Nostr notes by Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

I'm just saying we need a moratorium on the use of the number ...

2026-10-28T00:24:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…04pa
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I'm just saying we need a moratorium on the use of the number 4 in security-sensitive code for at least the next 5 years

New idea: a base-9 programming language 0,1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10. ...

2026-10-27T20:56:31Z

New idea: a base-9 programming language
0,1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10.

It'll be the most secure, ever!

Here we go. The corrected Gay Pride Flag of Brazil, shown on ...

2026-10-26T08:27:09Z

Here we go. The corrected Gay Pride Flag of Brazil, shown on VGAPride 0.7 for MS-DOS, running on my Gateway laptop.

I'm currently the only one of 3 disabled trans people in my ...

2026-10-25T00:37:53Z

I'm currently the only one of 3 disabled trans people in my household who can work, but 16 months of being bedridden and chronic migraines have left us very broke, and we're helping my sister move cross-country now. If you can send a few dollars, that'd be very appreciated!

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

ooooof. that's horrible, I'm very sorry you had to go ...

2026-10-23T03:15:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…hr4l
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ooooof. that's horrible, I'm very sorry you had to go through that!

My sister threatened to bite a dentist who was trying to do that, and the dentist responded by not continuing... until she came back on valium, to calm her down. Not different painkillers, sedatives!

ugh, yeah I know what you mean. Thankfully my current dentist ...

2026-10-23T03:06:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…58u7
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ugh, yeah I know what you mean. Thankfully my current dentist believes me and gives me Bupivaccaine/Marcaine, but for years every time I'd be like "hey, doc, I am resistant to your painkillers, you'll have to give me more" and they're like "pfft, yeah right, okay sure", give me the normal amount, and and drill into me as I scream and WHOOPS we gotta delay further while we wait for another dose of painkillers to kick in. YOU COULD HAVE JUST LISTENED TO ME

(my grandmother had red hair. I unfortunately didn't inherit ...

2026-10-23T02:33:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…cefz
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(my grandmother had red hair. I unfortunately didn't inherit enough of her red hair genes to have red hair myself, but I did inherit enough to be resistant to painkillers!)

a review I can't leave and can't name (NDA reasons): ...

2026-10-23T02:06:54Z

a review I can't leave and can't name (NDA reasons):

today I spent 3 hours at the dentist having a crown put on a molar, and the anesthetic wore off four times mid-procedure. Despite this, your API is the most annoying thing I've had to deal with in the last 24 hours.

musl's got a CVE for a regcomp() exploit: ...

2026-10-22T05:45:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…4dgg
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musl's got a CVE for a regcomp() exploit:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2026/10/21/1

and xz-utils had a crash bug with corrupted files:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8945-1

integer overflow in regcomp(): ...

2026-10-21T23:30:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…rqs3
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integer overflow in regcomp():

https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2026/10/21/1

I think that one is just 4, but Oracle got their own CVE for it

2026-10-21T23:24:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…r6s7
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I think that one is just 4, but Oracle got their own CVE for it

so what has broken the internet today? 1. php 2. node.js 3. ...

2026-10-21T23:15:33Z

so what has broken the internet today?
1. php
2. node.js
3. gitlab
4. 4
5. musl
6. QUIC/HTTP/3
7. Signal
8. Apache Traffic Server
9. Pillow for Python, even!

(Java is reported, but supposedly it's just their version of the 4 issue)

anything else I'm missing?

and apparently Railray (a cloud provider?) got hacked and are telling all their customers to rotate their secrets. Apparently things like API keys were stolen

goto considered harmful longjmp considered very harmful

2026-10-21T18:54:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…5rrg
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goto considered harmful
longjmp considered very harmful

longjmp? in the year of our gourd 2026, the php bug involves ...

2026-10-21T18:54:30Z

longjmp? in the year of our gourd 2026, the php bug involves LONGJMP?

Has anyone made, like, a Kill-a-Watt with an ESP32 in it yet? I ...

2026-10-19T02:40:00Z

Has anyone made, like, a Kill-a-Watt with an ESP32 in it yet?

I don't want to put all my appliances on the internet quite yet, but being able to ping some of them to see if their power usage has dropped to zero yet would solve 99% of all my smart appliance needs, because all I really need is a reminder that I put something in the wash two hours ago and should move it along to the dryer now

handing a db-25 cable to an autistic friend of mine, and when ...

