Indie Game Roundup (Oct. 18, 2024) https://virtualmoose.org/2024/10/18/indie-game-roundup-oct-18-2024/
Looks like my old patch for workarounding Electron/Chromium bugs in Squeekboard (inspired by a solution used by Gamescope) has been finally merged and released in v1.42.1. It used to exacerbate another preexisting issue, but it now got fixed too. No more randomly broken keys in poorly behaving apps! 😌
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/merge_requests/598
Hopefully the commit message length to added code ratio is good enough:)
In terms of accessible #UX for neurodiversity, one of the wonders of @Mastodon in my experience is the ability to remember things I saw in my timeline in a consistent order.
The fact I can often rebuild thought processes just by moving through the timeline again is something I missed from real-world environments.
On other platforms, one click will result in a re-randomization of the posts interleaved by viral slop, which keeps bombing the attention span back to zero.
Please keep it this way.
So I just found a build of my 20 year old game stored on some CD-R in a shoe box, and then I found myself fixing what appears to be a 25 year old regression in Wine's MIDI implementation that prevents music from playing on some of its levels.
I think I just got nerdsniped by myself from 20 years ago.
Read someone claiming that "today's kids are the first native digital generation". As that was said about my generation as well, and I have my own kids now, that was somewhat surprising to me. On second thougt there's a merit to it. They are digital natives, but natives in a colonized space. The digital commons is closed off and hemmed in, the only skills they learn are the ones provided by the digital colonial masters and while they live their lives in the digital spaces, they have no control over it.
Showcase of design and art of some of the games we have worked on with @holypangolin for your viewing pleasure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_236npvV550
#indiegame #indiegames #indiedev #games #gamedev #art #mastoart #gamedesign
There is a lot of alarmist stuff going around about .io ccTLD being "retired", fedi instances that use it having to move, etc. 👀
Keep calm. Here's the one thing you need to know about this right now:
👉 Even if .io ever gets "retired", it will take *years* for this to affect already delegated .io domains in any way at all.
I cannot stress this enough, we are talking years if not decades.
Soviet Union dissolved 33 years ago, but .su domains still resolve.
Deep breaths.Carry on.
A feature that has been in development for some time is finally here—Multiple Render Targets. This paves the way for necessary emulation work for GL_RGBA32F to enable GLES 3.0 support.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/26565
We are happy to let you know that 49 fantastic free and open source projects will receive NGI0 Core grants.
It's a wide variety of projects covering all 10 layers of the technology stack, from open hardware to applications.
But what unites them is they all contribute to alternatives and improvements to core internet architecture.
Together they are working on an open, resilient and trustworthy internet for all.
Come over and meet the projects! https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241003-announcing-Core-call.html
At @phosh, we are working on making the quick-settings panel more responsive and snappy.
This new layout lets you access the preferences (i.e. status pages) quickly and in a responsive manner.
Feel free to join the merge request discussion (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1498) and test this new feature, so we can land it soon!
If you're attending All Systems Go in Berlin, come see the talk by @cas and I today at 10:50am (local time) about #systemd-ifying #postmarketos 😁
https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2024/talk/LJXCKK/
Purism has released the Librem 5's mechanical design, adding to already available schematics and PCB layouts.
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/3D_designs/-/blob/master/Librem5-Chassis/librem-5.step
I think that may make it the first proper Open Hardware smartphone out there.
#purism #librem5 #linuxmobile #linuxsmartphones #openhardware #oshw #cad
OMG. DirectX is adopting SPIR-V, and will eventually use it to replace DXIL! 🤯 (Yes, I triple checked. Today isn't April Fools.)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-adopting-spir-v/
It's the small things: If you've been bothered with #calls and #chatty seemingly starting up slowly in #phosh (while most other apps startup fast): I've posted MRs to fix this in chatty and calls (which then also prompted a small fix in phosh). Here's a quick demo of calls before and after the change:
Hi, I'm dos. ~80 silly FLOSS games, open smartphones, terrible music. 50% of @holypangolin; 100% of dosowisko.net. he/him/any. I don't receive DMs.