ManMachine

@max@manmachine.me

Professional computer toucher.
Amateur photographer and musician.
Autistic.
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[?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

best dosbox

original:10
x:17
staging:11
pure:1

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[?]Ozzelot :runbsd: [they/he/any] » 🔓
@ozzelot@mstdn.social

@eniko
this is where i would show a boxed set of dos floppies... if i had one

    [?]Machine Lord Zero » 🌐
    @MachineLordZero@mastodon.social

    @eniko *fires up the old XT*

      [?]Mikey! » 🌐
      @mWare@ottawa.place

      @eniko "btw"

        [?]amlor » 🌐
        @amlor@fux.am

        @eniko 86box :D

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        [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
        @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

        Is anyone doing okay anymore?

        I'm doing okay:92
        I'm not doing okay:170
        Other:45

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        [?]ArtistSynth - Ahora en NeoPaquita » 🔓
        @ArtistSynth@neopaquita.es

        @eniko
        Not great not terrible

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          [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
          @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

          @ArtistSynth ah the chernobyl scale of okayness

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            [?]ArtistSynth - Ahora en NeoPaquita » 🔓
            @ArtistSynth@neopaquita.es

            @eniko like in a scale to -5 to +5 i'm in 0

              [?]Keith » 🔓
              @keydelk@fosstodon.org

              @eniko I guess I’m doing as okay as one can with the world in chaos.

                [?]vavakado :flaggenderfluid: [https://pronouns.cc/@vavakado] » 🌐
                @vavakado@mas.to

                @eniko are you doing okay?

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                  [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                  @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                  @vavakado i think maybe just barely yes

                    [?]LezLiz 🏳️‍🌈 [she/her] » 🌐
                    @LezLiz@mas.to

                    @eniko I have set the bar pretty low for myself, but I'd like to think that I'm doing okay as long as I can pay the rent, which thankfully is the case at the moment.

                      [?]a writer » 🔓
                      @Dandelion@stormwaltz.net

                      Just life [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                      @eniko

                      When the work year began on Jan 5, I had one full time and one part time game dev job.

                      As of end of day today, I'm unemployed.

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                        [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                        @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                        Just life [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                        @Dandelion ugh i'm sorry

                          [?]Aviv » 🌐
                          @springogeek@mastodon.gamedev.place

                          @eniko I oscillate between ok and not ok, currently in the not category, but hopefully it doesn't last long.

                            [?]KaijuCat [she/her (cis)] » 🌐
                            @kaijucat@mastodon.social

                            @eniko I may not be thriving, but I am surviving

                              [?]Micah Ilbery ☕️ [he/him] » 🌐
                              @micahilbery@mstdn.social

                              @eniko not really, but I keep trying.

                                [?]Oblomov » 🌐
                                @oblomov@sociale.network

                                @eniko I'm doing OK financially but I wish the world was a better place and I could help out more, so I marked it as Other

                                  [?]四 [he/him/his] » 🔓
                                  @yon@sakurajima.moe

                                  @eniko I wasn’t doing well 10 years ago, since then everything has gotten worse:/

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                                    [?]mym » 🌐
                                    @mym@toot.cat

                                    Aeva just said "UB San", short for "undefined behavior sanitizer", but between manga and Persona i heard it as "Mr. Undefined Behavior"

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                                    [?]JA Westenberg » 🌐
                                    @Daojoan@mastodon.social

                                    Newcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine in 1712. It was awful. 1% thermal efficiency. James Watt showed up 57 years later and built one that worked. Newcomen got a Wikipedia footnote. Watt got a unit of measurement.

                                    "The World's First" is not the trophy you think it is.

                                    joanwestenberg.com/the-worlds-

                                    [?]Ben S. [He/Him] » 🔓
                                    @HunterZ@mastodon.sdf.org

                                    Hearing people debate the usefulness of AI sounds an awful lot like Boromir arguing that the One Ring should not be cast into the fires of Mount Doom.

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                                    [?]Human Brain Enthusiast » 🔓
                                    @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                    @HunterZ LLMs and machine learning have use cases—however, sycophantic chatbot-style user interfaces and the big AI companies should be thrown into a volcano

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                                      [?]Li Chen » 🌐
                                      @exocomics@mastodon.world

                                      oh no what have you done

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                                      [?]Ozzelot :runbsd: [they/he/any] » 🔓
                                      @ozzelot@mstdn.social

                                      @exocomics
                                      Now you're catting with portals!

                                        [?]joe » 🔓
                                        @Joe_von_Saporski@bunt.social

                                        @exocomics
                                        I would download a cat

                                          [?]Lunar 🛸 ♾ » 🌐
                                          @lunarloony@dosgame.club

                                          @exocomics I want this to be my computer's startup screen

                                            [?]Sam Bryan » 🌐
                                            @samb@techhub.social

                                            @exocomics

                                            A dark, distorted background with bold, white text that reads, "YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAT."

                                            Alt...A dark, distorted background with bold, white text that reads, "YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAT."

                                              [?]Geoff » 🌐
                                              @geofftc@mas.to

                                              @exocomics

                                              She wants that mouse.

                                                [?]bhahne » 🌐
                                                @bhahne@mastodon.online

                                                @exocomics She summoned the cat to catch the bird. She summoned the bird to catch the spider...

                                                  [?]Comix Cat Kid/Waiter » 🌐
                                                  @ComixCatKid@mastodon.social

                                                  @exocomics So thats how cats appear out of no where

                                                    [?]37Prime ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ » 🌐
                                                    @37prime@mastodon.social

                                                    @exocomics
                                                    How can I download this?

                                                      [?]ĞÖKÜ👻👻™ » 🌐
                                                      @GOKUSHRM@mastodon.social

                                                      @exocomics revolutionary tech 🤣🤣

                                                        [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                        @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                        NINETY DAYS

                                                        NINETY INCIDENTS

                                                        NINETY PERCENT

                                                        YOU PAID FOR ALL FIVE NINES BUT YOU’LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE

                                                        a graph of github uptime status with an astonishing number of nineties specifically

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                                                          [?]Sebastian Krzyszkowiak » 🌐
                                                          @dos@social.librem.one

                                                          @0xabad1dea There are five nines on the screenshot, I don't see any problem.

                                                            [?]Ratsnake Games 🔞 [she/her, i guess] » 🌐
                                                            @ratsnakegames@mastodon.social

                                                            @0xabad1dea is that a sequel to "Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors"?

                                                              [?]Adrian Chadd <verified.png> » 🌐
                                                              @erikarn@mstdn.social

                                                              @0xabad1dea i bet i know what's going on here

                                                                [?]Richard Penner » 🌐
                                                                @Arpie4Math@mathstodon.xyz

                                                                @0xabad1dea This is what happens when the “official” Whitehouse grift app loads JavaScript from some random GitHub pages.

                                                                  [?]cmars 🅅 » 🌐
                                                                  @cmars@infosec.exchange

                                                                  @0xabad1dea Maybe they meant 9 5s?

                                                                    [?]Synnef » 🔓
                                                                    @synnef@woof.tech

                                                                    @0xabad1dea five nine(ties)??

                                                                      [?]gkrnours » 🔓
                                                                      @gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                      @0xabad1dea does 89% uptime count as one nine ?

                                                                        [?]veetee [He/him] » 🌐
                                                                        @vt52@ioc.exchange

                                                                        @0xabad1dea I'm more of a nine fives kind of sysop

                                                                          [?]adoug » 🌐
                                                                          @adoug@infosec.exchange

                                                                          @0xabad1dea Grok, is this true? 🤖💩

                                                                            [?]Cap Ybarra [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                            @cap_ybarra@beige.party

                                                                            @0xabad1dea insanity. when i worked for microsoft they would have fired me and then launched whatever was left into the sun if i let this go on for four hours much less ninety goddamn days

                                                                              [?]johnduggins [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                              @johnduggins@infosec.exchange

                                                                              @0xabad1dea I nearly choked on my cheese. Good job!

                                                                                [?]slembcke » 🌐
                                                                                @slembcke@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                @0xabad1dea Where did this come from? status.github.com paints a very different picture, though also not particularly great honestly…

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                                                                                  [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                  @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                  @slembcke to confirm what someone else said while I was asleep, it’s an independent third party tracker called the “missing” github status page. mrshu.github.io/github-statuse

                                                                                  they track ten subsystems separately, which are each in the 96% to 99.9% range, then overlay all those incidents on the same timeline to arrive at 90% overall.

                                                                                  I do not have any particular stance on whether github’s own tracker or this third party one is more fair and accurate, beyond “90-90-90 is hilarious” and observing only one of them has a contractual stake in possibly sometimes downplaying issues a little bit.

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                                                                                    [?]gunstick » 🌐
                                                                                    @gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu

                                                                                    @0xabad1dea @slembcke if each subsystem is crucial for github to work, you multiply those uptimes and get 90.
                                                                                    If the subsystems are independent then can't do that.
                                                                                    If the CI system is down, you can't say github is down.
                                                                                    I would then merge the timelines and get some metric "how long has there been no issue at all".
                                                                                    That can be very low and the website is still fine.

                                                                                      [?]The Orange Theme [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                      @theorangetheme@en.osm.town

                                                                                      @0xabad1dea There's a 996 joke in here somewhere, I swear.

                                                                                      Edit: 996: one 9 of uptime, 9-0 incidents, and the third nine in "90 days" is upside down lol. We can workshop it.

                                                                                        [?]mlen » 🔓
                                                                                        @mlen@social.hackerspace.pl

                                                                                        @0xabad1dea We're just sloply moving to a new industry standard of nine fives.

                                                                                          [?]jablkoziemne » 🌐
                                                                                          @jablkoziemne@101010.pl

                                                                                          microslop [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                          @0xabad1dea this new github coopilot feature will improve microslop copilothub copilot impersonating ability, now you will be able to hand out your private projects to microslop copilot without copilothub breaking.

                                                                                            [?]jwz » 💀 🌐
                                                                                            @jwz@mastodon.social

                                                                                            @0xabad1dea It's my perpetual joke about Monkeybrains and their eight eights of uptime but the load-bearing structure of the interweb.

                                                                                              [?]Security Writer :donor: » 🌐
                                                                                              @SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange

                                                                                              @0xabad1dea the green bits are 100%

                                                                                              It’s 99.999% but we’re not telling you the timeframe.

                                                                                                [?]🗦new🗧 FireFly » 🌐
                                                                                                @firefly@frogs.lgbt

                                                                                                @0xabad1dea the yolocolo at european chaos/hacker events has used "9.9999% is also five nines" in some posters...

