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Hey, after trying out Friendica for a while I changed to Mastodon after all.
Feel invited to connect with me at mastodon.gamedev.place/@parala…
in reply to Paralax^SD

Well, I don't know if it's my setup (I'm using Firefox with quite a lot of extensions) or if it's the site itself but coming from Twitter I found it relatively hard or cumbersome doing basic things such as attaching images to a post, integrating with third party apps on PC and mobile and even simply following other people.

The more popular third party apps I had a look at seem to mostly be made for Mastodon and so despite the underlying Fediverse protocol I had a mixed experience. For Friendica this means that often I could kind of get them to work but then I couldn't enter certain screens such as the settings screen or toggles wouldn't work here or there.

I wanted a comparison with Mastodon and so I set up an account to see for myself. Turns out, that over there - at least for the specific server I chose - all those things tend to be a little faster, with way less clicks and just feel a bit more modern. Mastodon doesn't have a calendar tab but that's okay for me. It also seems to go for an overall design more in line with the one from Twitter. No problem with app integration either.

Following people on Friendica - unless I misunderstood the approach - is this whole process where I have to copy a user's handle into a form and submit everything, pulling me out of my current context, while on Mastodon I can just click the follow button and I'm done.

I get that Friendica focuses on privacy and so this may involve some tradeoffs here and there. For me personally I just found that for continuous use things have to be streamlined enough for me to want to come back and I'm getting that more with Mastodon.

I might not have wrapped my head around Friendica entirely though because, at least on paper, the platform including its UI seems way more customizable and interoperable with other decentralized social media platforms. It seems to be more focused on power users which I am admittedly not ;)

Mastodon is not Twitter - it's way less addictive by design and has its own little quirks but I guess for me it's somewhere in the middle between a power user system like Friendica and Twitter itself.

In any case, I know that managing a server is hard work and so thanks for putting in the effort and providing this service for free! Since Twitter is morphing into this democracy endangering lunatic platform it's even more important getting people off there and providing sensible social media alternatives out of reach of sociopath billionaires and unaccountable corporations.

in reply to Paralax^SD

thanks for that writeup. i was expecting something like that, i roughly feel the same about it. we stupidly ran a mastodon instance on the abraum.de main domain for testing 2 years ago and deleted it, because it was very confusing, so that domain is now burned for mastodon/fediverse because of key-exchange blah... it is quite obvious that mastodon has much more development going on. i think at some point we will set up one here as well on a different subdomain to check it out again. i also feel that friendica is too cumbersome at places to be used as my daily/main social media thing.


Demo coding productivity advice:
Always take the least important item from your to-do list, obsess over it to an unhealthy degree, rinse and repeat. #burnside #automated-release-announcements


We made a thing, and it's kinda flashy.


And of course, it looks much better in realtime:
mfx.drastic.net/view/bunker/

Fun facts:
- I iterated through 21 edits and versions of the track until final
- the communication between unclex and me resulted in the longest chatlog i ever had making a demo, and it was cool

May your eyes hurt less than his.



Work on the new demo tool auto updater is progressing somewhat nicely...


Oxygene Pt. 4 by Jean-Michel Jarre (1976), reinterpreted in Javascript.
Really spot-on, respect to the author!

dittytoy.net/ditty/24373308b4

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in reply to jco

C++ class implementing a navier-stokes solver, with extensive comments in wütendem Niederbayrisch, die auf die Schwaben schimpfen.

// Wir schreiben hier eine C++ Klasse, die einen Navier-Stokes-Löser implementiert. Dieser Löser ist ein Computerprogramm, das die Navier-Stokes-Gleichungen verwendet, um die Strömungsgeschwindigkeit und -dichte in einem bestimmten Gebiet zu berechnen.

class NS_Solver {
public:
NS_Solver(); // Standardkonstruktor
~NS_Solver(); // Destruktor

    // Berechnet die Strömungsgeschwindigkeit und -dichte
    void CalculateFlow(double time);

    // Setzt die Strömungsparameter für die Berechnung
    void SetFlowParameters(double viscosity, double density);

private:
    // Speichert die Strömungsparameter
    double m_viscosity;
    double m_density;

    // Hilfsfunktion, die die Strömungsgeschwindigkeit und -dichte berechnet
    void CalculateVelocityAndDensity(double time);

};

// Des werden die Schwoben nie verstehen, des gibt's ja gar net!



Only 9 (aka NEIN) Days to go 'till Zenta - The Post-Christmas Party you (the #demoscene ) actually really need in your lives right now!

