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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by stgiga@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/main@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

So apparently the Blahaj.zone Sharkey server is down. @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I hope the Sharkey instance isn't being shuttered like how mint.lgbt shuttered their Fediverse instance.

 

This is a short (10 minute) anonymous survey for a college group project about tipping. It asks how users tip and also what factors influence that, but it does not ask for things such as name or location. Anyone can take it.

It can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMKXD2heXQFiweQgRVGxnfxvF56tZRZq3ScK06j_25HKnI0A/viewform

[–] stgiga@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I've seen what the 3DO BIOS font looks like, and it's DEFINITELY not 16px. But it isn't a color font, per se. Also, I'm not targeting the 3DO per se, or any specific platform. I only mentioned the 3DO because historically it was the one device where the Kanji ROM (it's in Western units too though. Also, Kanji ROMs were common things in the olden days of console and PC gaming [1980s and early 1990s]) is 1MiB. I haven't seen larger. Also, note that there are hardware DEFLATE decoder chips. Also, note that 4096x65536 1bpp uncompressed would be 32MiB. Also, the original PK-ZIP could even run on the 4.77MHz 8088 1981 IBM PC. DOS/V requires a VGA card, which tended to belong to FAR faster machines than that. So, real-time decompression in software for DOS/U isn't a problem. Also, the GBC is clocked far higher than the 8088. And there was one GBC game that went to 8MiB and had FMV. Pokemon Crystal only went to 2MiB. Technically speaking, you could put the TTF2PNG version on the last eighth of the cartridge, and do Unicode fan translations of any game that works on MBC5 mappers (or can be ported to it. Pokemon Crystal's bootleg Chinese fan translation used 16px characters, as did the Star Beasts Pokemon clone, so 16x16 characters can be displayed.)

Now the terminal and phone ideas are ALSO possible. I mean, Unicode DOES have a LOT of OS and technical symbols, as does UnifontEX. In fact, UnifontEX having BOTH "Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols" AND "Letterlike Symbols" together makes the Fraktur escape code and the Bold code + Fraktur code possible. It also makes support for the earlier emoji (the stuff that was able to fit in Plane 0 Unicode block gaps, and which had the most attachment to the original cell phone sets) possible in conjunction with more recent (2018 and before) ones. Also, my fantasy console wasn't really going to be 3D per se. Basically, it would be a fantasy computer designed to be a better Commander X16. It would have a 50MHz eZ80 (equivalent to a hypothetical 200MHz regular Z80), a full-on GS ROMpler as a soundchip (except using my JummBox SoundFont for the samples, stored in Section 11 of the SoundFont specification's Silicon SoundFonts mode, a mode made for making ROMplers out of SoundFonts, and that SoundFont fits the bill because it is very very close to an actual chip size. It's 0.99GiB, but more specifically, 1020.9MiB. So yes, the sound ROM would be 1GiB, but in 7z it is only 198MiB, but Silicon SoundFonts is happiest with a round number size and direct loading, so thus we end up with a 1MiB font chip in retro style, and a 1GiB sound BIOS in retro style), which I can't decide between making the 64ch that the Atari AMY would have had (64 additive sines), or the 128ch of the last GS and XG MIDI synths, which is also equivalent to adding up the real chip equivalents of some parts of the SoundFont, so I'm probably just going to do a toggle. Also I would make the video modes extremely overkill, basically: Sharp X68000 video modes with Amiga AGA HAM8 color detail across the board.

As for terminals: I use UnifontEX in ALL my terminal apps and text editors. Putting it into a hardware terminal would be a sterling idea. Also, if we are going to do that, it's also an excellent idea to put it into a TDD (used by people who cannot hear or who have limited hearing to communicate over telephone lines), to make them more comprehensive in their character support, which is helpful if languages of a historic nature are involved, and the sheer amount of technical symbols could make tech support a lot easier, because you could show the symbols. Also, Unicode's musical notation is handy here too, because one could send musical notation over a TDD. Also, Plane 1 of Unicode has playing cards (including tarot), dominoes, and Mahjong. Oh, and the huge amount of math symbols in UnifontEX is partially what drew me to it, because I used a very early ancestor of it in my Physics Honors class in high school to input the various symbols used in physics via Microsoft Word's character insert function. Yes, UnifontEX was something I started around my early years of high school. I'm now 21 with a degree in cybersecurity.

