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@[email protected] @mavnn That makes sense as a feature, but it's a bit of a gamble when you're trying to build a community. I'll stick to the tags just to be safe.
@[email protected] @[email protected] It is, I may need to check if I can change it as a config setting. Also, apparently you've just discovered that I set up an account on .social in 2018 and completely forgot about it!
@mavnn That's a bit of a nightmare for keeping a thread going. I'll make sure to keep the mentions in so you actually see me.
@[email protected] Yeah, I'm honestly not quite sure whether it's by design or not; I can see the logic of 'well, if you replied but removed the tag you didn't want to notify the person you're replying to' and I would expect that to work on descendent replies (i.e., letting the original author drop out of being notified on a thread that has gone off topic). I don't know what Mastodon does in the same situation.
Godot and IF are such a powerful combo for kids to learn how systems and stories actually talk to each other.
@[email protected] It seems I've just made a random discovery: it doesn't look like I get notified here a Bonfire instance if somebody replies without a mention.
Fixing bugs by adding errors: previously VisualInk was hiding some of the runtime errors in your #visualnovel. Although Ink checks a lot of things as you're writing (and VisualInk prevents you running a broken script), some errors only occur when you're playing - like when you try and compare a number and a string that looks like a number. Now you always got told what went wrong, and which section of your script it went wrong in.
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
Oh, yes, links. We haz them. Have one of them there new fangled hyperlinks to the courses I'm talking about: thinkersmeetup.com/service-p...
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
@mjg59 FUSE's highest use!
@[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
@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.
@[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.
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.
@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.'
@[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".
#Poll time!
Which terrorist organisation do you belong to?
@[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
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.
@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:
@[email protected] @[email protected] I... wow. That is quite the advert.
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.
@[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!
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
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)
LinkedIn right now: "I know lines of code is a lousy metric, but hear me out..."
@[email protected] "... we're making billions! Billions I tell you!"
"Profit?"
"Don't be silly. Lines!"
Don't know where y'all are at, but round here it's spring time #flowers #DoomScrollingBreak
@SnoopJ the best part is they did. they did put it in the newspaper
@[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-...
@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.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you!
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