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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?! SFML had a depth-buffer, then removed it because Laurent Gomila thought that a 2D library didn't need it.

Except, you DO need it. Sometimes you need to dynamically change the orders in which sprites are drawn, especially for 2.5D games just like what this linked article is talking about.

The article below talks about a solution using OpenGL and a derivative of SFML's vertex arrays, but that seems way too complex for something that should be dead simple. This is part of the reason why SFML will never be on the same level as SDL. I only use it because I have this weird urge to be different....to my own detriment.

jordansavant.com/book/graphics

Back from the quad-yearly tradition of writing myself on the ballot.

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Bluesky is even more toxic than Twitter. Within the first week, I've had to block or have been blocked by 5+ people because of a minor political disagreement.

Don't shamelessly worship Kamala? You're a Nazi and you want women to be genocide victims, nevermind that Kamala can barely even read, orange man bad

Tons of made-up sob stories too where if you even just ask an honest question you get accused of sexual harassment or transphobia.

I've remained pretty reasonable with people and I constantly have been insulted for no reason by folks who just want to feel better than everyone else.

Also noticeably lacking important features and the mobile client is still poorly glued together. Just don't bother with it guys.

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Yea, I'm no fan of Putin, BUT I call bullshit on Linus's explanation and stance. This is hypocrisy at its best too. There have been talks of sanctions, but no sanctions to the best of my knowledge in the software development category have actually gone through in the United States that would force free software developers to exclude Russians. Claiming all folks who think you're wrong Russian trolls is just intellectually dishonest. While I am critical of socialism, I'll defend RMS when he's right, and when Linus is wrong I'm going to say it. RMS was right when he crafted the GNU GPL in such a way that it EXCLUDED politics outside of free software development. This has been the reason "open source" folks, "free software" folks, serial killers (governments), and activists of all kinds have all been able to work together to benefit mankind. To now come in and say "what did you expect", in response to excluding Russians I say, I expected you to object to Putin's invasion of another country- but not to undermine the very foundations of FOSS software development. No one is saying you should accept every patch from every Russian developer, but you should have a technical reason for doing so. It doesn't even take a genius to come up with a technical explanation for removing Russian developers en mass, but some silly hypocritical act like this is below pathetic. What's next, inserting backdoors because you want to help Ukraine spy on some subset of Linux users?

linux.slashdot.org/story/24/10

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There is one globalist group that has consistently been in the background during most of these operations – The Atlantic Council.
https://activistpost.com/2024/10/the-atlantic-council-has-big-plans-for-a-war-between-the-us-and-iran.html
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After Tim Thomas’ property was entered and searched on multiple occasions by state officials without warrant or consent in 2023, he filed a federal lawsuit challenging the power of water conservation officers to access private property.
https://activistpost.com/2024/10/rural-landowner-sues-after-state-searches-property-without-warrant-or-consent.html
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flash left a mark on the internet and has never since been replaced :blobcatwoah:

To anyone who has out-of-body-experiences regularly, can you please astral project to the alleged moon landing sites? It's time to know once and for all if the moon landings actually happened.

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In the aftermath of the engineered and steered Hurricane Helene, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper confirms that certain areas won’t be rebuilt because the government is BUYING OUT the residents.
https://activistpost.com/2024/10/north-carolina-gov-pushes-buyout-land-grab-video-152.html

Have any of you had an out of body experience?

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Yea I know he doesn't work on them currently, but wouldn't his ego still be at issue since he did start both of them?

If he wasn't acting out of malice with his previous rants about Hyprland/Stallman/other crap, does he genuinely believe in his stance? Is he a True Believer™?

And how does that square with the recent revelation of his loliphile/pedo advocacy on his Reddit account? Does he see himself as totally different than RMS's stances? He obviously must see the problem or else he wouldn't rapidly trying to delete everything from these old accounts.

What do you think his motives are? Are they purely his, or are there outside influences? A little of both?
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@djsumdog >Then again, it could just be DeVault is supporting this because of his own ego. Hyprland is vastly superior to Sway, so rather than try an make Sway better, he defames all the Hyprland devs.
I don't think he still works on sway. Same for wlroots and probably bunch of other stuff people will attribute to him, he just started them and left.
In fact, I can't picture ddv acting out of malice at all.
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🤔 yea I have wondered about this. It is true that, at the very least, he's hosting and involved with the hit piece (and he's written his own on his public blog).

But it's interesting he's not banned on Hackernews (I am, both my personal account and my site, battlepenguin.com, were banned in early 2021). I do think there's more to this; as in someone(s) using him as a useful moron to try and dislodge the FSF leadership.

The open source world is getting super weird right now. Torvalds just capitulated to government sanctions against long term Russian contributors and called everyone who criticized him bots/trolls. Automattic should have had an easy case against a Silver Lake backed company that was clearly violating their trademark, but instead he's shown how little he knows of the law and looks like a massively insane, deranged asshole.

Then again, it could just be DeVault is supporting this because of his own ego. Hyprland is vastly superior to Sway, so rather than try an make Sway better, he defames all the Hyprland devs.

It use to be that open source devs helped each other make good projects, even if a new project competed with their own. It seems like when there's no money to compete over, and everyone's been maladjusted by social media, the next step is just to attack everyone whose better than you with unhinged bullshit. :blobcatshrug:
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Since Bridgy Fed doesn't bridge properly this is the link to the report which details how #DrewDeVault, the author of the #StallmanReport, has engaged in lolicon and pedo apologia, casting doubts on his true intentions in his attacks against RMS: dmpwn.info Drop #SourceHut now. #DeVaultReport

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:heuoxawyrsvqmzsdlbapb6za/post/3l76rl54jvkw2

The DeVault report

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Can we have the year of the Haiku desktop instead of the year of the Linux desktop? Let's have an actual desktop operating system instead of a mainframe/server operating system pretending to be one. Also let's have an open source operating system where (mostly) everything is developed in-house instead of a bunch of components duct-taped by distro maintainers.

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