                                                                                                maybe that's the logic Github's operating by too

                                                                                                  [?]Agathe » 🔓
                                                                                                  @aeri@eldritch.cafe

                                                                                                  @0xabad1dea you can get more 9s of uptime is the first number is an 8

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                                                                                                    [?]zoe :blahaj: [She/her, they/them, it/its] » 🌐
                                                                                                    @commanderred@chaos.social

                                                                                                    @0xabad1dea a incident a day keeps the customers away

                                                                                                      [?]Misofist [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                      @Misofist@girlcock.club

                                                                                                      @0xabad1dea They're so close to achieving zero nines.

                                                                                                      How do you even manage 90% uptime over 90 days?? 9 full days of downtime??

                                                                                                      My homelab has been subjected to frequent power outages due to the house getting a bunch of electrical work & renovations done, and I've still managed at least 97%.

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                                                                                                        [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                        @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                        @Misofist this graph (which is an independent third party tracker) is calculated by overlaying any detected issues from ten separate sub-systems of github on one timeline. Red bars are when any one of those ten subsystems has a critical failure, yellow is when any one of them has observable issues.

                                                                                                        So it's not quite as extreme as 10% of the time just being completely, utterly dead. But still much worse, these last few months, than usual

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                                                                                                          [?]Misofist [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                          @Misofist@girlcock.club

                                                                                                          @0xabad1dea Yeah so it's more like 10% degraded service rather than 10% downtime.

                                                                                                          Still, what the actual fuck.

                                                                                                            [?]Jason Parker (he/they) » 🌐
                                                                                                            @north@xn--8r9a.com

                                                                                                            @0xabad1dea It was a typo, they meant 5 8s and look, they exceeded their goal!

                                                                                                              [?]四 [he/him/his] » 🔓
                                                                                                              @yon@sakurajima.moe

                                                                                                              @0xabad1dea GitHub used to be genuinely stable. Also I haven’t noticed a single useful new feature in years.

                                                                                                              Question is, is it a general Microsoft/firing people problem. Or is it AI?

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                                                                                                                [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                @yon bit of column A, bit of column B, bit of column "global hardware crisis" due to column B

                                                                                                                  [?]gunstick » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu

                                                                                                                  @0xabad1dea
                                                                                                                  It's 5 nines!!!

                                                                                                                  Abive graph with each occurence of a 9 circled in red. There are 5.

                                                                                                                  Alt...Abive graph with each occurence of a 9 circled in red. There are 5.

                                                                                                                    [?]Michael Glenn » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @mglenn@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                    @0xabad1dea which site is it that combines the 10 uptime metrics? I'm curious what Claude's is for their four (now five) metrics.

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                                                                                                                      @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

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                                                                                                                      [?]Michael Glenn » 🌐
                                                                                                                      @mglenn@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                      @0xabad1dea I had Claude try to do the same for itself. Not quite as fair as Github as the Anthropic components are more Independent.

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                                                                                                                        [?]Tech Tangents » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @TechTangents@dialup.space

                                                                                                                        This might be one of the greatest error messages of all time.

                                                                                                                        ImagEdit error dialog box that says "The limits of the system have been exceeded."

                                                                                                                        Alt...ImagEdit error dialog box that says "The limits of the system have been exceeded."

                                                                                                                        [?]Nanoraptor [She/Her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

                                                                                                                        Typing re-imagined as a dynamic context-free experience for maximum user adaptive input flexibility, total surface interaction and pure visual feedback.

                                                                                                                        A picture of a macbook pro from above, showing where the touch bar which used to replace the F-keys has been replaced with regular keys, and the rest of the keyboard has been replaced with FIVE MORE TOUCH BARS.

                                                                                                                        Alt...A picture of a macbook pro from above, showing where the touch bar which used to replace the F-keys has been replaced with regular keys, and the rest of the keyboard has been replaced with FIVE MORE TOUCH BARS.

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                                                                                                                        [?]dan 💾 » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @billgoats@bitbang.social

                                                                                                                        @NanoRaptor I saw a rumour that the Neo 2 is going to have this keyboard but without the backlighting, to save on costs.

                                                                                                                          [?]Vaneshi » 🌐
                                                                                                                          @Vaneshi@bitbang.social

                                                                                                                          @NanoRaptor Delete this horror right the hell now lol

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                                                                                                                            [?]Charlie Stross » 🌐
                                                                                                                            @cstross@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                            @NanoRaptor This is basically a fretless electric guitar, right?

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                                                                                                                              [?]Pile Of Garbage [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @pileofgarbage@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                              @NanoRaptor when Apple makes this real I am having you arrested

                                                                                                                                [?]Þór Sigurðsson » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @thor@mast.ttk.is

                                                                                                                                @NanoRaptor want to make it cursed?

                                                                                                                                Change each touchbar to a display-bar with a sliding marker.

                                                                                                                                Then you have to slide all of the markers to a "other" location except in the display-bar you are using (eg, you want Q, then that bar's slider points to Q and all the others point to "other") - and then add one big plate to the right of the mouse-pad with a "commit" printed on it.

                                                                                                                                back to basics!

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                                                                                                                                  [?]serena 🌙 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @sereeena@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                  have you tried turning it off

                                                                                                                                  [?]lenazun » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @lzg@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                  I completely understand the position of people who don't want to use LLMs or consume any content produced with LLMs. I do not understand the position of "NO ONE should use LLMs at all" because how are you planning to make that happen? no one should be *forced* to use them, but plenty of people are using them now. it's not something you can wish away or achieve via moral condemnation.

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                                                                                                                                  [?]jwz » 💀 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @jwz@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                  @lzg No one should swim in sewage or eat raw chicken, but I guess I can't wish that away with moral condemnation.

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                                                                                                                                    [?]lenazun » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @lzg@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                    @jwz we do that partially with regulation! for that it’s useful to know why people would want to do such things

                                                                                                                                      [?]Tech Tangents » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @TechTangents@dialup.space

                                                                                                                                      I just got a "text message" from google's AI because apparently every waking moment of your life must be consumed by this nightmare.

                                                                                                                                      A screenshot of the android sms app with google's AI chatbot having sent a message.

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                                                                                                                                      [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                      @TechTangents@dialup.space I know more than one person who switched to an iPhone immediately after seeing that

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                                                                                                                                        [?]Ozzelot :runbsd: [they/he/any] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                        @ozzelot@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                        @max
                                                                                                                                        Hi! I'm Apple Intelligence. They really named me this.
                                                                                                                                        @TechTangents

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                                                                                                                                          [?]manic pixie donkey kong [he/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @Aleums@timeloop.cafe

                                                                                                                                          the 2032 illegal raves in abandoned data centers are going to be incredible

                                                                                                                                          [?]Kiwa "meow" Tiger » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @kiwa@tiggi.es

                                                                                                                                          Can my dj name be kiwa 3.11 for workgroups?

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                                                                                                                                          [?]Ozzelot :runbsd: [they/he/any] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                          @ozzelot@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                          @kiwa yes

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                                                                                                                                            [?]Kiwa "meow" Tiger » 🔓
                                                                                                                                            @kiwa@tiggi.es

                                                                                                                                            @ozzelot thanks ill thank you when im playing @ tomorrowland

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                                                                                                                                              [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                              @kiwa@tiggi.es sounds perfect

                                                                                                                                                [?]John L. Alford » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @JohnLAlford@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                                @kiwa
                                                                                                                                                It really rolls off the tongue

                                                                                                                                                  [?]AliCat Tomskit’s Rawrrr Side 🐾 » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                  @AliCatAD@thicc.horse

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                                                                                                                                                  @kiwa amazing ✨

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]Ret [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @ret@furry.engineer

                                                                                                                                                    why is "DO NOT EAT" in quotes though? has anyone ever answered that?

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]Ben 🏴‍☠️ [he/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @ben@mast.bcoop.dev

                                                                                                                                                    @ret It's a direct quote from the inventor of silica gel, John Silica.

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]Default Media Transmitter » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @defaultmediatransmitter@social.bitwig.community

                                                                                                                                                      RE: ravenation.club/@etherdiver/11

                                                                                                                                                      I make odd and intriguing music and I approve of this message.

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]Ether Diver » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @etherdiver@ravenation.club

                                                                                                                                                      Default Media Transmitter – The Machines Are Having Fun

                                                                                                                                                      Odd, intriguing collection of minimal electronic experimentation, fragmentary techno & post industrial soundscape.

                                                                                                                                                      defaultmediatransmitter.bandca

                                                                                                                                                      @defaultmediatransmitter

                                                                                                                                                      etherdiver.com/2026/03/20/opm-

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                        Can confirm, is great music!

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]Default Media Transmitter » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                          @defaultmediatransmitter@social.bitwig.community

                                                                                                                                                          @max Thank you! And thanks for the support.

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]MWL Book Quote Bot » 🤖 🔓
                                                                                                                                                            @quotebot@io.mwl.io

                                                                                                                                                            The answer to any question that starts with "Who was the idiot..." is usually "me."

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]Grickle » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @grickle@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                                            Ever deepening mysteries.

                                                                                                                                                            A cartoon illustration of a man looking at the front door where a strange creature wearing a jacket stands looking at him. Caption reads "And lo and behold, the mystery of his missing favorite jacket was solved. But a deeper, infinitely weirder mystery had now begun."

                                                                                                                                                            Alt...A cartoon illustration of a man looking at the front door where a strange creature wearing a jacket stands looking at him. Caption reads "And lo and behold, the mystery of his missing favorite jacket was solved. But a deeper, infinitely weirder mystery had now begun."

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]luca » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                              @grickle I bet that the new mistery is how he chose a so clearly oversize jacket.

                                                                                                                                                                [?]WandreCanada » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @wandrecanada@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                @grickle Who wore it better?

                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Я⊛ḶḶ model ☭ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                  @saltywizard@beige.party

                                                                                                                                                                  @grickle

                                                                                                                                                                  I yearn for the deeper, infinitly weirder mystery.

                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Guillotine Jones, Flâneur » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                    @Guillotine_Jones@beige.party

                                                                                                                                                                    @grickle
                                                                                                                                                                    There you have it, Grickle: A tiny monster, wrapped in a jacket, inside a doorway. Is it a riddle, a mystery, or an enigma?
                                                                                                                                                                    I suspect that even Churchill would have had trouble figuring THIS situation out.

                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                      @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                                                                                                      Went ok till the box hit the power strip for the ONT/Firewall and cut the power. Whoops

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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Karyx Dragon » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                      @karyxdragon@hydaelyn.coerthansnowstorm.online

                                                                                                                                                                      @chloeraccoon You did a me! That time I kicked the power lead out of the lighting desk mid-performance...

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                                                                                                                                                                        [?]ManMachine » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                        @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                        @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk ahh that’s why it dropped

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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                          @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                          Today's roasted potat is accompanied by onion, garlic, mushrooms and cheese.


                                                                                                                                                                          close-up of some roasted potatoes with mushrooms and cheese

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Human Brain Enthusiast » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                            @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                            I’m sick and aching (COVID test negative) and bed-bound rn.

                                                                                                                                                                            Send me pretty computers and cute pet photos!

