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aeva

I miss forums. Someone should write a phpbb clone in Rust so that it'll be [i]completely bug free this time[/i]

aeva

#poll you found the lost treasure of the dread pirate what's his name: gold!

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Poll

haul it over to the "CA$H 4 GOLD" I guess
18
35.3%
gold!
33
64.7%
51 people voted.
Voting ended 24 Mar 2023 at 6:31.
aeva

A funny bit of trivia from the GPL's wikipedia page: Area Man Violates Own License

In 2011, it was noticed that GNU Emacs had been accidentally releasing some binaries without corresponding source code for two years, in opposition to the intended spirit of the GPL, resulting in a copyright violation. Richard Stallman described this incident as a "very bad mistake", which was promptly fixed. The FSF did not sue any downstream redistributors who also unknowingly violated the GPL by distributing these binaries.
aeva

A question for open source licensing nerds out there: has anyone ever been taken to court over a GPL violation for anything other than the requirements involving the mere availability of source code?

Jeffrey

@aeva Funny bit of trivia: that isn't actually violation. The GPL only requires to make the source code available, and only to those you distributed binaries to. It does not require you distribute it with the binaries nor publicly post it somewhere.

They'd only be in violation if someone downloaded the binary and requested the source and it was refused.

aeva

#poll what does "SO" mean

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Poll

Significant Other
88
47.1%
Shared Object
20
10.7%
Stack Overflow
21
11.2%
it's just the word "so" but louder
58
31%
187 people voted.
Voting ended 24 Mar 2023 at 1:41.
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I Forget

@aeva One more option, because two might be the loneliest number since the number one, but three's either a charm or a crowd, and both sound great!:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.so

Sergio Bonfiglio

@aeva Disappointed at how low Stack Overflow is.

Lots of coders in denial

aeva

lol Tax Heaven 3000 is on itch now after being removed from steam taxheaven3000.itch.io/tax-heav

Kinky Kobolds

@aeva Either this game is a high-effort shitpost or one of the most clever phishing schemes I've encountered in a while.

aeva

anything cool happen today, GDC or otherwise?

aeva

If I had a smart watch I'd be like "hold on let me check my swatch" all the time. However, I cannot stand to have anything on my wrists, so you will just have to pretend.

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visy

@aeva remember internet time, wish that was actually a thing

Mauve 👁💜

@aeva Hear me out. Smart pocket watch on a chain which you keep in your front pocket.

ideaPDish

@aeva
You could have a temporary tattoo. Its almost like not wearing a watch. Better yet, noone seems to have pocket swatches.

aeva

I'm attempting to build MuseScore for the purpose of preventing it from emitting midi program change events. However building MuseScore from source means that actually right now I am just waiting for the QT Online Installer for Windows to download and install QT 5.15.2 before I can do anything else.

Ho boy I have never had a piece of software make me to agree to the terms and conditions of the general public license version 3 so hard what the actual fuck.

aeva

Somehow The Qt Company is managing to rake in 34.3 million eurobucks a year by threatening to hunt down and brutally dismember GPL violators though, so I guess their methods work.

Sven

@aeva For open-source, I recommend using github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall to download/install it

Mat

@aeva I think Qt handles this really poorly. On Linux, I was able to install it through my package manager without an account, and spent a while developing a program. I have yet to hear of anyone successfully build it on Windows, despite multiple attempts, all due to the Qt installer. I have since abandoned development because of this.

aeva

why is it that audio software all looks like this

The screen shot of "Pure Data" the program's wikipedia page.  It is a sea of incomprehensible widgets that I can never hope to comprehend.
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Steve Canon

@aeva in a parallel universe, audio software won the interface wars and now all UIs look like this.

aeva

I made some speculative fan art for the realy neat game my friend @clinkscales is prototyping right now :3

(disclaimer: the significant creative liberties taken by my silly lunch time drawing may differ wildly from the actual game's themes, characters, art, and gameplay)

a ballpoint pen doodle of a retro car with a fangy mouth and bat wings.  It appears to be piloted by a vampire wearing sunglasses.  Text reads: "The Flying Vampire Car: the car that needs to feed"
aeva

what is the best flavor of candy and why is it "red"

aeva

Remember that google ai thing that turned everything into fucked up psychedelic fractal dogs? I want a pair of AR glasses that does that.

You put on the dog glasses and look at your friend. She starts talking, but all you see is cacophony of technicolor dogs opening their little mouths, revealing even more dogs.

I don't want a search engine that writes tons of pointless email, I want dog glasses.

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mybarkingdogs

@aeva YES I remember that. And I went looking for it again but now it's not google and just a paid service.

I wish someone else would start that again - that was my favorite form of AI art to play with - altering existing images into psychedelic ones

visy

@aeva literally day 1 ar glasses thing for me to build would be a pixel art filter for reality. Where are the damn glasses already

aeva

Do I know anyone who's used Cinder? I am in need of opinions and general information.

EDIT: The C++ library for creative coding.

aeva

Amiga was a good name for a computer. It makes two important things clear:

1. computer is girl

2. computer is friend

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Lexa

@aeva it would be better if it weren't LIES

(sorry, am in a "going to go live off-grid in the forest" game dev mood)

aeva

I love geometry processing diagrams. Here's a picture from www dot cgal dot org of David Michelangelo being bool'd many times with a prefab shipping container, a normal thing to want to do.

A picture from www dot cgal dot org of David Michelangelo being bool'd many times with a prefab shipping container
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gudenau

@aeva To be fair it's a good way to illiterate that, they are two very different forms with a lot of texture.

Vint Prox

@aeva
Doing things with boolean is almost always fun! :rickhey:

aeva

Confused by Linux? I made this handy dandy chart to help clear up the confusion! #GNU #Linux #OpenSource

A Linux Alignment Chart, depicting a 3x3 matrix where one axis is "Terminology purist, neutral, and radical" and the other is "Origin purist, neutral, and radical".

Origin Purist, Terminology Purist: Linux 6.2-rc1 as distributed by kernel.org is a Linux

Origin Purist, Terminology Neutral: Linus's Linux boot floppy was a Linux

Origin Purist, Terminology Radical: Git is a Linux

Origin Neutral, Terminology Purist: GNU HERD is a Linux

Origin Neutral, Terminology Neutral: FreeDOS is a LInux

Origin Neutral, Terminology Radical: GNU is a Linux

Origin Radical, Terminology Purist: A CUDA shader is a Linux

Origin Radical, Terminology Neutral: Windows is a Linux

Origin Radical Terminology Radical: Crypto-currency is a Linux
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myrmepropagandist

@aeva

Reminds me of the fediverse/mastodon terminology issues.

Right now *most* human peoples who don't think a mastodon is a big hairy elephant think it's a social network. Just one. And ALL of us are on it now. Yes even the freaks on misskey, pixelfed, digimon and diglet et al.

We need to take care in choosing the right battle at the right time. Language will expand as more people connect to the fediverse.

(sometimes I call the fediverse "the main network with mastodon and more")

Edward Clayton Andrews

@aeva
As someone who's been using various Linux flavours for years, there is no error here.
@dfeldman

aeva

now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it

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mirabilos

@aeva someone in my IRC channel was totally gushing about it and how “creative”[sic!] it is yesternight and did not want to be educated

Marc

@aeva look at us, we're all like geologists now: excited by dumb rocks 😬

aeva

i think books would be better if you could download mods for them, like skyrim

Robin Metcalfe 🍪

@aeva Tried that, my book ended up looking like a more realistic tree

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