julian

gamingonlinux, 23 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random

I want to do a test on how much traffic and resources the Mastodon embed takes on my server, so boost this plz

Edit: all done, you can stop sharing now lol

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-most-played-for-april-2024-has-plenty-of-fallout/

dansup, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Edit: As mentioned below, it appears to be a bug, not intentional!

Threads hiding @pixelfed mentions, not a good look Meta 🙄

mpesce, 1 day ago to random

Now it can be told:

While doing some AI engineering work for a client, I developed a prompt - completely inadvertently - that reduced every AI chatbot to gibberish (except Anthropic's Claude 3). I then spent a week trying to alert the LLM vendors to this issue - and largely failed. There is no mechanism to report flaws in these models that are already deployed to billions of users. Read the whole story in @theregister

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/ai_untested_unstable/

julian, 7 months ago to fediverse

For this weekend's coding project, I built a tiny single-user Bluesky→ActivityPub one-way bridge I named “Pinhole”. If there's someone on Bluesky whose posts you want in your Mastodon feed, you can download and run it yourself: :fietkau_software: https://fietkau.software/pinhole

Caveats: 1. I intentionally built it anti-scalable: you can use it to follow one Bluesky account from one fedi account, and that's it. 2. You need experience with web servers.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #MastoDev #Bluesky #atproto

julian, 3 months ago to fediverse

I made a thing and it's public now: @DailyRucks And the corresponding web page: https://dailyrucks.fietkau.software

If you like the game Bastion or you enjoy what you find on the account, consider following and/or boosting it! I'm curious how well it'll perform in the wild.

This is a fully homegrown standalone #ActivityPub implementation. 🙂 And hopefully a nice example for an ActivityPub learning project, as well as a stepping stone towards bigger things.

Blog post: :fietkau_blog: https://fietkau.blog/2024/daily_rucks

andypiper, 4 months ago to random

Added myself to https://fediverse.fans/ which might be another useful discovery mechanism for folks looking for interesting new people.

Dozer, 10 days ago to retrogaming

Several still frame grabs showing the source footage used for the rotoscoped character animation in the game "Karateka".

Developed by Jordan Mechner and published by Broderbund (1984).

#retrogaming
#videogames
#gamedev

julian, 9 months ago to random

PSA: I've been working on a small new web app to host an opt-in public list of #HCI researcher accounts on the fediverse. I got together with the https://hci.social team and set it up here: https://directory.hci.social

Please check it out and, if you do #HCI, #CSCW or anything along those lines, you're invited to add yourself! 😀 And to follow @directory_bot too.

It's the first public stress test and I kinda expect some breakage. Please contact me if anything doesn't work like it should!

julian, 4 months ago to Futurology

PSA for my #HCI #research colleagues returning back to work after the winter break: @mucConf, the biggest European HCI conference, has started a Mastodon account and will no doubt have plenty of interesting things to post over the course of the year. 🙂

They are also on https://directory.hci.social already. 👍 Remember to follow @directory_bot and enable notifications if you don't want to miss any new arrivals! 😀

#HCI #CSCW #conference #academia

julian, 29 days ago to fediverse

I recently saw someone complain that they missed several recent @itchio game bundles. And I thought, okay, building a notification bot for newly live bundles could be a cool little #ActivityPub side project.

Looking at https://itch.io/bundles I realized that it's (a) not sorted nor sortable by anything that makes sense, and (b) incomplete. The current big Palestine charity bundle isn't even on there.

Is there any way to get a list of all current itch.io bundles? Or a news feed of any kind?

julian, 4 months ago to UI

This is a fun video by Mark Brown @gmtk on difficulty in Mario games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkvyYTSKTQY

Saying that interaction designers should learn from game designers is hopefully less controversial now than it was a decade ago when I started saying it. 😏 But if you've ever puzzled over points like

• designing for people at different skill levels
• facilitating growth
• fostering motivation

and you don't know much about video games, try giving this a watch.

#HCI #InteractionDesign #UI #GameDesign

julian, 9 months ago to random

One week after launch, https://directory.hci.social has 116 entries from the following servers:

86× hci.social
6× mastodon.social
3× fediscience.org
2× mstdn.social
2× social.coop
And 17 other servers with one entry each (including my own).

