Marc @m2c_n3e@stackpointer.ws

Always remember #FLOSS* devs dont owe you anything. You can ask them for something but never demand them.

They are offering their freetime and working power and rarely ever get something back.

(*Free/Libre Open Source Software)

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource

If you're a decent software engineer, your assumptions will be:
- "everyone uses dialup over a shitty phone line that goes to one of those electromechanical telephone exchanges from 60s" instead of "the internet is fast enough these days"
- "everyone MAYBE has 8 GB of storage on their phone, half of which is taken by the OS" instead of "storage is cheap and 100 MB per app is okay, grow up, it's {{ current_year }}"
- "your user won't give a shit about your 'developer experience' and how 'beautiful' your code is" instead of "Kotlin and React and Electron are required, no one uses raw platform APIs/native controls/whatever anymore because it's so EASY to develop with all these new abstractions"

Trying to imagine going back to 1985 and telling someone their computer would eventually have eight multi-gigahertz cores, and yet the cursor would still lag behind you while you type

May the 4th be with you :-) https://megastyle.itch.io/esb-by-megastyle

Is it Friday yet?

I've seen a few posts about people 'fearing the lack of algorithm', or "feeling lost without one'.
Personally, i've always seen the #algorithm as heavily biased, something you waste your #creative energy and soul, constantly sucking up to it in order to be seen and noticed. I've always felt It's a farce. Marching the right way gets you popular, not your creative merits. You get practically blacklisted and not given a chance if you don't play ball.
Hoping this place is a breath of fresh air.

mastodon isn't silent and dead if you understand from the get-go that you've got to follow like a MFer and prune people back later. some of the other alt social media are .... just silent and dead

One of the unexpected joys of the fediverse over other places is the addition of weird domains appended on to everyone's usernames.

It makes the web feel like more than just four websites again.

It's both a signal of a smaller more intimate internet and also a larger and far more diverse internet at the same time!

#retrocompuing So - looks like I have to start looking into burning EPROMs for the #C64 / #C128, and i am dreaded by the topic.
For a complete newbie on that topic - how can I learn how to do that? I would plan for a TL866II like device, but how to source the chips, and which ones? It looks like EEPROMs aren't a big thing for C= roms, or is that a misconception?
Any good source of information is welcome <3

Keeping track of my #DevTerm battery pairs.