Shred

@shred@oldbytes.space
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Open source developer, retro computer fan, creative writer, amateur photographer, Japan otaku. Too many hobbies, too little time!

This is a feel-good account with (mostly) unpolitical topics. I'm writing in 🇺🇸 English and 🇩🇪 German.

Older posts at: https://mastodon.social/@shred

#OSS #Java #Coding #3Dprinting #Retro #RetroComputer #Amiga #C64 #Sinclair #Atari #Hardware #Photography #Japan #日本 #Writer

Bloghttps://shred.zone
Softwarehttps://shredzone.org
Short Novelshttps://infinisomnia.org
Repositoryhttps://codeberg.org/shred
Shred13h ago
Natasha Jay22h ago
Some more cute waffle-making by David Zinn's creatures, to brighten your morning #DavidZinn
#StreetArt
Shred20h ago
drag paul's run race21h ago
LLMs are responsible for a lot of sins but let us not forget the harm it has caused the em-dash enthusiast community, of whom i consider myself a fellow
Shred2d ago
Marcio Aleksandravicius3d ago

Chaos!

A double pendulum moves unpredictably due to its sensitivity to initial conditions, making even tiny differences lead to wildly different paths.

This chaotic motion, driven by nonlinear dynamics, turns a simple system into an elegant display of physics and unpredictability.

Shred2d ago
Uncle Duke3d ago
Josh awakened slowly. The last thing he remembered was the glint of the axe as it came down, and then... darkness. Where was he? Why was he naked? Why the hell couldn't he feel his limbs? As his vision cleared, he looked down. That's when he saw the nails. Josh began to scream.
Shred5d ago
Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 2/4)5d ago

PNG is back!

https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/ (by Chris Blume)

A new PNG spec was just released! […]

[…] After 20 years of stagnation, PNG is back with renewed vigor!

What's new?

* Proper HDR support (future‐proof, too!)

* Finally recognizes APNGs (animations!)

* Officially supports Exif data

* General tidying up—fixing errata, clarifications, etc.

#png

Shred5d ago
Kris5d ago

Wednesday, it's Captain!

(see https://mathstodon.xyz/@Scmbradley/114676343373917170, https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/114680337675015896, now posted from a proper computer with a keyboard and edit tools instead of a cellphone, and on an actual Wednesday)

Shred6d ago
Carlos Rodrigues 🪣6d ago

Some say #retrocomputing is a form of escapism...

Considering it's a generally upbeat and authentic community (or scene) in an otherwise money-driven and superficial technology world, I'd say that's a compliment, isn't it?

It's nice that there are still corners in computing where you can hear someone say they're excited by something and take it at face value.

Also, that there are still corners in computing free from corporations. Because, well... they're all defunct.

#retro #randomthoughts

Shred6d ago
DigitalcourageJun 23

Mastodon ist jetzt offiziell „Digital Public Good“ – also digitales öffentliches Gut – und steht damit auf einer UN-Liste neben Projekten wie Wikipedia oder LibreOffice. Das Fediverse bekommt damit Rückenwind als gemeinwohlorientierte Alternative zu Big Tech. Anerkannt wurde Mastodon von der Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), einer Initiative der UN. Die Kriterien: Open Source, Datenschutz, kein Konzerninteresse. Für alle, die digital unabhängig und demokratisch kommunizieren wollen, ist das ein starkes Signal.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #DigitalPublicGood #UN #DigitaleDemokratie #BigTechAlternativen

https://blog.campact.de/2025/06/mastodon-ist-als-digitales-oeffentliches-gut-anerkannt/

Mastodon ist als digitales öffentliches Gut anerkannt!

Inklusiv, nichtkommerziell und unabhängig: Mastodon ist jetzt als digitales öffentliches Gut anerkannt und wird bei Nutzern immer beliebter.

Campact Blog
ShredJun 22
NikitaJun 22

The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".

Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!

ShredJun 22
JcrabappleJun 22
#memes
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Kris5d ago

Wednesday, it's Captain!

