✈️Burbank’s control tower temporarily closed overnight due to staffing shortages. As the government shutdown continues, will this continue? Maybe. In 2023, nearly half of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s 290 facilities were understaffed. Burbank Tower was 100% staffed.

Rewrote my #SGDK / #segagenesis raycaster again. This time to get rid of the Toy Story mirroring. The FPS dropped of course. But I think I'd rather run 10 to 13 FPS without mirroring the screen than run 15 to 20 with mirroring. There's still some optimizing I can do, so maybe 15~ish is possible.

Pleasant surprise today. I bought this Atari 400 about a decade ago off goodwill. I assumed it was 16k and forgot all about it. Remembered it today and was thinking I’d mod it with more memory. Looks like it’s already been modded.

NEW: Our very own @liaholland.bsky.social digs in with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social about the political campaign against VPNs + how to fight back.

ChatGPT just told me to read my own code to learn about Pseudo 3D roads

Moar retro networking. #fujinet and #retrolink When I get back to this I'll probably rewrite the Atari version in C or Assembly. Fastbasic is nice, but I'm interested in trying out other languages with the fujinet. youtu.be/oDibgAlDus4

Trying a different approach to rendering textures. #segagenesis

Today’s the VPN defense day of action! @fightforthefuture.org’s @liaholland.bsky.social tells @techradar.com: “ it’s important to make lawmakers aware that, if they come for this technology, they're gonna be facing an uphill battle against the whole internet." www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

Friend and fellow #FujiNet hacker @FozzTexx turned a #TRS80CoCo into an OSC (Open Sound Control) instrument via #FujiNet for #SepTandy! video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Aej... blog: www.insentricity.com/a.cl/293/jam... #retrocomputing

We promise this pandemic was only virtual. 20 years ago, an unexpected event in the online game "World of Warcraft" caught the attention of players and researchers. A new dungeon introduced a boss whose special attack temporarily drained a player’s health and could spread to others nearby. 🧵⬇️ (1/3)

The Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection enters Earthrealm on October 30th for PC & consoles.🐉 Wishlist: https://link.atari.com/MKLKollection

As it turns out, it's trivially easy to make a #fujinet talk to a Python webserver (with python-chess) in front of Stockfish. No need for me to move my valid-move code to a webserver. I POST moves and GET the current board. I should be able to make both my A8 and SGDK chess boards talk to this.

A few tips and a cautious mindset can help protect you against some, but not all malware. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

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Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

It took a little bit of work, but I got #fujinet to build in Fedora and run with the #atari800 emulator

Woot

Worst steam purchase evah!

Practicng pixel work with #ProMotionNG.

Playing with #ProMotionNG. Hope to get back to #SGDK and #retro.link programming soon ~ish

I ain't got no body.

More raycasting tests with #SGDK. My speed isn't great, but I think I can do more optimizing for the sprites and maybe the walls. If I can get it to run between 15 and 20 FPS I'll try adding networking with retrolink.

TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly: Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time! github.com/FFmpeg/asm-l...

Trying raycasting again youtu.be/viGHLhuKa-E

A little more progress: youtu.be/1ADDiBycN1M #SGDK #retrolink

I was going through some old boxes and found some paintings and drawings from decades ago. When I get back to the light-gun game I'll have to make this one of the Baddies.

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Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them.

U.S. Government agencies have been ordered to enact sweeping takedowns of information— but technologists, librarians, and open access organizations have mobilized a preservation effort.

Playing with low color palettes and #ProMotionNG

Finally here

Getting back into #segagenesis #SGDK development. Spent the afternoon setting it up in Fedora and updating my example code to work with SGDK 2.0.

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