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They would rather work for Walmart corp for 14/hr and get their allotted 15 minute break, than support small businesses. Because guess who can pay compliance costs - WALMART. And because they can pay for compliance, they drive wages down. If it were truly free market, retail wages would probably be closer to double what they are.

I feel kind of scummy because many people bought the game and even tipped me, but couldn't play it because SFML seems to break compatibility whenever it wants. It's not my fault, but I feel like I at least owe them a working product.

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I've been blowing off the Refractored Depths Windows port for a while, but fuck it. I'm going to port it to the latest version of SFML and then port it to Windows that way, Also, it gives other Linux users (non-Debian) a chance to play.

Since when did the KiwiFarms instance come back online?

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@bonkmaykr@canithesis.org pointless complexity aside, the real problems are that this only works with debugging binaries and only if their symbols are in Visual Studio format, and Windows doesn't even remember where the loaded DLLs are from. allegedly. MSDN didn't exactly give me a single concise page or two explaining this. anyway, it can't print nameless addresses like glibc.

the entire point of getting a backtrace at runtime and not from your debugger directly, is to get information about a crash in a customer's stripped binary. this code is entirely useless for that purpose. i am sure there is another way to use CaptureStackBacktrace to get output similar to GNU's backtrace_symbols but it isn't documented anywhere I could find.
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heblo #getfedihired / #fedihire

my team at work is expanding and looking for a Senior Platform Engineer [C++/Go/OpenGL] and Senior Cloud Engineer [terraform / AWS / general CI things]
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salary 75-90k/yr depending on skillset

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Power generation idea for arctic settlement:

Some type of a (potentially hydrogen filled) kite that flies up into the atmosphere and is pulled by the wind.

Somehow it pulls more at certain times and less at others. Video shows it achieving this by doing figure-8s, but it could also be designed to have "flapping wings" which cause it to pull more at certain times and less at others, in a cycle.

Winch on the ground lets out line and takes it back, synchronizing with the cyclical loading of the kite, therefore generating net power.

Kite is relatively simple, so if it gets destroyed in a storm or freak incident, it's realistic to have spares on hand.

The cable is one of the most complex parts, but when it finally ages out and breaks, you lose the kite and launch another one with new cable.
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Do you know of any projects, groups or communities that care about digital sustainability, keeping older computers working, maintaining legacy software, getting off the merry-go-round of continually needing to have the latest or just wanting to support the GNU fundamental freedom of being able to study and change a program in source code form? If so, please share links or info.
#AskFedi #RightToRepair #retrocomputing #permacomputing #FreeSoftware #FOSS #sustainabililty #IndieWeb

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Happy sweet 16 Reimu! I'm a bit late, but, happy birthday! :D
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Working on this again while thinking about what to render next... even if this stage never gets finished, it's giving me some ideas for things I can do with the Alpha parameter.
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