Nostr notes by Alice :neocat_flag_transbian:

uhh it’s not a theme, just a quick style in gtk inspector + a ...

2026-06-05T09:45:57Z

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uhh it’s not a theme, just a quick style in gtk inspector + a change in highscore source

I can post the style if you want to (should work from gtk.css too), but I’m not gonna be finishing it myself

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2026-05-09T03:52:15Z

WLW - :waluigi::luigi::waluigi:

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2026-05-03T13:57:52Z

Co-authored-by: chat

ok, some education for cis people "taking estrogen has a risk ...

2026-04-19T20:11:43Z

ok, some education for cis people

"taking estrogen has a risk of cancer" - because you grow boobs. Having boobs means having a risk of breast cancer, same as for cis women

If somebody says estrogen should be gatekept because of cancer risk, they are spreading misinformation

hopefully it's not news for anybody who follows me, but hey, might as well

(yes, this is a subpost of someone i just blocked)

> Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock ...

2026-04-15T18:37:50Z

> Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent

not a bubble, promise :neocat_googly_woozy:

i propose that we require buying a chair for every slop agent

2026-04-13T23:42:07Z

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i propose that we require buying a chair for every slop agent

:neocat_googly_woozy:

2026-04-13T23:24:01Z

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:neocat_googly_woozy:

right now in particular - highscore is completely broken on ...

2026-04-10T16:05:43Z

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right now in particular - highscore is completely broken on nvidia, and I have no idea why and obviously I can't reproduce it

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2026-04-10T16:04:44Z

fuck nvidia

> "I dig queer perspectives" in bio > writes a wall ...

2026-04-03T18:31:42Z

> "I dig queer perspectives" in bio

> writes a wall of text about how liking harry potter is complicated and you can't just judge people

*presses the block button*

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2026-03-28T14:39:03Z

:neocat_pat_floof:

people vibe coding their "projects" are missing out - if ...

2026-03-21T01:04:37Z

people vibe coding their "projects" are missing out - if you don't know how your projects even work, you can't infodump about them, so like what do you even talk about then :neocat_floof_explode:

see #note1amh…qt2m

2026-03-20T17:28:30Z

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see

quoting
note1amh…qt2m

https://twoot.site/@nightjar/116258130383854439
https://infosec.exchange/@InsiderTreat/116258066879555598
https://infosec.exchange/@InsiderTreat/116258059728600339 (same but missing a poll)
(mine)
https://sk.waf.moe/notes/ak1fsarp848g005a
https://mastodon.social/@GroupNebula563/116257273771529145
https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/116250470114485530
https://tech.lgbt/@tay/116250379213473929
https://wetdry.world/@freeplay/116250335051144671
https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116250312744812844
https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/116246110764191383
https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115645813940637553

here are all of the ones I can see from my instance, recent to oldest

the last 2 were genuine

fair, but this was a subpost

2026-03-20T12:35:23Z

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fair, but this was a subpost

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2026-03-20T00:58:50Z

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https://twoot.site/@nightjar/116258130383854439
https://infosec.exchange/@InsiderTreat/116258066879555598
https://infosec.exchange/@InsiderTreat/116258059728600339 (same but missing a poll)
(mine)
https://sk.waf.moe/notes/ak1fsarp848g005a
https://mastodon.social/@GroupNebula563/116257273771529145
https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/116250470114485530
https://tech.lgbt/@tay/116250379213473929
https://wetdry.world/@freeplay/116250335051144671
https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116250312744812844
https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/116246110764191383
https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115645813940637553

here are all of the ones I can see from my instance, recent to oldest

the last 2 were genuine

the horse one wasn't, no there was a cow one from the same ...

2026-03-20T00:57:32Z

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the horse one wasn't, no

there was a cow one from the same person back in december too

everything else was shitposts tho

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something. While talking to ...

2026-03-19T21:45:53Z

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague it came up that they have never sat on a chair. Like, not even once in their childhood.

Another colleague listening in admitted they also have never sat on a chair.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a chair.

💺 🪑

Have you sat on a chair?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

read through gdb by accident (Still idk if fully girl, but 100% ...

2026-03-14T16:44:16Z

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read through gdb by accident

(Still idk if fully girl, but 100% not cis)

i tried as hard as i can to make the last paragraph sound polite, ...

2026-03-13T17:01:44Z

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i tried as hard as i can to make the last paragraph sound polite, but perhaps it being angry is more appropriate

Ok, libadwaita 1.9 released. Read the blog post for details: ...

2026-03-13T16:43:27Z

Ok, libadwaita 1.9 released. Read the blog post for details: https://nyaa.place/blog/libadwaita-1-9/

tbf that's not translation, that's japanese speakers ...

2026-03-10T22:22:59Z

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tbf that's not translation, that's japanese speakers writing english

And IMO broken english in an old videogame is so much better than soulless LLM translation. Like yeah, it may be jibberish, but it's a part of the charm

half-life 2, 2026 edition - citadel is covered in ads - ...