(see https://mathstodon.xyz/@Scmbradley/114676343373917170, https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/114680337675015896, now posted from a proper computer with a keyboard and edit tools instead of a cellphone, and on an actual Wednesday)

Show threadCyb3rrunn3r5d ago
@isotopp 😂
Bevor ich es verstand, dachte ich erst der Käptn hätte Yoda verschluckt. 😂
Show threadsigi7145d ago
@cyb3rrunn3r @isotopp Dazu braucht es Kirby
Show threadtrusty falxter 🧠5d ago

@isotopp
😬 Der ist gut!

Btw., der KI-#Alttext bringt leider den Witz nicht rüber.
In den Sprechblasen steht:
Wednesday Addams: Hello, Commodore!
Captain Haddock: Wednesday, it's Captain!

Show threadRob van Kan5d ago
@isotopp more AI slop
Show threadBill Ricker5d ago
@edgeofeurope @isotopp
Alas yes, and they didn't care enough to fix the most obvious ai bodge; but the concept is amusing anyway.
Show threadMathias Panzenböck5d ago
@BRicker @edgeofeurope I never understand 1) why people use these AI slop images and 2) when they have obvious but easy to fix mistakes why they don't fix them? I guess both can be answered with laziness.
Show threadRob van Kan5d ago
@bloody_albatross @BRicker it's quite an easy fix, too
Show threadMathias Panzenböck5d ago
@edgeofeurope @BRicker Exactly! Adding another finger to Wednesday's hand might be a bit more difficult, but still doable.
Show threadTony Hoyle5d ago

@bloody_albatross @edgeofeurope @BRicker Cartoon characters having 3 fingers is normal enough that I find haddock to be the odd one..

I guess the image that the AI stole Wednesday from was using the 3 finger style.

Show threadMathias Panzenböck5d ago
@tony @edgeofeurope @BRicker Thing also has 5 fingers and both, the Tintin comics and the old Adams Family comics seem to have 5 finger hands. But yes, it's about consistency and not weather its 4 or 5 fingers.
Show threadMathias Panzenböck5d ago
@tony @edgeofeurope @BRicker Also Thing is usually (but not always!) a right hand, but that is now nit picking.
Show threadJargoggles5d ago
@BRicker @edgeofeurope @isotopp
Well, it doesn't matter what the external costs are as long as we're mildly amused for a second, right?
Show threadBill Ricker4d ago
@jargoggles @edgeofeurope @isotopp
That does appear to be the zeitgeist. 😒
(If the externalities were charged to the user, hiring a real artist on fivverr to copy-pasta would be cheaper, almost as quick, and provide income to actual humans?)
Show threadmirabilos4d ago
@BRicker @edgeofeurope @isotopp worse, they now retouched it to hide the worst "AI" tells. That’s inacceptable.
Show threadThibaultmol 🌈5d ago
@edgeofeurope @isotopp It can be so easily to spot sometimes, like how this one is piss yellow
Show threadRob van Kan5d ago
@thibaultmol @isotopp just take one look at the beer bottle
Show threadThibaultmol 🌈5d ago
@edgeofeurope @isotopp oh yeah, I just meant the ai piss yellow can be seen from a thumbnail resolution even xd
Show threadKarl5d ago
@thibaultmol @edgeofeurope @isotopp She is missing a finger too.
Show threadWesDym5d ago
@bloodynine Yes and no. Compared to most real humans, yes. But four fingers is very old (Western) cartoon tradition; if anything, Capt. Haddock is the oddball here, in cartoon tropism, for having five. Four fingers is by far most common in non-realist cartoons. (Realist ones such as Mary Worth, etc., look more realistic.) There are several over-lapping reasons for this, but it's long-standing tradition, and sometimes even a hard rule (as in The Simpsons).
Show threadKarl5d ago
@wesdym Yeah, now that you mention it Tom & Jerry characters had only 4 fingers.
Show threadTeun 🌏 ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸5d ago

@edgeofeurope @isotopp

To quote the great @Eetschrijver:

"Maybe we should stop having these silly pictures made, heating up a billion liters of cooling water and leaving three African villages without electricity for a week."

Show threadSpace Hobo5d ago
@edgeofeurope @isotopp Also, Wednesday Addams got her START as a cartoon character, publishing contemporaneously with later Tintin!
Show threadJennifer Moore 😷5d ago

@edgeofeurope @isotopp

Looks like even the alt text was slop too...

