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Boosted by jwz:
davidnjoku@mastodon.world ("David Njoku") wrote:

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

loop the loops are acceptable because when the same (x,y) point occurs in two places on the track the z is different.

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

which is worse?

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mordecai@chaos.social ("Mordecai") wrote:

@aredridel more like cadastral objection :3

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
vampiress@eigenmagic.net ("Elissa") wrote:

Anyway, now seems a good time to show prototype 4, or [sekrit project].

I posted some hints about it months ago, but since then I've been spending my spare time and most weekends working on it.

Art by the amazing @marceles_pixel and myself.

#GameDev #IndieDev

Attachments:

• video: A woman with floofy red hair in pixel art and scuffed clothing, standing on a cartoony style tiny 'desert island' with a single coconut tree, a camp fire, and a sunken row boat. Waves crash on the shore around her.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Remember when we used VSCode to write code instead of using it to gaslight an AI into believing it knows how CSS Grid works?

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

Since the IETF is vulnerable to astroturfing and trolling, I'm going to focus on C2SP for making HTTP Message Signatures post-quantum instead of dealing with the IETF at all.

https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/issues/284

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
sethmlarson ("Seth Larson") wrote:

Completion via code coverage applied to Super Mario Bros (cc @nedbat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0gOALTvkcc

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

LOL, LMAO.

if you didn't know, russian local commanders are ordered to take territory, so they send a couple of people to plant flags and film them.

this has been going on for years, it's basically normal for putin to be getting the most rose tinted view of the war.

well this is starting to fail so badly that they're starting to phone them in with AI instead.

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

(my memory reclamation scheme uses delayed reclamation to avoid refcounting - before an entry can be reused, we have to wait for readers to drain away, thus pointers are unlinked and 'go to purgatory'.

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Blog update, wherein we are going hard on movie nights
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/05.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

And on the pedestal these words appear:
"This author has chosen to make their posts visible only to people who are signed in."
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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

pronouncing 'purgatory' like 'purjatory'

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
f800gecko@mastodon.online ("Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧") wrote:

Still a fave...

#mastodon #fediverse #comics

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
khinsen@scholar.social ("Konrad Hinsen") wrote:

New blog post: "Conviviality in computational science"

https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/07/06/conviviality.html

"Conviviality matters for science for multiple reasons. One of them is epistemic: if you want to derive knowledge from your work, you need to know exactly what you are doing, and that includes a detailed understanding of your tools."

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

Google Translate allows turning off their stupid Gemini! Yay!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
newbyte@mastodon.nu ("Newbyte") wrote:

What's wrong with the GNU project? How do the developers of GNU Parallel think "Hmm yeah that sounds like a good and proper release name"?? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2026-06/msg00000.html

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I'm not saying Safari is the new IE6; that would be unfair...to IE 6. When it came out, it was world-beating in nearly every regard, but got long in the tooth.

No, Safari and iOS are more like IE 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11: predictably disappointing showings thanks to structural under-funding by an organisation hellbent on holding the web back to defend profits:

https://infrequently.org/2026/07/abject-praise/

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

Hey, reminder if you're new here:

https://soatok.blog/2024/09/09/doesnt-matter/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Donald Trump governs like a mob boss, and mob bosses never tell people what to do. They don't have to. They just express the outcome they would like to see, and trust that the person they're describing it to would rather make them happy than unhappy

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5954481-trump-inquiry-fifa-penalty-balogun/

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

How absolutely shocking that an administration of white supremacists would be angry with the Smithsonian for (checks notes) accurately representing the history of the United States

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/arts/design/white-house-smithsonian-american-history-museum.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.vlA.UDlI.poOfe0pZysRc&smid=url-share

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

Who called it "GPS drift"?! It's cadastral projection

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Prediction markets are not trustworthy sources of evidence.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/06/kalshi-is-not-evidence-shut-the-fuck-up-harry-enten/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺🇮🇪") wrote:

6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
spacehobo@teh.entar.net ("Space Hobo") wrote:

https://youtu.be/aESqrP3hfi8

Mastodon is full of people like me, who got into computing through LISP or Unix or some other system that unfurls vast complex structures from interactions of simple rules. It's a delightful intellectual exercise, and a powerful device to express your cleverness and ability into incantations that have immediate time-saving effects.

But when I once tried to explain this feeling to a friend when I was at Uni in the 90s, she looked at my Slackware box that I was gushing about and asked me a question that stuck with me:

"Yeah, but can it do spellcheck?"

I mean, of *course* it could. The whole demo video for Unix in the 80s featured bwk demonstrating how you could write your own spellchecker in a quick shell pipeline! I could probably find all sorts of interactive curses-driven tools to make corrections easier, or drive everything through really plush EMACS macro sets. Why, I could...

No, that wasn't what she was trying to say to me. She was saying "I really don't see computers as an intellectual exercise: they're just a tool I have to use to write my papers, and I *need* it to be reliable and straightforward for me to do that." I was literally going out of my way to make things harder, because I saw a benefit to me in doing this. Most people can't justify that kind of time and attention on something.

So when I got back into cycling a decade ago, I vowed not to learn anything about bicycle mechanics. I can't even change a tyre: I just got the tyres that don't get punctures. I don't need to put a chain back on anything because I got a bike that doesn't lose its chain. I don't have to grease the chain because it's enclosed. If I have a problem, I take the bike to a local bike shop. Don't ask me about gear ratios: I just need it to do spellcheck at the press of a button!

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride:") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@macmanx/116869680691239648

If you’re local and want any emoji for anything, LMK! I’ll try to find something for it, or make a really bad representation myself. :mug_rainbow:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tilton@fursuits.online ("Tilton Raccoon") wrote:

I have a Gmail account but I almost never use it. I logged in for the first time in ages today to send a test email, and what the fuck? The site is almost unusable now. I was getting absolutely devastating lag when typing in a shitty little floating compose box. How did it get this bad?

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

can DB Fernverkehr AG please stop breaking bahn.de logins for all Firefox users please and thank you? what the fuck.

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

the Berkshires are pretty hills

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Word-wrap is a myth invented by Big Typography.