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• Post #4386272

  I just realised that "motorcycle" means "motor cycle". Motor.... Cycle. 😭

• Post #4377664

  I've been trying to understand the reason I'm so tired on most of the days, for quite some time. Got some tests done, test results were mildly abnormal. Convinced the GP that the results can't be discarded with "ah that's because you had a cold recently" because I haven't had a cold recently. GP got me more tests, and finally one of them - indicating a group of diseases closely matching my symptoms - returned very abnormal. Now the fun part! The NHS guidelines say...

• Post #4359563

  On the topic of Ubunchu (it is a comic from 2009 about the joys of Ubuntu): I really empathise with Akane prez nowadays. I find it incredible that the comic is licensed under CC-BY-NC and at the same time was actually published by a major publisher (ASCII). I imagine this is an exceptional event (sadly).

• Post #4355956

  I want to print on B4 JIS paper, but the only printer I have that can do it is a dot matrix. This is the "draft" quality, it can do better, as far as I can tell.

• Post #4294500

  Midnight; time to think about a business plan for a manga cafe. I wonder how many regulars are needed to keep such a place afloat (in South Wales)

• Post #4279875

  RIP, can't find my copy of a book on shojo manga history that I've gotten second hand in paper precisely because a digital copy is $100 or more (which isn't uncommon for academic books😭)

• Post #4256679

  My SO has been prescribed antimemetics, now it's impossible to rickroll her

• Post #4240084

  Ed Sheeran is on the radio, and for the first time ever I'm listening closer to the lyrics of "Shape of you", for the first time realising that the song is depressing (to me) as heck. Ew.

• Post #4167240

  Go go go go, c'mon, crash already https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/micron-sk-hynix-stocks-sink-as-ai-chip-sell-off-deepens-125622548.html

• Post #4155402

  As a lover of old computers, I've heard this question way too many times. It's kinda ugly but it is #originalart; drawn in ink P.S. Metrovick 950 can run Lunar Lander (I wrote the game last year): https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/mv950toy/

• Post #4119472

  Fun read today: "Evolution of the ASTIA automated search and retrieval system" from 1961 - https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD0252000/mode/2up tl;dr In 1951, US Department of Defense had a massive library of documentation that was growing at a rate of 30,000 documents per year. The agency responsible for the library, called ASTIA, considered migrating to a mechanised or a computerised system for document search and retrieval, but time and again discovered that humans were more efficie...

• Post #4067597

  OH: "a GET endpoint that is meant to never return the same value twice? REST in peace"

• Post #3997448

  Is it popping yet... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/ai-economy-stock-market/688004/

• Post #3944616

  I'm trying to figure out how to use a dip pen, and for that purpose I'm tracing manga that was drawn with a dip pen. Apparently, after drawing a 100 pages like that I should be very confident with the pen. So far I'm on my fifth or sixth page. The dip pen feels more powerful than a semi-auto I used on a shooting range once. It is far more satisfying, too, especially when I can follow a stroke perfectly, or I have a hunch how the original author decided to put the stroke there in a s...

• Post #3939401

  Me: "ADHD? Nah I don't have ADHD, I wouldn't qualify for a diagnosis, there are no signs" Also me: pauses anime to look up a voice actress, finds herself posting about 88x31 GIF banners half an hour later TBF doesn't have to be ADHD, just a bit neurodiverse and a bit anxious about life to focus on things

• Post #3936838

  I just saw an age verification on uncyclopedia, and I applause it. Well done :D I wonder if it is the same outside of the UK? Check this out :D https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/United_Kingdom //folks, read closer, it is a satire on age checks//

• Post #3933966

  Apparently WPS Office is still a thing - and it runs on Mac, Windows, Android and Linux - including Sunway processors. https://platform.wps.cn/ Here's a collection of screenshots: https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv17812287/ Lots of unfamiliar user interface approaches, love it.

• Post #3931505

  Someone in the feed mentioned a collection of 88x31 banners. There's still an ongoing discussion about the origin of the format, but the most common hypothesis is that it was started by Netscape Now! ad campaign. To check the hypothesis, I am about to install a bunch of Netscape versions. Netscape 1 has no 88x31 images inside, it seems.

• Post #3931260

  Some think it might have been Netscape toolbar buttons. Toolbar buttons are 80x37. Too narrow!

• Post #3931035

  I don't know why this post hasn't surfaced in my fedi feed so here I am, reposting it from Lobsters. It is a post about making animations by abusing progressive JPEGs (and, I guess, web servers that send the image frame by frame with the right delays) Regressive JPEGs: https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/

• Post #3924809

  I've been upset that my cucumbers aren't growing right, all of them are short. TIL I planted a variety that has tennis ball-shaped fruits. :>

• Post #3917751

  Manga appreciation day: today as a practice for my G-pen and maru-pen I traced two pages from one of the most charming mangas out there ("Yokohama shopping log" by Hitoshi Ashinano). Normally I wouldn't upload anything I've traced (that's just practice), but I think it ended up being somewhat close to just a copy of the manga pages, so I hope it's roughly as bad as just sharing the pages from the comic. Anyhow! It took me about 5 hours to simply follow the lines on th...

• Post #3883083

  Do you see many happy EMF Camper goers with their 4 digit local phone numbers in your Fedi feed? Do you feel FOMO on not being able to participate in the telephony fun? If the answer is "yes" to both questions, consider calling 0114 501 xxxx - where xxxx is the 4-digit #EMFCamp phone. If you're outside of the UK, the number to call is +44 114 501 xxxx E.g. you can listen to an automatic announcement by calling to +441145017425 ("RICK")

• Post #3867176

  I wanna say "told you so" to those who told me a few months ago "it won't happen". In the last few months I've been thinking about computers and such, and I thought that maybe I want my computers and software to be pre-slop, and I'll just keep them offline. I probably will keep a modern device or two, however slopified it will be, to keep the access to the bank apps and government portals, in case these will be locked down to modern Chromium versions, but that mi...

• Post #3768421

  I filled out a full sketchbook with anime/manga drawing practice and wrote a long read about it. This is the third article in the series of me picking up drawing as an adult. I doubt experienced artists will find it interesting, but some beginners might. https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/iseeidraw3/

• Post #3738219

  RE: https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/116337659582846167 I stumbled upon a doctored Oberon screenshot I made myself and got spooked by the "AI mode" button there :D

• Post #3635051

  I want to buy games digitally but I also want to be able to record these digital games on CD/DVD/USB sticks and use them from a backup. I'm sure the corporate overlords will object on the grounds of "it will simplify piracy" 😓

• Post #3634950

  Can I shit on Google Translate "improved accuracy with Gemini AI" some more please? The "translation" says 静寂の帳（とばり）が降りる時、 星々は密やかに語り合う。 時の流れは緩やかに、 夢の続きを紡ぎ出す。 Which is a hallucinated little poem in Japanese. Yes, it completely ignores the translation task and acts like a chatbot it is.

• Post #3615115

  I'm registering on a Japanese website that auto-generates user names by default, and look what I've got...

• Post #3583268

  Shopping for sun-reflecting window film, I found a film from a different world.