taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

Have nothing in your home that you do not
● know to be useful
● believe to be beautiful
● feel unaccountable vague fondness for
● can imagine a hypothetical situation in which you'd *really* need it
● firmly intend to get round to doing something with one of these days
● can't remove because of all the other junk piled on top of it
● feel guilty about not dealing with something more important first
● fear throwing away in case you remember tomorrow why you bought it
● miscellaneous

The increasing pressure from well-meaning people -- even on the left -- for "online age-verification" is in effect a call for censorship and further destruction of privacy.

They don't care, as long as they can claim to be protecting kids.

They think they can keep the totally predictable problems under control, but that shows contempt for history and what we already know about technology.

One example: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/global-suppression-online-lgbtq-speech-continues

Are consequences unintended if they're predictable? No.

Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. One year earlier, the Stonewall Inn was marketed as “casual" and “crowded on weekends”.
#vintage #lgbtq #Stonewall

Art Prize for vixenfeather @ BSKY!

#prize #artprize #art_prize #drawing #digital #art #furry #fursona #anthro #bunny #rabbit #hare #cute #male #men #boy #femboy #soft #csp #clipstudiopaint #clip_studio_paint

Happy Pride, everyone!
#vintage #pride #poster

Helioptile

Is your home lacking in glamour? Have you considered a complete set of glamour canisters or a matching biscuit barrel?
#vintageAd #gay #InteriorDesign

LittleFuse (Zilog's parent company) took the last orders for the #Z80 yesterday.

After 48 years of constant production, #Zilog will no longer produce the Z80 as LittleFuse is unable to keep producing the current Z84Cxxxx series using the 4-micron (4000 nm) CMOS process.

The legendary chip, designed by the legendary Federico Faggin in 1976 was largely responsible for the microcomputer revolution and is still beloved by electronics hobbyists today.

It had one hell of an impact! RIP Z80

Thanks to LittleBadWolf for this beautiful piece depicting my rabbit, Mortimer, looking cute as hell in a flower field, wearing a hand-made floral wreath.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57102660/

David Tennant. Always supporting Pride and trans people. Just a wonderful human being ♥️

(photo by Georgia Tennant. posted on her insta)

Somewhat related to this

https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/112631203369841124

I occasionally teach tech-related stuff to people of every age. Today I was in a classroom with kids ages 9-11. They had almost pristine laptops with Windows 11.

What I wanted to do:
- have them create an avatar with Picrew
- have them write a slide about themselves, and paste the picrew avatar in it
- start playing around with Scratch

Also mandatory from the course's management: have everyone login to the Google Workspace of the course. (I also put the links to the Picrews in the Classroom)

Tech issues I encountered:
- the "smart" classroom touchscreen whiteboard has some HDMI ports, but those ports mysteriously refused to work with my linux laptop. They also refused to work with some of the Windows computers the school had. Kept displaying a message about "trying to connect" or whatever. I've never had an issue connecting via HDMI to a "dumb" monitor, so I don't know what it was trying to do there.
- The school teacher I was paired up with was familiar with some of the other whiteboards the school has, which require a proprietary program that only runs on Windows to connect via bluetooth. This one was different anyway.
- The whiteboard was an Android device and had its own browser. This object that, I'm sure, cost north of 2000€ was barely powerful enough to open Google slides or Picrew, with noticeable slowdowns, and absolutely collapsed under the "weight" of Scratch
- The laptops the kids use have a regular blue Windows popup "Antivirus protection expired" because the McAfee trial version expired. I had to explain to them that there was nothing wrong with their computer, and they didn't catch a virus or anything. We didn't have the administrator password ready so I couldn't uninstall McAfee and get rid of the popup even if I had the time to do it for 20+ computers while I'm trying to teach.
- Picrew is absolutely inundated with ads, including some fullscreen images that obscure the screen until dismissed. One of the ads was creepy AF and scared a kid, and he didn't want to look at the screen anymore. I had to install ublock origin on all the Edge browsers, one by one (I know, but it was the only browser installed, and again, no admin password and no time even if I did)
- Some people straight up got pop up ads, with videos that started playing at max volume, disturbing the lesson. Many of them didn't even know how to dismiss them. I had to explain to them that it wasn't their fault. (again, solved by installing ublock origin)
- The new tab of Microsoft edge isn't mostly empty, but it's just full of news and links and stuff. There's nothing straight up NSFW, but most of it is inappropriate and distracting to kids.
- Millions of popups throughout the whole process. Popups for cookies, Popups for so-called tutorials, and "I understand" and "I accept" to click through to do anything at all.

Honestly, it made me kinda hate tech. I don't know how I'm supposed to transmit my passion for tech when every little interaction is such a minefield to navigate.

beach boy

"We'll be less activist if you be less shit"

It was 1888 and furries were a thing already

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00055868/00001

#books #furry

Does anyone know if Ubisoft developed any true 3D games for the Game Boy Advance? Asking because RayCarrot discovered that there is code for a full 3D renderer in Rayman 3 GBA, but the only place it's used is this moving wheel in the credits screen.

The renderer has capabilities far beyond what would be necessary for that (including skeletal animation), so there's no way they developed it just for this, but I can't find a single example of where it could have been used.

hi helo sorry to do this again, but I really need help with topping up food supplies for both me and my cat as well as getting a few essential things like toilet paper

£0/75

https://ko-fi.com/aviepupy
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/snoozysoft

thank 💜💜

It's Friday night, it's cold outside and I'm still working on that whole social life thing, so here's a long rambly thread about the 15-pin PC gameport and its historical significance, because it's something I want to practice writing about at length (if anyone was silly enough to give me a PhD for something, it'd be for this nonsense).

Feel free to mute this thread if that's not your thing - or if it is, bookmark it for later, or prepare to be en-knowledge-ified!

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

I enjoy the fact that in Welsh my details are my manylion. 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁

As a junior doctor I spent 6 month working in an obstetrics and gynaecology department. Part of my job was assisting in theatre with the elective C-sections. I would often be the first person to touch the new born baby so I would always "boop their snoot" and wish them well.