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thinking about the time back when i was a prototype that i "reinvented" the radians to degrees constant of 57.295779513 by writing a program to draw circles in freebasic with my very limited geometry knowledge, tweaking the constant and re-running the program each time until the circles looked right

sometimes scrolling through a bugged mastodon timeline can feel oddly poetic

having Big Feelings about People Sharing Things On The Internet re: this website made by a woman who has been writing and updating Paint Shop Pro tutorials and resources for 20 years and counting lismibaebi.com/

@Radgryd computerfairi.es/@mavica_again does not show up in mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/ which is indicative of a instance-level silence or suspend (if a user had me silenced or suspended my replies would still show)

if you are on mastodon.social i urge you, please try to find a less central instance!

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can mastodon.social users see my replies if they're not following me? should i just stop bothering trying to reply to anyone on mastodon.social? because if i go to their post my replies certainly aren't there

Years go by, but the closing credits music from the Amiga CD32 version of (Sid Meier's) Pirates! Gold remains the most delightful 90s artifact. 🔊🎶💿🏴‍☠️⚔

i am once again turning my hobbies into paid work 💀 and i wasn't even the one seeking it out this time

so how come brazil has a much much wider variety of 3d printing filaments than the UK? like i've posted about here before, i cannot find transparent pink PLA anywhere shipping to the UK and yet i can get transparent and metallic in all sorts of shades and colors in brazil

days when "i" feels wrong but no foresight to use "we" and avoiding first person pronouns at all is the only thing that works

@Erika i still have the scars from last time i tried, @mist's claws are sharp

it occurs to me that a large portion of the #fediverse might have my home instance computerfairi.es silenced so i figure an announcement from here might get more traction:

i've recently released #ditherinator, a tool for real-time palette-reduction and dithering of images:

maple.pet/ditherinator

i've wanted a tool like this for years and i'm glad i can share it with you now!

please post cool pictures you make with it tagged #ditherinator so i can see them!

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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!