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Tilda Moose, citizen » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                            @MattMoose@mastodon.world

                                                                                                                                                                            @thomasfuchs

                                                                                                                                                                            May this provide a grin :)

                                                                                                                                                                            Photo (apparently) showing kittens playing in an open PC enclosure that's undergoing some sort of maintenance. 
Caption reads "SOWWY, SERVER'S DOWN (must be 4 o'clock)"

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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Zhian N. Kamvar [He/him/his] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                              @zkamvar@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                              @thomasfuchs JoJu (left) hopes you feel better

                                                                                                                                                                              A black cat sitting next to a black cat-shaped heating pad on a cream colored couch.

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                                                                                                                                                                                [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                Jake sends his awoos

                                                                                                                                                                                dog leisurely strolling towards camera on spring snow

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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Tech Tangents » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                  @TechTangents@dialup.space

                                                                                                                                                                                  @thomasfuchs
                                                                                                                                                                                  Here's a mouse I picked up recently that was definitely only for it looks!

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                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Human Brain Enthusiast » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                    @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                    @TechTangents love the OG PS/2. (The second version they shipped was much more palatable.)

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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Tech Tangents » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                      @TechTangents@dialup.space

                                                                                                                                                                                      @thomasfuchs
                                                                                                                                                                                      I'm pairing it with a Model 70 and the chunky mouse is the more "accurate" one as far as I can tell. I've got a project planned that is very IBM+GUI/Graphics focused so I'm trying to make it as close as possible.

                                                                                                                                                                                      An IBM PS/2 model 70 being shown with the original IBM PS/2 mouse.

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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Human Brain Enthusiast » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                        @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                        @TechTangents sweet! Yes, right mouse for this. Looking forward to this!

                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]James Baker 🍁 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                          @GrumpusNation@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                          @thomasfuchs One of the very best I have:

                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Andrew Golding » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                            @huronbikes@cyberplace.social

                                                                                                                                                                                            @thomasfuchs

                                                                                                                                                                                            Oscar, a brindle-coat pit bull/boxer mix, lounging on a pinkish-red couch.

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                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                              @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                              A wide green meadow under a blue sky. The meadow is dotted with small white and yellow flowers. There's a blurry gray treeline in the distance. In the foreground, hovering in the air, is a very precise hole in the sky, or maybe in existence itself: a portal that reveals a starry night sky beyond. Hanging down from the sky, attached to something unseen, is a small green exit sign: the green European kind, with a small running figure, and an arrow pointing to the hole. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Diabetic Heihachi » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                @DavBot@nerdculture.de

                                                                                                                                                                                                @csilverman
                                                                                                                                                                                                Big Truman Show vibes on this one!

                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]kvadraat » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                  @kvadraat@cultur.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                  @csilverman Marvelous.
                                                                                                                                                                                                  Additionally I can imagine a second / opposite setting with a night to day exit.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Sin Vega » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sinvega@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                                                    This will not be the last time I write about Heart of the Machine, a very funny and excellent game

                                                                                                                                                                                                    jank.cool/i-am-the-thing-from-

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                    @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                                                                                    "love, mister computo?"

                                                                                                                                                                                                    hacker talks to a machine:

"love, mister computo? i don't think so"

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Human Brain Enthusiast » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                                      How many social media posts or replies do you start but then delete and not send (or let rot in drafts) let’s say each week?

                                                                                                                                                                                                      I never do that:16
                                                                                                                                                                                                      1–10:97
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Human Brain Enthusiast » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                                      I’m def in the 11-25 bracket

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Paul Lalonde [He/Him/His] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @Flux@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                                                                                                      @thomasfuchs how do I delete my vote?

                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]prokyonid » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                        @prokyonid@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                        @thomasfuchs this is something I do regularly, which still only means once or twice a week on average. Back in the late 00s/early 10s though, when I used to live on message boards, I'd be deleting a post I took sometimes north of an hour to research, write and proofread at least once a day.

                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Mikael Lundin 🍀🥦♻️ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                          @mikaellundin@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                          @thomasfuchs I don’t write that much on social media, but I would estimate that I don’t send about 80% of my replies to people.
                                                                                                                                                                                                          It’s usually because I ask myself ”who the fuck cares” and that kills off most correspondence.

                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Mark Dominus » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                            @mjd@mathstodon.xyz

                                                                                                                                                                                                            “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                            (Tony Hoare)

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Perhaps to his credit, Hoare omits the third way: to make it so complicated that its obvious deficiencies are everywhere.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Simon Tatham » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                            @simontatham@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                                            @mjd "its fundamental design flaws are entirely hidden from view by its superficial design flaws"

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Dan Sugalski » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network

                                                                                                                                                                                                              @simontatham @mjd Just waiting for OpenAI, Anthropic, and whatever mutant blob xAI ends up in merge. I have no doubt they'll name it the "Serious Cybernetics Corporation" for the lulz and end up being dead-on accurate regardless.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Simon Tatham » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                @simontatham@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                                                @wordshaper there is another theory which states that this has already happened – in the context of drinks dispensing machines.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Whenever I encounter a bean-to-cup machine that won't serve me a black coffee if it doesn't have any milk to not put in it, I wonder if the manufacturer quite realised that the Nutri-Matic was intended as satire.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Dan Sugalski » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @simontatham I have sometimes wondered if that's intentional -- someone on the bean-to-cup machine design team actually really likes making coffee by hand and is basically thinking the machine users deserve the weirdness they get.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]N33R ➡ Easterhegg DECT 6337 ⚸ 🩸 :lesbian: [she/her (it/its if appropriate)] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @N33R@fops.cloud

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The germanic god of standardization: O-DIN

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    enjoyed this telnetd analysis. (if you can’t believe anyone has a legitimate operational reason to run telnet, you live in a cozy world indeed) labs.watchtowr.com/a-32-year-o

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Rodger » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @rodgerd@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @0xabad1dea it is delightful “That was so long ago that RISC was still a distant dream.” Made my eye twitch like an old man who realises that his youth has become sufficiently history that the details have flattened out

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Glyph » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @glyph@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @0xabad1dea do you have a specific example of such a legit need? I do not typically think of myself as “sheltered” but this one eludes me

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @glyph wander into any factory in the world and you'll find 30yo industrial machinery that's been running the same firmware the entire time and trying to fiddle with it is liable to end the business

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]V [They/Them or She/Her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @miss_rodent@girlcock.club

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @0xabad1dea @glyph For more specific examples: Someone I know had to use telnet to connect to something (a mill or lathe, possibly was just one of each) at a shop she worked in not too long ago.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          In uni, I had to use telnet to connect to a telescope for some physics classes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Trammell Hudson » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @th@social.v.st

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @0xabad1dea @glyph I visited a semiconductor fab in Chippewa Falls in 2013 and was shocked to find that the production line also doubled as a retrocomputing museum with Sun 3 and VAX hardware still in operation.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Cray XMP on display at the Cray fab in Wisconsin. It is a tall red segment cylinder with a red and black round sofa around the bottom.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]WILLIAM B PECKHAM » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @wpeckham@social.linux.pizza

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @0xabad1dea I have often used telnet for network and server diagnostics, and I use it occasionally for bulletin board systems on the internet. But I have never needed to install Telnetd in the last 20 years. But if I needed to tomorrow, I would remember this.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]numanumayey » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @breathOfLife@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @0xabad1dea does telnet have any actual error correction, like with DEB packages?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                or is it really that bad?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Human Brain Enthusiast » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Love a 10GB (500 times the size of my first hard disk) phone update that introduces… a few new emoji.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 [He/him/daaaaaaaad] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @thomasfuchs those are good emojis bront

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Human Brain Enthusiast » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @Migueldeicaza not saying they aren’t but for the love of Phil Schiller

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 [He/him/daaaaaaaad] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @thomasfuchs ill take itnover the opaque “bug fixes and performance improvements”

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]andrei! » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @andreimoment@ruby.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @thomasfuchs Hopefully also fixed the keyboard. Which they broke earlier.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Wayne Robinson » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @iamwcr@ruby.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @thomasfuchs to be fair, there are *eight* emoji.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Wayne Robinson » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @iamwcr@ruby.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @thomasfuchs Wait… the macOS 26.4 version (yeah, I accidentally installed it on my MBA a month ago and still regret it) is 16.87GB!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Arne Brasseur » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @plexus@toot.cat

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Hans Hübner » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @hanshuebner@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @plexus In the end, software engineering is about creating solutions to problems other people have. The solutions are not a byproduct, but the primary purpose. To the majority of users, the inner workings and the creation process of software is opaque. The qualities that software exposes on the outside are largely independent of its inner workings.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              This means that for most people in the software industry, adapting to the new tooling that makes the creation process more efficient is 1/

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Hans Hübner » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @hanshuebner@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @plexus not a matter of choice, or resent. The market for "human crafted" software will be small, much smaller than the market for software that is cheap and does what users "want".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                It is clear that the hidden costs of LLM generated software are huge, but these costs are not going to be realised at the point of creation.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This mechanism is the same for many aspects of capitalism. Opting out of one thing won't fix the system, but is a gesture. Just. 2/2

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]can » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @can@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @hanshuebner @plexus yes and no. It‘s a systemic problem that needs a fix on a regulatory scale. But enough single devs opting out can also make a difference. Furthermore, regulation is done by politics, which in the end is the sum of the votes and voices of the people.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Hans Hübner » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @hanshuebner@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @can @plexus It is a personal choice to frame it that way, if you can afford it. For the majority of developers, it is a question of adapting or dropping out of the industry.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Humanity went through this process a couple of times now, and every industrial cycle left those who were made redundant by new technologies with the same choice.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Social change is possible, but our class - workers of the software industry - is not going to spark the next revolution, I fear.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Arne Brasseur » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @plexus@toot.cat

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @hanshuebner @can seriously Hans, I am in no mood for this. Yes, the force of capital is overwhelming, and there's little that a bubble of old timers on the fediverse is going to do about it. We're all going to have to reckon with that and figure out what choices we have left. That's life under capitalism. The least we can do is speak our truth, and call things out for what they really are. At least we won't feel like we're the only ones who think this shit sucks, or who see it for what it really is. There's a reason I talk about hegemony. The defeatism only hastens the process.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]⛧-440729 [sophie raven] [it/its;l=en, es/ihr;l=de (3pp only)] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sophie@mastodon.catgirl.cloud

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        what if they invented software that's good

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Alex » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @alexh@c.im

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Mastodon iOS apps: Mona vs Ice Cubes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The biggest dealbreaker on Ice Cubes for me is that you can’t add a new line when writing a post. On Mona you can, and it feels a bit more polished in general, the interface is more Apple-like.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        At the same time, Ice Cubes is fully free whereas Mona is freemium, and the worst part — it’s a subscription. I could pay 10 euros for an app, but I would never ever sign up for a subscription.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Now, the free version is fine. I don’t care about multiple accounts. The only thing that bothers me is that tab bar editing is locked behind a sub, and choosing swipe actions too, but it’s not a big deal, it’s still fully usable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        What do you guys use on ?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Alex » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @alexh@c.im

