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indigoparadox

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I'm interested in things (computers, mostly. Old computers, handheld computers, personal computers, minicomputers, etc). Sometimes I also like manga, Pokemon, Vocaloid, LEGO, 3D printing, or other things.

I like programming as a hobby. Mainly in C and Python but I try to branch out sometimes if appropriate. I also like sensors and automation. Check my media tab for more!

I am 30 or 40 years old. 🦝

If this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy.

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@futurebird Doesn't look like anything to me...

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Looking for some Halloween costume inspo? Some first-rate ideas in this 18th-century demonology book: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/compendium-of-demonology-and-magic-ca-1775/

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@publicdomainrev "Early Modern Era or AI?" would be a fun gameshow.

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“The flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose...” ⠀
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mysteries-of-nature-and-art https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1

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@publicdomainrev Excerpt titled "How to make flying Dragons." with an illustration of a dragon traversing a rope: "THe flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose; it must be made eyther of dry and light wood or crooked-lane plates, or of thin whalebones covered with Muscovie glasse, and painted over. In the body thereof, there must bee a voyde cane to passe the rope through; unto the bottome of this cane must be bound one or two large Rockets, according as the bignesse and-"

@indigoparadox@mastodon.social avatar indigoparadox , to random

Since foone is making trend, just a reminder to check out my fun projects, if you want. Including the OpenGL demo and the GDI-based raycaster, (see hashtag for source link): https://mastodon.social/@indigoparadox/113360125091578147

It's not VB6 but VB4 is just as good IMO. Even better, since it can run in Windows 3.x!

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@AzulCrescent The Creature evolved into La Creatura!

La Creatura wants to learn Growl!

But learned Meow instead!

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@aeva @AzulCrescent Not being the creature takes hard work.

And I am not about that.

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    @NanoRaptor I texted a girl I've been friends with since high school this week since I hadn't heard from her in a while... so I'll remove the XBox capacitors next week.

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    Ohmelette

    A foodie style photo of an omelette on a plate with a fork having just taken a piece out, sprinkled with fresh chives, and with four bands of colour across the omelette; brown, black, orange, and gold. The bands of colour are those used on resistors; hence, an ohmelette.
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    @NanoRaptor Half of the work of a good photoshop is the accompanying pun. 😌

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    If you could "sunset" one programming language for good, what would it be? And why?

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    @nixCraft Swift. It's time to give up the pretense that platforms invented by Apple after 2010 are real.

    @dosnostalgic@mastodon.social avatar dosnostalgic , to random

    When you think of a "Sierra Online logo", which one is the first that comes to mind?

    indigoparadox ,
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    @dosnostalgic In my mind it looks vaguely like the old AT&T logo.

    @dosnostalgic@mastodon.social avatar dosnostalgic , to random

    Happy 30th birthday to MS-DOS 7! 😉🎉🎂🥂

    video/mp4

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    @dosnostalgic Peak isometric installer art.

    https://archive.org/details/dosworld024199511/page/n5/mode/2up Shout out to DOS World magazine for keeping their eyes on the prize. I miss the drama about DOS/Windows/Windows NT and the direction Microsoft was going in old computer magazine editorial columns. 😌

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    @gamingonlinux And those improvements are also FLOSS, so those who are vehemently anti-proprietary-platform of any kind can still benefit: https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

    @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

    there's a proposal being discussed to drop 32 bit support from fedora linux: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324

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    @aeva I've always thought of this as an Apple disease, but I suppose it's inevitable going forward. The difference with Apple and Linux or Windows is that I can bolt compatibility back on via winevdm on Windows or qemu-user/binfmt on Linux... so long as this is just confined to Fedora. I don't like it, regardless.

    Too many young developers who think they'll live forever and have a fetish for the shiny and new.

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , (edited ) to random

    i have made a gamedev.place account that i will be migrating to in the near future: @eniko

    if you want to be sure nothing goes wrong in the migration be sure to follow it

    edit: nothing bad is going on, pmg has stability issues i can no longer tolerate

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    @eniko @eniko I told myself if I allowed myself to be bullied off of mastodon.social, it would probably be to PMG... but I guess that's out... ironically, the reason I'm still here is because of the stability (ideally, I'd like my toots to outlast me for a bit, if possible...)

