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Posts by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #AJHd5aMQZvUOpNbDvM by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-05-09T18:00:45Z

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@misty In case you haven&#39;t seen it yet: https://duke4.net/duke-nukem-forever-2001-content-4chan-leak/

(DIR) Post #AJV1DZsx9ZmNcndU2q by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-05-16T03:34:21Z

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It&#39;s concerning learning that apparently not only has Unity Technologies— creators of the similarly named Game Engine— never made money, but they lose roughly 300 Million each year. A large chunk of the game dev industry, particularly indies, has hitched themselves and their back catalogues to a closed tech that chews through investor money, and it can&#39;t last forever. At some point, the deal will change, and it could have a lot of impact on those devs. A potential ticking bomb really.

(DIR) Post #AJV6Wf44cWmQxekxWa by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-05-16T06:01:51Z

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@nicemicro There is some concern that sentiment may sour against these tech companies that never seem to turn a profit, apparently Uber for example is caving to shareholder pressure to actually start making money: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/05/the-tech-sector-teardown-is-more-catharsis-than-crisis/

(DIR) Post #AJgpPY0z4AYpkHqv2m by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-05-21T21:29:27Z

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It&#39;s amusing to think of AC, Heatpumps, and Refrigerators as a dumb glitch in reality&#39;s physics engine that has been completely commodified. You can buy physics-defiance-in-a-box. Get fecked, thermodynamics.

(DIR) Post #AJgpkz2LnIK3dNiHBY by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-05-21T21:50:29Z

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@EdS I know it certainly doesn&#39;t actually break thermodynamics, but they feel &quot;against it&#39;s intent&quot; if that makes sense. Like a game developer looking at a playtest and going &quot;Wait that&#39;s not how that&#39;s supposed to work.&quot;

(DIR) Post #AJjp2xaiOIfpsnftOC by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-05-23T05:46:30Z

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Should libraries run search engines? It seems that the original point of a library was to organize human knowledge and culture for the public benefit. The benefit has been great, but libraries aren&#39;t the main tool for finding information now. Search engines are. The notion that a library needs to be for books only is an arbitrary limitation. This oversight allowed corporations to move into that traditionally non-profit role, and I&#39;m not convinced they&#39;ve done a particularly good job.

(DIR) Post #AJkX6rl6PiQUw3Cq8m by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-05-23T06:16:18Z

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@mttaggart That line was a rhetorical statement to encourage whoever may be reading not to mistake libraries as being about books, not an expression of my personal awareness of their services, other than that I have not seen one maintain a general internet search engine.

(DIR) Post #AJkX6sYNSVqFOsGBwe by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-05-23T06:48:28Z

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@mttaggart The &quot;every municipality&quot; type questions are the interesting ones to me. I feel like if you&#39;re pro this idea that you still want to find a practical balance for it. Roughly national-level is probably a sensible point, but hypothetically via key resource sharing such as common software (webserver, crawlers, etc) I could see it being not unreasonable to run some at even smaller levels, presumably to have a diversity in cataloguing/ranking philosophies.

(DIR) Post #AJkX6ttgSmTlZFEinI by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-05-23T06:56:11Z

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@mttaggart RE: state in the business of information. I feel like libraries already do that. As do public broadcasters. Besides, we already have very real examples of governments influencing what&#39;s in search engines without them funding it. Corporations gladly cooperate with the whims of corrupt governments.

(DIR) Post #AJkgJqpO5LVbOsTdD6 by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-05-23T18:23:35Z

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@publius Yeah this is another interesting space to my mind. Like, to me it would be reasonable for libraries to take the stance that they don&#39;t care to index the entire internet but rather maintain a curated selection they index. The internet is a pretty big place and so realistically they&#39;d only cover an incredibly tiny fraction of it but I feel like it&#39;d be possible, especially with some pooled efforts, to fill a job sort of adjacent to something like Google. Less flexible, but curated.

(DIR) Post #AK48GCHmFrWykMeZfc by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-06-02T03:36:11Z

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@atoponce So me days, I really hate i t ᵗᵒᵒ

(DIR) Post #AMPlYhwVoZhvHUQN84 by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-08-11T09:49:39Z

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@someodd The Internet Archive is a great blessing.

(DIR) Post #AMcAy7XqtGHALRKEDo by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-08-17T09:30:52Z

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@safiuddinkhan What&#39;s the nav mesh look like? It certainly looks like a text book case of &quot;agent is wider than the width used by the nav mesh&quot;.Honestly getting physically simulated agents to perfectly follow a navmesh path can be a real pain. In my current prototype I plan to try out an approach where the navmesh is actually the authority on the enemy collisions with the world, so any path can always be followed, perfectly and simply.

(DIR) Post #AMkTj2Cjc3j6TzHhNQ by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-08-21T09:38:46Z

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@safiuddinkhan Oh hey you figured out the getting caught on the pillars thing. What was up with that?

(DIR) Post #AMkVEJa59nYlJ3gV9M by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-08-21T09:55:37Z

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@safiuddinkhan Ahh yep. Tis the classic issue.

(DIR) Post #AMo2Pwl5iRzVxbrs2a by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-08-23T02:51:38Z

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@nicemicro I picked the common misconception answer, because that&#39;s always how I&#39;ve read it in my head, but your question itself did actually make me immediately realize it was wrong!

(DIR) Post #AP1BkjzWntPW1TsHgG by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-10-28T05:48:21Z

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@thrick Welcome! You&#39;re likely in a good place given that intro.Assuming you&#39;re new to mastodon generally, here&#39;s a tip: there&#39;s no algorithm here pushing content at you, so you gotta find people to follow on your own. Check out the local timeline, that&#39;s other fosstodon posters, and try to find people who seem interesting and follow them. Check who they follow. Maybe search a hashtag.It takes a wee bit to form the new habit, especially because the site isn&#39;t trying to condition you.

(DIR) Post #AP1nOyLQYSCwQTAHGS by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2022-10-28T13:53:32Z

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@danct12 @thrick Yeah probably don&#39;t do that. The raw stream of all posts across the federated social network is often not a good time. Like plugging yourself straight into the internet.

(DIR) Post #AT5p1JBHbVK5kxqheK by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2023-02-27T03:43:35Z

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A number of people have highlighted that we *say* no one can own the fediverse, but a few players have managed to pretty much take over Email.And I feel like there&#39;s a key realization buried in here: FOSS licenses are about the rights to use and share code, on some level the ActivityPub protocol itself is the important invention and not the code.It makes me imagine some new category of license for API designs that ensure fair play around a protocol. An interesting thing to consider.

(DIR) Post #AUORxutwKnFKiAzrtY by distractedmosfet@fosstodon.org
2023-04-07T01:32:10Z

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@misty I always felt this way about the (supposed?) algorithmic de-prioritization of tweets that link away from twitter; the Product Managers at Twitter presumably assumed that was bad for twitter, as it means diverting people off the app, but like... twitter sort of sucks if its literally *only* for seeing content that can be expressed as a tweet. Tweets aren&#39;t *that* good.