2026-02-24T17:49:35Z

half-life 2, 2026 edition

- citadel is covered in ads
- chatgpt-powered manhacks that read you out a crisis hotline number
- using health refill stations requires a mobile app with age verification

well, I say disabled, but really it means "mjolnir will ...

2026-02-12T13:05:07Z

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well, I say disabled, but really it means "mjolnir will autoremove messages containing images", so they will still flash for a bit

matrix is also extremely unsafe there's an ongoing shock ...

2026-02-12T13:03:57Z

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matrix is also extremely unsafe

there's an ongoing shock images attack, and the mod tools are completely inadequate for dealing with that

gnome rooms have had image sending disabled for like half a year

environmental storytelling ...

2025-12-11T23:17:57Z

environmental storytelling

> We compiled these Epstein estate emails from the House ...

2025-11-21T23:25:36Z

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> We compiled these Epstein estate emails from the House Oversight release by converting the PDFs to structured text with an LLM.

beware

but i mean the goal isn’t to stop everyone, it’s to reduce ...

2025-10-16T02:19:23Z

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but i mean the goal isn’t to stop everyone, it’s to reduce traffic - so it will still stop *some* bots -> job done really

yeah, i know one instance that has it mine doesn’t tho

2025-10-16T02:18:37Z

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yeah, i know one instance that has it

mine doesn’t tho

you’re replying to a shitpost

2025-10-16T01:59:03Z

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you’re replying to a shitpost

if it was deeper than content, it would look like this which it ...

2025-09-21T02:39:39Z

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if it was deeper than content, it would look like this

which it does not

we have more cues too

2025-09-21T02:37:41Z

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we have more cues too

I don't agree that light == elevation. Like, I've seen ...

2025-09-21T02:33:05Z

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I don't agree that light == elevation. Like, I've seen them used as both and to me it's completely unrelated.

For example, here white is obviously deeper than grey, while darker grey is flush with regular grey (and then the title buttons are above that), and in statusbar the same grey is used for both elevations

So - there's just no correlation between background and elevation, that's what borders are for. Or shadows in libadwaita, ofc

because it looked better and... does it give it depth? we ...

2025-09-21T02:14:17Z

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because it looked better

and... does it give it depth? we literally used the same color for header bars before (both in light and dark)

New blog post! I released libadwaita 1.8: ...

2025-09-12T19:59:33Z

New blog post!

I released libadwaita 1.8: https://nyaa.place/blog/libadwaita-1-8/

like - why does EU care so much about default browser selection? ...

2025-08-15T22:57:50Z

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like - why does EU care so much about default browser selection? If you've only seen it in late 2000s or later, it may seem silly, but the thing is that back in Windows 98:

- IE was integrated with [file] explorer and unremovable - incl. the favorites menu actively ignoring your default browser
- IE was integrated into start menu - the favorites menu will show you IE bookmarks, tho it will at least open the default browser
- IE was also integrated into the actual desktop - Active Desktop that nobody actually used
- It also used to show you ads right on the desktop btw (channel bar, see screenshot)
- It was also available for Win95 - if you install IE 4 on Win95, it would permanently alter the system integrating IE into everything and make it unremovable without reinstall
- They also paid Apple to include IE as the default browser on Macs as well - all the way until Safari became a thing

The result was that Netscape went from 90%+ of the market share to almost nothing in just a couple years. And then MS just stopped updating IE and that's how the IE6 nightmare happened, where it was shipped by default but horrifically outdated - yet people kept using it because it's the default, and I'm not sure that damage was ever fully undone

MS claimed that IE was an essential part of the windows 98 experience and removing it would hurt users - same as apple is whining about EU regulations now

And - the public at large never really noticed (aside from switching to IE). Some people did scream loudly about this - same as now about LLMs and everything, but in general - nope, people very much tolerated it just fine

why do you think it wouldn't have been? other shady practices ...

2025-08-15T22:46:00Z

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why do you think it wouldn't have been? other shady practices were tolerated just fine, like how they used to shove IE down everyone's throat much of the same way they are doing with LLMs now, to the point they almost completely pushed Netscape out of the market

$[scale.x=0,y=0 uses mfm, view on the original instance]$[x4 $[x2 ...

2025-07-31T17:32:42Z

$[scale.x=0,y=0 uses mfm, view on the original instance]$[x4 $[x2 $[scale.x=5,y=5 $[bg.color=f9f5d7 :blank:]]]]]
<center>$[position.y=-10 $[fg.color=1d2021 $[x2 **Making sure you're not a bot!**]

$[x4 :anubis_check:]

Calculating…

$[border.width=4,radius=99,color=b16286 $[border.width=2,color=f9f5d7,radius=99 $[bg.color=b16286 :blank:]:blank::blank::blank::blank::blank::blank::blank:]]

Diffculty: 4, Speed: 0kH/s]]</center>

that's fine, it will still be posible to, say, find a job ...

