#software wizardry

[el-ffej]

I also am absolutely gobsmacked how the support team -- who, after 50 years, are getting up there -- have been mentoring younger engineers that have been brought onto the project.

Nobody expected Voyager to be active this long. But when confronted with it's (very fucking impressive) lifespan, older staff have been passing on their vast and esoteric knowledge of Voyager's inner working to the next generation.

It's like, an order of medieval monks. The Ancient Order of Voyager 1.

Everything about the Voyager project is incredible.

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

[oldschoolfrp]

Ye basic and elite adventurers in Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord -- easily created and deleted in the Training Grounds and added to your party at Gigamesh's Tavern (Will McLean illustrations from the game manual, Sir-Tech Software, 1981)

[henriquelage]

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"VERMIS" is a old fashion dungeon crawler full of dread, mystery and secrets... but it's also a fake "official guide" from a video game that doesn't exist. Let's talk about hypertext, lore, wikis and transmedia storytelling!

[strangepeachlight]

Some screencaps that I took of me in Hogwarts Legacy. Taken on PS5.

[smbhax]

From Wizardry Gold - music by Jim Laurino

[seuncreative]

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[aceofshitposts]

My computer is now at the computer doctor

Please pray for the digi rex mrk 5 that I will not need to scrape together the money to get mrk 6

Hey y'all remember when I said I fixed my computer?

I didn't, apparently, and now it just makes one long beep noise at me when I try to turn it on so. fml

[misskattylashes]

Okay inspired by @thetruthisfictional post about Milex patterns. I thought I would share some observations I have made in my autistic pattern seeking brain.

I am only looking at the post EYCTE period to the present day, and not everything is in chronological order.

Louise

Louise started to appear around the same time Miles decided to move back to the UK permanently. Rather than Alex split with Taylor, there are rumours of him cheating on her with Louise, creating a reason for him to want to leave LA. It is also a convenient narrative because Miles and Taylor were friends, so the reason that Miles and Alex can’t be seen together is because Miles doesn’t like Louise because of what she did to his friend Taylor.

Which means Alex can come home to London, without it looking obvious that he is following Miles.

Plothole – the reason for his return is so  Louise can split her time between London and Paris to pursue her ‘successful music career’. The truth has since emerged that Louise lives in Paris and Alex lives in London and Louise has no career to speak of.

Louise’s use of social media

A genuine social media account will post day to day happenings, even not every day. Shared songs, interesting meals, something work related. Louise’s posting only ever coincided with events happening around AM. Go and check her account sometime, see how much she posted around the summer of 2022 leading up to the release of The Car. Note also how she has posted every September 21 since 2021 which also coincides with the day she was officially announced in September 2018.

Songwriting

Since EYCTE Alex has not used one female pronoun in a romantic sense. Miles barely has either, nothing to the degree of the previous two albums.

Alex’s image

This is so carefully protected. Most recent photographs were taken several days or even weeks before. Alex is usually in his ‘costume’. One of the most questionable being the recent Eurostar ones. He was sitting there so obviously being ‘Alex Turner’ but the only people who recognise him are a couple of fans who happen to have professional equipment. I suspect there are all sorts of clever wizardry and facial recognition software going on in Meta that stops unfamiliar photos of Alex being published. Before you say ‘How can they do that?’ think about times you may have uploaded a song only for the sound to immediately disappear or you get a message with the list of territories it can’t be played in. This happens in seconds so the technology is there.

The train photos fitted a convenient narrative. Just after Alex was seen coming home from Paris, Louise is seen in the Caribbean with her family. We then get a recent of Alex in NY. Louise comes home from the Caribbean to Paris, but then makes sure to tell us she is going to NY, we then get the pap walk etc.

Why are we never allowed to see Alex walking along Bethnal Green High Street or in the pub with Miles? I think this is less to do with record company pressure and more to do with Alex wanting to keep his private life private.

Miles’ use of social media

Last year when AM were in the UK, I would notice that days Alex was on a break, we would hear nothing from Miles. You might get one official post about OMB that was clearly posted from his social media team. But stories would be empty.

