The C64 Ultimate is a delightful recreation of the computer I grew up with. https://www.commodore.net/product-page/commodore-64-ultimate-basic-beige-batch1 #commodore64 #nostalgia

Anyone know of some simple, clean, example code for interfacing with MIDI (both sending and receiving) via the #pipewire APIs? My instinct is to just avail myself of libusb_detach_kernel_driver() and talking to USB MIDI devices directly, but maybe the modern Linux interfaces for doing this […]

Dear ImGui looks as convenient as ever, though, also, still lacks a standard affordance for being lazy about updates when nothing's happening. Not the end of the world, but every time I use it for something I wish that existed. (There are some issues/gists/patches/etc that accomplish at least […]

Is there a modern, simple Linux commandline sandboxing tool (ideally not requiring root, selinux or any other fancy privileges) to run a program with only stdin/stdout access? For example -- if I want to run some image conversion tooling on untrusted uploads? I'd assume this is buildable using […]

I think I'm getting better, but I think maybe I've also been lucky, or am going to experience a difficulty gradient further up the ladder, since the stats sites say this deck has ~%55 win rate whereas it's been nearly 70% for me so far. It's certainly exceeded expectations! #magicarena

Diving back into Magic Arena (it's been a couple years), and having fun with this Mono Black Demons deck I saw. At least for best-of-one low level ranked play it's not bad, and it's been pretty fun sorting out how to best use all the bits […] [Original post on chaos.social]

For long form webcomic enjoyers, Evan Dahm's 3rd Voice just concluded its second volume, so there are now 814 pages of post-apocalyptic second-world fantasy adventure for you to enjoy (or revisit!): https://rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/ (A few pages from near the […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Okay, Mastodon grumble time. The post/reply UI now has a big 'ol "Public, anyone can quote" widget that you click on to get a dialog box with two different drop-down lists to control public/private/etc and quotability, which feels way clunkier (and involves much more clicking) than just having […]

The alternate-universe-90s setting in Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake has some fantastic computers. #tv #fionnaandcake

I am probably old fashioned, but running into an open source commandline tool written in C that "requires" meson and ninja to build, in order to accomplish the equivalent of... $ gcc -o tool main.c -lone -ltwo ...seems like maybe just a bit of overkill to me. #oldmanyellingatcloud

Having not experienced any Metroid property since Super Metroid, I am apparently out of the loop on this week's Metroid Discourse. Though apparently Samus was Raised by Birds? (Not something new, just a Metroid thing I only learned of today).

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

Timberborn is very satisfying. The Great Works go well. #gaming #Timberborn

Wanted: some kind of corporate vehicle (maybe some sort of co-op thing?) that enables me to get functional health insurance, maybe share other resources like a bit of office/work space, etc, but without signing up to do any work other than my own personal projects. Surely doable somehow, no? I […]

Trying out Whiskerwood (in Early Access), which is very much a Colony Builder, emphasis on Colony, down to colonists and supplies being dropped off by ship and regular ships to collect oppressive taxes on everything... #gaming #whiskerwood

[uspol - NYC mayoral election 2025] Full Mamdani Victory Speech for anyone that didn't catch it last night. It's a good speech and he's a great speaker. Yesterday's elections were very encouraging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAIeD3SU4oU

I am tempted to change credit card companies because it seems that every time Chase thinks my browser has changed, they SMS me a 2FA code, and then they force me to call them and provide CC#/SSA/name/address/etc to get *another* code, and then they actually let me login. This happens roughly […]

With the new season of Fionna and Cake airing, I've found myself watching some old Adventure Time episodes, first to refresh myself on Huntress Wizard lore, then just to revisit some old favorites. Wow, "I Remember You" (S04E25) still hits so hard. What a show. #adventuretime #fionnaandcake #tv

Tinkering with a gdscript tool script to automate the importing of mesh libraries for 3d gridmaps, because there is no way I'm going to re-do this all by hand every time I add or modify an item in a mesh library. Getting the basics working was not bad (found various discussions of this issue […]

did you know ITU has a document with the exact frequencies of dialtones and busy tones for every region? https://www.itu.int/ITU-T/inr/forms/files/tones-0203.pdf very useful for getting modem handshakes period- and region-correct

Became aware of this really slick 70ns 5v 256K DIP ROM emulator today, thanks to a friend who's using it for a hardware project. https://github.com/wickerwaka/PicoROM #tools #projects #rom

Oh, awesome, an inventory space upgrade! Ha, survival horror strikes again. #gaming #silenthillf

Everything's better with a naginata. #gaming #silenthillf

Random Broken Immersion: Silent Hill f features detailed power lines run from pole to pole, attached *between* the ceramic insulator and the wooden crossbar. "Wow they really modeled these in detail... oh... but they don't understand how they work..." #gaming #silenthillf #brokenimmersion

Okay, I guess now I need to actually start compiling some code to run on the RP2350... (Thanks again, @wren6991) #projects #xdebug

Figures that build system changes to allow flash agents to have more than one source file (because I hate gcc inline assembly) would end up being the biggest headache...