    Oh well. Let us know how it is! It would be nice if it's good...

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    Synology confirms need for Synology-branded drives in newer Plus-series NAS
    Firm will later add "curated drive compatibility" lists after testing.
    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/synology-confirms-need-for-synology-branded-drives-in-newer-plus-series-nas/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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    @arstechnica I kinda gave up on them when they dropped USB support for odds and ends years ago. I probably should have sooner. 😔

    I have an old tiny 10TB mirrored unit I use to backup my TrueNAS box but I can't recommend them to any serious aspiring archivist.

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    anyone wanna recommend what software to use for emulation frontend stuff on a linux mint laptop?

    free software only please >_>

    indigoparadox ,
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    @eniko I like to setup my disk as LVM and put different distro roots in different logical volumes so I can easily grow them as needed. In practice I always just stay in Debian. But the flexibility is nice!

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    @eniko There are a bunch of things that sound kinda like it so I mean this, to be clear: https://linuxhandbook.com/lvm-guide/

    It's probably overkill, like I said... but I recommend avoiding btrfs for this kind of setup, at any rate. Too many "oops I didn't do nothin an' the computer don't turn on no more" experiences. 😌

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    @eniko Now you know how I feel when you post all those cool 3D whatsahoosits that you do sometimes, then. 😌 (Thx tho)

    @dosnostalgic@mastodon.social avatar dosnostalgic , (edited ) to random

    Once I stumbled upon an early 80s John Carpenter interview where he said he didn't think he'd ever make a political film. Then he went on to make "They Live" not 5 years later. 😄 Since then Carpenter always openly presented his left-leaning (for a kid from 1950s Kentucky) politics. What happened? 🤔 I'm guessing Reagan got re-elected. 🤷‍♂️

    Here's a clip of Carpenter's quick quip in a discussion with Clive Barker circa 1990:

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    @dosnostalgic There seem to be a lot of cool left-leaning folks in Kentucky. Their votes have just been jerrymandered to Hell, I guess.

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    Starting totk and suddenly realizing

    If the king and queen are both dead, wouldn't she be Queen Zelda, not Princess Zelda? 🤔

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    @eniko Not if it's a Princessipality. 😌

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    😂

    A rectangular image with text stating "HTML is pronounced by saying each letter. Don't say 'hittamul.'"
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    @nixCraft Oh but it's fine to pronounce SQL as "squirrel." 🙄

    @indigoparadox@mastodon.social avatar indigoparadox , to random

    HP TouchSmart 9300 screens cost way more than I can responsibly pay, sooo... I put it back together and put it in the alcove with a "BROKEN" label on it.

    This is austerity. 😔

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    hm well that wasn't quite what i had in mind...

    wood and plaster room with plank floor but the plank floor texture is stretched across the walls instead of wood and plaster
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    @eniko OK but add some windows and put a JPEG of some grass over that blue and you've got a stew goin'!

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    You can still play MidBoss as it went into beta exactly 10 years ago if you own it on itch, just grab the file "MidBoss Windows v0.6.0"

    Or you can watch this video of the beta by my old buddy Everyone Loves Pirates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncBR5lAB3BQ

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    @eniko Looking forward to a gay ultima-like. 😌

    @arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

    The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office
    Warehouse-style employee tracking technology is coming for the office worker.
    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/02/the-surveillance-tech-waiting-for-workers-as-they-return-to-the-office/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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    @arstechnica It's weird, reading this article... The thought that comes to be is, "This sort of thing reaffirms my decision to not have any part in personally bringing more people into this world."

    I can only hope I'll have retired or died in a painless way before these things start to become mainstream and functional enough to completely blot out any rogue moments of joy that one can experience during the day...

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    back on my bullshit

    a town surrounded by railway which sort of resembles an oval in shape
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    @eniko Hell yes Kitsune Tails city builder 1995.

    @indigoparadox@mastodon.social avatar indigoparadox , to random

    https://cov.care is in private... I was just there a month ago and foolishly figured I could put off my N95 purchase for another month.

    Where are folks buying their NIOSH-approved N95 these days? Wanna avoid Amazon since this is an item that can be counterfeited...