2026-10-16T02:13:33Z

handing a db-25 cable to an autistic friend of mine, and when they ask "why?", I say "so we can engage in parallel play!"

I love hearing about hardware problems where it's like ...

2026-10-14T20:55:36Z

I love hearing about hardware problems where it's like "well that can't have broken that way, just from doing that" and then there's follow-up and NOPE, it's really broken that way, from doing exactly that. huh. Computers are weird.

I've been saying since the 2000s that it's important that ...

2026-10-14T17:14:23Z

I've been saying since the 2000s that it's important that every big software stack have at least one angry new software grad to fight back against entrenched complexity in the existing codebase.

sometimes there is a good reason why we can't "just do X, Y, or Z" but someone should be still raising the question, damn it

So it's my birthday, and I'm currently the only one of ...

2026-10-13T22:17:44Z

So it's my birthday, and I'm currently the only one of three disabled trans people in my household who can work, but 16 months of being bedridden and ongoing chronic migraines have left us very broke. If you'd like to send a few dollars as a gift, that'd be very appreciated!

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Happy International Lesbian Day, from VGAPride! Here's one of ...

2026-10-08T22:20:57Z

Happy International Lesbian Day, from VGAPride!
Here's one of the many lesbian pride flags (the 5-stripe variant of the "sunset" flag).

annoyingly, ever since changing my name to Alice I've not run ...

2026-10-02T17:40:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…6mzg
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annoyingly, ever since changing my name to Alice I've not run into anybody named Bob. As soon as I do, I'm immediately sneaking all kinds of secret messages to that fucker

I met one of the other Alices of the fediverse yesterday, ...

2026-10-02T17:24:49Z

I met one of the other Alices of the fediverse yesterday, [@alice](https://lgbtqia.space/@alice )! I can confirm they're pretty awesome.

I cannot confirm or deny any rumors about all the Alices planning to form a Supreme Council of Alices to take over the world.

moral of the story: always run your code with debugging on so you ...

2026-10-01T23:42:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…xmss
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moral of the story: always run your code with debugging on so you don't sit there for 5 minutes going "I wonder what's taking so long?" while it hammers the fuck out of the remote server requesting the same 10k IPs over and over and over and over

The code was supposed to be something like: scroll_key = None: ...

2026-10-01T23:38:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…z8eg
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The code was supposed to be something like:

scroll_key = None:
while True:
url = generate_url(scroll_key)
results = get_page(url))
complete_results.extend(results['data'])
if 'scroll' in results:
scroll_key = results['scroll']
else:
break # hit last page

but I accidentally refactored the url=generate_url above the while True:

excellent work, Alice: I just wrote some code to non-recursively ...

2026-10-01T23:32:00Z

excellent work, Alice:
I just wrote some code to non-recursively request the first 10,000 IPs from an API, forever.

Pagination is hard, lets go shopping

ooh, you know you're in for a treat when an API mentions ...

2026-10-01T20:45:14Z

ooh, you know you're in for a treat when an API mentions "JSON keep-alive"

we are still dealing with a bad decision made by some homophobic ...

2026-10-01T19:45:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…ruu3
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we are still dealing with a bad decision made by some homophobic punk at netscape 31 years ago

I don't think the scars left by AI are going to be faded by 2036, even assuming the bubble bursts later today

I saw a post earlier today that was something like "well, ...

2026-10-01T19:44:16Z

I saw a post earlier today that was something like "well, hopefully in a decade all the damage AI has done will have been cleared out of the programming ecosystem"

and I unfortunately thought that that was a very optimistic estimate

hometown/mastodon has pointed out that lately I've used a ...

2026-09-29T20:56:47Z

hometown/mastodon has pointed out that lately I've used a certain hashtag a lot, and asked if I'd like to add it as a featured hashtag.

that hashtag? #define

nah, I think I'll pass.

I've got a project that is going to involve some very ...

2026-09-22T17:57:18Z

I've got a project that is going to involve some very low-color-depth dithering, like 8/16 colors. Does anyone have any suggestions for games that are a good example of that style? I need to find more examples of it to study for replicating it

Reminded of it because of this:
https://timetheft.rip/@Modernmodron/117315684245888145

quoting
note1q94…v8mf

eggplant

evil idea: a password system that has tempo restrictions like ...

