Nostr notes by shana

yeah, I think I've seen it in passing but never actually ...

2026-05-07T01:15:14+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8yan
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yeah, I think I've seen it in passing but never actually engaged with the thing at all, zero clue what it meant until Freya's post tbh :-P

Explaining the subtleties of summation in pure math terms to ...

2026-05-06T20:05:49+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…wvgq
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Explaining the subtleties of summation in pure math terms to someone with no idea of what any of those terms mean in math is about as effective as me explaining how threaded computation works in pure programming terms to someone with no idea what that means in programming. I know this because I've been on both sides of that.

I don't know how to solve math education, but I do know that this analogy would have saved me *years* of pain, so I know it's valid for at least one person.

Exactly, it's an analogy that gets you some of the way there, ...

2026-05-06T19:53:38+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…raf4
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Exactly, it's an analogy that gets you some of the way there, that's the point of a translation. Whatever subtlety is lost in this process needs to be reintroduced, but you can't get to that if the person can't even grasp a basic, however incomplete, understanding. So, sure, it's more subtle than this, but that doesn't matter right now.

All learning is like that, you don't learn the subtleties of anything up front, you get there over time through an iterative ever-refining process.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@shana/116528612214892516

2026-05-06T19:45:25+02:00

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https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@shana/116528612214892516

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@shana/116528612214892516

2026-05-06T19:09:45+02:00

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https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@shana/116528612214892516

That might have been why my high school math teacher made me ...

2026-05-06T18:24:56+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…9sxk
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That might have been why my high school math teacher made me promise I would not go into maths in exchange for a passing grade.

I ended up in computers instead which totally has no maths whatsoever!

(in hindsight, not the best maths teacher)

If only someone had just put a couple of for-loops as footnotes ...

2026-05-06T18:15:56+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…6s9a
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If only someone had just put a couple of for-loops as footnotes in my school texts! It would have been such a time saver.

Super nitpickity, if you don't have a stop condition, a ...

2026-05-06T18:13:59+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…6zve
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Super nitpickity, if you don't have a stop condition, a for-loop will happily go on until the death of the universe (or your pc, whichever comes first)

But in general, the sigma is the abstract definition, the for-loop is a possible concrete implementation of that definition, in a language that the target of this PSA (non mathy programmers) can understand and go "oooh ok I get it now". It would have saved me like half a semester if someone had shown me this up front, no other words needed.

oh yeah, "just" and "simply" should be banned ...

2026-05-06T18:04:57+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…srds
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oh yeah, "just" and "simply" should be banned from most sentences, I agree

ikr??

2026-05-06T18:03:26+02:00

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ikr??

That's nice and creepy

2026-05-06T10:23:37+02:00

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That's nice and creepy

Regular reminder to self ...

2026-05-06T10:22:26+02:00

Regular reminder to self

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2026-05-05T23:32:49+02:00

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"give me a couple of weeks" is an amazing response to a ...

2026-05-05T09:33:30+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…eyqe
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"give me a couple of weeks" is an amazing response to a request to remove all of the misleading and deceitful naming and logo pretending that this thing is an official notepad++ release.

I've done it many many times, it's fine, but you do need ...

2026-05-05T09:14:09+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…32qd
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I've done it many many times, it's fine, but you do need quite a bit of extra space for both OSes to be happy - windows needs at least 1.5T, linux probably at least 800G.

And I do need windows on a laptop so I can build and deploy on the go, and, sigh, it's my only win11 environment which is kinda important to have for reference because all the vendors are moving to it as a base requirement, and fuck me if I'm running that piece of shit OS in any of my workstations.

I really wanna run linux on my framework, but console dev means I ...

2026-05-05T08:49:55+02:00

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I really wanna run linux on my framework, but console dev means I have to have windows. Don't have enough space for comfortable dual booting I don't think. It's extremely annoying.

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2026-05-05T08:43:31+02:00

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2026-05-05T08:38:22+02:00

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It's a question of drivers for nvidia and other hardware, and ...

