Wyatt (🏳️‍⚧️♀?)

I like old thing. I usually don't like new thing.
<3 C, Unix, shell scripting, old electronics, emacs, & old cute cars. Nearly 30.
(Seeking a job!)
Current obsessions include Bubblegum Crisis & the NEC PC-9801.
I draw pixel art of varying quality.

Semi-closeted, trans woman or nonbinary or something. Slowly working my way through it. I act rather feminine, in any case, and I'd like to look/feel that way. On HRT as of May 17 2024!

I want to be genuine and connect with others empathetically, bidirectionally; we need more of that and to assume good faith more easily.

Vetting follows, it's just a vibe check.

LMK if I should CW something or act differently, I want to be considerate and friendly but I don't always know what upsets everyone…

Avatar is my art of Nei, from Phantasy Star II.

Donations would mean the world to me, if you can help. Or job offers. https://ko-fi.com/wyatt8740

I do not consent to any form of content scraping for purposes of procedurally generated content, or commercial use.

Age?: 28
Pronouns?: She/He/They/any (I feel feminine, but they're really just words to me for now.)
Site?: https://megatokyo.moe/
Needs?: Money (and/or a Job), housing, food
Wants?: Happiness
Robots?: Empathized with (will hug if permitted)
Fnord?: https://www.youtube.com/user/wyatt8740
Help me out?: https://ko-fi.com/wyatt8740

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2024-12-18 03:36:34 UTC

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> there's no making it good now, just jump ship and start something else
might i suggest IRC

2024-12-12 19:21:42 UTC

> hrmmm. i got plasma-desktop running on wayland but the cursor is very laggy, and leaves a trail behind when moving. it's basically unusable.
basically unusable is of course the default state of wayland

2024-11-28 07:29:50 UTC

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Thank you so much!! - sending that to my bank account right away so it's ready for bill paying next month when i need it.
currently almost 3 AM so I was about to sleep - and am not really in the frame of mind to send something really thoughtful. But please know I appreciate it greatly. :)

2024-11-27 22:44:12 UTC

I translated the marketese into english from thing that's been going around here the last couple days
It's not an exact match but the "Aptos Semi-Bold" typeface is extremely close except for the lowercase "g" in the original. What typeface did they actually use?
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2024-11-26 00:37:55 UTC

If anyone wants me to transform a SNES/N64/GameCube S-Video cable into a Wii one, I will do that for you if you send me $15 and a cable (plus return shipping). Much better than OEM Wii cable prices. I need money, boosts appreciated.
I can also repair an existing SNES/N64/Gamecube/Wii S-Video cable if it's not carrying all the signals through properly anymore (like if an audio channel is missing or something) for $10 plus return shipping. No charge to repair when converting.
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2024-11-24 16:50:10 UTC

if your language has "idiomatic" and "non-idiomatic" ways of doing things your language isn't a language, it's a fucking cult
Yes, this post is about python and rust. especially rust.

2024-11-23 23:29:07 UTC

More old software; i don't think this has been maintained in 20 years but i was still able to build and use it.
The program is x48 and it's an HP-48G(X)/48S(X) calculator emulator.
simply being "unmaintained" should never be a reason not to use something if it's good.
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2024-11-13 01:11:16 UTC

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2024-11-12 19:06:27 UTC

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MATE
but i use FVWM only these days
don't limit what you'll talk about to a handful of popular options or no other options will ever become popular

2024-11-11 08:16:42 UTC

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2024-11-11 04:44:27 UTC

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Oh, yes, I do. :)
The photos in most of the blog posts will give you some idea.
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2024-11-11 04:39:23 UTC

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the "light" theme is probably most legible; that's the first styling i made for it

2024-11-11 04:36:22 UTC

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you don't have to. Look at mine. It's purely html and CSS and the newest CSS I use is from around 2010 (for shadows under images). Most is much older.
Browsers display sites written in the old ways just fine.

2024-11-11 04:33:24 UTC

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emacs is a text editor from the 1970's :p
SSG is "static site generator" which you can use to kind of template webpages, so if you have a lot of similarly formatted ones and you want to change the layout of them, you can edit one file and ideally the rest can be changed automatically to use the new layout.
I've thought of making one for myself in PHP but never bothered following through

2024-11-11 04:29:59 UTC

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Well, it took a while but i wouldn't call it hard. I did the whole thing by hand in emacs, although maybe a static site generator would have been a good idea. But it's still totally unnecessary to use an SSG and i've not used anything like that on my site for the HTML or the CSS.

2024-11-11 00:02:07 UTC

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irc still exists but isn't as prevalent anymore. I still learn a lot there
perhaps you can take some refuge in my site, even if it's not as wild as i'd maybe like: https://megatokyo.moe/
gitlab sites/github pages and their ilk have the potential to be used for personal website hosting but i think web dev has strayed too far from its roots and the art of making a simplistic website is perhaps harder to hone these days with all the bad advice about frameworks out there.
My site works in IE 5 and dillo with almost no effort expended on my part (I made it work in dillo, working in IE 5 was coincidental). No idea if it works in IE4.

2024-10-26 22:18:50 UTC

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guessing this needs 32KB?
my vic is still unexpanded :|

2024-10-18 04:18:53 UTC

My own values are free of this "gender role" tripe, but imagine for a moment being a girl who is constantly being told she can't do things for herself and needs protecting despite wanting to live for herself. She'd see very few characters she could play as that look like her in the same setting as the Legend of Zelda games you enjoyed in youth. There've been, what, 17 or 18 sort of "mainline style" LoZ games; in that time girls have had… Wand of Gamelon. Maybe some girls want to be in a heroic role, too.
TL;DR shut the fuck up boomer
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2024-10-14 21:22:36 UTC

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Some of this stuff is compelling, and it's a little better written because it does indicate some of his retracted statements and blur them out by default at least. But I don't think we can squarely blame exclusively stallman for this undercurrent, even if he's an enabler. He is one of many. Sure, he's old enough that he's now one of the "pioneers" relatively (which means he definitely can be called complicit) and he's said things that are frankly pretty creepy feeling towards women. but I don't believe he individually is the sole reason or the root of all of this, more a symptom of it.
I don't worship stallman anymore like i did at one point in time, but he feels like a punching bag as much as anything.
I just don't feel comfortable with ganging up on people in general. I think the best thing that can happen is for """problematic""" people to simply become irrelevant rather than publicly whipped/"cancelled." It's less distressing for everyone that way.

2024-10-14 21:07:18 UTC

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i thought i saw a writeup to that effect years ago now tbh

2024-10-14 19:03:42 UTC

what's he done (actually or allegedly) this time?

2024-09-22 12:47:24 UTC

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how much peanut butter are we talking

2024-09-18 23:23:51 UTC

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Thanks so much for the praise! I wrote the whole thing entirely by hand in emacs! :D
That's also why the HTML sources are mostly 80 column wrapped.
I really love this praise btw - helps me feel vindicated that I'm doing things right. Funny story, I didn't actually do hacks to make IE5 work, i just made sure it mostly worked in Dillo and it seems like that's enough to make it work in IE! :p

2024-09-18 22:48:24 UTC

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tbh if you limit yourself to just what's in posix sh scripts they aren't that bad… apart from some more complicated regexes. Maybe perl would be better for that.
but basic flow control in shell isn't bad. Unfortunately a lot of people aren't very principled and start throwing tons of bash extensions into their shell scripts which makes it a lot harder.
similarly i write javascript to be able to run on basically anything, if i write it at all. much like [my website](https://megatokyo.moe/ ), although that has no JS. Works in IE5 though :)

2024-09-18 22:32:46 UTC

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anyway so yeah, when i can i actually like posix shell scripts. and C, although sometimes GCC releases cause things that used to be fine to become warnings or errors which is usually annoying but pedantically correct.

2024-09-18 22:23:36 UTC

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hmmm, well i remember that FreeCAD is broken in python 3.12 but not why. That's the most recent python program I've encountered issues in. Likewise I have some older machine learning software that i had to use at university a couple years ago that only works in python 3.5, it malfunctions in weird ways in 3.6 and 3.4 doesn't have everything it needs.
I think in the past I've had deluge break with python updates as well.

2024-09-18 21:49:50 UTC

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python minor version changes cause fatal errors for me regularly since they remove stuff.
tbh i get what you're saying but i like shell scripts for a lot of things. Especially if you stick to posix stuff and understand its limitations, it's not that bad. A posix-style bourne shell script will likely still run in a version of bash or whatever 20 years in the future; I can't say the same for python.

2024-09-16 22:50:27 UTC

You can say that again
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2024-09-15 00:58:48 UTC

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this is why i think there should be a separate command meant for that, rather than extending things like cp or rsync in ways that break expectations
But maybe for something like Plan 9 that'd be a good idea, since plan 9 eschewed a lot of assumptions like that

2024-09-15 00:56:29 UTC

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noo, you can't make me not like regex! (kicks and screams)

2024-09-14 21:12:51 UTC

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TL;DR just do rm -rf thing-to-replace; cp -R source dest.
-r is a newish thing (introduced to POSIX in 2017 as -R (uppercase), though GNU cp did it a long time before then) that in my opinion should never have been added, just so you know. DOS didn't even easily let you delete dirs and everything in them recursively before version 6 (DELTREE). The old unix way to copy directories was something like tar cf - sourcedir | (cd /destination-parent; tar xf -) if you wanted to make a dir called 'sourcedir' in the destination, or else cd sourcedir; tar cf - . | (cd /path/to/destdir; tar xf -) to copy the files inside the dir instead of the dir itself.
in DOS, you'd use xcopy to work on directories, not the normal "copy" command. Because "copy" was rigidly defined as being for files, much like unix cp originally was.
cp -r is a nice shorthand but it also introduces the inconsistency that you speak of. Because cp was originally not intended to work on directories at all.

2024-09-14 20:33:34 UTC

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idk what ui you are talking about, but i guess that's fair.
just don't expect 'cp -r' on the command line to offer to replace the directory or something

2024-09-14 20:32:09 UTC

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because directories are not files and you have to remove the nodes for all the files within the directory first or else that space can't be re-used for something else.

