FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Holy moly, apparently Minecraft has switched to SDL3: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4

instead of "autistic masking" it should be called cloaking. á la star trek. it eats a lot of power, you can't use all your systems while you're doing it, and you only ever need it to get through enemy territory alive

And they call it ‘progress’

I call it unnecessary destruction

@jakehamilton - a general use programming language with both a plaintext-based representation and a node-based visual representation that can be switched between at will, as an easier onramp for non programmers to learn the skills and get useful / fun things done on a computer
- a gamelike "learn computing concepts" interactive primer written in said language
- version control for non programmers that's usable for text as well as binary files, eg images, audio/video etc

Imagine there was a software collective. A group of people that collaborated on different projects, helped each other, and built a better future together. What would you do? What would you work on? What would you contribute?

This isn't a hypothetical. Fedi, please add your own reply and boost this post for reach (thank you in advance). I want to find the people that believe such a thing is possible and want to be a part of it.

are WINE's bundled EXEs and DLLs real? depends!

if you build with MingW available: yes! and many of the apps work on Windows!

if you don't: nope, they're stubs and the real implementations live in .so files

they differ in filesize and the signature you can see in a hex editor

here's what I wound up with from my toying with it

first impressions of LSDj are that it's one of the best pieces of software ever written and a tight encapsulation of "restrictions breed creativity"

like "tracker that runs on the gameboy" presents a pretty stiff set of UI limitations yknow? The screen is small and low resolution and your inputs are limited to four buttons and a d-pad. And those limitations forced the developer to devise one of the best interfaces I have ever had the pleasure of interacting with. Like it's not "intuitive," you'll absolutely have to consult the manual, but it is extremely well-organized and sensible and feels great to control in a way that makes it easy to learn. I only played around with it for maybe an hour and I already felt like I was flying around the program. It's fun as hell.

The song-chain-phrase-instrument hierarchy is absolute genius tbh and it feels driven primarily to accommodate the gameboy's tiny screen, but it makes it incredibly straightforward to compose and arrange music.

Today was good, desk phones have been configured and deployed at practical locations around #bornhack more tomorrow. #televerket_bornhack #phoneops

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt

I'm playing Sid Meier's Civilization as the Russians and despite being in the modern era, I only just now discovered gravity lol

↔️ Missing anyone who's going to be at Bornhack?
The EMF and Bornhack phone systems will be interconnected during the event!
Dial `BORN xxxx` from EMF, or `4EMF xxxx` from Bornhack to bridge the gap.

#EMFCamp #Bornhack

🎉 just got our* first commit merged into upstream WINE!! Start Menu icons are on master now

it'll be fun if the loss32 PoC ships a version of WINE that has zero non-upstream content eheheh

* under our legal name because of WINE's real names policy, sigh

going back through time and begging Microsoft engineers to add some way to test if an HBITMAP has an alpha channel