Every political system is at some level a democracy, because *nothing* can stop the uprising of a united people. Dictatorships are the result of apathy. Not greed, not evil, not hate. Just those who would be the good guys throwing their hands up saying it's no use.

Making steady progress on the world editor, I can now add hills of customizable radius and height in real-time, with a simple preview (also real-time). Some polish remains of course but the goal of quickly and efficiently specifying topography is taking shape […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Being a billionaire is not a crime in itself, but it's irrefutable evidence of crimes against humanity.

HEY! GUESS WHO HAS 2 THUMBS AND IS ON LINUX NOW?! 👍 👍 🤣 whoot whoot!

me, about to implement basic movement for a mouselook controller: alright, I'm getting good a vector math, I can probably one-shot this also me, almost an hour later: oh right, multiplication of vectors by matrices is not commutative

[Epilepsy] Still working on my map generating tool, added colours as a function of height. It's just a spherical heightmap but seeing it in action as I build it makes me think the finished game is gonna be hella trippy 😂 #gamedev

I don't have that much hope for humanity these days except for the default "you never know", but I *do* have that. There's so many things upon which we look back and pretend like the outcome was obvious even though no one had a damn clue at the time. You never fucking know, so never throw in […]

Life is not a zero-sum game, but whatever's going on between us and the billionaires is. Their gain is our loss, and their loss our gain. I think it's important to consider this when we make our day-to-day choices.

[disorienting, moving checkerboards, grade-A epilepsy fuel as I understand it] Working on a tool to generate maps for my game, which consist of hollow spheres with geological features along the inner surface. Right now I got my sphere and I'm able to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hella jamming to this recently. Weirdly nostalgic for nothing in particular. https://link.deezer.com/s/33vL2c2DRnvHB1FeddTK0

Praise be to the opengl line strip primitive for letting you know your vertices are right before having to also define your indices, normals, vertex colors/uvs and all that crap

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116721112694366137 I just sent an email to my MP, get to work fellas

zany idea: underground bike highways where there are big fans continuously blowing so you always have a massive tailwind, allowing you to travel with great celerity.

I am now hardwired to click the least conspicuous button when a popup opens up upon visiting a new page.

Me, exploring dark-web-based social media because despite being a largely well-adjusted and non-problematic individual I believe in the right to privacy and the tools to protect it, hoping I'll get to interact with like-minded folks: [it's literally the most awful people imaginable] Well, fuck.

making a landlord unhappy increases the net utilitarian happiness of humanity, they count opposite

Rainy day today -> game dev. Got shadows working and just finished getting the Sun to look good (IMO). Getting pretty close to completion for the code that generates the game world. Next up is a topography editor so I can properly shape the terrain (so that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@lifewithtrees/116702722783383051 fuck yes

The most insidious lie of consumerism is defining us as "consumers". We've got opposable thumbs and a pattern-seeking brain that's so big it makes up a third of our energy consumption at rest. We're not drones who live to eat up whatever slop the machine serves us. We are creators. There is […]

I went to the laundromat for the first time today, and the washing machines were industrial models with mechanical switches and coin-operated. Shit was fucking magical. I don't ever want to touch a "smart" washing machine again. I never thought it was a good idea but this single stray breath of […]

cigars are fucking stupid

highly technical shitposting has to be my favourite form of humour But it is a road I must walk alone for the most part

Happy pride month y'all. Kill fascists with the power of love.

I wonder what the next IT bubble is gonna be about

okay y'all, using llms to write code costs more than paying humans to do the same. We should start a company that offers AI services for software development but behind the scenes it's regular devs doing regular work

Y'all, weed is addictive. It became apparent to me when I quit last year after the habit crept in during a darker chapter of my life. Since then I've been getting cravings every time I see someone smoking, even just cigarettes despite never having been a tobacco smoker. Lately it's been better […]

"lower-value human capital" sounds like it incel jargon but for money instead of sexism.

Random idea: a bigger submarine that can fit more billionaires

The machine is a farm.

who needs a slush fund when you can wait until winter to scrape some slush off the road and put it in a bucket which you'd then store in the freezer so you have a year-round supply or smth idk I'm not an economist

repeatedly sneaking into a construction site after hours to slowly carve an excavated boulder into the perfect stone step using traditional tools and then hauling it out to one's place of residence and placing it before the front door in architectural homage to the japanese kutsunugi-ishi

should be legal to slash the tires of douchebags who roll coal

I would be 100% onboard with sending billionaires to space if only they did us the courtesy of staying there.

Whenever someone is talking about fossile energy look to china https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69384-2 #china #battery #energy

That beat in the samurai jack episode where he turns into a chicken had no busniess being this sick. Shit's been living rent-free in my head for years now.

hot new idea: Transport As A Service. Like a car but it's huge and you don't have to maintain it or bother with it in general, it just takes you places. You can pay a monthly subscription and use it as much as you like.

i do in fact find it wisible when you say the name biggus dickus

Electron apps be like

who is this bee and why does she spell

Not really optimal to grade things on a scale of zero to ten but anything below six is a nope. I get that, from a linear perspective, it makes sense to have half (or so) of the scale be good and half of it be bad. But if something has been ruled not good enough to matter, it's kind of […]

Lots of people talking about buying solar panels. Alas if you look online there's a lot of retailers with all sorts of panels for sale, not all of which are honest. Want an easy way to check if the listed power output is plausible? Example using a 50w panel listed on Amazon. It's 370x820mm. Step […]

Used to be that being able to have stuff that links to other stuff recursively was a promise of infinite possibilities, nowadays it increasingly seems like infinite vulnerabilities.

As a non-native english speaker who as a child was into mythology, all people named "Seth" just remind me of the ancient egyptian god of chaos.

With scientology speedrunning it's probably only a matter of time before someone runs into tom cruise drinking the blood of street urchins

On today's hot topic in #czechia.

Game on

Was speaking with my (non-IT) dad this weekend and it came up that he was under the impression that OpenGL was related to OpenAI. Which, I can totally understand why someone not in the field would think that. So here's the answer to a question you (maybe) were afraid to ask: No, OpenAI is not […]

Fun bumblebee fact: They need to raise their flight muscles' temperature to about 30C in order to fly, which they do by shivering. Bumblebees often nest in burrows made and abandoned by small rodents, so while digging around with a shovel you might accidentally unearth a very groggy bumblebee […]