Jayne Samuel-Walker (@TCMuffin) wants to learn about & is thinking about running a session on:
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Jayne Samuel-Walker (@TCMuffin) wants to learn about & is thinking about running a session on:
Growing the fediverse at a rate which is sustainable in the long term.
At FediForum it's very acceptable for people, even encouraged to run sessions asking questions they don't have answer to!
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@informapirata ma infatti, chi crede più alle belle notizie?
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@filippodb @valedas @devol @internet
Al momento dice che le registrazioni sono state disabilitate...
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@aimee80 il che prova che Javascript è IL MALE...
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@mau immagino di sì 😀 ma vedere scritto tutto quello che stai facendo su quel sito, fa riflettere.
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@FraEmme ❤️
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Disassembling Opcodes with a Font
Those who stay into the forbidden realm of font rendering quickly learn how convoluted and arcane it can be – LaTeX is a fully Turing-complete programming language, Unicode has over eighty invisible characters, and there are libraries that let you execute WebAssembly in a font. A great example of a font’s hidden capabilities is Z80 Sans, a font that disassembles Z80 opcodes to assembly mnemonics.
If one pastes Z80 opcodes into a word processor and changes their font to Z80 Sans, the codes are rendered as their assembly mnemonics. The font manages this by abusing the Glyph Substitution Table and Glyph Positioning Table, two components of the OpenType standard. Fonts define relations between characters (internal representations used by the computer, such as ASCII and Unicode) and glyphs (the graphics actually displayed).
In some cases, though, the way a character is displayed depends on where it appears in a word, or what appears around it (Arabic characters are a common example, but an example from English is the ligature “æ”). Z80 Sans defines all the possible glyphs for each nibble of the opcodes, then used a recursive descent parser to generate substitution rules which display the correct glyphs in context.
For a deeper dive into the pitfalls of text graphics, check out this font rendering engine written for a hobby OS. You can also use fonts to play games or talk to an LLM.
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Former BND high-ranking official falls for Signal spear-phishing demanding his PIN
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Iran: due settimane di incessante aggressione militare israelo-usa. intervista al collettivo “together for iran – donna, vita, liberta’”
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2 settimane fa, sabato 28 febbraio 2026, iniziava l’aggressione militare israelo-Usa sull’Iran, che prosegue senza sosta anche in queste ore. Raid sono segnalati in
