Lain @lain@otter.tube
Lain ✨ she/her or they/them pronouns
trans femme enby | programmer | internet person
avatar by makowka
Joined Aug 2018
pulled a ps move + oculus dk2 outta the closet this morning and many hours later I've now got a super jank vrchat setup
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Holy Moly, the way https://gath.io seamlessly creates a new mastodon account for your event that all your invitees can follow is extremely cool. @darius , believe you had a hand in this? I am using it for the first time and very impressed so far
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PicoVGA - VGA/TV display on Raspberry Pico http://www.breatharian.eu/hw/picovga/index_en.html | https://lobste.rs/s/obgr2a #graphics #hardware
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Wow, this is a cool little experiment that maps a word-vector space to a text adventure space that you walk around in.
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hours later and my phone has a new screen and battery ✨
@tty sure I'll dig it up today and poke at it some more. I kinda have an idea that gives some more control over the result that hasn't quite been realized yet. it can make pretty patterns already but its kinda luck of the draw
@tty yeah - I started making a cellular automata art program on TIC-80 a couple years back. I should really work on that project some more :)
@tty yep :) I've been backing up data from a bunch of old hard drives the last few days and been enjoying all those lovely sounds again
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ANNOUNCING "SKATEGIRL DESTROYS THE UNIVERSE", A GAME COMING SOON FOR VR PLATFORMS!
"SKATEGIRL" IS A PUZZLE PLATFORMER, LITERALLY. THE GAME IS PLAYED ON JIGSAW-PUZZLE LEVEL FRAGMENTS YOU CAN GRAB AND MOVE AROUND WITH YOUR HANDS IN VR TO REARRANGE THE LEVEL GEOMETRY AS YOU LIKE.
IN ORDER TO WIN THE GAME YOU MUST FIRST CREATE IT.
THE GAME FEATURES ART DESIGN BY TYPHAINE URO AND MUSIC BY ISAAC SHANKLER.
MORE INFORMATION AT https://mermaid.industries
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This is the ideal scroll bars. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
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RT @A11YProject@twitter.com
"Not being able to see clear boundaries between an object and its surroundings can range from annoying to outright dangerous. Thus HomePro designed the 7:1 Furniture Collection, so named for the 7:1 contrast ratio recommended by the W3C…" https://www.core77.com/posts/103624/Designing-Furniture-With-a-71-Color-Contrast-Ratio-Makes-a-Huge-Difference-for-the-Visually-Impaired
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/A11YProject/status/1386772112346652677
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In just a couple hours I'll be speaking with @jomc at the Internet Archive about what happened in the history of the internet when people decided to put their trust in corporations to do the job of free public libraries. You can get a free ticket to the online event here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-tickets-149802797199
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RT https://twitter.com/Flying_Hyena/status/1385990310141075458
"Meet Xenia ! The fluffiest Linux mascot !🦊"
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"[The #Atari] #A300 project [...] involved a new series of Atari computers which would work as modules and plug together to form a complete computer system.
[...] an evolution of the A-300 project [...] shed all of the expansion and modular design for a low profile, high tech computer system which became the Atari 1200XL"
http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/CONCEPTS/1200/concepts.html
@tty A blueish turquoise - #61cfcc as seen on https://erin.moe
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Who called them techbros and not a gnuisance
Lain ✨ she/her or they/them pronouns
trans femme enby | programmer | internet person
avatar by makowka
Joined Aug 2018
