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pk;sw Amy

@ipg I once saw this video with Subway hats edited onto all the Tom Scotts, and it was titled "My coworkers when I want to get a shift covered"

Emma (IPG)

submitting a pull request to a closed-source proprietary software by disassembling the code and then DMing a developer with my changes

Rairii

@ipg when MS opensourced threadx I thought about reimplementing the not-open VC4 port and contributing it back to them in a PR

in the end i didn't but lol

starfrost

@ipg someone did that to gta 5 and they accepted because the loading was taking 50 years

⛧ veeeeeeeeee

@ipg unironically when discord android had a weird bug a long while ago, we fixed the bug in aliucord

discord developers checked out our fix commit and shortly after, the bug was fixed by discord, so ig we kinda actually did just that?

https://github.com/Aliucord/Aliucord/pull/272#issuecomment-1270466710 (pretty wholesome interaction too)

Emma (IPG)

just remembered the time i managed to convince some of my american friends into thinking all british electronics and internet were disabled during the mourning period and i was only able to talk because i was using a VPN

Discord screenshot showing a message from me with an edited Sky access blocked webpage saying "Sorry, the website discord.com is not available during the national mourning period."
Another screenshot showing confused replies of people asking if what I just posted was real, one saying "I THOOUGHT THIS WAS A JOKE"
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Katze

@ipg the scary part about the whole thing is that you can convince people, solely because it is not unthinkable.

DELETED

@ipg australian internet is censored but my little friend named tor stops it

Emma (IPG)

In the UK, due to cultural norms there is a slightly different standard for device connectivity known as "Universal Serial Double-Decker Bus" (USDDB).

A USB 3.0 connector on a cable with 2 layers.
Emma (IPG)

Impressive. Very nice. Now let's see this new fedi profile...

Look at that subtle small instance domain. The tasteful content warnings on it. Oh my God, they even have alt text...

Patrick Bateman from American Psycho staring intently at a business card.
Emma (IPG)

another tip for the newcomers:

put alt texts/descriptions on your images and videos! it'll help those hard of vision / hearing be able to make sense of your posts, as well as helping those with slow or limited internet connections.

(if it's hard to describe, just try your best, edit your post in the future if necessary)

screenshot of the Mastodon compose UI showing the "No description added" link, an arrow pointing to it
screenshot of the Mastodon edit media screen, with a description of the media in the text box. the media is of a cute serval cat
Emma (IPG)

depending on your instance, you can also search for posts based on their media's alt text - on wetdry.world, posts are made searchable after you like, bookmark or boost them (or if you're mentioned in it)

screenshot of Mastodon's search page: after searching for "missing telephone pole", i see a meme that has been given alt text including that phrase
Emma (IPG)

some nice fedi tip for the new users on this instance (and elsewhere!)

by default your posts show up on the local (everyone on your instance), federated (everyone that your instance knows) timelines, and can show up in features like search, explore (popular posts), etc

you can change this, making posts only visible to your followers (and can't be boosted / renoted), or posts being public, boostable, but not discoverable

screenshot of Mastodon's compose box, with the privacy selector expanded, showing 4 options - Public, Unlisted, Followers only and Mentioned people only
Emma (IPG)

also - check out your local timelines! see what people are up to, say hi, make some friends

Emma (IPG)

starting to think vista on an emulated pentium 2 in 86box wasn't the best idea

86Box screenshot of Windows Vista, showing "Windows Defender User Interface has stopped working" and "You are about to be logged off" windows
Emma (IPG)

how do i set up my linux so my cursor is a cool burning on fire super-death sword and closing a window makes it do a burning animation

tomo :azulogo:

@ipg@wetdry.world i love tech companies embracing and making their own specific extensions to open standards im so glad nothing comes after that

Emma (IPG)

i own this game on a CD btw i'm pretty sure if i had a CD drive i could install it in faster than whatever the EA app's doing

Emma (IPG)

XMPP is the first chat protocol to reach 1 Jabbillion users

Emma (IPG)

XMPP SWEEP! FIRST CHAT PROTOCOL TO REACH A JABBILLION USERS! #XMPPsweep #JabberNation

a bunch of OMEMO errors
Emma (IPG)

i feel like gamers wouldn't feel so entitled if they knew even a small amount of what actually went into game development

Siguza

@ipg there's an unfortunate asymmetry in that judging a work of engineering is often much simpler than creating or fixing one. You don't need to be able to fix the lag in order to determine that the lag sucks.

kQuote

@ipg oooh wait till you interact with the crowd that learnt to make flappybird or whatever the fuck in unity in a day or two and have an inflated self confidence (arrogance)

dunning kruger effect chart
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Emma (IPG)

in doing this i managed to fuck up hud.xex's string tables so badly that the drive indicator has no fuckin idea what it's doing

Emma (IPG)

in the Mastodon Glitch-soc fork, if you default posts to unlisted (like i do), you can enable a "secondary toot button" which gives a quick and easy button to post a public post (visible in hashtags, searchable on some instances, shows in local/federated timelines)

Mastodon Glitch Edition's app settings dialog showing "secondary toot button" enabled and set to public
The compose box, showing a button with a globe icon next to the publish button, implying that the post will be in public visibility.
Emma (IPG)

the Xbox 360 S and PowerBook G4 15" Aluminium are the 2 best looking consumer electronics I own and they both have PowerPC processors

Emma (IPG)

hooohh... hoohoh...h hooh... hhhoohohoh.h...oooh...

An Xbox 360 slim next to a 15" PowerBook G4 on a desk, lit by a pink light.
Emma (IPG)

the best quality testing resource a developer could have (web or native, but most noticably web) is a low-spec budget laptop and/or android phone, running latest software

if you don't feel comfortable using your web app on budget hardware from a few years ago, then make it so you are

Connie

@ipg if i can't run your basic ass app on my 2011 mac mini then is it truly basic?

Mars

@ipg@wetdry.world that is true but also AUGHGHGHHG im lazy

good point though

Emma (IPG)

there's something really charming about every EXE file made by most tooling having the MZ header that says "This program can not be run in DOS mode"

including the Xbox 360's kernel

Hex editor view of the Xbox 360 17559 kernel, showing the EXE header with "This program cannot be run in DOS mode". In front is a ROM Properties about view of the executable, showing it is an Xbox 360 Executable (32-bit, PowerPC big endian)
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