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i cant wait to be a useless piece of shit all day and play all these games

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@ailepet@peoplemaking.games avatar ailepet , to random

hey fedi cool kids, you may know about toki pona and 6502 assembler, but did you know that hexadecimal notation system invented by funny french singer Boby Lapointe? (I sure didn't!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi-binary

@fabio@manganiello.eu avatar fabio , to random

Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich is an essay that anyone who wants to better understand economic and societal trends in tech should probably read.

Written in 1972, it analyzes technological revolutions such as the sewing machine and the car, but it's surprising how the same patterns can also be applied to the era of late-capitalist tech enshittification.

The car is taken as the perfect example of early enshittification cycle.

Its introduction was welcome as a revolution for mobility and personal liberty. It allowed people to travel farther and get more done in a day.

Yet, as its production became standardized and in the hands of a few producers, while its penetration of the market increased, its marginal utility diminished - the industry started to offer fewer benefits and take more in exchange.

What was initially hailed as a personal freedom (you can take the car if your workplace is far, you can take it if you want to go shopping) became an imperative - especially in places like North America. At some point the can became a must. The industry started lobbying for more infrastructure to be built to accommodate a new car-centric world where people must use the new technology if they want to go anywhere. And that infrastructure was paid by taxpayers money - including those who didn't use a car, and had to rely on underfunded public transport while subsidizing others' personal luxury. And those who owned a car had to pay subscription costs to the industry in the form of fuel and maintenance (and, nowadays, even actual direct subscription costs).

There's an "industrialization" phase in the development of disruptive technology that flips the purpose of a product on its head - from building tools to serve society, to reshape societies to serve the tool. At that point adoption is no longer optional, and those who don't embrace the product of industrialization face exclusion (the concept of radical monopoly).

Most of the technological developments since the textile revolution can be mapped in a precise framework: a net lift, followed by a push to extract value, and finally an insistence upon the technology's ubiquity.

Illich's solution to the industrial tool (the "convivial tool") is remarkably similar to the "small tech" that many of us are building or hosting nowadays.

Convivial tools are defined as sustainable small-scale local-first solutions, designed primarily to enhance the autonomy and creativity of their users.

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@fabio that's the motto of @ @deuxfleurs , the non-profit where I'm hosting my webpages: "let's make a convivial internet"

@ploum@mamot.fr avatar ploum , to random French

Est-ce qu’il y a sur le Fediverse des auteurices de BDs qui seraient d’accord de partager leurs expériences éditoriales ? J’aimerais savoir les éditeurs à éviter, ceux qui sont cools, etc.

J’ai déjà reçu de bons retours de Bamboo mais des avertissements sur certains autres.

Le repouet vous fera trouver la BD qui manque à votre collection lors de la prochaine vente d’occasion de votre quartier !

PS: oui, on a fini un dossier éditorial avec un dessinateur, on cherche la perle rare !

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@ploum Il est toujours là @davidrevoy ?

@touloutoumou@mastodon.social avatar touloutoumou , to random

randomly thinking about the movie Limitless. A movie about a drug give you superintelligence but give you also horrible side effects and also addiction for life, ending with "a little drug is okay if you know how to manage", which is very likely the moral stance of the exec boards on cocaine

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@touloutoumou i'm pretty sure the writers believed this is how cocaine actually works

@kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar kenney , to random

Just saw these by Emerald Eel Entertainment and somehow never thought about drawing stairs this way! Perfect for retro games or when you want to go reaaaaally low poly. The template is CC0!

https://opengameart.org/content/n64-stair-texture-template

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@kenney isn't that the same technique used on Ocarina of Time stairs?

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@kenney here's an example if you're curious:

@ailepet@peoplemaking.games avatar ailepet , to random

now I know I should have read Love and Rockets when I first heard of it twenty years ago

Comic book panel with a speech bubble: "IN 2017 THE SOVIET UNION WILL SWITCH OVER TO CAPITALISM, BUT NOT TO BE OUTDONE THE U.S. SINKS INTO FASCISM. JMMM..."
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@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

We are probably as a culture/species going to have to adjust to a life where "journalism" doesn't exist, either at the specialist/niche level or at the general/"national interest" level, because the people who have the money and decide where it goes don't see a reason for it to exist (or think it would make sense to have a random sentence generator do the job)

https://social.coop/@cstanhope/114783734655282961

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@mcc I've read just yesterday that a French public TV stations was drastically reducing the numbers of yearly episodes of one their investigative series, after going under a new management that wants to spend less time on investigation and more on opinion. Probably because the latter is cheaper and brings more views. I have trouble imagining how ad-financed journalism could have evolved in any other direction; the internet has merely accelerated that process

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Would you describe yourself as a "Digital Public Good"

ailepet ,
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@mcc the devs of the app my employer is selling (hint: it's Catalan) call it this way, maybe I could become a Digital Public Good (DPG) too?

