The LD54 #gamejam is over!

We just *barely* made it, and got a working game out of it- plus made an entire three levels!

Playable at https://hjemme.computer

This link only has the first level, (the raspberry pi’s owner has gone home to sleep).

I’m excited to go play what everyone else made- but now I’m going to bed. Thanks for this one!

Our #ldjam page:

[https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/tiny-bites-big … ⌘ Read more

Of course we’re going to use the very well-known development framework Lightning Scrum for this #ldjam

Stand-up meetings every hour? What a great idea. This is going to go great. I see no problems. ⌘ Read more

https://dumpster.hashnode.dev/using-interfaces-in-go golang

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Sedona – Touch & Go
Los Angeles pop luminary Sedona extolls the virtues of the one-night stand in her dreamy, Caris Kuhn-directed new “ Touch & Go” video… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

going thru my own old drawings, exploring those distant worlds, like an archaeologist. tracing origins and evolutions #draw #art #trip #mind

** Updates from the end of summer **
Today was the last real day of summer for us. Tomorrow the kids go back to school.

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You know those last few weeks before the dark of autumn — the ones that hold the last bursts of summer? Those days where you try to squeeze in as many chill summer vibes as humanly possible?

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Pinellas County - Long run: 10.63 miles, 00:09:59 average pace, 01:46:03 duration
woke up a bit groggy, but definitely excited to go run. the temps were b/w 70F-73F with a dew point to match which is fabulous. such a great run and kept a conservative pace for it leaving me feeling strong at the end. wanted to keep going but i know i should ease back in to the longer distances
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@adi@twtxt.net I think it is, and one benefit they have is that you can add third-party repositories to the F-Droid app as you discover them. So, for instance, if you know of a developer who pushes builds to an F-Droid compatible repository, you can add that to your F-Droid app and start tracking updates like you would for any other app in there. Can’t do that with Google Play!

F-Droid tends to focus on open source applications that can be built in a reproducible way, which limits the inventory (though of course tends to mean the apps are safer and don’t spy on you). There are non-free apps in there as well but they come with warnings so you’re informed about what you might be sacrificing by using them.

That said if you have a favorite app you get through Google Play, there’s a decent chance it won’t be in F-Droid. Many “big corporate” apps aren’t, and vendor-specific apps tend not to be either. But for most of the major functions you might want, like email clients, calendar apps, weather apps, etc etc, there are very good substitutes now in F-Droid. You’re definitely making a trade-off though.

What I did was go through the apps I had installed on my last phone, found as many substitutes in F-Droid as I could, started using those instead to see how they worked, and bit by bit replaced as much as I could from Google Play with a comparable app from F-Droid. I still have a few apps (mostly vendor-specific things that don’t have substitutes) that come from Google Play but I’m aiming to be rid of those before I need to replace this phone.

@jmjl@tilde.green I’m sorry that I’m not super knowledgeable about alternatives to jmp.chat but I’ll tell you what I know.

You’re probably right about jmp.chat not working for you, at least as it is now. You can only get US and Canadian phone numbers through it last time I checked, so if you’re not in either of those countries you’d be making international calls all the time and people who wanted to call you would be making international calls too.

I’ve seen people talk about using SIP as an intermediary: you can bridge SIP-to-XMPP, and bridge SIP-to-PSTN (PSTN = “packet switched telephone network”, meaning normal telephone). You can skip the SIP-to-XMPP side if you’re comfortable using a SIP client. I don’t know very much about SIP or PSTN so I am not sure what to recommend, but perhaps this helps your search queries.

There are a fair number of services like TextNow that let you sign up for a real telephone number that you can then use via their app (I wouldn’t use TextNow–they had tons of spyware in their app). I don’t know if that kind of service works for you but if it does perhaps you’d be able to find one of them that isn’t horrible. This page (https://alternativeto.net/software/jmp-chat/) has a bunch of alternatives; I can’t vouch for any of them but maybe it’s a starting point if you want to go this route.

Good luck!

tilde club going to bed now, good night from tilde club.

New repository: aquilax/goligo - Goligo go with lisp syntax experiment

I think I’m like a battery and I have maybe a hundred units of energy every day and every time I go up and down the stairs here one unit is drained from me.

https://devhints.io/ cheatsheet bash grep go sed regexp lua and many others

Think I might not go into town centre again til the winter.

Go 1.121 Released
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Thanks to everyone for a fantastic #BornHack ✨

I’m baffled that every Bornhack keeps being better than the last.

