FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

From the archives: a brief history of the practice of "sex verification" from antiquity to the present https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/109835356389422151

this entire scene made me think of you fedi train nerds 🚋

so-called “free thinkers” when it's the end of the line and the subway car doors open:

So, 86box has gotten General Modem Emulation in 4.2, and you can absolutely dial up with SLIP to access the internet over SLiRP, and it absolutely works.

Dialog Boxes you have not seen in Quite Some Time, volume 5.

#RetroComputing #86box #emulation #windows98 #OldComputers

*picks the yarn color called "Jeans"* yes excuse me I just need to go put on my jnitted jweater

Released a little Game Boy Advance rom for #gbajam https://voxel.itch.io/game-boy-advance-quokka-wokka that you can play on an emulator or real hardware. It's a simple 'single screen arcade platformer' in the vein of Bubble Bobble and Rodland. Mostly made using a raspberry pi 😊

#gamedev

So many things to do...

When I was 19, I impulse-bought Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters. It proceeded to languish on my shelf until I was 34 and suddenly decided to get serious about Chinese. I am now 36 and as of this morning know all 800 characters taught by this book and about 400 more besides. The final character is "win".

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

Interlaced C source files:
Instead of 80 column lines, each line is only 40 characters and contains every other letter. The next line is also 40 letters and contains the other letters.

the assumption sometimes that binary trans folks would have just preferred to have been born cis i think misses out on something rather crucial in the trans experience

and i don't mean the obvious take that the issue is really how society treats trans folks not being trans

a core part of the trans experience is having gender so exposed and raw that you get to see how coercive and fucked it is. and that means you get the opportunity to try and refuse to pick up some of that baggage.

yes, folks will keep trying to saddle you with it, but you know it's there.

if i had been born cis, it would have been bundled in so early that the process of unpacking it would not only be harder - much of it would be literally impossible to see and i'd just have to accept others are explaining it to me accurately

Get Firefox dotcom.

Download, install, & run.

Menu -> Add-ons and themes -> Extensions -> Find more add-ons: "ublock origin" -> uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill -> Add to Firefox

Why?

Because now that Chrome has dethroned Internet Explorer, one dark lord has been replaced by another:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-warns-ublock-origin-may-soon-be-disabled/

Is Firefox the best Web browser? No, far from it! But it's the *least* bad choice of browser that works with the modern excuses for websites you use.

Flat design has gone too far

I love slopes now?! The speed you can get in this game is incredible. And the song for this bit is so choice.
#KitsuneTails

Kitsune Tails is OUT NOW!! Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.

get it now on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 or itch https://eniko.itch.io/kitsunetails

we're a small underfunded team with a majority queer developers, and while we're punching way above our weight class we need the support of our community if this game is going to be a success. please boost this post, and if you can afford it buy it on steam and leave a positive review on the first day (the text doesn't matter, only the thumbs up, so "i like gay fops" is totally valid as a review)

i also want to prove fedi is powerful enough to make an indie game succeed, so even if you're not personally that into the game, please boost this post? 🙏

#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt

PSA: the default AAC encoder in ffmpeg is terrible even at very high bitrates, you are literally better off telling it to use MP3, even at a similar bitrate (e.g. -acodec mp3 -b:a 256k) https://twitter.com/puella_meiberu/status/1819373771280535810