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evolve2k··on 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
Looking through earlier news, a July 2024 release note proudly proclaims “The git migration is on its way!”. But I’ve had a look around and can’t easily find any active git repo. Anyone know the current status around ‘moving to git’?

Ref: https://play0ad.com/the-git-migration-is-on-its-way/

evolve2k··on 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
AFAIK one of the reasons they held onto 'alpha' for so long was that this network lag issue for internet based play was a big known and hard to address issue. I'd def be trying again since they've come out of alpha with this release.. a huge deal for a game that is so many years in development.

Also, we've always played the game as in-person LAN, and for the most part the lag has been just fine. Only for really huge end of game final battles with the screen packed with troops did it lag out for us, but being free and all, we'd often gather around one monitor and talk crap at each other while we waited for it to clear up.

Good times.

evolve2k··on Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement
Drill into the current news cycle. Zuckerberg is pitching an 'age verification required' internet. LinkedIn and now Porkbun are both falling in line, pre-emptivley. No this is not a done deal. We need to squark if we dont want this.

Legislation is one thing, this is a bad faith move, just dressed up as normal business. It's not.

evolve2k··on Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement
What's occuring is compulsory government ID verification from services that are not yet even legally obligated to do so. What its been sold as is "Age ID", politically consider these things synonymous right now.
evolve2k··on Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement
See what Zuckerberg is talking about, like right now on internet wide compulsory "Age" ID verification, this unforced move by porkbun very relevant.
evolve2k··on Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
Great to see this progressing. Tried it out just now after last testing it over 6 months ago.

I’d say the main “feature” id want to see added is a mandatory field on upload to tick if it’s AI content. Then a tag on videos that are Ai and at the account level to filter out AI content.

Otherwise it’s going to be a slops fest.

evolve2k··on Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement
Should be optional not enforced as the only option.
evolve2k··on Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement
Sorry to be clear. When you are arbitrarily ask to verify your account not with email verification or robots stuff or a myriad other options; when they reach for age verification as the first thing; and giving up ur gov ID is the only way forward desk okey this never being the best approach to fraud prevention going right back, then yeah this is selling out.
evolve2k··on Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement
I've long been a big fan of Porkbun, switching over to them from namecheap who I supported from back in the SOPA era. But today Im very frustrated. A friend of mine was required to go through Age ID. This is in Australia and is despite there being no legal requirement to ask for Age ID on domains in Oz.

Yes Age verification for social media was recently enacted into law; but I think we should expect that good companies don't self opt into additional systems of surviellance until such time as they are legally compelled and at the very least have exhausted other options.

It stings harder as I had porkbun pegged as one of the companies standing up for users and pushing back against a surviellance web. Angry and frustrated.

evolve2k··on Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
A key critique

The article is well argued and well written, as far as I’m concerned.

What’s needed if you really want adoption is to define a term; something like 256-ex for extended. Or whatever. But folks and apps need to be able to say; we’ve implemented or we support 256-ex. Without this label is hard to drive adoption.

The heartbleed thing from a few years back best taught me this.

Good luck I hope to see broad adoption it’s a great idea.

Give it a name, better yet move the copy onto a website with the same name also and a little icon folks can add to their website if they implement this k to their terminal app.

evolve2k··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
I don’t have the source (I’ll have to try find it), but I read that the cell site simulators can work on 4G and earlier but don’t work on 5G. So one thing folks can do is set ur phone to use 5G networks only (unless ur stuck and then u can make it looser but be aware your less protected at that time).

I do this on iOS I’m sure it’s do-able on GrapheneOS and hopefully on Android too.

evolve2k··on Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
Fully agree. The AI companies have broken the basic pacts of public open data. Their ignoring of robots.txt files is but one example of their lack of regard. With the open commons being quickly pillaged we’ll end up in a “community member access only model”. A shift from grab any books here you like just get them back in a month; to you’ll need to register as a library member before you can borrow. I see that’s where we’ll end up. Public blogs and websites will suffer and respond first is my prediction.
evolve2k··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
I think matrix / element are already working and very usable BUT what is needed is that big push to add the polish. I agree with others here, the matrix project would do well to realise that it’s a great contender for being a discord replacement and set about bulking up with some of the most loved features on discord.

A polished ui and a couple of fav discord features onto the product milestone plan and I think matrix adoption would start to really pick up.

evolve2k··on Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award
I recommend this excellent podcast (episode) that is dedicated to going over his life and impact. Incredible person and story!

https://pca.st/episode/e2940e8b-c7da-43bd-abca-8750538acf7c

evolve2k··on Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features
Wasn’t their translations project “pre AI”? That’s not running an LLM is it?
evolve2k··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
My city is car dependent and often no effort goes into making it more walkable.

