Chartreuse
@chartreusek.bsky.social
Just another old computer loving fur. Homebrew computers, vintage computers, repair, and programming. He/Him See also @ChartreuseK@treehouse.systems
Ever had a spark plug clean blow out on you when driving? They're well under a year old as I put them in myself...
"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.
Just dropped the code for an old Microsoft PocketPC Minesweeper code I wrote back in 2002 github.com/glitchedhear...
GitHub - glitchedheart/PocketPC_Minesweeper: Minesweeper code for Microsoft Pocket PC
Minesweeper code for Microsoft Pocket PC. Contribute to glitchedheart/PocketPC_Minesweeper development by creating an account on GitHub.
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⚠️ ATTENTION ⚠️ The .furry domain is being considered for a new wave of gTLD's. Pawprint Prototyping is looking to raise $90k for the application fee. If successful, we'll have a domain owned and operated wholely by the community. Consider sharing/supporting if you have a second: www.dotfurry.org
.furry — A Top-Level Domain For Our Community
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Watching this just makes me so goddamn angry. You knew it was happening, but seeing tons of small businesses that made real things that added real value to the world get swept away by five or six giant trillion-dollar companies laundering money between each other is some serious hell-planet shit.
@gamersnexus.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew investigation into the collapse of personal computing, featuring 2.5 hours of interviews: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQw...
New blog post! We enter the era of CD-ROM multimedia, which will usher in great prosperity and eternal peace for humankind. Also we fix a bad power supply. www.leadedsolder.com/2026/05/26/f... #fujitsu #retrocomputing #kicad
Moving Into a New Towns
There’s a lot of NEC computers on this blog, but tons of Japanese companies made great machines. Fujitsu, for instance, built a whole spectrum of computers. You’ve seen three of their 6809 machines in...
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If took them five seconds to create it and me two seconds to ignore it forever.
DrLockdown@drlockdown.bsky.social · 5mo agoIDK who needs to hear this. But AI thumbnails don't make your video feel more professional. It just makes me and a whole bunch of other folks right click and select "don't recommend this channel". Especially on toy reviews; use a stock photo if you have to! Is easy!
I tried to recreate the scene. Not quite, but best I could get. At least I actually now have a >24 fret guitar like this lemur has (it’s just missing 2 strings). #Sentients - Unite (that book there) is out now! It’s on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. emptyset-art.com/sentients_-_...
Remote attestation is a heavily underdiscussed threat to computing freedom. People often mistakenly dismiss it with "I will run my own fork (of the OS or browser) / Magisk", not understanding that with hardware attestation, you're literally unable to 1/
GrapheneOS@grapheneos.org · 5mo agoApple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.
Coming very very VERY SOON!! Signed books and more! Keep an eye out for the announcement as supplies will be limited.
”An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.”
Lady Talia@djtalia.bsky.social · 5mo agoChrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
Our Windows 95 themed automation game about making PowerPoint factories launched this week! We've sold over 600 copies so far, it's been an amazing experience and so cool to see people are enjoying the game. Check out Factory 95 on Steam! #indiegame #gamedev #factory95
Things to do at quarter to 11 at night: Calibrate your CRT monitor in the dark
in case you missed it, we decided to fork KeePassXC. (post linked in the screenshot below: keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11...) join us @ #keepasschi on libera.chat!
I love being able to do character revisits... here's the first comm I did for her in 2023!
With printed media, you can just store it in a warehouse. When some company says "we never said that," you can go to the archives, fetch a newspaper, and that ends the argument. When the companies on their websites change stories, there is no archive outside the Internet Archive.
Internet Archive@archive.org · 6mo ago“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth. The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors. ➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
An extremely funny thing about retro rereleases that use unlicensed emulators is that you are basically committing the exact same crime (using software outside of the terms of its license) that has you so scared of downloading roms in the first place but now someone has monetized it.
Ilya@13xforever.mobobe.com · 6mo agoIn case you needed another reminder that Limited Run Games are shady as fuck social.treehouse.systems/@endrift/116...
Just so people know there's now an option to disable the AI button in telegram desktop in settings > advanced > (scroll to bottom) experimental settings > (scroll to bottom) Hide AI Button Looking for the one on the app now lol
Good morning to everyone except the worst computer industry promotional pin.
This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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