I joined #Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/mgiuca.bsky.social).
I think we have a bit of a "too many standards" problem between Bluesky and the Mastodon/ActivityPub network. I was sticking this for awhile but since bsky is really taking off, I figured it's time to have a foot in both ponds.
Matt Giuca (@mgiuca.bsky.social)
Solo game developer, former Web Apps eng at Google.
https://mgiuca.itch.io/
https://mastodon.social/@mgiuca
Recovering deleted files from a FAT32 file system like it's 1994.
In-depth discussion of my
#GMTKGameJam2024 entry, Patient Zero: Commanding a swarm of nanobots
https://youtube.com/watch?v=h4Yl-TdkHiM#gamedev- YouTube
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I made a game for the #GMTK Game Jam 2024! "Patient Zero".
It's my first ever #gamejam and I'm pretty happy with how it ended up - obviously there's some jank in there but I managed to put together a complete experience.
It's also my first serious attempt at using #Godot. I'm pretty impressed with how easy a lot of things are and I was able to quickly get a handle on it.
https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2024/rate/2907261
https://mgiuca.itch.io/patient-zero
Rate Patient Zero by mgiuca for GMTK Game Jam 2024
Control an ever-growing swarm of nanobots fighting a virus inside a human body.
Now don’t get me wrong, cloud storage is awesome when done properly. Having a convenient integration with the OS folders is also awesome. But it requires consent. Let me set up certain folders to back up. Don’t just take my files without asking. Certainly don’t delete my files without asking. The journey I’ve just described is bullshit. It’s a company shoving a cloud storage feature down your throat and has dangerous implications for both privacy and data loss. 12/12
Every single Windows Explorer window now has a promo for OneDrive, but I guess I can live with this. The proper fix would be to create a local user account (a very hidden feature, and impossible to do when first setting up the PC), but that would require migrating all your documents and settings to another account, so for now I’m happy to just not have my data continuously harvested. 11/12
OK I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna click “Unlink this PC” (after downloading everything). And… it seems to have worked. Sort of… Explorer threw up two random error messages, then crashed and restarted. But now all the green ticks are gone, my files are still here, and I think my data is safe. 10/12
Fortunately, under “Advanced settings” (of course it is), there is a “Download all files” button. This forces all the cloud-stored files to be copied back to your hard drive. Unfortunately, this is not a checkbox, it’s a button. There is no way that I can find to actually stop Files On-Demand from pulling this trick again. And EVEN AFTER forcing this download, disabling sync for a folder STILL deletes all the local files out of that folder and replaces them with a link to the cloud. 9/12
Under a different panel in OneDrive, there is “Manage backup” which is almost-but-not-quite the same as “Choose folders”. So here you CAN uncheck Documents, Desktop and Pictures. (What happened to those being “important to the PC”?) If you uncheck a folder, it DELETES the entire contents of that folder, and replaces it with a link to the cloud “backup” of that folder. If you did this for Documents, most apps would break. This isn’t just a privacy disaster, it’s a horrible user experience. 8/12
There’s another button in settings, “Unlink this PC” which shows this dialog. This seems to be telling me that if I click “unlink”, all the files that were automatically uploaded and deleted will be lost. Good lord. So I’m not going to click that just yet. 7/12