2025-07-31T00:26:01Z

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that's fine, it will still be posible to, say, find a job without sending cv to hundreds of positions and getting rejected from all of them because some LLM didn't like you

can't wait until the llm bubble bursts, so exhausted of this ...

2025-07-30T19:02:27Z

can't wait until the llm bubble bursts, so exhausted of this stuff

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2025-07-13T17:36:50Z

reply guys are flying low today

it's been months, but I figured it out ^^ TLDR: 1. The black ...

2025-05-26T15:38:25Z

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it's been months, but I figured it out ^^

TLDR:

1. The black pixels between light ones still contain chroma - this is impossible to recover from an RGB image because it's just black now, but the shader can manually adjust it to use the same chroma as the other pixel in a given 2px column (specifically when one of them is black and the other one isn't)

2. When there's color in such a case, the colorburst phase is shifted by 60°

That's enough to reproduce the colors as they should be without any other special cases (i.e. without desaturation).

psa: if you start a technical/support question from "wtf are ...

2025-05-02T16:16:12Z

psa: if you start a technical/support question from "wtf are gnome developers thinking" or something along those lines, don't be surprised if I think of you as an entitled asshole. If you want to be treated nicely, treat others nicely first

omfg, ofc it's hyprland - known for the main dev being such a ...

2025-04-27T15:15:20Z

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omfg, ofc it's hyprland - known for the main dev being such a notorious bigot that he got banned from freedesktop.org gitlab

like even the fucking fox news is freaking out and doesn't ...

2025-04-04T23:32:43Z

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like even the fucking fox news is freaking out and doesn't know how to spin this positively

you don't see that very often

schadenfreude is strong today not towards people who will lose ...

2025-04-04T23:23:47Z

schadenfreude is strong today

not towards people who will lose money and not be able to afford basic necessities, towards trump and musk who are getting lots and lots and lots of flak. Long overdue, hope they drown in criticism

after seeing putin just do whatever and mostly get away with it my entire life, this is rather refreshing

btw libadwaita is currently maintained by a trans person (me) :3 ...

2025-03-31T20:00:22Z

btw libadwaita is currently maintained by a trans person (me) :3

quoting
note16se…a6sa

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!

#TDOV #TransVisibilityDay

oh, that one it's probably private because of stuff like ...

2025-03-25T10:36:46Z

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oh, that one

it's probably private because of stuff like this:

- https://mk.nyaa.place/notes/9h1zg5jsfupk08bs
- https://mk.nyaa.place/notes/9h1gfiy0fupk08bt

(original instance seems down so linking to cached posts)

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2025-03-15T22:34:42Z

yassies reproduce asexually, via creating accounts

Ok, despite dealing with all the spam today, managed to do ...

2025-03-14T20:50:25Z

Ok, despite dealing with all the spam today, managed to do libadwaita releases, incl. 1.7.0: https://nyaa.place/blog/libadwaita-1-7/

Y/C This would work, true

2025-03-12T13:05:00Z

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Y/C

This would work, true

also yeah, I have tried playing around with palettes in the input ...

2025-03-12T11:11:52Z

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also yeah, I have tried playing around with palettes in the input and as expected it’s not significant enough here

What I should do, realized always after asking, is make a texture with just the correct colors and see how that gets modulated, then compare to blue stripes

I have, but I know it’s not the case here - 1. The elevators in ...

2025-03-12T11:05:21Z

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I have, but I know it’s not the case here - 1. The elevators in each tower are solid color and serve as a reference -> it’s not that different on that video, and 2. Broken Path tower looks the same and is not, say, yellow +blue -> artifact colors also match. It’s only the interaction between the 2 ^^

fair enough

2025-03-11T16:07:12Z

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fair enough

the problem is i don’t have access to a real machine Checking ...

2025-03-11T15:24:01Z

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the problem is i don’t have access to a real machine

Checking composite modded one would be interesting indeed. My problem is that i don’t see how these colors can happen at all, blue in particular.

I didn’t see that article, thanks - some of this likely applies to 7800/maria as well

Lookup texture doesn’t work in my case unfortunately, since this is a generic filter (mostly; obv colorbursts are different between systems), so it needs to account for other systems too.

Like, this is probably good enough for, say, Apple II's high ...

2025-03-11T01:23:38Z

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Like, this is probably good enough for, say, Apple II's high res mode. The RGB picture is monochrome there anyway.

Here tho? I need to figure out how to deal with colored pixels AND artifacts on top at the same time.

The reason it's desaturated is that without that the colors ...

2025-03-11T01:21:02Z

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The reason it's desaturated is that without that the colors get worse. Broken Path looks better this way, and close enough to the video, but the other 2? The first tower is properly green now, and the second one is puke yellow.

If I go further, eventually every tower will be green+magenta.

Now, this is NTSC we're talking about so it's never gonna match perfectly + the video is a capture of RF signal so it's blurrier and noisier), but it can't be _that_ different?

