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zanagb

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An artist that likes to draw things, photograph stuff, and loves bunnies a fair bunch. Also an internet bunny that has no clue what they're doing.

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zanagb, to photography
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Just some more clouds, of the fancy kind.

Shot on an OM-5 w/ 40-150 F/2.8

#photography #digitalphotography #microfourthirds #skyphotography #cloudphotography
#OM5

mcc, to random
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Tomorrow (Sunday the 26th) at 2 PM ET (11 AM PT) I am going to be streaming on Twitch the beginning of "Animal Well", a game that I know nothing about but everyone says is super cool and full of secrets. Watch at: https://www.twitch.tv/mcc111

(I usually try to announce streams on Friday if they're gonna happen but this time I didn't. Sorry. This may be a short stream anyway.)

zanagb,
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@mcc hidden bnuyys

nixCraft, to random
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Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.

zanagb,
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@nixCraft Well, this poses a hard question. If you don't want to use or help the AI industrial complex, you got nowhere to look specific ways to implement X, and nowhere to ask why Y is happening. You are basically SOL. Memorizing the entire documentation for a language may not even help figuring why doing A causes B to happen.

So I guess we've got to pour one for all the novice and future programmers who have just been shafted hard.

aeva, to random
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A friend pointed out to me that there's a community-made n64 SDK targeting PC (as in, using the APIs defined by the original n64 SDK, but you use it to write games that run on PCs).

I wonder how legally watertight it is 🤔 might be fun to make a game with it.

https://github.com/Kenix3/libultraship/

zanagb,
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@aeva You have libdragon: https://github.com/DragonMinded/libdragon.

I'd go for a complete FOSS SDK for the N64 than doing a white-room engineered version of the tainted IRIX SDK leaked years back. Sure it won't be 1:1 with the original, but it's one of these things that can be improved by virtue of having 30 more years of experience building devkits.

zanagb,
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@aeva You'd be basically using IRISGL if you wanted to write microcode for the N64, so close enough.

aeva, (edited ) to random
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do you have a favorite kind of plastic?

zanagb,
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@aeva that probably says something very worrying about pancakes

zanagb,
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@aeva Oh, that's a lot more benign than anticipated!

( also clearly i'm a giant doofus. a quick search reveals that PLA literally stands for Polylactic Acid. it's in the name lol )

aeva, to NixOS
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huuuuuh does linux still require feeble boot passwords typed with meat hands for full disk encryption, or can I use my laptop's secure boot TPM thing somehow? What's the state of the art for hiding your porn^H^H^H^H proprietary trade secrets on ?

zanagb,
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@aeva Speaking from ignorance. While contrived, wouldn't unattended decryption of your boot volume make you vulnerable to the single-user/root shell grub flags? At that stage anyone could mount /home and steal anything.

Sure it'll not work for those outright stealing your storage, but if they got the machine the data is wide open for the taking ( unless you already have other layer of encryption on top, of say, /home, requiring a FIDO key... But isn't it kinda redundant at that point? )

zanagb, to random
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I gotta give my 2ct's to the worst take i've heard yet regarding

I don't have the time & energy to devote to contribute to projects, but another thing i don't have is money to rent a VPS for hosting solely a mailserver to submit documentation updates. The way discourse's turning into "only consider people w/ their own privately owned mailserver/VCS/every other bit of infra" is many things, and all of them bad. It does not address safety and destroys many would-be contributors off the gate.

zanagb,
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@ncrav The only real way to avoid this is to review our build systems, and most importantly... mandate hard-forks over maintainer changes. The OG author can then choose to implement any worthwhile changes, or keep the project as-is if sufficiently burnt. no amount of ID (through infra, or state-provided [which'd be mainly used to harass & keep queer folks and PoC away of FOSS]) would stop sufficiently determined bad actors from operating.

But alas, Open Source is quite Closed Minded some times.

aeva, to random
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Paying maintainers who accept monetary donations is a good start, but the real critical thing people need to do is stop abusing maintainers. Stop abusing random people on the internet in general. Seriously.

I know we've all got capitalism brain worms, but sometimes the only thing that is accomplished by throwing money at a project is creating a customer entitlement dynamic that pointlessly increases the stress placed on volunteers.

Ask maintainers what kind of support they need.

zanagb,
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@aeva Tangerine? The music server? Have not used it in years, but it was a fun project to play with. At any rate, good luck!

mcc, (edited ) to random
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Homebrew and Macports users read this now.

https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@SteveBellovin/112180311536275381

This is about the xz supply chain attack I boosted earlier. (The oss-security post [EDIT: that's https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4] is clear, informative and horrifying; you should read it. The entire open source ecosystem is funded on trusting that something like this would never happen.)