Would love a version that renders a mix of cars and trucks onto any roads, to show up how crap the experience would actually be out front of road facing building.

evolve2k··on Microsoft routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan
Feels like part of an ongoing slippage in internal standards. Maybe they just need to vibe code their way out of this /s
evolve2k··on Should I Form an LLC or Register a Domain First?
yep exactly my point. Grab the domain first, and then get the relevant socials 'usernames' (Less relevant these days with people using so many diff socials services).

My usual steps are:

1. Register domain

2. Setup email, including some account for social media

3. Register accounts with main social media services using the social media email address.

Resolve the corporate entity after this first step.

evolve2k··on Should I Form an LLC or Register a Domain First?
Register and reserve the domain first.

You can hold it as yourself for as long as you need. No harm to having domains except a few dollars of annual cost.

It’s easy for another person to register it at any time, so grab it first.

The scenario of registering a company only to find that someone else bought the domain and you now need to pay them a chunk of money to get started is not where you want to be.

evolve2k··on Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
Intangible financial systems rest (simplistically speaking) on fundamental concepts of trust and reliability (aka what I expect to happen will happen).

Once these factors start to breakdown, all these intangible forms of holding wealth loose value. Gold remains as a significant reliable long term store of value.

Hence it’s worth maintaining by a nation.

evolve2k··on In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels
I’m wondering out loud if you might be able to purchase what would essentially be the component parts of a solar panel but deconstructed (eg frame, cells, glass, wires; maybe the cells need further deconstructing) and do final assembly in Canada such that the final panel meets criteria to be “built locally”, potentially built of local and imported parts.

Surely local manufacturers don’t use 100% Canadian made parts.

evolve2k··on 2025 was the third hottest year on record
In the very fun board game ‘Evolution : Climate’ you “breed” animals designed to survive the climate conditions on the board. One strategy is to switch to breeding ‘carnivores’ that then can feast on the creations of other players. They downside tho is that once other players evolve their animals to have carnivore protections (fight back, scales, protective shells etc) the carnivores start to quickly starve and that player must quickly change out of this eat everything strategy back to a more sustainable strategy.

In a similar way I think what works is to push back against growth only and growth at all costs approaches and back practises and models and communities that are working in other ways.

evolve2k··on US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
While many rich are benefiting, they are still driving demand, that is funding continuous improvements that funding further efficiencies innovation and driving down the cost per kWh. In a very really way this makes solar cheaper and cheaper, the benefits of this one, unlike the debunked economic namesake do infact trickle down.
evolve2k··on US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
No need to go off grid. You getting solar and battery already positions you to be able to ‘exit the grid’. The experience in Australia has been that the major retailers keep charging infrastructure costs to those who still rely on them. The mass of solar adoption grid and off-grid shifts the playing field.
evolve2k··on US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
From what I’ve been reading, sodium ion batteries are about to land later this year and look set to drop costs upwards of 60%.

That and they can be cold booted and stand much more temperature diversity bitter and into frozen temps too.

Just saying, the tech and solar expansion is at run away global growth right now, despite American centric machinations.

evolve2k··on Show HN: Intuitive Minecraft Skin Editor - Full FOSS Rewrite, try new mobile UX
It’s so good to see code restoration projects. In my experience it’s more common to see devs leaning into “not invented here” even unintentionally. So much value in getting behind well loved community projects and giving them new life. Well done on the release.
evolve2k··on US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
Solar is highly distributed. At the most basic level with a solar & battery system the production and consumption and CONTROL are all yours. You own it and it's literally on your property.

Refinements on ways to sell it to neighbours / recharge various EV's / use it for new purposes are all up to you.

There are lots of analogies to self hosting or concepts around owning and controlling your own data, when it's owned by you, you retain soverignty and full rights on what happens.

I'd expect most tech people will value the distributed nature of solar over equivilents, that by design require centralisation and commerical/state ownership and control.

Get your solar, back increasingly distributed approaches, let those pushing centralised agendas be the ones to pay for their grid. Eventually they are forced to change.

As we're finding in Australia, our high solar uptake by citizens.. is pressuring governments to respond, lest their centralised options become redundant. What we found is that as more people moved to solar, the power companies lumped the costs for grid maintenance onto those who hadnt moved yet, actually contributing to even further accelerated solar adoption and pressure to rework the system. Big corporates can lobby for themselves you dont owe them your custom.

evolve2k··on TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
That text was from v0, the responses improved from there.
evolve2k··on Djot – A light markup language
Is djot… meant to be a shorthand on idiot / “Idjiot”?

Considering the clear markdown lineage id expect there would be easier memorability and discoverabilty of the project if it included ‘mark’ in the name.

Otherwise I’d say it looks like you’ve put considerable thought into this well done on getting it out there.

evolve2k··on Can Walking Be My Whole Workout?
Yes. It’s the nature of the walking not where you walk. Actively seek to go up and down hills, aka varied terrain.

Walking in nature (aka trees around) has proven health benefits also.

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