Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club)

It's surreal seeing posts about ballot boxes in "Vancouver" hit by arson while we're in the middle of an election recount here - turns out that's Vancouver, Washington, not here

@foone I appreciate you get the shoutout right in the bio!

Recommendation: check out the Cinematic Moments Of All Time blog. Pairs game screenshots with unrelated movie quotes; doesn't always work but when it does it's *great*.

https://cinematicmoments.bearblog.dev/theshaggydog1959moneypuzzleexchanger1997/

@foone That would be a big help, thank you! How can I send the files?

@foone That makes sense, thanks! I was figuring it was likely a mistake.

This is in some files from something that was never finished, so it tracks that it just hadn’t been polished up yet.

And I guess followup question: if this *was* used for 8-bit transparency, is there a good way to do an automated conversion to a real alpha channel?

Graphics question: I've got a set of transparent graphics in old BMPs which uses a colour as the alpha mask. Not all of the magenta pixels are exactly the same tone - seems like there's some gradient. Is that a technique that was ever used for 8-bit transparency back in the day? Or is this just a sign that the edge cutout wasn't done precisely?

Interesting-looking software engineer position open on the Internet Archive's Archive-It team. https://app.trinethire.com/companies/32967-internet-archive/jobs/99996-software-engineer-archiving-data-services-remote

Really appreciate @luna’s retrospective on the Pictionary bot, and what was unique about cohost that made it such a perfect host for it: https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/nes-pictionary-in-memoriam/

@foone That's the CEO hustle culture at work I guess

The Wordpress/WP Engine situation is really weird. Mullenwag really is abusing his position in the community to shout at a competitor he doesn't like. https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/matt-mullenweg-wp-engine-debacle/

@foone 😱

The last two CD-ROM Journal posts have been about floppy disks. Someone's going to revoke my domain name

New blog post! This time I'm taking a look at fonts. I ran into a floppy disk containing a pair of extremely cute dingbat fonts - a tokusatsu helmet alphabet, and a set of decorative lucha mask characters. They're well-designed and very detailed.

https://cdrom.ca/art/2024/09/15/fonts.html

I've migrated a cohost blog to Mastodon: I'll be posting images from interesting CD-ROM discs (games and otherwise), with information about the source included.
https://botsin.space/@compactdiscinteractive/113133781261935900

@foone Reminds me of a game I was looking at which used a virtual filesystem with a sidecar file containing the filenames…on one platform. They didn’t ship it on the other platform and the file sizes/orders didn’t line up.

@foone A way to make LDs again is the only thing I've ever wanted

@mcc @foone I feel like he handled her a little clumsily early on and he wisely pulled back a bit. Handling those kinda themes via the robots instead is a lot more interesting

@foone Oooof. Happens to me way too often.

Apple. Apple please. You can't use the same short flag for two different things. Apple *please*