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Mastodon 2.6 will introduce a new privacy setting, better suited for your most important toots.

😬 U+1F62C FACE WITH USB TYPE-C CONNECTOR

Piaille.fr devient une association

https://piaille.fr/blog/%f0%9f%8e%89-piaille-devient-une-association-%f0%9f%8e%89/

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/download.lst

# three static lines
# so that git cherry-pick
# will not run into conflicts

A couple free & open-source Engines and game frameworks you can use today as alternatives. Feel free to comment with more.

Godot - https://godotengine.org
MonoGame - https://www.monogame.net/
FNA - https://fna-xna.github.io/
SDL - https://www.libsdl.org/
SFML - https://www.sfml-dev.org/
Adventure Studio - https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
bgfx - https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
armory3d - https://armory3d.org/
ogre3d - https://www.ogre3d.org/
Renpy - https://www.renpy.org/

#gamedev

It's not fair to spend years of your life making something just to get fucked by greedy corporate assholes who don't give a shit about indie games.

If you're starting a new project you should think very carefully about any closed source or proprietary software you use because all of them can pull stuff like Unity is doing at any time.

If you're switching to Firefox this week, I collected a list of the team's favourite hidden features back when I worked there:

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/10/25/navigational-instruments/

For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that track your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.

they nerfed cis people

FYI, when a website erases your text that you just spent an hour writing, you can use this little trick to recover it 99% of the time:

1. find the firefox pid

$ pgrep -l firefox

2. attach gdb to firefox and dump its core

$ sudo gdb <pid>
gcore firefox.dump
<this takes awhile>
quit
<firefox dies>

3. find your lost text in the coredump

$ strings firefox.dump | grep "a unique word/sentence from ur text"

i just did this today to recover a long post i wrote, and figured i'd show others!!

Me: Ooh, a Mastodon notification! Someone wants to talk or has included me in something social.

Brain: Prepare the dopamine hit!

Mastodon: A poll you voted in has ended.

Brain: Cancel the dopamine, false alarm! Abort! Abort! Abort!

Me: no..No..NOOOOOO!

If this sounds too cliche for you, I have great news:

This is the actual bio for Palmer Luckey, the Oculus Rift founder who was acquired and fired by zuckerberg, and now leads defence contractor Arundil, the NixOS conference sponsor everyone is mad about.

Guys I have a great comic book idea:

Talented, optimistic engineer develops bright new tech, before being exploited by megacorp. In the heat of his betrayal, heel-turns to a mad scientist, instead developing autonomous killer drones and a VR video game system that kills its losers by blowing their heads up with explosives.