Tab

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I post about software freedom and sometimes half finished games projects Godot :godot::
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Tab6h ago

"The child has learned the following lesson: legal compliance prompts are obstacles to be bypassed. The dropdown menu that asks your age is not there to protect you. It is there because a legislature required it. (...)"

https://agelesslinux.org

Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

Show threadTabMar 14

A pretty pattern appeared.

The four quadrants are independent of each other so this is 4 instances of 1 pattern that happened to appear next to each other (of each rotation).

TabMar 14
Am I missing non-free codexes?
No, I hardly knew them.
TabMar 11

Not a game per se but was fun to implement Conway's Game of Life in Godot.

Will try to multi-thread it, or rage quit trying!

Rendering to a rich text label 🤢

Show threadTabMar 10
@maikek @fsfe maybe "share-alike" (from Creative Commons license) is a more popular term than "copyleft" for non-software media.
Show threadTabMar 8
@memoriesin8bit even when companies create a competative game perhaps they are still targeting a wider appeal with fancy (but demanding) graphics? If they instead made a game which ran very well on low end hardware then user hardware performance differences would be of little concern competatively.
Show threadTabFeb 28
@Ronflaix @memoriesin8bit copyrighted works such as films, typically obtained via BitTorrent without the copyrighted holder's blessing.
TabFeb 19

In Godot 4 a node's exported filepath property will be updated when you move that file! The inspector claims it to be a mere string but it is actually a "UID" (you can toggle to see it)
@ export_file("*.txt") var filepath: String

As a design change there are pros to displaying this as it's always been but I just spent ages trying to discover how to best @ export a scene as a UID when it was already doing that! That will teach me to go back and re-read patches notes instead of trying to wing it.

TabDec 25
Bradley M. KühnDec 24

Did you know that #Abbott caused the deaths of seven diabetics this year?

Some of Abbott's continuous glucose monitors (ironically named the #FreeStyle #Libre 3 Plus) incorrectly reported low blood sugar — a grave & dangerous error for insulin-dependent #diabetes. I fortunately wasn't injured, but Abbott's refusal to allow public examination of the technical details of their devices is tantamount to a cover-up.

More here: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/dec/23/seven-abbott-freestyle-libre-cgm-patients-dead/
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #SoftwareFreedom

Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors

I wrote last month about my diabetes diagnosis this year and my difficult choice to wear a proprietary device (called a CGM) on my arm 24/7 to continuously monitor my glucose levels. Like my friend and colleague, Karen M. Sandler — who previously made a much higher-stakes choice to receive a proprietary implanted defibrillator to keep her safe given her genetic heart condition — I reluctantly chose to attach proprietary hardware and software to my body.

Software Freedom Conservancy
TabNov 24
Whoops. Updating bad spelling on a poll post resets the count. Makes sense but a warning would have been nice.