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@mcc indeed! This is not an app to translate sofware into Catalan though

and I was wrong actually, they call it Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) https://freeradical.zone/@decidim/114750905900365922

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@mcc I definitely agree, although I may have either lost the meaning of your first post, or failed to make my answer funny (English is not my native language (neither is Catalan)), so please excuse me for any disturbance

@Ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar Ronflaix , to random

Lol what do you mean my TV box's channels are streamable in VotV too?!

Screenshot of Voices of the Void where I show I can play actual TV from the game by showing RTL 9 ( A French/Luxembourgish TV channel° broadcasting Kill Bill 2. The screenshot shows the protagonist and the subtitle "Tu te roules en boule" (you curl yourself into a ball) during what looks like a cliché asian matial art training sequence. I don't know I haven't watched the movies
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@gamesthatwerent@mastodon.world avatar gamesthatwerent , to random

Ifigonia is a slightly controversial title due to its risqué advert featured in Italian press at the time. An erotic/adult themed text adventure, with graphics by artist Mauro Mazza and based on a 1928 poem. Does it exist anywhere and can it be found?

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/06/ifigonia/

Thanks to @gilesgoat for highlighting to include in the archive.

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@gamesthatwerent @gilesgoat @damianogerli this may be relevant to your interests

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , (edited ) to random

For three full years now I've been semi-daily posting a music recommendation in a big long thread, but it turns out 300-post threads kinda break Mastodon, so I have to restart the thread every so often.

This post is a placeholder. I normally make a YouTube playlist for the previous year to put at the top of the thread, but I've had an awful month and haven't finished that yet.

But if you want to see year three's posts, they're here: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112356066616688565

And here's year four:

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@mcc The other Artist soundtracks are awesome as well. Talent Studio has this proto-Wii flamboyant vibes (how fitting for a proto-Mii game), whereas Polygon Studio has Totaka as his most unhinged, channelling the IDM energy of Hip Tanaka and Ryoji Yoshitomi on the OG Mario Paint soundtrack.

(isn't that one composed by Hideaki Shimizu though?)

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@mcc I agree, I haven't had the curiosity to give it some time until I saw your toot. Thanks for the rec!

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

I've cobbled together a makeshift laptop out of a RPI 400 and a portable touch screen, and let me tell you: this thing is terrible.

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@aeva that would be either Gemini or https://smolweb.org. But yeah, regardless of the state of the web, I wonder if you could build a low-spec software platform nowadays that could at least be at feature parity with, let's say, Windows XP (that would exclude elitist platforms like 9front or suckless)? I was under the impression that the default RPi OS could pull this off. Perhaps postmarketOS may be better suited to the task (is ARM preservation permacomputing?)

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

i don't get the nostalgia for the atari 2600, like, yup that sure is the shovelware ash tray. gonna crash the video games industry with this bad boy

ailepet ,
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@aeva I'm only nostalgic for the 8-color SECAM French 2600. It looked worse in my memories!

@ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar ocornut , to random

Received this important video game:
“A great program that gives you fun while giving you good business sense! You must decide how many litres of ice cream to purchase, and how many cones. Set your prices and put up your advertising signs. Compete with your friends for the highest profits.”

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@ocornut that cover art truly slaps wow

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , (edited ) to random

hey linux nerds would it be possible to run a headless version of linux off a usb drive? i have a tiny x86 pc that i wanna use for octoprint for my 3d printer but i dont wanna set up a whole thing with peripherals

it already has win11 but last time i tried to run windows headless it did not work out

we used to use a raspberry pi but i can't deal with constant sd card corruptions anymore

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@eniko Yeah I thought about this myself. What would be the most suitable storage technology for a RPi 500 form factor, for example?