It's hard to make someone adopt something when his status depends on the thing not being adopted

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.

It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛

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Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)

Fish have committed credit card fraud

I had forgotten about RealMedia!

If you speak two languages well, have you tried counting to 10 in alternating languages? I found it surprisingly mind-bending.

What hurts the most is how suddenly he left. But in truth, no one ever really leaves completely.

We love and miss you so much, Pá’. Rest in peace. We carry you with us and will remember you always.

I hope I can be the same kind of example for my children, and give them the same love he always gave us. We never lacked anything. He always reminded us to keep studying, to keep working, and to always move forward.

The family adventures we shared. How we’d all come home for Christmas and be together again, even if just for a while.

…or how I’d see him working late at night preparing the school schedule or grading papers while I pretended to be asleep in the room where we all slept together. The naps we’d take in the air conditioning after school.

I remember the care he put into every project he took on: the garden he loved so much, the meals he cooked, the little blue Datsun (our other brother) that he restored and cared for deeply…

Seeing him in his lab coat made me believe that all scientists wore one, although I later found out that wasn’t really the case (except for that week we visited the local hospital during a research trip from graduate school).

I remember how, at the end of the school year, he would bring out the human body models in the biology lab—models that used to scare me—and the experiments he performed in front of everyone.

But I owe my career to my dad—and that curiosity he always had for every single little thing.

My dad had a collection of thin 5-inch floppy disks with games and 16-color animations covering all the school classes. I think it was a Commodore 64. What I clearly remember is that all the programs were written in BASIC, even though I didn’t understand anything about programming yet.

Among many memories, I remember when he started managing the computer lab at the middle school. The only computer I had seen until then didn’t have a monitor—you had to connect the cables to a VCR and then to the TV.

This Father’s Day weekend, I’ve been thinking about my dad, who left us unexpectedly at the end of April.

For no reason at all, I feel the need to remind folks that Node.js is not in competition with other runtimes like Deno or Bun. Companies compete. For profit entities compete. Private equity competes. Non-profits do not compete. Non-profits just exist. Use Node.js, use Deno, use Bun, use what works..

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Modified Ikeda attractor.

S/N: 2025.063

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

The Ikeda attractor.

S/N: 2025.062

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Attraction/repulsion + Turbo colormap.

S/N: 2025.061

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Attraction/repulsion on a grid formed by a low-discrepancy quasirandom sequence using a k-d tree to find the closer points.

S/N: 2025.060

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Plasma line.

S/N: 2025.059

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Mixed attraction and curl noise dynamics.

S/N: 2025.058

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

3 vortices with different dynamics: attraction, repulsion, and curl noise.

S/N: 2025.057

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

2 constraiend particle vortices.

S/N: 2025.056

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3 particle vortices.

S/N: 2025.055

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Post you from a different era: working on a Delphi/Pascal project in 2007.

Particle attraction/repulsion + Google’s turbo colormap.

S/N: 2025.054

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks