Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

hah this is a great transition timeline

Yay! Environmental Station Alpha has received an important update - the game has been ported to C++, fixing a whole bunch of issues and adding support to e.g. Mac, Linux & Steam Deck. Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bsvFhVqaIA
#esagame
Port by @mp2games

Lunch plans...

"This is government overreach", says corporation owning the biggest search engine, biggest video platform, most popular browser, most popular mobile OS, biggest ad platform and more

My Improved Minecraft GUI Pack is now available on my Ko-Fi in Early Access! #art #pixelart #minecraft

Get it here: https://ko-fi.com/s/085a55b850

hey, job listing. I'm trying to work for you, not fuck you. Why are you asking this?

Hardest problem in computer science.
Naming things
https://botsin.space/@terrypratchettquotebot/113253659480638677

To be honest: I absolutely despise doing backups.

No negligence goes unpunished:

My Samsung SSD with root and home directory just gave up, after less than 3 years.

So folks, don't be like me: Do your backups! Always!

just fyi pico-8 has the cutest “are you human” test ever 🥹😭💀

Colleague was telling me she wanted to look at implementing resonance cascades, which was pretty frikkin alarming. Then I realised she meant "radiance cascades". A much better idea. Fewer temporal rifts and alien incursions.

Following a social media post in support of LGBTQ+ game developers, Godot is now getting review-bombed on Steam. After 7 years of glowing reviews, this game engine has received nearly 1,000 negative reviews in the past week. #godotengine #GameDev #GameDevelopment

SDL3 has hit ABI lock!

You can now trust the interfaces to stay stable. We will _add_ but not _remove_ or _change_ what's there, so it's safe to migrate your game to it!

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/preview-3.1.3

We're rushing to an official release from here, but what's there has been battle-hardened in Steam and DOTA2 and CS2 for over a year now, across several platforms.

"Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising."

"we do this fully acknowledging our expanded focus on online advertising won’t be embraced by everyone in our community" - https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/improving-online-advertising/

I appreciate Mozilla laying their intent out explicitly with no room for interpretation or guesswork.

Personally, I think this is not just a huge misstep, but a deathknell.

Romania's refusal to recognise a transgender man's identity violates his rights, says EU's top court

Refusal to recognise a change of gender legally undertaken in another member state violates the rights of EU citizens, the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice ruled today.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/10/04/romanias-refusal-to-recognise-a-transgender-mans-identity-violates-his-rights-says-eus-top

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