With regards to mobile phones: I also say yes, because honestly it can help with texts (Also, this supports emoji from 2018 and before, which coincidentally was the heyday of Tumblr, which is one of the easiest places to find emoji pronouns. Note that some of my pronouns ARE Unicode and are in UnifontEX, so this isn't a judgement. So, if we factor that in, I can say that a significant chunk of emoji pronouns are in UnifontEX. As is the nonbinary symbol, U+1F72C, and some other characters in that block seem to represent some other less-well-known gender symbols. As well as characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols and the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows blocks. Basically, having both planes in one font allows for high inclusivity. Also, you have a lot more ability to send technical information over text. I seriously believe that UnifontEX should be usable on mobile as a fallback, since both iOS and Android have no problem displaying it at any scale I've tried.) Also, the DoCoMo 1999 emoji were 12x12. The first mobile emoji set was the SoftBank SkyWalker set from 1997, which had 32x32 monochrome emoji. UnifontEX's emoji are 8x16 when they can fit (the basic smiley and frown are based off of MS-DOS's 8px ones), but the vast majority of emoji in UnifontEX are 16x16px. The "Emoticons" block in Plane 1 which has all the face emoji is special because in UnifontEX, it ALL looks like monochrome versions of the 16x16 forum smilies. So seeing them on a phone of that era is reasonable. Oh also, Inkbox on YouTube made videos where he ported Unifont's Chinese characters to the Apple II and Commander X16. Also, UnifontEX's pop culture references don't stop at forum smilies. The ROFL character is a face with ROFL over the top of it because the diagonals would be a problem otherwise. The ghost emoji is a monochrome version of the Pac-Man ghost (I didn't make that decision), the Korean characters are based on Galmuri Gothic (the maker of Unifont 15.0.06's Hangul was the creator of Galmuri Gothic), which is modeled a bit after the Nintendo DS Korean fonts. And some of the emoji's faces are literally like the MS-DOS smiley face. So, UnifontEX's components were influenced by pop culture to some degree, but not in a bad way. Oh fun fact: The type of sans-serif that Unifont is is actually the same type as both versions of the Discord message font. If you use Firefox and set it to force ALL page fonts on ALL websites to UnifontEX as I have done, and then visit browser Discord, it actually looks fine. Note that Macs will have better non-integral scaling, but if your Windows machine has a 3840-wide display then there is no issue there either. My 1080p Linux and Windows machines have trouble. What I honestly want is for sites such as Archive Of Our Own and other sites with literature available online to have a UnifontEX mode (obviously at 16px or integer multiples of it) just in case people use rarer Unicode, or want to, in their stories. In fact, I want UnifontEX's portion of Unicode to be considered an agreed-upon subset of it as a successor to WGL, as well as for various sites. Also, I want it to be agreed-upon for Unicode art, similar to how Mona/MS PGothic is for Japanese Shift_JIS art. Another use would be as a minimum character set for captioning devices.

TL;DR: there's no texture cache involved.

[–] stgiga@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

As for why I brought up the 3DO: It's because the TTF2PNG version is just the right size (1MiB, thanks to the 3DO's precedent) to be a retro Unicode font ROM in various old computers and devices. I've even thought about making a version of FreeDOS modeled after DOS/V (a version of MS-DOS made to display Japanese and Korean characters on VGA DOS machines) using it, and I call it "DOS/U" (Unicode DOS). I've also planned on using it in an open-source fantasy retro computer I make as the video chip's internal font, and the audio chip is something else I have planned out too.

[–] stgiga@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

It's ALL the characters of the font laid out in their Unicode positions in 16x16 cells from U+0000 to U+10FFFF

Actually, technically speaking, that PNG is a preview image. It's ALL the characters of the font laid out in their Unicode positions in 16x16 cells from U+0000 to U+10FFFF

Also I was asleep when ChaoticNeutralCzech replied, and I was really tired when I said I didn't make a preview image. I actually DID, but it's the TTF2PNG build of the font that was generated in a special way that makes it so that the image can be read sequentially from U+0000 to U+10FFFF in 16x16 cells to get the character you want, with no need for a definition file that shows where a codepoint is in the image. Also, it means that it also serves as a 1:1 preview that is properly mapped too.

As for why the image is "black", it has to do with the fact that to store U+0000 to U+10FFFF in 16x16 cells in a way compatible with sequential reading it requires that the sheet be 4096x65536. Blink engine browsers as well as Samsung's Gallery app have no problems viewing it (as well as some others), but there are also quite a few viewers that really hate this size. Oh, and the PNG is in 1bpp Indexed Color mode to get it small enough to fit in the 1MiB figure used by the 3DO console's font chip size (Apparently the 3DO had the largest font chip.) Basically, the TTF2PNG build is its own preview image, but it may be difficult to display on some viewers. Sorry for any confusion.

Please don't hate me.

[–] stgiga@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I didn't make a preview image.

 

6 years ago I set out to improve GNU Unifont, and finally after 6 years I have finished. It has MANY special Unicode symbols, including gender ones and plenty of technical ones. I use it as my IDE and terminal fonts on ALL my OSes. Oh and this time I fixed the link.

