@electricarchaeo That's very nice, could've used that this past semester!

Just in case anyone comes at you with adblocking is somehow immoral.

Adblocking is an essential tool of self defence.

In related news, I’m so happy uBlock is finally coming to Safari, but Wipr is also very good and is what I am using right now.

https://toot.cafe/@tomayac/114623760669288501

@popchicken It's a well behaved owner!

Watching Microsoft’s robots telling Microsoft’s other robots that they need to agree to Microsoft CLAs in between Microsoft’s developers begging Microsoft’s robots to actually understand the problems they’re trying to fix in Microsoft's platform code on Microsoft's version-control website is kind of amazing.

This is definitely the future Terry Gilliam promised us.

@aras Slightly late happy birthday!

Mythological Game Studies conference starting now! #MythGames2025

@directhex Ok that's not terrible, it is a very pretty case.

@directhex I like this box, very cool, is it easy to assemble, screwless?

@directhex roflol I don't even omg you pasted the sticker roflolol

It is pretty cute!

@sandyarmstrong @directhex @sphereinabox

Hey everyone,

I'm micr0, the creator of @altbot, the open-source bot that helps generate alt-text for images on the Fediverse to make content more accessible.

I have some exciting news to share - Altbot no longer uses Google's services! Many of you expressed concerns about privacy when I first launched Altbot using Google Gemini, worried about your images being processed on their servers and potentially used for training.

I promised to fix this, and I'm thrilled to announce that Altbot 2.0 is now running entirely on my own hardware using the Ovis2:8B model. Your images are processed locally with absolutely zero data retention - your content never leaves my server and isn't used to train any models.

The new system is fully GDPR compliant, and descriptions are even better across all 11 supported languages. What's also cool is that the setup is significantly more energy efficient, with 36% of power coming from clean sources. Altbot now even shows you how much energy was used for each request!

The only things Altbot 2.0 records are that a request happened, how long it took, and what language was used. No images, no content, no personal data - nothing that could identify you.

Building this upgrade was more expensive than planned - I needed a more powerful server with an A5500 GPU, which exceeded my budget by about $900 that I covered out of pocket. If you appreciate this commitment to privacy and accessibility, any support through my Ko-fi page would help recover these costs and keep Altbot free for everyone: https://ko-fi.com/micr0byte/goal?g=18

Thanks so much for your support! I built Altbot because I believe accessibility shouldn't compromise privacy, and now that vision is reality.

Feel free to boost or reach out with any questions! For press inquiries: inquiries@micr0.dev

@dangoodin Users aren't "failing to follow best practices"; GitHub's own examples and guidance for using Actions tells users to use a tag, not a commit hash. Using a hash is definitely safer and I wouldn't be surprised if GitHub quietly changed their guidance, but it's certainly not a best practice that has been widely given to users.

@codinghorror That's amazing Jeff! 👏 👏

#BabelOfCode 2024
Week 1
Language: Applesoft BASIC

NEXT WEEK: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113783248514095140

"Advent of Code" is an online event where you're given 25 two-part code puzzles, which you're supposed to solve in 25 days in December. I was busy so instead I'm doing a slow-motion, 1-puzzle-per-week version over the course of 2025, but with an added restriction: I have to do it in a different language each week.

@unjello@mastodon.gamedev.place proposed a hashtag, so maybe there are two of us on this
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@unjello/113690629505083586
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I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

@eniko

What in the unholy fuck?

> If you have a site managed elsewhere using the free version of ACF, in order to get genuine ACF updates you must perform a one-time download of the 6.3.8 version via advancedcustomfields.com to remain safe in the future. After this one-time download you will be able to update as usual via the WP Admin panel.

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-plugin-no-longer-available-on-wordpress-org/

#wordpress

In 24 minutes I'll be live at Jetbrains Game Dev Days talking about C# embedding, eep!

https://www.youtube.com/live/0YVD9Zuei80

@kissane lol. lmao even.