It makes me happy seeing this new tool embraced by the #HCI community to this extent and noticing new connections made through it. 🙂

julian, 10 months ago to random

LB: Cory Doctorow @pluralistic saves me the trouble of having to write a follow-up blog post for my fediverse opinion piece by expressing what I think and more, better than I ever could have. Heavily recommended reading for anyone with opinions on social media. https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

julian, 5 months ago to retrogaming

One of my end-of-year traditions is an overnight stay at my younger brother's before heading on to mom's place for christmas. This year I got him an early present for his #RetroGaming setup: a RetroTINK-5X video #upscaler to replace his old SCART cables. Now he can upgrade his TV without losing the ability to play his games. 😀

I took a few before & after photos. Here's the device itself, a detail comparison from the Star Fox Adventures (GC) main menu, and a moment from Secret of Mana (#SNES).

A detail shot from the Star Fox Adventures main menu (Nintendo Gamecube) as seen through an old SCART cable. The pixels are soft and kind of washed out.
The same detail shot from the Star Fox Adventures main menu, seen through the upscaler this time. The pixels are clear and the aspect ratio is accurate.
A shot of Secret of Mana (SNES) gameplay. Three game characters are standing in a hallway. The pixels are sharp and clear, the colors are vibrant.

julian, 1 year ago to random

Fascinating presentations in the "Creativity Support" session #CHI2023! I see why Devendorf et al got an honorable mention for "AdaCAD: Parametric Design as a New Form of Notation for Complex Weaving", it's great how they brought together a number of different informal notations for textile weaving without becoming reductive. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581571

Bummed I gotta leave early to set up my poster...

julian, 1 year ago to random

Dear #CHI2023, please keep posting about your papers and upcoming presentations! If I see it I'll boost it, even if I can't catch everything in person. 📢

LeoSandbox, 5 months ago to gamedev

Who else remember this game? Did you finish it at the time? (I didn't)

#retrogame #gamedev #indiedev

video/mp4

julian, 9 months ago to gamedev

LB: I finally sat down and put together a detailed #GameDev howto for my old Worms landscape procedural generation demo. 😀 :fietkau_blog: https://fietkau.blog/2023/generating_terrain_simplex_noise

It was a ton of effort, so if you think it's interesting (or just cool), I'd appreciate it if you could share it with #GameDev or #IndieDev communities you may be part of. Thanks to @Christina for draft feedback and to @bamboy for the inspiration. 👍 Follow @blog if you want to be sure you won't miss any of my blog entries.

eniko, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

can someone count the number of unique bosses in SMW for me? minibosses count but a recurring boss with slightly different patterns is still just one boss (like boom boom in 3)

i'd do it but i have a headache and it feels hard

EDIT: looks like its 7, thanks!

julian, 1 year ago to random

Worth a visit in between sessions: "Iconic Machines", a display of computers (all working) and input devices spanning the history of the PC. Organized by Horst Oberquelle, my first HCI professor and mentor. 😊 Up the escalator in the foyer, then straight ahead. #CHI2023

brethudson, 4 hours ago to random

Looking for follow more folks doing cool stuff in the game dev space! Who do you suggest?

J12t, 8 hours ago to random

Imagine two identical #social #networks with mainstream users. Same number of users, same connectedness of the social graph, same demographics etc.

Social network A only has an algorithmic feed. Social network B only has a chronological people-I-follow feed.

What would the usage numbers look like in comparison? Numbers of posts, numbers of likes/replies/boosts, growth trajectory, etc?

I would expect somebody has done some research on this. Anybody know of any public results?

jwildeboer, 3 months ago to random

New blog post (unfinished) on spam and Mastodon, Activitypub at https://jan.wildeboer.net/2024/02/ActivityPubSpam/ - replies to this toot will show up as comment on the blog post. It's magic! This blog post resulted from this thread: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/111970226411427292

davelester, 4 months ago to random

What are the best ways to discover Mastodon accounts that I may want to follow? Remember #FollowFriday on the bird site?

Also: follow recommendations are welcome for all things open source software, developer communities, software supply chain security, and San Francisco!