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n3wjack

@n3wjack@mastodon.social

hardcore electronic music loving/producing geek software developing scuba diver :: knows how to :quit vim
tries to boost the fun stuff on the fedi

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n3wjack, to random Dutch
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Why do people here take so much about other social networks I wonder.
Be careful with that. You don't want to piss off John. 😬

n3wjack, to random Dutch
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That was an easy one. 😏

Framed
🎥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛

https://framed.wtf

stux, to gamedev
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I added the pirate to a little different environment with some other skills, weapons and tanks :blobcatgamer:

Just messing around..

Pirate with sword and guns shooting on dummies and tanks shooting on tanks **no pixels where hurt during recording

n3wjack,
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@stux I liked the idea of the Flying Dutchman being a flying pirate. 😁
But that's not enough to turn they into a game innit?

thomasfuchs, to random
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I'm gonna go on a Mastodon break for a while*.

Probably (shit)posting instead on BlueSky. I hope to see many of you there, eventually!

*not sure how long… A day? A week? A month? brain feels overwhelmed

n3wjack,
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@thomasfuchs nope, not falling for that trap again.

senj, to random
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ok bluesky is kind of lit rn Matt Yglesias joined for some dumbass reason and there’s no functioning block right now so you can REALLY hurt his feelings

n3wjack,
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@senj no block feature? Have they learned nothing? Nobody with any kind of fame should join that monstrosity then.

chucker, to random
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Please tell me this can be turned off somehow? I have, like, twenty-five years of muscle memory of ’s sections being a horizontal bar at the bottom. Now they’re a vertical bar at the top, which requires more space and doesn’t do anything useful.

(In the Windows version, there’s a hidden registry key… for now. But what about the Mac version?)

Also didn’t ask for that world button. (No, I’m not going to use Outlook for my personal stuff.)

n3wjack,
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@chucker on Windows it's an option in your settings, but it's not obvious which one it is, really. No registry hacking required.

Devourer_ITA, to random

If I click on your download link and it's a GitHub I am not downloading it lol

That site is utterly incomprehensible to me lmao, I never find how to install something and I don't know what "building" is

Please give me an exe or uwp instead, just a once click thing

n3wjack,
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@dogo @thomasfuchs @Devourer_ITA I was just about to mention the releases indeed. It's a handy way to offer downloadable exes and archives. As a dev it's great because you don't have to figure out where you can host the binaries.

n3wjack,
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@theastropath @thomasfuchs @Devourer_ITA I just tend to link to them from the readme. 😁

Edent, to programming
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🆕 blog! “Why aren't there more visual programming languages? (An ode to DRAKON)”

I think the computer programming industry is about to reach a reckoning. No, not because ChatGPT can poorly plagiarise buggy code - but because a whole generation of kids have grown up with Scratch. And they'll want professional tools which have Scratch's level of usa…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/why-arent-there-more-visual-programming-languages-an-ode-to-drakon/
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n3wjack,
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@Edent we'll see. It's not like there haven't been attempts. But it's always so much handier to edit code as a text file, instead of clicking around in some visual editor.
Same goes for reading code imo.

n3wjack,
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@Edent maybe. I always found the visual things hard to read, because a few lines of code end up being a bunch of blocks with lines in between and quickly spawn over multiple screens when the code gets bigger and more complex.
I'm thinking things like SQL server SSIS and Selligent workflows.
The stuff of nightmares.

n3wjack,
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@Edent you know what's also great about simple text files? There are so many tools that allow you to manipulate them so easily. Searching with grep, editing with powerful editors like Vim, you can index them for search, you can generate them with shell scripts.

So unless those visual tools end up producing text files, I don't think it's ever going to take off.

hadez, to random
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James Bond vibes today, visiting Hạ Long Bay :awesome:

n3wjack,
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@hadez how is the weather? I read it's extremely hot in Asia now.

lritter, to random
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bluesky but as a polish family name

n3wjack,
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@lritter lets pronounce it like that from now on

hughster, to internet
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Too many people are focusing on (prevention of takeover) as the most important thing about Mastodon. Here's why I think that's wrong: even a decentralised network can be a "freeze peach" cesspit of hatred, just like Twitter and other libertarian techbro social networks, if it chooses to be. The most important thing about Mastodon is that it chooses not to be.
https://nileane.fr/@nileane/110259080083016754

n3wjack,
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@hughster how does that labeling work? Algo's or moderators?

n3wjack,
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@hughster so...

video/mp4

ericajoy, to random
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bluesky already feels more “natural” than mastodon. it’s reminding me a lot of linux vs. macos, where mastodon is linux (full of features but janky and requires effort to use) and bluesky is macos (less feature rich but smooth and easy to use). i can see bluesky’s DAUs eventually surpassing mastodon’s based on that alone.

n3wjack,
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@ericajoy sounds like it's going to include lock-in as well, just like macos 😉

etherdiver, to random
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Dog brought me a little gift from the yard...

n3wjack,
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@etherdiver no more techno tunes from this one I guess

whiskeysailor, to random

The two Jeff Daniels, chose your fighter!

Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi, a worm that kills tarantius spiders

n3wjack,
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@whiskeysailor will have to fight spiders, or each other?

thomasfuchs, to random
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I find the whole instances-based approach slightly suspect for social networks. Most people have more than one interest or group of friends.

A portable account that can be a member of multiple instances would be nice, maybe. (No idea how the details would work in practice.)

n3wjack,
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@thomasfuchs yeah, that's why I picked the more general server because I couldn't commit to a single niche. Smaller servers are also more at risk of shutting down if the admin gets sick of it oslt.

GossiTheDog, to random
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    n3wjack,
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    @GossiTheDog no gifs?

    video/mp4

    tomasteck, to random

    whoa this website :flonshed:

    https://ita.toys

    n3wjack,
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    @tomasteck very geocities/myspace 😁

    bazeblackwood, to random

    First time I've heard of "no-input": this techno jam was created with only two mixers (no synths, at least nothing designed as such!)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRueiWaQNKg

    n3wjack,
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    @bazeblackwood so the mixers are buzzing oslt and that's where the sound comes from?

    ICooper, to random
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    Well it worked. Congratulations to the folks involved.

    n3wjack,
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    @ICooper Does it start beeping oslt when you get that message? I read that somewhere.

    n3wjack,
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    @LDJ @ICooper is that baked into the OS, or do you need to install an app for that?

    esther, to random

    How is the local timeline on a server like mastodon.social even usable? It must be incredibly noisy. Not to mention the federated timeline even.

    I spend quite a lot of time on the local and federated timelines on our small server and they both have a lot of interesting stuff going on. Of course federated is a bit random but not to a degree that makes it unpleasant.

    Local feels like the little cafe at the corner where the usuals hang out. It’s neat.

    n3wjack,
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    @esther I never look at it tmh

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