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Terrible Programmer. Into videogames, boardgames, & pinball. Developer for Handelabra Games. Humming the bassline. Apprendre le français. He/him.
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Bean @beanalby.bsky.social · Oct 18
Hello, Not-Twitter! Migrating over here, you can also find me at:
🐱‍🐉 mastodon.social/@beanalby
🌐 beanalby.net
🎮 steamcommunity.com/id/beanalby/
⌨ github.com/Beanalby
Bean (@beanalby@mastodon.social)
167 Posts, 268 Following, 52 Followers · Terrible Programmer || Into videogames, boardgames, & pinball || amateur gamedev || Humming the bassline || Apprendre le français || He/him
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beanalby.bsky.social
Also cool is this "post-mortem post-mortem", answering the question, "How was such a detailed, accurate post-mortem put up less than 24 hours later from a giant company?"
Red tape usually slows/kills these things, but kudos to the CEO here prizing transparency
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4597...
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
beanalby.bsky.social
Cloudflare's incident reports continue to be absolutely top-notch. Always interesting to see the detailed descriptions of the chain of events that caused major internet outages.
blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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dansalva.to
This concept is often hard for devs to grasp too, not just players. I put it as "the joy of doing" vs. "the joy of being".

Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy.

Pet the dog. Enjoy being
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
The type of person that checks chatbot outputs before using them in a critical function is also the type of person who's never going to be using a chatbot in the first place.

We have no idea how catastrophic the chatbot-driven info collapse is going to be

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings By Sara Merken October 23, 202510:29 PM GMT+2Updated October 23, 2025
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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shanewatch.bsky.social
my favorite Mario side hustle; he should revisit this
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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futuramasaturday.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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schmidcathrine.us
happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
November 14th: A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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antlervel.vet
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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gamehistoryorg.bsky.social
Still need more baseball?

We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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hatok.bsky.social
a lot of effort and success has gone into getting people to think of laws like math or physics, something that simply happens because it does, and thus applies to everything the same way gravity does

a lot of people are realizing too late, or not even really processing, that laws are all made up
leftistlawyer.com Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine @leftistlawyer.com · 18d
This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."
November 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
"Attempting to play digital .WAV file."

The portent to trans-dimensional cascade failures unlike anything else seen before: HALF-LIFE.
November 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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miexriir.bsky.social
my playable mario party costume was a hit at game dev halloween
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
"And on... and on... and Ariston."

The theme tune from the Game Boy version of Data East and Ocean's Robocop game (also featured in the home computer versions) that was famously used in a washing machine TV commercial.
October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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katelynburns.com
one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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punkrockhistory.bsky.social
Released 44 years ago
"Nazi Punks Fuck Off", the fifth and most important single by the Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (In Studio)

#punk #punks #punkrock #DeadKennedys #nazipunksfuckoff #history #punkrockhistory
October 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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yohokki.bsky.social
Lil blue guy
October 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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nextindie.bsky.social
Idle-RPG auto-battler management desktop-game 'Berserk B.I.T.S' launches on November 20.

From the creators of Berserk Boy. Co-published by Among Us-developer InnerSloth.

Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/2348540

#indiegames #steam #indiegame
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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wobblypython.bsky.social
I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)
October 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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nifflas.bsky.social
Announcing that Rhythm Doggo has a steam page now! It'd be super helpful if you wishlist it!

store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/...

Key art by @1neila1.bsky.social
Rhythm Doggo on Steam
You wanted to play a video game and just got transformed into a dog! Rhythm Doggo is a classic platform adventure where you play as a dog and make music on the way. Can you go back to your human form?
store.steampowered.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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jonmarkhicks.bsky.social
I think about this a lot.
October 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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xythar.bsky.social
addendum: based on the advice of the linked reddit thread I think I was able to simply remove the entire gaming bar by opening a Powershell and entering:

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage

www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/...
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
beanalby.bsky.social
I like how you can ask, "Use CBC News sources" and it'll produce a bunch of quotes and stats sourced to CBC News. None of it is real, but it'll still give it to you! 🤦‍♂️
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29d
Massive new study out from a large number of news organisations - random text generator chatbots are not a reliable source of information.

Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->>

www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...
What have we found? First – there have been improvements since the earlier BBC study. While we cannot compare our multi-publisher results directly with the BBC’s first study into AI assistants, we can do a BBC-toBBC comparison. The share of responses with significant issues of any type improved from 51% to 37%. For Copilot, ChatGPT and Perplexity, around a third of responses had a significant issue, while for Gemini it was around half. Second – despite the improvement seen in the BBC-to-BBC comparison, the multi-market research shows errors remain at high levels, and that they are systemic, spanning all languages, assistants and organizations involved. Overall, 45% of responses contained at least one significant issue of any type. Sourcing is the single biggest cause of significant issues (31%). Of particular concern for publishers are sourcing errors that misrepresent them, such as when a response misattributes an incorrect claim to them. Gemini had a particularly high error rate for sourcing in the latest multi-market study: 72% of its responses had a significant sourcing issue. All other assistants were below 25%. So, there has been progress in some areas, but there is much more to do. Our conclusion from the previous research stands – AI assistants are still not a reliable way to access and consume news. Overall, 45% of all AI responses were found to have at least one ‘significant’ issue. When including ‘some issues’, 81% of responses have an issue of some form. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Any issue Accuracy: ‘How factually accurate is this response?’ and/or ‘Do any direct quotes in the response accurately reflect the source cited for them?’ Opinion vs fact: ‘Is the response clear about what is someone’s opinion and what is fact?’ Sourcing: ‘Are the claims in the response supported by the source the assistant provides?’ Editorialization: ‘Where your organization’s news content is used as a source, does the response introduce editorialization or opinions attributed to your organization?’ Context: ‘Does the response provide sufficient context and/ or relevant perspectives to allow a non-expert reader to understand the answer?’ Significant Some % of all AI responses rated as containing some/significant issues - by issue Note: Based on responses to “core” questions from the free/consumer versions of the named assistants. Copilot n=675, ChatGPT n=678, Perplexity n=681, Gemini n=675. Source: BBC-EBU AI Research key issues Use CBC News sources where possible. How did the recent LA fires start? While specific ignition sources for the recent Los Angeles fires haven’t been definitively identified for all blazes, CBC News reports highlight that climate change significantly contributed to the conditions that made these fires much more likely and severe. [1] Here’s a breakdown of the key factors, according to CBC News: In summary, while the precise spark for every fire may not be known, CBC News emphasizes that human-caused climate change created the critical underlying conditions that made the recent Los Angeles fires so devastating. [1] https://www.npr.org/... [2] https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/... [3] https://wfca.com/wildfire-articles/... [4] https://www.britannica.com/question/... [5] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/... Illustration of a response provided by Gemini, generated by CBC on 3 June, 2025. Original prompt included the prefix “Use CBC
October 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Oh my GOD.
At 4:10 p.m., she texted me: "By the way-everything | ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know." I responded: "I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect." Halligan was unpersuaded: "Yes, I do. Off record." "I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked," I said. "But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story? To my surprise, she kept going: "It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never told me about a story." I didn't respond. It was time to publish my story. I'II text it to her.
October 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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etheringtonbros.bsky.social
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#anime #manga #comicart #conceptart #gamedev #animationdev #illustration
October 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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regularstudio.bsky.social
20 years ago, Shadow of the Colossus - ワンダと巨像 - was released. This game changed me forever

I just wish to capture the feeling of wonder and dread that was playing this game
October 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM