I've migrated over to Cosmic DE today, with the release of the Beta. So far so good! With this, I have a new immutable image based on BlueBuild that is cosmic-first. I haven't tried anything complex yet like tablets, but hopefully it goes well. #cosmic

I think I see the Mayor (pictured here) and the Governor in the back of the crowd. #portland #pdx

Finished Echoes of Wisdom tonight. I standby that the game might be a bit underrated. But by the end, I think it could have done a lot more with Zelda's powers and that the idea could be revisited with some stronger design. #zelda #echoesofwisdom #nintendo

I think it's crazy to say this about a Nintendo game. But TLOZ:Echoes of Wisdom might be an underrated game. I think the game is much better than I was expecting since it seemed to come out to short-lived praise last year. Pleasantly surprised. #nintendo #zelda

Hmm... I can't get Win11 installer working in QEMU/KVM setup but Win10 does. For some reason the windows 11 installer looks at the processor and immediately crashes with the error code `UNSUPPORTED PROCESSOR`. This is even after ensuring TPM is enabled and on my hardware. Interesting […]

Crazy how I can't download the ISO version of Windows; it gives me an error code every time. Browser changes don't matter. Looks like they block IP ranges and mine is included for whatever reason. They forced me to run the media creation tool, which thankfully does work.

Imagine a version of “The Boy Who Cried ‘Wolf’”—except the townspeople continued to listen to the boy for years—shooting anyone he called a “wolf”—and *stopped* listening to anyone who dared to say he was lying.

Is there a federated internet? As in, a web of server hosts that federate with each other and host a distributed DNS between these servers via a virtual, encrypted network adapter? This is a thought I had regarding the slow death of the internet and what alternatives could exist. It feels like […]

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-09-04-trump-deal-lets-intel-move-factories-overseas-sen-warren-equity-stake/ I warned about this exact scenario a month ago when the rumors were circulating that Intel would be partially bought by the federal government. #oregon #uspolitics #intel

Would anyone recommend sticking with Monstress to someone who bounced off 2/3rds of the way through the first issue? I think the art is fantastic but something about the story didn't grip me as strongly as I would have liked. #comics

Copy in game, share with friends!💬 Play the demo here: https://duck-reaction.itch.io/bloom-buddy #cozy #gamedev #art

The fact that Google may be ending sideloading apps on Android forever is another reason we should donate more to @postmarketOS With 1-2 more years of work, it could reach a state similar to Desktop Linux or Android ROMs, where everything works, at least on a good number of devices. Can't […]

@eoinoneill With a company that amount of money and relative stability, it'd be neat if it was like a whole support department of designers and technical writers who analyze and catalog features from their 50+ year software library into an internal searchable database

I'm always curious how Nintendo structures their games to transparently reuse game systems. For example, I'm 99% sure that the DKB rock throwing shares some kind of codebase with TLOZ:BotW/TotK and I wonder if it's just an example of composition over inheritance or if there's some other solution […]

Any artists on mastodon who sell their art as stickers in a pack? I'm almost done with a mouse sticker bash but need some more filler. (The stickers I got from events weren't enough.) #art #mastoart #stickers

[So I finished DK Bananza this week. It was definitely something! Spoilers...] It's kind of crazy just how much love Nintendo shared to every era and legacy of Donkey Kong while still making a game that felt entirely unique. They also took a lot of care in making the voxels more than just a […]

Anyone have any suggestions for a brush pen that uses a refillable internal cartridge that's compatible with fountain pen inks like Noodler's Bulletproof line? #art #ink #illustration

The state of Oregon should buy a minority share of Intel before the federal government takes action and tries to buy it outright. It's incredibly important to Oregon governance that ownership of Intel and its business operations stay in the greater state of Oregon. #intel #oregon #uspol

Collective Shout are now allegedly targeting safe-for-work lgbtq games in their mass censorship campaign. Please remember to support creators affected in any way you can. Complain to the appropriate parties as well. #itch #steam #collectiveshout […]

I love how GitHub exploads itself right when our meeting starts. 🙃 That's classic.

Listen... I understand the #gnome philosophy of wanting less themes. After all, sometimes decoration and interface needs to be consistent in order to help facilitate computer UX. Having said that...

