Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es
- the stuff i do
- https://wildweasel486.github.io
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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Joined Oct 2017
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An important aspect of the hacker ethos is the "got so mad at broken proprietary thing that I fixed it myself" attitude. It runs explicitly counter to the cop mentality half of infosec has these days.
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this was a fun style departure for me! i hope to do more of these soon :)
if you want something like this, hit me up! https://maple.pet/commissions
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@ifixcoinops reminds me of how ordering pizza online was used in the film The Net
> As we were developing the story and coming up with different things that Sandra Bullock's character could be doing, that she was working at home and we also wanted to express her loneliness, it was actually Irwin, the director, who came up with, "What if you could order pizza over the net?" I remember at the time I was thinking, "Well, why would you want to do that? You can just call somebody and just order pizza." [But] what we wanted to say is that she doesn't want to have any contact with any humans directly.
https://collider.com/the-net-sandra-bullock-pizza-net/
and now we've wrapped around to "I'm going to use a phone specifically because I don't want to have to interact with this company's awful software"
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“Bluesky could be the future of content moderation”.
I 100% disagree.
Yes, the protocol offers a plethora of ways to filter content and ensure you never come across, say, Nazis.
But that’s not what content moderation is. Content moderation is making decisions. It is either welcoming or refusing certain types of content on your platform.
If you’re letting everyone in, and telling your users "but you have control!", you’re not moderating anything. You’re just quitting.
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I'm kinda horribly broke again and need to get back to getting out of my storage units, but at the moment I can't even pay for them, let alone the shelving/truck/time I'd need to be able to move out of them. So if you're able to donate something, that'd be really helpful!
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What if I told you there is an immensely popular operating system that you likely used it at least once, but did not realise what it was?
In fact, it is so popular and important there is an IEEE standard based on it.
It is uncanny how immensely popular AND immensely obscure this system is.
It is scary that until today I have never even heard of its reference desktop implementation.
The system is called "TRON".
🧵 thread~
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A friend of mine recently burned out on maintaining open-source software and communities, and had been half-joking for a while that they wanted a sassy license to the effect of "I release this code for free, take it or leave it, or go do it yourself".
Tonight I wrote that license for and with him. Please enjoy the "Fork Off" Public License, v0.9: https://github.com/klardotsh/fork-off-public-license
(I'll tag a v1.0 after any feedback y'all might have to clarify things or make it funnier. Forking it is also of course ok.)
City of Damocles - a 1-bit art commission I did for Cohost user belarius, on a 1986 Mac Plus, with a trackball and a paint program that doesn't support layers. #art #retrotech #commission
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if you've tried to use an original xbox controller under windows 10 and have had issues with XBCD (no rumble) and Xb2XInput (delayed/stuck inputs) check out my fork which improves polling by using async libusb i/o
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All raise a sword, for the Goddess of Stories, Jennell Jaquays, as she ascends to Valhalla to share tales of bravery and mirth, forever @jennellallyn
also remembering an install guide i like to follow that involves writing up a small batch file to automate some system setting changes (it's a batch file, open source by its nature), except that as of a few years ago, that batch file will get flagged as a Severe System Threat as soon as you try to save it from notepad.
maybe it did have a bitcoin-mining trojan stuffed in it, maybe it didn't. unfortunately no program is left on my computer that'll litigate it because the kangaroo court of Windows Defender, Firefox, and 7-Zip have already declared it Guilty and removed it, and I'm powerless to get it to try again short of using another computer running a different OS.
which is bullshit because the program is for Windows anyway and I'd have to basically smuggle the EXE file across.
TO MY OWN COMPUTER.
as much as I could be sure that this program is relatively trustworthy, and that it's a false positive, i can't very well believe that it *isn't*, plus basically every program on my computer that tries to touch the file in any way is screaming bloody murder about it and not letting me get a word in edgewise.
and so the endgame is that i did not rip a music track from LAD:IW and apparently neither has anybody else, and it'll be stuck in my head all day now.
modern hobbyist software has way too big of a minefield anymore.
wanted to rip a music track out of Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, a task for which there are already mod tools, since the respective archive and audio formats are known since a few games ago. unfortunately, one of the necessary tools flags my antimalware so badly that even 7-Zip starts freaking out as soon as it lays eyes on the thing, in addition to my browser refusing to follow the link and Windows throwing SmartScreen errors.
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OpenTTD turns 20 this year and to celebrate we're preparing for one of our largest ever releases.
It's packed with 40 new features, 80 changes, and almost 150 fixes.
In the upcoming weeks we will share more posts explaining some of these features in depth. For now, we need your help testing our work.
We need as many people as possible to test this beta version of the 14.X release series, so you can find and we can fix as many bugs as possible before the actual release.
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hitman, weapon selection screen, zx spectrum (1984) https://www.mobygames.com/game/145309/hitman/screenshots/zx-spectrum/1011007/
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- the stuff i do
- https://wildweasel486.github.io
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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Joined Oct 2017
