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@VisualInk · 4 weeks ago

So, what kind of things will be covered in our new "Making 2D Game Assets" course for 11-16 year olds?

Example 1: Use layers and a simple art style (pixel art is great for this) to quickly create expressive characters in #krita. Is this just a prototype? Or will the style grow on you and get refined? Either way, you can carry on actually making your game. Meet Pixel Dood and his brother Squarilino Dood. #gamedev #krita #art

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@[email protected] · 4 weeks ago

@mjg59 FUSE's highest use!

@mavnn · 4 weeks ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] I can't think of anything I've done with FUSE that wasn't a crime, a hack around my own ignorance, or both

@[email protected] · last month

@jalcine Friend, you and I both!

There is a ratcheting process on this, I think.

We need a core of server software that supports the ActivityPub API, so that client developers have something to work against. I've made one (onepage.pub), and I know there are others happening.

Then, we need a set of interesting API clients, to show what having a standard API can get us. I've done a couple that I like (a geosocial checkin app and a movie review app), but it would be cool to have more.

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] @[email protected] I've successfully posted to a @[email protected] instance using C2S, partly because the project I'm using to do so is something I'd like to see work in a wide variety of places and I'm hoping that I can do my small part to resolve the chicken and egg aspect of server/client support by producing things that use the API from the client side. I'd love to see broader support.

@mavnn · last month

Also: if you're an employer, why not make this a policy? Apart from the ethical arguments, I've seen many commercial projects stall waiting for an open source feature or taking a hard to maintain internal branch when they could have just submitted the fix upstream for everybody. And it will please the kind of staff who you actually want to retain.

mastodon.social/users/mikemc...

Daniel Terhorst-North

@[email protected] · last month

@codepo8 ooh I like this. Also: 'Is this content wage-appropriate?', 'I'm afraid that is wage-restricted, you need to have your wage confirmed first.'

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] @[email protected] This reminds me of a friend of my brother who loved expensive cars. Office wear was generally t-shirt and jeans, but on the days they had to meet investors he would put on a really nice suit and then take a long lunch break to go test drive a car. Because it turns out that the test drives were in fact wage-restricted, they just didn't have a great way of measuring "wage".

@[email protected] · last month

#Poll time!

Which terrorist organisation do you belong to?

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] @[email protected] Did you play "Paranoia", by any chance?

Friend computer is looking increasingly representative of what a genuine US military AI would look like every day. #ttrpg

@mavnn · last month

Apart from the group courses at fixed times I'm running at Thinker's Meetup for 11+ year olds, I'm also currently doing online mentoring of #HomeEd individuals or groups who'd like to add #gamedev with #godot, #ComputerScience, or #InteractiveFiction to their activities (whether that's working towards a specific qualification or project based). Drop me a private message if you'd be interested.

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@[email protected] · last month

@pikesley It also implies Fairy Plasma, and we can definitely induce a phase change to plasma using sufficiently powerful lasers. For Fairy Liquid, I'd recommend using a scaled-up Polytron:

Magazine ad from the 1970s featuring a picture of a laboratory-grade wand blender on a stand.

Text in ad reads:

Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a
soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds.

Imagine what it can do for your samples.
* Powerful 700W motor develops 27,000 RPM
* Unique tissue disruption by mechanical
shearing and cavitation
* Interchangeable generators to suit your
sample
* Foam-reducing generators minimize sample
aeration
* Optional
speed controller, Reco 31T maintains constant speeds regardless of changes in solution viscosity. — Magazine ad from the 1970s featuring a picture of a laboratory-grade wand blender on a stand. Text in ad reads: Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds. Imagine what it can do for your samples. * Powerful 700W motor develops 27,000 RPM * Unique tissue disruption by mechanical shearing and cavitation * Interchangeable generators to suit your sample * Foam-reducing generators minimize sample aeration * Optional speed controller, Reco 31T maintains constant speeds regardless of changes in solution viscosity.

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] @[email protected] I... wow. That is quite the advert.

Victor Gijsbers

@[email protected] · last month

I just got an email from a journalist who works for the quarterly journal of the main Dutch scientific grant organisation. They want to interview me for the upcoming issue of their journal.

The theme of that issue is: Failure.

Especially, the email helpfully clarifies, *personal* failure.

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] Many years ago there was a TV show on the BBC called Mastermind in which the contestants could pick a specialist subject to be asked question about.

"Your special subject is personal failure" is not a choice I recall, I must admit, but I feel I wouldn't score too badly!

