Huh, #microsoft just open-sourced #6502 #basic. Permissive MIT licence, even. https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #programming

the us is a totalitarian power and has been for years. specifically a term called inverted totalitarianism. > Inverted totalitarianism: a concept describing a system where corporate economic powers subtly influence and control a government that appears democratic. Unlike traditional […]

Programmer Art: crude, crappy temporary graphics that you put in a game while you figure out if the mechanics are fun enough to bother finishing it and sorting out a proper artist before release Programmer Naming: a crude, crappy temporary name that you keep forever and ever amen, twenty years […]

Started working on a NSFW game with a friend literally right before Visa and MasterCard started pulling their bullshit. Which has just added another layer of things to worry about. Talking over things though, we realized that we can't be the only developers who might be looking into ways to […]

I was talking to someone yesterday (let's call them A) and they had another "AI" experience, I thought might happen but hadn't heard of before. They were interacting with an organization and upon asking a specific thing got a very specific answer. Weeks later that organization claimed it had […]

"geometry glitch in the map data, or just the Dutch again?"

1. Earlier this year, Trump erased transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument webpage, digitally burning the history we helped create. Now, he's doing the same to bisexual people. No marginalized group will be safe from the admin's moving targets. Subscribe to support our journalism.

[mental health, death] I hate having to deal with the death of a parent. Dealing with the passing of a loved one is hard enough already, and now I have to deal with the legal and financial affairs left behind. I have to shut off my emotions and focus on the concerns of the estate. Help support […]

"Transhumanism is second nature to us mastodon users, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows about dollposting and one or two dragon therians." "And a bunch of furries, of course." "Of course."

I’m done with trickle-down economics. I’m inventing piñata economics. That’s where we beat rich people with sticks until money falls out of them.

Looking back at the picture that got me kicked off tiktok by a bunch of homophobes a few years back. That was a fun time 😅 I still think Vegeta would be a strong supporter of pride in all its forms 🏳‍🌈

@[email protected] I think people should protest, but you may want to be careful what is on your phone. As you may recall, I work for Meta. We're currently spying on people. We are helping the government to identify people who were in the protest. We are currently helping identify people who […]

NPCs in most games: "by the nine, bandits have been sighted in this area" NPCs in #pokemon games: "I like to put my magnemite in my mouth so his electric charge goes like ZzzZzzZZzz" There are 0 normal people in Pokemon

"you have 3 new friend requests" wtf a whole ass polycule all at once

We called off #pride Now it’s gay wrath month

Ok, I just installed linux and the experience sucked. Everything worked at the first try, even in advance mode all was flawless. This is not the experience I remember, where is the need to spend 4 hrs figuring how why the wifi card is not working, or trying 30 different configurations of X […]

Want to talk about the economics of global warming? Around 100 companies are responsible for over 70% of the world's toxic fossil fuel emissions. Take away their massive externalised cost subsidies, including global warming disasters, and the fossil fuel industry is not even viable anymore.

good news, everyone, we figured out how to define intelligence

Blargh... Roommate left one of the windows open last night to air out the house and forgot to close it. Now it's cold, the humidifier ran dry, and only 30% humidity in my bedroom. My _skin_ hurts. My skin should not hurt! ​:neocat_cry:​

like a year ago, i found out that you could overwrite the NFC tags in panera, so i wrote a record that just sends me a text when someone puts their phone down

Some good news for the artists out there: OpenAI considers Glaze and Nightshade, tools that can poison their training models, to be _abuse_. That's right. OpenAI, the company that steals other people's art, thinks that artists trying to protect their works from being stolen is abuse. That's […]

saw somebody refer to linux users as "always either dwarven or trans girls" and had a stupid idea for a drawing.

If an employer ever asks you to resign, tell them "no". There is no benefit to resigning unless you have another job lined to already. Make them fire you. Get your unemployment benefits. Make sure you are legally protected in case of malfeasance. Resigning undermines all of that. This […]