Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

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

#picotron 0.1.0h is up! Including tracker fx, stereo instruments, multi-copy, monospace, batch sprite resizing.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/picotron_changelog.txt

I think we were lucky with yesterday's global CrowdStrike bug incident that it merely caused a boot loop requiring manual intervention to fix. Can you imagine how bad it would've been if it had corrupted the disk? This was a basically a warning of how vulnerable we are.

(@kometbomb · Aug 8, 2018)

Yo dawg I heard you like twisters etc. etc.

::_::cls(1)x,y,g,z=0,0,t()/5,cos
for i=0,1,.005 do
a=z(g/7+i/5)/3*z(i/9+g)q=z(a)w=sin(a)
x+=q/2
y+=w/2
for j=-1,1,2 do
for k=9,12 do
o=k/4+g+i*j*z(g/3)s=16*z(o)b=16*z(o+.25)
if(s>b)for d=0,1 do line(64+x-w*s,64+y+q*s+d,64+x-w*b,64+y+q*b+d,k)end
end
x=-x
y=-y
end
end
flip()goto _

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#Pico8 #TweetJam #TweetCart

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL NEWS: https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/bethesda-game-studios-union-ZDA3AQGAPVDD3EEPAGBC5V6XJA/

“Workers at Maryland-based Bethesda Game Studios, the company behind blockbuster games such as ‘Starfield,’ the ‘Elder Scrolls’ series and the ‘Fallout’ series, have formed a union, according to the Communications Workers of America.”

#1u #unions #TechLabor

Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24202271/bethesda-game-studios-workers-unionize-cwa

the bisexual phone

😂 #programming #softwaredevelopment