Sir Garbagetruck

@Truck@icosahedron.website
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Am I gonna recognize you right away by your name? If you're a demoscener, likely, or you're from one of my past lives.

If not, You _gots_ to give me a reason why you wanna follow.

See here: https://icosahedron.website/@Truck/109304461400196946

@WeirdWriter

It's worth testing in a month and seeing if it's a "launch day problem"

and pointing out that this is a NEEDED thing

So: we (and by that I mean "people who have time" not neccesarily you or I) should keep pushing for no-ai result search

@WeirdWriter

Asked it to search for "Will Smith eating noodles" and it just straight up injected AI results in.

Apparently it has code that decides that you actually want AI. In my mind, that's a straight up fail... and makes me question if they actually are intending on not returning ai results _in the first place_ or if it's just "hey we can get more people over here by outright lying."

I may be overly cynical these days.

Hello and welcome to #demosunday and I'm quite busy with other things so I'm not spending as many cycles on "what content should I share" today... so I may have already shared this once and if so: It's worth sharing more than once

"Bruh I'm not naming things" - Moonbase (Wrighter + ciosai )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kzjrJy9DWU

(please to use your favorite anonymizer for this link)

Not sure this may be javascript+browser , may be modern pc demo, not 100% sure.

bruh i ain't naming things - wrighter x ciosai / Moonbase (PC Demo at Sessions 2024)

YouTube

@sarajw

that just looks like an excellent website in the first place, kiitos.

I apologize for not keeping up with the numbers all year for the #stopkililnggames initiative. After Finland got 100% in less than a month, and Germany followed up soon after (and Poland, and Sweden...) I assumed that I did not need to remind folks, and that the reminding would have a negative effect.

I was also unaware of the crap from a certain "pirate games" which ... not going to go there, just "boot to the head" is required. Repeated boots to the head.

So. Let's go over some things.

@madcap and ps (you know ps your nick is too difficult to search for (: ) : Portugal is ALMOST 100%. Y'all should be able to ace that. FRANCE went over 100%. SPAIN went over 100%.

FINLAND HAS OVER 250% OF THE SIGNATURES NEEDED. GERMANY AND POLAND: OVER 200%.

This is a win for everyone and right now we really need a win given how CRAP so many other things are, and it's a way to strike back at big companies who hate humans.

Dammit go sign already

Still needs signatures. Please share and keep the word going:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/

I think this is something that should've been there in the first place!

#StopKillingGames #petitions #eu #europe #finland

@sarajw

so on the demoscene tip

Groups do stickers (: And I need ... more laptops to deal with all the stickers I have (:

On the "your laptop" tip:

I need the anti-javascript javascript club for a certain Reality 404 (: I need the 'no deploys on fridays' for our 24 hour monitoring group (who won't let that happen (: ) and I need the "nevertheless she coded" for every person on the planet who thinks that women don't belong in tech.

s/tech/every other profession/

Probably need another laptop sticker thread again @gibson@masto.hackers.town (:

@amiserabilist

Just don't do on-call for 30+ years. It will result in this sort of situation.

For the record, anyone reading this: NO, it is not healthy, and YES, people who have that problem do need time to fix it.

@amiserabilist

"None" missing from choices

@thegibson

Depends on whether you left your wallet in El Segundo or not.

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If you want to get "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" (or any other zine!) and you're in a country with a weaker currency than the US (India, Brazil, etc), there's a discount to make the zines more affordable. You can see it in action here:

https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/

If you're in a country this applies to, you should see something like this:

@b0rk And wow, I entered my EU address and apparently the 15-pack of print+pdf has free shipping to here! (And great value I'm sure but still quite a sum, so have not clicked Submit yet.)
@ednl i've been thinking of making some more smaller zine packs, every time I write something new the "all the zines" pack gets more and more expensive and I feel like it's a lot at this point
@b0rk I can imagine a 10-pack being popular especially if one could pick any 10. But that would probably be an administrative nightmare for you and/or the collating/shipping company.
@ednl that’s a cool idea, it might be doable

@b0rk Countries with a weaker president get a 100% discount!

(Yeah, that was a bad joke, sorry! Great zines, great initiative!)

@b0rk this is a lovely discount rule. you rock
@b0rk That's amazing! 
@b0rk apparently Poland counts too, many thanks for that

@b0rk Yes -

Thanks for that - a lot.

It is exactly the difference between something one purchases without thinking twice, and a full book price here in Brazil.

@b0rk that rules so hard!!
@b0rk And bought! Thanks. (I paid full price as I’m in the currently chaotic turmoil of the United States.)
@b0rk Ehm this sounds like a "less than optimal" way of doing global pricing. Why not just set the price in that currency lower to begin with?
@agowa338 huh that’s an interesting idea, when i originally set this up I had no way to set different prices in different currencies. I’m not sure if I can even do it now but maybe!

@b0rk this is an awesome thing you do... As someone who has taken advantage of this offer (am in India) I can attest that this makes a big difference in the cost & affordability.

So thank you for making this extra effort.

@b0rk
Ohhh, it's so kind of you! Thank you for doing this. Your zines are so great, you rock.
@b0rk , thank you! I really enjoyed the zine, and learned a lot!
@b0rk Thank you so much for doing this!