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Related, I once accidentally pwned an entire college lab of NeXTstations without touching a keyboard.

My home directory's ownership got messed up, the sysadmin was struggling to catch all my files in the fix commands, and I pointed out that my home dir's dotfiles needed the fix as well. The sysadmin got bit by the same ".*" bug on that 1992 day I got bit by today, but on the chown command.

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I love needing to grep thousands of files in 50 dot-directories recursively, and my first clue the 50yo ".*" gotcha bit me is a read-permission error for a file in an ancestor directory after a long wait.

thank you to everybody who's donated so far <3

i've written a little update about our situation and what we're hoping to achieve

gofundme.com/f/get-taylor-and-

thank you @hergaiety for another portrait commission!

check upthread if you too would like a pixel portrait such as this!

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thank you @chaseahrens for commissioning me for a portrait!

if you too want to be immortalized in 16 colors, DM me!

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today i released version 3.5 of webgbcam, my web app that simulates a game boy camera!

maple.pet/webgbcam

current features:
- settable gamma/contrast
- settable palette from curated selection
- settings are kept for the next session (new!)
- record 5-second gif
- 3-second timer to frame your shot
- swap between front and back cameras on mobile
- tweak camera settings after taking a shot
- hide the UI & use it as a window capture for streams!

picture courtesy of me bothering @Atatra 💜

Mere days after the winter solstice, it's unseasonably warm outside. However, it didn't feel quite *this* warm.

if you wanna put a smile on my face go visit maple.pet/tech look at the stuff i do and recommend me for job positions or toss cash my way because i haven't had a job for 8 months now ko-fi.com/squirrel

With procedural generation you can save a lot of space for content but did you know that Pitfall! on the Atari 2600 uses one byte (!) to describe a room? Here's the link to an article describing how that works:
evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfal
#gamedev #procgen #retro

i cannot stress enough how much I admire @mavica_again for its technical capabilities (not to mention its creative output, aesthetic choices, and ability to seed my brain with words that I can't stop saying aloud). You should follow it imo

Years ago I bought a collection of IBM Selectric Typewriter ‘golf balls’ (including some rarer ones) from a typewriter repair shop. Once upon a time this was how fonts were stored for the machine. The owner literally used his arm to shovel them into a cardboard box like he couldn’t get rid of them fast enough, in a shop full of hundreds of them. A good memory. #design #typography #typewriter #fonts

All jokes aside, remember what Christmas is really about, people.

Rich people being terrorized by spectres until they agree to pay their employees a living wage.

So @.joinmastodon got unbanned from Twitter.

This is the first tweet that they sent after the unbanning:

"As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea."

What a response!

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