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No! I must kill the metroids, samus shouted

Ravenbeak said No Samus. You ARE the metroids

And then Samus was a Metroid

it's really nice having friends who you can be mentally exhausted around, and know you don't need to interact for it to be nice to be around

This restoration project for smalltalk-80 fonts is pretty neat. I think these fonts could see new life in pixely games. moritzfuerst.net/projects/smal

if you haven't played gates to infinity, it's thesis is basically about the entire concept of hope

which means, that it has to veer pretty far into the idea of hopelessness too. and even a lot of its leitmotif reflects that!

and as someone who struggles with anxiety, the fact that the concept was actually a tangible part of the story honestly kind of destroyed me

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i really like the way that every pokemon mystery dungeon game begins with this song, but each one with a different leitmotif in the background that embodies the game it starts

the gates to infinity "theme of hope" in this one hits different than a lot of the others for me, because the motif of the theme itself is kind of...melancholic?

it kind of plays with sounding more contemplative and wistful? which really does fit with the themes that make gates unique when comparing it to the other games

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The best-kept retro-mac secret is that the following web sites exist:

system6.app/
system7.app/
macos8.app/
macos9.app/

If you ever wanted to play with an old MacOS, this is the least effort to get started.

#retroComputing #vintageComputing #macos #emulation

i had a wacom induction stylus before this, but the amount it would just intermittently fail to draw lines made it pretty painful to sketch anything on my phone, so i kinda just stopped doing that

it'll be really nice to not have this problem anymore (plus! i can use pressure sensitivity now!)

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so, i got a sonarpen!

it's basically an induction stylus that uses a headphone jack to communicate pressure sensitivity~

Hey all, if you have a Google Pixel 6/7 or a Samsung phone: Disable VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling until this issue is patched: 9to5google.com/2023/03/16/goog

tl;dr: Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that those four vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level with no user interaction, and require only that the attacker know the victim’s phone number. With limited additional research and development, we believe that skilled attackers would be able to quickly create an operational exploit to compromise affected devices silently and remotely.

Google's Project Zero usually makes vulnerability reports public after 90 days. This is an exception because it goes directly from internet to baseband-level (tl;dr: the second OS inside your phone that powers the LTE/5G modem) remote code execution. This is morally equivalent to getting code running on your WiFi card.

Here is a list of the most likely affected devices:

  • Samsung Galaxy phones including those in the S22, M33, M13, M12, A71, A53, A33, A21, A13, A12, and A04 series
  • Vivo phones including those in the S16, S15, S6, X70, X60, and X30 series
  • Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7 and 7 Pro
  • Any wearables that use the Exynos W920 chipset
  • Any vehicles that use the Exynos Auto T5123 chipset

Helpfully, the baseband is a binary blob of uninspectable firmware that users can't inspect or prove hasn't been tampered with.

aaaa, i haven't drawn anything for today

i hope i'll have a chance to

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by the way! the manhole thing is because the mie prefecture has oshawott as their mascot pokemon: local.pokemon.jp/en/municipali

there's even an oshawott train there, which is Extremely Good imo

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like legit, 6 oshawott-themed manhole covers were unveiled that are actually getting put into actual psychical locations

here's a video of what they look like! nitter.se/pokemon_pdc/status/1

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oh woww! so it's oshawott day today (), and usually that means a lot of really cool fanart

but this year, it seems like there's like, actual?? things??? being released????

Windows on Hercules looks snazzy. Almost like original Macintosh.

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