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𝛙 call me Psii 𝛙 he/they/xe/x 𝛙 follows/interactions from @p2ii 𝛙

[cascading-psii-sheets]

Intro post!!!

Hello!!! my name is Mituna or Psiioniic, but you can just call me Psii! i use he/they/xe/x pronouns. I follow/interact from @p2ii.

You can check out my art and fandom ramblings at @nonbinary-morro. I've been really into Trigun lately, so expect to see alot of that XP.

A bit about me:

I'm a highschool level Comsci student studing under the sqa, which means 1/4th of my course was ommited due to covid meaning I have no knowledge of web development besides what I can learn in my free time (which is admittedly not alot since I also take higher art 😭).

despite this it is my favorite aspect of progamming, and I intend to use this blog to help log and further my knowledge on everything HTML, CSS and JS! aswell as to post about;

◇ 'Retro' technology/software

◇ The old/indie web

◇ Technology/internet litteracy

◇ Physical music/archiving

◇ Retrocomputing

◇ Ps1-style/ray-tracing/old computer graphics

◇ 'Oldschool' videogames

◇ And everything inbetween!

as made obvious by my name and theme,im a huge Homestuck fan! My favorite characters are Karkat, Mituna, and Rose.

here are some neat blinkies that are litterally me, just for fun :]!!!

icon credit: [x] banner credit: [x]

theme credit: [x]

[oldwindowsicons]

Poker Night at the Inventory (2010)

[centralbunnyunit]

[andrhomeda]

Connecting into the virtual world…

[cassassinated]

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

[mythicalwashrag]

[useful-info-haver]

If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)

[catgirlbulge]

Hey y'all, there's been a zero-day vulnerability found in WinRAR, so you gotta update it if you're on an older version (anything below 6.24/6.23). It doesn't auto update so you need to do it manually. It's been around for a few months and has been fixed, but if you don't update your shit then your computer will still be vulnerable.

please reblog this so that people learn about it or whatever (10/19/23)

PSA: it’s time to update WinRAR due to a big security vulnerability

WinRAR doesn’t have an auto-update feature, so it’s time to download and install.

[autodiscipline]

Binary code of a cd + dvd under a microscope

Track interval is 1.6µm for CD and 0.74µm for DVD

[wario-land]

I hate Nintendo Switch Online. I hate the lack of optimization. I hate the expensive subscription service. I hate the lack of games. I hate the limited time releases. I hate that it's never gonna have the level of content that the Wii virtual console had. I hate what capitalism has done to gaming.

This collection includes: All the GBA, GB and GBC games currently available on the Switch!!

+ And a few extra bonus!! Mostly from the same series'seses

Download here for free!!: https://www.mediafire.com/file/pzycxh6zu9b8drf/GBA_Online_PC.rar (405 MB Uncompressed)

They're all ready to be played in HD on PC. Just drag and drop the files on the included program

[wario-land]

Target audience right here!! The joy of gaming and sharing it with others is the reason i post and i made this blog. Enjoy the Kirbyses very much, and do remember to support the official release whenever possible

[cascading-psii-sheets]

MOTOROLA StarTAC in Wood Effect (MG1-4E12 S6779ABB)

[valtsv]

i think the fragile mortality of the machine is why i like the concept of characters who are holograms and artificial intelligences so much. because on paper, they're far more durable than their flesh and blood human counterparts, and much harder to break or hurt. but the reality is they're incredibly vulnerable and dependent on their creators and caretakers. all it takes is pulling a plug, or damaging or removing a vital component, or erasing important data, to "kill" them. they can be lost without hope of recovery in an instant. they don't look it, but they're just as mortal as we are. and they're often helpless to prevent it, unable to fight back except by begging for their lives. we designed them that way. a perfect silicon and copper foil prison of an existence.

[lesbianchemicalplant]

EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR

Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling

The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their customer's name correctly, so the customer raised a GDPR complaint under Article 16.

“The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her.”

Cue much legal back and forth. The bank argued that they simply couldn't support diacritics due to their technology stack. Here's their argument (in Dutch - my translation follows)

“Bank X also explained that the current customer data management application was launched in 1995 and is still running on a US manufactured mainframe system. This system only supported EBCDIC (“extended binary-coded decimal interchange code”). This is an 8-bit standard for storing letters and punctuation marks, developed in 1963-1964 by IBM for their mainframes and AS/400 computers. The code comes from of the use of punch cards and only contains the following characters…”

(Emphasis added.) EBCDIC is an ancient (and much hated) “standard” which should have been fired into the sun a long time ago. It baffles me that it was still being used in 1995 - let alone today. Look, I'm not a lawyer (sorry mum!) so I've no idea whether this sort of ruling has any impact outside of this specific case. But, a decade after the seminal Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names essay - we shouldn't tolerate these sorts of flaws. Unicode - encoded as UTF-8 - just works. Yes, I'm sure there are some edge-cases. But if you can't properly store human names in their native language, you're opening yourself up to a lawsuit. Source GDPRhub - 2019/AR/1006

Court of Appeal of Brussels - 2019/AR/1006

The Court of Appeal of Brussels held that data subjects have the right under Article 16 GDPR for their name to be spelled correctly when pr

The Court of Appeal of Brussels held that, in accordance with Article 16 GDPR, the data subject has the right for their name to be correctly spelled when processed by the computer systems of the Bank. To claim in 2019 that adapting a computer system to correctly handle diacritics would cost several months of work and/or constitute additional costs for the Bank, does not allow the Bank to disregard the rights of the data subject. A correctly functioning banking institution may be expected to have computing systems that meet current standards, including the right to correct spelling of people's names.

(decided on September 10th, 2019)

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC)is an eight-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems. It descended from the code used with punched cards and the corresponding six-bit binary-coded decimal code used with most of IBM's computer peripherals of the late 1950s and early 1960s. [...] While IBM was a chief proponent of the ASCII standardization committee,[4] the company did not have time to prepare ASCII peripherals (such as card punch machines) to ship with its System/360 computers, so the company settled on EBCDIC.

literally pre-ascii 😶

[p2ii]

which on do you like more/think is better?

ps vita

psp

Voting ended onAug 12, 2023

Feel free to add why in the tags!

(Btw this counts any/every psp in the psp line(1-3000 + go))

[cascading-psii-sheets]

My art teacher gave me this old PS3 disk drive part today :DDD

I'm working on a tech-theme for my portfolio this year and while I'm not planning on having circuit boards be my main focus, this was still incredibly cool of her :))

[notedchampagne]

its hard to try and find a modern day equivalent to necromancy as a trade/job because i feel like the essentials of it have to be 1) niche 2) concerning at first to most, more popular in richer or legacy families 3) depending on the necromancy, actual construction of a sort 4) for harrowhark in particular, something that allows her to operate alone in a basement and without a ged. thus i have concluded that the best options for harrowharks job in 2023 are 1) computer science 2) mortician (family business) and 3) tumblrs very beloved chocolatier man amaury guichon

other additions from the notes: crime scene cleanup, old time chemist, amateur lepidopterist

[notedchampagne]

can we get married

[thememedaddy]

[synthetic-ultramarine]

Enough about the perfect immortal machine. What about the broken machine. the rusted machine. the obsolete machine. the machine that doesnt start working unless you smack it in a very specific way. the fundamentally flawed machine that wasn't very good at the task it was designed for even when it was new. There is a tendancy to talk about computer techonolgy as an almost platonic higher realm of indestructible ideas but the fact is that it takes a great deal of dedication and tenderness for a consumer electronic device to see ten years. The immortal machine sounds cool but the falliable and fragile machine has the advantage of being real.

[bernard-jackson]