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I don’t think developers truly appreciate the fragility of software until their first run-in with an obscure file format for which the only converter in existence was written by one guy in college in 2003 and released as source only with no comments and requires applying a patch to a library to compile, but it’s not for a release version, oh no, it’s for a very specific SVN revision from a long dead server

Even though old software has not changed, new software has introduced faster, more efficient workflows at the cost of the speed of the software itself. The knowledge and tools to even produce software that uses a few megabytes of RAM is, in practice, lost. We can produce better tools but we cannot produce them for the computers that would benefit most from them. #RetroComputing

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@trishalynn Mastodon is one implementation of the activitypub specification

think of it like the Google Chrome of the fediverse, not all other fediverse instances are running it and there's some interop pains

"mastodon" in of itself isn't the network or even the only protocol in it, but it got a lot of press and VC money so it sounds like it is

@trishalynn it wasn't introduced until like version 4 i believe

i've been here much longer than that and the glitchsoc computer fairies runs is currently based on 3.5.x i believe

(letting go of a ball onto the ground) 🎶 feliz gravedad, feliz gravedad

one of the mad things about the internet is how you get someone making a living from doing something and then theres 50 other people next to them doing literally the exact same thing just as well and not even getting any attention or appreciation let alone money

well that was a short search once i had a better picture!!!

IPC TLA UQMY Control Module 21613115

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oh here's a much better look at it from S6 E2, those are not tape decks at all

what the hell is this??

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seen in the background of The Expanse S6 E1. i don't think it's a made up prop, i think it's a piece of hifi/video equipment turned prop. makes me think of technics vhs pcm audio recorder, but might be regular cassette instead. bottom bright spots are VU meters maybe?

re: Star Trek (guess I like this show now) 

@JordiGH given it started in 1988 yeah it's still fairly conservative as far as that goes, DS9 is where funny things start with garak/bashir and jadzia dax's previous host being male, but you don't get really outspoken queer rep until discovery and strange new worlds

Added some extra little details, spikes on the knees and lfrith style bunny antenna on the head, in an eye catching red

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i'm like a sim whose fun meter hasn't left red in two or three years and i'm pretty sure that constitutes pathology

family got a new samsung tv with a "remote" that has almost no buttons because you're meant to use a phone app instead. phone app is 80mb and tells me my browser (firefox nightly) is unsupported to log into the samsung account to control this tv that's already in our living room. hey @internetofshit

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Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!