Also, "UnifontExMono.png" is both its own preview image as well as a proper build of the font for use cases where TTF and BDF are too big, like in character LCDs. I also do extensive documentation of my content so don't hate me.

Here's a link: UnifontEX

Logo: UnifontEX's logo

 

This is a 3081-byte (~3 kilobytes) browser game that is inspired by the demoscene and has no limit to resolution or frame rate. I made it when I was 13 (I'm 21 now), and back then it was 30K. I got it down to 3K over the years. It's not really much of a game, but it DOES make a great fidget toy when you are at a waiting room. It uses MANY optimizations to get to its size, some of which are custom. I got it to fit in a Han Xin, iQR, and JAB code (spinoffs of the QR code format that have more room). So, it's able to fit into a QR Code. In China via Han Xin codes. Also yes, this browser game WILL fit in a browser cookie. It's smaller than an HDD sector, and at 1500-byte MTU, this browser game only takes 3 packets to load. At 3081 bytes, it loads in under half a second on 56K dialup (even slower dialup connections than 56K won't have trouble with it either.)

 

This is a file compression program I wrote in JavaScript when I was 17 after 4 years of effort (I'm 21), and I improved it for 4 more years, which outputs to Base32768, rather than the Base2 of binary, and features AES256-CTR encryption too. Files don't have to be binary. This program's files have the .B3K extension. This program makes no external requests and can be ran offline.

 

A place for debunking what people get wrong about nonbinary people.

Rules:

  1. Please don’t be a bigot.
  2. Don’t be a jerk.
  3. Follow TOS.
  4. Please spoiler and properly flair the dark stuff. If it’s NSFW, mark it as such.
  5. Please avoid starting catfights.

You get the idea.

Important Information:

This Community was made by an intersex person who is also nonbinary. As the maker of this sub, let me say that in all my years of social media usage, I have seen SO many people not know the first thing about what being nonbinary is, much less the details of it. This Community is intended to be a place where inaccuracies about nonbinary people are to be debunked.

 

To get the ball rolling, I will say that there are PLENTY of terms that people call intersex people that tend to be received terribly. Some were so bad that some websites had to change up their tags.

CW: bad terms

Intersex people are often (with some exceptions made by people who are actually putting in the time to get things right) NOT what online art and literature sites use the tag "intersex" for, often in a sea of tags, some of which are ALSO profane (I've censored them for your sake), like

spoilerc--t + boy
and
spoilerd--k + girl
, and variations of these. 😬

They actually got removed by E6 (not going to finish THAT) because of popular demand. IF one tries searching those (I don't recommend doing so), you will get a redirect.

Then there's usage of deprecated (obsolete term that the scientific community eschewed) terms like

spoilerhermaphrod!te
and its short form, which gets thrown around on art sites with monotonous regularity, and is definitely non-scientific. This didn't get removed from E6... Oh, and then for some works, there's male+(THAT term), which is both sets of binary anatomy but a flat chest, with the term without male in front of it being a non-flat chest with both sets of lower binary anatomy. Now THAT can get mixed up with the second anatomy+binary gender term by people.

Oh, and let's not forget

spoilerfutanar!
and its short form... H terminology which on the relevant sites is seen as a synonym to either both sets and a non-flat chest, or a non-flat chest and anatomy that is capable of being tucked.

Evidently, some people on the internet love thinking that intersex means anatomy not of a nature that one could say society considers (in a sense) to be within the social construct that is the gender binary.

Some of the art in question that some of the more sus parts of the World Wide Web consider to be intersex opens really bad cans of worms. There's some artists who draw cisgender male characters with flat chests (also non-scarred too) except that below, the anatomy there is not capable of being tucked. And vise versa. The can of worms this opens not only has non-insignificant accuracy issues with regards to the topic of intersex, but it also can be problematic for trans and nonbinary people too. Oh, and when there are both sets of lower anatomy having ALWAYS been on a character from birth, it also causes problems for people whose transition is in a direction disconnected from the binary, such if one is getting a penile-preserving vaginoplasty without orchiectomy, but the character had the results of that from birth. That's when the can of worms opens, and the wheels fall off.

Oh, and while there is art out there that accurately depicts ambiguous anatomy, it is quite rare, so people get the wrong idea about intersex people because of the much larger amount of what I mentioned earlier.

As for people getting the wrong idea about intersex people, there ARE people online who I've ran into (unfortunately), who seem to equate being nonbinary and/or trans with being intersex, or who ONLY accept me as nonbinary BECAUSE I am also intersex. And then there are people who consider people who are nonbinary + intersex to be cisgender.