EDIT: Correction. Homebrew believes they're immune https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/5243#discussioncomment-8954951 But recommends removing the "untrustworthy" version anyway to be safe.

zanagb, (edited )
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@mcc oh fuck, not on macOS too. Time to check if there's any hard-dependencies on that package.

zanagb,
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@mcc Well, still applied the downgrade down to 5.4.x through brew anyways. Definitely checking if i have a hard-dependecy on xz on this mac just to be extra safe

EDIT: To answer your question directly, yeah i can see the edit to the post. Just in case you need confirmation that edits are working in your end

bitinn, to random
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What US considers to be Chinese threats: hopeful graduates spending millions to go to Ivy League schools, spend years to get admitted into top labs, then throw out everything to serve their motherland.

Actual Chinese threats: obscure underfunded open source project finally getting a stable committer, no one had seen him in person, nor could anyone find his email anywhere on the internet, but his PRs read rather well.

zanagb,
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@bitinn I am willing to say the name of the malign author is a red herring and an attempt at misdirection

airwhale, to affinity
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On the topic of #Affinity and #Canva, there is a new statement out today. Registered users probably got the email as well.

For now, I suggest we extend the Affinity team our continued support and love, while holding them to their pledge. They have done right by the graphics community this far, and deserve the benefit of doubt. We'll be watching them closely.

I would have been more at ease if it was Affinity buying Canva though 🙂

Full text here:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/press/newsroom/affinity-and-canva-pledge/

zanagb,
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@airwhale remember how in September 16, 2022, they said nobody would be buying out affinity?

Now, let's take note of how they are saying they will keep honouring lifetime licenses and keep offering them... And start a 18 month timer.

zanagb,
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@airwhale For me, I must be extra cynical about the situation. Specially when they made v2 specifically as an UWP app with the express purpose of breaking Wine users.

For the last few updates, everything bad that could've happened, has happened.

But yes. The future will tell. Trust is eroded to the point I won't use or recommend the software. But for current users I hope I have to eat my own words.

mcc, to random
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Hey Linux people. Do you like LXC. Like just if you know what it is, do you like it

zanagb,
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@mcc love it when it works. But trying to set it up outside of something friendly like proxmox? Heck no

mcc, to random
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An overview of Minecraft ports for the TI-83 graphing calculator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwtGUDGilX4

Confession: I didn't watch this video, because I don't care, but thought I'd post it here in case it is of interest to you

zanagb,
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@mcc James is a treasure. Even if I couldn't care for MC. His enthusiasm is enough

mcc, to random
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Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

zanagb, (edited )
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@mcc Happy birthday! As for striking colours... It'll have to go for September storm clouds in the late evening. They always give some of the best, most striking colors i've encountered. Only followed by those clouds you'd find on May when the sun's just set. ( but that'd just be reposting my banner photograph so that'd be cheating )

mcc, to random
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As a certified Cranky About Software person: Affinity Photo and Designer are fine. They're just totally fine. They do what it says on the box. Some of the controls aren't where I would have put them and on rare occasions I accidentally press some button that hides my toolbars. Whatever. It's fine. Normal problems at worst. I never worry they're secretly uploading my files to power NFT farms.

I'm still on 1.0 but maybe I'll use this opportunity to upgrade to 2.0.

https://mastodon.social/@Brilliantcrank/112055357914511817

zanagb,
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@mcc they may just be alright. But killing all of WINE support in the name of compatibility with w10/11 is just a joke. When asked about it they insist they will never support Linux.

The lesser of two evils I guess.

n3wjack, (edited ) to random
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This has probably been done before, but I'm still curious how the OS spread is on the fedi.

What are you running on your main* personal desktop/laptop?

Boost for reach please! 😍

  • The machine you use the most. 😉
zanagb,
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@n3wjack having macOS be separated from the BSD's and *NIX boxes, damn!

geerlingguy, to random
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Apparently this thing only goes up to the year-that-shall-not-be-named, then resets to 1999

zanagb,
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@geerlingguy The year of everyone's favorite sliding puzzle game. 2038

eniko, (edited ) to random
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Making a commercially successful game

Expectation: 50% making a good game, 50% marketing

Reality: 10% making a good game, 90% marketing

And before anyone protests, I would like to point out Super Bernie World is my most successful game, but definitely nowhere near my best game. Being memetic isn't about inherent quality, that's marketing

zanagb,
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@eniko and yet, somehow, the fact it's a politics meme game for some other country I don't even live in means I legit can't get the steam version of your other game. For Kitsune Zero has a strict dependency on the meme game I got no intent on having or playing.

So it may have been successful but wonder how many people bought it just to access KZ, or all the people who ignored it because... The obvious.

zanagb,
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@eniko

It's not very conceptually hard to understand.

I can't, because in order to play conveniently (w/o dealing with the endless sea of charityware that my itch account has become) I have to add some meme game about a politician that's not from either of our countries, have it permanently take a slot on my library in order to access KZ, and be the thing that appears on the "now playing" status when all i want is the completely unrelated game.

This could've been made a separate entry.

zanagb, to random
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Here's a project i was trying to do way back when. Never finished. I just posted the internal mix i made instead to YT.

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