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Wuzzy

@Wuzzy@cyberplace.social

I'm a 🕹️ gamer, 💻 libre game dev, 🗨️ comic maker, ✊ freedom lover, 🐧 Parabola GNU/Linux-libre user and ♠️ aro-ace.

I make this:
🌳 Repixture <https://codeberg.org/Wuzzy/Repixture>
🕹️ Games+mods for Minetest <https://wiki.minetest.net/User:Wuzzy>
🗨️ Nose Ears <https://wuzzy.neocities.org>

I help with:
🌱 Minetest <https://minetest.net>
🦔 Hedgewars (co-dev) <https://hedgewars.org>
🔣 Translations
🌟 Other free software

Contact:
💬 XMPP: Wuzzy2@jabber.ccc.de
✉️ E-mail: Wuzzy@disroot.org

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Wuzzy, to science
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As long society accepts genital "surgeries" on babies so they conform to some bullshit norms, we cannot call ourselves enlightened.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/25/i-want-be-nature-made-me/medically-unnecessary-surgeries-intersex-children-us

"Two common goals of these cosmetic 'normalizing' surgeries on children’s genitals are to enable penetrative intercourse, and to help the child to and sexual norms"

It's based on , not .
It MUST be condemned like <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation>.

Wuzzy, to Meme
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wins .

@MissingThePt

Wuzzy, to exile
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is one of my favourite games in , even if it is still incomplete. It's all about survival in a strange land.

Here's a Let's Play:

https://tube.tchncs.de/my-library/video-playlists/9CJ7iZFK9zSkVbQ2YXJdPP

Wuzzy,
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Oh no! It turned out I accidentally left the playlist on private, so the link didn't work. It is public now, please try the link again. I apologize for the inconvenience. 🤷‍♂️

Wuzzy, to politics
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Friends do not let friends vote fashists into power.

Wuzzy, to Germany
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I don't need a judge to know the #AfD party in #Germany is a #fashist threat. This party upholds an ideology of "ethnopluralism" which is basically the #nazi race ideology for the modern era. Also, many of its members are also deeply hostile to the #LGBTQIA+.

What the politicians say in public is already bad, but journalists keep uncovering dirty secrets.

@Volksverpetzer keeps exposing their lies. (Use a machine translator of your choice to understand German.)

Wuzzy, to news
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🚨 BREAKING #NEWS! 🚨

A German court just decided the Federal Office for the Protection of the #Constitution (#Verfassungsschutz) can continue to classify the #AfD party as a "rechtsextremer Verdachtsfall" ("suspected case of #right-wing #extremism"). This is the 2nd-worst classification. The worst is "gesichert rechtsextrem" ("assured right-wing extremism").

The judge said "The smoke alarm of the constitution goes off.".

https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/muenster-urteil-verbot-afd

#Germany #fashism #politics

Wuzzy, to gamedev
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Testing TNT blast resistance in . Some blocks will resist explosions more than others.

Wuzzy, to privacy
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Well, shit. Apparently there's now a bot on Twitter that can tell the location based on a single photo with a precison of 20 miles.

In other words, deleting data is no longer enough. 😯

https://twitter.com/arithmoquine/status/1785834410312454389

Wuzzy, to Game
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3.15.1 is here!

Sign text will now finally be shown on the sign. Over 60,000 glyphs are supported. A new pole sign can stand on the ground, hang from the ceiling or a wall.

There's also a spyglass item, and moon phases have been added.

▶️ Release notes: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?p=435725#p435725
▶️ ContentDB page: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/repixture/

Wuzzy, to random
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Users completely underestimate how risky the use of storage is, which is very frustrating. But to be fair, the corporations don't really warn them.

I'm not saying storage can never be used, but if you have to use it, there are some rules:

▶️ Assume everything will be nuked tomorrow
▶️ Assume the state is watching your activity
▶️ It must not be your primary storage. You must have at least 1 full copy on devices you control
▶️ All files in cloud storage are basically public

Wuzzy, to Software
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: NEVER, I repeat, NEVER write your next 200,000 words novel in Google Docs. Otherwise you might get rugpulled.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs

It's not just Google, of course. When you trust your data to ANY service, you can get rugpulled at any moment without warning. Remember, they have the de-facto control over the data, and you don't.