2026-09-21T18:58:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…08le
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evil idea: a password system that has tempo restrictions

like it's "hunter2"

but you have to type "hunt" quickly" and "er2" at hunt-and-peck speeds, or it will reject.

I've got two systems hooked up to my KVM and they have the ...

2026-09-21T18:52:18Z

I've got two systems hooked up to my KVM and they have the same master password except with different capitalization.

I can HIGHLY recommend this if you want to feel like you're going slowly insane

the wildfires were getting close so I tried to build a ...

2026-09-19T18:04:50Z

the wildfires were getting close so I tried to build a Corsi–Rosenthal Box and accidentally built an Einstein–Rosen Bridge instead

anyone remember back in the 90s before google when search engines ...

2026-09-19T05:01:13Z

anyone remember back in the 90s before google when search engines were just dogshit and it was really hard to find anything, and what search engines there were would sometimes just give you completely unrelated pages full of gibberish?
man, that was a terrible time for the web

during breakfast my sister tried to convince me that turing ...

2026-09-17T15:55:46Z

during breakfast my sister tried to convince me that turing completeness was a mistake

alternate universe where USB never caught on and we're ...

2026-09-17T15:17:54Z

alternate universe where USB never caught on and we're recharging our iphone 18 over SCSI

Someone once suggested maybe adding sudoku or a nonogram and was ...

2026-09-15T21:49:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…3ml5
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Someone once suggested maybe adding sudoku or a nonogram and was immediately dropkicked out of the 8th story window of the MozillaCo HQ by Brendan Eich, CEO For Life

Ahh yes, the 5 canonical widgets, Weather, Timer, Clock, ...

2026-09-15T21:48:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…symw
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Ahh yes, the 5 canonical widgets,

Weather,
Timer,
Clock,
Crossword,
and Picture of the Day

None other exist. None other can exist.

I know Mozilla is supposedly a non-profit and this is open-source ...

2026-09-15T21:43:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…gfen
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I know Mozilla is supposedly a non-profit and this is open-source software being developed by and for the community but I can smell Promotion-Seeking features.

How do we make widgets? Is there even a plan for this to be expandable? or did you design a whole new browser feature only to toss five random-ass options in there?

if I have a cool idea for a widget... how do I make it? do I need ...

2026-09-15T21:36:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…2cwd
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if I have a cool idea for a widget... how do I make it?

do I need to put it into the firefox core?

COME ON NOW

WHERE'S THE WIDGETS CATEGORY ON ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG?

2026-09-15T21:34:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…53pk
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WHERE'S THE WIDGETS CATEGORY ON ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG?

MOZILLA WHAT'S YOUR PLAN FOR THE FIREFOX WIDGET ECOSYSTEM DO ...

2026-09-15T21:34:02Z

MOZILLA WHAT'S YOUR PLAN FOR THE FIREFOX WIDGET ECOSYSTEM

DO YOU EVEN HAVE ONE

OR DO YOU THINK THE CURRENT FIVE WIDGETS ARE ALL PEOPLE WILL EVER NEED?

everytime I see WSL it takes a moment for my brain to not read it ...

2026-09-15T21:24:03Z

everytime I see WSL it takes a moment for my brain to not read it as an acronym like ESL: "Windows as a Second Language"

for over a decade I've been getting hired at companies that ...

2026-09-15T20:49:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…ql8l
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for over a decade I've been getting hired at companies that are 100% linux shops and they've dealt with the problem of a lack of good linux laptops in exactly the same way

standardize on windows or mac laptops and just make everyone SSH into VMs (or run VMs locally)

All problems can be solved by wrapping another layer of Linux ...

2026-09-15T20:48:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…mj25
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All problems can be solved by wrapping another layer of Linux around it

arg. I think my nice portable container just failed to work ...

2026-09-15T20:38:24Z

arg. I think my nice portable container just failed to work because I ran it with insufficient levels of nice portable containerization.

no, you need to run linux inside linux inside linux inside linux, not just linus inside linux inside linux, that'll never work

do you ever catch yourself thinking "well, I've got a ...

