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full-time software developer, part-time cs masters grad, free-time languages enthusiast, some-time rhythm game attempter, big-time c++ hater aronia.straw.page late 20s | she/her/hers | ⚢ languages: english (native) français (ok) русский (ok) 日本語 (learning)

gym-going oomves: how do you, like, get started? like idk what any of the machines are or how to use them or what routine to do or what not to do so i don't injure myself in a hilarious and easily-preventable way

I had no idea CBC had an app for learning French that uses real shows and stuff to help with learning it. One way to ensure Canada protects French is if we all make an effort to truly be bilingual — and we can make Quebec feel like we understand their struggle too. “Mauril” app from CBC:

much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

PSA: 3DS carts are susceptible to bitrot that can cause games to start crashing PSA for the PSA: there's 3DS homebrew that can try and fix them by spamming the error-correction function on the carts github.com/skawo/GodMod...

GitHub - skawo/GodMode9-with-Cartridge-Fixer: 3DS Cartridge Fixer - Error correction for faulty 3DS Cartridges

3DS Cartridge Fixer - Error correction for faulty 3DS Cartridges - skawo/GodMode9-with-Cartridge-Fixer

github.com

PSA: 3DS carts are susceptible to bitrot that can cause games to start crashing PSA for the PSA: there's 3DS homebrew that can try and fix them by spamming the error-correction function on the carts github.com/skawo/GodMod...

GitHub - skawo/GodMode9-with-Cartridge-Fixer: 3DS Cartridge Fixer - Error correction for faulty 3DS Cartridges

3DS Cartridge Fixer - Error correction for faulty 3DS Cartridges - skawo/GodMode9-with-Cartridge-Fixer

github.com

"When my boss asks 'any questions?', I'd say, 'N'nya, none, thank you!' because 'n'nya' is Kagoshima dialect for 'no,' but I just realized they didn't know that and for a full year and a half thought I was a 27yo woman who sometimes speaks Cat."

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the dilemma of "digital games you can load more than one of vs. physical games that aren't at the mercy of Someone Else's Computer" actually once had a solution in the form of "CDs you can install onto your computer" unfortunately this worked for users and is therefore no longer allowed.

on one hand it's nice that the problem "displaying plaintext to a user" is more or less not a problem anymore. but on the other you get situations where without anyone noticing a folder might have files encoded in all of: - UTF-8 - Big Endian UTF-16 - Little Endian UTF-16 - UTF-8 with BOM