Firstly, there are binary trans people and binary cisgender people who are intersex, and one does not need to be intersex to be nonbinary or trans.

Then there are people who get stuff wrong. Not all intersex people have chromosomal intersex conditions. Not all intersex people have an inability for meiosis to be successful. Not all intersex people have anatomy that does not conform to what society seems to think people of either binary gender have.

Then there are people (typically on really sus/toxic websites) who think being intersex is the only reason to not misgender an intersex person who is non-cis.

Like, misgendering someone is just terrible as a whole, but doing THAT is...

Bad. Also, I've had people misgender me alone for being neurodiverse. Selective misgendering is honestly despicable, vile, and cruel.

And then in some rare cases online (at least in my experience, though not as rare as a Shiny 6x31IV Mew in Pokemon Emerald), there's genuine confusion as well as a willingness to learn, which, if you run into that, educating them is the best idea.

I think the lesson we can all learn from this is that the internet features PLENTY of people who don't know a thing about intersex people, who then often tend to go on to engage in online behavior of a nature that is not at all respectful to intersex people. This SubLemmy (AKA Community) was made out of sheer exasperation at someone who said some not-so-nice things about intersex people.

Oh, fun intersex fact: The original voice actress for Meowth in the Pokemon anime's English dub was an intersex trans woman.

Now, I figured I should also mention the subject of symbols.

Some parts of the furry community are misusing a blue inverted-color version of the Unicode code point U+2B89 (your computer probably will not render it) to represent male characters with lower anatomy that isn't able to be tucked. The symbol is basically a male symbol, but it points upwards inside the circle and isn't angled. The analogy gets even worse if you look at the logo for the brand of water known as Pathwater, which only drives home the point. Also, this symbol on an American energy bar in California Costco stores uses a diamond rather than a circle. If the relevant companies had any idea what they had accidentally referenced, it would be an absolute Public Relations disaster for them.

Parts of the furry community also misuse the version of the transgender symbol that does not have the left upwards-pointing arrow with dash. ⚥(U+26A5) either to refer to flat-chested male characters with both sets of lower anatomy, or to refer to female characters with a set of downstairs anatomy capable of being tucked and a non-flat chest. This symbol of course, unlike the first one, was not invented by the furry community. In fact, the coiners of U+2B89's symbol never defined U+2B89 as belonging to it. I'm just a Unicode geek who ended up accidentally finding out that a certain character (U+2B89) in the Unicode block "Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows" just happened to look like that particular symbol, but inverted in color and monochrome rather than blue. Not a fun discovery to make.

The lesson here is that U+2B89 should never be used as a gender symbol.

Oh, and I should mention that there are some people online who call themselves the terms mentioned in this post.

TL;DR: The Internet gets stuff about intersex wrong regularly.

Edited to fix some stuff.

Edit + Update:

Turns out that there is another bad term:

CW: bad term:

spoilernewh@lf

Which refers to a character with a body closest to a pre-op trans woman who has done HRT. Such artworks sometimes get given an "intersex" tag, as well as slurs in their tags. It's just ridiculous how quite a few art sectors handle intersex people and non-cis people. It gets old really fast.

 

Rules:

  1. Please don't be a bigot.
  2. Don't be a jerk.
  3. Follow TOS.
  4. Please spoiler and properly flair the dark stuff. If it's NSFW, mark it as such.
  5. Please avoid starting catfights.

You get the idea.

Important Information:

This Community was made by an intersex person who is also nonbinary. As the maker of this sub, let me say that in all my years of social media usage, I have seen SO many people not know the first thing about what being intersex is, much less the details of it. This Community is intended to be a place where inaccuracies about intersex people are to be debunked.

 

So, given how r/Traa is going, among other subreddits, I figured I should make a Lemmy and migrate all my old pride content I posted on LGBTQ+ Reddit to here given what is happening.

Firstly, I am an intersex nonbinary person who uses They/Them, and I am neurodiverse. One of the things I made for LGBTQIA+ Reddit was a nonbinary version of the Sayori meme template, an effort for which Redditors u/ChaoticNeutralAtBest and u/Green_cryptid played a part in. The template is here: https://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/5box.png

I also have project files for it available if you want. Other stuff I posted on LGBTQ+ Reddit was my pride RedBubble (http://stgiga.redbubble.com).

I also have 61 Pride emotes for any platform with 32x32 emotes: http://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/PrideEmotes.zip

I had posted that to LGBTQ+ Reddit too.

On LGBTQ+ Reddit, stuff such as my template had gained traction, especially the less-recent versions.

I also had on LGBTQ+ Reddit told of my experiences on my journey. It was sure an interesting time. I hope Lemmy turns out well!

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