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labria

> For data protection purposes, could you please confirm your name, house address, and contact phone number?

For _what_ purposes? :rofl:

labria

Hello! I'm Matt a Mega Drive and Sega Genesis dev creating a game very much like Konami's Snatcher. Currently trying to make some new connections on social media other than X and seemingly failing at it 😔 please share this in the hope people find me 😅

Raptor :gamedev:

@matteusbeus A tip for fedi servers like mastodon, your discoverability and engagement is entirely based on how much you interact with others, and how you tag your posts, since you have no hashtags on this post most servers can't find it in search!

The best way to get engagement here is to respond to others as well, it's a lot less one-sided since the algorithm doesn't promote anything. And don't be afraid to (within reason) re-boost your own posts!

Huubje

@matteusbeus there is no algorithm, if you want people to know you exist use hashtags! The platform's major downside is also a major benefit, but definitely takes some getting used to. Try finding accounts that are in a similar niche to yours and congregate around the same topics. You can subscribe to hashtags to get the messages in your extended network that mention them pop up on your timeline. Good luck, getting a following is a lot harder here, but people tend to be genuinely engaged.

labria

There’s this sculpture downtown and it’s called Imposter Syndrome, and I love it.

Even if the queen is secretly a pawn, she still does all the queen things. 💜

Sculpture of a queen chess piece splitting open to show a pawn on the inside
labria

Can we just take a minute to appreciate the gauge cluster on the top of the Nikon 35Ti? Is this not just amazing? This is on a 35mm pocket camera.
It just tickles something inside me. I adore it.

The analog display on the  top of the Nikon 35Ti 35mm pocket camera. it’s a set of gauges that look more like they belong on something from the 20’s than  the 90’s, but I mean that in the best possible way.  black gauges and lettering against a white background, inlaid into the top plate of the camera.
remote procedure chris

@xoagray :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool: :dragndrool:

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Stoneface Vimes

@partnumber2 it so is, you absolute periwinkle 😉
(Just couldn't resist. Sorry)

Daniel Marks

@partnumber2 Let's try this out.

You absolute fardle thwacker!
You just absolute crundle fudger.
You you absolute quash.
I can't believe you did that, you absolute pleaking mayscunting barfunsle!
Get out of here you absolute chambuzzling knackerboxer.
I don't need your damn money you absolute scatchalliwous tangilsackle.

Yeah this checks out.

@partnumber2 Let's try this out.

You absolute fardle thwacker!
You just absolute crundle fudger.
You you absolute quash.
I can't believe you did that, you absolute pleaking mayscunting barfunsle!
Get out of here you absolute chambuzzling knackerboxer.
I don't need your damn money you absolute scatchalliwous tangilsackle.

Bread80

@partnumber2 We Brits can turn a compliment into a cutting insult with the appropriate intonation.

labria

I asked ChatGPT how to wire a standard UK plug using the new canvas feature...

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FoxoBread 🦊

@iolo
#Alt4you
"An AI generated image.
What resembles an electrical plug. It is open, revealing many wires, some going nowhere and others doing loops.
This plug is in no way physically, or electrically compatible with any electrical system.

There's labels scattered around the plug, but they do not point to individual components or label anything in particular."

overstrike

@iolo well, Alan Parsons will never lack for album covers

labria
During our hike on the Albsteig, I didn’t set out to create a 'four-squares' composition. No ambition to make 'art,' just casually photographing the beautiful landscape. It was only afterward that I noticed the four colored squares. A real aha moment. In the future, I’ll have to pay attention to horizons and vertical lines and see if I can produce a better four-squares square. :-)

#photography #squared
During our hike on the Albsteig, I didn’t set out to create a 'four-squares' composition. No ambition to make 'art,' just casually photographing the beautiful landscape. It was only afterward that I noticed the four colored squares. A real aha moment. In the future, I’ll have to pay attention to horizons and vertical lines and see if I can produce a better four-squares square. :-)
Square color image with a white frame, depicting a landscape naturally divided into four quadrants. In the bottom right quadrant, there is a yellow grain field. The bottom left quadrant shows a green field path covered with dense grass, leading toward the center of the image. In the top left quadrant, dark green trees and bushes are visible. The final quadrant, in the top right, features blue sky with white clouds.
labria

