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OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI

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If only there was a decentralized digital currency that made people less dependent on middlemen.....

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I know this #Discord nonsense has a lot of people searching for alternatives (like Matrix, Stoat, etc), and those alternatives have a chance to shine right now. BUT we need to go back to discussions and knowledge being searchable on the open web!

I say bring back the forums. It's time.

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I've added coins that are dropped by the enemies upon death, even though they don't do anything. I thought about having shops in the levels and have the player buy power-ups like in Kid Icarus or Alex Kidd.

Let me know if you like the idea or not.

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Back during the 80's, they made a fully-automated Taco Bell. No human workers. Ingredients go in, finished food comes out. It was way faster and made no mistakes. So why aren't there automated Taco bells everywhere now? Because it cost 10x as much as just hiring some teenagers for minimum wage to make burritos.
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Want your alternative? You can have one using a few small scripts and a web server.

You will need:
1. Basic PHP (or any server-side scripting language), JS, and HTML knowledge (or you can just vibecode the thing, or find an existing script somewhere online)
2. A webserver with PHP (or any other server-side language) enabled

Steps:

1. Get a webserver with PHP enabled. There are even free webhosts with PHP like Heliohost.
2. Create 4 files: a blank text file (name it "messages.txt" or something like that), a JS file, and two PHP files
3. The first PHP should just be for the chatbox. You need a message field and a name field along with a message box to display all the messages. Decorate it in anyway you want.
4. The second PHP file just appends the new message plus the username of who sent it into the messages.txt (or whatever you named it) file like this: (<name>: <message>)
5. In the JavaScript file, have three functions. One is a function that retrieves the contents of messages.txt via AJAX. The second one will retrieve the form data and submit it to the second PHP file via an AJAX POST request. The third function is the body.onload method and it repeatedly calls the first function through a setInterval (make it something like every 3 seconds).
6. ???
7. Instant community.

If you are more knowledgeable, you can try adding accounts, or having it appear on the side of every page on your site.

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

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

:senko_baka: why is everyone so stupid
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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

crowdsupply.com/clydeware/game

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