Yeah, don’t use /r/depression. Too negative. Which is unfortunate.

/r/KindVoice or /r/InternetParents may be better for advice or support. I don’t know their state or activity since I haven’t used reddit anymore. I enjoyed commenting there before though. And I’d love similar communities here. But I doubt it’d be active with current size and user type.

There’s a kind voice discord community. I don’t remember if it’s from the subreddit directly.

The healthy gamer community may be the best fit. Discord community. The website looks like a sell, but it has tons of free videos and community. https://www.healthygamer.gg/

German language forum site https://www.psychic.de/

Let me check how many subscriptions I have.

uuuh, 1,499 🫠

even smaller than it already is (~100MB)

cries in 1 GB apt GitLab update

My interpretation has always been that it loads [too] many files. File performance on many [small] files is noticeably, significantly slower on Windows than it is on Linux.

we’re currently at 96% completion for the 3.0 RC1 milestone, with 11 issues remaining.

for how long it has been in development, neither 96% nor 11 issues remaining give me confidence in short-term completion.

But given the wording around it, I guess it has to be not too far off - whatever that means. I’m not hopeful about anything, but looking forward to it. GIMP has been my main “heavy” image editing tool for a long time.

All features aside, I hope it will launch faster than previous versions.

Toastmasters seems to be focused on giving presentations?

From their about page:

Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that builds confidence and teaches public speaking skills through a worldwide network of clubs that meet online and in person. In a supportive community or corporate environment, members prepare and deliver speeches, respond to impromptu questions, and give and receive constructive feedback.

Existence does not equate allowance. Have you reported their profile?

Their user name is their user ID. I assume it has been handled now? What’s your take on that after these public accusations and it supposedly being the reason to make your own spaces?

I report stuff when I come across it. I regularly get info on action being taken.

It’s a community platform. Individual, manual username change assessment and approval is infeasible. What’s your expectation?

What do you mean by harassment? You didn’t specify.

The/In short from Wikipedia:

The Ig Nobel Prize is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991

• Anatomy: Roman Khonsari, for finding that there is a greater instance of scalp hair spiraling in a counter-clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
• Biology: Fordyce Ely and William Petersen, for finding that placing a cat on the back of cows and repeatedly exploding paper bags every 10 seconds for two minutes led to them producing less milk.
• Chemistry: Tess Heeremans, Antoine Deblais, Daniel Bonn and Sander Woutersen, for their use of chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms as part of their research into polymer science.
• Botany: Jacob White and Felipe Yamashita, for finding that the plant Boquila trifoliolata can mimic the leaves of plastic plants placed alongside it, leading them to conclude that “plant vision” is plausible.
• Demography: Saul Newman, for finding that many claims regarding the existence of supercentenarians and other extreme age-related records originate from areas with short life spans, no birth certificates, and rampant clerical errors and pension fraud.
• Medicine: Lieven Schenk, Tahmine Fadai and Christian Büchel, for finding that counterfeit medicine that induces painful side-effects can be more effective in patients than counterfeit medicine that does not cause painful side-effects.
• Peace: B. F. Skinner, for his study on housing live pigeons inside missiles to guide them to their targets.
• Physics: James Liao, for his long-running study on the ability of a dead trout to swim.
• Physiology: Takanori Takebe, for finding that several mammals can breathe through their intestines using their anus.
• Probability: A team of 50 researchers mostly based in the Netherlands, for supporting a prediction by Persi Diaconis that tossed coins are more likely to land the same way up as they started after they had flipped 350,757 coins.

lol

I felt strong aversion and irritation throughout, thinking they were unnecessarily making enemies.

They certainly have an extreme view and goal. And are personally invested to the point of seeing fellow collaborators on FOSS as enemies(?) now.

Putting up barriers through segmentation and alternative tech creates silos. To reach new people I don’t think we can get around meeting users where they are and what they are familiar with.

