Every photo I take is done practically with very little digital work, using household items to create special effects like cotton wool for fire & foil for water. Each set is meticulously set up for just the one scene then dismantled so I can set up another scene. Thanks for helping me keep going.

l'épouse de François Hommeril devrait s'appeler Femmeril

J'ai étudié le nombre de jours passés à Matignon par tous les Premiers Ministres de Macron, et je peux vous affirmer que le prochain gouvernement durera très exactement 2 jours, 11 heures et 27 minutes

France is very good at not having a government these days

In the Super Mario Galaxy games, the staff credits text is always loaded into RAM despite not being needed until the ending. While horribly inefficient, this is inadvertently heartwarming as the games appear to honor their creators by keeping them in memory at all times.

arisotura.dreamwidth.org/3267.html felt like writing a post about hobbies and how I relate to them

hot take: the stock market is a gigantic scheme of financial self-masturbation that doesn't represent anything meaningful

vintage radio update: it lives! and I mean, it's actually receiving radio stations guess having the right tubes helps

received my order today, and everything is fine my suspicion was confirmed: the seller sent this as part of a batch of orders and gave me the wrong tracking number. the right one was only two letters off.

sent Wed, tracking says it arrived Sat 8:48, nothing in mailbox I think the seller provided the wrong tracking number (mail man doesn't come this early here) but this is concerning

With ADHD, instead of building routines, everything stays a conscious effort for me.

We should make publishers legally liable for damage caused by ads they host

vintage radio update: EF89 tubes were missing at some point, replaced with an EF86 (different pinout, not compatible) and a tube with no markings which seems to be an ECH81 (not even the same type of tube) no idea what happened there we also have a GT12AY7 (ECC81) in place of an ECC85...

dude argues he has a "light skin tone" but he's black

maybe July/August are just a shitty time for jobhunting. now things are getting different. hopefully this will work out

Sometimes I feel like a ghost, unable to make meaningful changes to my life, while not being believed when I tell people how much I try.

they got their own carpool system

imagine a slot machine where you lose hundreds of times in a row if someone was playing it hundreds of times, never stopping, we'd call that pathologic. "that person is addicted to gambling" "they must be desperate" etc why would jobhunting be different?

apropos of nothing at all, the nobles who got guillotined in the french revolution had more of a sense of social responsibility than much of corporate america has today; if only because they realized their vanity projects still needed to serve the people in some capacity to actually help their image

did I mention? this is what the radio's circuitry is like. no PCB, all point to point. people who have seen this have been either amused or horrified, or both.

psychedelics are still as fascinating and interesting as ever but I wish they were less harsh on the stomach

I have a personal blog btw arisotura.dreamwidth.org I talk about things more in detail

I'll just leave this important reminder here, useful for whenever you share anything as a link. (The image in the quoted post doesn't have alt text but there's a link to the reddit post it's screenshotted from in the replies of the post.)

She lives! Capacitors replaced, audio amplifier works quite well now. Radio receiver still not working (likely due to having the wrong tubes...)

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

the code is there btw, for those who are curious github.com/Arisotura/wu...

now with sound!!!!! I had to change the audio amplifier's config to make it run at 32KHz (instead of the standard 48KHz). heh

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status update from wup wifi card adventures: running some very basic rendering code on it, benchmarking things to figure out how to best lay this out. it's not powerful enough to render a full screen at 60fps, but I can offload some of the work to it.

Hey Firefox users.

me: hm I finished the DSP HLE branch for melonDS, now what can I do... angel on my shoulder: how about we work on some form of netplay, or something else devil on my shoulder: how about we run custom code on a wifi card

I wish treatment worked for me. well, it works for like one week and a half, then it just brings out the absolute worst emotions. so, not great...

paraphrased and mangled, but: "we didn't have to panic or crunch or any of that because we had a solid foundation of money that paid for our entire dev cycle" maybe we should just give people money to do shit so people stop having to worry about it. seems to help the creative process

In Super Mario 64, there is a 1/256 chance of a fish spawning when Mario jumps out of water anywhere. However, during development, the fish were instead restricted to a single spot in Whomp's Fortress, which spawned them continuously in the form of a bountiful fountain of fish.

I hate structure but I also can't live without structure, how do you solve this??

so I get recommended by a friend for a job "thank you! her profile aligns very well with the position" you'd think they'd atleast give me a chance? nope. canned rejection letter, once again. fucking bullshit, do they expect to hire Albert Fucking Einstein or what

branch dsp_hle is ready to be merged into melonDS this brings: * DSP HLE, much more efficient * DSP audio output and mic input * DSi mic support (about time) * smarter mic support in general (only opens mic access when needed instead of all the time)

modern software is like we took capitalism's logic and applied it to software. grow, grow, who cares about resources is there more RAM available? yes -> hog it, rinse and repeat no -> crash and burn

no idea WHAT changed but now I'm finding that building melonDS is like playing Russian roulette will it go through? will it decide to eat all the RAM and crash the entire system? it wasn't like this before. why

in the end I made melonDS resample everything to 47KHz always much easier to deal with

DSi supports setting the audio sample rate to 32K or 47K and supporting that kind of fun switch is going to be Not Fun

in recent news: company: "we are interested in your profile!" makes me do 3 tests makes me do 4 interviews asks me for references all signals good then "sorry we decided not to go forward with you" fuck you, company.

I genuinely wonder how many people would put up with job hunting if it wasn't, you know, a requirement to live.

this, so much. (if your website do this to me I will fill in your contact email)

big flashcart doesn't want you to know this but you can literally just solder an eeprom to the memory bus

to disable the fucking AI chatbot in Firefox: * go to about:config * set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false

the melonDS HQ presents: the worst MP4 player ever the point was to figure out how the AAC decoder ucode (found in the DSi sound app) works

"these features that worked just fine on their own now get lumped in with AI. if you refuse AI, these features are taken away." fuck you, Google