Aubrey @yaodema@cybre.space

As a related topic, I was thinking of making a patreon or similar service for @vga_dreams to help pay for finding software, with some funding goals for more posts. Additionally, there will be no patreon early/exclusive content in any way.

Please @ me if you are interested or object to such a thing.

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The Spaceworld 1997 demo of Pokemon Gold has been released. We're still working on extensive documentation and research, but in the mean time you can play around with this.

Future plans are an English translation, as well as releasing the other versions.

https://tcrf.net/Proto:Pok%C3%A9mon_Gold_and_Silver

The ROM won't run as-is, but the article has details on fixing the header, and there's a document with most of the other details and some translations.

http://crossedwires.irisjay.net/?comic=02-116 A NEW #CROSSEDWIRES UPDATE IS LIVE! Mickee and the Charlatans continue to find new ways to be total pricks. Will Drakken survive? Will Ana's pair of aces in the hole be enough to stop them? #webcomic

i think a big divide in the way that people are expected to behave (which we see a lot on the internet) may basically come down to how you define "respect"

a lot of people think "i respect this person" means "i try to treat this person how i would want to be treated"

whereas a lot of other people think "i respect this person" means "i try to treat this person how they want to be treated"

i personally prefer the latter. but you see lots of people who don't!

looking at the latest hn thread about mastodon and seeing at least a half-dozen people who are essentially saying: "i went on mastodon and the people on there were behaving in a kind and respectful way, and it was too stressful to make myself behave in a kind and respectful way too, so i left"

weirds me out so much when i read stuff like this. like gives me a massive huge "unknowability of the other" feeling

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

Twitter: increasingly draconian attempts to wipe out third-party app ecosystem

Mastodon: someone made an app for mid-00's PDAs https://github.com/NattyNarwhal/PocketToot (source: https://cronk.stenoweb.net/@calvin/99937490127548729)

I turned my big "Computers should be more user centric" thread in to a blog post: http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

local enby setting unrealistic expectations for our youth about how many swords they can carry at one time

in a few minutes i'm going to reboot into my violently purple windows 98 install so if you wanna watch that now's a good time to hop in probably

https://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_

q: Are there any particular bits of game archaeology you've done that you're particularly proud of?

a: (it's long.) https://retrospring.net/Xkeeper/a/20729

"The system worked as designed. The issue was that the system we designed wasn't good."

If everyone in tech could admit the same about their broken systems, the world would be a lot better off.

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can i just say, "...(aka Ellipsis)" is a must-have mod that nobody seems to know about
it doesn't have a 1.12.2 version yet but like
basically it just has sound cancelers

so for example: this cobblegen? silent
this portal? doesn't make the wibbly wobbly noises

it's honestly so simple but so nice

the lesbian flag looks like it wants to thank me for playing the shareware episode and tell me how to order the full version diskette

Mastodon is great but it's not the right tool for your most secret of secret messages.

@noelle added some important info to her excellent Introduction to Mastodon: https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/74f6e6c0f349651349a0df9ae4582969#how-private-is-private

Short version: Private messages are not encrypted or secure.

If you want secure private messaging that even the admins can't read, Signal is the best option. (https://www.signal.org/)

Always remember there is no perfect security. It's all about tradeoffs.

watch out, for the OPOSS

I want everything to be calm and happy.
I want everyone I know to be able to feel safe and not ever need to worry. https://botsin.space/media/QoMPi4BCgkmYLo73NLw

hello, i had an adventure porting some c++ to rust https://eev.ee/blog/2018/03/30/a-geometric-rust-adventure/