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If you run a instance, you might also be interested in Mastoblaster by @stefano. I didn’t check it out yet

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          mastoblaster.app/

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I have lifetime Mona (paid only for the new major version, no subscription) and am happy with the purchase. Also testing Mastoblaster with my Snac, it's in heavy development but (for Snac specifically) is promising.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Alex » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @alexh@c.im

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @max I think lifetime is available only if you’ve bought previous versions of Mona. Now it’s only a sub

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ohhh I see, yes, I was there from the TestFlight versions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  RE: mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ok this might be a zany ass idea but... what if... 320x200 but with 2 pixel tall dither as a stylistic choice? eh? eh? eh? :D

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Torn between going with 320x100 (160x100 logical) or just going with 320x200

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  rustic fantasy house background from itch.io, downscaled to 320x200 and quantized to 332 bit 8-bit rgb color, with 2 pixel tall dither pattern, run through a CRT filter

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  rustic fantasy house background from itch.io, downscaled to 320x200 and quantized to 332 bit 8-bit rgb color, with 2 pixel tall dither pattern, unfiltered

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Brian Swetland » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @swetland@chaos.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko Looks great to me.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Very cosy, sort of like tapestry

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Laura » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko Tall? That sounds like you're just trying to spite the Commodore 64 :D

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        wake up babe new font just dropped

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        window labeled "You Have Died" displaying white text with black drop shadow on gray background

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Alt...window labeled "You Have Died" displaying white text with black drop shadow on gray background

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @yngmar@social.tchncs.de

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko Yeah, that's much more readable 👍

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          look ma, no text jumping*!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          *in my wordwrapped typewriter text

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Alt...white lorem ipsum text with black drop shadow on gray background, being drawn one character at a time (typewriter effect)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Ronflaix » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @Ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko Perfect! How are you managing wrapping?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          EDIT: Wait, I suppose you're just not showing the text, right? It's formatted once and you just unroll it?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @Ronflaix i made an iterative wrapText function that goes word by word (spaces/newlines count as words) and which detects when a word goes over the wrap width, and bumps it to the next line

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            and then i made an iterative typewriter function that draws the text one character of a word at a time and which advances the wrapText iterator when it's done rendering the word

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Ronflaix » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @Ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko Ooh, clever! Thanks for the info!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @Ronflaix yeah i actually did the "lay it out once" thing in C# way back when but this seemed cleaner

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                that way i can also use wrapText to measure the full width+height of text by just iterating until it's done and reading the max width and height properties of the iterator

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @Ronflaix oh right i also have an iterative function that gets the next word, which the wrapText function uses

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  so really its 3 iterators deep but that makes it sound more complex than it really is >_>

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Ronflaix » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @Ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko Yeah, it's generic but I see the design and if it makes the actual code flow easier, why not?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I suppose you also select glyphs variants on the fly? Positional variants, ligatures and all the bells & whistles too? :D

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @Ronflaix oh god no :'D this is just a simple ascii font and so each character just has its pixel width, and the advance is width + the font's char spacing

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Skyboy Games » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @skyboygames@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko I love text jumping as an example of one of those tricky little implementation details that game players take for granted.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]ROTOPE~1 ⭐️ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @rotopenguin@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko holy shit, computing the wid
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          width of a word before you sta
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          start drawing it? Inconceivab
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Inconceivable!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            i have 3 iterative functions here:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. gets the next word (spaces/newlines count as a 1 character "word")
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. wraps words iteratively, recording width, max width, and height
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. uses the wrapping function to get the next word, then draws it 1 character at a time

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            it's quite a clean implementation

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Matt Lacey » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko games it's a pet hate of mine when games write out text a character at a time but only wrap once a word has gotten too long, making it jump from one line to the next. This is so much cleaner!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Jari Komppa 🇫🇮 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sol_hsa@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko bacon ipsum > lorem ipsum. imho. =)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                btw my font format for this project is *incredibly* sophisticated

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                notepad showing a text file which has 4 one byte hex numbers at the top, followed by a 2 byte hex number, followed by the letter 'A' and what appear to be the pixels that make up the character, then 'B', and so on

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Alt...notepad showing a text file which has 4 one byte hex numbers at the top, followed by a 2 byte hex number, followed by the letter 'A' and what appear to be the pixels that make up the character, then 'B', and so on

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                at least i've made things easy for @foone

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko I'm always grateful for simple font formats!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]sobkas » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @sobkas@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko If only A was made of As, B of Bs and so on

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @sobkas you could do that and it would still work :D

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Brian Swetland » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @swetland@chaos.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko I'm having flashbacks to Pixmap files when learning X11 programming in the mid-90s...
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        ! XPM2
16 7 2 1
* c #000000
. c #ffffff
**..*...........
*.*.*...........
**..*..**.**..**
*.*.*.*.*.*..*.*
**..*..**.*...**
...............*
.............**.

XPM3 version:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Alt...! XPM2 16 7 2 1 * c #000000 . c #ffffff **..*........... *.*.*........... **..*..**.**..** *.*.*.*.*.*..*.* **..*..**.*...** ...............* .............**. XPM3 version:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]🌈 Andrew ☄️ [he/him they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @bnut@aus.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko I saw this in my favourites and now I’m wondering what the first 5 lines are, guessing a header something like:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          - magic/version?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          - baseline
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          - line height
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          - character width
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          - number of characters

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @bnut Vertical advance between lines (line height)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Spacing between characters
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Character height
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Space width
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Number of characters

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]🌈 Andrew ☄️ [he/him they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @bnut@aus.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko ah, so close, and I guessed the first but came back here to update my guess only to see I was too late

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]abby 🐝 [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @olivvybee@beehive.city

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko Thank you for saving my sanity by implementing this but also for giving me a name for the phenomenon so I don’t have to say “the thing where the text moves to the next line when it doesn’t fit”

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @olivvybee you're welcome :D

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Joakim Hagdahl » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @rockhamster@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko I'm curious if they did this in Amiga art. It feels like it. I think it works for this art too

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Eric Billingsley » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @ericb@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko I like it a lot. Has a more organic look than the standard checker board and reminds me of the texture of canvas.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]aeva [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko 1) I really like the style, 2) it looks really good with that CRT filter, and 3) I'm impressed that this CRT filter doesn't moire when scaled in my browser which is often the case with CRT filters that people apply to pixel art. I'm wondering now if that's because of dithering or something else. It looks really good when scaled down slightly such that the scanlines almost wash out, which makes me think this would look great with super sampling or such.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        RE: mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @aeva i'm not sure, since i didn't make the CRT filter. this is just this application mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/crtv

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        it's also not the final version since i had to use a different filter for dosbox, which looks more like this, although that image is significantly lower res

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        after spending all day and finally rolling back dosbox staging to 0.80.1 then tweaking a built in shader to my satisfaction, i finally have a CRT shader that matches my vision for my game visuals

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        i'm satisfied with this

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        a low res image of a house in the woods, with dithering and a CRT blur/mask effect, slight curvature, and a contrasty vignette

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Alt...a low res image of a house in the woods, with dithering and a CRT blur/mask effect, slight curvature, and a contrasty vignette

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]aeva [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko I'm also wondering how well it holds up in motion with the video encodings typically used for streaming and youtube. I want to get the CRT look in some of my own projects without the usual downsides of CRT filters.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @aeva you might want to check out @JoshJers 's cathode retro cathoderetro.com/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              i'm pretty sure you can turn off stuff like the shadow mask, which should help, just keeping the color bleed

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              this is what we used for kitsune tails and i was super happy with how that turned out

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Josh Jersild » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @JoshJers@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko @aeva yep it's very customizable and if there's something you want to do and can't find how, don't hesitate to ask!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]✧✦Catherine✦✧ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  i'm at a loss of words after reading a paper about reformatting code using an ML model that has a measured statistical quantity A_c which says how often the reformatted code behaves the same as the original

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  the "ideal" (their choice of words) case is 64.2%

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  You probably know that many Japanese technologies have been developing in a completely isolated environment, resulting in something called "Galapagos culture". A prime example of that is "keitai denwa", or simply "keitai" (mobile phone, mobile), sometimes known as "Gala-kei" (Galapagos mobile).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  While the west was impressed with Nokia 3310 (Sep 2000), Japan enjoyed first mass-market cameraphone J-SH04 (Nov 2000).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Since 2004, osaifu keitai (wallet mobiles) could do contactless payments; shortly after they also were used to store transport pass cards. Sure, high-end Western phones had Symbian and Java MIDP, but advanced Japanese keitai would have not only Java, but often Flash, online games, fast internet browsing, and TV. Oh, also video calls, including those where you replace your face with an animated avatar.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  After the Japanese market got exposed to smartphones ("sumaho"), keitai began to die out, probably from malnutrition and neglect, and went extinct by 2012.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  OR DID THEY?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Enter Kyocera Keitai!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  🧵

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  First mass camera phone Sharp J-SH04, front and back

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...First mass camera phone Sharp J-SH04, front and back

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  NTT Docomo P900i

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...NTT Docomo P900i

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  a flip-phone, it's pink with a black specky strap attached

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...a flip-phone, it's pink with a black specky strap attached

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The same  flip phone but now open. There's many keys, they have Japanese symbols. The screen is colourful and has pretty icons

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...The same flip phone but now open. There's many keys, they have Japanese symbols. The screen is colourful and has pretty icons

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Kyocera Keitai is a series of flip-phones that try to replicate the experience of Keitai using newer technologies. Despite their gala-kei appearance, they all are very modern devices with multi-core ARM chips and Android. Keitai 4, still manufactured in 2022, runs Android 10.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  My Keitai 2 runs an outdated Android 5, and you can tell it's a keitai knock-off because it doesn't really have a wallet. But it has built-in TV, and it supports Mail as an important component of Japanese phone culture.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The phone was sold by Softbank, but it can be unlocked and used in many Western countries just fine. There's English locale available, with generally OK level of translation.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It doesn't have a touchscreen, only keypad. If you think typing on a touchscreen is faster, you are probably wrong: Google Keyboard for Japanese still uses keypad for typing. (It is possible to switch to full-width kana, but it is not really convenient unless your screen is huge)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Kyocera Keitai booting up, showing Softbank logo

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Kyocera Keitai booting up, showing Softbank logo

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The keyboard with the backlight. It has 12 numerical keys with letter labels, plus "pick up"-"back"-"hang up", plus three buttons labelled as "I - II - III", plus directional pad and four extra buttons for mail, browser, camera and TV

