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kenney ,
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I love older consoles and a while ago I made Wizards & Dinosaurs for Atari 2600 and Oopi's Quest for Nintendo NES. Both are free, can be played in the browser or on their respective console; https://kenney.nl/games

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kenney OP ,
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@thomastospace @homecomputermuseum Unfortunately I never flashed them to actual cartridges

wademcgillis ,
@wademcgillis@mastodon.social avatar

@kenney lol

bytor ,
@bytor@mastodon.xyz avatar

@TechConnectify in your dishwasher and detergent pods yay or nay, did you ever talk about hard water? Off the top of my head I don't think you did, but I haven't gone and rewatched them either. I just wanted to note that most powders don't have citric acid or anything in them like that that can be used to fight hard water residue the way most detergent pods do.

TechConnectify ,
@TechConnectify@mas.to avatar

@bytor And for the record, I did talk about water hardness but only in regards to how much detergent you should use. In the second video I talked about the components in detergents, and even cheap powder has softening agents.

And BTW, vinegar works OK but you'll probably have a less fussy and more effective clean with a bottle of dishwasher cleaner. In my experience they're like magic.

bytor OP ,
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@TechConnectify @TechConnectify I tested varying amounts of powder in the dispenser and ruled that out the first thing. It is distinctly different from hard water buildup. I hear Chicagoland is around 8 grains per gallon. In my city in Southern Ontario it's 14, so hard water crusties slowly reducing pressure is the only thing I have not been able to rule out.

ntnsndr ,
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Posting today from the Network Nations gathering at , exploring together possibilities for self-governing communities...

ntnsndr OP ,
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Here is Lou de Kerhuelvez on the Network Nations group's critique of Balaji's Network State.

ntnsndr OP ,
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Three principles for Network Nations

SUPERSIDIARITY
a bias for bottom up organizing

INTERDEPENDENCE/ENTANGLEMENT
a commitment to voice over exit

COSMOLOCALISM
as opposed to globalization—globalize the light things, localize the heavy things

leah ,
@leah@chaos.social avatar

The amount of FediFetcher instances scraping chaos.social is alarming. They all come from different Azure IPs because it's the recommended way to run it. Github reports: 1.361 deployments. We also see massive scraping from the TOR Network and scraping of RSS Feeds from SerendeputyBot. That sucks!

trwnh ,
@trwnh@mastodon.social avatar

@dumpsterqueer @heluecht @leah funny thing is that replies collection actually isn't part of activitypub. it's part of activitystreams instead. there are no side effects for receiving a Create of an object with inReplyTo set. https://w3id.org/fep/7458 is a FEP that is relevant here, describing actually using the replies collection. combine with https://w3id.org/fep/0391 for special collection proofs (stamps).

trwnh ,
@trwnh@mastodon.social avatar

@dumpsterqueer @heluecht @leah and hey, while we're looking at properties from activitystreams, i'd perennially point toward context and https://w3id.org/fep/7888 as a "parallel path" to fep-7458. instead of recursing through replies collections, we could have a singular context collection which represents the moderated conversation as a flat list. this allows inReplyTo as simply metadata.

jonny ,
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Huh its been really vindicating recently to be a lifelong pirate as a new wave of intellectual property violence washes over the world

jonny OP ,
@jonny@neuromatch.social avatar

Almost like its not just stealing movies but a belief system centered on mutual empowerment and making sure we're all still a little free

jonny OP ,
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If anyone thought for one second that the property owning class was being "contradictory" in how they flopped from "stealing is illegal" to "stealing is how we make humanity immortal in a cryogenic goo uploaded to the cloud," thats because you dont talk to enough pirates!

johnonolan ,
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I'm a lot more excited about ActivityPub than I am about AI atm. Both are cool, but very different energy.

What's most interesting to me about ActivityPub (at least right now) is less the specific technology, and more the people who it's bringing together.

ActivityPub, the idea, is a little campfire attracting a fascinating band of misfits to gather around it.

erlend ,
@erlend@writing.exchange avatar

@johnonolan please just bury me in a web-of-2005 time capsule 🥺

johnonolan OP ,
@johnonolan@mastodon.xyz avatar

@erlend omg same

kenney ,
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Would you like to work in this space? ✨ Created in MakeRoom, wishlist + play the demo; https://store.steampowered.com/app/2212670/MakeRoom/

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rubenwardy ,
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@kenney

Very nice! Feels like a condensed version of one of the nice aspects of The Sims, making your own spaces

Ever been tempted to make a full life sim? 😅

kenney OP ,
@kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@rubenwardy Oh absolutely, many - many times

notjustbikes ,
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I was catching up on some older Scientific American articles and came across this one from March.

It's an article about the problems caused by car dependency, and it hits all of the important parts of a solution (zoning, regulation exceptions for SUVs, free parking, etc).

