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@crystal717
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My main presence is my website https://crystalsweb.neocities.org/ (desktop only) where I write about and recreate a subset of 90s product design & digital culture. Into coding (web & native) and 3D graphics.

I care about #transrights, reducing the wealth gap and #taxtherich.

Into #retrocomputing #minidisc #powerpc #macos9 #win3x, but in the present software hellscape I'm anti-corporate, I love Linux and open source, supporting #ArchiveDotOrg, #righttorepair.

I'm #teamHuman #fuckAI.

Websitehttps://crystalsweb.neocities.org/
Other graphics stuffhttps://cara.app/crystalunicorn
Video archive on YThttps://www.youtube.com/@CrystalsVideoArchive

But when reading Cybiko marketing materials from ~2000, I had to remind myself that basically _every_ text, however generic, used to be written by actual people. My brain now automatically assumes slop. So sad. I want generic filler text to be written by people again.

#fuckai

looking at #Cybiko SDK tools on Windows 2000 and they're surprisingly good, it's almost as if they cared about the product.
34:00, reminds me of how Araki is like the cool version of Tarantino who replaces violence with gay sex and is so much better for it

managed to recreate the accidental pixel blur effect as a non-destructive filter ^^

#pixelart #graphicdesign #webdev

Coding a pixel art editor these days... A glitch in the rotation algorithm created a pixel blur effect and I'm livin for it!

more about my OS and apps here: https://crystalsweb.neocities.org/#OS

#pixelart #graphicdesign #webdev

@lyon to me the question whether the commercial version has DRM. I'm happy to pay if it's DRM-free.

Picked up G3 era 'junk' USB floppy drives from Japan because they were cheap and look awesome.

And they actually work.. and way better than new ones which can only mount once in a session. So far only tried on Linux but mounts every time no problem.

#floppy #g3 #retrocomputing #retroconsumerism

And then? And then Mullvad was censored in the UK.

UK ramps up censorship & surveillance. Mullvad's critical TV ad "And Then?" was banned. Watch it here.

Mullvad VPN

@xahteiwi Wording is key, give it a catchy title that already explains the situation. Use the same verb in the text as on the buttons.

One more pattern that comes to mind is a confirmation checkmark, disabling OK until it's checked:

β˜‘ I understand that if I click OK, X will happen

[ OK ]

MiniDisc portable concept, made in Blender. See replies for details.

#minidisc #retrocomputing #productdesign #y2k #blender #3d