Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club)

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Skills:
* Full stack developer proficient in multiple common languages (Go, C++, Java, Python, primarily),
* Proficient in microservice design, backend job management, API design
* Cutting edge experiences with static analysis tooling
* Proficient in working with a diverse set of user needs

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People talk about “PC-98" as if it's a 100% different platform from IBM PCs, but I find late-era software interesting for how it crosses over - like this 1996 CD that says it's compatible with PC-98, FM Towns and IBM PS/V so long as it's got Windows installed.

@MichaelKlamerus The absence of copyright/trademark notice for Activision-Blizzard seems telling.

@MichaelKlamerus I might be wrong - maybe they got the license from Microsoft. But putting up a store page without any Microsoft copyright notices tells me they think they can do this without that.

@MichaelKlamerus OK, working hypothesis: I just found this trademark filing. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97242341&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch

A "MMMera, Inc." has owned the trademark for "Laura Bow" since 2023. That appears to be Marcus Mera, producer on the recent Colossal Cave.

I think this developer noticed that the Laura Bow trademark was abandoned and registered it, but they've made the common mistake that registering an abandoned trademark also grants you the *copyright* in previous works released under that trademark.

Fun thing about my wife having grown up in another country is that sometimes one of us talks about a classic western Chinese food and finds out it's actually specific to the country we grew up in

What do you mean orange chicken is from Canada? What do you mean you can only get dim sims in Australia?

Saw some blog post talking about "lessons from AI programming", and there was a whole section about treating agentic AI like an "intern". The whole point of internships is it's for the *intern's benefit*! It's so the intern gets work experience! An internship shouldn't be synonymous with mindless gruntwork!

...obviously I get that internships are widely abused, and a lot of people treat junior devs poorly. But it’s depressing seeing people just be open about it.

@yamako 甚大なハリネズミ。。。？！

English is a beautiful language

Every single time I hear an author talk about what Unbound did to them, it gets even worse. What a scummy company, god. https://effinbirds.com/post/785623304736309248/statement-on-unbound

Long shot request for help: anyone know anything about the N88 BASIC binary format, or how to transform it into a text representation? Was able to get a .BAS off a PC-98 disk, but it’s in a binary format. Hoping to inspect the source.

Whoa! A first preview build of SkyWays for CD-i is out - it's a tribute to Skyroads for DOS. Looking cool so far, impressive performance for CD-i. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUFtyM0pLCE https://twburn.itch.io/skyways/devlog/912791/first-gameplay-preview-release

Japanese question: if I see a series of names arranged into columns like this, am I meant to read the first column first and then the second column, or take it an entire column at a time?

@foone Of course! The famous radish

@jernej__s @hugh That I didn't realize, but oof. I can see how it'd happen.

West coast voters, remember: if you're in line when the polls close, you can still vote.

Every now and then I check in on the "List of hoaxes on Wikipedia" article. Looks like there's a new record! They had to create a new "extant for 20+ years" section for something added in October 2004 and only discovered in February 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia#Extant_for_20+_years

Ran into an interesting problem: got two text files to diff, but their contents aren't Unicode so the diff output is kind of useless for me.

Vancouver: do you like “cats”. Do you like “lobsters”. How would you like “cat lobsters”. Well you can go visit slimgiltsoul’s Strange Cat Festival art exhibition until April 10th at the James Black Gallery (144 E 6th Ave). Don’t miss it