Introducing BootFriend: custom firmware for the WonderSwan Color/SwanCrystal!
- "multiboot" (load software to RAM via serial port),
- backup the IPL (boot ROM),
- manage game data & saves,
- flash cartridges without an external flasher!

Installation instructions, downloads and more information are available here: https://wonderful.asie.pl/ws/bootfriend/

**Ryusui** · Feb 16, 2023, 05:25

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**mcc** @mcc@mastodon.social · Feb 16, 2023, 05:25

Feb 16, 2023, 05:25

mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

It is only at this moment sinking in for me:

Android Studio is not actually a Google product. It is a skin on Intellij IDEA, developed by JetBrains in the Czech Republic.

Gradle is not actually a Google product. It is developed by "Gradle Inc" in San Francisco

I… guess the reason why Gradle, Android Studio, and Android Gradle Plugin act when you try to file bugs as if they are different companies is despite the software itself being very tightly coupled THEY'RE ACTUALLY DIFFERENT COMPANIES :(

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**Ryusui** · Feb 16, 2023, 00:44

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**Austin Dern, Dean of Coatis** @Austin_Dern@blimps.xyz · Feb 16, 2023, 00:44

Feb 16, 2023, 00:44

Austin Dern, Dean of Coatis @Austin_Dern@blimps.xyz

Other strips being particularly interesting.

https://www.gocomics.com/ollie-and-quentin/2023/02/14

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**Ryusui** · Feb 15, 2023, 21:40

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**Joni Korpi** @jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 15, 2023, 21:40

Feb 15, 2023, 21:40

Joni Korpi @jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place

A little graphics achivement I’m giddy about: fog now ”gathers” at lowlands and coasts.

Managed to make it piggyback on the vertex shader’s shadow raymarcher, so there’s almost no additional performance cost. #gamedev

**Ryusui** · Feb 16, 2023, 00:11

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**Brian Bucklew** @unormal@mastodon.social · Feb 16, 2023, 00:11

Feb 16, 2023, 00:11

Brian Bucklew @unormal@mastodon.social

now using a deferred path

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**Ryusui** · Feb 14, 2023, 17:28

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**Kieren Phelps.** @Cannopworkings@mastodon.art · Feb 14, 2023, 17:28

Feb 14, 2023, 17:28

Kieren Phelps. @Cannopworkings@mastodon.art

February sunshine.

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**Ryusui** · Feb 15, 2023, 20:03

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**Avi (Zatzinged and Living)** @Lobst@scalie.club · Feb 15, 2023, 20:03

Feb 15, 2023, 20:03

Avi (Zatzinged and Living) @Lobst@scalie.club

Avi stickers #19-24! With the creature set (#1-18) finished for now, we're off to daily life in the enclave; after the next two sets are finished, the plan is to have any future additions come in twos to keep the sets in balance https://t.me/addstickers/AvibyLobst

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**Ryusui** · Feb 15, 2023, 18:44

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**Foone🏳️‍⚧️** @foone@digipres.club · Feb 15, 2023, 18:44

Feb 15, 2023, 18:44

Foone🏳️‍⚧️ @foone@digipres.club

it has been ZERO DAYS since I tried to open a 3DS game in an Apple II floppy disk editor

**Ryusui** @theryusui@computerfairi.es · Feb 15, 2023, 02:24

**Ryusui** @theryusui@computerfairi.es · Feb 15, 2023, 02:24

Feb 15, 2023, 02:24

Ryusui @theryusui@computerfairi.es

@anildash like i'm sorry to be doomer and defeatist on this but we're seeing, on this front, the inevitable end result of capitalism in this space

tech designed not for people, but for shareholders

**Ryusui** @theryusui@computerfairi.es · Feb 15, 2023, 02:22

**Ryusui** @theryusui@computerfairi.es · Feb 15, 2023, 02:22

Feb 15, 2023, 02:22

Ryusui @theryusui@computerfairi.es

@anildash and there's a final thing to consider:

how exactly will Google and Microsoft respond to the existence of a competitor who threatens to upend their self-devouring search engine ecosystem with a product that, you know, actually WORKS?

it wouldn't even need to be a THREAT (god knows Google and Microsoft would win by default in any competition of brand recognition, even if Bing is a distant second); they have the wherewithal to annihilate any POTENTIAL competition without issue

**Ryusui** @theryusui@computerfairi.es · Feb 15, 2023, 02:20

**Ryusui** @theryusui@computerfairi.es · Feb 15, 2023, 02:20

Feb 15, 2023, 02:20

Ryusui @theryusui@computerfairi.es

@anildash like who's going to pick up on the sales pitch "we're going to make a search engine that makes it easier to actually find the answers people want, without all the SEO garbage, and we're going to compete with Google"? every piece of that pitch is infinitely appealing to US, the people who have to suffer through our broken search engine ecosystem, but not to the money people who want "eyeballs" and "exposure," for whom the actual UTILITY of search engines is a non-consideration

**Ryusui** @theryusui@computerfairi.es · Feb 15, 2023, 02:17

**Ryusui** @theryusui@computerfairi.es · Feb 15, 2023, 02:17

Feb 15, 2023, 02:17

Ryusui @theryusui@computerfairi.es

@anildash at the same time - in our ghoulish world of race-to-the-bottom capitalism, is there truly a market for such a thing?

like the obvious answer is YES but keep in mind, the search engines are shit because the EXPECTATION is that the relentless march of SEO will squeeze more profit out of end users but the REALITY is that the content is being generated by algorithms TO SATISFY OTHER ALGORITHMS

we are not the market for search engines; marketing is the market for search engines

**Ryusui** · Feb 14, 2023, 22:26

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**Neil Gaiman** @neilhimself@mastodon.social · Feb 14, 2023, 22:26

Feb 14, 2023, 22:26

Neil Gaiman @neilhimself@mastodon.social

I put up a little Good Omens thing as a Valentine's Day present to the world on Tumblr. https://at.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/madam-i-said-i-do-believe-that-you-have/ihvw9jkbgryo

**Ryusui** · Feb 14, 2023, 10:21

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**how to do anything** @wikihow@mastodon.social · Feb 14, 2023, 10:21

Feb 14, 2023, 10:21

how to do anything @wikihow@mastodon.social

How to Charge a PS3 Controller

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**Ryusui** @theryusui@computerfairi.es · Feb 14, 2023, 20:24

**Ryusui** @theryusui@computerfairi.es · Feb 14, 2023, 20:24

Feb 14, 2023, 20:24

Ryusui @theryusui@computerfairi.es

@LordArse let's go!

**Ryusui** · Feb 14, 2023, 10:10

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**Lord Arse! 🕹️** @LordArse@toot.community · Feb 14, 2023, 10:10

Feb 14, 2023, 10:10

Lord Arse! 🕹️ @LordArse@toot.community

As it's Lemmings 32nd birthday today, here's your reminder that there is a Lemmings statue in Dundee.

**Ryusui** · Feb 14, 2023, 19:14

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**The Nerdskull** @the_nerdskull@mastodon.lol · Feb 14, 2023, 19:14

Feb 14, 2023, 19:14

The Nerdskull @the_nerdskull@mastodon.lol

So I need a new instance to go to. Anyone got any recommendations for a LGBTQ friendly instance that will be okay with me talking politics and tech and furry junk?