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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 03/09/2026

i don't think either of those are genuine or authentic actually

A screenshot of the CPUID Wikipedia page. It says that the Microsoft x86-to-ARM emulator reports its ID string as "AuthenticAMD" and that Apple's Rosetta 2 reports its ID string as "GenuineIntel".

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 27/08/2026

related to my last post: it's wild how computers can just Do this

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 26/08/2026

this feels ominous, what the hell are they gonna do to pages

A screenshot of the GitHub status page showing a red incident banner for Actions. The message inside says "Update - Pages is operating normally."

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 24/08/2026

HAPPY MANJARO CERTIFICATE EXPIRATION DAY ‼️‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥🔥

A screenshot of a browser error page showing that manjaro.org's certificate has expired.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 22/08/2026

updated my mkosi images and now chromium shows this on boot

A picture of a desktop environment running on a laptop. There is a window open named "Chromium Additional Terms of Service" that has two buttons, one to accept and one to cancel. The text inside says the following:

"This Space Intentionally Blank

In official builds this space will show the terms of service."

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 16/07/2026

oh screw me this is intentional behavior

A screenshot of some code from KIO. It checks if the default GPU is discrete and returns if it is.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 16/07/2026

sure man whatever, i guess my system that has two entire gpus inside isn't considered a dual-gpu system

A screenshot of QDBusViewer showing the output of the "hasDualGpu" method being run in the org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement service. The result is "false".

A screenshot of KDE's System Settings application, showing that my system has 2 discrete graphics processors.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 13/07/2026

quake is such a timeless game 💖

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 03/07/2026

shoutouts to whoever drew this bunny on one of the classic macs at this computer museum

A photo of a Macintosh Plus running MacPaint. There is a black-and-white sketch of a rabbit with big eyes and a bow, with text alongside it in the system font saying "bnuyy :)".

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 04/05/2026

i wrote a famicom disk system test program that attempts to read more data from disk during the initial/boot cycle it works on most emulators and an fdskey, but it keeps failing in... interesting ways on a real disk/drive (sometimes it also corrupts/blanks the screen graphics and plays sound)

A screenshot of the test program's output in the MesenCE emulator. It shows some text reading "FAIL? Nope!", with everything after the word "FAIL" rendering in a different font/palette.

Another picture of the aforementioned test program running on real hardware. A horizontal strip of corrupted tiles is shown after the "FAIL" text; the tiles are in the intended places, but do not contain the wanted text.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 22/02/2026

Incredible! Check out this stunning leaked footage from Seagate's newly formed automotive division showcasing the rigorous testing process for their vehicles.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 24/11/2025

the formatting here is horrendous

A screenshot of the Opus API decoder documentation, which uses Doxygen. There are segments of code not presented as such, all of the text (including code) is the same font/size with little spacing, and the bullet lists are the only parts with any sort of indentation.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 15/11/2025

glover floats in the darkness, watching his beloved ball float away, counting down until the time when his sins will be judged

A screenshot of the second PC port of Glover in time trials mode. There is no level, only a dark void.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 24/10/2025

yeah sure man. whatever. just use negative amounts of ram on my personal computer i don't care anymore

A screenshot of my process manager showing 3 running instances of "conmon". All of them are shown to be using negative amounts of RAM.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 23/09/2025

Chrome is moving towards a new experience that allows users to choose to browse without third-party cookies.

A screenshot of the Chromium devtools console. The screen is filled with lines saying "Chrome is moving towards a new experience that allows users to choose to browse without third-party cookies."

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 13/09/2025

i was up until 2am last night working on this i still have no idea what this is going to become, if anything

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 04/09/2025

wow. it's wild how scott hanselman wrote the entirety of Microsoft BASIC for 6502 when he was just 4 years old

A screenshot showing a Github commit by shanselman named "Microsoft BASIC for 6502" made on July 27, 1978.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 31/08/2025

@4caddit 97-year-old NYC diner still serves their Coke the old fashioned way

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 30/08/2025

what the actual hell are my yt music recs man

A screenshot of my YouTube Music "Quick picks". The listed tracks are "Sybau" by KCK Mixes, "Where's Your Head At" by Basement Jaxx, "Streets of Rage 4 (Main Theme)" by Yuzo Koshiro, and "Aria Math Hardstyle" by Mqx.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 20/08/2025

hey famicom disk system, where are my goddamn IRQs

A screenshot showing Mesen's register and event viewers side by side. The register viewer says that IRQs are enabled and that they should be repeating every 113 CPU cycles, but the event viewer shows that there are no IRQ events on the current or previous frame.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 13/08/2025

screw C, screw rust, we're writing WAT from now on

A screenshot of the file "src/js/wasm/hntrie.wat" in the uBlock Origin source tree. It is written in WAT, the WebAssembly Text Format, which is the closest you can get to actual assembly programming with WebAssembly.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 07/08/2025

allow me to demonstrate with this newly finished simpleton:

Pixel art of Bart Simpson displayed on a street map of a town named Springfield.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 28/07/2025

after some hiccups the almalinux retest with `M_MMAP_THRESHOLD set to 131072 has finished memory usage is definitely impressive here, staying quite low and not spiking very high - but this does come at a cost of it finishing 17 seconds slower

A graph of memory usage from the image processing stresstest benchmark running on AlmaLinux, this time with the M_MMAP_THRESHOLD tunable set to a static value. Idle usage is typically within the 70-100mb range, with the highest spike being nearly 150mb.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 28/07/2025

while this new test takes its sweet time to finish i may as well post graphs

A graph of memory usage from the image processing stresstest benchmark running on Chimera Linux. It typically stays around the 100-150mb range when idle, and the highest spike is between the 500-550mb range.

A graph of memory usage from the image processing stresstest benchmark running on AlmaLinux. It starts at around 150mb, but grows over time to nearly 1gb. The highest spike is to around 1.15gb.

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Essem :skeeter: @apub.essem.space · 19/07/2025

just received this from someone

A box containing multiple books/manuals pertaining to Novell NetWare 3.11.

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