Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Nieuw Knuffeltrein in Utrecht Centraal

As I cycle through wind and rain to the supermarket, I doff my cap to those who just unlocked the Dutch People Carrying Shit On Their Bicycles, Sinterklaas Edition. School's out and the surprises made by the children - large cardboard/paper contraptions containing a small gift - have to get home.

Just typed "interfae" and it's my favourite typo right now: an interfae is a protocol that two daemons use to talk to each other.

man, looking at the sentiment on social media for the CEO Assassin, i do not think the NYPD are gonna get many genuine tips. like i've never seen such a one-sided outpouring of sentiment.

Does anyone know of some cheap linux-incompatible hardware i could use to practice writing kernel-drivers for?

Everything I have currently works oob with linux, or is made by nvidia (graphics is a bit too crazy for me for now)

The unilateral dunking on the recently killed pharma ceo is inspiring

Reminder: billionaires can, at any time, solve essentially all of the world’s problems by simply not hoarding an egregious amount of wealth. They choose not to. Every day.

I'm probably one of the most violence-adverse creatures I know and even I'm over here sipping tea quietly and nodding to myself going "Yup. It is a true objective fact that the people inflicting pain and suffering on everyone for profit have names and addresses. Mmhmmm. Indisputable fact"

Course for all we know this was something even more base than we think like "A business competitor did this". But we're all thinking the same thing and thinking it quite loudly.

back in college, i had a drawing prof who was really accommodating about accessibility options. he noticed me struggling to draw upright, and i explained sheepishly that i really need to brace myself against something when i'm holding up my hands/arms bc i tremble too much otherwise

i braced myself for getting chastised, but he just went "oh, just a sec", grabbed a long, wooden dowel out of a closet, propped it up against my easel and went "there, try leaning on that now". it was so much better

Welcome to Mastodon! Here's a helpful legend to get you acquainted with all the icons:

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🔖 = Mark as read and then forget about it
⇄ = Like
↰ = "Hated this post and need the OP to know it"
🧭 = No one knows what this is for, file a bug report with the upstream project if you figure it out

Wisdom From A Friend: "success looks exactly the same as failure the first (random number between 100 and 100,000) times you try"

Well said! XD

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Networking!!!

I used to naively think networking would be a neat way to meet people with common experiences and interests and make friends! Yay!

Heh, silly fox

“Networking” is either:

1) one of us wants to sell the other something
2) one of us wants a job at the other’s company

Like, that’s it. And you have to play this weird friendly chatty game pretending it’s neither of the above the whole time!

So weird and gross

forever caught between “I wish I had more friends to talk to I’m lonely” and “I can’t possibly respond to everyone it’s too overwhelming”

I found out the other day that "penguin" in Mandarin Chinese is literally "business goose" and I haven't been able to think about anything else

Be careful booking hotels - when we got a room for my grandma's funeral, we called the number listed on the Google business page, Turns out Expedia had hijacked the page and pretended to be the hotel's front desk when I called. Charged us a higher rate than we would've paid had we reached the front desk.

I reported the charge as fraud and my bank is getting me a refund, and I've spoken to the actual hotel to pay them the correct amount directly.

Question for my game developer friends out there (please also feel free to boost/share widely!): why do indie games still tend to be closed source, especially compared to indie app ecosystems where there are thriving open source communities?

That’s obviously a super broad question, but I’m open to broad perspectives. :) I’m especially interested in hearing from folks who have been actively involved in video game design, development, publishing, etc.

#GameDev #OpenSource #Godot #GodotEngine