so hum... Funko has caused itch.io to be taken down, wth

💿 There's a #dreamcast #gamejam in December, early starts are allowed. Some prizes available and the possibility of being included on a physical compilation disc. 💿

https://itch.io/jam/dream-disc-24

Never programmed for the DC before? There's #raylib support via 'RaylibDC' if you know C, or a cool looking lua game engine https://antiruins.com/engine

#gamedev

I don't normally ask for boosts, but I have just LEAPED out of my comfort zone and set up my own gamejam, specifically for users of the Fediverse, and I'm scared shitless that nobody else will join, turning this into one giant embarrassment for me.

So if you want to do me a giant favor, please boost (and even better: join!) this: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@fedi_jam/113035512940511485 PLEASE! 🥺 🙏

Hello everyone! 👋 The FediJam is the world's first (?) game jam exclusively for users of the Fediverse. During September, team up with others and... CREATE - A - GAME! Analog or digital, using whatever (non-AI) tools you feel comfortable with.

➡️ Join now: https://itch.io/jam/fedi-jam

Boosts VERY appreciated! ❤️ Spread the word!!!

#GameDev #GameDesign #GameJam #Fediverse #Mastodon #Introduction

A warrior like you could get to Toronto safely, but I cant let you go yet. (Brain Lord, Enix, SNES, 1994) #retrogaming ...

Pioneering computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist Lynn Ann Conway has died at the age of 86. Every modern silicon chip incorporates her ideas, and her courage was an inspiration to many. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway Long may she run...

@eniko Excellent job, and congratulations! 👏

People sometimes is too busy to realize how much you struggle for your achievements and how much it matters. 😑

I built possibly the earliest same-tab tool for getting AI image descriptions in Aug 2022, using a then newly updated Microsoft AI API. I listened to Disabled folks about it. I've payed close attention to the subject since.

My criticisms of @mozilla plans for Firefox built in AI alt text generation aren't because of knee-jerk AI hatred or some ignorance. They are because I understand this to a breadth and depth extremely rare and I want acknowledgement of major issues being ignored 🧵…

Boost? 💜

Wikipedia deletionists reached for LUnix.

It doesn't matter that this was an important technical feat - to my knowledge the first TCP/IP stack for C64/128 - true 8 bit networking before Contiki, before Wimodems. Recently it was even ported to NES.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUnix

If this Schützenpanzer person has nothing better to do and thinks that this article occupies so much of their precious disk space, so be it. A piece of digital history will be lost.

#wikipedia #lunix

I got wondering how much work it would be to compile s-expressions to #uxn, it turns out, not a lot.

As a test, I've only implemented `let`, but it's shockingly easy to map lisp-like syntax to the uxn assembly, I might push this further still.

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/qzil/tree/master/item/src/qzil.tal

We investigated performance degradation due to excessive crawling of Codeberg.

We often trace back such things to company websites that proudly list their key investors - but don't actually explain what they are doing (or why they need to crawl Codeberg more excessively than the crawlers of the major search engines combined).

It's probably not a use case we believe in anyway, so we blocked several large IP ranges today.

ALL HAIL THE #VECTREX, the greatest video game system in the history of the universe‼️

Don't see nearly enough Vectrex love here in #TheVideoGameLibrary, but leave it to Mark Bussler to give it the attention it deserves.

👉 https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/all-hail-the-vectrex

Happy 25th anniversary, Krita!

https://krita.org/en/posts/2024/krita-25-years/

#krita

Painting portraits, I think, is one of the most interesting and relaxing things to do.

Reference Radhika Nair

The ABC's of #unix . Hope this renders right :)

A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less was begot, and
N is for nice, which it really is not.
0 is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
-- THE ABC'S OF UNIX

Safety sandwich

A new world order! Be prepared! Glory to the Empire! (Metal Marines, Namco, SNES, 1993) #retrogaming #gaming

If Windows XP was released in 2024

@phranck I love it when private use codepoints change meaning across platforms :blobcatgiggle:

So one of the biggest businesses in the world that serves by far the most consumers in the non-smartphone computing department does something incredibly harmful and it seems like the main thing Linux users are picking up from this is "oh neat what a great new recruiting tool!"

Idk man. That feels a bit gross