Show threadArby5d ago
@isotopp Dieser Holzfinger auf dem Etikett der Flasche (oder was auch immer das sein soll) triggert mich total. So kann ich das nicht teilen.
Show threadGary Parker 5d ago
@isotopp @losttourist it's quite obviously an Atari ST, not a Commodore 🙄
Show threadSnark Week Global5d ago

@isotopp

Why does the table have a finger around the bottle?

Show threadGraham Sutherland / Polynomial5d ago
@snarkweek @isotopp because it's slop
Show threadCarson Hill 📎5d ago

@snarkweek @isotopp

That's Wednesday's missing finger. The table stole it.

Show threadElosha5d ago
@isotopp Both Captain and Wednesday are so perfectly met, especially the Tintin drawing style, I wonder if the AI was trained with 🪄intellectual property✨😁
Show threadGuill.Jones, Honorary Canadian5d ago
@isotopp
Oh, Snap!
Show threadGuill.Jones, Honorary Canadian5d ago
@isotopp
@rejected_cryptid
@Rejected_cryptid
Show threadAlyssa Voronin5d ago
@isotopp@infosec.exchange AI slop makes for an easy block.
Show thread𒀭Wiiお姉さん 💜 🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
@isotopp Pun of the week, and it's only Wednesday
Show threadWattana5d ago
@isotopp
Show threadmirabilos5d ago
@isotopp AI slop?
Show threadAndrea5d ago
@mirabilos because of the hand on the table? @isotopp
Show threadmirabilos5d ago
@andijah @isotopp not exactly, but very close
Show threadAndrea5d ago
@mirabilos the hand isn't the problem, it belongs to the Addams family. The bottle is the culprit.
The joke isn't bad, the way it's presented is rather uninspiring. To say the least.
@isotopp
Show threadmirabilos5d ago
@andijah @isotopp yep to both.
Show threadCassandrich5d ago
@isotopp Someone do a version that's not AI slop. 🙄
Show threadMatthew 🖖5d ago
@dalias @isotopp graphic design is my passion
Show threadsunny Ske-lil-ton ☀️5d ago
@mcbaumwolle could you maybe change to alt text so that the joke is clear without the reference to the original toot so one can boost it? :)
I propose:
The "It's Wednesday" Tintin meme template but Tintin has been replaced by Wednesday from the Addams Family. Her speech bubble reads "Hello, Commodore!" and the captain replies "it's Captain, Wednesday"
Show threadMatthew 🖖5d ago
@Larymir Done and thanks!
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ 5d ago
@mcbaumwolle @dalias @isotopp Text bubbles are in wrong order, I'd modify it but my readily available tools are well… LibreSprite and dpaint.js which are comfortable but don't do text.
Show threadSean King5d ago
@dalias @isotopp Jfc. I didn't realize the AI slop until I saw the wood plank cut in front of the whiskey bottle.
Show threadIcil5d ago
Show threadLuka Rubinjoni5d ago
@icil @isotopp There must be a big market for AI cuckoldry.
Show threadsilly robotgirl5d ago
@icil@app.wafrn.net @isotopp id wathew a tall big boobie emo robot dwaw pictures for me 🥺
Show threadDoomsdaysCW5d ago
@isotopp Great alt text!!!
Show threadStoneface Vimes5d ago
@isotopp beautifully done
Show threadnoodlejetski 5d ago
@isotopp
Show threadtech himbo5d ago
@isotopp
Show threadKid Mania5d ago
@isotopp
Well, now, isn't that a fun crossover!
Show threadJorge Saturno5d ago
@isotopp is this made by AI?
Show threadMinybol 🥔5d ago
@jorgeluis @isotopp clearly yes ..
Show threadAdriano5d ago
@jorgeluis ayup. @isotopp
Show threadRichard "RichiH" Hartmann5d ago
@isotopp isoslopp? Bitte nich...
Show threadMarnic5d ago
@isotopp
Encore une image généré par iA 😒😤
Show threadDavid Fleetwood - RG Admin5d ago
@isotopp Is that Ai generated?
Show threadNartagnan ⏚5d ago

@isotopp

@crowdagger c'est de l'IA, regarde la bouteille.