2026-09-15T20:11:34Z

do you ever catch yourself thinking "well, I've got a migraine and I've got to get to sleep before my doctors appointment, but on the other hand, how long could it take to install the beOS SDK and compile a simple GUI Hello World program?"

or is that just me?

I wonder if anyone has examined code reviewer performance with ...

2026-09-15T19:56:24Z

I wonder if anyone has examined code reviewer performance with regard to perceived AI usage.

like if you stick "co-authored by chat-gpt/claude" and some em-dashes in a merge request, do code reviewers miss more bugs because they're not reading as closely? or do they become more picky, complaining about things they wouldn't otherwise?

I got it to work. How? Fuck if I know.

2026-09-12T21:32:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…kqrj
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I got it to work. How?

Fuck if I know.

ugh. I have confirmed by connecting to another device that my ...

2026-09-12T20:24:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…009g
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ugh. I have confirmed by connecting to another device that my headphones are working fine

so it's just this computer that's refusing to connect to both input+output.

so I guess they're a HID device?

2026-09-12T19:27:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…ekq6
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so I guess they're a HID device?

what the fuck windows midway through a call, my bluetooth ...

2026-09-12T19:27:42Z

what the fuck windows
midway through a call, my bluetooth microphone stops sending sound, so I give up and switch to a pair of headphones with a builtin mic

and they won't work
so I reboot and they don't work, so I make windows forget, and re-pair them

now they pair, but they don't show up as an output or an input

but they are connected
just not as an audio output or input

MSDN, btw, has a warning that really really doesn't inspire ...

2026-09-10T15:56:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…wq4p
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MSDN, btw, has a warning that really really doesn't inspire confidence in the OS:

SECURITY NOTE: The clipboard should not be used to transfer sensitive data.

for bonus points: open notepad, type "hello world", copy ...

2026-09-10T15:51:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…aa2w
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for bonus points: open notepad, type "hello world", copy it, then close notepad.

then paste that text into something else.

does it work?

if so, HOW?

this is also why you can copy text out of firefox and paste it ...

2026-09-10T15:49:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…kkdm
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this is also why you can copy text out of firefox and paste it into word and it'll show up as rich text, but if you paste it into notepad, it'll be plain text

this does also lead to some weirdness with things like images. ...

2026-09-10T15:48:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…3krf
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this does also lead to some weirdness with things like images. when you copy an image, what's on the clipboard? a PNG? a bitmap? a jpeg?

Yes. All of them at once. The program you're pasting into gets to pick which one it's going to ask for

and don't get me started on the fact that the actual windows ...

2026-09-10T15:44:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…hvhj
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and don't get me started on the fact that the actual windows clipboard is bullshit and chips. it was implemented in windows 3.1 so it doesn't actually hold the contents of what you copy, it instead holds a pointer to which application can generate the contents of the clipboard.

you can tell this if the program that's got the clipboard contents has hung, because you can't paste shit

the problem is that windows doesn't actually implement ...

2026-09-10T15:41:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…af49
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the problem is that windows doesn't actually implement copy/cut/paste using files. it instead implements copy/cut/paste on top of file paths. this makes it not work the same as the actual clipboard

windows refused to actually commit to the clipboard metaphor for ...

2026-09-10T15:40:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…9g2p
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windows refused to actually commit to the clipboard metaphor for files, it just stuck a copy/cut/paste metaphor on top of an existing DOS-style file manipulation system

IT'S IN THE RECYCLING BIN DIPSHIT, YOU PUT IT THERE

2026-09-10T15:39:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…x0dp
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IT'S IN THE RECYCLING BIN DIPSHIT, YOU PUT IT THERE

copy "foobar" from file A delete it from file A paste it ...

2026-09-10T15:39:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…vyf9
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copy "foobar" from file A

delete it from file A

paste it into file B

it appears in file B

copy foobar from folder A

delete it from folder A

paste it into folder B

windows says "whoops can't find that file"

create folders A, B, C, create file "foobar" in folder ...

2026-09-10T15:37:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…xahw
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create folders A, B, C, create file "foobar" in folder "A"

copy it from A

paste it into B & C

it appears in B & C

cut it from A

paste it into B

paste it into C

it only appears in B

open text files A, B, C: type "foobar" into A: copy ...

