Chirp

Think of this as of my own little fake "twitter" - I will post links and notes here. It is a disorganized mess, a piece of mind.

Never used gopher much. Nowadays I am mostly crawling the www for text information. Turns out Pale Moon browser still supports old web extensions - so one can install OverbiteFF on it and surf the gopherspace.

Seriously considering making my site available in gopher. Just for fun. Also it will encourage me to certain approaches my presentation may benefit from.

Every kind of organized distraction tends to become progressively more and more imbecile.
— Aldous Huxley
The intellectual obesity crisis

Information addiction is rotting our brains

The Opinion Pageant

The pressure to have an opinion is creating a fake society

SEGA-blue skies
My desktop is dull thanks to MacOS

My desktop lacks sparkles, silliness, and a general evocation of fun. I’ve been wondering why, and came to the conclusion that the culprit is macOS itself.

Terminal Text Effects

For Python, but looks cool

War of the Worlds - Tripod Gait

From War Of The Worlds Book Cover Collection

Linkrot: The internet is a library built on quicksand

Moved to floccus floccus for bookmark syncing. Allows to select folder (to sync cross browser, cuz different browsers have different bookmarks structure). And maintains bookmark order (idk why, but on the internet the say it doesn't. A lot.)

I use these M2 NVME enclosures to store my data on 4TB Samsung 990 PRO SSDs. Two years passed, so far so good.

VirtualBox 7.0.16 - Invalid installation directory

VirtualBox is crap now. New versions will no longer allow to freely install them wherever you like on YOUR hard disks, demanding restricted permissions to the folder you are trying to install it to (not a warning, just enforcement) and apparently won't install on drive other than C:/

The last good version was 7.0.14.

Caltrop256 has passed away.
Software disenchantment by Nikita "Tonsky" Prokopov
Neocities catalog
Entomorph - Plague of the Darkfall
Asus ZenFone 10

Could it be? ZenFone 10 seems to be nearly perfect smartphone ("nearly" because no MicroSD slot, but I only use phone to make calls anyway...). At least it is compact. Now to wait couple years until I can get one cheap and third-party firmwares will be available for these.

Echo Sector

Echo Sector is dedicated to the Crusader series of video games developed by Origin Systems and published by EA in the mid-1990s. The website is curated by Keenan Weaver. It is often down, sometimes looks ruined, so be patient.

SVG Path visualization
Some info on how to convert PBR texture to Specular and Diffuse maps
Details of why does gimbal lock happen and what are quaternions for
How sad should I be about ChatGPT? by Robert Heaton
"Stylish" browser extension steals all your internet history by Robert Heaton
I-Fluid

It was a nice little game. I remember it feeling so realistic back then...

In windows 10, Ctrl+Shift+Esc launches the task manager, Alt+D toggles its "compact mode", Alt+O opens its menu. From there, there's an option to "always on top" - in case something freezes and you need a way out.

password keyboard for android to type english symbols with russian layout (for those who still use russian words in english layout as their password). It is hard to find via basic search.

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
Major Linux Problems on the Desktop
Why Nerds Are Unpopular by Paul Graham
Illya Birman's keyboard layout with added Ukrainian symbols

(to have a single layout for both russian and Ukrainian typing and type Ukrainian letters while holding ALT)