End of an era, AOL is discontinuing dialup internet. Yes, I used it for 2 years (2001-2003) and it was painful, although dialup is slow, but it required using the AOL Desktop app just to get on, which of course uses quite a bit of resources […]

Don't ask ChatGPT for health advice. Seriously. @404mediaco reports on a man who gave himself bromism, a disorder that can cause psychosis and hallucinations as well as gastrointestinal and dermatological effects, because he had replaced salt with sodium bromide based on information gathered […]

One feedback with my limited peertube experience: I feel like the official android / mobile app should have better channel management tools. Since video recording from phones is so common these days, it would be nice if that experience was more streamlined. #peertube #fediverse

The game does look pretty good. Looking forward to the rest, but the start is strong if a bit easy. #nintendo #switch2 #donkeykongbananza

Ferry struggle is real. #evo #evo2025 #gbfvs

Setting up the Switch 2 while watching CVS top 8. 👍 #nintendo

Until Valve announces another steam deck or equivalent, though, I'm gonna have to try to reduce game stuff a bit. I have other hobbies and interests to fund! lol

So I ended up buying the Switch 2. I can justify it considering my current job, but also economic uncertainty and other factors made it clear that now won't be any worse than later. #nintendo #switch2

I've been using Floorp for a while as my linux desktop browser (firefox alternative.) While it's been decent so far, I'd love to hear other firefox-spin offs that are forward looking. I've been using firefox nightly on my Windows development machine and there are some features that I feel are […]

I find it amusing how infrequently Nintendo updates people on the Switch 2 queue status for people who wanted to try buying directly from them. I would have expected at least one email every 2 weeks saying where I am in the queue. #gaming

I think that the power plays made by payment processors to censor retailers and restrict artistic expression illustrates a key point: Institutional banking is granted far too much power over society and are eager to exploit it for political gain. #steam #itch #finance

🌟 The Fediverse isn’t just online anymore — it is coming IRL! And it is happening in 9 days from now! 🧠 Big ideas. 🤝 Real connections. 🎙️ Conversations that matter. 🎟️ Get your tickets: https://lu.ma/p4bbb941 🌐 FediCon 2025 📅 August 1–2 📍 Vancouver, Canada ℹ️ Full details […]

Hmmm.... This has been blank for quite a long time now. Is there something I'm missing about the trending news section? #mastodon #meta

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. A true rock icon, ever a cultural identity with recognition around the world and will be missed dearly. My favorite song of his is "Mr Crowley" -- truly a classic.

It's really disappointing that etsy doesn't have a local-first priority for sorting. Also, seems like the filters are restricted to countries! In the US that's basically meaningless as I would prefer to buy in-state (or from nearby states, at least) to support local small shops when possible. #etsy

My pet project is finished: I remastered all of #SimCity2000 ’s MIDI files for today’s listening sensibilities and cleaned up a few bits and bobs. Hope you like it! 😄 🎧 Listen for free at https://www.sephcarissa.com/music/simcity-2000-remastered/ 🎵 #gamemusic

Saw a special showing of Gunbuster at the Hollywood Theater tonight. Awesome community event and a great reminder to support your local small movie theater! #anime #portland #cinema #gunbuster #gainax #film

As someone who uses em dashes all the time --- or close to all the time, I'll have you know that I'm offended. It is a shame that people are shunning punctuation style by associating it with AI. On the other hand, fuck AI so it's cool. Em dashes can die for the greater good.

N V reporting on a guy on Vermont refurbishing payphones and setting them up on cell dead zones for free. I kinda want to give him all my money. Thats is fucking awesome.

When you're socially busy, but still eagerly looking forward to your next chance at playing Night Reign. 😅 #eldenring #nightreign

So I've bridged my #mastodon to #bluesky using bridgy fed, but I have no clue how any of this works or how it appears to people on bluesky interaction wise. But it's much better for me than trying to maintain two accounts for now. Hopefully someday we'll have real federation.

How's that AI coding going for you? Ah... I see. Wired: McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’ "... Carroll and Curry, hackers with a long track record of independent security testing, discovered that simple web-based […]

Watched the first episode of City The Animati👀n yesterday. Obviously comedy can be hard to translate and it can be a mixed bag crossing cultures. But, there's plenty of funny gags as is and the show is immaculately done from a animation and art direction stand point. I honestly don't know if […]

Opened nostr for the first time in a while, and saw I had some DMs... including this one from a fake David Sacks. The account (only opened a few weeks ago) appears to autorepost all of Sacks' actual posts from Twitter. I've never interacted with Sacks in my life. It's obviously some sort of scam.

Now that my game released on steam, I am looking for a new long term opportunity to work as a game designer. If you need a (freelance) Game designer, hit me up! here you can see my cool stuff http://dominik-dammer.de/ #gamedesign #gamedev #gamedeveloper #gdc #gamescom #gamedevjob #indiedev […]

I think we’re starting to see a breakdown of trust in some of the larger players in the open social web. Many of you didn’t trust Meta from the start about Threads; I gave them the benefit of the doubt, but it’s 100% clear to me now that Meta is not serious about federation. Likewise we see […]