Once Alex went to the US in late August, many a night we were treated to tipsy Miles chatting to the TV, or filming little Maxie getting up to mischief in the house. Soon as Alex came home it stopped.

Earlier this year Miles started the late night posting again and filming Maxie. Lo and behold a few days later we get pics of Alex in NY. Soon as he comes home, it stops again.

Another thing I have noticed. When Miles posts videos he always puts the photographer's name. But he occasionally only puts an 👀. These will always appear when Alex isn’t seen elsewhere.

There are probably many more but I will probably do a part 2.

[girlygirlygirlypop]

Can I get more details on VR obedience training please?

Finally got around to answering this, since when I got it I didn’t quite realize how to answer it, and then I kinda forgot until I noticed it while checking my inbox lol.

Basically, one of my ex Master’s friends set up this website that’s essentially just a spiral/image overlay controllable by a separate web client, letting them display messages, play audio cues, subliminals, display spirals, and all the fun stuff you’d need to brainwash someone! I did a little bit of techno wizardry of my own, figuring out how to layer the audio from both the call I was on with my ex Master and the audio from the spiral itself, and made myself a bootleg VR headset out of some old safety goggles, cardboard, and the aptly named google cardboard software, so that I could set the whole thing up on my phone without needing to hold it up on my own! Add in a controlled vibe for rewarding good behavior, a couple hypnotic triggers for punishing bad behavior, a little bit of TLC, and a little bit more THC, and boom, you’ve got a perfectly serviceable VR obedience training set up!

[nhaneh]

Funny thing is, I never really thought of people like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates as these great Tech Heroes™ that techbros seem to see them as - with Gates I'll admit some grudging level of respect because he actually does know how to code, but Jobs to me was always mainly this business guy whose primary talent was in how to take credit for other people's work and this was still well before I found out about his treatment of Wozniak

To me, the people I looked up to in tech was always more people like John Carmack - those whose tech wizardry redefined people's perceptions of what computer hardware was capable of. My idea of what makes a tech genius isn't in Web Entrepreneurs or Silicon Valley Startups, but more like people who make 64K intros* or the like - those with an intimate knowledge of both hardware and software and the ability to take that knowledge and make them sing.

Thing is, programming isn't nearly as hard as most people think it is - if you have the ability to write words and numbers in english then congratulations, you also already have the ability to write a program. The thing that is difficult, that takes skill and experience and expertise and talent, is to learn how to think in terms of how a computer works and how that affects your code. It's stuff like understanding why a CASE statement can sometimes be much faster than using IF-THEN-ELSE, why it's much faster to bit shift integer values one step to the left or right than to multiply or divide them by 2, why it's faster to multiply a decimal number by 0.5 than it is to divide it by 2, and so on. That's the really difficult part, and where you see the difference between a program that does something in ten seconds and one that does the same thing in ten milliseconds.

*a 64K intro is a concept from the demoscene, which itself is basically this subculture within computing which is kind of gaming-adjacent but much more focused on digital art and music and programming; a "demo" in this context is basically a program (or a part of a program) that presents you with images and animations and music and such, and at least in part originate from the kind of "crack intros" that would play before a pirated game whose copy protection had been removed (ie. "cracked") The 64K intro is basically a kind of challenge mode where the the entire demo must also be provided as a single executable no larger than 64 kilobytes in size - typically achieved through significant use of both compression and procedural generation. As an example, here's one such demo from 2006 called "Chaos Theory" - and yes, all that is contained within a single .exe of only 65536 bytes.

