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mdtrooperon Gandhi Inspired a New Kind of Engineering

Nuclear maybe? (sorry for the bad joke) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi

mdtrooperon One Square Minesweeper

This web remembers to me the great game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest

mdtrooperon Building a Game on the Moon

It is awesome, I hope that SimulaVR will to be a good choice...and I could have money to buy it.

Because I want to code in my freetime with a big setup in my tiny flat with two children.

mdtrooperon Redot Game Engine

I think splitting efforts is a bad idea. Because Godot is not a dead project.

mdtrooperon Lunduke: Godot Responds to Mass Banning – No Apology, Blames Banned Users

I feel sad about this problem. But the best way forward is to ‘air the dirty laundry’ (it's a Spanish phrase).

I hope Godot's project does not die because of this problem.

mdtrooperon The Debian Manifesto Ian Murdock (1994)

For me, it is similar to the "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" .

mdtrooperon [dead]

https://x.com/godotfoundation/status/1840721449364988300

mdtrooperon ZX Spectrum Documentary 'The Rubber Keyed Wonder' Gets London Premiere

In Europe (in my case, Spain), it was the door to enter to computer science for a lot of children.

And personally for me, it was too the door to thinking about something like as free software. Because when I was a child, I remember my frustration with my small games coded in basic, they were terrifyingly slow. And I wondered why...and decades ago when I knew the free software philosophy, I finished with my pain about these remembers.

mdtrooperon iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

These kind of news is in this site (hacker news, instead tech products news)...it is a Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

mdtrooperon Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?

People used to fight for upstream factories to return the water they used clean to the river. It was an ecologist's fight.

Now corporations do projects with 5 or more zeroes in budget and a high percentage of the code is free software or open source. And they give 0 back to free or open projects that they parasite.

I wrote an article years ago in my blog (in Spanish, sorry), "Free software has failed": https://tomatesasesinos.com/2019/07/11/el-software-libre-ha-...

mdtrooperon Software galaxies

Cool. Do you have public (in a git repo or something) this setup for Gource?

mdtrooperon Software galaxies

I love these kind of things: - https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource : generate a beautiful and organic videos from git repositorios. - https://code.google.com/archive/p/codeswarm/ : similar to Gource . - https://skyline.github.com : it is dead, like as Atom .

mdtrooperon Let's make games open source, so future generations can enjoy them

I found this article in the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensourcegames/new/

mdtrooperon Komorebi: Tiling Window Management for Windows

I remember when I was young that there was a "theming" app for win98 and it was cool.

It is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteStep .

mdtrooperon evcxr Rust REPL

There are few news about Rust. Are we in the Trough of disillusionment (Gartner hype cycle) in the life time of Rust

mdtrooperon An Arduino interface for 8088 CPUs

Some years ago there was Pinguino (penguin in spanish). Pinguino is an Arduino-like board based on a PIC Microcontroller.

But it is dead: https://web.archive.org/web/20180512095336/http://www.hackin...

mdtrooperon Abusing Go's Infrastructure

Yes, it is a spanish plural word. But....

mdtrooperon Not Enough Nots

Just a very stupid experiment with logical operators

How many NOTs can Godot/GDScript handle??? GDScript 7340 And what about other languages? ...

mdtrooperon Old website 1997 (online): Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge

It is near to the old website: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

mdtrooperon Ask HN: Any fun ways to learn Emacs?

I do not know any for emacs, but for Vim there is one: https://vim-adventures.com/

mdtrooperon 'Expensive' Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to 'Pirate'

Although off-topic because it is in the computer games, not films, the worst example of lost dubbing is the spanish voices of old edition Baldurs Gate 2. The new version of this game for GNU/Linux, Android has a new spanish dubbing and it is bloody worst.

mdtrooperon 'Expensive' Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to 'Pirate'

For me, the reason is not found the films in the streaming platforms.

And another problem (for people foreign languages, non-english) the original dubbing of the film is lost (for copyrights or the original dub audio film was in low quality (VHS or something)) and the film in the streaming platform is with a new dubbing (and normaly it does not give old high spirits).

mdtrooperon Web Game Engines and Libraries

https://godotengine.org/ and export to web .

mdtrooperon Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git

It is made with Godot.

mdtrooperon Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git

What?

mdtrooperon Significant performance and correctness improvements to the kernel

MIT licence really suitable?

https://discourse.redox-os.org/t/mit-licence-really-suitable...

mdtrooperon Detect Caps Lock with JavaScript

The big pitfall in the api of browser and keyboard is there is not a method to get the status (keys pressed) of the keyboard.

I know that it is about security stuff, but for the games in js is a bad situation when the canvas lost the focus and the keys pressed change.