my involvement with linux and open source started when i was, like, 12. i remember excitedly upgrading to slackware 9. within a year or two of that i had all the computers in my house running as linux thin clients with a centralized NFS homedir fileserver and NIS/YP for login auth. i taught myself networking by building an OpenMOSIX/Kerrighed SSI HPC cluster (all three nodes of it lol) in high school
if the stance of the open source community at the time was some arbitrary "you must be 16+ to engage with us" BS i probably would have fucked off entirely and became a windows server admin, lol. that environment was already so mired in elitism and that kind of ageism would have pushed me away entirely
have you heard of #webgbcam ?
it's a web tool (PWA even, add it to your home screen!) that uses your device's cameras to simulate the look of the game boy camera! you can record short gifs with it and there's also a 1bpp atkinson dithering mode!
ONE-STAR HEROES: playing bad games to pay my bills!
idk if the reference is even that well known but it's this https://legendsoflocalization.com/articles/hana-no-star-kaido/
I'm a day late on this but the demoscene is now part of UNESCO culture in Norway!
Congratulations, Norway! 
this thing i saw on aliexpress is really hitting my weak point for really stupid video game consoles. check out the fucking gamer king. kingof jighter37 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012109252041.html
Top five fursonas? โ I don't think there's any way I can answer this without coming off like I'm ranking my friends so I think I will have to respectfully decline to do so lol https://alterspring.org/@taizou/a/116506865276144514
How's your Friday night going? โ It was pretty chill I guess. I wasn't feeling too great after work so I just kinda lounged around watching streams and drinking wine. And then later on I did some more work on the new blog I want to set up... https://alterspring.org/@taizou/a/116506833190023150
who's your favorite boy? โ the one reading this!!!! (if you are one)
also ralsei https://alterspring.org/@taizou/a/116501581968350319
i haven't done one of these in a bit... ask me something if you want https://alterspring.org/@taizou
re: ukpol, abuse reference
one of the lords proposals was that the reasoning for whatever restrictions they land on should be taught in the national curriculum - quite revealing tbh that they don't want to teach them how to keep safe but do want to tell them that daddy government is keeping them locked away for their own good
like i often call this shit abusive but they really make the parallels clear sometimes