I am confident it works correctly for Broken Path. After all, the pixels there are grayscale, so this is pure artifacting. But the other towers use colored pixels, so it's artifacting but also mixed with the original color somehow. But how?

This is not hue rotation - it also changes the color of Broken Path to yellow, while the magenta enemy in the first tower becomes bluer or redder.

So - what am I doing wrong here? How is color mixing supposed to work here? I've tried a lot of things and out of ideas

One possibility is that this is just not precise enough (this is a shader and I'd need to make the composite signal so precise it would be infeasible to measure. But also it can't be it, can it?

So, what do I have? Currently I have this, that was the best ...

2025-03-11T01:20:29Z

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So, what do I have? Currently I have this, that was the best "balance" I could find. But it's clearly wrong. The first tower is greenish, the other 2 look closer but less saturated. Also look at the magenta enemy on the first screenshot - also desaturated.

Ok, so how does that look in RGB? Well, the towers are ...

2025-03-11T01:20:00Z

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Ok, so how does that look in RGB? Well, the towers are monochrome. They are striped in a very specific way, so that background artifacts in one "direction" and platforms in the other "direction". Occasionally you see blobs of the base color (elevators) so you can gauge that.

So for the life of me i cannot figure out atari 7800 artifacting ...

2025-03-11T01:19:25Z

So for the life of me i cannot figure out atari 7800 artifacting

At this point - long shot but has anyone figured this out? :boosts_ok_gay:

like. I can get the basics to work. I have stable artifact colors. Light+dark stripes produce saturated solid colors. Except… those colors don't match the videos at all

Here's our reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHfC0gwkW4k. The first tower (Tower of Eyes, 0:49) is dull grey + blue platforms. The second one (Realm of Robots, 3:10) is bright orange+pink/purple platforms. The fifth one (Broken Path, 6:53) is bright green + magenta platforms.

Note that the submarine sections before the towers _do_ indeed depict orange/green tower there, and the game is using 160 mode there, so that's not artifacting but an explicitly set color.

Good, now we established how it should look like.

I mean if you want to read between the lines, you do you, but ...

2025-02-14T15:30:15Z

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I mean if you want to read between the lines, you do you, but that's your problem, not mine

that's on purpose ofc, as that's one of the common jokes ...

2025-02-14T15:26:54Z

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that's on purpose ofc, as that's one of the common jokes about the logo:

- https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/a3u9obo7wt3601mb
- https://fedi.shorks.gay/notes/a3ui5bforczzz89z
- https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/113838990328315040
- https://tech.lgbt/@pierogiburo/113987857955918816

Just some quick examples

yes please most people I see defending the foot are either ...

2025-02-14T15:16:26Z

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yes please

most people I see defending the foot are either greybeards or just immature "haha it's a foot lol". Very few exceptions

At least I haven't seen any (openly) bigots yet, unlike with gnuimp rename issue which got flooded with channers pretty much immediately

Also seeing lots of "foot represents the community, you're going corporate" comments, which - uh, thanks for conveniently erasing the parts of the community who are not into feet

oh no TIL it's possible to access system accent color from ...

2025-01-31T00:47:03Z

oh no

TIL it's possible to access system accent color from CSS :neocat_googly_woozy:
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/7f27c624-a2f5-4336-84dc-54df1852e91a

Ok, got my new blog added on planet gnome, so I can post new ...

2025-01-30T02:53:47Z

Ok, got my new blog added on planet gnome, so I can post new posts now. So here's one, detailing the new setup: https://nyaa.place/blog/new-website/

Fuck, we just spent like 20 minutes searching for Nova and ...

2025-01-30T02:51:12Z

Fuck, we just spent like 20 minutes searching for Nova and started worrying, then this floof appeared with eepy face up there of all places - either in the white box on the left (no idea what it was from, we asked for a spare box in a pickup point before moving), or inside the empty PC case, we're not sure
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-5701f95e-345a-4ec2-ad7e-70bd902a0dd9

Ok, so as I'm closing to a highscore release, there's a ...

2024-12-26T14:13:58Z

Ok, so as I'm closing to a highscore release, there's a specific thing I want to know. How many people are still using [gnome-games](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Games) or (never released but I know a few distros packaged it anyway) [pre-rewrite highscore](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/highscore/-/tree/pre-rewrite?ref_type=heads)?

The reason I'm wondering is - data migration. If there's a lot of people still using the old app, I will have to have a simple way to migrate data from it. If not, I don't need to bother ^^

I have a feeling that it's not a lot of people, since gnome-games is EOLed on flathub and was dropped from everywhere since it was never ported away from tracker 2.x, but you never know, so asking anyway.

If you're using it, please reply. Otherwise, please boost :boosts_ok_gay:

it's not

2024-12-20T11:17:40Z

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it's not

And finally, rotary controls: Atari 2600 paddles and driving, as ...

