Went a bit off track implementing my Castlevania clone

and my sprites are now stuck doing the #SweetTransvestite floor show

@benno

Sabby has opened for co-op membership. The community centre where I do game dev and art and events has outgrown its current venue, and outgrown the whole malevolent benefactor structure.

Because they know that the future of the games industry is worker owned.

I've been a part of Sabby since its inception in 2022. And since then I've used it for coworking, for studio workshops, for playtesting of games, and pitching of ideas. It's been a base for union organising, and radicalising game developers to acknowledge and take control of the politics of game making in/on this country.

I'm pretty passionate about this massive shift toward a worker owned industry, and the evidence that Sabby provides that "oh yeah, this is happening."

Sabby has:
Hosted over 150 events
Hosted over 200 days of coworking
Helped secure hundreds of thousands of dollars for local studios
Contributed ~100 zines in to zin-o-sphere
Vanquished over a dozen beyblades in heated tournaments

https://sabby.gallery/join/

#coop #union #gamedev

You know that situation when you're hesitant to buy a product or service because the brand looks cheap or not trustworthy? Yeah, I've got the same now if it's obvious that the company's using AI generated images or videos in their ads or on social media.

Evan Polldromou

The availability heuristic causes my mind to immediately suggest “oh, it's a bunch of people each carrying dog poop in a bag” @SeaFury

I guess that says more about the common activity of people in my neighbourhood.

@evan
> a great opportunity to measure how valuable copilot is.

I have detected no interest from management in finding an answer to that question; largely because the prevailing attitude is they *already know* it's valuable, just want the workers to fall in line and be hyper productive like Microsoft promised

My employer has purchased a Copilot license for everyone across all our application development teams.

And then gets weekly reports from Microsoft on *how much each person uses* Copilot.

From the beginning I've been “if you want to stop paying for my license, that's fine with me”. Thus far, they keep paying, and low-key shaming people into using it more.

@evan

Welcome @ieeespectrum to the Fediverse!

After feeling your way on a big centralised instance, hopefully you can soon set up an instance for your organisation (‘social.ieee.org’?) that your staff can use for their own accounts.

No, but staying engaged is currently required for earning money to pay the bills. So I sacrifice mental health to that.

@evan

celebrating Women's Emancipation Week by giving her a new vacuum cleaner @corbet

If your corporation's business model relies on lawbreaking, your corporation has no legal legitimacy.

We don't let narcotic cartels and trafficking rings list themselves on the stock exchange: why should OpenAI or Facebook be any different?

Today I'd pick gathio: https://gath.io/
“a simple, federated, privacy-first event hosting platform”.

@Em0nM4stodon

Two different approaches to debugging a software problem:

The Sudoku approach: stare at the limited set of clues you have, and think harder and harder about them until you find a way to deduce something useful.

The Minesweeper approach: don't even try to figure out the solution from only the clues you have right now. Instead, focus on finding a way to acquire another clue, and then using that to get another, and so on. Eventually you've collected so many clues that the answer is obvious.

Sometimes the Sudoku approach is necessary, because you've got all the clues you're ever going to get. But I think my new motto is "Never Sudoku a problem when you can Minesweeper it."

@mcc I was so mad when outlook took those lies and made them true

@mcc
> Microsoft did something weird and now emails can give you a virus.

This whiplash struck me in the late 1990s, yeah. Had to revise the advice I was giving to loved ones.

What an obviously stupid decision by MS, surely everyone who says they want security will abandon this single program that makes them uniquely vulnerable, and use any of the others that don't have this flaw.

The growing horror as I observed exactly the opposite trend, has never left me.

No, but today's internet is broken by internet standards: far more dependent on central actors (Cloudflare, national trunk operators), too few points of capture and control.

@evan

Sometime just after 4:35pm Pittsburgh time tomorrow (Sunday—I think it's still Saturday there as I write this), I was supposed to walk on stage at @pycon and receive the Community Service Award.

I won't be doing that in person, because I'm transgender, and the event is in the US.

My AU passport has an X gender marker, so I can't even get an ESTA or visitor visa to enter the US, and even if I could it is a country that is even more wildly unsafe for people like me than it was a year ago.

Inside every QA tester there are:

- Two wolves
- One wolf
- Zero wolves
- 0.5 wolves
- 2,147,483,648 wolves
- -2 wolves
- Beer wolves
- Two coyotes
- 🐺🐺
- Два волка
- '); DROP TABLE WOLVES;--
- <script>alert('Awooooo')</script>

one fun* thing about needing a job as a programmer at this exact moment is that it feels like literally half the jobs are "We're a fast-moving team that want you to come help us build the next Coal-Powered Plagiarism Torment Nexus"

I don't mind an automated (or manual) feed for a business that advertises the daily special, the price of chicken, or the store hours. Could be RSS/Atom, could be ActivityPub. But it's something I have to explicitly subscribe to.

What I don't want is a business opening an account on a public instance advertising the daily special &c, especially if a bot is posting. That would just pollute the local timeline.

But if they want to set up their own instance that's OK.

@evan @WeirdWriter @bignose