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It is 2024, and I have written a (basic) application for Digital Research GEM 

It was an interesting little adventure. The whole of the operating environment is controlled through a single software interrupt vector, INT 0xEF. Once I got a document explaining what data needed to be present in which registers when firing the interrupt, it was (sorta) smooth sailing.

Code can be found here. It's 16-bit real mode C, so mind your head!

This would not have been possible without the following sources:

https://www.seasip.info/Gem/aes.html

http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-8664.htm

just going to leave this here

[DEI=diversity, equity, inclusion]

Internal Microsoft Email Shows DEI Leader Blasting Layoffs - Business Insider
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them: you better not be walking a lonely road, the only road that you have ever known over there

me:

who the fuck is scraeming “stop using the c minor natural scale” outside my house. show yourself coward. i will never

the number of regular scheduled meetings we've had that wouldn't have been better suited with a shared document that everyone edits and then reads through after is zero

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"set your own hours" in job description

what they actually mean: pick your time between 8am and 8pm lol

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ad-hoc meetings tend to be a lot more productive since they usually arise from an actual need for quick back and forth communication

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The moon appeared inside the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower, in breach of the Olympic Brand Guide.

Big day at school today, because, oh boy, your career aptitude test results came in!!

Let's see, you got...

how about this: server info could include a donation link, and this donation link could be displayed in the app as "support instance"

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just call your app mastodon.social if you want it to be a mastodon.social client, jesus christ. it's almost as if mastodon isn't even meant to be a federated server software

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because mastodon.social obviously is the mastodon server with the worst funding and it's definitely not small instances that could need some more money to pay for infrastructure, moderators, etc /s

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