2024-12-15T01:05:43Z

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And finally, rotary controls: Atari 2600 paddles and driving, as well as NES Arkanoid/Vaus controller. I still need to think how to even present these on a touchscreen in a good way, but for now an MVP - 2 buttons for turning in either direction. It's not great, but it works.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-c6dbba74-1d4c-4825-af6e-71d18bb9d7bd
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-2d15c5b6-01a8-4650-9c2c-6f30e45e2c15
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-e9fe6e70-ed02-4638-9396-a0b9e604cd74

And the last few overlays done. First, WonderSwan. This system is ...

2024-12-15T01:05:15Z

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And the last few overlays done. First, WonderSwan. This system is notorious for weird controls - I mean they aren't bad, but they are a nightmare to emulate since they don't map to either gamepads or keyboards. On a touchscreen, however, we can actually recreate them, even though they are still awkward. Especially on tablets - not shown but e.g. in landscape the Y buttons are still clustered below the screen so that they are easier to reach, which looks atrocious. But oh well.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-a3900603-ad0b-49d8-b348-9880e81c9a37
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-ebc325bd-7b36-4cc8-9c0a-2ae6fbabc408
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-0ff96bfb-9eee-4566-8e01-176f1a71affd
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-a830186a-b6b7-4844-ac13-f5b037d94064

I did a thing (I got tired of endlessly resizing the window in ...

2024-12-13T22:06:43Z

I did a thing (I got tired of endlessly resizing the window in very precise ways to test moble screen sizes)
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/8f34bf17-797d-4aa2-98a0-2699f8b13a5c

And Atari 7800 as well! This one is less messy, tho it still has ...

2024-12-13T02:17:12Z

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And Atari 7800 as well! This one is less messy, tho it still has the console buttons/switches. I also based it off the european controller, not the horrible original one (same as SG-1000 is using Mark II controller (SJ-150) instead of SJ-100.

Also yes, Tower Toppler is using NTSC artifact colors, I actually do support those, tho I wasn't able to make the hues match exactly ^^

Finally, Virtual Boy. This was one of the platforms I had implemented in the old prototype branch, tho ofc this one was redone from scratch like everything else.

I swapped the right d-pad with the B and A buttons simply because those are more commonly used, so they are easier to reach.

So, that's it for today. At this point the only overlays left are:

- NES Arkanoid controller (paddle)
- Atari 2600 paddle controller
- Atari 2600 driving controller
- WonderSwan (portrait+landscape)

For rotary controls I need to think how to present them in general, and WonderSwan is just weird.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-f850c9ce-fc25-4f8d-86ec-7b33710c451d
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-d24ee26f-1ffa-40e9-b7dd-f35d9f48ab47

While I'm there, Famicom games have a mic button too now. ...

2024-12-13T02:16:13Z

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While I'm there, Famicom games have a mic button too now. This is all temporary, ideally I'd like to use the physical mic input, but for now it is what it is (GStreamer is scary)

(for those who don't know, unlike NES, Famicom has a mic in controller 2, instead of start and select buttons. Some games, like TLoZ, use it - you can shout into the mic to kill Pols Voices. For the US release, they made them weak to arrows instead but forgor to update the manual)

Next, Atari 2600.

This one is difficult because of all the console switches, and it comes in 3 versions because while the original controller only had one red button, games can actually use 2 with a Mega Drive controller. And then people came up with a way to use 3 on third party controllers.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-3b64a2cf-097f-44cc-984c-d52257f9d232
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-91d62cf2-bb88-49a3-9a6a-7e1d54031269
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/2b57f043-e0c0-4c48-b503-c7fbdda5c9e4

Lots of progress today. By now it's mostly platforms that are ...

2024-12-13T02:15:19Z

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Lots of progress today. By now it's mostly platforms that are weird and require special considerations, so I'll go in more detail here.

First, Atari Lynx. Lynx games can run in portrait and are fairly tall, so I needed a special overlay that's short and adds a padding to account for the notch.

Next, Nintendo DS. Same story because of 2 screens, and additionally the controls cannot overlap the screens in landscape as you have to be able to do the touch input. Also there's a mic button, and when not using vertical screen layout, a button to swap/rotate screens.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-a4a0599d-ce81-4917-b720-581ce1a4aeb9
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-8fcfcd55-3276-404d-befd-5bcf980593d2
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-799a161e-6cea-4180-91d5-dc84ed77acb6
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-6be50934-beed-4a71-8875-63d998d47c7d

Finally, I got sidetracked today playing Metroid: Zero Mission on ...

2024-12-12T02:38:12Z

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Finally, I got sidetracked today playing Metroid: Zero Mission on OP6, and... it's surprisingly playable? Shoulder buttons are not _great_, I mean it's a touchscreen, but it is _playable_. So far I cleared Kraid, and at least up to that point it's perfectly fine, incl. Kraid battle itself.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/a42c9ac4-3a29-4ab7-981e-7edd9618e82a

I now also have a WIP implementation on rumble on mobile, but it ...

