Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Another favorite 4k of mine: Fan_tastic - Rebels & Alcatraz

https://youtu.be/_rH26Z1_IZs

You can download this one too: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85684

And now let's watch something 16x smaller. A 4 kilobyte demo: The vanishing of Ashlar by NuSan

https://youtu.be/lAvug7LKiIE

Mandatory reading on this one: https://datunnel.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-story-of-urs.html

This entire animation is contained in a 64 kilobyte EXE file. Everything you see and hear is constrained to 64k!

You can run it on your own computer!

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62935

I really need to talk about Demoscene more. I'm not much of a creator, but I love Demoparties and Compos.

Starting a thread about my two favorite categories: 4k and 64k.

These are computer programs that are restricted to a maximum file size (in kilobytes!), but must also remain graphically impressive.

Let's start with a crowd pleaser: the timeless by Mercury.

https://youtu.be/ie4u2i_5OdE

There's lots of Twitter users that have migrated here recently, and a good chunk of them have discovered the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter, which means your timeline is probably littered with sloppy looking retweets.

And you can rid yourself of them with this one simple filter:

I absolutely love this MODERNS music video animated by Peter Corina. It blows my mind that an artist that pumps out so many bangers remains relatively unknown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7HFOtoqPNg

Not giving them the exposure by linking to the article or posting a screenshot, but I will note that the person who wrote the article looks like this:

Newsweek published an absolutely indefensible article about the "politicization" of the Club Q shooting, that basically pretends that right-wing homophobia and transphobia is a myth, and that a mass shooting at a gay club during a drag show was just a coincidence.

Complete trash written by someone who doesn't appear to meet the definition of a journalist in any capacity.

STL for anyone interested: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3924308

After lots of hard work, I finally have my own haus.

PAK CHOOIE UNF

I'm honestly proud of myself for such an unhinged looking selfie. I hope this becomes the first picture people see when they Google my name.

If you want to find out where a Mastodon instance is silenced/suspended, you can use this useful Google search string:

<instance domain> inurl:/about/more

where <instance domain> is the root domain of the instance you are checking.

You will get results from instances that have silenced/suspended the instance you are searching for, minus those with strict robot.txt or obfuscated domain names in the block list.

An informal measure of instance quality.