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🌏 meanjin, aus
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interests: low poly, pixel art, godot, programming, autoluw, degrowth, modal collective, hytale […]

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I'm a little sus about the #Hytale modding infrastructure. Like if "no client mods" (which is a lil problematic but not the point) means even the mods ¿installed? by joining the server can't execute on the client (and instead has to wait for the server to respond), then we are kinda cooked.
January 11, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy
How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

#github #floss
How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
ploum.net
January 5, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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gusseting.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Hey Australia, wanna get off spotify?
Freegal is offered via libraries, where you can stream 24-7 and download 5 songs a week. There's 2.6 million albums, including the Sony catalog, Black Flag, Husker Du and harder to find compilation albums, which is how @mick_collins band Dirtbombs snuck in 🎉 […]
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mastodon.social
January 4, 2026 at 3:31 AM
sammypanda.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
it's no FOSS but, music recap 🎶
January 4, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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Free Venezuela 🇻🇪
January 3, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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If google ends or limits sideloading do gplv2/gplv3 projects have to stop distributing to android since it would violate the requirement to install?

#askfedi #licensing #foss
December 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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i love RISC-V how do I get involved
December 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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sharksonaplane.mastodon.sandwich.net.ap.brid.gy
PSA: posts you see on your feed, especially from people you DON'T KNOW, are not tailored for your eyes only and don't have to be perfect for you! If someone is soliciting random opinions (i.e. survey, etc.) they will explicitly state this!

Some people (not just OnHere, but ABSOLUTELY OnHere) […]
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December 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
sammypanda.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
it so silly how bad vulkan is on windows still ⛓️‍💥
December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Rust in linux plz use GPL 🥺
December 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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i feel like there needs to be a cleverer solution to GPUs rendering high resolution, the performance drop is huge even on some very power hungry devices 🤔
December 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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@joshbal4 im ip limited from the government metereology website :3 twins
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Federation isn’t just a feature, it’s how we reject oppression by design.

In the EU, Big Centralised Tech is facing fines for selling verification and hiding ads. At Mastodon, we’re building something different: a space where no one buys influence and there […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Four colourful cartoon mastodons stand together on grass, each with a speech bubble. The illustration shows diverse voices speaking up and building something together.
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
sammypanda.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
not the 5% house deposit scheme correlating to an immediately steeper increase in house prices 👀

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-03/investors-versus-first-home-buyers-flock-back-to-property-market/105943356

almost like the government knew it would cause house prices to go up, but saw "more […]
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aus.social
December 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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[UQ report on short-term rental accommodation]

"Some of the key findings from the review of economic impact of STRA indicates STRA offer local residents a form of home business to assist with housing cost. This is particularly true of hosted stays. STRA have been shown to support additional […]
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aus.social
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
sammypanda.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
im just a celebrity like that 💅

#gnome
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December 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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do you like my menu idea? :D

it a spooky game~~

the lines indicate darker areas (the background with the house is dark in general)

idk if im using the animation arrow thing right, but the timeline lines show how fast moving the element is!

see alt text for more explainin ^_^
A videogame menu prototype for a game called "Worrow at the Window". It is written on a pink small whiteboard. It has a slightly diagonal left-aligned oval window of less-dark background in the middle where the title text is vertically aligned on ("at the", is on the same line and shifts very slowly to the right before eventually fading and repeating). In the background across the entire screen affected by the gradually darker and darker ring as we move from the inner oval to the edges of the screen. The house in the background is just a silly little plain house with two windows and a door. The title text and menu items are marked as fade-in. The title text is marked to fade in before the menu items. The menu items are on the right in the darkest corner of the screen (due to the placement of the less-dark oval) and rise fairly quickly from out the bottom of the screen as they fade in. The menu items say "Play", "Tweak", and "Quit". The O's of the "Worrow" part of the title text is a window itself.
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
sammypanda.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
not peertube automatically converting emoticons to emojis :sob:
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
sammypanda.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Hytale, Outlander archer screenshot! 🫡
A hostile npc stands towards the camera in a stern stance, at a 45 degree position. It is on a wooden ledge in a snowy village the sinks into the background, only backgrounded furthee by snowy large trees. The NPC has a blue hood, a wooden ominous mask where the eyes are only identified by green lights; shirtless with shoulder pads, criss-crossing straps across its chest secured by a glowing diamond chest-piece. The NPC has pale white skin, metal cuffs on wrists, bulky brown pants, with shin height boots. The NPC is wielding a bow in the lowered position, that is reinforced by the same metal on its wrists.
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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noooooooo

