Discussion

Tempted to write a json-ld library for #zig as a way of learning Zig properly and because it might be a better way of implementing #fediverss (blog.mavnn.eu/2026/04/10/fed...) for low resource environments than dotnet. #activitypub #rss

Me, being clever: so I don't want this RayCast node firing every physics tick, so I'll disable it and only enable it when I force it to update.

adds all the code to enable and disable the ray casting

Me, actually reading the doc comment for the force raycast update function: "Note: enabled does not need to be set to true for this to work." sigh

It's almost like the devs considered this use case! #godot #gamedev

My latest modern art creation: the warming of the soup.

Worth at least an extra ten thousand due to the ephemeral nature of its satisfying beauty.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Doing this to random people on the internet seems rude and lacking self awareness. Doing this to your employer seems to take a... special something, and maybe limit future life opportunities

@blog Of course, the only issue here is that the screen shot on the blog is itself going to get scaled, but hey ho!

@[email protected] "There's about five hundred thousand more valuable targets with the same vulnerability, so just think of it like Russian roulette with a 500,000 shot revolver. That shoots like a really fast machine gun. I'm losing this metaphor, aren't I?"

@[email protected] I have a couple of websites that gets in this loop on one of my devices regularly. Other Cloudflare checks on the same device work, I can access the site from an other device, but the tick box just loops. The next day it'll be working again. It's been going on for years intermittently at this point.

@[email protected] Same thing we do every Wednesday. Try to take over the world!

@[email protected] I think some of it came from previous experience with character generators disappearing and leaving people unable to access their old (or even current) characters. That said, I've realised this isn't quite what your were proposing: there's no proviso to release products built on top of the source code, I don't think

@[email protected] I've no idea how successful it was, but Dan Simon actually did this when he created the HERODesigner software (herogames.com/store/category...) for the Hero/Champions #ttrpg.
You can pay for the app, which is obviously what most people do, but you can also pay for the source code to modify the app with your own house rules etc.
I honestly have no idea at all how many copies of the source code were sold, but it was definitely interesting to see this model being tried out 'in the wild'.

@[email protected] @[email protected] It's going to be interesting seeing somebody beat the opening double tap of "we let AI delete our product" followed by "we let AI delete our product after seeing it happen to the other guys already"

youtube.com/watch?v=XKkYLmyT...

Niche, but fascinating; Wing is a musician and beatboxer who is sitting out the equivalent of the world championship this year to be part of the judging panel. He put together a one and a half hour video where he breaks down all of the submissions that qualified this year (in a particular category), talking about why he judged the way he did. It's a masterclass of clearly explained criteria, a sampling of the best beat box/solo acapella work out there today with expert commentary, and an insight breakdown of how musicality and technical skill can either enhance or detract from each other and why a technically impressive skill demonstration could be enthralling for other 'experts' but turn away the general public or even musicians from other fields. #beatbox #music #art #CriticalThinking

@[email protected] Did... did he write that entire article without taking any responsibility at all for what happened? Not even a "I thought I'd put something in place but I was wrong"?

I... would probably sleep much better at night with that level of self awareness. And hurt the people around me a lot more.

@[email protected] also one of the world's weirdest fighting game characters: youtu.be/GXwC4LhcjaY

Unlike Ronaldo, who even more bizarrely is a character in the same game but appears to have had no involvement, Ganacci was actually involved and showed up at a bunch of events and made a video of him being sucked into the game.

So yeah;if you wanting to see Ronaldo getting punched with the grandma punch, that's the game for you (it is one of his attacks on game...)

@[email protected] I have used precisely this analogy in trying to explain how engineering teams function! As a data point, my dad has a classics degree...

New experience unlocked: stabbed myself in the head with a lemon tree.

Bodil: "I have a very particular set of skills"

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@[email protected] @[email protected] I once had a website pop up a dialog that warned me that I was receiving a "degraded" experience because "no ads are loading". insert Princess Bride meme here

@[email protected] I'm looking into the fact that my instance isn't federating to tags.pub anymore, and the error I'm getting is from github.com/evanp/activitypub... (where the signature checking code changed around the time I started getting errors)

I'm looking at the Bonfire code and it appears we're caching information about what signatures to send; is it possible that because I already followed @[email protected] before the changes at the #tagspub end, my instance is sending the wrong signature? And if so, is there anything I can do to 'refresh' the cache?

That said, I suppose I have literally lifted the plates up. One thing that is very common here in Italy that I've never seen in the UK is that the cupboard section directly above our sink has a draining rack and drip tray built in, so that the work surfaces are kept clear even while stuff is drying. It's a very neat solution to the issue that in reality you nearly always have a mix of clean, dirty, and just washed crocery whilst a lot of kitchen layouts assume that the kitchen is going to be completely clear before you start using it.