[arclyn64]

If you're using adobe/affinity for art things I can understand why linux wouldn't work, but for any use case outside of those linux is *at least* on par with modern windows and I'll go to blows about it

miss balls can i ask what makes u not like linux ? :^0 i feel like its recommended so often ive never seen it clowned on before

literally every basic thing you can do on a pc becomes A Process on linux, on top of like. a lot of software just does not work on linux. and i don't personally care enough to use linux on principle and go "well I just won't do X" whenever i run into software that doesn't support linux

like if i had a separate PC i could put linux on? sure whatever i'd use it. but. i have one pc and a lot of stuff on it that is either intended for windows or is a fucking hassle to set up on linux

[archoneddzs15]

Super Famicom - Wizardry Gaiden 4 - Throb of the Demon's Heart

Title: Wizardry Gaiden 4 - Throb of the Demon's Heart / ウィザードリィ外伝IV ～胎魔の鼓動～

Developer: Sir-Tech Software / Access Co. Ltd.

Publisher: ASCII Corporation

Release date: 20 September 1996

Catalogue Code: SHVC-AE4J-JPN

Genre: RPG

Wizardry Variants Daphne has just been unleashed onto the world in the form of a dungeon crawler for your smartphone, so why not take a look at a rather older Wizardry title? In case you haven't figured it out, Wizardry Gaiden is a spin-off of the Wizardry series, making this game one of those old-school Western RPGs that tries to emulate pen and paper D&D by being excessively tedious and user-unfriendly. First-person dungeon crawling with inadequate navigational aids, frustratingly limited inventory, needing a game encyclopedia to know what stuff does, extremely obtuse puzzles, and an almost overwhelming variety of character build options. This game has it all, and firmly falls within "too tedious to play without a walkthrough".

[oldschoolfrp]

Locations in Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord -- the Castle, the Adventurer's Inn (Visa and Mordorcharge accepted), the Temple of Cant where dead adventurers can be raised for a fee, and Boltac's Trading Post which has a monopoly on adventuring gear. (Will McLean illustrations from the game manual, Sir-Tech Software, 1981) In actual game play each of these is a short text menu, with commands input by single letters, so the manual illustrations and text help suggest a more detailed world.

[ghibli]

did some arcane wizardry to install the game fuser on my mac after watching griffin mcelroy's set, and quite frankly I think it's the best software ever invented, I am having such a blast pretending to be a dj. latest discovery is that megalovania goes with basically everything.

[sketchysphinx]

I also learned how to export things, I think the best place to publish your games is itch.io for the first time.

I thought it was just a site for flash games, but turns out it's absolutely crazy and supports everything, you can both publish game files for further downloads or make it html and it will be able to run in almost any browser. The site is completely free and only takes a small fee from selling games (you can also post games for free and don't pay anything).

I posted a test game there a few days ago and successfully downloaded and run it on my phone, unfortunately the joystick I made doesn't work, so I'll stick up with screen buttons (they're like regular ones, but a bit different)😭

To export a mobile game from godot (in my case android) you need to freaking break your spine doing insane tricks with external software and cmd window. I did everything by official docs and after some struggles generated a key and now can do wizardry with it. It was hell

[losergendered]

total drama mogai. bottom text. /silly

(chris mclean voice) Welcome back to Total! Drama! Mogai! Last time, the campers had to explore the depths of the internet, armed only with their keyboards! for the first challenge, they were tasked with collecting as many flags as they could find... buuuut, they could only choose blogs that had deactivated! Gwen used her internet archive skills to find dozens of terms for xer team, seriously, are we sure this gxrl isn't some kind of goverment agent? Anywho... Quis internet wizardry earned its team an advantage in round two: access to a flag editing software! As for the other team? Wellll, they had to make do with ms paint and a trackpad. Hey, who knows, maybe wobbly lines are all the rage these days! Surprisingly, Noah's inhumanly steady hands eked out a victory for team Killer Coiners! Dude must play a looooot of video games. Oh, and the Screaming Hoarders? welll, let's just say that they weren't the most... color-coordinated. Yeesh, talk about #eyestrain! Needless to say, they lost the challenge and Harold got the boot. Sorry Harold, just because you use neopronouns doesn't mean you're safe! We've got ten campers left and a million dollars at stake! Whose pronoun hoard is at an all-time high? And who's gonna get put on the dni? Find out next time on Total! Drama! MOGAIIII!!!