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The multiplayer, or the lack there of, at the moment is so utterly broken and so lacking of being properly made that for a long time, I was just not bothering with it. Seeing it as something unnecessary. Something that does not need to be touched, because other things, like the...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/a_rant_about_making_a_multiplayer_game

1985-03-20 - Emacs 13 released (initial public release, announced on Usenet)

FORTY YEARS OF #GNU #EMACS

https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/emacs/history.html

Fedi #GNU #Linux community: Do any of you know how to get a Mandinka language keyboard option on Android, ideally to be used in Signal?

The site anythingtranslate.com is so far the only site I've found that can do English to Mandinka translation.

I want to help a friend in the Gambia set up his phone such that he can switch the keyboard from English to Mandinka (the symbols in Mandinka are not in the same alphabet).

From: blenderdumbass . org

And I'm happy to tell you that Speed Dreams announced today that they are finally moving to Git. This is huge!

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/huge__speed_dreams_is_now_on_git

#GNU and the #FSF have been fighting for copyleft the past decades. But if you look at their financial statement, you’ll see that their paid staff are just a dozen people. All the others are volunteers.

The Tor project alone has more employees than the FSF. Github has almost 6000 employees. Six thousand.

So the advocates for #copyleft must be us. We can’t point at the FSF and say “they didn’t do it”. They provide resources. We have to use them to protect our freedom as users.

Did you know that the #FSF has a Friends membership tier? It doesn't have all the benefits of the standard or student associate membership tiers, but it does include the option to receive a USB membership card with #Trisquel #GNU/Linux, an FSF membership badge, access to the member forum, and some other perks, all while supporting #SoftwareFreedom. Read more about the Friends tier: https://u.fsf.org/1m6

From: blenderdumbass . org

A few days ago I had told you that I'm stopping with making the police station in my game Dani's Race because it had a Spaghetti Code Problem. The main() function in the Main_Update.py file was 1683 lines of code long and contained way too many things in it. At the moment, the same function ...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/so_i_cleaned_up_some_spaghetti_from_dani_s_race

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With all the progress that has been done with liberating the digital space there is a sense of self defeating, depression. A kind of defense mechanism of sorts. As if the people settled for something and gave up trying to do anything else. Which in itself causing lack of morale, lack of vision, and with i...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_incels_of_computing:_the_depressive_defense_mechanisms_of_free_software

#STREAMING #LIVE

https://peer.madiator.cloud/w/bvv2ZXp1JWSBP9Ddmnf2JN

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Most Free / Libre Software projects are maintained either by strong communities, or through some kind of donation system. Libre Games struggle with both aspects. There are community driven games, but those lack vision and coherent style, because different people contribute differently, on...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/libre_games_and_making_money:_introducing_petitions

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We all love some mayhem when it comes to playing games. And nothing makes car games more satisfying than damage models. RockStar Games understood it early on, and all GTA games have breakable cars. Today some of the most popular car games like BeamNG.drive holding on a reali...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/making_breakable_cars_in_video_games

#DanisRace version 2025-01-19 was released! The petition is over. Thank you very much for signing it.

https://blenderdumbass.org/petitions/release:_dani_s_race_v2025-01-19

No billboards. No Super Bowl ads. No CEO on stage promising "one more thing." Yet Linux quietly became the backbone of modern technology. It runs on 96% of the world’s top servers, powers Android smartphones, controls smart TVs, and even guides rovers on Mars. From financial systems to gaming consoles, Linux is everywhere, just not where the average consumer sees it.

The secret? Open source collaboration. While corporations fought to lock users into walled gardens, Linux grew through innovation, adaptability, and a global community of developers who believed software should be free and unrestricted. Even tech giants that once dismissed it, Microsoft, Apple, and Google, now rely on Linux based systems to keep their services running.

Linux didn’t win with marketing hype. It won because it works.

#Ubuntu is moving away from GNU coreutils to Rust-based uutils coreutils with Ubuntu 25.10. There are two big differences with this move:

1. uutils coreutils is MIT licensed, not GPL.
2. Obviously, it's written in Rust, a memory-safe compiled language, unlike C.

IMO, this is a good move.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995