@[email protected] Ah, the lovely "we'll email you in plain text the only string that will ever work" systems. Right up there with systems that silently turn any 'illegal' character into a '_' without notice. I see those two less often than the silent trancation in real life though.

@[email protected] Indeed - I found one where the web interface truncated but the mobile did not. Which would imply a certain lack of hashing and salting, but that's probably not the most pressing security concern by that point.

@[email protected] My all time favourate in this genre are the websites that silently truncate passwords, so it looks like they've been accepted but to actually login you need to only type the first 8 characters...

Pasted the same picture on Facebook, and their AI alt text generator helpfully suggested that the alt text of the image should be: "‎원유 کمنمه سى 인유 왔은"

I don't think all those characters even come from the same script?

Physics engines are so much fun to play with. Just had a first project based #gamedev session with a new student, and went from zero to a player controlled #godot block bouncing around and bashing evil red godot faces out of the way - all in under an hour.

And there's just so much built in entertainment from what you're working with. Most (not all) bugs are just randomly funny rather than deeply frustrating - watching the player drop off the screen because there's no floor, firing them out of view because you typed an extra zero, etc...

@[email protected] @[email protected] As a Brit who's had to adapt to Italian temperatures: yeah, that's probably too much unless you're both used to it and have a lot of shade. 10 miles with a long break in the shade after lunch is more realistic. Also, even for much shorter walks at that temp you'll want lots and lots of water with you (750ml - 1l of water per hour you're walking).

Before taking my medication this afternoon, I was feeling vague and tired. Now I'm feeling vague, tired, and wired. #adhd #InterestingTimes

@[email protected] @[email protected] also, this is the company that chose to call a flagship product family .NET

The advantage of this technique is that you can spend a few minutes for placeholder art like the post above, but you can also use exactly the same techniques to nail down your finished art just by spending more time on it. Many professional artists start from reference images and if you ask them about it, a lot of the people they reference are themselves or family members!

For our next trick from the course: create a character by quickly learning how to trace a reference image in #Krita . Take some selfies with the facial expressions you want, and go to town.

Bonus tip: Wikimedia Commons has lots of great art that is no longer in copyright you can use for backgrounds, like this forest from Berndt Lindholm!

(Course details up thread) #gamedev #visualnovel #creativecommons

@[email protected] see also the rabbit proof (ish) fence and following descent into biological warfare against them. Humans at work being intellectually superior apex predators.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit...

@[email protected] did I see something in the release notes about limited relay support to post to #tagspub? I can't find it again, and at the moment federating to #tagspub via the followback account fails due to an authentication issue.

@[email protected] This is literally true, and has been giving many of us nightmares for a long time. See also the package managers for most popular programming languages.

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@[email protected] Yeah, that's been my experience as well but I'm aware I've only looked at Unity briefly. I was mostly wondering if there were specific things that Unity had a clear cut advantage on, but it sounds like (at least for small scale single dev work) Godot is just going to be a nicer learning experience. Sounds stupid, but load speeds alone just make it feel more fun to use.

@[email protected] @[email protected] I can second it being great fun in its own slightly campy way and, erm, quite long.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] My comment was mostly a joke, but if you want to take it more seriously I don't see an unintended interaction between a boot time feature and your own OS's disk encryption as distinct from it seeming rushed. That's exactly the type of interaction you should be spending the time to think about when delivering this type of feature. Of course, sometimes something slips through even if you have put all the time and effort in but... it's not inspiring from the outside.

Sent out a quote today that I needed to price higher than I'd like because otherwise the service isn't sustainable. This meant I was subconsciously expecting a long and drawn out negotiation and explanation process, while what I actually got was an email half an hour later saying (basically) "where do I send the money?"

So that was a nice encouragement for the day!

@[email protected] You have picked your instance well, I can feel the tech bro burn from a different country @[email protected]

bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects...

I mean, seriously? It just interpreted "accepting" as "surrendering" which rather changed the tone of the message I sent.

@[email protected] ignoring both the ethics and the tech limitations (which we shouldn't, to be clear) I don't see the pitch here. Either I have a desire to read something super bespoke and I get "magic" to write the novel for me ('like Star Wars, but with more kumquats'), or I want to read the idea somebody else find interesting. In practice I suspect even the first option with working, ethical, tech would end up feeling unsatisfying but I don't see any world where I want to pay money for stuff other people wanted to automatically generate if I have access to the generating tech myself.