Fred Tingaud

@fredtingaud.bsky.social

Photographer, nerd, programmer. He/him. You may know me for my activity on C++ and Quick Bench, but I don't post much about it here.

When I'm traveling, I play point-and-clicks or puzzle games that run on my tablet and work with its trackpad. This time, it was TR-49. A puzzle game by the great Inkle studio, where you read entries in an Enigma style machine where each entry corresponds to a code and gives you hints on other codes🧵

The title image for TR-49A screenshot of TR49, displaying the first screen you see in the game, with the code TR49.A screenshot of TR-49 with the code CC-49. Some text is visible on screen, pointing to other codes.A screenshot of TR-49 showing the notes you manipulate. Here the notes about CC49, corresponding to an unknown person.

Gmail has this very interesting feature that if you mention somebody by address in the body of your mail, they will be silently added to the receiver list. Which is moderately convenient in 70% of cases and incredibly bad in the remaining 30%. Got reminded of that by receiving one of the latter...

Just finished "Offshore Lightning" ("Au tomber du soleil" in French) by Nazuna Saitō. A collection of short stories by this woman I had sadly never heard about, who started drawing manga in her forties and didn't publish a lot, but was incredibly talented 🧵

The cover of the French version of the book, titled "Au tomber du soleil". Two old persons are sitting on a bench, looking at the setting sun.A page of the manga. A beautiful and ethereal woman talks to a young boy who's flustered.A page of the book where an old woman is suffering in her hospital bed and thinking that a beatle is in her mouth and devouring herA page of the book where an old woman feeds a start cat and talks to an old man.

I took my bike for the first time since the beginning of the heat wave and it's frightening how cars are driving completely erratically. As I was thinking about how dangerous it was, a car almost rolled me over on a protected crossing.

Security alert: YouTube added a feature that now puts your username in shared links, so if you share a YouTube link on here, everyone who clicks it will know your YouTube username. To turn it off, go to Settings - Privacy and turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

YouTube settings screenshot showing the mentioned setting

I knew of the huge cultural impact of Ashita no Joe and especially its ending in Japan, but I recently read it expecting a classic sport shonen story and I was not ready for how dark it is...

🇨🇵 le manga Yon par Camille Broutin est un très gros coup de coeur pour moi. Des collégiennes se retrouvent coincées dans leur école par une catastrophe surnaturelle où de petites balles sentientes détruisent tout ce qu'elles touchent. 🧵

La couverture des tomes 1 à 3 sur 4 de Yon par Camille Broutin. Le format et le sens de lecture sont ceux d'un manga.Une scène d'action de Yon. Le trait est très dynamique et le découpage nerveux.Une scène de Yon où une jeune fille dessine pendant qu'une autre fille lui fait des tresses. La natation est lente avec des gros plans. Une scène en plan très large montrant des collégiennes horrifiées et un bâtiment très abîmé.

Just bought the game/interactive 3D movie 'Mixtape'. Nice ambiance & style but THIS made the old 80s' kid in me cringe... If you rewind a cassette tape in this position by turning right to left, you're going against the tape's reading direction & will probably break it... CC @annapurna.com

Parotaku@parotaku.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Acheté... mais aïe, aïe, aïe: dit que tu n'as jamais réellement rembobiné une cassette audio avec un crayon sans dire que tu n'as jamais réellement rembobiné une cassette audio avec un crayon...🤦 (les vrais vieux comprendront)

Un screenshot du jeu 'Mixtape': il faut rembobiner une cassette audio avec un crayon... mais le jeu demande de le faire dans le sens contraire de défilement de la bande...