The reveal... 🤩
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Liquidream/114721362081022041

Who needs a smart phone when you can have the best "dumb" phone ever made? 😉
The #Nokia 3210 was my first proper mobile & still got many fond memories of. Nights out, dropping it/still working, replacement covers, paid ringtones/network images and ...games! 🐍
I've been trying to re-acquire one for years and finally bagged this bargain.
It's in superb condition, came with manual. I got a new/replacement battery separately + also bagged this UNOPENED original charger too.
Nostalgia overload! 😊🤳

I wish all

People posting AI trash to the pixel art hashtag

A very

Fuck you

Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting

But the real problem is even dumber

-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes
-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes
-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup
-will it ruin countless organizations who think they're buying their way to cheap labor? That too

Oops! AI did it again... you're not that innocent.

Nectar, a 'crime-predicting' system developed with #Palantir, could be rolled out nationally after a pilot with Bedfordshire police (UK).

Data such as race, sex life, trade union membership, philosophical beliefs and health are used to 'predict' criminality so people can be targeted for #surveillance.

https://inews.co.uk/news/police-use-controversial-ai-tool-sex-lives-beliefs-3747154

#SafetyNotSurveillance #policing #police #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol #criminaljustice #precrime #predictivepolicing

#Juneteenth

Todays Advice from Archive Andy

Check your DVD-Rs**

Don’t leave em laying about in random places

This is the only copy of a Wedding Video. Or, it was the only copy. Its got severe Disc Rot. Might be hard to see but it’s gone dark & is now unplayable

*also +R, -RW, +RW
Get the data off quick

@obsoletemediauk

Bluesky are openly welcoming, verifying and hosting accounts of prominent far right politicians. Trump's VP Vance is now on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/jd-vance-1.bsky.social

"We welcome the Vice President to the conversation on Bluesky" (Bluesky in their email to Fox News)

More 🚩: Bluesky is centralised, run by a for-profit corporation, its CEO has blockchain background, it is partly owned by VCs & Blockchain Capital.

Bluesky are going down exactly the same Nazi Bar path as Twitter.

(via @mastodonmigration)

TFW you score an absolute bargain piece of nostalgia tech, in mint condition... 😯
...and it *works*!! 🙌🥳
Expect photos at the weekend! 😏

Mastodon is happy to be recognised as a #DigitalPublicGood by @dpgalliance - alongside many other incredible #OpenSource projects. Find out more in our blog post. #UNOpenSourceWeek

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/mastodon-dpga

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece. Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), they observed the Sculptor Galaxy in thousands of colours simultaneously 🌈

A galaxy’s building blocks — stars, gas and dust — emit light at different colours. The more shades of colour there are in an image of a galaxy, the more we can learn about its inner workings such as age, composition, and motion.

To create this ultra-detailed image of the Sculptor Galaxy, the researchers observed it for over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s VLT. The team then stitched together over 100 exposures to cover an area of the galaxy about 65 000 light-years wide.

Discover more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2510/

📷 ESO/E. Congiu et al.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

@Gamrok Ooh... not heard that one, have added that to my playlist (found it on Bandcamp).
I discovered them while I was in a music (HMV) store and a track from 11:11 (Triveni I think?) was playing in the background and I had to hear more... 😀🎵

@Gamrok They're amazing. I'm well overdue a listen to their albums 🤘😆🎸🎸

We are delighted to announce that AdventureX will happen on 22-23 November at LSBU Hub in London. Save the date!

Ticket sales are expected to open in August. More tickets will be available than in 2023!

Applications to exhibit/speak at #AdvX25 will open next week from Mon 23 June - 14 July.

@gbraad @scummvm @jmechner

All aboard! The Last Express is ready for testing!

Paris, July 24, 1914. We are excited to announce that Jordan Mechner's acclaimed real-time adventure The Last Express is now ready for testing in ScummVM!

Step into the shoes of Robert Cath, an American doctor on the run from murder charges, as he boards the legendary Orient Express for what would be its final journey before the outbreak of World War I.

https://scummvm.org/news/20250617/

#retrogaming #adventuregame

@eniko Amazing isn't it? Such a cool concept, well-executed. Was one of my fav shows that year. 🤓
Wait till u get to through the rest of the episodes! (+thankfully, S2 ain't no slouch either, IMHO) 😉

for #picotron 0.2.0e: printing "\r..." to the terminal overwrites the previous line, making some forms of animation possible.