Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

MS-DOS machines are lonely and isolated?

Thanks to modern tools created decades after MS-DOS' obsolecense, you can connect your MS-DOS 6.22 machine to the modern internet - and the fediverse.

Please welcome #dostodon by @dec_hl!

https://fabulous.systems/posts/2023/08/connecting-ms-dos-to-the-internet-and-the-fediverse/

#dostodon #msdos #retrocomputing

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

@ja2ke @aaronsgiles

I haven't seen it, but this seems like a good time to point out that https://tomlehrersongs.com/ is still up, but no one knows for how long.

Oh dear god I've done it - all maps played and RAMP 2023 is in a state that I'm ready to call finished! Download it at https://ramp2023.teamouse.net/ . It is an 850MB Doom WAD. It has 296 maps in it. It is seriously, tremendously ridiculous. Thanks to all contributors for your amazing maps and assets!

i think this album is still good https://syniphas.bandcamp.com/album/the-space-adventures-of-general-mibi #bandcampfriday

starting in one hour!

tomorrow (friday, 4th)! we have bumped up our goal to another 100gbp and we will vanquish bowser in super mario world for once and for all! #fundraiser #protecttranskids https://tiltify.com/@mavica/mavica-plays-super-mario-world-for-mermaids

butt slam!!!, screenshot, dos (1989) https://mobygames.com/game/dos/butt-slam/screenshots/gameShotId,273748/

I co-wrote a cookbook for depressed people and other folks with zero spoons, only knives. It's not meant to be gourmet cooking so much as a survival guide for late stage capitalism. And you can get it for free!
https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

Patreon changed its billing from California to Dublin for this month. So a lot of banks rejected the transactions as possible fraud.

This would be recoverable ... except that Patreon’s systems automatically wiped all users with a bounced transaction!

there is no news writeup yet, but start at this twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/JasonKPargin/status/1686783605551382530
https://archive.is/RgMCt

IF YOU SPONSOR SOMEONE ON PATREON: go in and check your transactions for August, and re-send them if they bounced. The “retry” link is located in your billing history.

Patreon are being vague and trying to play it down. We *assume* they are trying to un-bugger their screwup.

Also, payments via Payoneer have been disabled for now, so that'll be me personally. arse.

The existence of "Mike Judge" implies that "Judge" is a not-uncommon last name. So somewhere in the USA is there a Judge Judge

Here, I made you a Slack emoji for when you're talking about GenAI

Please do not gaze upon my works and despair! I worked really hard on them

The game is packed with references to world food… from Vietnamese rice pancakes (Banh xeo) to Italian mushroom sauce for pasta (Boscaiola) to Turkish stuffed aubergines (Imam bayildi) to Welsh leek soup (Cawl cennin).

As with everything else in the game, the localisation team did a fantastic job digging up this stuff. Some of these dishes don't even have a Wikipedia entry.

One example here. I'd never heard of Ema Datshi before. In game, it's described as a cheese and hot chilli pepper dish from the Azim Steppe.

In reality, it's from Bhutan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ema_datshi

#FFXIV

I’ve had such an education in the exotic foods of the world by looking up the names of #FFXIV food items on Wikipedia.