Wuzzy,
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What I dislike about the Wired story is they focus too much about an AI having screwed up. That's not the real problem here.

The problem is the whole concept of cloud storage: The corporation has full control over your data.

Whether this decision was made by AI or a human doesn't matter at the end.

The solution is simple: Just store your data on your own devices. And make backups. And never trust corporations.

Yeah, the Wired story also failed to brutally mock her for failing to . 😈

Wuzzy, to gamedev
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Sideways signs.

Wuzzy, to gamedev
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This is my sign test wall where I've been testing Unicode rendering on the signs in , using various strings.

🟩 green = OK
🟨 yellow = Unsupported, but renders as U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (also OK)
🟥 red = FAIL

I think I should maybe call it a day.

Wuzzy, to random
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Just saw a "indie game dev" video claiming the main reason why most indie games fail is not lack of marketing, but because they suck. I feel personally attacked lol.

I guesss "git gud" applies to game devs, too. 😅

Wuzzy, to gamedev
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How should render (left) vs how it would render on signs (right) if I would re-enable it.

RTL support works, but that's not good enough. If I understand correctly, the glyphs also need to connect.

But then, even (the font I use) doesn't seem to have the neccessary glyph variants.

Wuzzy, to gamedev
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Turns out rendering is hard. No, you can't just implement the Algorithm and call it a day. It turns out the Arabic letters/symbols/? have different forms depending on where they are in the word and probably there are other non-trivial features. Yeah, I guess I just postpone this.

So my 1000 IQ workaround for now is to just render all arabic characters as U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER for now.

Wuzzy, to TikTok
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I think it's very telling the gov't added a way for TikTok/ to weasel out of the ban if they decide to sell. Yeah, as if!

But OK. Assuming their "plan" works and is sold. Now what?

Would they turn TikTok into a -respecting , fixing all the issues they like to complain about? Or would it just remain the same shitty app with the only difference being your data is collected by a different country?

I have a feeling it would be the latter …

Wuzzy, to gay
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Being is now legal in , thus abolishing an ancient rule from British colonialism.

https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/breaking-news-dominica-high-court-rules-punishment-of-homosexual-acts-as-unconstitutional/

Good. The state of gay people and + people in general must be condemned and ended worldwide. Only then can true be achieved. ✊

Of course, the law did not JUST target gay people. " acts" were illegal so people were not off the hook. almost always implies and other -phobias.

Wuzzy, to gamedev
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I managed to fix the annoying stretching of the signs.

Repixture screenshot showing serveral wooden wall signs with texts in different languages.

Wuzzy, to Software
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After the attack, I have a suggestion for all forges (, , , , etc.):
Have some way to visualize binary files better, including diffs to such files. Cuz now, we have basically nothing except byte counters.
Since they're binary files, it must be as generic as possible. But even some rendering or analysis is better than nothing.

The idea is to expose weird patterns in binary files that could be a sign of an attack.

Wuzzy,
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The XZ attack could have been caught BEFORE merging if the binary files would
have been rendered in some way. They had large sections of equal bytes which was very sus. Rendering every byte as a grayscale pixel has exposed very sus uniform gray sections alongside noise sections.

That's just one idea. A skilled attacker could still work around that. Ideally, multiple modes of rendering binary files (and diffs) would exist so it's harder to hide.

Wuzzy,
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But to be clear: I am under no illusion this will be a magic bullet solution to these types of attacks, nor will it "solve" security. Frankly, I'm not an security expert, I'm just thinking aloud here. 😅

But if there is one thing we should have all learned of the XZ attack is that binary files are sus. They are best avoided but if that's not possible, I believe making them less of a black box could help.

Wuzzy, to xfce
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Looks like the tool will soon have that awkward "Upload to " option dropped. Good riddance! I never understood features like this one, especially when it goes to a service.

https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/-/issues/115

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