2026-09-10T15:36:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…a9js
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open text files A, B, C:

type "foobar" into A:

copy foobar, paste it into B, C:

it appears in both

cut it from A, paste it into B & C, it appears in both.

it's been 31 years since windows 95 and I'm still annoyed ...

2026-09-10T15:35:52Z

it's been 31 years since windows 95 and I'm still annoyed that they implemented the copy-cut-paste metaphor for files but they got it wrong

Anyone happen to have ROM dumps of a IBM Wheelwriter 3500 (or ...

2026-09-04T07:57:07Z

Anyone happen to have ROM dumps of a IBM Wheelwriter 3500 (or one, and the ability to dump them)?

I'm helping someone repair one that has some corrosion damage on the main motherboard, and it looks like the eeproms may be lost.

like you'll find a library to do something you need to do and ...

2026-09-04T05:47:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…wd6m
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like you'll find a library to do something you need to do and it's not been updated for a decade

and the same libraries run on both

2026-09-04T04:56:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…agwp
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and the same libraries run on both

it's also an environment that has existed from 2005 running ...

2026-09-04T04:56:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…vuv8
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it's also an environment that has existed from 2005 running on 8-bit micros to 2026 dual-core multiple-megabytes-of-ram microcontrollers that have wifi and HTTPS support

it's an especially weird environment because it's just ...

2026-09-04T04:51:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…z73g
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it's an especially weird environment because it's just C++ but it's pretending to be an unrelated Java environment so the docs are weird as hell but you can still call the underlying glibc functions if you know what they are

I've got some code that parses a single integer from a MQTT ...

2026-09-04T04:50:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…47g0
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I've got some code that parses a single integer from a MQTT message, and it needs to change to be two integers

easy to fix, right?

yeah. easy.

why do I keep writing code for the arduino I hate this ...

2026-09-04T04:48:44Z

why do I keep writing code for the arduino

I hate this programming environment so much

there's only two genders: 40 or 80 columns

2026-08-31T19:38:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…njsp
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there's only two genders:
40 or 80 columns

I'm in the Telegard BBS config and the two options for ...

2026-08-31T19:36:02Z

I'm in the Telegard BBS config and the two options for "Gender" are "Yes" and "No"

This isn't the usual gender binary I'm fighting against

This code targets python 2.3! There weren't even decorators ...

2026-08-27T18:41:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…kkz5
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This code targets python 2.3! There weren't even decorators yet!
I wrote this code during the George W. Bush administration.
The hot new console was THE WII.

How much do you think I can remember this shit?

The great thing about releasing software for free is that ...

2026-08-27T18:35:24Z

The great thing about releasing software for free is that sometimes you get support requests for something you wrote 19 years, three names, and two genders ago

when you reach the "maybe I'll fork the emulator..." ...

2026-08-27T03:31:09Z

when you reach the "maybe I'll fork the emulator..." stage, that's when you know your shitpost has scope creeped too far

I'm calling it T.A.S.A.F.E. Tool Assisted Speedrun Assisted ...

2026-08-26T05:43:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…hkmk
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I'm calling it T.A.S.A.F.E.

Tool Assisted Speedrun Assisted Font Extraction

so like, I TAS until we get to the first line of the game, but ...

2026-08-26T05:40:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…6w6z
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so like, I TAS until we get to the first line of the game, but have the script injecting different characters into the game's ROM, to change the text shown.

the basic idea is that I record a TAS to get to a specific point ...

2026-08-26T05:39:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…eqku
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the basic idea is that I record a TAS to get to a specific point in the game, then then have a wrapper script that runs the emulator over and over, while mutating the file. the speedrun dumps the image obtained at the end of the TAS

I did a presentation years ago about my Automatic Visual Font ...

2026-08-26T05:38:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…4vxr
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I did a presentation years ago about my Automatic Visual Font Extraction method (which never got posted anywhere because I misplaced the presentation file, whoops. I just did a presentation for the bay area reverse engineering thing)

but I need to do another presentation of my other method, which I haven't come up with a silly acronym for yet. I just call it "hax" so far

"A" is at 0x21. I think it's just ASCII shifted down ...

2026-08-26T05:23:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…mdew
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"A" is at 0x21. I think it's just ASCII shifted down 32.