This year I managed to put up a talk, two lightning talks, a gamejam and a few spontaneous meetups. All of it was a great success. So many smart people engaging in interesting ways.

And here’s to all of the new friends I made this year! I’m so glad I met you. 🤗

Now I go back to $dayjob. See you all next year! ⛺ ⌘ Read more

Snikket: State of Snikket 2023
This is our first blog post for quite a while, and the last few have all been technical updates of various kinds about the Snikket software. In fact it’s been almost two years since the last post that gave a general progress update on the Snikket project itself, so let’s fix that!

You’ll be pleased to hear that Snikket is very much alive, and although there hasn’t been much of a show to see here, a bunch of stuff has been going on backstage.

We plan to catch you up with our progres … ⌘ Read more

The #BornHack 2023 #gamejam is officially over!

What a success! 👾

Go to https://pyjam.as/gamejam to play the submissions. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I had a feeling my container was not running remotely. It was too crisp.

podman is definitely capable of it. I’ve never used those features though so I’d have to play around with it awhile to understand how it works and then maybe I’d have a better idea of whether it’s possible to get it to work with cas.run.

There’s a podman-specific way of allowing remote container execution that wouldn’t be too hard to support alongside docker if you wanted to go that route. Personally I don’t use docker–too fat, too corporate. podman is lightweight and does virtually everything I’d want to use docker to do.

Anyways, I’ve been putting off walking in to the forest again (and going to the cheaper hypermarché at the same time). Should probably get around to that before the hookening

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Test smarter not harder: harnessing table tests in Go
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Pinellas County - Long run: 10.70 miles, 00:11:36 average pace, 02:04:13 duration
had a lot going against me today (all self inflicted). got about 4h30m of sleep with too much to drink late in the evening. no hangover or anything, but probably didn’t help my rest nor hydration. also it was supposedly 80F with a feels like of 93F when i started and 89F with feels like of 111F when i finished. the legs felt heavy and didn’t have the energy to up the cadence and sustain it. it was definitely nice to get out but just one of those days.
#running

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The hottest 21 days ever recorded on Earth were the last 21 days.

There are climate scientists saying that this summer will be the coolest summer of the rest of our lives. It won’t get cooler.

They can say that with confidence because Earth’s energy imbalance–the difference between how much energy comes in versus how much is radiated back to space–has been positive since around 2010. Prior to that, the balance would shift negative sometimes, so Earth would radiate a bunch of energy back into space. Not anymore. Earth is an energy sponge now. And net positive incoming energy means temperatures go up.

Climate disaster has been here for awhile, but it’s kicking into high gear now. This will not change until we take drastic action.

Why Artemis III Is Going To The Lunar South Pole | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains… ⌘ Read more

I’ve only been using snac/the fediverse for a few days and already I’ve had to mute somebody. I know I come on strongly with my opinions sometimes and some people don’t like that, but this person had already started going ad hominem (in my reading of it), and was using what felt to me like sketchy tactics to distract from the point I was trying to make and to shut down conversation. They were doing similar things to other people in the thread so rather than wait for it to get bad for me I just muted them. People get so weirdly defensive so fast when you disagree with something they said online. Not sure I fully understand that.

@prologic@twtxt.net wow! The place to go for whiteboard tech is mills.io.

That stinks about Excalidraw. they’ve been saying that (working on adding collab/self hosting) for over a year.

Why dragonfruit plants go rogue, and how to tame it
Juicy dragonfruits have become a popular snack and garden plant, but beware — they can go rogue before you know it. ⌘ Read more

I’m playing around with snac2, which I think @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no mentioned on here, and I have to say it’s extremely easy to set up and it’s been pretty straightforward so far. I wanted to experiment with having a presence on the Fediverse without going through the process of picking Mastodon vs. Gnu Social vs. Friendica vs. …, and I wanted to self-host instead of picking an instance of one of those. For now I’m abucci@buc.ci, but no guarantees that will remain stable; I’m just testing for the time being.

