Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

It's on #Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/track/3iaZ67DTsb1OouXoAIUd6y
Here's a nice remix: https://open.spotify.com/track/5GOHbgVY0XeVq2bn6hOczc

#music #demoscene

(That was in 256 bytes too :] )

https://youtu.be/PrtMO7HOkmQ

Explainer: https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
It was for a 4KiB C64 demo contest! One of the insane things about it is that it actually starts out as a BASIC program, and transitions into assembly. All in 256 bytes

Wow, check this out: a 256-byte demo for the #Commodore64, which plays a cool song. To give you an idea of how tiny this program is, the music (and visuals!) is the contents of this message itself is 256 bytes long! (I got this idea from a YouTube comment)

@w84death That's a great birthday present. For Christmas I got a ThinkPad X41 tablet! 2005 technology, and cooler than what we have (raw power aside).
Now I just need a battery that lasts longer than 7 minutes and I can switch from my current ~2010 Dell Latitude computer for note-taking....

@w84death You have a lot of cool things going on :)

@admiralwonderboat Very funny 😆

@256 Funn

@searchliaison Great to know about!

Well that was an interesting video. https://youtu.be/pGEWPY3nqHw

@bartavi But while we're on the topic of Firefox, they added a TOS and are setting up to sell your data. Look at the #Firefox hashtag -- it's bad.
https://youtu.be/E4JOnQY_qbo

@bartavi For the ?? flag, maybe it's "Flag of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands", the flag of "Yap", or the flag of "Chuuk State"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_by_color_combination#White,_blue

(Nice, hit the 500 char count exactly on that one)

@bartavi So I don't know exactly what happened; there may be a glitch with long sequences of regional indicator symbols. VE, GB, VE is likely just "VEGBVE" and may be confusing what's interpreting them. Maybe there are multiple sequences of regional indicators that indicate the given countries? Sorry I can't help more. [3/3]

@bartavi
There are some characters, the regional indicator letter characters, which act like combining characters. Here's U+1F1E6 "REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER A": 🇦

When you type them next to eachother, you'll get a flag. Here's U followed by S: 🇺🇸
Your computer probably displayed that as the US flag.

I did some research and the flags in the titlebar are of the codes VE, GB, and VE. The flags in the tab in Firefox are of the codes UA, ??, and UA, where ?? is a flag I don't recognize. [2/]