Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club)

@thomasfuchs tbh I also don’t trust Amazon to send me a non-counterfeit SD card.

I was considering slapping a second 128GB SD card in my iPod while I have it open anyway, but… looks like the same card I night two years ago is almost double the price. So maybe I should wait…

Well okay, the cheapest I can find right now is $52… the price I paid in 2014 was $30. Can I justify this level of markup…

Hometown admins! We've released a new version incorporating today's Mastodon security release. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.5.14%2Bhometown-1.2.1

#HometownAdmin

Good. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-david-eby-alcohol-trump-tariffs-9.7277781

#canpoli #bcpoli

What on earth is the difference between “got it" and "dismiss" meant to be in this popup

Looks like we've got a new winner on Wikipedia's list of longest-lived hoaxes! 21.15 years, added in 2005 and removed two weeks ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia#Hoax_articles_extant_for_15+_years

Is there any better feeling than getting a set of rare floppies and having them all read perfectly on the first try?

Actually, one set was so clean it makes me wonder if these disks had ever been read before...

@cwebber A friend’s been working on the remaster! Apparently the original production company kept all their digital master tapes which is how they have it in such incredible quality, but they didn’t have the equipment to transfer them, which is where my friend came in.

I love how unusable the top bar has gotten on mobile GitHub. Trying to cram just a few too many features in one place.

@aeva You know, on the topic of tracking down signatures, I decided to actually search for a source like I should have done earlier instead of just speculating. Looks like it originates from this Linkedin post from some influencer guy who always headlines his post with AI-generated images like this. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/itamargilad_breakthrough-leap-in-measuring-absolutely-share-7472986456630804480-K7uZ/ @cwebber @ryanprior

@yamako うわー　fediverseのドラム…

@cwebber Yeah, and this is also the "house cartoon style" of one of the major AI image generators. Once you start to recognize those faces you see them everywhere on the internet. The big AI image generators absolutely have common stylistic elements they repeat (unless they're prompted to avoid it? idk, never used them), and it's worth getting a feel to help with that gut "oh this is AI" tell. @karpour @ryanprior @theeclecticdyslexic @SofaFernsehFan @FOSSForce@fosstodon.org

I feel like this whole Anthropic export ban thing should be a wakeup call to anyone outside the US that if you've been newly developing a dependency on a proprietary US cloud service the government could decide to restrict export access to at any moment, you've made a strategic error and should probably reconsider that.

Now here’s a fun find. Someone’s scanned the NBA Jam TE “save initialization” sheet. The game infamously shipped with a bug that broke saving games, but someone found a workaround before it shipped so every copy of the first run came with this leaflet telling you what to do.

According to a dev who worked on it, no one had actually tested save games in a “from scratch” state at the end of development, so no one knew there was a bug until the first run of carts was done. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/more-dirty-coding-tricks-from-game-developers

RE: https://digipres.club/@misty/116699332006007703

Among the *very* few originals I've got is this set from Kazuo Nakazawa who shared his songs online in the late 90s... so already a full decade after the MT-32's heyday was over. These are all covers of pop songs, so not original, but I'm grateful for any chance to see what people outside game composers were doing.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991118175825/http://www.valley.ne.jp/~kazuo/opera/midi/index.htm

Question for retro MIDI device heads: anyone know if there are collections out there of *original* (not ripped from games) music for the Roland MT-32 from back in the day? I've got a little bit but not much… the MT-32's heyday was pre-web so it sure seems like a bunch of people just never bothered uploading their old music by the time they got on the internet. Or if it did make it online, it made it to things like BBS archive CDs where I've just never stumbled across it organized the right way?

@metacat @platypus I keep seeing more and more of these stories in every domain, haha. Did no one really bet on the idea that prices could go up someday?

@glyph @tokyo_0 @dalias Yes, this is the one I always think of. If people acknowledge it at all they say “well having a policy about not accepting copyright infringing code is different” but no one has ever given a meaningful explanation why.

I may be annoyed by how unnecessarily JS-centric a lot of news sites are, but on the plus side most of them serve up their content on initial load and *delete* it with JS if it’s paywalled so reader mode accidentally bypasses a ton of paywalls these days