Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

wolfenstein 3d, print ad, snes (1994) https://archive.org/details/nintendo-magazine-system-au-13-april-1994/page/68/mode/2up?view=theater

Tomorrow when you rise and prepare for the day, sing! Sing songs of courage and glory. Sing at the top of your lungs and let the world know you are coming, and that it must prepare for you.

Big tech now arguing that the platforms they’ve built can’t be held accountable for e.g. racism, as racism has been around for all of human history. Well yes, you know what else has? Nipples. Interesting how easy those were to ban, but racism? “Content moderation is just *so* hard!”

Get the fuck out of here.

bflat: Small, self-contained C# executables https://github.com/bflattened/bflat

"bflat is a native compiler for C# that comes with everything you need to build C# apps for any of the supported platforms. No additional SDKs or NDKs needed"

With it, it's even possible to build C# applications to #Windows 3.1 (!?)

Author: Michal Strehovský - "I work remotely at the .NET Runtime team at Microsoft."

#DotNet #CSharp

Blast Slagbeef

Here is a fun animation that will help you to understand the relative rpms of the planets.

(via. https://www.tumblr.com/bandit-jay/698182172743434240/comparing-the-rotations-of-objects-in-the-solar?source=share)

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