FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

🎉🔥 It's out! 🌟🎉

The latest version of my retro texture pack is now available. That's 300 high-quality, low-resolution textures, for just $5! They take heavy inspiration from #retrofps games like #doom and #quake #pixelart #gamedev

https://little-martian.itch.io/retro-texture-pack

@Jo @DotMaetrix (original caption "ooh, that explains a lot")

@DotMaetrix Copy that floppy.

Remember To avoid straining your eyes when you're continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the forest.

reading some documentation: "Python is not a strongly typed language"

WRONG. It's not a STATICALLY typed language. The two are not synonyms, damn it.

While on the subject of making Windows executables do unspeakable things on non-Windows platforms, see https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary

This repository contains a library that allows native Linux programs to load and call functions from a Windows DLL.

As a demonstration, I've ported Windows Defender to Linux.

Imagine, if you will, it's 2023, back in the dark ages when nobody had figured out yet how to make computers usable.

There are two of you in an aircraft, one with an Android phone and one with an Apple phone. What's the best way to get a photo from one phone to another?

Bonus points: do it without paying $14.95 to move the files thousands of miles across the world and back again.

Ahh yes, the two languages.
the programming language binary.

I wonder if I can set up a git precommit hook to keep me from committing files that don't fit the MS-DOS 8.3 filename pattern

Holy _shit_ this paper, and the insight behind it.

You know how every receiver is also a transmitter, _well_: every text predictor is also text compressor, and vice-versa.

You can outperform massive neural networks running millions of parameters, with a novel applications of _gzip_.

https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/

HOW EXACTLY AM I SUPPOSED TO TYPE THAT, DOS?

This IBM Selectric II was only $20 at a thrift store, what was I supposed to do, abandon it?!

Anyway, it powers on but is hella noisy and doesn't quite work.

I figure I'll spend some time debugging, and if I fail it's a lovely paperweight until I save up the cash to bring it to my pals at Berkeley Typewriter. I've never owned an electric typewriter myself (all of mine are manual, intentionally) so this will be be a unique adventure. #typewriter #IBMSelectric

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