@VisualInk · last month

What's this? New courses? And being announced more than a week in advance?

thinkersmeetup.com/scholars/...

If you're interested in either writing or creating assets for a #visualnovel, we've got you covered. Five weeks on each as online sessions for 11-16 year olds in the European afternoon/US morning. #creativewriting #gamedev #homeed

Michael Newton | thinkersmeetup

@mavnn · last month

It occurs to me that I don't remember many individual commits from my career with pride, and of that small number every single one was a net decrease in code size (and normally associated with a large increase in either performance or reliability)

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Bill the Lizard

@[email protected] · last month

LinkedIn right now: "I know lines of code is a lousy metric, but hear me out..."

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] "... we're making billions! Billions I tell you!"

"Profit?"

"Don't be silly. Lines!"

@mavnn · last month

Don't know where y'all are at, but round here it's spring time #flowers #DoomScrollingBreak

Close up of a large butterfly sitting pretty on some spring flowers

@[email protected] · last month

@SnoopJ the best part is they did. they did put it in the newspaper

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] @[email protected]

The South Carolina pastor who prayed over a 22-foot-high golden statue of President Donald Trump last week says it is not an idolatrous golden calf as described in the book of Exodus.

Mark Burns is a self-appointed pastor who previously lied about his educational background and previous military service. He unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018, 2022 and 2024. He was an early and ardent supporter of Trump’s presidential campaigns.

Brutal from opening from [checks notes] Baptist News Global. Even the url is sharp and pointy: baptistnews.com/article/its-...

@[email protected] · last month

@mavnn @Bonfire That's interesting. A missing `created` field would be an error with draft-cavage-12 signatures; they need to have a created stamp to avoid replay attacks. I wonder about the one-success-only issue; I bet that means that Bonfire is trying RFC 9421 signatures, they work, but it falls back to draft-cavage-12 signatures. I'll see if I can do some testing to make this work better.

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you!

@mavnn · last month

Hi @[email protected]! You asked people to let you know if there was weird behaviour or bugs with tags.pub. I'm not sure if this is on the tags.pub end or on the @[email protected] end, but at the moment I seem to be able to federate exactly one outbound activity each time Bonfire restarts to tags.pub and then ask further pushes are rejected with a 400 error and a response about a missing Created field. Unfortunately I haven't found an easy way to see the outgoing request, so I don't know what info they're being signed with (I don't know if @[email protected] can suggest a way of me extracting that info?)

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@[email protected] · last month

@mavnn @JessTheUnstill @epilonious

it's important to remember the backlash is severe because the progress is real

and also that the young men who broke for Trump because they were promised the rewards of patriarchy are already changing their minds about that

https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116423289085092640

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

The backlash when there's progress part is undoubtably real; I saw at least a couple of people who were nominally egalitarian just flat out refuse to believe that #metoo was real, for example. And when someone points out to the meeting chair that they have asked the only non-male person to take the minutes again they basically have the choice of deciding they want to change or just deciding that maybe "the women" were really always the problem after all. Doesn't stop the pushback grossing me out though!

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I think there is some of that, but honestly I think the reality is a lot more complex than a single chart (or my initial exasperated comment). People feeling 'allowed to say what they really think' is a thing, but so is people changing opinion, even quite fast, and not having the self awareness to notice. We all tend to assume we've always been like we are now, and a lot of people don't challenge the assumption.

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] about the age range thing: I hope that's true. I'm also in a smallish town in Italy, so gender related social dynamics have a bunch of other factors playing in.

@[email protected] · last month

@JessTheUnstill @susankayequinn @mavnn my personal head canon is that a lot of men have ALWAYS felt this way but lied to the press because they knew being honest would make women "all uppity" and piss them off.

Now that women are not trusting men At All and are analyzing actions not words... And rising egalitarianism means that nasty boys reciting the spells of old no longer gets them laid... They're being honest. And in very "LOCK DOWN AND TRACK WHATCHU GOT, FELLAHS!" ways.

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I think there is some of that, but honestly I think the reality is a lot more complex than a single chart (or my initial exasperated comment). People feeling 'allowed to say what they really think' is a thing, but so is people changing opinion, even quite fast, and not having the self awareness to notice. We all tend to assume we've always been like we are now, and a lot of people don't challenge the assumption.

@mavnn · last month

@[email protected] @[email protected] As a man, can I just say... W. T. A. F?

My 18 year old son complains regularly about the attitudes of his cohort but I was hoping that was more along the lines of "I know it's bad, but at least it's better than it used to be" rather than straight up "you're right, and it's getting worse"