social.solarpunk.au

social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Wadjuk people of the Nyoongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

Announcing support for World Builder-based games!

After many years of development, games made with World Builder are ready for testing.

The World Builder creation system was released for the original Macintosh and was extremely popular among developers.

As such, we're announcing that over 160 games built on the engine are ready for public testing in ScummVM.

https://www.scummvm.org/news/20250822/

What sorcery is this... a 3D platformer on the ZX Spectrum? 😮

Cubix (2025), an entry in the https://yrgb.org competition.

Page Count : 1119836
Domain Count : 2724

gemini://search.solarpunk.au/statistics

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/search.solarpunk.au/statistics

Anyone going to FOSDEM next month?

"The modern-day fediverse is an impressive achievement, but it also leaves many issues to be addressed. Servers can go down, content can disappear and users can lose access to their identity. Authorization mechanisms are under-specified and rich interactions are fairly limited. This talk, by the two primary editors of the ActivityPub specification, explores where we think the fediverse should go ..."

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5128-today-s-fediverse-a-good-start-but-there-s-more-to-do/

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Hitting the back walls of my favorite hero of Greek mythology, call that banging the Odussy.

This looks interesting..a Star Fox-like game that's as close to what a new version would be like without violating copyright:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1921490/Wild_Blue/

index finished rebuilding, restarting the service now, please expect some down time while it restarts...

Solidarity is our sword and shield ✊

Today was powerful. Our organisers met with comrades from the @beldensawyertenants Association to share stories, strategies, and the unshakable belief that a better world is possible.

From across so called Australia to the USA, our struggles are connected. We’re all fighting the same system:

- Where we pay too much in rent to fund a landlord’s next investment.
- Where we get sick from mould so they can drive a nicer car.
- Where we struggle to put food on the table so their plate can be fuller.

The fight for safe, affordable, and appropriate housing is a global one. And together, across borders, we are building the power to win.

screenshot of zoom call where members of both unions met to discuss Strategies and how to overcome obstacles. Logos of both organisations are located on the blank space.

I want to argue that community good-old-fashioned-AI is what modern indie itch.io (i.e. non-LLM) game developers do and are concerned with and that people who are interested in McCarthian circumscription and computer agents learning and making decisions belong in the world of and that indie gamedev can naturally connect their game logic/visualization with decades of study on basically-what-their-games-could-be-like.

Next time someone tries to tell you that independent media is just misinformation, and only state-corporate news media are fair and balanced, show them this;

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage

Yes, huge and growing numbers of influence operations pass themselves off as "independent media". You have to be sceptical about both the honesty and the competence of any given channel, read widely, compare and contrast, etc.

But *exactly* the same is true of state-corporate media.

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“I got a dark matter cat.”

“A whatnow?!”

“It’s a cat, but it only interacts via the weak force. And gravity of course”

“What’s the point of that?”

“Hypo allergenic. I can’t have normal cats or i sneeze constantly”

“But what can it *do*”

“Sits on my lap and emits soothing gravity purrs.”

“Nice, I guess”

“Oh and occasionally induces radioactive decay in objects on the coffee table.”

the world needs a 76 cylinder radial engine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4x-qZVmWAU

@vidak I certainly I think we could have a better community, better online support!

Too many of us are righteous about our own tastes, & are vocal about it...

i think about the on-boarding process to free software / linux (whatever) a lot.

perhaps the difficulty curve is too steep--despite our lack of trying to address this.

if the curve is too steep, do we lower the curve? or better equip people to tackle the challenges?

at this point i cannot help but think the problem cannot be approached on an individual basis.

we need a community, no-one is an island, we are not robinson crusoes...

Israel/Gaza, genocide, starvation

Famine confirmed in Gaza City is 'failure of humanity', UN chief says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05ed5rgld3o

Illustration by Scott Listfield of a UFO emitting a beam of light. Text reads "Leaking classified documents about alien spacecraft to the War Thunder forums to shake things up"

good morning fedi! 🌄

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