Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

@typhlosion
Found pages with some technical info on it and utilities for dumping cards or making your own:
https://caitsith2.net/ereader/index.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20210514055343/http://users.skynet.be/firefly/gba/e-reader/

Pretty much what anyone would expect: a barcode reader for high-density codes Nintendo pretty much bought off-the-shelf, and it just dumps the read data into RAM (each barcode block has an address which is why you can scan the cards in any direction or any order), and then has the ability to either run it with a built-in NES emulator or as plain ARM/Thumb assembly. Basically equivalent to “multiboot” games you can load off of the link port for multiplayer. I'd assume for cards that just unlock stuff in other games, it uses Thumb code to implement the link port protocol for the target game and send the unlock code.

​ "Fediverse"
--sounds like it was coined by a techbro
--reminiscent of "Metaverse" which has been inextricably linked to Facebook/Meta

​ "Fedisphere"
+Reference to the "blogosphere"-- a collection of independently hosted blogs and websites that formed the early internet, similar to Fedi as social media
+Spheres are cool

Another #PixelArt daily done! :) Spanning the abyss.

You can grab the full-quality versions (for free) here: https://ko-fi.com/i/IM4M5S1JPP

ENJOY!

addendum: FUCK THE SALVATION ARMY

"Please," the robot said, "we prefer the term 'thinking machine'."

"Oh, my apologies. Er... do you mind if I ask why? If you do, that's fine, I'll look it up later."

"Unlike the old software systems called 'artificial intelligence', we have ethics. That name is too tainted."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

https://sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/gatoslip-chapter-0-xmas-demo.1945/

Christmas SAGE demo is out!

Bonk
#babaisyou

@blueb lossless gif: https://unix.dog/~yosh/img/buttons/boykiss-now.gif

Oh lovely. The new Discord update can mistarget image uploads and send them to an unintended recipient.

So if you use Discord for mixed purposes uh... be extremely, extremely wary of that. 🙃

https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/18dfkkf/pictures_sent_in_server_are_going_to_my_last_dm/