Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

This article is very uncomfortable to read. https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

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.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700217

The FTC is officially banning hidden junk fees from hotel and ticket prices https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/17/24323274/ftc-hidden-junk-fees-ban-hotel-ticket-prices

This guy is embarrassing https://www.404media.co/wordpress-login-pineapple-on-pizza/

Amazing what these Arm processors can do.

Wtf?! This is apparently an x86 camera with its own DOS. 😯
https://youtu.be/xdHYebGiFZk?si=qvFMnjlqRobKo-I6

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.)

The Unicode Consortium announces release 17.2.0 of the Unicode standard.

A. Summary

41 new Emoji characters have been added, most notably:

◦ The smell of rain
◦ The feeling of being asked to remove your headphones on public transport by a stranger hitting on you (U+F0AD)
◦ The sound of standing on your spectacles while trying to locate them in the dark
◦ 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

ABSTRACT/ALICE.GIF

Santatron 2024 is a brand new game for the Amiga inspired by the classic Robotron. Clear rooms of enemies and saves elves to go to the next level. Just a really solid arcade game and fun excuse to fire up my Amiga emulator (WinUAE). Available as Pay-What-You-Want

https://nivrig.itch.io/santatron-2024

SATURN TIP YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEEDED: Afraid to change your save battery because you don't want to lose your saves? The Saturn can keep saves while it's on even if there’s no battery in, and it's safe to swap the battery while it's running. Just turn your Saturn on first, then swap the battery without turning it off. Your saves will still be there, safe and sound, and you get another two years of save memory life.

Another person criticized me for promoting my Patreon. Let me put this into perspective. People spent $74.6 million to see the 2019 film Cats in theaters. At the current rate, it would take 34,158 years for my project to bring in as much money as Cats. I like to think Low Quality Facts provides at least as much entertainment value as Cats, a film which one critic described as "The worst thing to happen to cats since dogs".
In conclusion, here's my Patreon:
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Important reminder, if you own a domain name and don't use it for sending email.

There is nothing to stop scammers from sending email claiming to be coming from your domain. And the older it gets, the more valuable it is for spoofing. It could eventually damage your domain's reputation and maybe get it blacklisted, unless you take the steps to notify email servers that any email received claiming to come from your domain should be trashed.

Just add these two TXT records to the DNS for your domain:
TXT v=spf1 -all
TXT v=DMARC1; p=reject;

The first says there is not a single SMTP server on earth authorized to send email on behalf of your domain. The second says that any email that says otherwise should be trashed.

If you do use your domain for sending email, be sure to add 3 records:
SPF record to indicate which SMTP server(s) are allowed to send your email.
DKIM records to add a digital signature to emails, allowing the receiving server to verify the sender and ensure message integrity.
DMARC record that tells the receiving email server how to handle email that fails either check.

You cannot stop scammers from sending email claiming to be from your domain, any more than you can prevent people from using your home address as a return address on a mailed letter. But, you can protect both your domain and intended scam victims by adding appropriate DNS records.

#cybersecurity #email #DomainSpoofing #EmailSecurity #phishing