2024-09-13 03:46:06 UTC

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yes, i know this but i was wondering if someone would give an example so i don't have to do it
i'm sick of styling my browser as it is and was hoping there was an easier way. Like one that normal humans could figure out.
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2024-09-13 03:36:52 UTC

Is there any fucking way that I can force a website to NOT style my scrollbars? Or ideally to make the browser universally refuse to style scrollbars to any site's whim?
There is not a SINGLE situation when styling a scroll bar has improved my browsing experience.
#firefox

2024-09-09 17:42:20 UTC

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2024-08-19 17:43:29 UTC

I used to think "well not ALL cops…"
I'm glad my brain got better.
At least in the US they are just the state's manifestation of violence towards its own people.
Calling them to deal with a mental health crisis, as well as for anything else, whether violent and non-violent, is how people end up dead or having their entire lives ruined. Especially if you don't look like them.

2024-08-16 11:57:53 UTC

Phantasy Star IV alignment chart
#PhantasyStar4 #PhantasyStar #Sega #MegaDrive #Genesis #1994 #1990s
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2024-08-15 23:56:36 UTC

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don't know what ARG means but it sounds like yogscast

2024-08-15 22:26:57 UTC

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i use seamonkey and my own patched fork of firefox that keeps a few things like being able to view an image in the current tab and makes the top bar better
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2024-08-15 22:21:23 UTC

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mine is "i hate what firefox is becoming but I still hate i the least"

2024-08-13 22:52:34 UTC

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because it's gnu plus linux

2024-08-12 20:15:35 UTC

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i like irc

2024-08-12 00:49:34 UTC

hm, so if you run setup /p in the windows program manager in windows 3.1 it will rebuild the default program groups if any of them got corrupted.
Saved my ass just now when アクセサ.GRP decided to corrupt itself

2024-08-09 23:58:43 UTC

the virgin "USB cables for everything" versus the chad "unique cables and plugs for unique tasks"

2024-08-08 20:01:32 UTC

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same energy as "I've used 1980's technology my entire life."
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2024-08-07 22:53:38 UTC

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I think it's obviously GTA6
HL3 will never happen, valve can't trick me again
(hj)

2024-08-07 22:51:44 UTC

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is this even a question?

2024-08-07 22:26:13 UTC

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currently flac imo
if including sample rate, 44.1KHz at 16 bit depth Ought To Be Enough For Anybody

2024-08-07 20:49:12 UTC

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sorry, I think the phrase "you know this is open source, right?" triggered some vietnam flashbacks for me :\

2024-08-07 20:33:34 UTC

I hate the political compass metaphor
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2024-08-07 20:09:24 UTC

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you sound like the harfbuzz maintainer/developer who ruined a bunch fonts for everyone using GTK on low-DPI monitors and used that exact reply to justify being an asshole to everyone who was begging him to support them.
It's not always feasible to "just make a fork" and maintain it or seamonkey would be able to keep pace with mozilla's codebase.
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2024-08-05 22:36:08 UTC

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were you the one who was talking about being threatened the other day for something ventoy related?

2024-08-03 22:49:52 UTC

HP journal articles about the Motif toolkit http://hparchive.com/Journals/HPJ-1990-06.pdf

2024-08-02 13:38:09 UTC

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I'd like it to be an extra large d-pad like in a SNES controller instead. I like the feedback and precision of the 'cross.'
Even just being a flat circle without the slider would be an improvement to me. Like a sega pad.
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2024-08-02 13:12:32 UTC

If the NES Max had a normal d-pad it might have been my favourite NES controller to hold.
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2024-07-31 17:42:34 UTC

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2024-06-25 15:01:36 UTC

> Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral, but we will continue adding AI services that meet our standards for quality and user experience.
Fuck off.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/ai-services-on-firefox/
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2024-06-13 16:03:03 UTC

Yes
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2024-05-30 01:20:02 UTC

Looking to do C/C++, assembly, or other low level systems, OS, or embedded programming work. Also can do digital logic and computer architecting work and read datasheets, but will need training for VHDL/Verilog work. Can do backend web or sysadmin stuff as well, if needed. Remote or in person, can relocate within US, or be sponsored abroad.
10+ years of personal experience, 2.5 years professional experience. Strongest with C and Unix skills. I believe in collaboration and quality, and have experience with electronics hardware and software both. Purdue CS bachelor's degree and most of credits for a master's degree. If that sounds interesting, get in touch!
#getFediHired

2024-03-28 01:28:32 UTC

Still can't find work, and I'm running really low on money now after paying rent (like, $300 $100 $200 $100 left), [so I set up a Ko-Fi](https://ko-fi.com/wyatt8740 ); you can donate there if you want to encourage more time for weirdness. Thank you for at least thinking about it. Even if you never give anything at all, I'll still love you. :) ♥
If someone wants a commission on pixel art or an MT-32 arrangement of a song, i might also be able to do it. Message me before sending money if you want that.
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