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If someone were to ask you for a sign you aren't an AI, what would be the first thing about you or your existence/life that you'd cite or point to? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I would write functional timing-specific 8-bit assembly.

What is the best looking retro console or PC? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Vectrex, hands-down. Vectrex-Console-Set

What's everyone's favorite Lemmy app? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Eternity. It works, and I like the UI.

Is there any fediverse alternative to slack or discord? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Currently hosting XMPP:

  • Group chat appears to be much better now
  • Server-side caching exists now, at least in ejabberd
  • Syncing also exists now, see above

As for encryption and feature support, YMMV, https://providers.xmpp.net/ has a list of servers that provide everything.

What's your most non-mundane possession? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

2.5 MEGA65s (R3A, R5 and R6), several vacuum tube oscilloscopes (including a 535A I restored), and a Vectrex.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

sad XMPP noises

What's your current favorite browser for Android? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Iceraven (firefox fork that lets me do more with it) and Mull.

What are some good books you've been reading lately? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark. It's a surprisingly fun read.

What is your favorite AI chatbot? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I do a lot of incredibly specific VHDL and 45GS02 asm, so the answer is none.

Even if I didn't do obscure things with obscure languages, answer'd still be none, because I'd rather spend a few hours learning what the code does and how to use it, instead of "just hope the output runs" while not knowing what and why it's trying to do what it's doing.

type the distro you use and is and let your keyboard finish it in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The hell is autocorrect? (I use Unexpected Keyboard)

Also, my distro of choice is generally Debian or Kubuntu. I am aware that using canonical's distro is gonna get me skinned alive, and I have serious issues with some of the OS, but it also hasn't given me enough frustration to outright replace it yet. Especially when you consider that I'm running it on a Surface Pro 9 of all things, and Debian doesn't have a new enough Plasma version last I checked.

Wow, that was a rant, oops.

What would you do/how screwed would you be if you woke up in the last game you played? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

War on the Sea

Considering I'm a programmer with the physical characteristics of spaghetti, I'd be really screwed if I ended up on a USN vessel in WW2.

What's the latest interesting thing you've accomplished ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Been on a break for a bit, but before that we got a Tektronix 535A oscilloscope from the 1950s-60s up and running (with the exception of a gain issue with the vertical amplifier, haven't quite figured out the cause yet), and did some work on reverse-engineering and emulating the analog filters of the MOS 8580 SID on an FPGA (still heavily WIP, haven't gotten around to a rewrite yet so it's still really jank, college is a bitch).

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