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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
This is a good explanation of what the deal is with the color palette and artefacting on older Apple IIs. https://paleotronic.com/2018/10/03/apple-ii-colour-computer-graphics/
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I still wanna focus on IIGS stuff for now but the distinctive look of older apple ii models is also really good in the right hands
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- Screencap of the Apple II Game 221b Baker Street. White text on black background with the Apple II's characteristic green and purple fringing effects at the edges of the letters. The text reads, "Character Selection Screen. Mark, select 1, 2, 3, or 4. 1 - Sherlock Holmes. 2 - Doctor Watson. 3 - Inspector Lestrade. 4 - Irene Adler." Next to each character name is a small full-body rendering of the character and then a close-up of their face. Sherlock is drawn in blue, orange and white, Watson the same. Lestrade is drawn in white, green and violet, and Irene Adler in green white and orange.
- A screencap from the same game, this time showing Watson standing on a boardgame-like map of a city drawn in roughly oblique projection. He's in the lower left corner of the screen in front of (presumably) 221b Baker Street. Also visible is a large bank, a pharmacy, and another house. Text at the bottom of the screen reads, "Watson. It's your turn! Hit space bar or button to roll." Bottom center, the number 6 is displayed. Bottom right, the portrait of Watson that appeared on the character select screen.
Mastodon FeedIt's so gd satisfying after an hour or so of trying to get SQL to provide a desired result, it actually provides the desired result.
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fetzert ("Thiemo Fetzer") wrote:
We have to talk about #Brexit.
It is a fallacy to assume #Bregret is a new thing. It has been a feature of the data for a long time. The data has just been misread by many political commentators, political scientists and media.
This is also a means of #introduction. I am a Professor of Economics at University of Warwick studying the #PoliticalEconomy of #Brexit, among others. My work particularly focuses on understanding the role that #Austerity played in bringing about #Brexit.
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epilepticrabbit@social.coop wrote:
Loads of people on LinkedIn legit have profiles that read like bullshit bingo written by an AI trained only on surveillance footage from a Corporate Marketing conference.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Following the example of the German government and the European Commission, the government of the Netherlands is now running their own Mastodon server! No middlemen between them and their constituents! Welcome @minbzk!
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
immersion blenders are a wunnerful thang
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
obsoletemediauk@mastodon.world ("Museum of Obsolete Media") wrote:
An obscure floppy disk format from the mid-1980s, the Casio Disk Sheet SD-1. It was used in the CasioWord HW-120 word-processor via a built-in drive, plus some other models via an external drive, the MD-10.
It's one of a handful of disks that shared a 2.6-inch form factor.
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SethRudy@c18.masto.host ("Saethelred the Unsteady") wrote:
For your #birding pleasure: a male #housefinch outside my window.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
On Monday's Oxide and Friends, @bcantrill and I were joined by the @oxidecomputer operations team to discuss the logistics of shipping out our first rack. We often hear about incredible hardware or software, but operations is often the forgotten third leg of the stool without which nothing would go. With a product this big, even the crate is a serious undertaking!
And a pearl of wisdom: "You can't surge a relationship"
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Stifling heat is also blanketing parts of Texas, which for weeks earlier this summer sweltered under a record-shattering heat dome which one analysis found was made five times more likely by the climate crisis. Despite this, the state’s Republican Senator Ted Cruz is rallying his fellow GOP members of the Senate commerce committee to circulate a memo attacking climate measures in Biden’s proposed 2024 budget, Fox News reported on Wednesday.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/13/us-republicans-climate-funds-extreme-heat
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Challenges from right-wing activists have proliferated in Georgia despite strict federal laws governing how voters can be removed from rolls. That’s in part because state and local election officials have struggled to figure out how to reconcile SB 202 with federal protections. This has resulted in counties handling challenges inconsistently, sometimes in ways that experts warn may have violated federal law, something they say may have been the case with Schneider”
https://www.propublica.org/article/right-wing-activists-georgia-voter-challenges
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ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:
Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in #Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists
==The recent transformation of the state’s #election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations.
Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.
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ThomasKnight@mastodon.world ("Thomas Knight") wrote:
#Twitter continues to circle the drain, and #TwitterDown has become essentially a continuous state, #ElonMusk is now apparently blocking Threads on Twitter, but you have to wonder: Who can tell, since Twitter works so poorly & limits what you can see when you can get it to work? Also, #Elon is being sued for the 1/2 of a billion dollars he owes his former staff who he fired without cause. That will definitely help Twitter's valuation immensely. https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-reports-glitches-outages-1235667776/
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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:
@shoq I think this is the wrong lesson to take away. Yes, they need audience. But they also need the tools to measure audience and a mature onboarding process. We don’t have any of those things.
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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
“Hungary’s largest bookseller has started wrapping books that feature LGBTQ+ characters in plastic to prevent customers from opening them in stores after it was taken over by a private foundation with close ties to Viktor Orbán.
…
Two years ago, the government passed a widely criticised law banning … the promotion and display of homosexuality and gender reassignment”
https://www.inkl.com/a/vXoZVguzxXz
Fascism is alive and well and living in Europe.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The ignorance, it burns.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/13/people-actually-think-that-way/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Have you been looking for pseudoscientific, illogical justifications for hating trans people AND vaccines? The Internet provides!
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
disabilitynorm ("NormanD") wrote:
Psychedelic Breakthrough: MDMA Revolutionizes PTSD Treatment
From Neuroscience News: Complete Post through this link…Summary: Psychedelic therapies, including the use of MDMA, are set to revolutionize psychiatric treatments, especially for those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The anticipation builds for the FDA’s approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for P
https://disabilitycosmos.blog/2023/07/13/psychedelic-breakthrough-mdma-revolutionizes-ptsd-treatment/
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Mastodon FeedListening to my all time favorite soundtrack again, I am pained with regret not buying the vinyl back when it was available.. Yeah.. Sucked not having money back then.. And now it is not available anywhere. At all... :blobcat_tears:
#vtm #vtmb #VampireTheMasquerade #VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines #RikSchaffer #VinylRecord #GameSoundtrack
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Mastodon Feedkeul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:
So, my #scifi novel is finally here!
https://www.echosprime.it/it/il-grande-collasso---luca-fabbri/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
cyberxperience, pc (1996) https://mobygames.com/game/win3x/cyberxperience/cover-art/gameCoverId,669835/
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is not to say that capitalism *as a tool* is bad. Just that the lines must be much clearer for everyone's benefit
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Anyone looking for Rust/C#/possibly C++/TS/JS/WASM/flutter/etc... developers at the staff/principal level?
I'm starting to look around for new opportunities, curious what might be available out there.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Capitalisim in a nutshell is always, and at all times, repugnant. Which is why the cultural project to produce ennui about it has to be met with ridicule and scorn. These are trash humans, not worthy of the science we allow them to gate:
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl by Nina Simone
ahhhhh
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Mastodon Feednikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:
kiel oni ŝvitas sen havi kapdoloron poste pro manko de akvo. mi provas trinki pli da akvo sed ne vere helpas, ĉu aliaj havas tiun ĉi problemon
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner by Warren Zevon
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Circle Game (Live at Universal Amphitheatre) (Los Angeles) (CA) (8/14-17) (1974) by Joni Mitchell
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
