Notices by Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe), page 20

Teascade ☕❤ (teascade@social.targaryen.house)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2017 23:53:03 EST Teascade ☕❤

Yeah sex is cool but have you ever tried a functional programming language?

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2017 08:31:08 EST Neon
in reply to
- Antanicus
@Antanicus "Apple"

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2017 08:29:47 EST Neon
- Sylvhem
@Sylvhem Morning! You seem to wake up very frequently at the same time I do, based on these morning posts. Spooky. :thinkingfelix:

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Kindly (kindlyfire@maly.io)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2017 08:22:48 EST Kindly

Lol https://github.com/philipl/pifs
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1. philipl/pifs
  
  from GitHub
  
  pifs - πfs - the data-free filesystem!
Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 12:21:30 EST Neon

The other day I saw this site that could display instances' local timelines with a nice interface for browsing different instances. Anyone know it?

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Pabo (pabo@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 08:45:08 EST Pabo

Gamedev on older consoles is a showcase of constraints breeding creativity. To me, it's unimaginable how the developers ever thought of these tricks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt-AxAqlrOo
#gamedev #mickey_mania
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1. Mickey Mania's "Impossible" 3D Chase - How Was It Done?
  
  By GameHut from YouTube
Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 09:18:57 EST Neon
in reply to
- Oneesan succubus
@lain Absolutely :tuturu:

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 04:07:02 EST Neon
- lake mongol
@eal On Fridays, I do! But on other days I go to my civil service workplace near the Aalto campus.

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 01:57:16 EST Neon
- Sir Agent provocateur Arwalk
@Arwalk 🤔 Well the ticket-checking-machines changed a while ago, if that's what you're referring to. They've been pretty great, not that I'll be using them very much with the metro around.

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 01:26:58 EST Neon
- Sir Agent provocateur Arwalk
@Arwalk No, but you need to get the more expensive tickets if you want to go from end to end with the metro now (since it crosses a city border). Doesn't change anything for me though, I just went with bus before and the ticket is the same.

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 01:23:53 EST Neon
- Quad
@quad :nopefelix:
I do live in the centre of Finland's capital though, so you'd hope my commute was easy.

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 01:19:18 EST Neon

The Helsinki metro finally got its westward extension (after a few years of delays), and my commute went from 30ish minutes to 25ish minutes.
Yay, I guess.

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 17:17:51 EST Neon

I now have functional VR hands! Testing VR stuff while seated at a table with monitors is great fun; you need to dodge the "invisible" obstacles of the real world while testing. (Which also happens to be the cause of the "bobbiness" of the hand in the video :happyfelix: ) #gamedev #vr https://moe.neon.moe/media/TVxE2q0Ef2APMpPO6aw

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 13:34:37 EST Neon

So I've been making this scene relying a lot on screen-space reflections... And now I noticed that moving things quickly while in VR leaves trail-esque artifacts in the SSR reflections.
https://moe.neon.moe/media/ObgDl3BI_Izg4vZ6Akg

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 12:43:13 EST Neon
- RobClemmonsJr
@RobClemmonsJr Just Ludum Dare submissions. But I suppose they are technically finished games 😅 Here's the most recent ones: https://nc.itch.io

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 09:14:45 EST Neon
in reply to
- Lizardsquid of ░░░░░░
@lizardsquid I've found Matrix to be a pretty good alternative. The only problem I have with it is the same one with all free social media: friends not using it.

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Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 09:12:56 EST Neon
- RobClemmonsJr
@RobClemmonsJr Technically 2013, but in 2015 I actually started focusing on the game design instead of fussing over code.

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Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2017 11:59:26 EST Nolan

New blog post: Why I'm deleting my Twitter account https://nolanlawson.com/2017/11/15/why-im-deleting-my-twitter-account/
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  Why I’m deleting my Twitter account
  
  By Nolan Lawson from Read the Tea Leaves
  
  When I first got on the Internet back in the 90’s, it felt like a cool underground rock concert. Later on, it seemed like a vast public library, maybe with a nice skate park nearby. Today it feels more like a shopping mall. The transition happened so gradually that I barely noticed it.
  
  Hanging out with your friends at the mall can be fun. But it can also be tiring. You’re constantly surrounded by ads, cheery salespeople are trying to get you to buy stuff, and whatever you eat in the food court is probably not great for your health.
  
  For the past few years, I’ve subsisted on a media diet that mostly came from Twitter, consisting of “snackable” news articles with catchy headlines, shareable content with wide appeal (baby koala cuddles baby cat, how cute!), and righteous outrage at whatever horrible political thing was happening that day.
  
  Twitter was often the first thing I looked at when I picked up my phone in the morning, and the last thing I browsed late into the night, endlessly flicking my thumb over the feed in the hope that something good would pop up. The light of the smartphone was often the only thing illuminating my bedroom before I finally turned in (always much too late).
  