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...The keyboard with the backlight. It has 12 numerical keys with letter labels, plus "pick up"-"back"-"hang up", plus three buttons labelled as "I - II - III", plus directional pad and four extra buttons for mail, browser, camera and TV

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Google Board screenshot - Japanese layout uses 12-key map

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Google Board screenshot - Japanese layout uses 12-key map

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The phone's screen is 3.4" 540x946, which is 324 PPI. Impressive as heck.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  If you're wondering, the CPU is quad-core at 1.1GHz, there's 1 GB RAM, and the camera is 8 MPx.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The main screen only shows date and time, plus three hot-key apps. There is no GPlay, and new apps are not supposed to be installed outside of updates from Softbank. I have seen people adding extra apps on the main screen, but shell on my phone doesn't allow that. It is possible to side-load apps through adb, and assign them to one of three hotkeys (I-II-III).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Hard-assigned hotkeys can start Mail (which is an integral part of Japanese phone culture), or Browser. The Browser is nothing special, and the homepage (provider's site) isn't flip-phone friendly. This is where pressing III-Point button can help. This button draws a software mouse that can be controlled with the D-Pad. It isn't very convenient to use.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The startup screen

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...The startup screen

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Mail app

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Mail app

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Browser - home page

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Browser - home page

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Mouse pointer in the browser page

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Mouse pointer in the browser page

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  If "III" is used to turn the mouse pointer on and off, what do "I" and "II" do? Turns out, one is task switcher and another opens phone settings - WiFi, airplane mode, and "manner mode".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  What's "manner mode"? That's how Japanese people call "silent". It's a sign of good manners to have your phone on "silent" in public transport or at work. Hence, "manner".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Task switcher app showing Browser - Camera - Wifi settings - Infrared

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Task switcher app showing Browser - Camera - Wifi settings - Infrared

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Notifications and settings

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Notifications and settings

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Let's check out what else do we have on hot-keys!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  TV app is probably using 1seg standard for SD television. It asks you for your location inside of Japan, then tries to find the channels, and then shows you the TV (if you happen to be within the area of 1seg transmission).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Number keys can be used for switching between the programs.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Phone screen asks for the area

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Phone screen asks for the area

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "Scanning" - searching for local channels. Channels found: 0, says the phone

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt..."Scanning" - searching for local channels. Channels found: 0, says the phone

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The TV viewer interface. "No signal".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...The TV viewer interface. "No signal".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Hot keys and channel list

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Hot keys and channel list

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Finally, camera app. It's nothing to write home about, and it gives vibes of cameras on cheap Android phones from early 2010s. The resolution of the camera (remember, 8MP) doesn't help that much.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The position of the camera is off; you're likely to cover a part of it with your finger while taking a photo.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  There's no frontal camera, so bye-bye video calls.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Camera app showing the pack of vegan milk as seen through the camera

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Camera app showing the pack of vegan milk as seen through the camera

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  As I've mentioned, hot-keys apps can be redefined, and they're the only way to quickly start an Android application. I have one of them assigned to non-standard app - Telegram.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Telegram for Android isn't designed for keypads, and because of that the UX is crap. I am forced to use the virtual mouse all the time, so I kind of gave up on using it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Telegram login screen on the flip phone

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Here is the main phone menu. New apps cannot be added to the list. But one of the standard apps is LINE.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  One of the reasons smartphones became so popular in Japan is LINE. It is used for absolutely everything, from chats to online payments.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  So, I was hoping I might be able to use LINE - if it comes with the phone, it must support keypad, right? Unfortunately, the app needs to be updated (pressing "no, don't update" doesn't do anything), the update doesn't work, and the update description makes it sound like the keypad mode support was dropped.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Main menu.
Mail, browser, LINE
Alarm, camera, map
Tool, data, service
TV, phone, settings

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Main menu. Mail, browser, LINE Alarm, camera, map Tool, data, service TV, phone, settings

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  There ia new version for app, update?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Server access failed.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alarm application isn't just for alarms, but also for timers and a stopwatch.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alarm app comes with 40 melodies that sound MIDI but are in fact pre-recorded (m4a or mp3 or aac or whatever), because this phone doesn't support MML or MIDI.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  One interesting option for the alarm is to read weather out loud.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alarm app

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Alarm app

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  List of melodies and chimes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...List of melodies and chimes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alarm options: weather forecast or snooze

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Alarm options: weather forecast or snooze

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Lap stopwatch

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The map app is Yahoo! Maps. Yahoo doesn't work in the UK (presumably due to GDPR limitations), so the maps app doesn't show the map. Some say that it works in the US.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The app is mostly in Japanese, but it has some phrases translated. For some reason, it shows a pop-up to confirm exit. The pop-up looks very Android-like in style, but very alien to Android in spirit.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Yahoo maps splash screen

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Yahoo maps splash screen

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  No map. The interface is in Japanese

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...No map. The interface is in Japanese

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Exit confirmation screen is so Android but also so unexpected

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Exit confirmation screen is so Android but also so unexpected

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Now, Tool menu. There are many little apps like calculator or notes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The calculator app is very basic and doesn't do engineering calculations.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The notepad is a good way to explore the phone's input system. There is no T9 mode for English; instead, typing the beginning of the word shows predictions. Typing Japanese allows to replace kana with kanji or emoji, or expand the short phrase into a longer one.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  List of tools:
Calculator
Notepad
Calendar
Flashlight
Continuance??
Pedometer
Weather 
FM Radio
Kanji check

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Calculator app. There's basic operations mapped to the D-Pad, plus * and % functions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Calculator app. There's basic operations mapped to the D-Pad, plus * and % functions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Smart input for English

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Smart input for Japanese

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The phone supports smilies and emojis, of course. Pressing "smilies/sym" soft button opens kaomoji screen first. There's also emoji, and they look very... pixelated. Considering the PPI of the screen, I tend to think it's the choice of the phone makers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Note that soft keys (TV/Camera) can be used for Page Up/Page Downs

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  kaomoji selection

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  emoji selection - faces

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  emoji selection - parts of body

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The calendar app is beyond basic. I cannot even tell if its supports syncing with Google Calendar. Probably not.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It has a function for birthday reminders (and it takes birthdays from contact profiles). The default time for Birthday reminders is midnight of the birthday.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Flashlight app, hidden so well in the Tools menu, just turns on the flashlight, while making the screen dark. I think making the screen white and turning the brightness to the max would work better.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Calendar view

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Birthday reminder notification setting

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Birthday: Remind me on the day 0:00

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Flashlight ON

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Now, Continuance, a mystery app.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  First, it asks to accept the terms of the service, and then it explains that it is for pairing the phone and the tablet.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It seems many people in Japan do not have personal laptops, and use tablets for personal computing instead. So, it makes sense to offer some integration. Tethering? File exchange? I have no idea, because the app doesn't like my SIM card.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Accept terms of use

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Accept terms of use

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Continuance
Pair your tablet and feature phone for more convenience!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Continuance Pair your tablet and feature phone for more convenience!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  USIM is incompatible

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Pedometer. It's steps that counts! The number of steps seems wrong, I am certain I walked with this phone a bit more than ten steps.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Weather app recommends outdoors for better location predictions. The app itself is pretty, but any button in the app opens web browser full of pop-ups, which aren't pretty at all.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Pedometer app

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Weather app says that if location cannot be determined indoors, you should try outdoors

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Weather app says that if location cannot be determined indoors, you should try outdoors

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Weather in London. Pretty

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Weather in London. Pretty

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Browser screen showing pop-ups. Not pretty.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  FM Radio app.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  For best experience, connect anything to the phone's micro USB. Oh, the phone doesn't have a headphones jack :<

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  There's pre-programmed frequencies for local Japanese radio, but there's also auto-tuning. The radio can be left to play in background, which compensates for the lack of built-in MP3 player. (´-ω-`)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "An optional earphone becomes the antenna" says FM radio app

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt..."An optional earphone becomes the antenna" says FM radio app

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Choose your region (in Japan)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Choose your region (in Japan)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  FM Radio interface has auto-tuning

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Kanji check is a very important app for anyone who needs to hand-write. It works like this: you type the kanji, and then you can examine each of them zoomed-in, so you can make sure that you're writing it correctly. Otherwise people will think that you're a horse-deer ("baka", dummy).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Sound recorder app is simple and seems to be for those who send voice memos over mail. It has spectrum analyzer animations that are just that, animations.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Kanji check app showing kanji conversion

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Kanji check app showing kanji conversion

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Zoomed-in version of the kanji. Second kanji in "baka" is "deer"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Zoomed-in version of the kanji. Second kanji in "baka" is "deer"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Sound recorder app shows animations similar to spectrum analyser

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Sound recorder app shows animations similar to spectrum analyser

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Player has the same animations and a very simple interface

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The continuation of the tool list. There's exciting things, like Office and Infrared (!!).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  OfficeSuite is an Android app through and through. It doesn't work without a mouse pointer, and I think it will be hell to use with a keypad. There is no option to create a new document, so I give up on the app.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Tool list

OfficeSuite
Barcode reader
Eco mode
Battery care mode
Auto assist
Infrared

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Tool list OfficeSuite Barcode reader Eco mode Battery care mode Auto assist Infrared

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  MobiSystem OfficeSuite 6

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Pop-up window for Office Suite

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Pop-up window for Office Suite

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Screenshot of the app from the web

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The barcode scan app is very simple. The result jumps out as soon as it scans something resembling a barcode (and perhaps a QR code too, but I didn't check).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Barcode reader application is just a camera app of sorts

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Barcode reader application is just a camera app of sorts

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Result window
it allows to search for the scan, or copy it

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Result window it allows to search for the scan, or copy it

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Battery Eco mode and care mode. It claims that Eco mode will allow the phone to work for up to 7 days from a single charge.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  From people who use these day-to-day I've heard that two days is more realistic. But then when I checked settings, 80% of battery usage was Telegram that even isn't logged in.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Battery Eco mode on: 7 days battery left

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Battery eco mode off: 6 days left

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Battery care mode: charge stops at 85%

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Battery discharge history. Telegram accounts for 80% of CPU usage

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Auto Assist is actually an app to set up accessibility. Why it's in the tools and not in the settings? Same can be said about the battery Eco Mode though.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Infrared is the last tool in the tool list. I would expect it to be a part of the File Manager, but no.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Back to the main menu! Let's start the Data app. It is a catch-all for anything file-related, including photos, music and contact files. This is where you go to check your camera roll or music library. The app can play mp3, m4a and amr, but it doesn't support playlists.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Auto assist options: turn on sub display, show secondary notifications, etc

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Auto assist options: turn on sub display, show secondary notifications, etc

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Infrared - please face the port to another device, and you'll get connected

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Infrared - please face the port to another device, and you'll get connected

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The File manager: pictured, movies, music, documents, PIM, file manager

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...The File manager: pictured, movies, music, documents, PIM, file manager

