Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

Likewise computers and devices with happy faces make me happy.

Quite happy with this enemy design in ESA2!

Serenity.
Black and white photography emphasizes silence, loneliness, depth.
There is nothing superfluous here.
Just look at this photo.

Photographer: modopix
#photo #blackandwhitephoto #serenity #winter #photo #Sunday #loneliness

This is how you do coyote time, right?
#gamedev

Today's token hunt has gone well. I didn't think I'd see the other side of 8100 never mind 8000.

Newest toy is "fun strings" 😄

function fun_str(mstr)
local result
for i,str in inext,split(mstr,';')do
-- dbg(str)
local f=split(str)
result=_ENV[deli(f,1)](unpack(f))
end
return result
end

e.g.

fun_str'camera;memset,0x5e00,0,256;fade;cls' -- 2 tokens

#Barcelona, #Meta's Twitter competitor, will be ready by summer.

And lest you believe #ActivityPub integration was just some rumour, think again. In a slide, Meta confirms that Barcelona will indeed be decentralized and will be compatible with Mastodon.

Everyone who thought that AT protocol would win over ActivityPub, and that #Bluesky would kill Mastodon just because a few influencers joined doesn't understand the sheer marketing power and pull that Meta has at its disposal.

But believe me, I'm not exactly cheering on Meta here. Generally, where Meta goes, shenanigans. I simply don't think Meta is capable of releasing a product without dark patterns.

Nevertheless, I don't think the Fediverse is even close to preparing for what will happen once Barcelona starts federating.

We should all be taking Barcelona very seriously.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23730070/instagram-twitter-app-competitor-leak

@socialmedianews@venera.social

Don’t be mad at lazy people.

They didn’t do anything.

Hey folks. Everyone--EVERYONE--can get got by a scammer at some point.

When we blame folks who get socially engineered for their carelessness or lack of vigilance, we're making it less likely that people will self-report when they got got, and perpetuating the myth that all we need is vigilance to avoid scams.

The narrative that only fools get scammed helps scammers. Don't fall for it.

Texas A&M professor fails students because he asked ChatGPT if it wrote their papers and it falsely said yes. They had already graduated and now can’t get their diplomas. 🤦🏾‍♂️

An example of how the real threat of AI is people applying the technology in the wrong situations because they don’t understand how it works.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/texas-am-chatgpt-ai-professor-flunks-students-false-claims-1234736601/

I did the back of my ONE FLOPPY and it turns out doing dense engraving run (instead of score) using filled polygons looks pretty damn good.

past week or so has just been UI work. it's always laborious but i'm happy with how this is turning out.

i've started using unity's Timeline feature to put together my UI animations which was definitely not its intended purpose but i'm finding it way easier than writing 100 coroutines

@eniko Turns out there were really a good John and a bad John ad ID, but it was the opposite of what techies were saying.

Also releasing soon is a remake of UI Pack originally released in 2014. It's due for an update! I won't be changing the visuals but instead make sure sprites are larger & uniform in size. Will also add new things, feel free to suggest! #gameassets

https://kenney.nl/assets/ui-pack

COVID hasn't magically gone away. #COVID has transitioned from a short-term emergency into a long-term tragedy. This means that leaders need to be taking sustainable action to address it, not ignore it.

(@2DArray · Jan 8, 2018)

Smoother

d={0,8,2,10,12,4,14,6,3,11,1,9,15,7,13,5}z={}for o=0,15 do
p=0
for b=0,15 do
if(d[b+1]<o)p+=2^b
end
z[o]=p
end::_::x=rnd(128)y=rnd(128)dx=x-64
dy=y-64
c=(atan2(dy,dx)*16+t()*4)%16
c*=(dx*dx+dy*dy)/4000
f=c%1
c-=f
fillp(z[flr(f*16)])circfill(x,y,1,c+c*16+16)goto _

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(@2DArray · Jan 8, 2018)

Realtime volumetric cube approximator

local p={0,1,2,13,14,9,10,15,7,7}
a=abs
::_::
local u=rnd(2)-1
local v=rnd(2)-1
local d=0
local c=sin(t()/8)*7
for i=5,15,1 do
if(max(a(u*i+c),max(a(v*i),a(i-10)))<5)d+=1
end
circfill(64+u*64,64+v*64,1,p[d])
goto _

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