It is amazing the differences in the ease of getting questions on RP2350 boot and debug answered quickly and helpfully as just some random guy on a social media site vs the experience getting support from Qualcomm while doing Android kernel/systems lead stuff at Google. I feel like this does […]

Augh, the ARM v8-M Architecture Reference Manual is so hateful. The register docs are in alphabetical order BY REGISTER NAME across EVERY REGISTER IN THE SYSTEM. Group them by which peripheral they belong to? Hah. Of course not. That would actually be useful.

Getting closer... flash agent code is running on the pico2 under debug but blows up when I attempt to call into the ROM to look up ROM functions needed for flash operations. Landing at the infinite loop fault handler at 0x2f8. Odd to not just get an error. Possibly bad machine state for calling […]

Heya, @wren6991, does rPi publish a canonical list of TARGETIDs somewhere? I'm curious if *all* RP2040 family parts will be 0x01002927 and *all* RP2350 family will be 0x00040927, or if product ID and revision vary among existing shipping parts. Every time I work on SWD debug tooling, I end up […]

Parsing CoreSight ROM Tables, as one does. The thing I love about ARM documentation is their firm belief that one should never keep related information like base addresses, register offsets, register definitions, theory of operation, and expected register values too close together. Most […]

Oops. Found an infinite recursion that could happen when trying to clear error bits after a SWD/DAP transaction failure. Fixed. Think I need to add a full transaction log for debugging the debugger so when things go off the rails I can look back and see *exactly* what DAP transactions and […]

Bulk read/write rates seem reasonable... > setclock .16 > download random 20000000 download: sending 32768 bytes... download: 68716 uS -> 476861 B/s > upload check 20000000 8000 upload: reading 32768 bytes... upload: 67353 uS -> 486511 B/s #projects #xdebug #pico2

A Mastodon Appreciation Post I just replaced a video attachment on an existing post to improve the quality of a looping video. Meanwhile That Other Network still hasn't discovered editing a post's text after the fact. Nor has That Network That Some Asshole Bought During His Midlife Crisis […]

Does *this* loop?

Guess if I'm going to do some RP2350 tinkering, it's time to dust off the rewrite of my SWD debugger/programmer I started a while back, verify that it's happy with RP2350, fix it if not, and look into adding RISC-V debug support, perhaps. Biggest changes in xdebug from its predecessor, mdebug […]

This was satisfying! I guess THE REAL HADES II STARTS HERE. #hades2 #gaming

Been thinking about the RP2350 as the core of some fun little sustainable computing devices/projects. Two 150MHz cores, 520K SRAM, and megabytes of QSPI flash is pretty generous. Using the PMUs, etc, one could isolate the cores from each other a bit, having one act as kernel/ioservices via […]

Social Network Feature Request: I'd like to be able to group people I follow and apply rules to reply-visibility on posts of specific groups (say high-traffic journalist/politician/celeb/etc accounts) like "only show replies from people *I* follow" to help filter out excessive noise and nonsense […]

Last October I was introduced to One Cut of the Dead, a 2017 Japanese indie zombie comedy horror movie. Given that it is the season once again for spooky movies, I figured I should remind folks that this amazing little film exists, is a whole bunch of fun, and […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Discussion about "how much is a lot of memory" has me once again reflecting on the fact that my current desktop machine for gaming has 50% more on-chip cache (30MB) than my first machine with a hard drive had total disk storage (20MB). (It was a 12MHz 80286 with 2MB ram and a 720x348x1bpp […]

I've been using wanikani to learn (and sometimes relearn) kanji and vocabulary for the past year or so, which has been pretty effective at steadily increasing my coverage. Now diving into https://renshuu.org to start spending time reviewing and expanding my extremely rusty grammar. Liking it a […]

I'm very amused by these END OF HIRAGANA and GOOD OLD HIRAGANA t-shirts in Girl Meets Rock... #manga #girlmeetsrock #japanese

The past few years have been good for girls-in-bands anime and manga, and Girl Meets Rock is right up there. Chihiro may be the main character, but Rin is clearly the best character. #manga #girlmeetsrock

today's software preservation task one of the great crimes of the 21st century was that Mark Jones' (Core Design) Darkmere - an isometric adventure-RPG for the amiga - was poorly visually documented by the usual places like lemonamiga/mobygames/etc. perhaps for […] [Original post on dialup.cafe]

Over on Bluesky people are upset about some (once again) shitty moderation decisions and once again the bsky folks are citing their "open protocol" as a magic solution, ignoring the fact that without non-bsky-operated instances that folks can migrate to, it's […] [Original post on chaos.social]

A bit bummed out about some brutal platforming stuff while still in Act I of Silksong. Not my cup of tea and not something I had to contend with in Hollow Knight until very late game (and then there were charms that mitigated it). Love so much about the game but the difficulty is a bit much for […]

[Silksong Spoilers: Boss Battle, Mid-Act-I] Took me something like 40 attempts to finally defeat Sister Splinter in Shellwood. Now I finally have a new traversal method, so time to revisit all the places! Yay. Video of someone Not Good (me) flailing their way through this fight, for posterity […]

I'm enjoying Silksong, but wow it is *hard* for me in ways that I'm not sure even late game Hollow Knight was. Clearly I am old and frail, but I would really love a difficulty level that reduces the (to my mind) absurd amount of health many enemies have a bit. #gaming #silksong

It is good to be adventuring in bug world again. #gaming #silksong