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    i love* stack overflow. i love how when you wanna know if a comparison to zero is faster than other numbers, one of the top comments will always be some shit like "This level of optimization is not worthwhile"

    and fuck you man. i am doing this comparison millions of times a second because i'm writing a blitter or im writing an interpreter or im writing something else where small gains add the fuck up, maybe on underpowered embedded or otherwise old hardware, so no actually, you utter enterprise brainworm poisoned asshole, it is actually worthwhile and i resent that you're making it my problem that you've never worked on a goddamn thing in your life where performance actually fucking mattered

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    @eniko I'm doing permacomputing. It's 2024. The 486 is the only CPU that matters. Anything more powerful than that is decadent and will not survive the coming storm. 😤

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , (edited ) to random

    hey linux nerds would it be possible to run a headless version of linux off a usb drive? i have a tiny x86 pc that i wanna use for octoprint for my 3d printer but i dont wanna set up a whole thing with peripherals

    it already has win11 but last time i tried to run windows headless it did not work out

    we used to use a raspberry pi but i can't deal with constant sd card corruptions anymore

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    @eniko I'm more averse to data corruption than most, but I have a significant fleet of Pis running & I don't remember the last time I had data corruption. But I buy name-brand endurance-rated SD cards from Best Buy (not Amazon!) & setup log2ram. If it's important I'll do something special like a RAID of USB drives or rsync revisions to the NAS.

    I also make sure no undervoltages show up in the logs using CheckMK.

    I have gotten corruption on Pis long ago, but it's possible to avoid it!

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    why DID microsoft make .NET? like, the benefit of a VM is portability so why make a VM and then be like "... and it will only run on x86 windows computers! :3"

    i guess so that they could have multiple languages all target the same common language runtime and interop easily?

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    @eniko This is a really good question. There's a lot of interesting speculation, here. What's also interesting is that the information available at the time also feels like speculation. I did a DDG search for "pc magazine microsoft dot net" between 12/1998 and 12/2002 and all the stuff I found was really vague and markety. I think the most concrete claim I found was this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-evolution-of-the-net-technologies/ which claims it was written to promote "open standards" for servers(???)

    Wild stuff. :thinkhappy:

    @arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

    Cable ISPs compare data caps to food menus: Don’t make us offer unlimited soup
    Data plans compared to a "tasting menu, a buffet, or unlimited soup and salad."
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/cable-isps-compare-data-caps-to-food-menus-dont-make-us-offer-unlimited-soup/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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    @arstechnica "The cable group argued that data-capped plans are a way for providers to distinguish their offerings from those of their competitors, which is beneficial for consumers."

    You don't have competitors! You have regional monopolies! Who are your competitors?! DSL?! Satellite?!?!?! Maybe FTTH in wealthy areas? Geez!

    @djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar djlink , to random

    so hum... Funko has caused itch.io to be taken down, wth

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    @djlink "Brand Shield" is "BS" lol... 😩

    @lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lisyarus , to random

    Digging progress! Now the dug out dirt doesn't disappear, but instead turns into dirt piles, which you'll be able to transport somehow later. And yeah, this is not Minecraft, the villagers can't carry a skyscraper in a pocket :)

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    @lisyarus I'm enjoying this. Simulation mechanics are so good. 😌

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , (edited ) to random

    do you use tablets? (computer, not e-reader)

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    @eniko I am on a tablet right now. Sitting in a chair became too exhausting so I've climbed into bed and this form factor is very convenient for that. 😌

    @indigoparadox@mastodon.social avatar indigoparadox , to random

    Did everyone just know the PictureBox control in could print variable-formatted text and just not tell me?

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    What fun! The text isn't selectable because it's basically a bitmap, and when it scrolls downward past the bottom it's lost, but it's colorful and can have pictures and be interactive! This is Multimedia!

    Thank you to Jarol Scott's Visual Basic 4 Multimedia Adventure Set! What a fascinating book with some real neat ideas for me to take and make even weirder!

