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Today was a productive day of staring at hex dumps. I'm delighted to be using my reverse engineering skills for the greater good.

Hey, question! Some of you have noticed that some follow requests appear as follow requests even though your account is not locked. This is a sort of "junk" filter system and based on your server's moderators decisions (not algorithm). We're adding a message that explains this to the follow requests screen, how does this text sound?

"While your account is not locked, follow requests from accounts your server's staff has deemed suspicious require manual review for your safety"

#mastodev

not being able to plug a second mouse into the computer and get a second cursor was an act of cowardice

So apparently Japanese studio TMS is gradually uploading whole-arse series up on their YouTube channel, including Cybersix and (TIL exists) Virtua Fighter.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzGf0DdUJVrsbcWL3e_tK1Q

Dark Sky has been acquired by Apple. of course, they're shutting most of it down.

https://blog.darksky.net/dark-sky-has-a-new-home/

@nia Please someone tell Richard Stallman that it is 2020 and you are allowed to say fuck.

Do you need a joy?

"Epic Games is anti-monopoly and is finally bringing about viable competition"

"Epic hurting Linux gaming? just use Windows"

pick one

created a #coronavirus quarantine timer web app for your things https://quarantimer.app/

I'm going to post a long thread on how to cope better if you're stuck indoors at the moment. I've been housebound by disability for a long while now, and sporadically housebound due to depression and agoraphobia before that. These are things that have improved how I deal with that. This is not gonna make houseboundness painless for you but it might help you cope. Disabled comrades are welcome to share their own advice to this thread.

You can feel you now.

BUTTS are always funny

Don't trust anyone

>playing minecraft
>have extremely overpowered and expensive weapon
>accidentally drop it in the void
the drop key needs a confirmation dialog, fuck

TIL that the "Roblox OOF" sound was yoinked from the 2000 PC game Messiah.

And of course, Roblox's developers are not handling the situation correctly.

Build This 8-Bit Home Computer With Just 5 Chips

https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/build-this-8bit-home-computer-with-just-5-chips