FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@alice ah yes

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ISO C committee, a failed standard effort:

• dysfunctional, couldn't standardise a simple improvement if their lives depended on it
• arcane, incomprehensible specs that nobody reads
• all volunteers. literally nobody involved gets paid
• they have the gall to paywall it??

Khronos (Vulkan, OpenGL) and MIDI specs:

• long track record of pragmatism
• written by big companies that have hardware to ship and no patience for bullshit
• down-to-earth, sometimes refreshingly casual, easy-to-understand specs
• everyone involved has a real job
• free :)

@JennyFluff for all the catgirls :3

oh hey, it's doing that analog-buttons trick!
See, There's only 3 wires for eight buttons: voltage, ground, and "key".

Each button has a resistor inline, and the microcontroller on the other end measures the resistance of the keypad, and can figure out which key is pressed based on that.

We all know how this ends.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-curse-tablet-targeting-woman-man-archaeologists-germany-rostock/

We're proud to announce the official release of Fedora Asahi Remix! 🎉

Learn more:
https://asahilinux.org/fedora/

@arcade

December 17! It's a Mavica!

Here is a later model that was lightly used back in the day. This platform-agnostic camera was revolutionary for its compatibility and ease of use. The optics weren't bad either! 📸

These are also very reasonably priced, and new batteries are affordable and available. Highly recommend!

This is your regular and very unwanted reminder that it's not "heli+copter", but "helico+pter", with "pter" being the same root word meaning "wing" as in pterodactyl.

You know I think animals might be onto something with the whole nuzzling thing

You ever rub your face into a pillow like super hard? Most satsifying thing ever

‪look upon the world with the eyes of a game developer and everything looks pretty because wow the real world is so good at diffuse reflections and lighting (for real though)‬

🎵currently listening to colorcoaster by fusoxide, such a good song https://fusoxide.bandcamp.com/track/colorcoaster

my cold take on the Threads federation thing is: if you simply consider them not as some mystical "platform" but as any other "instance", then they're an over-sized under-moderated data-scraping instance housing many vile users right up to the point of "technically legal free speech"... and we've all suspended instances before for much less.