2026-05-05T08:17:04+02:00

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It's a question of drivers for nvidia and other hardware, and performance and stuff. Proton is the way to go, and our question over dinner was whether to just install SteamOS directly (which may not have drivers) or a more flexible distro.

Yeah, debian and similar distros won't cut it, they're ...

2026-05-05T08:06:43+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…2dwn
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Yeah, debian and similar distros won't cut it, they're for server loads, not gaming. Chimera and Cachy, uh? Interesting, I'll check them out. We're on recent hardware (well, I think the oldest PC guts is 4 years old) so I wonder what the driver situation will look like.

ikr??!? those 5 words at the very beginning must be real hard to ...

2026-05-05T08:01:57+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…dnhd
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ikr??!? those 5 words at the very beginning must be real hard to understand for this person

lol jorts.horse is a great name for an instance!

2026-05-05T08:00:15+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…u9l6
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lol jorts.horse is a great name for an instance!

Big if there, of course. If it isn't enabled by default, then ...

2026-05-04T23:56:34+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…zs5n
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Big if there, of course. If it isn't enabled by default, then it's not an issue.

Thank you for the recs! 😃

2026-05-04T23:50:56+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…nxcc
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Thank you for the recs! 😃

JS is also expected to run arbitrary code, so all of its ...

2026-05-04T23:49:58+02:00

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JS is also expected to run arbitrary code, so all of its hardening is directed towards that. harfbuzz is not something that was designed for the purposes of running arbitrary code, that's a side effect of needing to have logic for rendering ligatures, so it's not like it's been hardened with those scenarios in mind. The sandbox is not absolute protection, and desktop apps running browser engines even less so. That's why this smells dangerous to me if that's enabled by default somewhere.

Cool, thanks! Bazzite seems to be the thing most people are ...

2026-05-04T23:42:20+02:00

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Cool, thanks! Bazzite seems to be the thing most people are pointing at, gonna try!

👀

2026-05-04T23:38:47+02:00

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👀

Ok so this is the quality of the takes over at bsky that I have ...

2026-05-04T23:32:11+02:00

Ok so this is the quality of the takes over at bsky that I have to suffer through via quotes all day, every day. It's just, gah, I can feel my brain cells actively killing themselves. This user has 80k followers.

hey fam, me and my hubby are at our anniversary dinner discussing ...

2026-05-04T22:17:09+02:00

hey fam, me and my hubby are at our anniversary dinner discussing which linux os would be best for gaming - as one does during anniversary dinner - and I know for a fact that you're all a bunch of gaming nerds, so can a helpful soul send distro recs for gaming? 🙏

oh hey, thanks! still fighting unity shadow gremlins?

2026-05-04T21:28:36+02:00

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oh hey, thanks! still fighting unity shadow gremlins?

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2026-05-04T16:33:40+02:00

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Did you also sign an employment contract with yourself? When I ...

2026-05-04T16:31:51+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…nwuv
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Did you also sign an employment contract with yourself? When I set up the dutch business, the lawyer handling the biz filing was very peeved that I used two slightly different signatures when signing the employment contract on behalf of myself the employer and myself the employee, and made me resign it with the same signature.

I can never get over how bonkers it all is, wtf. I agreed with myself that I would not divulge secrets or compete with myself if I fired myself...

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2026-05-04T15:12:43+02:00

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@yiningkarlli/116512579185714126

This, uuuuhhh... feels like a massive security issue? Anyone can make a font that runs arbitrary code when used in a harfbuzz-enabled environment? Are browsers harfbuzz-enabled environments with the ability to auto download fonts when you visit a page? Are electron apps?

quoting
note1kcn…68cj

“llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.”

…………what?

https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/

Thanks!

2026-05-04T15:05:14+02:00

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Thanks!

It's totally valid to use any and all social channels to vent ...

