Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

A few days ago I suddenly had a desire to port Super Mario 64 to the Gameboy Advance.

I quickly realised that a straight port was going to be impossible given that the GBA:

- Is about an order of magnitude slower than the N64
- Lacks a GPU or any sort of hardware parallelism (you get about 10 cycles per pixel, per frame to rasterise everything in software, and *that's it*)
- Has no hardware support for floating point maths

So, I guess I'm rewriting the whole thing from scratch.

That Stephen Jay Gould quote where he says "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops" is obviously true but also it really hits home when you remember that Philip Glass was driving a taxi while he wrote Einstein on the Beach. What Uber driver has the spare time to write an opera today? Capitalism remains the greatest impediment to unleashing human creativity

#picotron 0.1.0g is up // http://picotron.net

idk who needs to hear this but sleep doesnt function like a debt system where you can just catch up on sleep one day of the week and be fine. if you are consistently failing to get quality sleep, the damage is still being done and a day (or a weekend) of good sleep wont make up for it.

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In a future where bio mods were safe, affordable, and socially acceptable, which of the following bio mods would you find most tempting?

why would you do this
like seriously you already have a website is it that hard to edit some text files

CAPTCHA's are now being AI-generated. This is a plan with no possible flaw whatsoever, as this morning's example neatly demonstrates. #ai

Some Xenia fanart just because #xenia #linux #furryart #magpiart

This is gonna be fun: OpenAI runs afoul of the GDPR because it generates false information about individuals and they don't have full access to the data that pertains to them.

From the article:

> Maartje de Graaf, data protection lawyer at noyb: “The obligation to comply with access requests applies to all companies. [...] It seems that with each ‘innovation’, another group of companies thinks that its products don’t have to comply with the law.”

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

Wendy. #funny #comics #webcomics

"haha someone named this planet succ"
"WHAT"

#NoMansSky #NoMansSkyOrbital #NMS

A semi-playable Doom demo I built for #FrontEndConf using CSS scroll timeline, a handful of checkboxes and has() selectors + a nice assist from image-rendering: pixelated.

Oh and no JS, as god intended.

https://codepen.io/cobra_winfrey/full/oNOMRav

Tiktok says this video is low quality content that encourages violence and threatens election integrity 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I did another tiny #NES / #Famicom jam entry. Throw bananas and defend your hill in MONKEE, playable in browser or download for emulators / real consoles here: https://voxel.itch.io/nes-one-hour-jam-monkee

#gamedev

“LGBTQ young people are aging out of care and most of them do not even have a single person, let alone a robust support system, who they can count on.... It is a type of loneliness unlike anything I've seen.” https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/23/texas-foster-care-lgbtq-transgender-kids/

THIS WEEK IN TECH

Room full of aging nerds: We remotely worked around a memory issue in a failing FDS unit capable of addressing 8,192 16-bit words over a network connection with a round-trip latency of 42 hours

Logitech: We added ChatGPT to your Mouse

updated my recommended network/firewall topology #infosec