Fun Fact: Terranigma doesn't use \x00 to end strings, it uses ...

2026-08-26T05:19:40Z

Fun Fact: Terranigma doesn't use \x00 to end strings, it uses \xD4. And if you try to use \x00, you'll corrupt the text engine and crash the game

1994 problems and 2026 problems are sometimes the same

2026-08-24T13:11:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…jrry
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1994 problems and 2026 problems are sometimes the same

heh, I was listening to the interview and thinking "ugh, they ...

2026-08-24T13:09:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…d56r
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heh, I was listening to the interview and thinking "ugh, they had to cut it down to mono-sound, 1994 was so primitive!"

NOPE that was just my bluetooth earpods failing to both correct properly

They're visiting LucasArts during the making of Full ...

2026-08-24T13:04:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…5q2c
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They're visiting LucasArts during the making of Full Throttle. For some reason I couldn't get these videos to play in the magazine program itself, but they play fine in QuickTime directly.

ooh, they're Quicktime PIC files! 640x480 at 256 entire ...

2026-08-24T13:01:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…5mxy
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ooh, they're Quicktime PIC files!

640x480 at 256 entire colors

mid-90s softcore: taking photos on film, then scanning these ...

2026-08-24T12:59:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…pcta
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mid-90s softcore: taking photos on film, then scanning these beautiful high-resolution images into a computer where they drop them to 256 colors

this interactive magazine has "interactive centerfolds", ...

2026-08-24T12:58:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…7mvc
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this interactive magazine has "interactive centerfolds", by which they mean a photo gallery, interview text, and a video. it's very multimedia.

They've got three selections: one which I think is videos from another game by the same company, then two sets of softcore photosets of naked ladies

So I'm looking at this 1995 Interactive CD Magazine called ...

2026-08-24T12:51:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…6n97
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So I'm looking at this 1995 Interactive CD Magazine called "Go Digital Interactive Magazine" and the first thing I can see is about the EFF and Who are These People and Wait, THAT Mike Godwin? Of the Law?

Drat, I was looking forward to perusing through the World Wide ...

2026-08-24T12:35:42Z

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Drat, I was looking forward to perusing through the World Wide Web using Mosaic.

Darn, I can't trick it that I'm signed up, it wants to ...

2026-08-24T12:32:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…t38a
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Darn, I can't trick it that I'm signed up, it wants to dial into the real PSI InterRamp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSINet tl;dr: Bankrupt in 2001, ...

2026-08-24T12:28:52Z

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSINet

tl;dr: Bankrupt in 2001, acquired by Cogent in 2002.

ooh, this disk comes with a signup for InterRamp! The Worlds ...

2026-08-24T12:26:29Z

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ooh, this disk comes with a signup for InterRamp!
The Worlds Largest Internet Service Provider!

man what kind of person puts an EXE in C:\TEMP and marks it READ ...

2026-08-24T12:16:32Z

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man what kind of person puts an EXE in C:\TEMP and marks it READ ONLY?

what's be really cool (and I understand there's a lot of ...

2026-08-24T11:30:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…anyp
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what's be really cool (and I understand there's a lot of reasons why this would be a nightmare to actually implement) would be a tool like ffprobe that telled you the ffmpeg command that'd produce a given format of video, based on an example file

oh hey, the README mentions the Diamond Viper VLB! and the Weitek ...

2026-08-24T11:27:46Z

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oh hey, the README mentions the Diamond Viper VLB! and the Weitek P9000! that's the 2D Accelerator I was researching how to code for earlier today

You couldn't be more specific about WHY, exactly? ...

2026-08-24T11:19:11Z

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You couldn't be more specific about WHY, exactly?

oof for some reason ffmpeg is processing it at 2 FPS This video ...

2026-08-24T11:10:02Z

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oof for some reason ffmpeg is processing it at 2 FPS

This video is 5326 frames long!

like if I tell FFMPEG to give me a .MOV at 320x240 it's not ...

2026-08-24T11:02:40Z

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like if I tell FFMPEG to give me a .MOV at 320x240 it's not gonna give me something I can play on this 1994 software, right?

Let's find out

random thought: I wonder how hard it would be to encode video ...

2026-08-24T11:02:11Z

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random thought: I wonder how hard it would be to encode video that this version of QuickTime can play back?