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  A wrong turn today within southeastern Denver led to a bit of a pleasant surprise, as I unexpectedly came across this bit of furry graffiti. Artist unknown.

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  I'm here at DenFur 2026, and I just updated my e-ink badge to reflect my current chosen name of Berte Bórquez (the first name going from Berto to Berte to better fit with a sense of non-binaryness -- and Bórquez because BORK.) Oh and yeah, I was able to make the image non-dithered by converting and uploading it specifically as a 1-bit PNG. That's at least for this Badger 2040; I don't have a Badger 2350, so I can't speak to how well it manages images. Art was do...

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  Okay, who else out here is watching the Ocarina of Time trailer, studying the Wolfos clip at slowest speed possible? [And, er, hoping against a likely-super-low probability that there's a way to mollify any Wolfos, the same way you could mollify enemies in the original Legend of Zelda?] --- Any game purchases are on hold, and I don't see myself getting a Switch 2 for a long, long time -- but the Directs are still a fun watch.

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  @laamaa I really appreciate you making and sharing these VRC7 + 2a03 loops. This one in particular I really enjoyed, with the seeming piano and synth bass, and the sort of pensive atmosphere this loop provides. It just landed right for me today; thank you. :blobfoxhappy:

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  So, dear goodness, there are a LOT of propositions on the Colorado state ballot this year, by conservative and fascist organizations. Rocky Mountain Equality has a campaign, Hands Off Colorado, against at least three of those propositions: two of which are explicitly anti-trans, and one which mandates local law enforcement cooperation with federal authorities against immigrants (and we've seen this administration target undocumented and documented immigrants, as well as primarily non-wh...

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  Alum-Trim Chan. Original channel; is not steel.

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  If ever I get to the point where I can be skilled enough to program a game, I should start off with a simpler single-screen game, to limit the amount of potential scope creep. It's important that it be a beginning project for which I can reasonably make design documents, make static and animated pixel art assets, compose music, make sound effects, repeatedly test and debug as thoroughly as I can, optimize as best as I can, and then at some point consider stable enough for release. Eve...

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  Prep work is done for two micro-HDMI-plug-to-HDMI-jack dongles, including familiarizing myself the different pinouts of each, plus tinning lots of wires. Now just to solder everything together. These micro-HDMI (or HDMI Type D) plugs don't seem to break out the pins for individual TMDS shields (for 0, 1, 2, and Clock) and Ground for HEAC/CEC/DDC ground; these plugs seem to expect that a device will short them all together to Ground, via a wire that connects the HDMI plug/jack shields. I mig...

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  If you want to make your own USB-C to USB-C cables for USB 2.0 and USB-PD (which use at least five wires, the fifth being for basic USB-PD communication and plug orientation), but all you have are USB-C plugs that are meant for USB-A to USB-C cables, as the attached PCB only breaks out the standard four USB pins on one PCB side (V_Bus, Ground, Data+, and Data—) -- you can still work with such USB-C plugs, given that they do still break out the CC pins (needed for that basic USB-PD communicati...

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  I've been doing a fair amount of wire-preparing and soldering lately; currently of five USB3 extension cables, plus one regular USB extension cable.

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  @jonn_blanchard@retrochat.online I've at least been watching, from time to time, Jeremy Parish's video series on the Epoch Super Cassette Vision -- so it's really good to know that capable folks can indeed try their hand at software for it! Thank you for taking the time and the effort to do so! And thank you, too, for releasing your code on Codeberg! Goodness, I do need to just sit down and prep some stuff to post on there, myself.

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  I've been rewatching Displaced Gamers' videos on standardized video signals, re: 240p, 525 lines, Luma, and Chroma -- and yeah, I'm realizing I should've called "Chrominance" as Chroma instead, given how Chroma would indeed be gamma-corrected Chrominance values. I forget which source it was that taught me to use the terms "Luma" and "Chrominance", instead of "Luma" and "Chroma". ---- Anyway, yeah, if you haven't watched th...

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  Happy Friday 13th! [Reclaim today from the patriarchy!] The Zelda II run that's happening right now on Frozen Fatales is reminding me -- @ClarusPlusPlus, the maker of an awesome Zelda-II-like called Enigma Heart, has been having trouble finding a publisher and is running out of savings, so any help you might be able to extend to her would be excellent! Her call for mutual aid is at https://gamedev.lgbt/@ClarusPlusPlus/116141069953258512 and the listing for the in-progress game can be...

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  Getting in some rotary tool practice, to speed up my work compared to using blades and saws.

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  Ooh, came across an Animal Art Crimes style of scrunkly in the wild, here in Denver. Brightened my day. :blobfoxhappy:

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  Growler Linux might not be a real thing but 🐶 compelling point 🐶