Mike Sux ๐Ÿ

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ

@distraction.engineer

Former professional GameDev (1999+); IGF Finalist (2009); Retro, DIY, Repair, C64 nerd; AKA PoV, PoVRAZOR, VA3POV ๐Ÿ“ป; They/them; ๐Ÿ Caretake and co-creator of the @ludumdare.com online game jam Empathy is punk! Trans rights! ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿค˜

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Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

#LDJam To address yesterdays dangerous CVE's, ldjam.com was emergency upgraded from PHP 7 to PHP 8 (among other things). This broke several facets of the website, but *I think* all the expected things work again. Let me know! I'll address the "suspicious users" once we're sure the upgrade is done.

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

I know folks always say they hate the theme, but whether you like it or not, choosing "Old Tech" does seem an apt choice for today. โ˜บ๏ธ #LDJam

Ludum Dare@ludumdare.com

The THEME for Ludum Dare 60 is... Old Tech Good luck! ldjam.com #LDJam

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Ludum Dare
@ludumdare.com

Sign-up emails work again. The new user invitation code for LD60 is "sixtober". NOTE: New accounts are invisible until approved manually, so please make a post or say something human sounding in your profile. #LDJAM

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

So I spent most of the time between Ludum Dare 59 and now away from BlueSky, and ignoring most of the world news. ๐Ÿ™‰ While yes I missed hearing from my friends, not-gonna-lie it was the most mentally chill few months I've had in years. ๐ŸงŠ TMI addiction is real and extremely harmful folks. ๐Ÿ™…๐Ÿ’ฌ

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Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

Video games were a bus I should have got off a decade ago. Nobody seems convinced I can contribute meaningfully to middleware, code graphics drivers, write firmware for embedded devices, work in the Chrome/Firefox/Linux Kernel sources, all because I spent some years running an online community. ๐Ÿคท

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

So I spent most of the time between Ludum Dare 59 and now away from BlueSky, and ignoring most of the world news. ๐Ÿ™‰ While yes I missed hearing from my friends, not-gonna-lie it was the most mentally chill few months I've had in years. ๐ŸงŠ TMI addiction is real and extremely harmful folks. ๐Ÿ™…๐Ÿ’ฌ

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

Once my commitments to Ludum Dare are complete, you likely won't see me around these parts much; Maybe to hawk my "art" (under a new pseudonym), but if I'm well behaved that should be it. Mistakes were made. I sacrificed everything for the sake of others, and I can't get a job interview anywhere. ๐Ÿคท

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Jamie Morgan
@jmorgandev.bsky.social

Attention techies, post your laptops on their side whilst on the floor , I know there is more of you. Bonus missing key #laptop #developers #tech

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ@distraction.engineer

Still copying. ๐Ÿฑ

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

Me: Not dead. Servers: Not right. I'm concerned. Currently: Trying to make a local backup, but my local backup SSD seems to be dead. ๐Ÿ˜– Regrets: Checking the price of replacement drives. ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

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Christine Lemmer-Webber
@dustyweb.bsky.social

Canadians, we have limited time to take action on C-22, the disaster surveillance (and much other terrible things) bill: opencivics-labs.github.io/dontsurveil.... Make your voice heard. There's not much time left!

opencivics-labs.github.ioCanada is about to weaken every lock on your private messages โ€” dontsurveil.meBill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a second key, and give the copy to the government. What's changed, what's happening now, what's next.

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John Bull
@garius.eurosky.social

So it turns out if you go cybernetic in Stellaris, then there's a risk that your species will invent the War Thunder forums.

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Ed Zitron
@edzitron.com

GitHub Copilot allowed this guy to spend $25 for every dollar of subscription, or put another way, $11,432 of tokens for $451

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

It might be a losing battle, but I'm pondering what #LDJam #NewLD could do to sustain a "Compo-like" vibe. Game submission metadata: [ ] NO AI WAS USED to write code [ ] NO AI WAS USED to create visual content [ ] NO AI WAS USED to create audio content [ ] NO AI WAS USED to generate other data ๐Ÿค”

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Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

Something we easily overlook is AI translation. As an example, someone might only be able to participate because they used AI translation. AI translation is nothing new, but today's LLMs are dramatically better than previous generation ML translation models. ๐Ÿคท

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

Another easily overlooked issue is base-code/libraries. We allow 3rd party libraries and middleware, but there is an impossible number of dependencies to have to check whether AI was used on them or not. Hypothetically you could bypass an "AI was not used to write this" restriction with this. ๐Ÿคท

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

It might be a losing battle, but I'm pondering what #LDJam #NewLD could do to sustain a "Compo-like" vibe. Game submission metadata: [ ] NO AI WAS USED to write code [ ] NO AI WAS USED to create visual content [ ] NO AI WAS USED to create audio content [ ] NO AI WAS USED to generate other data ๐Ÿค”

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

It saddens me, but I don't think we can assume people didn't use AI by default. The proliferation of AI in everything means you have to try to NOT use AI, meaning we should assume AI was used UNLESS they specifically say it wasn't. Also I just realized "create" vs "generate" is a debatable word. ๐Ÿคฆ

Mike Sux ๐Ÿ
@distraction.engineer

"Generate" as a term would be inclusive of your various content generators (Suno, Stable Diffusion, etc), but *could* be interpreted as excluding AI touch-up brushes, or AI's that insert or filter content (i.e. prompt: make the character glow). "Create" I want to say is all encompassing. ๐Ÿค”

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Steven Perkins
@stevenperkins.bsky.social

Got briefly logged out of this app yesterday and saw this login screen which is such an inaccurate representation of the Bluesky experience that I think it could be legally actionable

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Dominic Tarason
@dominictarason.com

Before anyone goes 'But what did they ACTUALLY do wrong to get banned?', the dev's theory really does seem accurate: They drew tired office workers in their mid/late 20s looking too cute. store.steampowered.com/app/3079280/... Steam doesn't have 'rules'. Just vibes that moderation staff can invoke

AUTOMATON WEST@automatonwest.bsky.social

Japanese psychological horror BL visual novel about two obsessive game creators no longer coming to Steam due to โ€œnot meeting platform criteria" "This Game is Not Real" will be releasing on domestic platforms instead. The developer has lost 24k Wishlists automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...

automaton-media.comJapanese psychological horrorย BLย visual novelย about two obsessiveย gameย creatorsย no longer coming to Steamย due to โ€œnot meeting platform criteriaโ€ย  - AUTOMATON WESTJapanese game developer Viv has announced that their visual novel This Game is Not Real will not be coming to Steam after all.