2024-12-12T02:04:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…xzf8
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I now also have a WIP implementation on rumble on mobile, but it depends on a specific WIP change in feedbackd first. Once that lands, I'll land the Highscore change too.

(see https://mk.nyaa.place/notes/a1nxkpssf21a0cu4)

(watch with sound, you can hear rumble but not see it)
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/179c53e7-9d40-4c57-abf5-da4538b20dce

3 more platforms, out of which only 2 are playable on mobile: ...

2024-12-12T02:03:27Z

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3 more platforms, out of which only 2 are playable on mobile: PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Mega Drive.

The latter is not playable since the emulator I'm using (BlastEm) doesn't support aarch64 and all the others are proprietary or incomplete (e.g. the one in MAME is just not very accurate)

It's still usable on x86_64 tablets tho, and I mean no reason not to have an overlay. I also made a 3-button version which is currently unused - I very much want to support it in future, but right now it's always 6 buttons even if the current game doesn't support it.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-894af3ab-1a93-4f66-9e07-812509cfae02
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-294a6068-ad72-4bf2-bdf4-7de4dc0d2bf4
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/95bae36d-0a40-4372-8c99-945a759e5274
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/b499bb52-afa9-46eb-b215-eeb269e4ab6f

I also redrew Master System d-pad and made NES overlay resemble ...

2024-12-11T02:07:45Z

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I also redrew Master System d-pad and made NES overlay resemble the original controller rather than the dogbone one, with buttons in a horizontal line rather than slanted like on GB, and the d-pad looks a bit different
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/0d4fd466-220f-4582-951e-cbd48ddc7b70
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/85e7ff72-3d2b-468b-9fa4-e5cb8a80406f

Neo Geo Pocket Color is a bit notable since it uses a digital ...

2024-12-11T02:07:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…lxnf
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Neo Geo Pocket Color is a bit notable since it uses a digital thumbstick instead of a d-pad, so now I have an alternative d-pad appearance (read: press animation) that makes it behave as one
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/b97d9961-4db5-4514-8cba-8cd73c98e743

Today wasn't a particularly good day, but in those few hours ...

2024-12-11T02:06:40Z

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Today wasn't a particularly good day, but in those few hours where we actually had power I added overlay controls for a few more platforms: SG-1000, Game Gear, TurboGrafx-16, Neo Geo Pocket/Color
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/1db8f24b-85fd-435b-8d4d-766eec2e68c3
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/7d4086d1-a5d6-4ec8-9afd-9211c7759ac9
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/02ea79f2-e69e-4883-ac06-d47d4a124814
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/f652d2e7-1c92-4d78-86c4-9e70dffa8464

And now SMS controls. I am planning to have matching dpads for ...

2024-12-10T01:58:11Z

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And now SMS controls. I am planning to have matching dpads for every platform, yes ^^

Also wondering if I should arrange NES buttons in a line too - right now it's based on the dogbone controller if it wasn't obvious

Ah, and the reason this controller is special is that the pause button is not a part of the controller but is on the console. This is messy, but at least touch controls can now access this mess

I also experimented with an unfullscreen button, but I'm really not sure if there's any nice place for it... I may instead have some alternative way to bring up the header bar in fullscreen
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-8bbcac98-f3f6-4808-9789-4fed53ee759b
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-525d18e3-8e58-4582-9e5f-d2ff4e1860dd

Hm, so I implemented haptic feedback for touch controls, but it ...

2024-12-09T14:52:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…gneu
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Hm, so I implemented haptic feedback for touch controls, but it doesn't seem to be possible to implement the actual game rumble via libfeedback?.. I mean the entirety of feedbackd is structured around themes and named events, but here you need to simply play rumble with magnitude X and duration Y. Well, ideally strong/weak magnitude, but just magnitude is fine, just in general to differentiate stronger/weaker rumble. feedbackd *does* do that internally, but it's entirely private.

Even for input it more or less works by accident. The default theme only uses haptics for buttons, but there's no guarantee it won't turn into sounds instead (which would be unwanted here for rather obvious reasons). I currently set profile to quiet as well since the default theme actually does use sounds in the full profile, but ofc the daemon is allowed to ignore that too... So the app can only hope no one is doing weird things with themes :haggard:

I wonder if I should just copy parts of feedbackd in tree and use that instead - I mean that's basically what libmanette does for gamepads already. Tho also I see it uses udev for finding rumble devices, which won't really work in flatpak unless I hardcode those 3 specific devices that it supports
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/3080eef7-0dce-440a-ad5c-ff92ec779a93

Ok, it's in main now. It's still just GB, GBA, NES, SNES, ...

