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Richie Asimilon
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programmer / psy-trance producer / demoscener / freak / professional idiot
Ah, that explains it, because I'm not that interested in US politics.
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Nice. I've been using Warp because of the whole cross platform thing and it supports Windows too (which I prefer to avoid, but can't on occasion).
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It's all a dick-waving contest. None of them actually has billions in liquid assets they can spend, it's just theoretical money they can't really do anything with except avoid paying taxes: income from debt (take a loan from bank secured against billions of stock) doesn't attract income tax 🤬
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who doesn't really comment their 68k 😶 I'm trying to do better on that front, so that me in 6 months to a year can understand what the fuck I was thinking...🤣
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Snap! Was also 8 when my Mum brought home a 2nd hand 48K rubber keyed Speccy. Played the games it came with for a while, then started typing in listings from magazines; had to figure out the bugs from either errors in my inputting or just plain bugs in the print and learned BASIC by osmosis! 😂
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Working in Woolies when I was old enough (13 3/4) allowed me to convince my mum to lend me the price of an Amiga 500, my upgrade from 48k rubber key Speccy :) Was sad to see it go down the pan...
November 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Ah, ok. C&A is still going strong here in Croatia. (Same branding, but Euro arm was separate to UK)
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Woolworths is a thing again? I thought they shut down, or they had when I last lived in the UK, or did I imagine that?
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
school dinners
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Nice!
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The annoying this is it's 2025 and we still have to deal with browser differences... 😭 Even though a good portion of them are basically the same browser! 😂
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Not sure, just tried it in Safari and it works fine. Bit more investigation and it seems like maybe the right-click mouse up event isn't firing properly. Right click will keep erasing pixels until you left click. That left click doesn't register as a left click but stops the erasing. 🤷‍♂️
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It's a Chromium based browser.
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I assume this is a Vivaldi idiosyncrasy: right click to erase seems to take about 2-3 seconds after releasing the button before it stops erasing pixels, which makes it quite tedious to correct mistakes. Nice work though.
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
please note, this could probably* be done so much better, but for a few hours of effort it does what I need :)

* - understatement 😂
October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
100% agree. The only useful output I've had from them that didn't require any tinkering were stupid little scripts to transform one data set into another, with extremely specific instructions and examples provided. Even then more than half they fucked up and I needed to correct them.
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I installed Vivaldi; first impressions are good 👍
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
If they didn't do that they couldn't charge the advertisers for the reach; so seems like it's working exactly as designed...
October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I honestly couldn't figure out if this was:

a) a bad wax work of Noel Edmonds
b) a bad wax work of George Michael
c) a character from Team America

Could just be the unholy bastard child of all 3 perhaps 😂
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
For anyone that doesn't bother to read the article, types got switcheroo'd here and editing on BlueSky isn't a thing so:
VST3 went from dual-licensed GPLv3/Proprietary to MIT, ASIO has a new GPLv3 version. VST3 change is the bigger deal imo, no need for permission from Steinberg to release plugins!
October 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Sure, I'm in agreement, but as a counter by my continued use I'm enabling him. I stopped using Spotify once Daniel Ek started investing in AI-weapons tech, that was the final nail. I'll probably stop installing Brave on my computers going forward. Don't know of any viable alternatives though :(
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM