@crittero@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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Here, a conversation can start up after two years of silence when someone comes up with something new to contribute. And that’s incredible.

Which is a bit funny, considering how annoyed forum moderators used to get when you "necroposted".

"Thread locked. Continue the discussion in a new post." ok, nerd...

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Starting a #WebDev from (kinda) scratch is always a pain. Like, I want to write stuff, but I always get stuck on *thinking* about implementations.

Using the project as a learning experience doesn't help either.

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I'm just guessing, but I think necroposting rules are usually part of news-focused forums. And since replying to a thread meant that the entire thread would show up as "Latest" in the list, people would get mad for basically reviving old news.

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@j-g00da@donotsta.re Lol, in Romania they use emergency messaging every time a person goes missing, with a link to the police website, and every single time the website crashes. I don't think there are any DevOps people in this country anymore.

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@themipper@mastodon.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place can we also get mobile operating systems, in general? Or mobile form-factor devices that are actual computers?

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@feyter @j_bertolotti I have a feeling newer Mastodon folks don't even know that the main instance doesn't show Local / Federated timelines anymore. Also, omg you just reminded me that I made an account on gamedev.place way backk @Critter

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@clonedhuman@mastodon.social @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social a VPN will hide* your IP (and thus aprox. location, and Timezone). There are also browser extensions that can change your User Agent (the metadata that tells websites your OS, browser, etc). That will pretty much cover everything. Keep in mind that the website uses spooky language for what are either generic browser APIs, or plain old fundamental functions of the Internet.

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@feyter @j_bertolotti A while back (maybe last year?), the official mastodon instances shut down their live timelines, to cut down on bandwidth, I think. Also, since those are general-purpose instances (and *very big*), it became really hard to follow them. Better search also fixed the discovery issues. Each instance can choose if they want those timelines shown or not. And on the account... I just forgot about it, lol. I'm also not that invested in game development, as I was back then.

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@Gargron@mastodon.social I didn't know that not writing a CW text simply just sets the media as spoiler / sensitive. I assumed the post simply doesn't get a CW at all (the same you don't get any when you don't have any media present), since the CW placeholder text says "Optional". It does feel like a hidden feature, and I wonder if we can get a setting in the alt text / image edit modal, to be able to mark each media piece as sensitive instead. Pic unrelated.

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@liilliil @FiXato It's probably getting them from the same place as https://joinmastodon.org/servers https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

joinmastodon.org

Servers

Find where to sign up for the decentralized social network Mastodon.

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@rustynail@floss.social @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social amiunique considers me unique because I have my taskbar on the side, so the browser viewport is "unique".

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@draNgNon @Mastodon For 1: If you try to interact with a user while you are not on your home instance's page, the website will prompt you to insert your username@domain, in order to redirect you back home (img related). For the second point.. people tend to know their own instance, right?

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CritteRo @crittero@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@donno@fosstodon.org @nixCraft@mastodon.social Cool part about git is that there are a lot of GUI tools out there (both paid, free and open source ones!)

For example: https://www.sublimemerge.com https://sourcetreeapp.com https://tortoisegit.org

Git also comes with their own GUI (git gui command in the terminal).

I personally haven't tested any of them (I just use the VSCode GUI for Codeberg).