2024-12-09T02:54:53Z

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Ok, it's in main now. It's still just GB, GBA, NES, SNES, N64 for now, but the infra is all there, I refactored it to allow things like stick<->dpad mapping and multiple touch controls for the same input, and there's a toggle now so that touch controls don't appear on desktop (can't autodetect it sadly)

I also tweaked N64 layout a bit since the last time. I kept the A/B button position, but stick and dpad are now swapped and Z button is now vertical so that the start button doesn't overlap the game - previously it was rather unfortunate as in Zelda games it was right over the map. There's now a tablet layout as well.

Anyway, other platforms are still missing but now it should be easier to iterate on it and add them one by one, instead of keeping everything in a single giant branch.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/d7f73fd5-9c33-47da-afe6-05d6e28bae4f
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-0e7f6b4b-f064-4e30-b77b-55d9f2be77ec

2 more features for overlays: - analog stick control type (WIP, I ...

2024-12-07T01:24:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…e4ps
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2 more features for overlays:

- analog stick control type (WIP, I may want to tweak the hitbox)
- decorations (stick base octagon and the C buttons label)

The layout will need to be tweaked a lot (I mean I had a design for N64 which was completely different) but I wanted to try this one first just to check how it would work (answer - badly, the stick and A/B buttons are too low)
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/807df849-3ed2-4797-b5fd-0b38b3066ded

Oh lmao, the camera "corrected" white balance because of ...

2024-12-05T00:33:11Z

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Oh lmao, the camera "corrected" white balance because of the blueish tones in the second game

Added GBA and SNES controls as well. I had to rework hitboxes on ...

2024-12-05T00:31:29Z

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Added GBA and SNES controls as well.

I had to rework hitboxes on the face buttons to be round, and did a bit of polish in general.

The buttons on SNES are a bit smaller, otherwise they don't really fit (especially on the portrait tablet layout with select/start between dpad and buttons, not shown here)

The shoulder buttons on both SNES and GBA are as bad as you'd expect but this is probably not fixable.

Shoulder buttons on touchscreen are always scuffed no matter what, you're supposed to use fingers for them, not thumbs - while with touchscreen you use thumbs for everything. You can't hold a shoulder button with your index finger while pressing face buttons or dpad with thumbs, so e.g. GBA Metroid games are likely unplayable. But oh well, I mean it's bad even on keyboard - you *really* want a gamepad for games like that.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-d27a71bc-00a7-4fc0-90f4-0a25dec6b5e7
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-7e237705-53dc-42ef-95c6-b90c94cbcc29
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-75cb2221-119c-4505-a871-e751b65aa2b0
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-ed2cd389-13ad-4507-a0ed-510561c32451

anyway, I don't think there's a point in arguing this; it ...

2024-12-04T21:47:43Z

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anyway, I don't think there's a point in arguing this; it is undiscoverable rn and I don't want to get bugs about people fullscreening highscore (which you have to in landscape more or less!) and then being unable to undo it, so I'll have a button regardless

I didn't have that on pmos, but fair

2024-12-04T21:46:30Z

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I didn't have that on pmos, but fair

sure, but the very fact I didn't know it was a thing shows ...

2024-12-04T20:45:52Z

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sure, but the very fact I didn't know it was a thing shows fairly well that it's undiscoverable. Also I mean there's no reason to bring up OSK on this view. I also don't know how to bring up OSK in newer versions without finding an entry - in old versions there was an OSK button on the bottom bar, but not anymore

in contrast, on gnome-shell edge swipe from the top unfullscreens ...

2024-12-04T19:36:18Z

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in contrast, on gnome-shell edge swipe from the top unfullscreens the app instead - while it's bad as well as it means you can't show the header bar without unfullscreening, you can at least reliably exit it

unfullscreen via OSK? Closing the app doesn't work if the app ...

2024-12-04T19:35:40Z

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unfullscreen via OSK?

Closing the app doesn't work if the app remembers the fullscreen state. I mean there's a reason we patched fullscreen out of ephy and evince back at the time

Ok, now I'm happy with the overlays. Here are 2 phones with ...

2024-12-03T19:23:34Z

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Ok, now I'm happy with the overlays. Here are 2 phones with different screens and it runs fine on both... well, to a point. Phosh doesn't have a way to unfullscreen the app so you softlock it by fullscreening, and it also lags like hell in landscape for some reason. This is also using an older runtime as with the newer one GL doesn't work. However, on OP6 it runs well, and rn I only care about the layout.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-a28f9eb6-0b0c-4e41-890c-3f5cd68407a9
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-ba9d55df-40b3-476f-a9a7-8f9d1fd6c4cc
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-3bd00525-1bab-4fc8-a435-30f1e7238ff6
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-d1112bb9-231b-4539-9843-f966eab5647a

Tweaked layouts again after a bunch more playtesting - you can ...

2024-12-02T02:52:27Z

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Tweaked layouts again after a bunch more playtesting - you can see the phone controls are a bit higher than before, and added tablet layouts (tho I fully expect them to see more changes). I also made hitboxes larger, and there's a shared area between A and B buttons now, for pressing both at once.

