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This tribute to M.C. Escher by Katsuhiro Otomo (of Akira fame) gets me every time ๐Ÿ˜

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@kdj8_v2@fuzzies.wtf changing your gamertag on xbox live is more expensive than changing your legal name in poland and i think that's hilarious

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I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

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There's a parliamentary petition for an independent review of the Cass report into gender medical services for young people. It's a highly problematic document commissioned by the previous government and shaped by anti-trans viewpoints.

If you're a Brit, you can sign it, whether you live in the UK or not. Please do.

petition.parliament.uk/petitio

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it is 14 minutes to midnight in my area. here is a picture of Craig Stadler from the back of the box for PGA Tour Golf 2.

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Woof, that was a bit of a rathole.

So when I first started doing my minimal emulation of Windows, I didn't expect that I would be doing much GDI-based rendering, so I made the GDI desktop a fixed 32bpp bitmap, but when DirectDraw/Direct3D kicked in, I would ignore that bitmap in favor of rendering the DirectDraw primary surface. Kind of like an OG 3Dfx Voodoo card.

As time went on, and I found games starting to actually GDI, I fleshed in the implementation more, but still kept the separate bitmaps. In fact, the desktop bitmap was owned by my internal desktop process, and since process memory is hard-segregated in DREAMM, no other process could touch it directly.

This facade held together quite well until Rebellion, which does a lot of traditional drawing, and then locks the primary DirectDraw surface to blit retained mode 3D bits. This breaks my system because the DirectDraw surface is separate from the desktop bitmap.

So I had to implement support for non-32bpp desktop bitmaps, and also create a mechanism to migrate ownership of that bitmap to whichever process is doing DirectDraw access. Finally got all that working today. The net effect is nil on existing games, but Rebellion can now merge its 3D in.

And hey look, it's drawing the hypercube! (Should be wireframe like the second image, but I'll take it.)

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The Unicode Consortium announces release 17.2.0 of the Unicode standard.

A. Summary

41 new Emoji characters have been added, most notably:

โ—ฆ The smell of rain
โ—ฆ The feeling of being asked to remove your headphones on public transport by a stranger hitting on you (U+F0AD)
โ—ฆ The sound of standing on your spectacles while trying to locate them in the dark
โ—ฆ The moment at 5am when a cat is delightfully making biscuits on your abdomen but you need to get up to pee

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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