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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

water in video games is fake

omg, i have no words

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

extreme ironing has been done on everest!

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

“Federal appropriations law requires the NSF to notify the House and Senate appropriations committees at least 30 days in advance of any planned decommissioning of agency owned facilities or assets valued at more than $2.5m. The House letter said no such notification had been transmitted.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/ocean-monitoring-cuts-trump?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

it was this craze where people would just iron clothes like on the side of a mountain or on a surfboard, on the back of a cow etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fd6NBQ8ego

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

holy shit i just remembered something.

does anyone else remember EXTREME IRONING?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
on_code@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Laurent 🫠") wrote:

Buying a game is a political act. Your money votes for the kind of industry you want. AAA is unsustainable: rising costs, AI threats, $1,000 consoles...
The future is smaller, bolder, and independent.
The talent fleeing big studios will go indie.
7/N

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
on_code@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Laurent 🫠") wrote:

Look at GitHub. Look at Xbox. Look at their military contracts. Microsoft’s priorities are clear: profit over people, always.
We’ve seen this before.
Disney+ subscribers proved consumer power when they canceled en masse over Kimmel’s firing. We, as gamers, have that power too.
6/N

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
on_code@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Laurent 🫠") wrote:

So what can we do?

Stop funding the problem. Microsoft’s products are everywhere but alternatives exist. They’re cheaper, often better, and don’t fund a corp that breaks what it touches. It's impossible to fully escape Microsoft, but most of their software you actively use everyday have counterparts. Use them when you can.
5/N

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
on_code@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Laurent 🫠") wrote:

Microsoft and the others saw profit, spent big, then bailed when the next shiny market appeared. The result? Hundreds of talented devs unemployed.
Remember: gaming is still one of the most profitable industries. These layoffs aren’t necessity. They’re choice.
4/N

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
on_code@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Laurent 🫠") wrote:

Making games is hard. Predicting profit? Nearly impossible. Yet, studios are treated like ATMs expected to print money forever in an oversaturated market. A market big companies and corpos oversaturated by chasing unrealistic returns.
3/N

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
on_code@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Laurent 🫠") wrote:

Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, Rare, Double Fine… These layoffs aren’t just bad luck. They’re the cost of greed. The game industry was stupidly flooded with cash during COVID, expecting endless growth. Now, the bill is due.
2/N

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

One more time for the people in the back:

I will always hate your real names proposal.
I will always hate your backdooring crypto proposal.
I will always hate your hack back proposal.

These ideas are bad and you cannot dress them up in any way that will change that.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
on_code@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Laurent 🫠") wrote:

Support indie devs.
Buy their games.
Back their Patreons.
The next generation of classics won’t come from boardrooms. It’ll come from passion, creativity, and us. The future of gaming is indie. Let’s build it and support it.
8/8

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange wrote:

Threat actors are abusing Steam Workshop, Valve's community hub for downloading game-related content, to push various malware hidden in wallpaper packages.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/steam-workshop-abused-to-spread-malware-via-wallpaper-engine-app/

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

https://dotfurry.org
Nice to see they've come so far to their goal already

Boosted by jwz:
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

The dipshit Nazi pedo in the White House is desperately dumping hydrogen peroxide in his disgusting algae-infested pool one gallon at a time BY HAND you guys. 😆😆😆😆

I did the math.

The White House reflecting pool contains 6,750,000 gallons of water.

It takes 100ppm hydrogen peroxide to effectively clean a pool full of algae.

This is store bought 12% hydrogen peroxide, exactly like the kind you get in Walmart or Home Depot. Not the readily available 30% bulk commercial stuff.

In order to effectively treat the problem would require 4,523 gallons of this 12% homeowner grade bullshit.

Harris brand hydrogen peroxide costs about $20/gallon at Home Depot.

These fucking amateurs just spent $100,000 on trying to shock treat an active algae bloom by hand, one gallon at a time.

Also, there's no fucking way they somehow sourced almost 5,000 individual gallons of consumer grade hydrogen peroxide and then hand-poured it into the reflecting pool one gallon at a time for 5 hours straight. I guarantee they underestimated how much they'd need. So this probably won't even fucking work in the end. 😆😆😆

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

well see there's your problem

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

That's right! It goes in the ~/Downloads folder.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jaseg@chaos.social ("⁡jaseg") wrote:

I dont like the term “digital sovereignty” because of the pronounced nationalist and authoritarian connotations that it carries, regardless of what the actual intentions of its particular users are.

I propose that as hackers, we reframe the core concept (independence of US-centric cloud operators) as “digital autonomy”. I think this carries the same core idea while being less about who rules the digital realm, and more about the freedoms we all have within it.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

okay, this wasn't a code bug. It was another *design* failure.

That (1) was my "level" in a "gamified" process. They designed it so poorly that I didn't even know I was supposed to be mesmerized by the prize of 1 changing to 2.

Boosted by jwz:
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

I cannot believe that in the year 2026, here I am making a pamphlet to help Saskatchewan farm kids identify space junk and get in touch with me.

This is so ridiculous, because:
1. Even though I have seen space junk in Sask with my own eyes, it's still hard to believe that billionaires are dropping it on us frequently enough that this is a thing I need to do.
2. This absolutely should not be my problem. But nobody in the Canadian gov't is willing to accept space junk reports. So here we are!

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

You can get rad.dad neon T-shirts for just $13 with code LUCKY13 at checkout! Links to the three styles on https://rad.dad.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Ours is the Theory, my #GameOfThrones podcast, now has its own domain, which you can follow on the fedi:

https://oursisthetheory.uk

@oursisthetheory.uk

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

^ @lina its been four hours of this nonstop in my head

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116761317566825616

In the observed case: 1.2M+ tokens consumed in ~30 minutes on a task that should have been git clone + find . -name '*.sol'. The recursive agent tree was still growing when observed.

In another instance, this same pathological behavior consumed an entire Pro Max 20x plan 5-hour session token limit in under 5 minutes (4 million tokens consumed).

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

this is so fucking funny god I love this sub https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/comments/1u7icud/claude%5Fcode%5Fhilariously%5Fignores%5Fdirections%5Fand/ cc @jonny

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Whats this? What's this?
There is a place in France
What's this? What's this?
Where the naked ladies dance
What's this?
The men can see it all
Through holes in walls
And cops in underwear dont seem to care
https://youtu.be/o36k8upu3Ks

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the ottowoman empire

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

A NEW TWIST on the Arch AUR stuff: now malicious packages are inserting Russian spam into users' shell config files https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/message/2YQSHTC27MOKDDKHZTH2BJGTEN2CYC7W/

I mean that can't be the only thing because I can't believe you'd have this much power over users' machines and you'd just insert Russian spam into their shells but wow what a weird twist

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
kyonshi@dice.camp ("hated football b4 it was cool") wrote:

We are losing our jobs and killing our planet for that.

KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/12/kpmgs-ai-report-turns-into-a-demo-of-ai-hallucinations/5255029

#AI