Spencer Alves @impiaaa@octodon.social

Now that that's official, I should do a re-​#introductions​:
Hi, I'm Spencer! I do a bunch of things; often with programming, sometimes with games, and almost always on a computer. Check my website for some of that. On Mastodon, I'm known for my bots @doctormccoy and @domainhacker​​​, an emoji importer script, the little 🗨️ in the corner of Glitchsoc statuses, for being a geometric shape, and for the dont_at_me emoji.

Hi. I made a game (finally). Play it if you'd like:
http://www.boatcake.net/media/more.html
It should only take a minute or two, and should run in your browser or on your phone.

Here are some of my political beliefs, in no particular order:
• De-fund the military
• End war
• De-militarize the police force
• Make the top tax bracket 100%
• Fund public schools
• Ban all guns
• Ban bump stocks
• Ban extended mags
• Ban semiauto
• Ban rifles
• Eliminate the death penalty
• Stop making games with guns in them

there are lots of others but these are the non-obvious ones

Apropos of nothing, if you ever need a spare programmer or some programming help, especially for a game or game-related thing, let me know. I've used Unity, C, JS, Python, Java, and UE4, but I'm also quick to learn.

I'm not giving my phone number to anyone I haven't met in person, but if you need something more or less immediate than Mastodon, you can try my same username on Twitter, Reddit, FB Messenger, Gmail, cybre.space, and maybe others.

If you're close enough that I can read your phone, you're too close.

One of the more curious things to find in overhead imagery is plots of land stuck between four others, with solid fences on all sides, and no obvious gates.

Among the things I dreamed of last night, the thing I remember was that they issued a remastered, limited edition of all 4 Bionicle movies on… laserdisk.

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"Factory class"? "Observer pattern?" "Guard lock"? How orwellian. Why not program a garden class, friendliness pattern, or a community of objects today?

I am now trying to reinstall some software that I had installed before but broke, and the installer is stuck. Maybe a total OS reinstall is worth it at this point? All this was from a single bad USB device, how is windows this bad?

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Also all of my appdata files are blue now. though they might have been that way before.

It also partially broke firefox

Nothing in the event viewer.

I seem to have found a USB drive that breaks Windows. Thinks it needs repair, but that stalls. Can't be ejected. Unplugging it doesn't fix anything (it still thinks it's in). Plugging in any other USB device doesn't work after the drive has been in. Restarting doesn't work (stalls).

We've already (somehow) had a convention to do teleconferencing without video, and at a time like this that has me so relieved.

Plus, the touch target on that "expand" widget is tiny (which wouldn't be so bad if it was an actual, tactile BUTTON)

To turn up the volume just now required three taps: one to wake it up (why would a keyboard have to be activated!?), one to open up the "normal" function menu (why is it it collapsed when the app doesn't have any of its own buttons!?), and one to press the volume key. It would have been one press on a real keyboard.

When the MacBook Pro came out with the top-row touch bar, a lot of people were confused and didn't like it. But for me, after a few weeks of using it… I'm confused and don't like it. The per-app buttons almost never expose anything that didn't already have a keyboard shortcut, and restricting the appearance to icons doesn't let you tell what they do.