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you can call me

  • maple
  • maple syrup
  • maple "mavica" syrup
  • mavica

none of those are capitalised, ever

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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

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Apple founder Steve Wozniak jumped into the Slashdot comments on his 75th birthday last year.

The reason that some successful people aren't billionaires is because they use their wealth to make the world a better place. "Success" isn't measured by the number in a checkbook.

Sony: Physical discs are obsolete. The future is digital only.

Me: Okay, then here's my 22 year old PlayStation 2, a modded Network Adaptor with SATA, a 500GB SSD, a FreeMCBoot memory card, and a bunch of PS2 ISOs I grabbed off Myrient before they closed up shop. Oh, and here's my PS3 with PS3HEN installed, and I have a bunch of games on the 1GB SSD I installed in it...

Sony: NO WAIT NOT LIKE THAT

the future is digital only so make sure to download as many games as you want for free from archive.org and vimm's lair

The Apple II stayed productive for years after the Mac tried to run it out of town. It lived, thanks to AppleWorks, which proved how useful 8-bits and 128KB could be, despite 32-bit rumors to the contrary.

I gave it a spin, really wanting to put its promise of "integration" to the test, but struggled to figure out a good project. Then I heard about a program that turned AppleWorks into HyperCard, and my path was clear. Includes copious references to 1984 and turducken.

stonetools.ghost.io/appleworks

big walk, spoilers? 

we managed to get the monorail running in our second play session, i'm so happy. riding it is such a chill vibe

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New on Ramen Science!

Something that isn't noodles! And a *ton* of work behind the scenes in PHP. You don't wanna know.

ramen.science/blog/sun-hee-top

your site the ditherinator is awesome so amazing thank you! ive been looking for something like this for a while and its co… — thank you, i'm so glad!!! alterspring.org/@maple/a/11710

hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey so where did u get shoutcast server version 1.9.8 for linux,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,… — mirror.lchost.net/download.nul but i don't remember where i got t… alterspring.org/@maple/a/11710

i think doing pixels for money made me too anxious to do pixels again

i should try doing pixels for myself some time

are you even foss if you don't defend to the doubling down death the 30 year old software naming choice of two tryhard edgelords based off of an inflammatory character in a movie directed by a foot fetishist who uses written self-inserts as an excuse to say racist slurs out loud

AI in the Linux Kernel & Linus Torvalds' complicity 

The natural follow-up question is: How long until the other big thing Linus Torvalds made, Git, is turned to AI slop?

if i could have any useless superpower i think i would want to be perfectly aliased in pictures. as in if you ever tried to take a digital picture of me, every pixel either entirely contains part of me or doesn't. always a perfect 1bpp mask

Lukewarm take:

All build systems should be able to generate a image of the build flow graph and show it to you with a single command.

After a build, they should tell you by default where the artefacts are stored on disk at the end of the build log.

Slightly hotter take:

Build systems should have GUIs. The best GUIs would have built in debugging tools.

I would love to come to a project I'm new to and just be able to inspect the build system and understand it without needing to be an expert with the build system first.

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