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@jupiter@mastodon.gamedev.place there are remarkably few banknotes with Western style winged dragons on them. One that comes to mind is the 5 mark note issued by imperial Germany in 1904

@JanPV@mastodon.social If anyone's going, let me know if this cat is still there. When I went in 2019, he had clearly staked out a position where everyone walking from Kew Gardens station to the archive had to stop and appreciate him.

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk @Hex@kolektiva.social No, let's not do that. I grew up in Arizona and recall my father showed me a mother scorpion carrying its young on its back. It didn't rely on an underpaid au-pair or toss the scorplings into a day care so it could spend 200 hours/week pumping the stock price of Stinger Industries LLC. So the venomous arthropods understand basic care for their own kind better than the Bunker Class. We can probably find a more witty-ironic plan like sealing the vents with molten gold anyway.

@karlauerbach@sfba.social @cavyherd@wandering.shop "One does not forget to carry one's biometrics". Except they're inaccessible on VERY common use cases like "desktop PC without webcam" or "public kiosk". So we have to do terrible Rube Goldberg flows for non-smartphone users. I really don't want my digital life centered around a delicate theft-target device that's mostly a vector for funneling personal data to an American bigtech. TOTP 2FA can be run on a freaking Commodore 64. Emailed codes are tech-agnostic.

@dey The SRE team at us-east-1 pops the champagne and drops the banner saying "it's not us this time!"

@neilsardesai@mastodon.social Weren't there some systems (I'm thinking Lotus Notes) where the masking for the password field was made of glyphs derived from the keys already pressed? This was a sort of accessibility hint-- if you saw the *pattern* you were used to you know you didn't drop or double a keystroke, even if it didn't provide visibility for the raw data. You could like sha256 the content of the field, then map the result onto a collection of emoji, for a similar effect.

@FlohEinstein Okay, @netkitty is clearly on the standards track.

@NikTheDusky How is it done?! Ironically, I sent the morning fiddling with a laser engraver trying to burn through dye on the outer layer of keycaps to get a similar white-on-black look. With the right materials, it's sort of doable with home gear, but not in a repeatable quality way like that. But I doubt someone called up a commercial vendor for this.

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social That's what the alternatives need to sell: independent, scoped communities and identities. My "vintage audio" friend group doesn't need to know my "gay otaku" friend group. There are appropriate individual fora for each. The big lacking space is that nobody built a decent family-oriented community space. Meta did it by accident by onboarding everyone, but there's not a friendly story for self-hosting and no non-skeevy commercial play.

@fasterandworse "It's not Chromium" matters to technical people who understand that a monoculture steered by an adtech is a bad thing. That's a complex technical argument. For the mainstream audience, you still need to provide some sizzle. Some of that can be jiu-jitsuing the opposition's bad moves (keeping ad blockers as first-class citizens) but you should have something exciting in the pipeline.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I see the Realtek card was one of those Asus Evangelion crossovers. Eva 4.0.32-ubuntu12: You can (not) lag.

@me@jaehanley.social so it wasn't the lack of legs after all.

@robertcarlson@mastodon.gamedev.place maybe that was a reasonable selling point at one point though. The pre-AI-bubble sales pitch for early DLSS/FSR/XeSS was "This lowend graphics card can't deliver 60/144/42069 frames per second at the desired resolution reliably, but we can fake it because smooth motion is a better experience than visual fidelity." The image will exist for 16ms or less, so you're not expected to perform deep critical analysis on the ghosts that the machine added to the original art direction.

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space Certain "feelie" aspects are definitive. One of the reasons the 5150 won was that it had an very good screen and keyboard for the time. I wonder how we can convey this information in emulated world? Are identifying and capturing everything we'd need while we can? Even if we make a shader that captures the idiosyncracies of a specific IBM 5151, will a 45-year-old tube today match the exact behaviour it had in 1981? Will the new Model F keyboards replicate the original?

@dashdsrdash@tilde.zone that's why I have something like 15 keyboard PCBs in my house. Now I don't have to hope that they'll keep making what I want.