leah's tiny pc retirement home

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a​ small cryptid caught in time's headlights.
'she/her' unless you know me

in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything

apparently this needs saying, so:
DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS
TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill
out, not argue. if arguing chills you out,
go somewhere else.

block early, block often,
block right wingers on sight

#nobot #nocops #acab
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i had to watch my tone
for fear of having you feel judged
i was hoping...

favourite instructionex (sp),hl
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leah's tiny pc retirement homeAug 13, 2023

FUCK OFF CLOUDFLARE

this is what i got trying to look at the #Veilid source code. which... you know, raises some questions

leah's tiny pc retirement homeMar 16, 2023

well, hackaday just died to me. their "report comment" button is officially confirmed to be little more than a placebo. quoth their official fedi account:

The "Report Comment" button is automated, if enough individual IPs click then it will take down the comment and have a human review it. But just one person clicking won't trigger any obvious change, nor notify us.

i sometimes forget that the rest of the world doesn't take moderation quite as seriously as the fediverse does

(screenshot below is just for verification - text is the same as quoted above)

reposted as public - boosts welcome

leah's tiny pc retirement homeMar 16, 2023

well, hackaday just died to me. their "report comment" button is officially confirmed to be little more than a placebo. quoth their official fedi account:

The "Report Comment" button is automated, if enough individual IPs click then it will take down the comment and have a human review it. But just one person clicking won't trigger any obvious change, nor notify us.

i sometimes forget that the rest of the world doesn't take moderation quite as seriously as the fediverse does

(screenshot below is just for verification - text is the same as quoted above)

boosts welcome. reposted with global visibility here: https://oldbytes.space/@millihertz/110034893144909318

asm & tamsyn & forth, oh my! (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image well, hackaday just died to me. their "report comment" button is officially confirmed to be little more than a placebo. quoth their official fedi account: > The "Report Comment" button is automated, if enough individual IPs click then it will take down the comment and have a human review it. But just one person clicking won't trigger any obvious change, nor notify us. i sometimes forget that the rest of the world doesn't take moderation quite as seriously as the fediverse does (screenshot below is just for verification - text is the same as quoted above) reposted as public - boosts welcome

OldBytes Space - Mastodon
leah's tiny pc retirement homeMar 1, 2023
shouldn't this diagram really have used magenta for "no info"? ;-)
leah's tiny pc retirement homeAug 25, 2022
...and this is why fonts designed for programming should absolutely not specify ligatures!
leah's tiny pc retirement homeApr 8, 2022
basically this is the keyboard i want for my computers
Show threadleah's tiny pc retirement homeMar 23, 2022

graphics is another thing - as soon as it became possible for memory to hold, and for processors to address, more than 64KB of memory at once, all the cell and attribute modes and everything required to fit a colourful screen at the highest resolution an NTSC TV could support into single-digit KB went away. as soon as pixels could be a byte wide, plotting individual pixels got easier and faster. and then pixels could be a word wide, and palettes went away too (although 16-bit colour, with its inability to resolve real greyscales, was probably a wrong turn... still, it too has been more or less forgotten now)

although... i saw a graph yesterday, in one of the PDFs i was beetling through (i think it was Butler Lampson's Alto retrospective), and... well, one of these things is not like the others

memory speed is a Problem™

Show threadleah's tiny pc retirement homeOct 16, 2021

...and this is what i was getting

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leah's tiny pc retirement homeOct 16, 2021
this is what it's supposed to look like...
leah's tiny pc retirement homeSep 2, 2021

oh for fuck's sake

this message appeared for long enough that i could get a screen shot of it

updating cookie preferences should never take long enough to be perceptible... because you shouldn't have that many cookies to cancel, you arseholes