Ariella @ellabellafull@librem.one

The Drake Cutter is my new favourite small-sized ship. It's like the big Jeep Wrangler of space. :D

It's super interesting inside and out, and is a feast on the senses with all the moving switches, buttons, sounds and other fun role-play elements like a bathroom, bed, reading light, storage, closet and cargo bay.

And best of all? It can carry a Nox! The funnest bucking hover-horse in the game XD.

#StarCitizen #space #spacesim #YouCantTakeTheSkyFromMe #Drake #Cutter #Nox

@chhopsky Hi! It's Myawen from the clan.

For all programming resources produced by Crescent Software (by Ethan Winer), they're being curated and shared by Gene Buckle here: http://annex.retroarchive.org/crescent/index.html

#BASIC #programming #DOS #RetroComputing

@libreoffice my reference broke. Fixing.

3 years ago I volunteered to create a new edition of Ethan Winer’s 1990s BASIC programming book using LibreOffice (@libreoffice). Over the span of a year, with Ethan’s editorial input, I rebuilt the book layout from TXT sources in #LibreOffice , and recreated all diagrams from scratch using #FreeDOS, #InkScape and #GIMP. It turned out great!

http://ethanwiner.com/BTU_BOOK.PDF

#BASIC #programming #RetroComputing

Dev1: so our zombs will find the shortest path possible or the weakest with some randomness
Dev2: what if a person can't be reached?
Dev1: Eh?
Dev2: I mean climb a mountain or dig a super deep hole, or dig a super deep hole at the top of a mountain.
Dev1: Nobody would...what?🧵

😏 😋 😝 😜 🤪meeeeeeee
#7DaysToDie

Hello Earthlings! (From the Artemis mission launched today.)

#NASA #space #Artemis

I had this experience in French catholic schools growing up in northern #Ontario which borders QC. Mom & I were French: thoughts, dreams, speech, activities.

But I was also Ontarian. My father was English with an English last name.

So I was harassed by my teachers as inauthentic, from a bad wrong language home, or variations on that BS. 😖

By Lori Weber:

Opinion: Why I'm saying farewell to Quebec

I love living in a French city. I embraced the language early on and made sure my child did, as well. But Quebec has never embraced me.

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-why-im-saying-farewell-to-quebec

#Québec #language #discrimination

#TransAwarenessWeek
We see you.

We love you.

You're a beautiful emergence of Sol, Earth, Life: real people always and in all ways.

Your natural truth doesn't need proving because it simply IS; embodied within the very fabric of the universe.

Be joyous and rest in this.<3

(And vampire movies.)

(Some reflections on the effectiveness of donations, surprise gifts, advocacy, requests for help, unrequited love and unwanted attention.)

The receiver of a gesture, item or resource decides if it is a [gift] or not, not the giver.

[Support?] becomes [Support.] through consent.

This is my favourite ice cream. I like it because it has these little chunks of chocolate in it.

Sorry, I mean full-diameter SHARDS OF SUCCULENCE! XD

#chocolate #bliss

But I'm sure they'll sound great mixed into streams from Spotify lol. Capitalism wins this round. 😋

I bought the new remasters of GnR Illusions since I enjoyed the originals so much in the 1990s but had lost those copies over the decades.

And they sound terrible lol. Modern loudness compressed, mid range is boosted so high my teeth hurt, and November Rain got wrecked:

Piano is quieter, strings are louder, the thunder clap is muted to almost background atmosphere, the last bass drum kick on the signature drum roll is muted. It has no cinematic narrative punch anymore.

#GunsNRoses #music

E.g.

“Our perceptions are a species-specific user interface, not a window on truth, and its underlying code is a sea of kludges, punctuated by islands of inadvertent brilliance. Vision does not approximate an ideal observer who recovers objective truths. It is an interface kludged together on the cheap. It tells us just enough about fitness to keep us alive in our niche long enough to raise kids.”