There are no surprises to anyone who has been orange-pilled, but it's still nice to see this kind of article in the more mainstream press.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/changing-car-culture-can-benefit-our-health-and-our-planet/

nyancatflies ,
@nyancatflies@alive.bar avatar

@notjustbikes Is it true that most urbanists have better knowledge of cars than average regular drivers? There are so many things people are missing when they are driving, which makes me feel weird.
Your wonderful SUV-bashing video pushed me into a weird rabbit hole about what kinds of cars are in the streets and which kinds of driver behaviour are bad. Turns out there are so many mad people on the road that I was not previously aware of, some of them leaving signs in their cars that can be seen when the car is parked.
For example, I have seen more than one car with stickers on the rear windshield, or something is behind the rear windshield, mostly plushies. This indicates the driver is not using the rear view mirror. Outrageous.

Apfel ,

@notjustbikes I haven't accessed the links on that page to answer my questions, but feel free to do so.

Be careful with the multi mooners, though. Oftentimes, they are maniacs.

https://ieji.de/@Apfel/112191944879879388

One can usually find bs on their main page, e. g.:
'Superheavy Elements Are Breaking the Periodic Table'
'These Gray Whales Are Shrinking and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why'

youronlyone ,
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re: fediverse:creator “OpenGraph” tag.

What is the prefix='' namespace for fediverse:?

I checked the official website of (see: https://ogp.me) and I don't see the fediverse: namespace anywhere. Which means this fediverse: namespace is not an OpenGraph tag and will more likely not work without a proper prefix namespace, correct?

So, what am I missing here? People are already adding it. O_O

Update: Relevant thread/discussion about this fediverse: namespace.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/30398

(Hat tip to @cadusilva )

evan ,
@evan@cosocial.ca avatar

@youronlyone I've never seen this. Could you link to where you found out about it?

mikedev ,
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As I mentioned elsewhere, there is a case for providing json-ld metadata - which is already in use and has been blessed by Google (not that I care) and dumping both OpenGraph and X/Cards in favour of open standards over proprietary and non-extensible solutions. The Alphabet currently only blesses @context values using schema.org, but this is where the fediverse can assert a standard context that works for us and just start using it. And it's already defined!.

TheConversationUS ,
@TheConversationUS@newsie.social avatar

LBJ knew when to call it quits.

RBG did not.

And for you sports fans, Jason Kelce knew when to retire, too, bowing out after a Super Bowl win.
https://theconversation.com/knowing-when-to-call-it-quits-takes-courage-and-confidence-3-case-studies-233602

TheConversationUS OP ,
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JamesGleick ,
@JamesGleick@zirk.us avatar

@TheConversationUS Thanks for that. At least that time (which I lived through) the withdrawal came early enough for a real primary campaign. This time would be worse.

smallcircles ,
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

Hmm, interesting.

IDE is out of beta, and is a vendor-neutral truly open-source alternative to .

https://theia-ide.org/#theiaide

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40825146

smallcircles OP ,
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

@kien yes, I am familiar with that article.

Good thing is that Theia is not a fork of VSCode in the same way that VSCodium is. It is its own IDE from the ground up, but reusing some (OSS) parts from VSCode. While they implemented the VSCode extension API they also implemented their own extension mechanism and aren't dependent on MS marketplace.

I dunno if Theia is good alternative for all uses, esp. if one is programming for .NET it may not be. I think I'll give it a try.

kien ,
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@smallcircles Yup agree with that. Open VSX is a nice solution and I'd love to see it gain traction. I might give it another try too. Used to use Theia a few years ago as an online/remote ide which worked fine but then I stopped when vscode had remote development.

kenney ,
@kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

I received a report that PlayStation declines this icon when submitting games for approval, due to the use of the wrong type of 'N'. The pack has been updated, sorry if this caused any inconvenience 🙇‍♂️

https://kenney.nl/assets/input-prompts

mondanzo ,
@mondanzo@uwuwatch.club avatar

@kenney that's such a strange specification

shram86 ,
@shram86@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@kenney Someone in cert is bored as hell.

qag ,
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Not long ago, this street in Valencia was—say it with me—“choked full of cars.” Now it’s…anyone? Anyone…? “Pedestrianized.” It’s pedestrianized.

Exactas street except now it’s pedestrianized and full of people. Photo taken by me yesterday.

smallcircles ,
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

@simonzerafa @qag

Is it manipulated? Or is one a lo-res snapshot from Google Maps, and the other a real photograph?

qag OP ,
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@smallcircles @simonzerafa It’s a low bar, but I like to think I take better pictures than the Google car.

erikh ,
@erikh@mastodon.online avatar

@notjustbikes
Seen this guy trying to take a walk to the Parc in the USA?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/rt6QsuIbmh

erikh OP ,
@erikh@mastodon.online avatar

@notjustbikes

OK, clear. I'm a newbie and do enjoy people talking about it.
Is there a lack of quality, because can't see why people talking about this on social media would be considered a bad thing.

Will not notify you anymore.. 😁

notjustbikes ,
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com avatar

@erikh I'm happy to see more content, I'm just totally sick of hearing about the US.

Techmeme ,
@Techmeme@techhub.social avatar

Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/threads-finally-launches-its-api-for-developers/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p8#a240618p8

liaizon ,
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@erlend @Techmeme @tchambers was trying to see if there are any client apps that have started playing with this API yet. I wonder if you can see any of the ActivityPub work from the API yet

wjmaggos ,
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@erlend @Techmeme @tchambers @anildash @nilaypatel

that's on the roadmap for later this year, right?

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