2026-05-04T14:57:18+02:00

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It's totally valid to use any and all social channels to vent frustrations and raise awareness, but then my morning is being constantly bombarded with extreme negativity while perusing cat and game dev news, with the occasional extremely violent auto playing gif and the endless misery post sprinkled in for good measure, with no proper moderation or filtering tools to deal with the chaos.

I only do this on my phone and I don't follow the same set of ...

2026-05-04T14:33:34+02:00

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I only do this on my phone and I don't follow the same set of people. Cross-posting would mean me manually copy-pasting from one side to the other, and most of my interactions are replies and quotes, so cross posting doesn't make sense most of the time anyways. Like, I don't care if I post separately on both sides, I just haven't a nice timeline here that can keep me entertained while I'm booting up in the morning, most people I follow haven't posted in years apparently.

Also extremely tired of the constant US politics embedded in ...

2026-05-04T14:27:40+02:00

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Also extremely tired of the constant US politics embedded in comments about everything under the sun, from waffles to cats. Yes Trump and the gop are nazis and yeah everything is going to shit over there and we're all just collateral damage for it over here, but jfc it's extremely unhealthy and so extremely noisy that discussions about problems in other parts of the planet that aren't the US and that actually affect me directly, and that I could affect directly, are just impossible to have.

just bsky. It's fine but getting noisy, and their client apps ...

2026-05-04T14:19:48+02:00

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just bsky. It's fine but getting noisy, and their client apps are terrible and buggy. Unfollowing doesn't refresh the feed, can't hold feed position, the ui is shit. The latest "improvement" is that all gifs now show a grey play button overlay when playing, and I'm just tired of getting bombarded with their vibe coded incompetence every time I look at it 🤷‍♀️

Ok y'all I'm jumping back in here, air is definitely ...

2026-05-04T13:56:58+02:00

Ok y'all I'm jumping back in here, air is definitely fresher in these parts. Need to spruce up my timeline though, who should I be following?

It loads so fast

2025-08-10T01:31:29+02:00

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It loads *so fast*

Slightly late happy birthday!

2025-05-22T11:49:09+02:00

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Slightly late happy birthday!

Users aren't "failing to follow best practices"; ...

2025-03-17T11:33:14+01:00

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Users aren't "failing to follow best practices"; GitHub's own examples and guidance for using Actions tells users to use a tag, not a commit hash. Using a hash is definitely safer and I wouldn't be surprised if GitHub quietly changed their guidance, but it's certainly not a best practice that has been widely given to users.

there were A LOT OF FOOTNOTES!

2024-09-10T11:31:26+02:00

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there were A LOT OF FOOTNOTES!

Reminds me of the Moby Dick portuguese translations pre-1970s, ...

2024-09-10T11:28:27+02:00

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Reminds me of the Moby Dick portuguese translations pre-1970s, which flattened all the characters' unique speech patterns into one indistinguishable voice, and every time a character mentioned some feat they had done or heard of in whaling, there would be a footnote going "well actually, the portuguese empire did it first/better". Presumably so it would please the imperialistic streak of the dictatorship government of the time and survive the censors.

Ooof, terrible.

2024-09-10T11:22:45+02:00

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Ooof, terrible.

Awesome, thank you!

2024-08-31T11:41:51+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…dah9
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Awesome, thank you!

I'm trying to understand this cross-driver hardware fence ...

2024-08-31T10:06:36+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…2uf8
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I'm trying to understand this cross-driver hardware fence you're talking about, but my google-fu is failing me. Do you perhaps have a resource at hand that you can throw my way, where I can read more about it?

Well yeah, that's fine, but I do respect Grunge as its own ...

2024-08-30T23:24:41+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…h39k
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Well yeah, that's fine, but I do respect Grunge as its own unique sound, as opposed to just a subcategory of Rock. And if someone tells me I need to prep my ears because a rock concert is going to happen and noise level is going to be loud, and then it turns out it's grunge, my ears are definitely going to have opinions about this.

Sitting outside having dinner and listening to a random concert ...

