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Animating all ~~you can eat~~ sprites by cranking just one field in uniform. iGPU chews through 10k jumping things at full FPS while remaining responsible (i.e. not CPU-chocked) up into 100k.

(Dynamically updated tilemap chugging in the background.)

Public Service Announcement

Today it's only 15 years left until the end of the (signed) 32bit UNIX Epoch. It is likely that the first devices that will be in active use in 2038 are beginning development now.

The UNIX ecosystem is surely ready for larger than 32bit timestamps?

evil, deep laughter

@omgubuntu IDK about those aggregator sites, but I read you, here (and google), not them.
I can aggregate for myself thankyouverymuch.

This is fascinating! The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.

An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.

It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Atkinson was the Institute's founder - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Rober

Here's where you can read about the font and download it: brailleinstitute.org/freefont

#Accessibility

Via @tombofnull

@cab404 The world ends, but some of the data is then transferred to a new run, but may appear at different locations than before.

@reidrac@mastodon.sdf.org Some people have that with Nix (and, presumably, WINE).

@hecate package sets. Reproducibility is hard as it gets already to allow more of worksonmymachining in there.

GC is basically roguelike memory management 🤔

@nomeata I know... It just rubs me wrong way that a line marked by "pure" becomes a source of effects.

@nomeata Don't like how it makes `pure` a lie.

Would be nicer to readers if it would apply its magic only when wrapped in a something like `apply $ "call us at" <> (!ask)

@toychicken Maybe the people who write the email assistant will put the prompt into a mail header for, umm, debugging / QA purposes:

X-GPT-Prompt: tell them to fuck off, but politely

Happy birthday @Blender !

Today is Blender's birthday again. Happy birthday to this 29 years young program :)

The screenshot was made on my old SGI Indy, because Blender was initially made by @tonroosendaal on an SGI machine.

#b3d #Blender3D #birthday #celebration

As a maintainer of OpenSource libraries and packages, there is something that kept feeling off in the whole Software Supply Chain discourse. I think this comes down to something simple.

I am not a Supplier.
You can read more explanation there softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-

#opensource

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