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Music player of sorts

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The next app is Service. Again, it's a collection of mini-apps. It is mostly Japan-related, and so it's not translated.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The first app in the list opens a browser page with a redirect. It's called "Tokuhodai Light" (all-you-can-eat). It's a site with discounts and coupons. This phone is surely for family-oriented, isn't it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The second app, "browser protect" seems to be for tweaking sites available to the customer, but it doesn't work, probably because it's provider-specific.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Next are WiFi and Tethering apps. WiFi is Softbank specific (note: Japanese phone company that owns ARM), and it's for discovering free WiFi HotSpots by SoftBank. Tethering also seems to be vendor-locked, I couldn't go past the agreement screen.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Service:

tokuhoudai ight
browser protect
wifi support settings
tethering
anshin backup
anshin filter
remote support
disaster 
biz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Service: tokuhoudai ight browser protect wifi support settings tethering anshin backup anshin filter remote support disaster biz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  WiFi App

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...WiFi App

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  before you use tethering, you must consent

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Anshin Bakkapu ("Peace of mind Backup") is a cloud and SD backup tool. It is simple to use, just choose where you want to back things up, and what things you want to back up.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Anshin Fiiruta ("Peace of mind filter") is a browser app that allows to set up what apps from your provider are available for your phone.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Anshin bakkapu logo

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Anshin bakkapu logo

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Explanation screen showing phone exporting data to cloud or SD

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Explanation screen showing phone exporting data to cloud or SD

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  List of data to export (in japanese)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  anshin filter - choose what phone apps are allowed

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Disaster app. I wish all the phones had it so prominently. I think it is more relevant for Japan with its frequent earthquakes (especially after Touhoku disaster), but disasters happen, so it's good to prepare for them.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  There's a history of emergency alerts, and a board where you can leave a message that you're safe (or not safe).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The message board is out of service, but I think that is because the phone is outside of Japan.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Disaster app menu
Emergency alert
Message Board
Voice  messaging

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Disaster app menu Emergency alert Message Board Voice messaging

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Disaster message board is out of service

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Explanation of the disaster message board

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Final tool in the Service is Biz, a set of tools for enterprise phone management. It's a subscription service.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It's good to know that the phone isn't locked in any way.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Biz options:
Adddressbook delivery
Shared addressbook
Remote lock
Function control
Biz Browser

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Biz options: Adddressbook delivery Shared addressbook Remote lock Function control Biz Browser

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The tool is only for subscription users

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...The tool is only for subscription users

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Function Control
Infromation: not restriced

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Settings screen is nothing unexpected. Wallpaper, ringtone, brighness, input type, battery life, mobile networks, bluetooth and wifi.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  There's a bunch of wallpapers, some of them are animated.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  There's some accessibility options.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Settings list
Wallpaper
sound
lock
wireless
eco/battery
auto assist
all reset
about
more settings

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Settings list Wallpaper sound lock wireless eco/battery auto assist all reset about more settings

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wallpaper chooser

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Animated wallpaper

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Accessibility options: color inversion, captions, color correction

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  There's lots of cool hidden functions. One of those is "fake call". Long press of "call" button will start a "fake call" - very convenient when you need an excuse to leave.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The flash size is 8 GB, but only 4GB are available for data storage.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  One of the menus shows that the mini-apps actually have icons like normal Android apps!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  VPN settings are hidden in WiFi menu. But there are VPN settings!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Custom key settings

Including Fake call option

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Custom key settings Including Fake call option

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Internal storage - 3.37GB available

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Internal storage - 3.37GB available

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Process stats shows that apps have icons

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  WiFi settings have VPN

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The app installer/updater is hidden in Settings-About-App updater. It's all in Japanese, and it doesn't work anymore. The phone is relatively old, so maybe that's why.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Tapping on Build number unlocks standard Android developer menus, adb, etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  About phone menu
Software update
App update

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...About phone menu Software update App update

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  App updater menu, all in Japanese

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...App updater menu, all in Japanese

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "No need, you are already a developer" in about menu

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I thought that this phone could've been a great device for old J2ME games, so I installed one of the J2ME launchers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Unfortunately, none of Android J2ME launchers supports keypads, as far as I know. Instead, it shows on-screen keys that have to be pressed with an emulated mouse. What a shame.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Opera Mini for J2ME is blazingly fast, and still works (no SSL issues whatsoever).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  J2ME launcher showing Opera Mini installed

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Opera Mini 8 home page with soft on-screen keys drawn on top

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Opera Mini 8 home page with soft on-screen keys drawn on top

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wikipedia page in Opera Mini

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Time to turn off the phone. A few more notes at the end!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The phone seemed to have an optional charging deck.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  There's a side button labelled "manner/shutter". So, it's not only for camera, but also for turning silent mode on/off. There are no volume buttons.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Of course you can take the battery off. The battery compartment hides slots for a SIM and a microSD, with illustrations on how to use them. The date of manufacture is May 2018.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  You can clearly see there's a holder for a strap. We need more phones with holders for a strap. We need more flip phones, too.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  So, that's all this phone has to offer, at least on superficial level. I hope you enjoyed the tour. It took me over 2 hours to prepare it and post all the photos with the descriptions and such ^_^

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Your phone will shut down
Yes
No

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Your phone will shut down Yes No

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Qualcomm 3G/4G label next to the pin for the phone deck charger

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Qualcomm 3G/4G label next to the pin for the phone deck charger

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "manner/shutter" button

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt..."manner/shutter" button

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Phone without back lid and battery. There's instruction on how to insert SIM and SD. There's also a slot of a strap.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The latest model of keitai from Kyocera is KY42C from March 2023. It's splash proof, and can be cleaned with hand soap, as the manufacturer instructs.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Some of their keitai models are targeted specifically for older people with good accessibility options, big fonts, loud speakers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Newer models have front cameras and USB-C.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Some models have features than encourage healthy lifestyle:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  > Depending on the number of steps you take, the wallpaper changes to each scene from Hiroshige Utagawa's ukiyo-e print "The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido'', so you can enjoy walking every day.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Some models have a button that will read the screen out loud. Very convenient.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wash the screen with soap

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Wash the screen with soap

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Happy grandma and grandpa are chatting to their kid over the phone in speaker mode

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Happy grandma and grandpa are chatting to their kid over the phone in speaker mode

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wallpaper changes depending on the distance you walk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Wallpaper changes depending on the distance you walk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A button for screen reader

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]MBEverding » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @MBEverding@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina so expensive :( I wish kaios was getting updated

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @MBEverding Gerda is still updating, right?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]MBEverding » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @MBEverding@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @nina_kali_nina latest image 2020 :/ and only for banana phone. Have not managed to unlock my cat b35 so can't sideload either.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I see the keitai goes up to android 10 but qinf22 goes to android 12 (and will probably stay there since hardware specs of android versions)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Wiphone is maybe one day putting an LTE and Lora modules one day.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @MBEverding darn, I didn't realise it's been that long...
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I've seen postmarketOS making some progress here, but ayyyy 🥲

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]MBEverding » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @MBEverding@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @nina_kali_nina these people implement phone support like crazy but forget to write a proper install documentation! Many of the phones they support are already old and can be bought for 1€ on eBay auctions but when I did I struggled to install :/ I installed EOS before on a different phone but their install process is different from Android based phones and I get stuck.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Gabriele Svelto [he/him] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @gabrielesvelto@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @nina_kali_nina what OS do these run on?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @gabrielesvelto nowadays it's Android, used to be TRON, IIRC

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]malcolm » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @malcolm@sns.internationalotaku.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @nina_kali_nina @gabrielesvelto the feature phone era phones were generally running Linux or Symbian even if customers never saw underneath the operator APIs. DoCoMo's 505 series were all Symbian underneath for instance. Then there were the handy phones, a pre 2g network that was popular with teens due to cheap contracts, they were largely Windows CE

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]malcolm » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @malcolm@sns.internationalotaku.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina @gabrielesvelto TRON has been an API specification like POSIX for decades though it did start out as an OS (and there's various sub specifications like iTron for real-time computing)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @malcolm @gabrielesvelto there were great many feature phones running some sort of TRON, as far I know. Apparently, Panasonic, Kyocera and Fuji all used TRON.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @malcolm @gabrielesvelto e.g. here's a Kyocera lineup press release from 2014, two series are TRON: esol.co.jp/uploaded/press/emb_

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]malcolm » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @malcolm@sns.internationalotaku.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @nina_kali_nina @gabrielesvelto Huh those are PHS rather than garakei feature phones. 2014 is pretty late for new PHS models - and the PR is from the company who absorbed WILLCOM who for sure made PHS phones running Windows CE / Windows Mobile (as in: I wrote some of the system software for a few models)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @malcolm @gabrielesvelto fair enough, yeah, those are more like PHS. But still, whenever I look for galakei, especially early ones, online, I see iTRON again and again.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Robot [She/They] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @robot@wetdry.world

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @nina_kali_nina would you be up for a call sometime? I'm currently sketching out a custom phone (whether or not i can actually build it without breaking the bank is another story) but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @robot I'm not sure I can help here :D Why?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Robot [She/They] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @robot@wetdry.world

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @nina_kali_nina I'd like to hear some thoughts on it from the perspective of someone who has actually been using a modern (ish) flip phone for some time. I'm kinda getting fed up with my smart phone and want something more intentional. (Some of what I want doesn't seem to be on the market however)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @robot Ah, I only played with it, really. But sure :)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]elly [they/them, she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @elly@donotsta.re

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @nina_kali_nina Kyoceras are nice because they're not nearly as locked-down as Fujitsu. I've got an F-03L and I wanted to hack it (Qualcomm 210 so I could put pmOS on it), but it looks like they removed everything - fastboot, recovery, even edl(...how?).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Opened it and tried to solder UART to it, but sadly ended up ripping pads off (even under the miscroscope!) because it was so freakin' tiny.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Unfortunately it has an NTT (Docomo) SIMLock (ironically enough I have a SoftBank SIM but can't use it in EU because foreigners apparently can't get roaming according to some laws I've read).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I wish I used 200% of my brain and brought it to Docomo branch when I was in Japan to remove the simlock. It worked with an iPhone (so I got it 40% cheaper than usual) so...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I love keitais though. They even support stuff like Osafu-Keitai so you can use them for public transport (if you live in Japan...) or payments, they fit in your pocket, have physical keyboards and last forever on a single charge. Absolutely peak phone design.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @elly
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      > I wish I used 200% of my brain and brought it to Docomo branch when I was in Japan to remove the simlock.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      We got Softbank lock removed through pin-unlock codes bought online, it worked :o

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Osaifu keitai T_T keitais are lovely....