There are 3 more layouts: shorter phones (360x720 instead of 360x760), 16:10 tablets in portrait and a layout for really small window sizes with no controls

The entire thing is also more responsive now, e.g. the way game screen shifts makes more sense now
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-de96ed82-96ed-427d-a3ac-51d838874c97
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-b172dfea-8025-49e5-a80d-0dd07b7bdb72
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/061c2919-9432-48c6-94c9-bd488171a2eb
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/502898c1-0eb7-403e-a3a5-17256ab1241b

And a playtest. It's not as precise as I'd like, but I ...

2024-12-01T01:26:29Z

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And a playtest. It's not as precise as I'd like, but I mean it's a touchscreen, not much you can do.

It also needs a few more things, like an A+B zone between the 2 buttons.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/1a07b4c3-4b73-4c89-b9d1-3265690fa019

And now multiple layouts work - in particular, it works in ...

2024-12-01T01:19:13Z

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And now multiple layouts work - in particular, it works in portrait now (on phones; on larger screens not yet)

Landscape+non-fullscreen is scuffed, but at least it works. There will be platforms where this amount of controls will just not fit tho :/
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-b47d14d0-abbc-427e-b686-88bae9828fd4
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-cb691780-2696-4bb2-817a-ffe0170cb5ff
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-af671546-f5d1-46d3-b34f-3865cf891199
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/webpublic-47306ec9-ebf8-4431-a5be-ac5a44911d9a

Oh, I also have feedback on the controls, using the same kind of ...

2024-11-30T00:34:10Z

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Oh, I also have feedback on the controls, using the same kind of animation as in the gamepad layout view. So it's slowly coming together
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/14f05890-410d-45bc-a52e-239726e297a0

More progress, now I hooked up input and have working button and ...

2024-11-30T00:31:28Z

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More progress, now I hooked up input and have working button and dpad controls with the new system, and redrew the placeholder layout to look less like a placeholder.

One open question is how to handle portrait/landscape with different layouts.

I also discovered Inkscape has a css editor, TIL
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/5332ab06-30c2-4606-b85f-5b05a04f2a99

But I also made some progress on touch controls. I've been ...

2024-11-29T00:50:45Z

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But I also made some progress on touch controls. I've been rewriting it using a combination of a metadata keyfile and an SVG for the actual controls, and finally got some results. They are not clickable yet, but each control is a separate widget, just like in the prototype.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/5ade3a42-6c43-4c22-8f63-1f516bf7dc50

Well, gitlab is mostly down so I can't really work, so more ...

2024-11-29T00:49:31Z

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Well, gitlab is mostly down so I can't really work, so more Highscore progress instead.

First, I got sidetracked _yet again_ and implemented color correction for Neo Geo Pocket Color. Previously the accurate filter was just showing the RGB source as is, which is not really what it should be. Like Game Boy Color, pre-backlight Game Boy Advance and DS Phat, it has muted colors and greenish blue - and games like this one use garish colors to compensate.

There's no existing shader for this, so I based it on non-backlit GBA correction, and tuned blue to be even greener, matching this recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6I9bOyzjQ

I think it turned out fairly well. One thing I'm not sure about is the big picture across platforms - for GBC and GBA I currently always do color correction - for GBC that's it, for GBA you can pick between original and backlit models which are both color-corrected and for DS you get DS Phat colors (color-corrected) vs DS Lite and newer colors (not color corrected). Here tho it instead color corrects when the accurate filter is on...

I'll also need color correctiojn for Game Gear, Lynx and WonderSwan Color. I have a hunch WonderSwan Color will have a similar screen too, while the other 2 will be more different since they are backlit. I may be wrong tho, need to do some research.
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/72ef9661-7025-48f5-b51a-a491d8b2a88d
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/ec0428fe-2201-4a3a-8530-88e71a47c078
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/5e8b5d91-c53a-4b72-bd4e-658b14abe17a

Still idk what’s wrong with colors. It’s not just hues - ...

2024-11-26T01:46:24Z

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Still idk what’s wrong with colors. It’s not just hues - specifically blue is wrong, it appears teal and it should be gray-ish. Everything else is how it should be, but not that color.

Also the artifact colors are a lot darker than they should be. That makes sense, it’s because the luma changes are supposed to be filtered out when it interprets the dithering as chroma but aren’t - but why would the color itself be wrong, no idea

I got sidetracked again, but on the plus side I made artifact ...

2024-11-25T12:51:43Z

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I got sidetracked again, but on the plus side I made artifact colors on Atari 7800 work :3 (mostly - the hues are a bit wrong but it looks _a lot_ closer to how it should look like now)
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/2c56f631-bd0c-4636-9791-2b831e89149a
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/b4557917-e59d-47e5-8c22-b1aa8079c074
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/847dffb3-b4fa-4acb-86ec-14dc1634eeb0
https://mk.nyaa.place/files/a986df6d-f554-400b-a91e-d1ddbb3e862b