2024-08-30T22:46:13+02:00

Sitting outside having dinner and listening to a random concert happening on the park across from us and deep into a surprisingly polarizing discussion of whether this band playing is Rock or Grunge.

Oh, that's nice. I haven't noticed. I have two seasonal ...

2024-08-30T12:12:19+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…kwd5
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Oh, that's nice. I haven't noticed. I have two seasonal lvl100 toons on normal and hard core, but I guess I haven't spent enough time in the game to experience one of those drops yet 🤣

Everytime I look at my inventory and realize I have like 3 unused ...

2024-08-30T12:05:50+02:00

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Everytime I look at my inventory and realize I have like 3 unused paragon points because I levelled up 3 times and there were ZERO visual or auditory or haptic indications of the event. Nothing, just an invisible tick on a bar, no dopamine hit, no reward, nothing. It's impressive how much this game fails at what should be the most important core system for this type of game. It's just mindboggling.

D4: Definitely heard your feedback that the game is incredible ...

2024-08-30T11:50:42+02:00

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D4: Definitely heard your feedback that the game is incredible boring and mindboggingly dull until you manage to reach the highest difficulty level, at which point we unlock endgame dungeon challenges which are somewhat more engaging than the actual story gameplay. This is definitely an issue we care about, so we're redesigning the leveling system to get you to the endgame faster!

I mean, who wants to experience game stories amiright hahaha ha ha

#diablo #diabloiv

D4: Good news everyone! We heard your feedback that Nightmare ...

2024-08-30T11:33:40+02:00

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D4: Good news everyone! We heard your feedback that Nightmare dungeons are great and Pit dungeons suck, so we're killing Nightmare dungeons and moving their rewards to the Pit dungeon!

Obviously you only like the Nightmare dungeons because of the rewards, there's no other difference between them, totally the same, completely interchangeable, nevermind the completely different layouts and enemy and win mechanics, we really really want you to play the Pit dungeons y'all.

#diablo #diabloiv

D4: We actually haven't played D3, mind you, so we don't ...

2024-08-30T11:27:17+02:00

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D4: We actually haven't played D3, mind you, so we don't understand what makes it work or how and why it evolved into what it is, but we've seen screenshots and we're sure we got the gist of it.

#diablo #diabloiv

Diablo IV designers: We're so much better than Diablo III ...

2024-08-30T11:24:10+02:00

Diablo IV designers: We're so much better than Diablo III designers, we will design SUPERIOR product!

*one yearrr lateeerrrr*

Good news everyone, we're revamping the systems to make them just like Diablo III!

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/24130178/the-2-0-ptr-what-you-need-to-know

#diablo

And here's the Entropic statement ...

2024-08-10T21:43:07+02:00

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And here's the Entropic statement https://www.entropicengineering.com/defcon-32-statement

If this is accurate, RPi being credited everywhere and Entropic being completely erased is really extra shitty. Like, no matter what business disputes exist, if work was done, you credit people. JFC it's like game studios not crediting anyone who isn't employed on launch day because "only people we currently actively work with deserve credit for past work".

Stop being petty asshole children, be better DEF CON (npub1dqd…8xy4) !

Wow, yeah, just children drama all around. I was quietly ...

2024-08-10T21:06:35+02:00

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Wow, yeah, just children drama all around. I was quietly speculating to myself that it was something like that. I would expect that organizations run by adults having disputes with companies would handle them in an adult fashion, by crediting parties where it's due (in the booklet) and being transparent about the process. Disputes and shoddy work happens. Letting it come to this sorry spectacle is, yeah, not adults in the room (whether they're in the right or not)

Well, this is a weird #defcon Dmitry Grinberg drama. I'm ...

2024-08-10T17:20:52+02:00

Well, this is a weird #defcon Dmitry Grinberg drama. I'm staring at my badge right in front of me and there's no evidence of a logo being sanded off of the case, so let's open it up and see what the board says.

Oh look, it's a logo! Wow DEF CON (npub1dqd…8xy4), wow.