xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

2,000 years of human history: children seeing all manner of blood death poverty and conscription

20 years of humans with computesr: only way to keep them safe is deeply invasive total monitoring of all individuals on the planet, guys

why is everyone so stupid

The Crowd Supply campaign for the GameTank is about 33% over and 31% funded.

I don't really know marketing. I'm just an engineer who made a fun thing and wants to share it with anyone in world who'd appreciate it.

My markup on the console in this campaign is negligible.

If you like what I'm doing:
- Backing is a huge help
- Backing with extra carts is a huge help
- Sharing this to other weirdos like me who spend time energy and money on retro dev is a huge help

https://www.crowdsupply.com/clydeware/gametank

Sometimes, people point to the rainbow logo FBXL has and they wonder if it has something to do with contemporary identity politics.

Unequivocally, no.

Rainbows existed before contemporary politics, and they'll continue to exist afterwards.

Rainbows were a major aesthetic element of many early personal computers such as the TRS-80 CoCo and the Commodore 64, because unlike the earlier models like the original TRS-80 or Commodore Pet, they supported color out of the box. The Apple logo from that era is a rainbow apple icon. The Coco logo was separated rainbow lines.

Rainbows on black are also a major 70s/80s modernist design. Famous album covers use rainbow bars, as well as some contemporary TV shows which made use of animated rainbow lines.

When I designed the original FBXL.NET website back in 2006, I borrowed this rainbow on black aesthetic. It let me keep my preferred dark website aesthetic with a splash of color. That's also why the rainbow is somewhat desaturated -- it's intended to be a quiet graphical decoration, not to blow your eyeballs out while reading text on a black background.

Back in 2006, lgbt stuff existed, but wasn't as central as it is today. There was a war on terror that had been going on for 5 years, a war in Iraq, a war in Afghanistan, and it looked like things were in an economic boom that was on its way to becoming the greatest recession since the great depression.

@Kagekokoro Doubt they'd make a distinction between federated and centralised. They'd see an instance like mastosoc say "that's social media, where's your age gate?" and expect them to play ball. Trying to get legislators or law enforcement to understand how fedi works is a fools errand. Pretty sure FSE pete still gets strongly worded letters from the FBI demanding he hand over the user information of somebody on a different instance at least once a month.

Exactly what playing ball looks like would depend on the wording of the legislation. Best case scenario, you just gotta age-check your own users, small and single-user instances largely unaffected. Worst case scenario, it completely kills federation, because you'd be expected to age-check every actor fetching your posts. No doubt m*stodon will bend the knee to the EU and implement some BS authorization measure that bricks the rest of the network.

Originally conceived as a sort of "hammerspace" for lone entities to perform helper tasks, the Agenda system allows MYTHOS developers to take control of the core rendering loop for things like camera control, HUDs and fullscreen post processing.

@xianc78 Anubis-like solutions are wasteful, burning up entire jungles, contributing to global warming :(
we need a super-efficient system like a mandatory card reader that reads a government ID, which everyone needs anyway

In MYTHOS I have opted to expose only the underlying Allegro transforms and create ways to manage them better rather than create a proper camera system built-in like what is necessary in most 3D engines. I do not want to complicate any perspective tricks that might rely on transforms, since changes to the transform the GPU is working with are relative to the previous transform. Without some two-step BS to control the order camera transforms are applied to each entity it would quickly become a headache for a small few developers.

⚡💬 THROWBACK - Discord will require MANDATORY Face ID biometric scanning and ID verification for ALL USERS starting next month.

It’s time to return to the beginning. To a better time when chat apps were just chat apps.

It’s time to return to IRC. https://blossom.primal.net/0062cdc3932911d55eececf91f635b5d0b598d24f1971b32e11365d49203d82f.jpg

Should social media be illegal for people under the age of 15?

EFF is against age verification mandates, including Discord's new policy requiring face scans or IDs for full access to the platform. Here are some things to consider if you're planning to continue using Discord next month. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now

Our functional programming course only just this semester switched from Prolog and Gödel to Rust