Rocco!

free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live. "This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario." The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. John Default Profile Picture: "No one read this statement and thought it was distasteful? Why did Miyamoto think this would help anyone?" NintenDeen: "Simple: Nintendo is so depraved that they'd exploit a global crisis to boost the player count of the failed Mario Kart World and force consumers back into the Switch 2 ecosystem to boost sales and player numbers."

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD." Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version." PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

i'm in london!!
suggest things to do and see etc. :)

Intermedia Deterioration Machine YouTube video by ROCCO!

i did another project with friends!!
we deterministically convert audio samples into pixel data and render them out into a spiral, then read it back in through a camera pointed at a projector. visual audio deterioration!!
i think its p cool how well some sounds are preserved :D
youtu.be/lCSSL3vRnxg

Playground Instruments - Time to play! Building innovative musical instruments and creative MIDI controllers for the modern age of music making.

i made a website last weekend for an audio hardware startup thingy with two friends. if you want a really cool midi controller you can even sign up for the newsletter(!!) there :D
this is the v much wip bsky site @playgrndinstrmnts.bsky.social
and this is the website: playground-instruments.com

Is The Tetris Company going to celebrate what should be "Tetris Month"?

In February 2026, the four weeks are lined up perfectly as four lines - which is exactly what a Tetris is!

The last time this happened was in 2015, and the next two times will be in 2037 and 2043.

#Tetris

cool! thanks for the info :D

is linux support planned?

Birthday celebration – Wikimedia Foundation Join the live stream of Wikipedia’s 25th birthday event and celebrate 25 years of knowledge at its best.

come celebrate wikipedia's 25th birthday
wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/...

so i think my xps laptop's heatsink broke... i repasted the cpu and gpu and it's still overheating pretty bad and crashing occasionally ._. i ordered a replacement now.... fingers crossed

DON'T FORGET: Message boards are also known as forums.

very nice to have such a clear overview. lots of cool stuff in there! congrats on everything you've made so far :D

alternatively we as a society could realize that fiction is about playing with dolls and that horrible things happening to them doesn't matter because it's all toys.

but that seems more complicated than just bringing back big box PC games and publishing books alongside them

this is the weirdest and most ambitious project i've ever worked on (and i've worked on some pretty weird ones)

Chart showing m to f dialogue proportion

The proportion of female to male dialogue in Final Fantasy. #advx25

whatcha tinkering? :D

final key note at @audiodevcon.bsky.social by @todepond.com woooh!

still a bit sickly (*cough cough*) but second day of ADC! wooh!
i'm just roaming around in the gather.town and presenting my poster around the lunch break today B))

drop by or drop uhh... your phone - your choice

sorry. no new connections on linkedin. i have 69 and i personally don't ever plan on growing up

ADC25 Keynote Speaker: Lu Wilson

Keynote: How Many Heads Do You Need?

A chaotic, all-access approach to coding that turns collaboration into an improvised jam session with surprising creative results.

👉 conference.audio.dev/session/2025...

Nov 10-12 UK & Online

#audio #developer #programmer

for some reason i find local LLMs kind of charming in a way the mass consumer stuff is not. you built a mini-cluster out of raspberry pis that takes 37 minutes to generate a 3 second clip of video that sucks? i don't see the point but that's classic computer dork shit, have fun pal

american indie developer deciding on a setting: in a cozy mountain town surrounded by wholesome yokai, ghibli inspired cooperative sustainable cherry blossoms and you can pet the dog french indie developer deciding on a setting: in a world where the gestalt misery of colonisation's victims has manifested into a sort of misery elemental, three church-like religious organisations hav[nine more paragraphs that leave you feeling like you know less than you knew before you started reading] polish indie developer deciding on a setting: warsaw👍🇵🇱 it is very bad

I figure if a 16bit boot sector virus can infect a UEFI 64bit Windows 11 machine, it deserves to infect my machine

The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.

ending/final/finisher keynote of @audiodevcon.bsky.social this year!

im so looking forward to your adc talk, sadly online only but wooh!! :D

soft blanket hills :)

We should bring back the the linguistic pattern of using an alternate noun declension when naming a story after a person, like Odysseus->Odyssey or Aneas->Aneid

So like, oh, did you see the new Johnwickery? How about The Supermanid (2025)?