FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I'm trying to render a frame of Doom on paper. yes this is a normal thing to do

heh, wireshark,

The venerable diagramming app Dia has a strict anti-AI policy. That's enough of a reason for me to give it another try.

Mozilla are pathetic, Firefox is back to posting on X/Twitter.

Mozilla have started posting on X again, the same day Mullvad posted their statement of intent to continue to be ok with funding fascism. Mullvad powers the Mozilla VPN service.
Brothers in harms.

much like bicycles and sex, basketballs are a conspiracy by Big Rubber to sell more rubber. and I'm on their payroll

saw this weird and quintessentially Seattle event flyer on a random Telegram channel and feel that someone i know would find this interesting

It’s like taking candy from a fish in a barrel

Holy moly, apparently Minecraft has switched to SDL3: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4

instead of "autistic masking" it should be called cloaking. á la star trek. it eats a lot of power, you can't use all your systems while you're doing it, and you only ever need it to get through enemy territory alive

And they call it ‘progress’

I call it unnecessary destruction

@jakehamilton - a general use programming language with both a plaintext-based representation and a node-based visual representation that can be switched between at will, as an easier onramp for non programmers to learn the skills and get useful / fun things done on a computer
- a gamelike "learn computing concepts" interactive primer written in said language
- version control for non programmers that's usable for text as well as binary files, eg images, audio/video etc

Imagine there was a software collective. A group of people that collaborated on different projects, helped each other, and built a better future together. What would you do? What would you work on? What would you contribute?

This isn't a hypothetical. Fedi, please add your own reply and boost this post for reach (thank you in advance). I want to find the people that believe such a thing is possible and want to be a part of it.

are WINE's bundled EXEs and DLLs real? depends!

if you build with MingW available: yes! and many of the apps work on Windows!

if you don't: nope, they're stubs and the real implementations live in .so files

they differ in filesize and the signature you can see in a hex editor

here's what I wound up with from my toying with it