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mastodon 4.7.2Cartoon artist, developer, retro tech enthusiast. He/Him
From Vienna/Amsterdam!
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Joined November 14, 2022
2 Sketch commissions I finished yesterday!
Watching Star Trek Voyager with my partner, at Season 5 now and it's so enjoyable. Lots of great episodes, I wish there was still Star Trek like that.
TNG will always be my fav but VOY is a close second. DS9 is great but a bit too dark for my taste sometimes.
If you're an EU citizen, tell the EU you don't want the EU to support AI slop:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/18592-Artificial-intelligence-strategy-for-the-cultural-and-creative-sectors_en
If I had a dollar for every time VS code had a non-AI related bullet point in the release notes in the past months, I would have 0 dollars.
TIL freshwater jellyfish exist when I swam in a lake and they're really cute!
Working on important things. This will be a pooltoy and possibly a figurine at some point! If you're like "I must have one", poke me and I'll let you know how pre-ordering works!
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
🌡️ It’s hot across Europe right now.
When climate change that scientists warned us about for 30+ years hits, big actions matter: stop building f***ing AI data centers, invest more into renewables, re-forest, stop using oil
And did you know the EU is the perfect place to make these decisions?
It's hard to put into words, but does anyone else miss that cozy feel software used to have? Like.. MS Office 95-XP. You could really feel that people took care and pride in the code.
FOSS Software still has that feel, but I can't think of much commercial software that feels like care went into the UX.
I once read a paper about all the research and user testing done for the Windows 95 UI. And it stood the test of time imho.
Making sites look nice in lynx/links/w3m is also fun
Just found a beige whale on eBay: An Aironet (before Cisco bought it) Wireless AP with matching Cardbus card, both from 1999. I always wanted to make a pre-2000 wireless network! It's not officially 802.11b yet, but compatible! For 10$ a steal :)
Played some 3-player Four Swords at Starbucks yesterday.
I made a very cursed and unsafe contraption to cut foam. It consists of an electric knife, wood and whatever I had lying around.
All you need for a good time
If you use genAI in any shape or form in your art process, I'm not interested. Also please unfollow me.
Nur Neunziger Kinder werden sich erinnern.
I think everyone should know about Yellow Magic Orchestra
Finally, I can watch Computer Chronicles on the go.
We were blessed by baby ring-tailed lemurs at the Best Zoo today.
O2
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@alyx I do hope they end up at the Internet Archive and we'll soon have a lo-fi 35mm archiving stream!
i know that these days and are optional, but it feels way too wrong to not add it.
Got some treats for the isopods
A cute animated short about isopods
https://youtu.be/rqxklZO_vsA?is=3fqNtRQzh7RT1Wk2
Hey Fediverse, what is your best-practice for storing old phones/batteries I'd want to keep? I was thinking: used metal ammunition box, then each phone/battery inside a LiPo safe sleeve.
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Just treated myself to watching another recently discovered lost episode of Computer Chronicles, the Upside Internet Showcase 1998. I'd love to get my hands on 90s issues of Upside Magazine sometime, sadly there's almost nothing archived.
https://archive.org/details/cc1545_theinternetshowcase98
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@slimelia@tiny.tilde.website not yet, it's going to be on computerchronicles.com, which used to be the official domain in the early 00s. We managed to purchase it back thanks to donations.
Old Computer Magazines free to good home (Sinclair QL one is taken already). Can ship anywhere if you pay postage :)
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@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social happy to see almost all the data are completely wrong. Using Firefox with privacy plugins pays off.
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@soilseacht@cathode.church oh, the server just serves a different template if the user agent matches /^(?:Lynx|Links|w3m)/.
With html5, it is possible to do this of course and i have done this in the past, but the markup gets more hacky at the expense of accessibility, which I'm not willing to compromise
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@CursedSilicon that's the version i have! Plus the mouse and keyboard. Maybe i can dig it up and give it a try!
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@kkarhan@jorts.horse if you haven't seen this talk yet, it's SO GOOD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6JAi2gQosM
The Resolution Solution: A History of HDTV & Computing Technology | VCFMW 20 (2025)
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@kiwa i recently installed the last released winamp apk on my phone and all it does is crash. so much for backwards compatibility on android, pf.
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@soilseacht@cathode.church honestly, just very basic html. The ascii art is wrapped in
so whitespace gets preseved. The episode numbers are in tags, which lynx renders differently. centering works with the deprecated tag
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@kirb same with hn/a lot of blogs. Rather than exciting new algos/libraries/software it's now always "I did using Claude (and the result is mediocre!)"
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@sabrinkmann@hachyderm.io Ich glaub es ist was anderes, ich bekomme:
"code": "FST_ERR_VALIDATION",
"error": "Bad Request",
"message": "body/height must be <= 20"
Ich versuche mir ein A2 Wien Poster zu machen, Scale ist 50%, damit ganz Wien drauf passt.
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@kiwa@tiggi.es heics are annoying. Most package managers don't have versions of imagemagick that work well with heics. The best program for converting them is Irfanview.