"OpenAI is holding a launch in Sydney this morning. It'll be attended by politicians, the bosses of several major Australian firms including Commonwealth Bank, Coles and data centre company NextDC. Earlier this week, the federal government unveiled its national AI strategy, including […]
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aus.social
December 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
sammypanda.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Hytale UI peek! :ablobcatbongo:
Hytale main menu. Has 111 debug warnings in the far top right in a very small transparent yellow box. In the top right, there is a blue and fancily embellished box displaying the username Simon, which is quite a bit larger than the name itself potentially adjusted for the max username length. The background of the main menu has a large flat mountain foregrounded by a forest that wraps to the right, foregrounded by a river stream that is depressed lower than the majority of the greenspace. On the left and closest side in 3D space to the camera is an area with leaves and flowers instead of trees, it dips in the middle coming towards the camera. In the absolute foreground of the background are complex purple-white flowers the height of the hip and width of the body. Within a clear space between these leaves and flowers is a sort of natural platform that shows what appears to be your player model standing at roughly 15° rotation away from the menu on the left. The menu entries on the left contain a large logo that protrudes from the dark blue left panel which fades left to right. Within the dark blue left panel proper are the text entries as follows: Worlds, Minigames, Servers, My Avatar, a large vertical gap, and at the bottom of the screen within the same panel, Settings, and Quit. This text is capitalised, it's also more blocky than usual fonts but not extremely so, it has a mix of gamer/rpg influence. The player model has blonde hair, yellow shirt, black attire, rolled sleeve This is also the menu, as described previously. The difference in this image is the player has a different outfit in a different environment. This environment is a ruins/desert one. There is a skull on the left, dry foliage on thr right. A pathway diagonally from the camera to the background with the player standing at the slight right facing rotation on it. The rest of the background shows some maybe only recently abandoned impressive village ruins. The player model has brown skull boots, thick yellow socks rolled over showing brown lining, blue jeans with stitches on the knees covered largely by the socks, a skull decoration triangular on front of hips tied with a yellow fabric with the end hanging on the players right hip. The player is blonde with metal shoulder guards, a loose browner wine red shirt, a brown belt barely visible above the decoration, a seam that travels windingly across the red short from the right upper rib to the left lower rib and then a similar stitch seam around their left sleeve, the sleeves are rolled to 3 quarter length. Finally, the player has a yellow bandana around the neck hanging lowest at the front, it's a similar texture to the fabric the pelvis decoration is seemingly tied with. The sky is a dull blue, dominated by a large searing sun that puts the two elements in the distance in a haze. This is the world selection menu. It has the small Hytale logo, just the 'H', in the top right extruding from the top panel which is a dark blue segment lined with a gold fine line at the bottom to separate. The entries go horizontally as follows: Worlds, Minigames, Servers, My Avatar, Settings. On the far right in this panel is the same user image and text box as the main menu but now integrated into the bar with only the circular user image extruding slightly. Below this panel is a left aligned, but 10% margin from left, yellow gold dark to light vertical gradient text "Select a world", below it in gray discreet text is "Choose a saved world or start a new one". Below this is a gold line that goes the entire width minus the horziontal margins. Below this are world screenshots with names on the bottom left, followed by when it was last accessed in a blue chin panel. The worlds are as follows: Testing stuff, Cursebreakers.., I have a gun lol, do not show this to reddit. All the world names are capitalised. The worlds also have a grey-white block in the bottom right corner, maybe to signify the gamemode. The background the worlds are on are a bluish-blacked out semi-transparent overlay showing the world background from the menu. At the very bottom of the screen at the very right are two elements. One shows a mouse right click icon and says "edit world", the other has a relatively light blue background with text saying "create world"
December 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
sammypanda.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
how do you get ppl/your friends to make a fun lil game with, i feel bad cuz everyone is busy with their real jobs?

i am trying to make a list of tasks and share it and then highlight ones they might like to do, but i think they don't want to but are jus shrugging to be polite. Like i can do […]
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November 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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@dodgycoffee Hytale early access woop woop (canada; jan 13, 2026) https://hytale.com/news/2025/11/hytale-early-access-january-13-2026

#Hytale #earlyaccess
Hytale Early Access: January 13, 2026
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November 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Simon, Hytale CEO (Twitter: https://fxtwitter.com/simon_hypixel/status/1991422415239352532?s=46) "Working on locking down the release date ASAP. We currently need to run hardware tests, wrap up legal docs, stabilize the game and fix a few security issues. ︀︀I’ll have a precise answer by the end […]
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aus.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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cursebreakers!

#Hytale #hytaleissaved
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM