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She/Her or It/It's, trans to the people who know me. I'm less active here, oh well...
@charlotte i recently realised we would have had much less issues with string escaping if we had used french guillemets from the start («v=«text text» + w») whilst allowing them to be nested. only loose » would have had to be escaped
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The traditional gift for a tech girl who just got her orchi?

Optical mice, of course.

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Featuring the always lovely Reyna ( @reyna )

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A joke that's been circulating:

Brian Thompson’s death has gotten more coverage than United HealthCare ever provided.

I don't know its provenance, but it's too good to not share.

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I hate to link shackaday, but whilst digging in documentation for the TV guardian I noticed a mention of a settop box that translated english to spanish imperfectly in real time? https://hackaday.com/2021/05/27/history-of-closed-captions-entering-the-digital-era/#real-time-translating-from-spanish

@foone is that already in your possession, and do you happen to have that reverse engineered already?
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when i was a kid, you could build a simple game or application by dragging and dropping a few UI controls, and gluing them together with a few dozen lines of BASIC or Pascal or HyperTalk. it might take 15 minutes, at most, to get your little character walking around on the screen. this is how we ended up with a lot of hilariously good and cheap shareware you could share on BBSes in the 90s.

for the past year i've been quietly working on building a software thingie that doesn't exist anymore. i've been building a software toolkit that's kinda like Visual Basic and HyperCard and Borland Delphi, designed for making tile-based 2d games.

i've been using it to build my own little goofy games, and improving on the drag'n'drop IDE as i figuring things out. it's not done yet, and has a long ways to go before it's ready for other people to start making their own little applications and games. think PICO-8 or ZZT if they had grown up on a steady diet of Windows 3.1 and GeoWorks Ensemble instead.

i'm really, really bad about polishing turds to infinity and never releasing them. to break that habit, i've built a mini-website for the IDE/Shareware Creation Kit. it's called Exigy, named like a bad 80s metal hair band or richard garriott game.

https://exigy.org

i'll be posting weekly blog/devlog updates there, so i don't irritate anyone with them on this account. there is an rss feed button at the top right if you hate my demonic php and css.

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IP Address: 51.68.173.17
Port: 5900
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Hesse 🇩🇪
ASN: AS16276 OVH SAS
Client Name: roller <3 kittynunu
Hostname: hugs.and.cuddles.voxelmanip.se
ComputerNewb ID: 55908448
https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse/#id/55908448

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This was a fun PR description to write: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/118736

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in the end i will probably not do the high speed rails. i will conquer germany by slow trains only. and the TGV, that'll be for a next time.

(no i still haven't driven a high-speed train ever in my life, despite having lived in france for years)
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It's a cozy evening in December, so you should put some socks on 🐯

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Friend: Why do developers use mechanical keyboards?

Me: A mechanical keyboard could help developers type more quickly and more accurately.

Friend: No. Developers use mechanical keyboards to *strongly* type their code.

Me: Get out.

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Cursed Windows fact: you can activate keyboard shortcuts even if you press the keys on different keyboards

More cursed: this triggers the release of the first key separately, so Win+R opens the run dialog when pressing R, and then the start menu when releasing the Windows key.

(In the video, I only test this with the start key on the laptop keyboard, but that’s just because I can’t show the other way while holding a camera. The behavior is the same, I promise.)

Paging @foone

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hello!

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If you're not sure if your Fediverse instance has blocked Threads:

https://fedipact.veganism.social/

You can use this tool to find out! :3

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protip: for the price of a small fursuit, you can instead get a minilab film processor installed in your home!
https://minilablaser.com/fujifilm-fp232b/
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@maruno @dalite i do not take the traject often enough, but i see the new dude too little for a train that is supposed to replace the old dude by next year.

also, i randomly had a koploper once time in the south, which was weird but cool
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@maruno @dalite what se is new 😁 for how many years shall the traxx keep running that line
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shoutouts @foone for demonstrating an edge case in my mastodon-client code by posting in a Really Long Thread

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