We've got some news for you: The compo rules are now fully online and we also have added information about the great live events we are going to have. Check out our shiny and new timetable!

zenta.rocks/events.html
zenta.rocks/schedule.html

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Resonate in peace, Manuel Göttsching


And thank you for vastly expanding the definition of electronic music.




Holo decks, Klingons, oh my!


I made chat GPT run as a holo deck simulation and in true fashion it allows me to edit all participating actors. What a trip :D


Just spent 5 minutes worrying about my laptop's dying ventilation until I realized it was YouTube playing this super smooth brown noise video in the background.
It *is* really top notch brown noise though...
youtube.com/watch?v=f_gzyYQJgO…


We've come a long way since Eliza. The quality OpenAI's new ChatGPT system brings to the table is truly fascinating. Here it's reasonably comparing memory safety features in two different programming languages.


What if there was an internet browser based on rendering Markdown? Sans HTML, CSS, JS and whatnot? Without all the bloat that makes publishing complicated? With meta-data driven by Frontmatter? With great typography standards?

Focused on written content? And that's about it?

in reply to Ronny Pries

That's unfortunately right - most browsers removed support for the Gopher protocol in the last ten years or so :(

However, there seem to be extensions that re-enable it (usually by routing requests through some Gopher-to-HTTP proxy because of technical limitations of the extension APIs). No idea if they're any good. And even if they work - keep in mind that Gopher is basically a ghost town by now :)



Some progress on the tooling front


Underappreciated demo tool milestone:
being able to open a project, close it and reopen again without everything exploding!

imgur.com/a/fAlzV0A



More Steven Seagal content!


The nice thing about being in a chat room with 3D artists is that I'm exposed to a weird mix of stuff I'd never have found on my own. This one's especially hilarious while I also learned a thing or two!
youtube.com/watch?v=3aCMTpJx2c…


GO/HUGO developers:

Please recommend me your fave learning resources for Dummies :)



Dreamt that I slept in the same bed as Elon Musk and so he gave me COVID!
Thanks subconsciousness, I get the hint already...





Well, at the rate this is going I guess we can start playing the old game of 'which holds out longer: Twitter or this fabulous lettuce?'

twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status…




friendica updated


people of the social.abraum.de, i have updated to the latest stable friendica version. apps should work much better now. the previous picture post was made with the mastodon app, seems to be working! let me know if you encounter problems on our instance!
in reply to felix b. ohmann

now somebody needs to find out why all your posts are only shown as a headline and a link to the rest of the post…


people influx


oh nice. i like all those friend requests of people i really know in the fediverse. welcome friends! :)


Also: We're making something happen, and we really hope to see you there!
Do check out the fantastic location. It will look so great with all you nerds in it ❤


Like the idea of actively using my friendica account, really hate investing actual research time into figuring out how to make this experience feel like 2022 UX should feel like.


Cheers Elon for boosting the fediverse :)

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Would love to produce a game OST/sound design again


More specifically: a scifi-ish Shmup. Think Einhaender, Philosoma, Chaos Field, R-Type. Maybe for any game that screams for an Arcade-ish Techno soundtrack and sound design.

Platform doesn't really matter, as long as halfway decent sample playback is possible.

If you know someone who knows someone, hit me up!

Kthxltr,
rp`farbrausch



Finally: AI put to good use


infiniteconversation.com

An infinite conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Zizek

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Important reminder! :)


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update incoming


hi people of the abraum. i will update the system to 2022.06 soon, one of the changes should be that more mastodon-compatible apps will work with social.abraum.de

i will test a few and get back here with my findings soon!



I held a strange seminar about DJing last year...


...and how it's finally available on YouTube. What took me so long?

I gave it for 50 people I knew in the realm of a Demoparty. I'm offering an unfamilar perspective to the topic. I've certainly been opinionated at times.

Honestly, I shied away from publishing for several reasons:

  • [
]The sound quality is subpar[]The audience knew me and my DJ sets[]I wish I went deeper into certain topics, deliver more context and so on[]I called those who benefit from selling products to people to help them cheat time selfish idiots.Which is a polarizing thing to say. And it's not how I wish to appear. At the same time, I stand what I said there.

Still receiving positive feedback for having shifted some of the attendees' perspectives, made me want to publish it anyway. So, here it is:



Initial Commit


Okay then, just settling in at abraum.
Let's see how this is going :)


Hello world, again.
It's been a few busy, exciting, exhausting, depressing and very emotional months - and though the ride never fully stopped to let us smell the flowers, we're still here. Breathing.

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UC12 Invitation demo released


At Revision we have released our Invitation demo for Underground Conference 12. It's a story demo that hopefully a lot of people can relate to.

youtu.be/PIPRDoF3DeI
pouet.net/prod.php?which=91375
uc12.party