batguano @batguano@mastodon.social

Reminder that Blade Runner happens next month

US peeps: feeling uneasy about celebrating today while there's a humanitarian crisis at our border? Join me in donating to RAICES Texas which provides legal services to immigrant children, families, and refugees. This 4th of July, recommit yourself to #justice4all. http://www.raicestexas.org/donate/

when most people say "software engineer" they don't mean an actual engineer, they just mean someone who would wear a red shirt if they were on TOS

ever want to look up an obscure HTTP status code but you're tired of http://http.cat and https://httpstatusdogs.com/ ?

well you're in luck because now there's goats https://httpstatusgoats.net/

waiting for Sigil to drop at the end of the week I've played thru a couple of Romero's 2016 Doom maps he made as replacements for certain episode 1 levels

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/Ports/d-f/e1m4b
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/Ports/d-f/e1m8b

the map 8 replacement in particular is a really big improvement; lots of neat techniques I hadn't seen done before but all using the same engine and textures.

The best DOS Easter game:

DOOM.

Deeply allegorical to biblical stories and imagery, as the protagonist you singlehandedly rise from the fires of hell and free the world from evil.

Why are lightbulbs with color temperatures higher than 3,000K even sold in stores catering to consumers? No one but hospitals and industry needs those.

Seriously, a crime against humanity to find “daylight” lights in hotels, etc.

Green for St. Patrick's Day! 🍀

In the 1980's, personal computers displaced mainframes. It was a revolution.

Now, we need a new revolution: for personal servers to displace centralized servers.

How can we make this happen? Check out this presentation to learn.

📺WATCH: "Creating a Computing Revolution: from Personal Computers to Personal Servers - Danny Haidar, FOSDEM 2019"
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/52fb6887-9627-46b0-936c-bf9f635bdcd2

Picard series might be cool but I'd scrap it for this any day
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Frasier/comments/6iwv4s/plucked_from_my_star_trek_website_id_watch_this/

mfw i realize my phone that was designed to fail after a few years was literally called "Nexus 6"

Boost if you remember #retrocomputing

Just come across this genius comic: Jousselin's Imbattable, a comic hero who's power is to break panels!

Thinking about this...

source: https://raminnazer.com/products/happening

Hot take:
"anti vaxxer" is way too benign...
Let's call them "plague revivalists"

Happy 25th birthday, DOOM!