Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use,

has no venture capital investors,

has no shareholders to answer to,

has no growth targets,

with a web interface with zero cookies,

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.

I took @nixCraft's 'No NAT November' challenge and switched my network to IPv6-only!

New blog post: No NAT November - My Month Without IPv4

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2024-12-01-no-nat-november/

#ipv6

One gripe I’ve had since returning to Android is that I haven’t found a nice feeling fedi client. I think that’s resolved now though, Moshidon feels pretty good, and at last, is a client that tells me straight when my instance is down!

Oh and… Just one more thing.

You claim that the system is… Serverless, I believe? Well, I’m no computer whizzkid, so I had the boys back at the lab do some digging.

They had a little look and, well… They found some servers. Isn’t that interesting?

Well, I best be on my way now.

blazingly fast robust memory safe fearless webscale web application framework

look inside: slow

Increasing work_mem and maintenance_work_mem to be ~double of what it was seems to have solved my akkoma time-outing issues. Who knew a database-bound service might benefit from more resources! Still, might set up a gotosocial, seems pretty lean. And it'd finally be a fedi server written in a lang I know at all.

The Linux Wayland Experience™️ (at least on Sway) has gotten very good! I just crashed my GPU driver with some WebGL in Firefox (everything froze for a while), and it recovered! Screen went black, and then everything came back just fine. Well, the webgl app died due to losing its webgl context, but that's very fair.

The Khronos Group has announced the launch of the new Slang™ Initiative. This initiative will oversee and advance the open-source Slang shading language and compiler, building on 15 years of research, development, and deployment experience. Supported by NVIDIA since 2017, Slang has been widely adopted in production projects across the industry.

Learn more: https://khr.io/17f
#Slang #shading #language #developers @nvidia

But if the rubber ducks can find the problems in the code by themselves then why do we need to pay the programmers

In case you missed it*: you can subscribe to Nebula channels over RSS! https://blog.nebula.tv/rss-feed/

* like I did, even though I sent them email asking for this in 2020, lol

Wrote a longer blogpost about moving my game project from C to Odin programming language:
https://akselmo.dev/posts/moving-from-c-to-odin/

It's rambly as always, and barely checked for typos or other inconsistencies. But I hope it's interesting anyway.

#C #OdinLang #programming #gamedev

https://modrinth.com/mod/perfectly-packed

incredible

Can’t believe I bought an apartment with poor shadow map resolution

"Tweet" as a generic term for a post on a microblogging platform is an interesting take, especially now that it actually isn't used by the company that used to "own" the term. Hmm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyV54qfSZwg

I'm launching a hosting provider which gives heavily discounted resources to open-source and non-profit projects!

• 80% cheaper than digitalocean
• 40% cheaper than hetzner

while i'm still testing my infrastructure i'm offering your first instance with 2 cores & 2 ram gig for free(!) so i can test how my hardware performs on production.

if you're interested you can check out the site or just reply/dm me!
https://wedotyou.net/

SDL3 has hit ABI lock!

You can now trust the interfaces to stay stable. We will _add_ but not _remove_ or _change_ what's there, so it's safe to migrate your game to it!

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/preview-3.1.3

We're rushing to an official release from here, but what's there has been battle-hardened in Steam and DOTA2 and CS2 for over a year now, across several platforms.

TIL about WASM-4, a fantasy console that uses WebAssembly as its execution environment https://wasm4.org/

it's wild how RSS/atom feeds are like the jumanji box of web technologies. so many websites don't advertise it, but there's often a secret dusty box full of surprises in the <head> tag, waiting patiently for you to open it

this is a brilliant article on being artist/musician in the world...

in a nutshell, there are three types of artists:
- The Independently Wealthy
- The Lifer
- The Dayjobber

https://klangmag.co/lifers-dayjobbers-and-the-independently-wealthy-a-letter-to-a-former-student/

Every time I post something on my blog, I seem to get the itch to follow it up with another one... This time it's about the monolithic html files my blog and website generator* makes: https://blog.neon.moe/2024/09/27/inlined-html.html

\* a makefile plus a few python and awk scripts, very esoteric and fun to maintain