Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

once again thinking about how people say stuff like "make your own engine if you never wanna ship a game"

in one week working part time i created a 3D tilemap engine with chunking, texture atlasing, camera rotation controls and mouse picking targets without gpu readback

meanwhile we've been working on a content update for kitsune tails since august. most of that time was spent on game design, art, maps, and playtesting, not even any new code until february, and it's still not done

making a custom engine just for the game you're making is not the time consuming part. making the actual game *is*

“Reminder that professionalism is a white supremacist trope created to make everyone look and act like white, 45+-year-old men because no one else was supposed to be allowed to be there.”

"old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”"

Fijn opgeschreven waar we nu staan. Het is niet best: https://decorrespondent.nl/15937/europa-is-veel-te-afhankelijk-van-amerikaanse-tech-waar-blijft-het-nederlandse-crisisteam-dat-onze-eigen-cloud-optuigt/12193601-6940-02be-1767-d9101a44919b?pk_campaign=daily&mc_cid=3701f9b431&mc_eid=b43d1cc8ca

What fast fashion leads to

The spanish paper and online portal EL PAÍS just published a revealing investigation. They endowed used but still good clothes with hidden geolocation tags and deposited the clothes in 15 used clothes bins across Spain. Then they tracked the journeys of the different pieces. It's a long and abysmal story.

https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-03-01/where-do-the-clothes-go-after-we-put-them-in-a-recycling-bin-an-11-month-investigation-covering-thousands-of-kilometers.html

#FastFashion #environment #climate #commodities

I have come to believe that effective software development is fundamentally incompatible with capitalism

Linguistics

From last year https://philosophynow.org/issues/163/The_Domesticated_Foxes_of_Bastoy

"Then punitive elements would only be used for the most abhorrent conduct where people are deliberately misleading or trying to undermine the purpose of the Act," Mr Morrison said."

Or, how about the government pays you money as compensation for consequential damages for the delay? If it's more than 30 days overdue, there is a daily fee that accumulates.

"In the 2014/15 financial year, 95 per cent of FOI decisions were made on time. By 2022/23 it had fallen to just over 20 per cent."

The purpose of a system is what it does.

to root your device you need the boot.img, the contents of the boot partition on your phone. to get that, you need to buy hardware from somewhere, download a cracked version of a tool with a virus, or find a possibly-incorrect firmware from a mega link on a dusty thread

Become ungovernable

android hacking is an alternate universe where the internet archive doesn't exist and the only two sites you can upload files on are mega and google drive (deleted)