Bring value through FOSS, and hint and nudge them. If you meet them where they are and bring them to your software it’s already one more than none. You don’t need to get them to make a huge leap into a whole ecosystem of alternative software at once.

Their categorical dismissal of other’s opinions or priorities certainly felt irritating to me. Maybe they care more about FOSS license than UX or features, but why is that the only correct view in their eyes? Blind users may not even be able to use FOSS alternatives when they lack accessibility features or quality.

Even as a contributor to a project I don’t want to use a supportive side platform only for that when it’s annoying or cumbersome. I very well may just skip it, or leave as a contributor.

I would have been interested in the premise; why they think advocating and exclusively FOSS is the only correct view and thing to do. The lack of a strong basis also made all that followed more irritating.

it revealed a number of organs including blood vessels in the brain through the scalp

I’m confused. There’s a skull between scalp skin and the brain, right? o.O

Yes, I do. What info are you looking for? You didn’t even say.

I know the Mumble and SoftEther VPN projects use them for hosting their website/project hosting.

Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork. That work is now complete, and we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET which includes work from this fork.

What’s left for the mono project then? What’s Wine’s interest in it?

Sounds interesting!

We’ve also used Godot. As for sound design, I voiced the sounds we put in - frog ribbiting, jumping, and tongue slurping :P

I can definitely see how Godot without scripting experience/expertise would be hard to get into.

I found the UI of Godot awful. And the entire node system quickly leads to a mess of mixed concerns in structuring logic and elements. As a software engineer I am mindful of structure and can - at least for myself - keep at restructuring when elements, logic, and relationships change, but I felt like the entire system was not guiding you to well-structured components concerns. The GDScript casing difference to C# and docs and the lack of braces for code blocks were to my dislike too.

That being said, Godot does have a lot of features and allowed us to move forward quite well. Just with occasional stumbling.

Wikipedia has an article on Polymer fume fever with some sources you may find more trustworthy or definite.

Sorry for the reply being so late :)

Yeah, game jams typically have a theme that is revealed when it starts, and then a limited time until submissions end. Can be a day, a weekend, or longer, even significantly. The one I participated in was two weeks, and concluded last Wednesday.

Our game Frogventure (more like a prototype anyway) is a side-scrolling jump-and-run. The jam themes were “Shadows and Alchemy” (which can be interpreted broadly and non-literally). You play as a frog and save tadpoles by collecting them and putting them in safe puddles. You run and jump. You eat insects to transform your abilities. Higher jumps, hiding under a leaf, tongue-grabbing.

My friend and I are actually both programmers, so that part wasn’t a problem for us. :) We didn’t have real gamedev experience. It was a lot of fun, very interesting, and surprisingly productive. It’s great how iterative and with visual and experienceable results it is. (Quite contrary to software development lol)

I was about to write I haven’t heard of Revita, but I own it on Steam. I haven’t played it yet.

Your game sounds like a lot of effort. Good luck :) Do you have any concrete planning or milestones you are tackling now?

What game engine are you using for it?

March is so far away still D:

That sucks.

Talks without any documentation is as if it didn’t happen.

Nothing.

I participated in a game jam, which ended wednesday. We submitted tuesday evening, in a satisfying state. It’s a prototype, it doesn’t have to be perfect, or complete, or thorough.

We die invest time, but I don’t consider it crunch.

Work has some high priorities but nothing immediate pressuring.

And private, no commitments or short term must either.

The reasons for this shift in budget away from funding Free Software and the NGI initiative seems to be an allocation of more funds for AI, leaving internet infrastructure by the wayside. Meanwhile, the EC has thus far declined to comment to share its official reasoning for striking this funding from its budget.

Investing into AI seems/feels more speculative and inefficient. I think you can get a lot more value by investing the same into actual, practical projects. Training AI, and training it well, is very expensive. And the gains or results are not necessarily even predictable, let alone certainly useful or used.

Mainly working on a game-jam game with a friend.

It’s been very interesting and quite fun. We’re using Godot. Progress is going well, despite our lack of previous experience.