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At my uni five-year integrated master's degrees used to require one non-STEM course on top of the mandatory philosophy intro, but most of the other CS students ended up picking marketing or business management, which... technically counts???

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lucky find at the thrift store yesterday, found the PC version of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, which works like a dream thanks to @pmx.newnet.city's PARTYMOD github.com/PARTYMANX/pa...

A picture of Tony Hawk 3 with the PARTYMOD which makes it run smoothly on newer PCs

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A more annoying variant: if, after many weeks of writing, you mess up and pick "haha" instead of "ow" and "tickles" instead of "hurts" when writing down the most likely token/word, do the ethics change, and if so, why?

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"How many local models do you run" is funny because 1. it's like asking "how many programs do you have on your PC" and 2. the tiny but not guaranteed zero chance of him replying with a picture of The Papal Gaming Rig

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increpare @increpare.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

www.bfxr.net BFXR major update. I need to spend a *lot* more time with the presets of the instruments, but I was so immediately sold by the Mixfxr tool (that just overlaps two existing synths) that I had to put it live RIGHT AWAY. Try it out!

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnI... has someone recreating the Animal Crossing approach, but for more casual background/Simlish the approach @mmalex.bsky.social describes sounds better

youtube.com

I Built The Animal Crossing Voice Generator In 64-Lines of Code - (Animalese)

YouTube video by Equalo

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Må anta det er halvveis gjennom vaskeseddelen

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

En liten del av meg vil lese fanfic-en der de bygger bil sammen, resten vil på det sterkeste fraråde noen fra å skrive den

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is an ongoing effort to just make 3D models their own elements in HTML, specifically with VR/AR in mind: immersive-web.github.io/model-element/ Unfortunately, Apple wrote the spec for it and left it so open (on top of other weird choices) that only Safari supports it currently

immersive-web.github.io

The <model> element

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(Though I think he would've have had some opinions on the original discussion himself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPICAC_... )

en.wikipedia.org

EPICAC (short story) - Wikipedia

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If someone found, say, Vonnegut's diary revealing he did mean Harrison Bergeron as a warning against ever treating people the same, it wouldn't retroactively make my interpretation or my enjoyment Incorrect(TM) but it would change my case for them, if that makes sense?

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The example I had in mind was Harrison Bergeron, where many people read it as parody of egalitarianism going "too far" and into "everyone should be exactly the same" -- I read it as a sendup of that criticism, partly from the way the story is presented but also from Vonnegut's life and other novels

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It might, I don't think it necessarily should - though I don't have any opinions on The Odyssey specifically tied to the authorship

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In his defense I don't think Death of the Author precludes wanting a story behind a work, an author's circumstances can inform the interpretation without forcing a conclusion?

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That one part of Chop Suey, except every gap has a break spent peacefully meditating on the pleasant sounds of nature (audio by beastsontheweb.neocities.org)

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ages ago I joked that there were surely enough Four Tets, Aphex Twins and noise musicians that distributors had learnt *not* to treat songs and album names as anything but free text, I guess I was wrong

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(For those unfamiliar, it's a teapot model which frequently pops up in graphics programming papers/demos graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/ )

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Graphics programmers, I'm sorry but I have to ask, does this still technically count as a Utah teapot?

The Utah teapot but with the patches at the lowest possible resolution where it's still vaguely recognizable as a teapot, with 19 vertices and 25 edges

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(leaning over backrest on backwards chair) The Garden of Eden had the original Devil Fruit

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe obvious but this also isn't actually a feature they advertise, this is just a random account coming up with silly applications bsky.app/profile/mort...

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Odysseus played by Colin Farrell in his most "guy having a bad time" role yet

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Den minst forutsette men aller verste delen av fremtidens overvåkningssamfunn, taler med datagenerert crowdwork

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(I guess I'm just splitting hairs over "simple technology", the product was simple in the sense that it started as vector animations that could be viewed on most devices, the language/specification/implementation ended up anything but)

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Though they've done a really good job, Ruffle still has some ongoing work left to 100% simulate the actual Flash player's behavior - the AS3 spec was open so tools like Haxe could produce SWFs, but it wasn't really designed for tools outside Adobe to run them, Scaleform was the exception I think?

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The trick is to pick a platform with a "hold my beer" length spec, where it's possible for one developer to implement it just to show off, like Chip-8 or the original Doom

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I get what you mean but I'm not sure "simple" really fit what it was when it was EOL, it had a JIT bytecode VM, 3D acceleration, real-time streaming/networking, parsers for CSS, XML and JSON, a text layout engine, etc. etc.

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emily s. @emily.news · 27/09/2026

i have sincerely wanted something like this for a long time slowroads.io

Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Somehow *not* the first movie you could make that joke about bsky.app/profile/stra...

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

[holding "THIS IS WHAT NORWEGIAN KIDS' MOVIES WERE ACTUALLY LIKE" banner] www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt60...

youtube.com

Jakten på nyresteinen - Trailer

YouTube video by Choekaas

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hvis man fikk lov til å slippe skjennepreken om korrelasjon og årsak bare én gang, kunne det blitt fantastiske grafer som viser at økningen i raringer som skriver om fødselstall svarer til nedgangen

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I get "bot label will necessarily be opt-in and, like the HTTPS lock or checkmark, shouldn't be the only thing people rely on to sort out scams" angle but I don't get not using it to lay out how well-behaved bots should interact

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Har vi utredet "den typen person som skriver innlegg om at fødselstallene må opp" som årsak til at de går ned

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ah ja, ikke sant, og bare for å understreke poenget så var det ikke en variant av Gemini de trente, men NanoGPT med Shakespeares verker som datasett (iflg. www.geekwire.com/2025/starclo...) som er ment å vise hvordan trening funker, ikke en stor språkmodell slik folk nå forstår den skal funke

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes - it wasn't meant as a serious counterargument, just "FP is weird"

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Giving the most annoying "actually," answer by pointing out you can have nonlinear functions with linear networks, thanks to floating point tom7.org/grad/

tom7.org

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Britisk ektepar PRÆNKET av PUTIN med Novitsjok-parfyme"

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is this the game where, at the end of the turn, the rules suggest calling your friends and family to let them know you're still alive?

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think Powerpoint does default to 16:9 in templates now?

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh! There is the ESP32-based Cardputer docs.m5stack.com/en/core/Card... which is cheap but in turn has a very small display and keyboard, I do think you could put together a larger display and keyboard kit for that

docs.m5stack.com

m5-docs

The reference docs for M5Stack products. Quick start, get the detailed information or instructions such as IDE,UIFLOW,Arduino. The tutorials for M5Burner, Firmware, Burning, programming. ESP32,M5Stick...

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People have made plenty of "laptop kits" for Raspberry Pis, but it's just hard to make cheaper than a used laptop

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Bored? Why not play around with this web-based drum machine I made which uses randomly-generated opus audio codec packets to procedurally generate samples! suricrasia.online/opus-databen...

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