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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Not even a parody, 100% accurate

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZseOJeYmitE

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZseOJeYmitE

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I keep on going to myself "I want to make a game" but let's face it that is not a thing that will happen by itself. Especially as I want to Make A Game rather than Get A Game Made.

Something is holding me back and I'm not sure what. I guess it feels like an indulgence when I am in the midst of the worst jobs market I have seen in my adult life? And it's got a fairly steep learning curve to boot, although it definitely wasn't too steep for teenage me with simpler tools somehow :neocat_sweat:​.

At the moment I don't have great ideas for games to be made, when I was younger the inspiration would come from ideas I picked up in school (e.g. physics or maths concepts) or were basically clones of existing game concepts (adapted to the needs of the platform I was making it for). I do have a book on maze generation so using that as a starting point is tempting, but again, indulgence, mental block.

This is mostly a vent but I am open to advice.

#gamedevelopment #gamedev

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Yes, I know, I'd like to improve society somewhat and yet I participate in society, etc.

I think this is my LLM complaint post of the week. So I'll attempt to refrain for the rest of the week.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

It's appalling all the ethical concerns that must be put aside as long as you pass through a level of indirection involving three little letters: LLM.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Here's a public announcement for #opensource maintainers!

I consider highlight.js[1] and ijson[2] to be my most successful projects. Not because of the reach they achieved, but because when I got tired of maintaining them I immediately handed them off to people who were the most active contributors at the time.

Quitting and handing off is a normal thing you do with your project.

[1]: https://highlightjs.org/
[2]: https://pypi.org/project/ijson/

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I wonder if "I am not using LLMs for ethical reasons" could be a protected belief under the equality act so that companies can't just fire/not hire someone for not using the lying environmentally trash slop machine.

I mean, transphobia is a protected belief in the UK... and I feel like not using LLMs is a much more principled stand

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

This is the kind of artwork I mostly did to use my paints again (which had been sitting, unused, for half a year).

I have an actual watercolour animal tutorial book and a halfway-finished elephant pic, but the halfway-finished part means picking up a new technique (dry brush)

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
kplx ("Kplx") wrote:

Splatters

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

To break up the doom here's a #watercolour

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

If NBC or ABC had the nerve (they don’t) this would be an excellent time to announce their first hires for a brand new investigative news magazine on Sunday nights

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

Leftists don’t hate technology, actually...

Attachments:

• video: [video description] Alex, a brown trans woman with short brown curly hair, is seated on a pink sofa chair, with a tuxedo cat-shaped pillow next to her and a colorful bookshelf behind her. She is wearing white sweater with a pattern of small blue hearts, and grey patterned pants.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Adding video to podcasts means the audience now knows that you don't know how to use your mid-range kit where before they could have just assumed the sound was because you were working with limited resources, which is entirely valid.

If your budget won't stretch beyond a cheap €15 Boya M1 lavalier or even a headset mic, that's fine. Focus on the interviews, writing, and editing instead.

But if you're doing video, at least make sure to read the manuals for your kit.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
toast@donotsta.re ("(eval 'Toast)") wrote:

I want smaller programs with fewer features that take longer to write by people who are happier to do so and I’m not kidding

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I went to a cafe, I slowly worked through bits of the business plan.

Someone showed me a promising job posting on the NHS. I might apply. They are also notably not asking for AI or a super specific technical stack

As a result I'm feeling a bit better

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
thalia@discuss.systems ("Thalia Archibald") wrote:

Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc.! I've been brought on as one of the inaugural members of the new non-profit behind TUHS, with the goal being to ensure a long succession plan and manage our monetary and archival assets.

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-June/033926.html

#unix #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
JimsPhotos@ohai.social ("Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos") wrote:

For those in the UK, you have the chance to vote on 1 from each of the 3 categories of animal that will be adorning our bank notes in the coming future. I don't use cash, but it will be cool to have animals on our notes all the same. Just like Costa Rica does.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/help-us-design-our-next-series-of-banknotes

#birds #nature #banknotes

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

someone is currently trying to impersonate me on tech-contracting-platforms..

... using my deadname? that's almost impressive if that's deliberate?

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Andrew Tridgell (aka Tridge) has apparently[1] commented on his motivations and approach to rsync maintenance.

https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

[1] I say apparently because I can't independently confirm he is the author of that post on Medium. Though it seems likely.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

I love how github can start charging for copilot and suddenly they're not down every day. Huh. It's almost like product designs have consequences.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The de facto ban on new DJI products in the US might help them a bit there but not in the rest of the world. For non-US videographers the DJI Osmo 4 is both a bit cheaper and ergonomically more suited to the use cases that need that image quality.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

BACKUP YOUR DATA TODAY. This is your reminder that you should grab a couple SD cards or USB flash drives and backup your data. Multiple copies, and keep in mind that flash drives only last between one and six years, typically.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

An aspect to the “go pro might go under because of AI memory price hikes” news is that it entirely ignores that go pro has been heading that way for a long time

They’re crunched between cheap no-name action cams on the low end and superior Chinese action cams, actual cameras and phones on the high end. They’ve largely got a worse product and nowhere to go. Their line of 1 inch sensor cams is an attempt to retake the high ground but the price puts it in direct competition with actual cameras

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

A brief thread about code and communications:

Once people depend on a piece of software - not "use" but "depend" - I believe developers have a greater degree of responsibility to the communities relying on that software.

At some point "this software is provided as is with no warranty express or implied" is no more defensible a position than "this building is provided as is and if it falls down well you chose to live in it, whether or not I decide to change it however I like in the future."

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

“Contentful spent 13 years as a trusted European vendor, and one board meeting is enough to put it under US law.

That is where Open Source matters.”

https://dri.es/contentful-and-the-limits-of-buy-european

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tehfishman@ioc.exchange wrote:

@soatok @mkj obviously not your job, but IMO valid responses include `lmao get loved loser get absolutely fucking treasured`

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

but of course he did #HeadDesk

“U.S. Is Said to Be Investigating George Santos Over Kalshi Betting
The former congressman was referred to federal authorities after he bet on his own attendance at the State of the Union address” - NYTimes

Mastodon wrote:

We’re particularly delighted to see the @EUCommission include a call to “strengthen the open source social media space by supporting open and decentralised social media solutions and platforms. The Commission currently runs a #Mastodon instance, which hosts the Commission’s presence and plans to extend the users basis to EU institutions.”

Mastodon wrote:

The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.

We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.

Here’s our full statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/europes-new-tech-strategy-puts-open-source-front-and-centre/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Check out our latest blog post for an interview with Tiffany Pek Yuan, one of the maintainers of the Rust programming language:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/06/03/maintainer-spotlight-tiffany-pek-yuan-tiif/

This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting our amazing maintainers. 💛

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

PROTIP:

When I get messages like this, I block the other person.