Notices by Rua (ruawhitepaw@chitter.xyz)

CPUs are so smart now, they are live-translating the assembly instructions, reordering them to be more efficient, etc. Basically JIT compiling. Assembly language definitely isn't the language of the CPU anymore, it's just the intermediate language that we speak to the CPU with.

So in this day and age, would it make sense to consider assembly language a high-level language?

#Programming #AssemblyLanguage

Tech people in the early 1990s:

A: "Let's make a new universal bus to connect all your computer peripherals to!"
B: "Oh, very good idea! We should give it a clear, simple name. How about just BUS? You know, you have a Certified BUS device, and you plug into the BUS."
A: "Sure, let's go with that. But adjust it a little."

The end result:

- Do you play any musical instruments?
- I play the Unicode.
- Huh? The Unicode? What's that?
- It's a kind of string instrument.

A question for (mostly) the game developers. Are there any games/game engines out there that accurately simulate monochromatic light? Is yellow light actually yellow, and not treated as a mix of red and green?

For example, if you are rendering a yellow sodium lamp, and the light falls on a green object, is the reflected light that you see green or yellow? True monochromatic light can only ever be reflected back as the same colour, so with only yellow light present, everything must appear yellow. Mixed light behaves as an addition of the reflections of each individual colour, so if the light were a mix of red and green, then a green object would reflect the green but no red, so you would see green.

#GameDev #Graphics #Rendering

A reminder:

@kaia @tthbaltazar Das Tisch-ding da. Workarounds!

Today, the source code of #Winamp was officially released. But beware, it is #FakeFOSS, as it uses a custom licence and not a standard FOSS licence. The licence states:

5. Restrictions

No Distribution of Modified Versions: You may not distribute modified versions of the software, whether in source or binary form.
No Forking: You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software.
Official Distribution: Only the maintainers of the official repository are allowed to distribute the software and its modifications.

https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/blob/community/LICENSE.md

And then they have the gall to call it a free copyleft licence. WTF?

Reminder to #EF28Fedi:

Why are file uploads not allowed in #Mastodon when the post is a poll?

I love it when people take their plushies with them on trips, and post photos of them visiting nice places! Is there an established hashtag for those kinds of photos? If not, maybe someone should think of one.

Update: I'm declaring #PlushieTravels to be the one and only canonical totally official proposed hashtag for it. :blobfoxbongo:

Three places named after coffee.

- Café - sells beer and soft drinks
- Cafetaria - sells fries and deep-fried snacks
- Coffeeshop - sells weed

Netherlands whyyyyyyyy? :blobfoxfacepalm:

I think #AI is an interesting reflection on human #sociology. A thing can be great at talking, while not understanding anything of what it says. And yet people are convinced by the talking alone. Makes you wonder what actual humans people listen to...

In response to this post, someone sent me this, and it's too good not to share.

Today I went to the first #Pride parade in #Eindhoven! It was a real blast, and the first time I see a pride parade in person. Thank you everyone who was there to make it amazing, and especially my friends https://meow.social/@robinsyl and https://yiff.life/@tummyena who went with me. :blobfoxheart:

Cute art by Fox Popvli! This is the best kind of friend.

I bought some SMD components at the supermarket.

Post your #LaptopStickers!

Mine has mostly furry stickers belonging to various friends.

@ziphi I'm also a fan of the Greek god of programming art, Demoscenes.

@koko *hugs it*