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@bruxisma "As a result, this post is going to violate the Tech Industry Blog Social Compact. People get uncomfortable when you have a tech blog and then talk about topics that aren’t purely technical (I have some bad news for you and it is that nothing is purely technical)"

Why don't people just understand this... 💯

@gxanine what are you talking about, PAL? 😋

@timkrief maybe I'll make that tomorrow's tech tip. 😀

In today's #retro #techtip: did you know that #NTSC stands for "Never Twice the Same Color"?

When color television was invented engineers really wanted to break with the dreary black and white. So never the same color again!

Follow for more quality #retrocomputing tech tips.

@thomasfuchs This is probably a dumb question, but how else would you do it? Just dump files into your live directory and hope for the best?

There's obviously containers now one could use, but clearly this "buildless" thing suggests that that's not how they are deploying?

I'm so confused.

@amszmidt strtok_r() ftw! :)

If any fellow #retrocomputing enthusiast is looking for some #bios #updates for #motherboards in the 1998 - 2003 era, I just uploaded a #thrift store found CD with 500 updates on it!

Find it here: https://archive.org/details/BIOS_and_Firmware_Update_Pack

#retrocomputing

So, I went #thrifting yesterday when I came across something that looked like some kind of miniature #portable #computer

#retrocomputing #organizer

So, I opened it. I was intrigued! What could this be! What is a "GB-166"

166 MHz? Of what! I was greeted by a full AZERTY keyboard.

And a fake touchpad?

#retrocomputing #organizer

Then I turned my attention to the screen....

#retrocomputing

@Lana The Internet really needs to stop doing Taco Thursdays...

@Lana You know the internet is a series of tubes right? It's not like a road full of trucks.

Someone took a gigantic shit in the internet tubes, causing a lot of windows to get covered in excrement.

RT @godotengine@twitter.com

4 years of development.
12,000 merged pull requests.
7,000 fixed issues.
1,500 individual contributors across engine and docs.

Godot 4.0 sets sail NOW! ⛵️

A complete overhaul. A solid foundation to build upon. #GodotEngine
https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-0-sets-sail/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/godotengine/status/1630973181157572624

#godot #GodotEngine

The parallels with history are quite close, the #Unity engine is viewed by many as a necessity for #gamedev, like salt, and they are out of money, like France.

In the 14th century France had a very unpopular salt tax called the Gabelle. During the French Revolution it was abolished, but quickly reinstated once the new government ran out of money.

The situation with #unity has me thinking of 14th century France, rather than #Rome. A short 🧵

#gamedev #godot #godotengine

@marcan @Conan_Kudo @akien okay! I was under the impression that userspace needed to care about the page size.

We'll just test it then, I have a mini with an m2 in it, I haven't tried installing Asahi yet! Maybe it'll be a fun weekend project 😄

@marcan hello! I'm part of the godot engine team and we've recently added aarch64 linux support to our toolchain, and are planning to support it as an official architecture.

What would we need to do to support Asahi Linux from this? I seem to recall something about page sizes?

The way Godot normally works is that you export your game for a platform/arch so, "aarch64" would be an arch.

Would we need to support separate arch for Asahi?

@funranium @cstross yeah, I've had to drop whole servers as well. The steps are usually:

1) see a lot of shitty comments from the same domain
2) report them to the server admins
3) hear nothing
4) look at their stated moderation policy and see something about them not removing anything not "illegal"
5) drop server

Internet libertarians are such shitbirds.