Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

HD Windows 95 isn't real it can't hurt you

HD Windows 95:

ohhh shiny, wonder what's inside? ​
#KitsuneTails

Oh.

Oh no.
#foraging

Me: I don't feel the need to upgrade my PC. It's decent and I don't play any heavy games.
Baldur Gate 3: *exists*
My PC:

This game is called a "Pennslyvania"… it's like a Metroidvania, but you play it with a pen

#SheepOfMastodon #Sheep #Sheepfarming

I ordered a swamp cooler to help deal with this summer heat, but now I worry it might have chosen one that was too big. Should have looked at their marketing materials before I hit buy.

🤯

"a fascinating way to show users the refresh rate of their screen by spinning a specially designed zoetrope-like disc graphic at speed. As it spins, the numbers representing the viewer’s refresh rate should remain visually stable unlike surrounding numbers."

https://cohost.org/lunasorcery/post/2465593-testing-your-animati

I made a zoetrope that shows your browser's animation refresh rate (which is usually the same as the display's refresh rate)

https://cohost.org/lunasorcery/post/2465593-testing-your-animati

I was talking with someone about programming and said that I use the JetBrains IDEs. He said he uses six. I'd never heard of it. He went on to talking about six and why he liked it. After a minute or two, I realized he was talking about vi.

He's been calling vi "six".

Boost if you think trans people are neat 🏳️‍⚧️

Just a reminder, please do add alt text descriptions to your images, videos and audio clips. It will make them accessible to people with visual or hearing impairment.

You'll also get a lot more boosts if you add descriptions, because a lot of people only share posts that have descriptions.

If you forget, don't worry, you can edit your post afterwards to add it 👍

It can take a while to get into the habit, so there's a bot to help you remember at @PleaseCaption

#FediTips

I'd been wondering why I'd heard so little from Naomi Wu lately, and the reason is unhappily worse than Twitter breaking API based post mirroring to Mastodon.

(TL;DR, she's been silenced by the authorities.)

Worth reading in full, as the end includes a brief interview and suggests that her earlier highlighting of the security risks of compromised keyboards to E2E encrypted messaging turned out to be potentially relevant.

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes/

From now on I will be addressed by my proper name, Ram-square root-bigger than or equal to-n

may have gone a little overboard with the cables here

Since this subject seems to resonate with folks every time I've mentioned it, I wrote a blog post on the subject of malicious actors (typically stalkers and trolls) abusing the DMCA takedown notice and counter-notice processes to extort personal information from victims.

https://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/the-dmca-enables-harm/

Different surface patterns on the tower. On each level, the tower will have a different pattern.

I wonder how I can eliminate the visual banding in the texture mapping.