soll

silica enthusiast

howdy i'm not that good at bios! i'm a 23yo artist and nerd from brazil who uses ^_^ a lot


big old link index at my website
solflo.neocities.org/haunts.html
tumblr (my only social media now...)
sol-flo.tumblr.com/
gemini capsule
gemini://sol.cities.yesterweb.org

evanonline
@evanonline

Team 0% is an ongoing effort to clear every single course in the original Wii U Super Mario Maker before the servers shut down in April 2024. If you asked me 2 months ago if that would even be a thing that could be possible, I would have said "of course not," but last month I was recommended this great video that went over the whole thing.

(I can't believe Nintendo really said that to them! That's so fucked up!)

When this video was posted, the number had just crested under 10,000 uncleared levels. A mere 3 weeks later, it's currently somewhere around 5600. They're definitely gonna do this.

I really wanted to help, but it took me until last night to finally dust off my Wii U, and to even get INTO Mario Maker I had to update the console, and it took so long that I didn't really have any time to play any until tonight. It took 2 hours to find something I felt capable of doing and another 2 hours to actually beat the course itself.


evanonline
@evanonline

There are only 4 levels left in Mario Maker to beat.

This is Trimming the Herbs, which is very, very likely to end up being the final level of the four to be cleared. This is the creator's upload video. Someone else needs to beat it in order for the effort to clear all the levels to succeed.

It's only 12 seconds long.



blackle
@blackle

want a search engine landing page made by a shark? https://suricrasia.online/search provides links to a variety of search engines and also gives wikipedia and marginalia search results

I made this because I want to be able to:

  1. pick a search engine after I type in my query, instead of picking it first with address bar prefixes—this also allows me to press the back button and pick a different engine if the one I picked first doesn't give what I want
  2. get wikipedia results quicky (a large percentage of what I search is just me wanting to see the wiki article)
  3. see marginalia results before I fallback on my preferred search engine, because sometimes there is good stuff there

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mtrc
@mtrc

Recently I've been approached by different news organisations to comment on deepfaked images and videos. In most cases they already know whether the thing is a fake or not, but they want to know why. It's been a pretty fascinating thing to be tasked with, honestly, and some of the examples completely caught me by surprise (warning: Daily Mail link). Many of us see faked images on a daily basis now, but there's not a lot of writing about how fakes are detected other than one-liner folk knowledge on places like Twitter. I thought I'd write a bit about how I approach the problem.