered about where all those zeroes and ones they talk about in computing come into things, and this thread has that, too! 🧵

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #GravisGrIP #GravisGamePad

Princess Peach got furrified >:3 Her species was voted in one of my streams and I worked on her for quite a few streams. I'm not completely happy with how she turned out, face is a lil wonky and such, but at least I got some painting experience :D

On that note, I'm three months unemployed and not even getting interviews. If you can get my resume in front of a human, please get in touch.

I'm primarily a software developer (C, Python, Node, fullstack web, whatever it takes) with devops/SRE experience most recently at VMware. I'm in NH, USA, outside the usual commute-to-Boston range.

By Gourlay (care to reason) GourlaySyd

😷 #MasksWork

On flights WITHOUT masking:

▶ 5-fold increase in infection risk on medium flights (3-6 hrs)

▶ 26-fold increase in infection risk on long haul flights (> 6 hrs)

With ENFORCED masking:

▶ NO reports of transmission on long-haul flights

Source: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240528/Study-shows-enforced-masking-on-long-flights-prevents-SARS-CoV-2-transmission.aspx

X source: https://x.com/GourlaySyd/status/1814830326159712553

@auscovid19

#capitalism

T4T stands for Team 4tress Two

I've decided to create a new image format

the judge requests the prosecution stop saying "me when i lie" in response to the defendant's testimonies

Tits.

the news is dire, but i've put together a MUST-READ perspective over on my blog that is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL for sanely navigating these TUMULTUOUS TIMES:

[links to a blog that shows the first three paragraphs and then the rest is paywalled]

happy for her