  All of this content – cat pictures, articles, memes, political hysteria – came streaming into my eyeballs in a rapid and seemingly random order, forcing my brain to make sense of the noise, to find patterns in the data. It’s addictive.
  
  But the passivity of it, and the endless searching for something good to watch, meant that for me Twitter had essentially become television. Browsing Twitter was no more edifying than flipping through channels. At the end of a long, multi-hour session of Twitter-surfing, I could barely recall a single thing I had read.
  
  Social media as public performance
  
  Twitter is unlike television in a few crucial aspects, though. First off, the content is algorithmically selected, so whatever I’m seeing is whatever Twitter has determined to be most likely to keep my eyes on the screen. It’s less like I’m surfing through channels and more like the TV is automatically flipping from channel to channel, reading my eye movement and facial expressions to decide what to show next.
  
  Second, Twitter has become an inescapable part of my professional life. My eight thousand-odd Twitter followers are a badge of honor, the social proof that I am an important person in my field and worthy of admiration and attention. It also serves as a measure of my noteworthiness in comparison to others. If someone has more followers than me, then they’re clearly more important than I am, and if they have less, well then maybe they’re an up-and-comer, but they’re certainly not there yet.
  
  (This last statement may sound crass. But any avid Twitter user who hasn’t sized someone up by their follower count is either lying to themselves, or is somehow immune to the deep social instincts that mark us as primates.)
  
  For the kinds of professionals who go to conferences, give public talks, and write blog posts, Twitter serves as a sort of “Who’s Who,” except that everyone is ranked by a single number that gives you a broad notion of their influence and prominence.
  
  I’m sure many of my friends from the conference and meetup scene will look at my announcement of deleting my Twitter account as a kind of career suicide. Clearly Nolan’s lost his mind. He’ll never get invited to a conference again, or at the very least he won’t be given top billing. (Conference websites usually list their speakers in descending order of Twitter followers. How else can you tell if a speaker is worth listening to, if you don’t know their follower count?)
  
  Much of that is probably true. I used to get a lot of conference invites via Twitter DMs, and those definitely won’t be rolling in anymore. Also, anyone who wants to judge my influence by a single number is going to have a hard time: they’ll have to piece it together from blog posts and search results instead. Furthermore, my actual influence will be substantially reduced, as most of the hits to my blog currently come from Twitter.
  
  Why I’m done with Twitter
  
  Thing is, I just don’t care anymore. I’ve spent years pouring my intellectual and emotional labor into Twitter, and for countless reasons ranging from harassment to Nazis to user-hostile UI, platform, and algorithm choices, they’ve demonstrated that they don’t deserve it. I don’t want to add value to their platform anymore.
  
  To me, the fact that Twitter is so deeply embedded into so many people’s professional lives is less a reason to resign myself to keep using it, and more a reason to question and resist its dominance. No single company should have the power to make or break someone’s career.
  
  Twitter has turned a wide variety of public and quasi-public figures – from Taylor Swift to a dude who speaks at tech conferences – into brand ambassadors for Twitter, and that ought to worry us. Despite what it claims, Twitter is not a neutral platform. It’s an advertising company with a very specific set of values, which it expresses both in how it optimizes for its core constituents (advertisers) and how it implements its moderation policies (poorly).
  
  Well, it may indeed be career suicide for Taylor Swift to abandon her Twitter account, but for a (very) minor public figure like myself, it’s a small sacrifice to make to knock Twitter down a peg. My career will survive, and my mental health can only improve by spending less time flicking a smartphone screen into the late hours of the night.
  
  That’s why I’m deleting my account rather than just signing out. I want my old tweets to disappear from threaded conversations, from embeds in blog posts – anything that’s served from twitter.com. I want to punch a hole in Twitter’s edifice, even if it’s a small one.
  
  I’ve backed up my tweets so that anyone who wants to see them still can. I’m also still fairly active on Mastodon, and as always, folks can follow me via my blog’s RSS feed or contact me via email.
  
  This isn’t me saying goodbye to the Internet – this is me saying goodbye to the shopping mall. But you can still find me at the rock concert, in the public library, and in the park.
Neon (neon@moe.neon.moe)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2017 19:21:33 EST Neon

Been making the environment in which I'll supposedly place shelves of ebooks in the future. Came out pretty good, I think. #gamedev https://moe.neon.moe/media/KLoIbbzuT-3quDH0lsE
That volumetric fog is *Unreal* tho, for real. :smirkfelix:

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emdless void (me) (void@cybre.space)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2017 08:10:47 EST emdless void (me)

you know whats fucked up?? you know whats REALLY fucked up??
in the wizard of oz, they call the lion the "cowardly lion." but they dont call the scarecrow the "brainless scarecrow," or the tin man the "heartless tin man." they dont call dorothy "homeless dorothy." whats up with that??? why single out the harmless lil scaredy-cat for public mockery??? its rude as fuck

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