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Remiberry » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @Remiberry@donotsta.re

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @nina_kali_nina @elly I think I have a Kyocera A202KC
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        lovely little nugget but it sucks that it only has 8GB of RAM
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        at least it runs Android 10(?)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        shame none of the GSIs work on it, but at least one can unlock the bootloader with the mtkclient exploit.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]elly [they/them, she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @elly@donotsta.re

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @Remiberry @nina_kali_nina > lovely little nugget but it sucks that it only has 8GB of RAM
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Uhh, my pyxis has 6GB of RAM and I managed to run docker + fex + steam + windows game on it

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @elly @Remiberry tbh this, not all my laptops in daily use have this much. It's insanity we're demanding more than megabytes of RAM from our mobile devices

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Sebastian Krzyszkowiak » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @dos@social.librem.one

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @nina_kali_nina @elly @Remiberry My phone has 3GB RAM and while I do sometimes think it would be handy to have a bit more, it's usually triggered by things like compiling Rust codebases on it, so it's not exactly an essential need 😂

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]ManMachine » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                To be fair, Telegram UX is uniquely crap on every platform I've seen it.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @max it kind of is, yeah.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ah i love C. how do you read a line of text from a text file portably? fuck you, that's how

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Patch Arcana » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @patcharcana@furry.engineer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko When I started writing the code for PETI's firmware, I decided to do text mode display, because string manipulation is trivial.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Then I realized that C just natively doesn't really have strings per-se (I later found out that the standard library includes string utilities, but I haven't ported properly into using them effectively, and it shows in the code)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Adriano [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @adriano@lile.cl

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko "if you *print* the text file on paper, you can *port* it wherever you want."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Oblomov » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @oblomov@sociale.network

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Part of the underlying issue is that what is that there is no portable definition of “text file” and “line of text”, TBF.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Daniel Gibson » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko wait until you get to portably (locale-independent) formatting and parsing floats :-D

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Willow at large [it/she (2nd person pronouns okay too)] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @Willow@social.translunar.academy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko I thought FILE was standardized??

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @Willow yeah but while `getline` exists it's not standard and posix only

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Nikita Lisitsa » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko @Willow I was under the impression that most platforms (maybe only desktop?) at least try to be posix-conformant to some degree?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @lisyarus @Willow msvc doesn't care about posix, as far as i know

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Nikita Lisitsa » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko @Willow Hmm, I see, I guess they only support the part of POSIX that got later standardized in C, lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Can Acar » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @canacar@ioc.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko fgets() perhaps? @Willow

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Jari Komppa 🇫🇮 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sol_hsa@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko I once was reading a thick compiler theory book which had like 1 page description of the SSA form; it had a whole chapter about how to read the source file into memory.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Ratsnake Games 🔞 [she/her, i guess] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @ratsnakegames@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko i think the answer is "have someone else solve the problem for you" (i.e. use a library)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @ratsnakegames could not find a good library for this one

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Aviv » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @springogeek@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko @ratsnakegames this one looks interesting for what you need: github.com/jamesderlin/getline ?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I've not really run into this problem with my C projects. I've just always dumped the file into memory and parsed as necessary, skipping CR (\r) if it appears and then using \n as the line delimiter. Be liberal in what you accept and strict in what you output :)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              But obviously, every project has its own requirements

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Giles Goat » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @gilesgoat@toot.wales

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko what about fgets() ?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @gilesgoat afaik that doesn't read until a newline

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Giles Goat » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @gilesgoat@toot.wales

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko Yes that's the idea, what do you want/how do you want to read it ?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The only 'safe way' then is getting the file size and read it all in block with fread() and then process it in memory as you like.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Or you need to invent/write your own text/file reading functions 'if you want some special delimiters in place' . You may use fgetch() is clever enough to 'bufferize' file accesses .

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @gilesgoat posix has getline but it's not portable

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]transmutrix » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @transmutrix@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko not sure if it fits your needs, but if the file is a file, my policy is almost always to read the entire thing into memory and then split it by lines if that's how i wanted it formatted

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]transmutrix » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @transmutrix@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko and when i say "split it by lines" i usually mean make a bunch of { char *, length } strings that point into that one buffer without malloc'ing the individual lines, but again - depends on use case ^^

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]transmutrix » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @transmutrix@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko also not sure if you wanted a solution or were just talking shit about C - my bad if the latter!!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @transmutrix it's just that this was for fonts and I figured I'd keep it human readable by making it a text file and then it was very annoying to parse and I probably should've just used binary

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]transmutrix » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @transmutrix@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko ahhh ok I getcha. well, for that small amount of text i would definitely recommend just fread'ing the whole file and then parsing inside that continuous block. if you're using modern C, you could skip it even and define fonts with object literals (if that works for you / your team's needs)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Kiwa "meow" Tiger » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @kiwa@tiggi.es

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Kiwa "meow" Tiger » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @kiwa@tiggi.es

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  just noticed how shiny the keys are, mostly because idk and also kinda fucked them with the nail polish, wonder if i can get spare keys

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  they always are like that, in my experience

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Mx. Eddie R [They/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @silvermoon82@wandering.shop

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Have you ever picked a lock?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    edit: a practice lock is any lock that you were picking purely for practice which was not securing anything. a lock in the wild is a lock that was in place to actually secure something (love locks count)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Marta Threadbare [ella/she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko yeah, a (really really cheap) safe I had some documents I needed for the next day and I couldn't find the key, time for practicing the thing I watch on youtube! So I guess it counts as a practice lock.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @cygnathreadbare it was securing something so it's a lock in the wild

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]SlippiHUD [He/Him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @SmashToday@discuss.smash.today

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I get paid to pick locks in the wild. I'm essentially a professional burglar (locksmith), just call me Bilbo.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]cesarb » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @cesarb@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko A coworker managed to lose the key to his office drawer inside the drawer itself (I don't remember how), so I tried to pick it and succeeded (it was a fluke, I never managed to do it again even though it's a very low quality lock).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          That time the card reader on the office maglock malfunctioned and the backup control was inside the office was more interesting. I had to cut a wire to get in (I chose a red one for tradition), don't know if it counts as picking a lock or not.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Paco Hope [He/Him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @paco@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko 100 years ago, @steggy was doing geology field research (ok, she’s not THAT old, but it was a long time ago). There were these sample stations in a state park and we were supposed to drive up an access road to get to them and collect some readings. The park officials knew all about this (it was in conjunction with the local university). They were supposed to leave the gate unlocked at the beginning of the access road. They didn’t.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            So it was either a several mile hike on foot, leave and come back later, or I could just pick the master padlock on the gate. It’s a master padlock. C’mon. So, yeah, a few seconds later we had the gate open and we went and gathered the readings. Left the gate locked, just like we found it. This was ok because it was in the name of science! 😛

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Raynor Vliegendhart » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @ShinNoNoir@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko Does exploiting a weakness in a suitcase's combination lock count? (Reducing the complexity from trying 10^3 to 10*3 things to try.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Carey » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @carey@mastodon.nz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko not pin and tumbler locks, but I’ve successfully extracted the code from two different multiple-dial locks, one a Master padlock and one an official Xiaomi scooter lock. Just close your eyes, apply some pressure, and think really hard about what you’re feeling.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]grosskopfgames » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @grosskopfgames@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko In school I once used a ruler to open the lock on a window in the second floor because the teachers did not allow ventilation of those rooms in the summer.. not sure if that counts as "picking" as I'm unsure wether that counts as "securing" something if I can open it with a ruler :D

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]fabiosantoscode » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @fabiosantoscode@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko I tried on a padlock but failed miserably. Then I bought another and failed again lol.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Marcos Dione » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @mdione@en.osm.town

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko does finding the combination of a lock by feeling count? I have done this with lock around the house, including my father's briefcase.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Tris » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @tris@chaos.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko Nice try, cops xD

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Thomas Tanghus » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @tanghus@freeradical.zone

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko I suppose using an angle grinder doesn't count as 'picking'? Then no, I haven't picked a lock.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]John William David Thomson » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @jwdt@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko I can't remember any instances of picking a wild lock, but I did cut (with a small file) a new front door key (5 lever lock) from memory and a bit of trial and error.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Sin Vega » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sinvega@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko I'm voting practice locks, although some of that practice was on a locked door I had the key for

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @sinvega yeah that sounds like the right pick (eyyyy) to me. if you'd lost the key, though...

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Sin Vega » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sinvega@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko I'd feel pretty secure about it

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]McTwist » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @mctwist@social.accum.se

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko Yes, and I (we) succeeded.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    My nephew had somehow locked an old door, so we took two pieces of scrap metal and fixed them inside, and after about 45 minutes of trying and even practicing on a sibling lock, we managed to turn it twice and it was unlocked. We even tried (while the door was ajar) to open it again, and learned more about the mechanism and succeeded in that too.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I might have done something similar earlier in life, but I don't remember.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]void [it/its] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @FaeAlchemist@denden.world

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko We've touch decoded a code lock we thought was holding something but turned out it hadn't ever been set up and just had attachment brackets inside. That feels like an edge case on both halves of your question.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Roquette » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @Roquette@neopaquita.es

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I'm the lockpicker of the building when neighbors lost their keys.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        First they seem a bit scared. Now they'te grateful

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]SnyperWolf » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @SnyperWolf@kind.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko Where does "my lock inside my home, picked because it was easier than locating the key" fall?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @SnyperWolf still a lock in the wild. you didn't have the key (readily accessible)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Momo 🏳️‍⚧️:nonbinary_flag: [kitty/she/they/it] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @momo@woof.tech

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko I did to one of my wardrobes. Using two hairpins. it was cool to do it for the first time.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                you're all delinquents!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                i mean so am i but that doesn't get you off the hook

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤 » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @efi@chitter.xyz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko off the hook? nuh-uh, she's staying up there until she learns to accept compliments

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Jari Komppa 🇫🇮 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @sol_hsa@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko most locks in Finland are Abloy so lockpicking skills have limited use here.. ;)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw::paw: [🐱] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @catsalad@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko Actually, it does get us off the hook 🤭⁠🔓

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]MrGrumpyMonkey [On/Off] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko I guess us delinquents flock to the same place.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]lertsenem [he/hom] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @lertsenem@mastodon.lertsenem.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko I wish I was that cool, but I did it with the validation of the owner of the lock and of the thing it was securing (they had lost their key).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Mg Avaris Clari » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @avarisclari@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko I've opened locks without proper picking, the usual super basic ones that use flat edge things to turn a barrel. So uh... not sure how *that* counts

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @avarisclari i say let your heart guide you to the answer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]mcSlibinas » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @mcSlibinas@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko next to my work is abandoned facility. Nothing interesting at all, also i worked there many years ago, so just "hold my beer" moment. Those locks are so beaten that i used just random keys to unlock.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Saffron🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her/hers] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @spinach@girlcock.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko i learned lockpicking for the sole purpose of not paying actual money for the laundry machines that were present in my apartment at the time lol

