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Insider trading shouldn’t be a crime, but if this guy deserves a pardon, why doesn’t Ian Freeman?

@vokainen099 I'm still using SDL2 because LazyFoo's tutorials are still using it. I don't think SDL3 has been widely adopted yet.

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I didn't feel the least bit bad for anyone on Welfare during the government shutdown.
#FridayMemeWar #WelfareFraud #FoodStamps
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Good news! License plate cameras are going dark across Washington. Why? Because a court ruled the public has the right to see the data they generate.

Learn More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/good-news/victory-in-washington-state-as-cities-turn-off-license-plate-reader-cameras

#TheFreeThoughtProject

Working on the design doc for my next game. Hopefully, switching to SDL will allow development to go smoothly this time.

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Why won't you buy my game?

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IT'S FINALLY OUT!!!

My first commercial game and my first game under the Ioncom brand. It's an action, roguelite, dungeon-crawler with limited lives and permadeath.

It's currently Linux exclusive, but the source code is available and you should be able to compile it for anything that SFML runs on.

ioncominteractive.itch.io/refr

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I miss Fediverse four years ago a bit. You could open global timeline and actually read people (well, occasional porn and spam shitpost bots from some “talented” local bot creators too) .
These days you open global timeline and news bots, whatever bots, war report bots, porn, politics , game bots, game bots, tiny bit of human posts…
Save your mental health, don’t read global timeline

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@VD15 So fucking true. Gaymers are all like "oh no it can't run flavor of the month matchmaking slop because of anti cheat". Yeah? GOOD :senkocreep:
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Oh yeah. Another benefit of using SDL is that SDL has been ported to nearly everything which allows ports to obscure operating systems like BSD, Haiku, Serenity OS, etc. I've said many times before that indie games should target these platforms to increase their audience. There are probably a lot of people who want something to play on those OSes so you might get a cult-following if you port your game to them.

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If you really think your site needs to be behind Cloudflare (which it doesn't), at the very least provide an onion or i2p domain for people who wish/need to bypass it or in case Cloudflare goes down.

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Inbox Question: Becoming computer literate

I’ve written before that every technological evil has “a very simple engineering solution, but a hard collective action problem to fix”. This means that improving your own digital experience very often requires the cooperation and participation of others. This is the main reason why this project, the Libre Solutions Network exists. We need others to understand and value each other’s privacy, security, and digital independence. The first step is education, and we’re going to need a lot of teachers.

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@wordshaper @neil we had to drop support for customers fronting their sites with CloudFlare on our shared servers because it's not effective at stopping the AI bot swarm, and using it makes it impossible for us to do so ourselves. mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/09

@mr_penguin AI isn't going to replace game artists anytime soon (or maybe ever if the AI model collapse happens). Right now, it's only good at generating backgrounds and icons. It's absolutely terrible at generating sprites, especially spritesheets.

@ArdainianRight Do ancient religions count because Aztec religion is probably the most fucked up.

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