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• 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi: long range, can go through walls, fast but not very fast
  
• 5.0 GHz Wi-Fi: much shorter range, cannot go very far through walls, quite fast
  
• Li-Fi: long range (?), cannot go through any walls, very very fast

woops about the rss feed

2023-07-13 00:40

heyyy sorry about all the duplicate posts you got in your rss feed. i had
changed my directory structure to organize my posts by year, instead of a single
flat directory of posts, and then published it.

after some time, i’ve decided that i enjoy the simplicity, programming-wise, of
just a single flat directory of posts, so i’ll probably be moving back to that.
when i go back to using a flat directory of posts, though, it’ll all be done
us … ⌘ Read more

Rewrite: a simple and powerful URL rewriter for Go
Rewrite is a Go package that lets you rewrite URL paths, subdomains or hosts based on regular expressions. It is inspired by Apache’s mod_rewrite module and can be used as a middleware for net/http. 1 points posted by iris-go ⌘ Read more

How to add basic authentication in Iris
Iris is a fast, simple yet fully featured and very efficient web framework for Go. It provides a beautifully expressive and easy to use foundation for your next website or API. One of the features that Iris offers the middleware/basicauth sub-package, which allows you to implement basic authentication for your web applications. 1 points posted by iris-go ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net hmm, I’d be up for thinking about that. At least at the protocol and design level–I’m afraid I can’t help much with Go programming.

[Go] How to work with dates in tests
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How to Use Iris and PostgreSQL for Web Development #web href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23database”>#database**

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If you are going to compare iPhone with android you can’t just throw out bargan bin android phones.. Should compare within the same price points like the Pixel, Galaxy, Pine, or OnePlus models.

New repository: aquilax/do - Tiny Go library for lexical scope wrapping

sqs-to-sns 1.5.4: utility written in Go to forward messages from AWS SQS Queues to AWS SNS Topics
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Heat Pump
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Heat Pump
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Let’s be clear here. Daniel Penny allegedly choked a black man, Jordan Neely, to death on a subway car. Neely was being loud, but he was not physically threatening anybody and did not have a weapon. In any other context, this would be called “murder”, at the very least, “manslaughter” if one were being gracious. Because of the US’s history, a white man murdering a black man in sight of the public is oftentimes, and rightfully, called a “lynching”. It has a public, political purpose amounting to terrorism.

Daniel Penny was allowed to go free for awhile after this event. He is only now facing accountability, having been recently indicted (arrested and charged with a crime) as he should have been day of. And here is racist right-wing toadie Ben Shapiro saying that Daniel Penny–the white alleged killer–is the one being lynched. Not the black man who was allegedly murdered by Penny in view of the public, and who is now dead. Penny himself, who is still very much alive.

@prologic@twtxt.net, I don’t know how you go on defending Ben Shapiro, but in the context of US society, what Shapiro is saying is reprehensible and unacceptable. He’s a right-wing troll with disgusting, not to mention flat out stupid, opinions.

hrxi: Windows support for Dino
Hello, I’m back!

It’s been four years since I participated in my first Google Summer of\
Code. I’m hrxi, a mathematics student from Germany. I got accepted
into this year’s Google Summer of Code program with the XMPP software\
foundation as the mentoring
organisation. I chose the extended\
timeline, so I am
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Social media trap
reddit going dark (a protest action by many subreddit moderators over some planned API changes) reminds me that I should probably stop scrolling through Reddit so much. Reddit is a social network, and as such it attracts you with new content almost every time you visit. Which can be addictive. I once had a profile that I deleted because I wanted to leave all social media. But I fell into the same trap again. ⌘ Read more

Australian wines are going through a ‘golden period’ — now there’s awards to prove it
Australian wines have been labelled ‘the best in the world’ after dominating a prestigious international wine awards, taking home more ‘Best in Show’ awards than any other country ⌘ Read more

Seems to me you could write a script that:

• Parses a StackOverflow question
  
• Runs it through an AI text generator
  
• Posts the output as a post on StackOverflow
  

and basically pollute the entire information ecosystem there in a matter of a few months? How long before some malicious actor does this? Maybe it’s being done already 🤷

What an asinine, short-sighted decision. An astonishing number of companies are actively reducing headcount because their executives believe they can use this newfangled AI stuff to replace people. But, like the dot com boom and subsequent bust, many of the companies going this direction are going to face serious problems when the hypefest dies down and the reality of what this tech can and can’t do sinks in.

We really, really need to stop trusting important stuff to corporations. They are not tooled to last.

Dear Stack Overflow, Inc.

Stack Overflow is being inundated with AI-generated garbage. A group of 480+ human moderators is going on strike, because:

Specifically, moderators are no longer allowed to remove AI-generated answers on the basis of being AI-generated, outside of exceedingly narrow circumstances. This results in effectively permitting nearly all AI-generated answers to be freely posted, regardless of established community consensus on such content.

In turn, this allows incorrect information (colloquially referred to as “hallucinations”) and plagiarism to proliferate unchecked on the platform. This destroys trust in the platform, as Stack Overflow, Inc. has previously noted.

It looks like StackOverflow Inc. is saying one thing to the public, and a very different thing to its moderators.