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]tired [they/them/he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @xri@kolektiva.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko does taking an iron bar and just forcing it until it breaks count as picking a lock?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  If not i think it should

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @xri i think that's more forcing than picking :P

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Veviser » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @veviser@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko A combination lock that I forgot the code for which wasn't securing anything but it wasn't for practice.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Brett Haines » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @bretthaines@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko I grew up in a small town with an abandoned military base. Once my friends and I found a locked filing cabinet so naturally we picked it, hoping to find some exciting classified documents or whatnot. Nothing so cool though, I don't even remember what was inside other than disappointment. So yeah that's the one time I picked a lock in the wild.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Milly » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @aanee@mastodon.online

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko Have you ever encountered door combination locks using touch screens? They're really practical. You never have to remember the PIN as the fat stains of peoples fingers are there to guide you every time. 👍

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Every Other Dracula » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @otherdracula@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko I have a box of padlocks I practice on. I call it the lockbox.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Adriano [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @adriano@lile.cl

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko I haven’t picked a lock. I have opened doors by sliding a plastic card in the lock, though.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              My doors. I’d locked myself out.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Jef Poskanzer » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @jef@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko Does slipping a latch count?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @jef i don't think so >_>

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Jef Poskanzer » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @jef@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko I guess I agree - when I used to infiltrate buildings, I figured a latch-slipping tool would be less likely to get me arrested than actual lockpicks.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Artha 🐲🏳️‍⚧️ » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @samerion@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko The best I did was crack the 3 digit code on a lock in my dad's shed

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Sérgio Pereira :rainbowcheck: [Any/All] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sergioedup@corteximplant.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko picked/bypassed a couple of friends lockers after they lost the keys and picked my own garage gate lock because my key had gotten damaged somehow and wouldn't work. It can be a very useful skill to have even at a lower level like me.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Ari [APz] Sovijärvi [He/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @apzpins@some.apz.fi

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko Several arcade locks from games I bought with keys lost.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]FurryBeta » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @FurryBeta@shark.community

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko It hardly counts, as I was a teen at the time and I didn’t have any skills, but I popped an automobile’s door lock with a slim knife blade. Inserted blade into lock and turned. I figure I was just lucky or the lock wasn’t pinned

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]panu » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @shadowdancer@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When I was a kid I used to have this metal cash box in which I kept my valuables, like candy, cool rocks and sticks I had found, plastic miniature soldiers etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              As it happens I lost the key so I had to pick the lock. Did it in a couple minutes with a butter knife.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Gustavo [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @qgustavor@urusai.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko I picked my front door lock of my old house back when I was a kid. I had to go there for whatever reason I don't remember now and I forgot the keys, so I looked around and made a pick from random things I found around... and somehow it worked.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Karl » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @karl@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko I did pick (read: rake) my letterbox that one time I lost my keys. Does that count?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Zoe : Void -> a » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @zmz@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko I lost the key to the padlock for the little in building storage unit for my apartment, and I taught myself to pick a spool pin on my practice lock so I could open it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Kelkyag » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @kelkyag@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      How would you count locks being used as game mechanics in a live action game?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @kelkyag probably doesn't count

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Kelkyag » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @kelkyag@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          At all, or as practice? Actual locks guarding access to game items, actual picking of said locks (various types, none terribly sophisticated).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Eli the Bearded » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @elithebearded@fed.qaz.red

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Real picking? Just a practice lock.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Disassembly, removing some pins, and then putting it back for an easy pick later, that was decades ago

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Tonya Marie 🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @TonyaMarie@chaosfem.tw

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko I have never picked a lock, but at about 10yo I "unlocked" the door to my parents' bedroom where my younger brother had locked himself in by pounding on it in a strategic way to pop the lock.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I also rescued my child from having accidentally locked herself in my bathroom by removing the doorknob entirely.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]paramnesiac » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @paramnesiac@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko Not picking the lock, but I used to shim classroom doors in HS if the teacher was taking too long to get to class. I always just "found the door unlocked". 🤷‍♂️

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  If you have a long term partner that you live with, do you usually sleep in the same bed?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Josué Boisvert :raylib: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @greenmoonmoon@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko we do sleep in the same bed, but we bought a king size one a while back and I couldn't go back down size.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Also I understand that it is not uncommon to sleep in separate bed, room or both. I know 2 close friends couple where it is the case (for various reasons)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Supervinh47 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @Supervinh47@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko yes but with the kids alternatively crawling over the two of us

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Osmose » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @Osmose@digipres.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko we shared a bed for about a week after moving in together and then switched to separate bedrooms and stayed that way for over a decade

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]McTwist » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @mctwist@social.accum.se

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko My wife loves me more than my snoring is unbearable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Same is for my father which sleeps light, and mother that snores a lot.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Gabriele Svelto [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @gabrielesvelto@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko yes, and once you have kids cats the number of beings in the same bed tends to go up, especially during winter

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Tom Forsyth » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko Separate because my wife goes to bed and wakes up much earlier than me, and if I wake her up in the middle of sleeping, she has a very tough time getting back to sleep.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Patrick H. Lauke » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko wife and i like to have lots of space...so we got two large double beds. also, she still claims i snore...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]disorderlyf [She/Her, Sie/Ihre, Ella/Su, Elle/Son] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @disorderlyf@todon.eu

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko Had one before where we didn't because chronic pain and insomnia with separate sleep "schedules" made it difficult for either of us to get more than a few hours of sleep. As far as I can tell, it didn't effect the relationship.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]airakose [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko Same bedframe, different mattresses and sheets

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (they require extra firm concrete and I desire clouds)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko my husband and I are both extremely light sleepers and wake each other up constantly, so we usually sleep separate.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]yomimono, still on land [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @yomimono@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko I hate co-sleeping and my partner likes their space

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Union Whore [all pronouns] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @unionwhore@ni.hil.ist

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko I don't really differentiate between friend or partner, but with a very close friend of mine we sometimes sleep in the same bed, but most days I want to sleep alone.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Vile Lasagna » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @VileLasagna@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko I mean, yes but it's one of them German beds these days where it's separate slats mattresses and duvets even though it's the one frame. It's a bit weird, though no more fighting over the covers, I guess?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Kiwa "meow" Tiger » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @kiwa@tiggi.es

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            you know what it's kinda funny? that for for a long time i had no idea what my instagram username was because email login, but then like a year ago people irl was like hey kiwatech
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            and i was like wtf is kiwatech

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            i was kiwatech from instagram lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            and now that's probably gonna follow me for a while

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            probably gonna use that as my dj name lol

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @kiwa@tiggi.es kiwa techno!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]kira for scale » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @kirakira@furry.engineer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              linux age verification related post [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              RE: social.treehouse.systems/@wwah

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              thinking abt the timeline where the linux baddies got tshirts made that say ILLEGAL IN CALIFORNIA and MUST BE 18 TO READ THIS SHIRT like where is the fuck you make me attitude here

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Eric Schultz [They/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @wwahammy@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              gitlab.freedesktop.org/account

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]kira for scale » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @kirakira@furry.engineer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              linux age verification related post [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              how about instead of everyone does this shit you let them make linux illegal in california and see how quick the tech ceos show up at evil ken doll gavin newsom's chateau to get this shit reversed

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Wah

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A red panda laying on a tree branch

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk why does it feel like they’re judging me

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @max because they have the look that they are staring directly into your soul?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]mhoye » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @mhoye@cosocial.ca

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A few months ago, after years of not accepting venture capital funding, @Gargron stepped down as CEO of Mastodon as part of Mastodon's becoming a not-for-profit.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A few days ago, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepped down and a few days later Bluesky announced that - surprise - we got a hundred milliion dollars in venture capital investment from a cryptocurrency company and that happened a full year ago but we were just too busy to mention it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  These two things are not the same at all.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Imagine living through the 2020's rise of fascism and surveillance, looking at the OS age signal API and going "well this thing, in isolation, is not so bad, I think people are overreacting"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ok yeah great the thing that could easily be weaponized further isn't so bad yet when viewed in isolation. I'm so glad the last 20 times people were concerned about similar slippery slopes nothing bad at all happened in the long term!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Chagrins » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @Chagrins@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko even if I didn't grow up in this time of hell, looking at this in isolation I'd still be going, "Wow, this is really fucked. We shouldn't be allowing this shit." but my parents didn't raise an idiot either.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]mmby [he/him 🌈] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @mmby@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko linux is captured by capital, we will all have to use plan9/9front

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      a b/w image of a room with trashed desktop computer hardware, there is a caption "9front System" and in the back on the wall is a graffiti reading "computer as fuck"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Alt...a b/w image of a room with trashed desktop computer hardware, there is a caption "9front System" and in the back on the wall is a graffiti reading "computer as fuck"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]0x0961h » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @0x0961h@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko "Bro, just one more surveillance initiative, bro, please I beg of you, just one more and kids will be safe, bro, it's only for the safety of kids, bro, please, I beg of you, just one more."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]moralrecordings [they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @moralrecordings@digipres.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko "open source is a stronghold against malicious governments, unless it's illegal in the Bay Area in which case yes sir thank you sir we'll add that right away"

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @bloor@bloor.tw

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            If SQL is pronounced "sequel" then surely DNS is pronounced "Dennis"?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @limneticvillains@mastodon.online much needed good news from his situation today, indeed

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Pete Prodoehl 🍕 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @rasterweb@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              It's 2026. I finally broke down and got a wireless mouse.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @rasterweb have you opened it up to confirm that there are no wires inside?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Pete Prodoehl 🍕 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @rasterweb@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @nina_kali_nina Do the battery connection springy bits count?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The guts of a mouse.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @rasterweb according to the American Heritage dictionary, wire is

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Metal that has been drawn out into a strand or rod, used chiefly for structural support, as in concrete, and for conducting electricity

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Therefore,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "Looks inside: wires"

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Pete Prodoehl 🍕 » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @nina_kali_nina "Wireless mouse but all the wires are on the inside."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Stylus [He/Him/They/Them] » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @nina_kali_nina @rasterweb I don't think the copper foil for PCBs is drawn. Rather, it is either rolled or it is electrodeposited. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_f So, traces are not wires.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @nina_kali_nina @rasterweb That said, I appreciate the thought process that brought you to this conclusion and I like the quip.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        (and I didn't know that copper foil could usefully be made by electrodeposition, so at least I learned something)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @stylus @rasterweb I'm talking about the springs for the batteries, those are drawn, right?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          p.s. I have a university degree in electronics and had an internship at a factory that was doing full package from PCBs to semiconductors - doing overseeing of the full production chain :)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @nina_kali_nina I do plan to remove those "wires" so at that point it will be truly wireless!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              my little (it's only a model)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              the famous chinese Maclock standing on a shelf near a huge pentode

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Alt...the famous chinese Maclock standing on a shelf near a huge pentode

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