xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@mint @bonifartius @david @ffaw @graf @ins0mniak @phnt Bill Gates funded these things and now Google is funding them.

We had the worst fruit flies I've ever seen in my life a few years back. I'd feed the cats and there would be maggots within an hour. What had happened was they were dropping planeloads of genetically modified fruit flies on Los Angeles for the summer. The idea--at least as stated--was that these fruit flies were sterile but also more aggressive, so they'd mate with the females and the females would not lay eggs. This didn't work, and if you think for a minute, it should be easy to tell why.

What regulates aggression is fear. The hyperaggressive sterile fruit flies were not afraid. This meant that the birds and lizards and frogs and whatnot ate them, while leaving the regular fruit flies to mate while all of their natural predators sat around with full stomachs. Of course, they just do this shit without a "Please do not run your shit-ass psychopath experiments on my goddamn city" is not ever on the ballot and all the Whole Foods-ass "we can't have GMOs in school lunches" Karens voted in the people that did it.

This is the same thing they did for mosquitoes in Brazil and it increased the mosquito population twice. "Oops." Then, despite it failing every time it was tried and for completely goddamn obvious reasons, they got CDC approval to do it in Florida.

Bill Gates did a TED talk in 2009 where he released a jar of mosquitoes on the audience and he's had a fixation on that shit since forever. (I think it's this one: https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_mosquitos_malaria_and_education ) Why he is doing it is obvious; if I had to guess why Google's doing it too, I'd suspect the same reason.
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dude i miss radio shack so much.
i loved being able to go to a physical store and just get some random ass converter or whatever.
now the next best place is best buy but that's like a 30 minute drive from me and they don't have nearly the same amount of random niche shit.

Why C and C++ Still Matter:

https://youtu.be/Rk5S27BLyO0

#programming #c

Bots just officially outnumbered humans on the internet for the first time ever. Cloudflare’s latest report shows AI and agentic traffic has grown so fast its now the majority of online traffic. We crossed a line and most people didn’t even notice 😳 https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human

Dead internet theory is now becoming a reality

lmfao

So, not E3

I will actually bother with:
https://www.summergamefest.com/events

June 5 - Summer Games Fest - 5PM EST
^Day of the Dev right after if I'm not tired about it
June 7 - Xbox showcase - 1PM EST
^ PC Games Show right after if I'm not bored to hell, but I probably have Uma Musume runs to do

Nintendo is still unconfirmed but is likely around June 9th

For anything else, if anyone wants to host them I'll let you use the e3 channel for it

so, pewds made an entire AI suite that runs locally on your machine
https://github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus

crypto through a payment processor misses the GOD DAMN POINT

A perennial problem in gamedev is "oh don't worry it's X year so we don't need to worry as much about penny-pinching for the sake of perf" and then a year or two later in the same project it's "why are you using a square root there what do you think we're MADE of cpu cycles?!"

Incredible work from Godot on supporting the whole flow, right up to publication, all inside Android. This allows many, many more people to try making and to publish their own games, especially for kids or people in poorer countries, where access to a PC can often be harder than to a smartphone.

https://godotengine.org/article/gabe-stable-release/

Became a casualty of X's overzealous AI moderation. Account suspended out of nowhere. So I'm here now for good! Here's a crab.

@Cocoa I dunno. Zip disks are fucking shite and you probably shouldn't even bother to touch them, but he has some level of a point has apparently there's a lot of Gen Z like that, and if the fuckers cared enough, we could probably escape the own nothing digital future instead of playing with Zip Disks or something

Here's my hot take for the night:

writing in books is borderline criminal unless they are books you printed and bound yourself or are books so cheap, old, and used they have not much time left for the world