Hey, after trying out Friendica for a while I changed to Mastodon after all.
Feel invited to connect with me at https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@paralax
Feel invited to connect with me at https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@paralax
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the internet isnt "a series of tubes" its basically just one tube owned by The Worst Guy
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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
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
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Oxygene Pt. 4 by Jean-Michel Jarre (1976), reinterpreted in Javascript.
Really spot-on, respect to the author!
https://dittytoy.net/ditty/24373308b4
Really spot-on, respect to the author!
https://dittytoy.net/ditty/24373308b4
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Guerrilla's "Making Tools for Big Games" (CEDEC2019 talk) was just posted: https://www.guerrilla-games.com/read/making-tools-for-big-games -- super interesting. The last part on "we just don't use any local files, but rather in-memory keyvalue store on a server" is :mindblown:
Making Tools for Big Games
Guerrilla's Studio and Technical Director Michiel van der Leeuw talks about developing tools and technologies for growing projects, and the detail of aspects of Guerrilla's own Decima Engine.www.guerrilla-games.com
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I have read this talk today, man, it is good; but one thing Michiel said really confuses me: if they have this global store that are smart enough to serve clients whatever data they need, why do they still need perforce? they could have done the versioning themselves at this point? (I guess Michiel isn't on mastodon yet? or else I would ping him :)
@bitinn my guess would be on “not everything at once”. Michiel mentioned on Twitter that they have been moving “more” of what they have in P4 to this. Also will do an update on this tech at GDC
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A Christmas fun thing - making small graphical things (called #Sizecoding - because it's small. And fun.) is going on here:
https://tcc.lovebyte.party/day0/
This is for anyone who has wanted to do something but doesn't know how yet, and wants to start; or people who want to brush up on stuff, or (like in my case) want to polish up how you're doing it in another language.
EVERYONE is welcome to join us.
Which means: YES, I really do mean everyone. ESPECIALLY people who aren't in the traditional "white, older male" category.
And if join do join and anyone gives you ANY crap about not being in the "white, older male" category: Let me know and I'll make so much god damned fuss they'll attack _me_ so you get some rest from the crap.
Also: this is fun. Please join us!
#Demoscene #CreativeCoding
https://tcc.lovebyte.party/day0/
This is for anyone who has wanted to do something but doesn't know how yet, and wants to start; or people who want to brush up on stuff, or (like in my case) want to polish up how you're doing it in another language.
EVERYONE is welcome to join us.
Which means: YES, I really do mean everyone. ESPECIALLY people who aren't in the traditional "white, older male" category.
And if join do join and anyone gives you ANY crap about not being in the "white, older male" category: Let me know and I'll make so much god damned fuss they'll attack _me_ so you get some rest from the crap.
Also: this is fun. Please join us!
#Demoscene #CreativeCoding
It's beginning to look a lot like...
Tiny Code Christmas - Day 0 Tiny Code Christmas starts tomorrow, Monday 12th of December 2022 and runs for 12 days! We’ve put together this little guide so that you’re ready to roll on Day 1! A Tiny Code Christmas animation coded with TIC-80! Tiny C…Tiny Code Christmas
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Thank‘s for letting me follow you. 
I am really happy, that you are here. A daily portion Demoscene makes the day brighter.

I am really happy, that you are here. A daily portion Demoscene makes the day brighter.
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gzyYQJgOo
It *is* really top notch brown noise though...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gzyYQJgOo
SERIOUSLY SMOOTHED BROWN NOISE | Night Time Edition | 10 hrs | *BLACK SCREEN* | Sleep/ Study/ Calm
So many of you asked for a ten hour edition of this Seriously Smoothed Brown Noise - so here it is! Thanks a lot for listening, I really enjoy making these v...YouTube
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At the 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards, William Shatner provided one of the most unique covers of a pop song, certainly in a sci-fi convention, but maybe at any convention, or anywhere.
Over the years, Shatner has weirdly denied it happened, but it did, and Flemishdog found a U-MATIC videotape with an unaltered, high-quality version of Shatner's "Rocket Man". And here it is.
https://archive.org/details/william-shatner-rocket-man
Over the years, Shatner has weirdly denied it happened, but it did, and Flemishdog found a U-MATIC videotape with an unaltered, high-quality version of Shatner's "Rocket Man". And here it is.
https://archive.org/details/william-shatner-rocket-man
William Shatner Rocket Man : Channel O Brisbane : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Captured from a PAL Umatic videotape with 10 minutes of the 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards at the end of an otherwise unrelated recording.Internet Archive
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@RosethornRangerTTV there is not enough space for it. i'm leaving it out and will endure whatever consequences may come my way
nice. I wonder if it can do multi-character role-playing too, where you prompt it in turn for what each character would do
@marcel yeah I think so. at this point it's mostly a problem of spending hours and hours of computing power on training, modeling storage and processing queries.
the AI itself downplays what it can do, but I have barely any complaints. For the first time, I am obsessed with it.
the AI itself downplays what it can do, but I have barely any complaints. For the first time, I am obsessed with it.
i just had it generate a transportation network in The Underdark using one-way gates only. Because every fantasy realm needs a believable logistics backbone in the world building
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.
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@mephisztoe I did, a while ago. Yes I know about build systems, but when you are working with someone else's codebase you often don't get a choice which one to use.
Some progress on the tooling front
Underappreciated demo tool milestone:
being able to open a project, close it and reopen again without everything exploding!
https://imgur.com/a/fAlzV0A
being able to open a project, close it and reopen again without everything exploding!
https://imgur.com/a/fAlzV0A
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Find, rate and share the best memes and images. Discover the magic of the Internet at Imgur.Imgur
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Google has now migrated maps.google.com to www.google.com/maps thus if you grant Geoloc permission in your browser, every G-service on www.google.com can track your location.
https://garrit.xyz/posts/2022-11-24-smart-move-google
https://garrit.xyz/posts/2022-11-24-smart-move-google
Smart Move, Google
Generalist developer writing about fullstack development, system administration and free software.garrit.xyz
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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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aCMTpJx2cs&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aCMTpJx2cs&t=3s
Steven Seagal Choke Hold Diorama
UPDATE: THE DIORAMA HAS BEEN FOUND!! BECOME A PATRON.... https://www.patreon.com/bobbyfingersSEAGAL ENERGY DRINK CAMPAIGN...... https://www.gofundme.com/f/h...YouTube
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So #mosstodon is cool and all about moss, but sadly not about Moss and I'm here to fix that
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You absolutely deserve it! It’s my favorite of the six Monkey Island games!
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Announcing 'Dear ImGui Test Engine' + 'Dear ImGui Test Suite', available now.
- automation/testing for Dear ImGui apps/tools;
- run in your live app or headless on CI;
- run at robot speed or simulated human speed;
- export screens/videos for e.g. generating docs;
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui_test_engine
#imgui
- automation/testing for Dear ImGui apps/tools;
- run in your live app or headless on CI;
- run at robot speed or simulated human speed;
- export screens/videos for e.g. generating docs;
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui_test_engine
#imgui
GitHub - ocornut/imgui_test_engine: Dear ImGui Tests & Automation
Dear ImGui Tests & Automation. Contribute to ocornut/imgui_test_engine development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Felix Bohmann
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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.
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