@k you seem enthusiastic about IPv6. Say, are there any tunnel solutions (like HE), that are _not_ hated by big corps? My provider has no native IPv6, I tried good old HE, but the whole household started getting captchas on every google search, and I had to roll the experiment back :(

labria

Do you have this classic text The Unix Programming Environment? (still one of my faves). It's very commonly reproduced with different covers; at various times, i think i have owned 3 different covers. If you have it and it has a different cover do you mind taking a picture or linking to one on the internet?
#Unix

[please boost]

A book cover, blue type on a white background. The title "The UNIX Programming Environment" is set in all-caps in a very 1970s geometric sans serif (Avant Garde Gothic?), one word per line, and so tight that sometimes the glyphs do touch. The word "UNIX" in the title is super bold. The authors, Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike, are set smaller in the same font.
Will Jessop

@drj mine is very similar, I guess they accidentally printed the whole thing upside down. All the pages are upside down too, and it opens to the right not the left. Quite the blunder at the printers.

labria

I've got this “nonogram”/“picross” puzzle game on my phone, which has a few built-in puzzles, but the bulk of it is solving user-created puzzles. Obviously most of them are terrible, as user-created content often is, although the ranking system helps. However, there's this one user, Tattel, who is absolutely dominating their one specific niche:

- 15x15, black-and-white puzzles
- perfectly following the strict rules of making human-solvable nonograms
- exclusively drawings of birds
- not just “different poses of a generic bird”, but every picture is a different and specific species
- they're so good that even I, relatively bird-ignorant, can recognise some of them by sight
- there are dozens of these things

This is some Susan Kare-tier craft, and it deserves more recognition than being buried among ten-thousand user-generated puzzles in some free-to-play app in the Play Store.

#pixelart

I've got this “nonogram”/“picross” puzzle game on my phone, which has a few built-in puzzles, but the bulk of it is solving user-created puzzles. Obviously most of them are terrible, as user-created content often is, although the ranking system helps. However, there's this one user, Tattel, who is absolutely dominating their one specific niche:

A scrolling list of solved puzzles in a phone game. They are all different species of birds, all visually distinct and recognisable, and all super low-res black-and-white images.
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Nemo Thorx

@Screwtapello birb content is cool! My tangent though is the user-generated Lemmings puzzles in the mobile Lemmings game. It's a recently introduced feature, and whilst most are also crap, they have a ranking system (automatic afaik, based on how many players solve any given puzzle), and the five star puzzles truly live up to the Lemmings Mayhem tradition.

Rob Simmons

@Screwtapello how could I look at more of these? Would I need to get the app and if so what is the app?

merlin / alex glow

@Screwtapello Ty (and @solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk for sharing this! I've gotten sucked in over the past couple days. Really fun and cute :3

Feels a bit similar to Sudoku in the fitting-stuff-together mechanic, but it also has the "ooh that's clever!" elements of creativity and surprise, which crosswords have and Sudoku lacks.

labria

The lonely guard of the entrance to the den. No idea what horrors await inside, the guard is enough to scare me off.

#fungi #mushrooms #Polesia

Fly agaric mushroom on a forest floor completely covered with dry pine needles, close to a dark entrance of a burrow.
Christopher Keener, pHd :ddg:

@Szescstopni if the occupier has been eating those, you have no idea what kind of mood they will be in when you enter!

labria

I made this table comparing WeWork and my local gay sauna. I hope somebody finds this useful

A table comparing WeWork and the local gay sauna (Pipeworks), listing these features:

On-site showers: yes to both.
Free Wi-Fi: yes to both.
Computers: bring your own to WeWork, iPads provided at the sauna.
Phone booths: only at WeWork.
Coffee: free at WeWork, not free at the sauna.
Alcoholic drinks: only at the sauna.
Food: bring your own at WeWork, available at the sauna.
Printers: only at WeWork.
Jacuzzi: only at the sauna.
Private meeting rooms: yes to both.
Nudity: discouraged at WeWork, encouraged at the sauna.
Has an app: only at WeWork.
Price: £45 per day at WeWork (in Edinburgh), £19 per visit at the sauna (plus £9/year).
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they call me the Gamer

@Ninji@wuffs.org wait i looked them up, they have glory holes and wework doesn't, so i think they win

ǝlqɯnɹ uoɯᴉS

@Ninji
Wait your WeWork doesn't have alcohol? Free beer taps in the Sydney ones.

Oh, Scotland. Yeah I see their point.

MrClon

@Ninji reasonable business model^ no and yes respectively (:

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