@zorinlynx Well, having a well done translation in my language is awesome too, but that takes work and asking native speakers to at least double check and copy edit it.
I don't have any issue with translations in principle, only with bad, lazy translations.

Long before the internet, some phone networks were hackable by playing a single tone at 2600Hz.

Whistled into a phone, it could grant you unrestricted access. Do you have the vocal chops to be an old-school phone phreak?

I built a web app to test your ability to produce the legendary frequency. You won't get free long distance calls but you will get some honor in the knowledge that you could have been a cool hacker. 😎

I am sad to say that I can only whistle up to 1100Hz... But my wife (a long time woodwind player) is able to consistently get it.

Give it a try: https://phreak.kmcd.dev/

#phreaking #2600Hz #bluebox #RetroComputing #hacker #infosec #Tech

This is tough to talk about, but we'll need some help to keep Iffy Books going. Here's a letter we've been circulating that explains the situation: https://iffybooks.net/a-letter-from-steve-at-iffy-books-june-13-2025/

Something that’s been bothering me for years in the security world: why do researchers demand bug bounties for vulnerabilities in open source projects, when the very contributors maintaining and fixing those issues get nothing, just goodwill?

It feels deeply unfair. The burden falls on unpaid maintainers, yet bounty hunters get rewarded. If you want a paid bounty, maybe help fund the people who actually fix the mess too.

#opensource #security #bugbounty

@jake4480 Beyond that I guess I just enjoy long form content so if I'm presented with a 30 second video I just feel like it's barely scratched the surface of the topic...

@jake4480 More often what I've seen is that it's actually the whole thing and I'm just left hanging 😅

Once in a wihle I get exposed to a tiktok video, or others of the same style. No matter the subject, I find it really hard to think anything beyond "Uh okay but... where's the rest of the video?"

I guess it just means I'm out of touch...

Je suis sans doute resté gamin, mais quand je suis avec un groupe qui prend un ascenseur pour quelques étages, je peux toujours pas m'empêcher de me grouiller de prendre l'escalier pour pouvoir les attendre à l'arrivée et leur déclarer, essouflé: "Ça vous épate, hein?"

(point bonus à ceux qui auront la ref)

Franchement je préfère ceux qui ont de la difficulté à mettre un texte alternatif peu importe la raison et qui demandent un #ALT4me que ceux qui le génèrent par IA ou demandent à un bot IA. Hormis les problèmes éthique, énergétique etc. de l'IA, le résultat est stéréotypé de fou, verbeux, et passe la moitié du temps à côté de l'intérêt de l'image.
Le #ALT4me c'est la communauté et l'entraide.

@tuxicoman
- Bonjour monsieur, êtes vous intéressé à ne pas être pisté par nos soins?
- C'est hors de question !
- C'est parfait, on va continuer alors, merci bien.

Five days of massacres, destruction, and starvation.
Five days without connection, without communication, without a single window to carry our pain or a scream that might echo beyond these walls.
They cut us off so our suffering wouldn’t disturb the world.
Five days in a war that has now raged for over 620 days.
A war that devours souls and suffocates life in every corner of this wounded strip.
Five days... and no one answers.
Alhamdulillah, we are back. Connection has returned today.

A bit of morning #gamedev using my tools of choice. It's pretty low power and enjoyable to use.
Would recommend.

@alexia @javascript Sure. At any rate that hashtag now has that stupid connotation to such an extent that it's probably useless for that purpose anyway now... 😔

@alexia @javascript
It's amusing when it applies to generative AI, though if it's just a blanket replacement I think it would get in the way as a gamedev when discussing enemy or NPC #AI which are entirely unrelated topics to LLMs, neural networks or anything like that...

@greenWhale If it's something you request and you understand it gets you a rough idea of what a text in a language you don't understand at all says, it can be useful.

But I'd never publish that without proper review. That people and companies are willing to associate their name with this crap results boggles me. Everybody knew this, how did people suddenly forget you can't do that?

@kotaro
There's also tags, which are names given to a specific commit - it's similar to a branch, but it does not auto update to track newer commits on top, it just keeps pointing to the same one to retrieve it later.

Also, any series of commits in the commit history that is not in the line of any references like tags or branches can still be checked out for a while if you'd know their hash, but they may get garbage collected at some point cause git will consider them unreachable.

@kotaro
A branch is a friendly name given to a specific line of history of your commits. It points to a specific revision, and if you set your HEAD to the branch and commit, it will update and point to the new one. That name can also be pushed and shared with others in the team.

If you just position the HEAD at an older commit that already has another commit based on it, and commit again, you also get a branching history, but without a branch some of those commits are not easily reachable.

@kotaro Yeah, it's like giving a persistent name, or a pointer, to the current state of your data. That name (the commit hash) can then be used to update your local files to that state, or to serve as a base for further commits.
They also store additional data like the author and commit log.
Commits are also based on other existing commits, forming a graph of how the repository changed over time.

the follow up

@rich You can make a single file game project in C as well if you want, just saying...