Local moth fairy loves lämp, more at 11 @elfi@pixie.town

I have foolishly waited WAY too long for my own good to open for commissions. 😭 Finally open for work to be completed by the end of December! ❄️

Signup sheet and info - https://forms.gle/owStwAqnJLdBxUu9A

Pixelorama: A free & open-source 2D sprite editor, made with the Godot Engine!

@programmazione

"Pixelorama è un editor di pixel art gratuito e open source, creato con il Godot Engine da Orama Interactive. Se volete creare pixel art animata, grafica di gioco, tiles e qualsiasi tipo di pixel art, Pixelorama offre una varietà di strumenti e funzioni. È gratuito per tutti, per sempre!"

#gamedev #pixelart #godot

https://github.com/Orama-Interactive/Pixelorama

PLEASE BOOST--MVTO!!

Order while in stock to ship right away 🎁 🎁 🎁 Native-beaded jewelry perfect for gifting!

Purple Fairy Arrow Brick Stitch Fringe Beaded Earrings

https://cvkvlv.com/products/purple-fairy-arrow-brick-stitch-fringe-beaded-earrings

#Christmas #Holiday #Christmas2023 #Cvkvlv #CvkvlvBeadwork #Mvskoke #Native #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Beadwork #Jewelry #Earrings #Handmade #IndigenousCreatives

@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/

Downtime after work - I just felt like drawing my moth girls.
#OriginalCharacter #MastoArt #MKArt #MothGirls #AnimeArt #Sketch #CharacterDesign

(Un)popular opinion: I honestly wish we could go back to using one client (i.e Pidgin or Kopete) for all IMs.

For some people out there it might be a history lesson, but just like now, we used to use multiple IM services for different social circles.

- IRC
- XMPP/Jabber
- Google Talk/iChat
- Localized services (i.e GG or TLEN in Poland)

Just imagine that you could use Matrix, Discord, Telegram, Signal or whatever people use these days in a single app with coherent interface, that would use maybe like 200 - 500MB of RAM (assuming caching from Discord severs and what not).

Instead of having each "webapp" open which on my desktop usually accumulates to ~2GB of RAM usage on the desktop, you could use a literal potato to talk to other people.

I fondly remember using an ancient PDA (HTC TyTn II with Windows Mobile 6) in high school. It was an absolute marvel to use - mSD card, headphone jack (though via dongle, so how tables have turned), physical QWERTY keyboard and stylus.

It served me for literal ages. I would use it to talk to my friends, watch movies, connect to server in my bedroom running FreeBSD 9.2 over SSH and so on.

All of that on Qualcomm MSM7200 - 400MHz ARM11 (though not sure why I thought it was an XScale, weird) and 128MB of RAM.

I know for a fact that most IM software is unnecessary bloated, as my laptop lasts a loooot longer on battery if I don't use Discord on it.

This opinion will once again will light my butt on fire, but I believe EU should force companies providing messaging services to open up their APIs and allow using 3rd party clients without ToS bullshit that discord is doing.