    EDIT: source link: https://codeberg.org/indigoparadox/vbray/

    Screenshot of my Visual Basic 4 raycaster, but the log window is showing debug messages in red and the maid's test sentence "This is an extremely long line of text. It should wrap around and display as multiple lines in the adventure log. If it doesn't then something has gone wrong!" is wrapping after the word "log" and her name (Maid) is in blue!
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    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , (edited ) to random

    i posted this on bsky a while back, and only just realized "hey maybe fedi wants to see some of the visual art i personally created in its entirety"

    so, here's my art. please enjoy

    EDIT: for everyone asking: the third image is a screenshot from MidBoss, a turn-based roguelike where you possess the bodies of the enemies you defeat and take their abilities for your own. It's available on itch (https://eniko.itch.io/midboss) and Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/561740/MidBoss/)

    a 3D rendered landscape full of trees and filled with some amount of low-hanging fog. the image is low res and the colors have been reduced with dithering to feel like an old 90s game
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    @eniko The only problem with your art is that it's so good and cozy it's frustrating that I can't go live in it. The problem with all great artists, really. 😔

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    it is kind of fucked up how often i think "maybe i should stop talking about covid in public because i'm pretty sure it's hurting my career"

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    @eniko It becomes weighing one very real risk from nature against a second, also real and growing risk, except the second one is just one we collectively created as a society to add a bit of a challenge.

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    hatsune miku 😎

    Pixel art portrait of vocaloid character Hatsune Miku from the shoulders up. The piece was originally drawn at 256x256 resolution using my "Perfect 256" colour palette. Miku is facing the viewer straight on with a slight smile. The background is a purple gradient with overlaid kanji characters that make up her name.
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    @paintedsky :heart_fire: Bratzune Miku :heart_fire:

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    the intrusive thought that i should pick my hobby OS project back up

    WSL shell showing the Bismuth startup info dump with information about the XLen of the system, extensions, global and stack pointer locations, and paged memory start/end addresses
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    @eniko After working on my own, I got the vibe that one kind of implied the other (or at least modifying a tiny one like bcc or just making a backend for a bigger one...)

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    god i fucking hate modern web development

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    @eniko I'm the only one I know who likes it, because of all the CSS statements and tags that make things easier than they used to be... until someone points out that "modern web development" means not writing the HTML/CSS by hand and using React and various preprocessors or some sh*t and then I hate it, too. 😌

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    idea from @catraxx that i'm reposting in the hopes it will somehow become a reality: someone should stand up an Ultima Online server for the fediverse >_>

    EDIT: poll for interest in a reply to this post, please vote to register your interest

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    @eniko I just reinstalled the client recently for reasons... 😌

    @St1ka@peoplemaking.games avatar St1ka , to random

    I see this challenge so often, but let's make it actually interesting:

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    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , (edited ) to random

    God just absolutely fuck gamers who translate "I did not enjoy this" to "the devs deliberately made this awful"

    It's never fucking true you fuckwads. NEVER. No game developer spends literally years of their life to deliberately make something that people (even a minority of people) don't fucking enjoy. It does not happen, it has never happened, and it will never happen, and you fucking know it you wilfully obtuse piece of shit

    EDIT: just to be clear here some gamers will still say this about games that are almost universally well received just because they didn't like it. I'm not saying "if a game is bad it's not because the devs didn't try but because making games is hard" (which is also true) I'm saying "just because you don't like the game doesn't mean it 1. is bad and 2. that the devs made it bad specifically to spite you" because a single game can't be all things to all people

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    @eniko No it's bad because of woke. (That is, insomnia prevents devs from getting good sleep and they are then eepy and thus unable to make good games. 😔)

    @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

    This is not a commentary on current events, but I can't help but remember that one time at a past employer where a pair of Haskell Guys tried to RIIH the company's microservice cloud, which was written in Ruby and Python.

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    @aeva For the record, in case anybody sees this, I would never try to Haskell pill our company as a joke because I think it seemed funny. wink wink (They're the kind of awkward winks where I'm mostly closing both eyes.)

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    @vkc Just the one: my XT8088. My daily driver is a laptop in a dock, so that doesn't count. Same with my previous daily driver; a different laptop in another docker. My work laptop isn't in a dock, but it's still a laptop. My gaming PC is a rack-mount in the cabinet hanging over the desk, along with a bunch of servers.

    My KVM Raspberry Pi with Barrier installed might kinda count... or the retro Macs/PCs on the wall... but they're on the wall...

    So yes, just the one!