Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

One of the earliest sign I knew AI chatbots was going to be horrible for mental health was actually from my lived experience of using speech-to-text transcription.

Context: I am deaf, and I was born that way, and I grew up with hearing aids and got my cochlear when I turned 15. The cochlear, by itself, improved my speech accuracy to 75% from 25% with dual hearing aids.

During the pandemic, my speech comprehension skills worsened due to fundamentally lossy audio quality over Zoom.

TIL xeyes in Debian trixie supports `-biblicallyAccurate` mode (thanks @turnipGod )

Acme - William Bart
https://macthemes.garden/themes/8caadda1cc0d-Acme

“The totally cool way to run and network your computer” sounds just as stupid as it did when I first got these boxes. I paid $2 for them at a HAM radio convention 11 years ago and they’ve just been sitting sealed ever since. Got them out of storage today and I think I’ll open them. (Thread time.)

That makes sense.

the untouchables, screenshot, msx (1989) https://www.mobygames.com/game/1435/the-untouchables/screenshots/msx/131361/

illustration, commodore user, magazine (1984) https://archive.org/details/Commodore_User_Magazine_Issue_015/page/n5/mode/2up

🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before home video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something of personal significance.

oh wow the dev of Moon RPG explicitly said he's making his new game (Stray Children) because he saw toby fox talking about how much moon inspired undertale

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/after-learning-his-cult-90s-rpg-influenced-undertale-this-japanese-developer-finally-got-the-courage-to-make-another-rpg-decades-later-thanks-to-toby-fox/

New on the Secret Area, it's Cold Fear.

A Resident Evil-inspired survival horror game made by the folks who made Alone in the Dark: A New Nightmare. And it's surprisingly alright!

Shares and comments appreciated, as always.

https://asecretarea.com/2025/10/11/cold-fear-pc/

Here are my current set-on-install about:config options for Firefox, as well as going through Settings and turning off anything related to telemetry, "studies", or a Mozilla product. I'm not sure I've captured everything. At one point I was trying to be real rigorous about documenting my preferences but as Firefox became more and more hostile it became harder to fight back in a systematic way

I just came across *the* most Geocities site to ever exist. You want to see this one, I promise. https://web.archive.org/web/20010722223545/http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Wharf/1014/

🥈 + 🆗 =

I threw away a permanent marker the other day. Today it showed up on my desk again with the word "permanent" slightly bigger and underlined

This FSOL Cascade remix mod absolutely kicks ass 💎 And on IRIX even more 💕
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=121550

The part that took me the most time was writing a decoder for a video from 1991. The video is a demo of the $HOME MOVIE system, 1152 x 900 with voice and music. HD video from 1991, folks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j3WYV2sQno

I made a tour of an obscure window system called Bellcore MGR, made by the Bell Core Research and bearing a strong resemblance to Plan 9's 8.5.

The tour also comes with a short overview of the $HOME MOVIE film authoring tool from 1990. There are many screenshots, a 40-minute long video with Mozart and Liszt, and a hard disk image for 86box.

Like, share, boost, comment <3

https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/mgr/

1984 - Geoffrey Hamilton
https://macthemes.garden/themes/462d91838016-1984