Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

not sure how well known this already was, but i just stumbled upon an archive of super high-res 35mm photos of Newton and NeXT photos from the 90s, by photographer doug menuez. the vast majority are candid b+w snapshots of the newton and next teams as they grind through workdays and product launches

https://ftp.buriedbits.org/#/General_Scrapes/Apple/Apple%20and%20NeXT%20Photos%20-%20Photographer%20Menuez%2C%20Doug/

#vintageApple #next #newton

I'm sure for many of you this won't be news but it was for me and I thought it was interesting so I'm sharing!

"In the film The Matrix, Switch was originally meant to change genders upon entering the Matrix, which coined their name "Switch". In the real world, Switch would be male, and in the Matrix, Switch would be female - a very clever and critical point of the 'residual self-image' idea. When actress Belinda McClory auditioned for the role, she was going for only half the role - Switch's Matrix form.

Warner Brothers made the decision to cut this and give Switch one form for both environments.

Switch's presentation is deliberately androgynous to pay homage to their original concept."

In 2021, I did a #furry #ZZT #cyberpunk action/puzzle game, "Cyber Purge". In 2024, I overhauled it for itch.io! Become a nonbinary hacker and rescue an immersive VR game from a fascist! Old-school shooting/puzzle-solving await!

https://thegreenherring.itch.io/cyber-purge-zzt

#FurryArt #IndieGame #ANSIArt #Art #MastoArt #FediArt #PixelArt #ドット絵#ANSI #Textmode #TextmodeArt

Now, 2026 is still not the Year of Linux on Desktop. Not by any means. But it's the year of being actually okay to say to Very Not Computer family and friends that you can get their old computer working decently again. It lets you post to facebook. It lets you do a spreadsheet and do a typing a document. Lets you use your browser-based cloud services. And that's generally all that Very Not Computer folk seem to need.

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

Looks like Gobliins 6 is out on itch:
https://pierre-gilhodes.itch.io/gobliins6

S/o to this joke I played on our lab tech sometime in 2019 while he was on vacation

Conway's back... and this time it's personal.

Blech black - Marck Warkuss
https://macthemes.garden/themes/3216f9736e0a-Blech-black

who wants some tea
i said
WHO WANTS SOME FUCKIN TEA

My unpopular opinion is that you should never see a progress bar that says 100%. If it's at 100% then by definition you're done and should not be looking at a progress bar any more

It's been almost two years now since I uploaded a YouTube video casually featuring the original, undistorted version of John Romero's "to win the game you must kill me..." clip in the intro and still nobody has noticed or asked me where I got it from

https://youtu.be/Sznmfmtebf4