xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@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

Looks like it time to move to Matrix then.

RE: https://varishangout.net/objects/81d4028d-f3c6-4648-bc7a-32dd5031c980

If you want people to stop hating you, telling them to stop hating you while you keep doing the same thing over and over again is definitely going to work.

@coolboymew I miss translucent electronics