Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

RedHat, Canonoical, and Valve are net positives to FOSS and essential to the pursuit of open technology.

All of these companies contain aspects I dislike. Valve is a digital market monopoly. Redhat has extreme profit incentives and poor communication skills. Ubuntu is leaning towards proprietary back-ends and limiting user choice in some projects (snaps).

Yet, these companies fund developers and enable them to work improving #FOSS projects. These developers would not have been able to contribute the same amount of time into FOSS if they were doing it for free. Developers need to afford food and rent. A significant portion of #Linux development is bankrolled by these these titans of open technology.

It is essential to understand the source of controversy during a moment of drama, and direct steady and well thought criticism at the corporate structure responsible for policy decisions, not than the individual developers with minimal or no policy influence.

1. I will meme #RedHat for them shooting themselves in the foot and alienating the Linux community, but I am grateful to the RedHat devs who have dedicated time and effort improving Linux and #Fedora. Their contributions are so significant and voluminous, It is difficult to quantify the sheer amount of work they have contributed upstream.

2. I won't use #Ubuntu due to differences of opinion, but I still respect the time and creative energy #Canonical has spent improving the UI/UX of Debian and making Linux accessible to a larger population. Ubuntu is not my cup of tea, but it's a cup of tea that can reach people that have never tried tea before. Ubuntu is certainly a better cup of tea than the raw sewage of a Microsoft or Google operating system.

3. I am hesitant of #Valve because I am wary of being dependent on a monopoly for media ownership, but their open source and open hardware contributions have ushered in an era of Linux Gaming that was previously non-existent. They have demonstrated sound ethics in most of their policy choices, so I invest a significant degree of trust and gratitude in them, even though I remain skeptical of their digital asset monopoly.

It is disingenuous to label RedHat or Canonical as evil. Neither company is anywhere close to the dystopian nature of Microsoft or Google.

It's a matter of when, not if, companies will make poor decisions. At the scale of these entities, problematic decisions are bound to occur more frequently as policy decisions become disconnected from their impact on the community.

Lately, both RedHat and Canonical have made unwise policy decisions. Yet, I believe the good of their developers' contributions far outweighs the bad of their recent policy decisions. That balance could change in the future, but for now, both are still a solid net positive to the FOSS ecosystem.

TLDR; Reality is rarely black and white. It's often a shade of Gray.

After over three years of development, VIDEOVERSE is now out on Steam and itch for PC, Mac and Linux!

Thank you everyone for the continued support. Please leave a review if you can – It helps indie devs more than you think!

I hope you enjoy it! ^_^

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2079180/VIDEOVERSE/

Itch: https://kinmoku.itch.io/videoverse

#Processing #CreativeCoding #Procedural #Generative #PerfectLoop #Art #Math #Mathstodon

If anyone on fedi has a copy of or wants to try locating a very specific old game installer for me I would love the help...

In the late 90s Hasbro released a series of play by email versions of their board game properties, titled "em@il games". I have every one of them except for Upwords. The reason is that all of the others were released on CD, and Upwords was released for free on their website. I didn't have much luck finding it through Wayback because you'd give them your email and they'd email you a download link. It's possible I overlooked it somewhere though in the files.

https://www.mobygames.com/group/8634/emil-games-series/

I would love to complete the set and I am working to get full manual scans so I can upload all of this series to the IA.

#pcgames #videogames #games #retrogaming

wolfenstein 3d, print ad, snes (1994) https://archive.org/details/nintendo-magazine-system-au-13-april-1994/page/68/mode/2up?view=theater

Tomorrow when you rise and prepare for the day, sing! Sing songs of courage and glory. Sing at the top of your lungs and let the world know you are coming, and that it must prepare for you.

Big tech now arguing that the platforms they’ve built can’t be held accountable for e.g. racism, as racism has been around for all of human history. Well yes, you know what else has? Nipples. Interesting how easy those were to ban, but racism? “Content moderation is just *so* hard!”

Get the fuck out of here.

bflat: Small, self-contained C# executables https://github.com/bflattened/bflat

"bflat is a native compiler for C# that comes with everything you need to build C# apps for any of the supported platforms. No additional SDKs or NDKs needed"

With it, it's even possible to build C# applications to #Windows 3.1 (!?)

Author: Michal Strehovský - "I work remotely at the .NET Runtime team at Microsoft."

#DotNet #CSharp

Blast Slagbeef

Here is a fun animation that will help you to understand the relative rpms of the planets.

(via. https://www.tumblr.com/bandit-jay/698182172743434240/comparing-the-rotations-of-objects-in-the-solar?source=share)

MS-DOS machines are lonely and isolated?

Thanks to modern tools created decades after MS-DOS' obsolecense, you can connect your MS-DOS 6.22 machine to the modern internet - and the fediverse.

Please welcome #dostodon by @dec_hl!

https://fabulous.systems/posts/2023/08/connecting-ms-dos-to-the-internet-and-the-fediverse/

#dostodon #msdos #retrocomputing

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

@ja2ke @aaronsgiles

I haven't seen it, but this seems like a good time to point out that https://tomlehrersongs.com/ is still up, but no one knows for how long.

Oh dear god I've done it - all maps played and RAMP 2023 is in a state that I'm ready to call finished! Download it at https://ramp2023.teamouse.net/ . It is an 850MB Doom WAD. It has 296 maps in it. It is seriously, tremendously ridiculous. Thanks to all contributors for your amazing maps and assets!

i think this album is still good https://syniphas.bandcamp.com/album/the-space-adventures-of-general-mibi #bandcampfriday

starting in one hour!

tomorrow (friday, 4th)! we have bumped up our goal to another 100gbp and we will vanquish bowser in super mario world for once and for all! #fundraiser #protecttranskids https://tiltify.com/@mavica/mavica-plays-super-mario-world-for-mermaids