Pedro J. Estébanez — Pedrocorp

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@RAWRLABGames @MsDOSClub Nobleza obliga. 😃

@RandomPedroJ @MsDOSClub Mil gracias Pedro por la mención!! 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Buenísima mi estrategia de márketing de tener un nombre impronunciable 😁 Y sí, comparto que el código de Godot, aunque es enorme, es bastante sencillo. Yo no sé C++ pero con C he podido apañar algunas cosas :)

¡Ese soy yo! Es un honor enorme ser protagonista de un floppy del MS-DOS Club.

Recipe website owners go straight to gulag

@1_800_4_probs @gamefromscratch ¿"ROSCA"? 🤣 As if "POTUS" and "COPPA" weren't already funny enough for a Spanish speaker.

The DOJ have just dropped their 2024 lawsuit over Adobe's scummy business practices, the result being the equivalent of a corporate speeding ticket... gamefromscratch.com/doj-drop-2024-…

@SheriefFYI ...Or age. 😃 Taking note of the tip, for a friend.

I don't know if this is a sign of experience or paranoia but I was making an enum with { start, stop, step } and I paused and renamed "step" to "single_step" just so it wouldn't get visually confused with "stop".

The comparison between an engineer cleanly showcasing a feature vs a 3D artist integrating it into a stunning scene is really interesting. I think it's often the difference between between "oh, nice!" and "OMFG I thought it was Unreal!!11" even though it's the same engine.

@theraot I was only aware of the digital-imitates-physical. Thank you for letting me know!

@RandomPedroJ We can also apply the term skeuomorphic to fully non-electronic objects. It is not all a weird period of mobile apps. Wikipedia has a few examples: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

Only a clock with hands turning smoothly—continuously—may be called 'analog'. If they move in steps, that clock is as digital as one with a numeric display—both are 'discrete.' But it has no 'digits,' so 'digital' isn't a legit term either. 'Pseudoanalog,' 'digital-in-disguise'?

Hemos tenido el honor de que la nueva @MM_Micromania haya anunciado nuestro concurso de juegos para MS-DOS (y sin que se lo hayamos pedido ni nada). TODO UN HONOR. ¡Muchas gracias y mucha suerte en esta aventura!

Given @code.dev won't address the feature request to allow easy change of the GUI font—github.com/microsoft/vsco…—, I've done one of the typical hacks: patching the CSS with a script I can re-run after every update. Now I have usable scrollbars and readable code in search-replace!

@theraot He-he. Then every clock would be quantic. Now, yeah, I'd rather call it digital than analog, but it's still unsettling to me. Skeumorphism-wise, my point applies to both physical and software replicas of clocks.

@RandomPedroJ Quantic, because it advances at discrete steps or quanta. /s Language evolves. Calling it digital is OK. Digital doesn't need to display Arabic numerals. If you insist on display: each color of a pixel is a number. Anyway, you might be interested in the word "skeuomorphic".

We've just made Gradius, except it's 100% ASCII based, you can even save your screenshots as .txt files.

@topjohnwu Maybe it's just me getting older, but the Android world seemed so much more fun a decade ago.

Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? by Fabian Giesen. One of the best explanations, and my periodic recommendation to the students. fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/why…

@brunosxs Oh, thanks for the tip! I thought they were bulkier. I could even accept a heavier weight if the size is OK. So, it's number one on my list for when the time to renew comes.

@RandomPedroJ You should check the fairphone 6, especially since you live in europe. It is a device I have been eyeing since forever... 8 versions of android guaranteed, 8GB of ram, dedicated microsd slot... sadly no headphone jak :/ And right at that size, which I agree, is the perfect size

The iPhone 8 was cute. Perfect size, low weight. Maybe too slippery. I bought one as a testing device and I find myself considering adopting it as my regular phone despite me being an Android-first user.

Let's hope they stop building those beast phones. At least, they won't have enough RAM to fill a huge case anymore. 😆

A law that says Linux must perform age verification during account setup sounds reasonable at first… until you realize it completely misunderstands what Linux actually is. Because who exactly is supposed to verify their age? The server? The router? The fridge? Linux isn’t a website. It isn’t a social platform. It doesn’t have “sign ups,” profiles, or accounts tied to emails. When you “create an account” on Linux, you’re just creating a local system user on that machine. No internet call. No central database. No identity check. No universal registration flow where age could even be asked. It’s simply a username stored on disk. There’s nothing to verify against. And here’s the bigger issue most people miss: most Linux systems don’t even have a human sitting in front of them. Linux runs servers in data centers, routers moving traffic, cloud virtual machines, containers spinning up automatically, IoT devices, and embedded systems inside appliances. Many installs are fully automated and finish in seconds without a screen or keyboard. Linux also isn’t one controlled product owned by a single company. It’s open-source code. Anyone can modify it, remove features, fork it, or compile their own version. If you tried forcing an age check into the installer, someone could simply delete that code and rebuild it in minutes. There’s no central enforcement point; by design. It also works perfectly offline. Hospitals, military environments, research labs, and air-gapped networks depend on Linux running without internet access. Age verification assumes connectivity and some trusted central authority. Linux intentionally doesn’t rely on either. Even if you somehow forced verification once, it wouldn’t mean anything. Systems get cloned constantly. Virtual machines are duplicated. Containers are copied thousands of times. One verified image could instantly become a thousand identical systems. Verification doesn’t scale. Copying does. And from a security perspective, adding identity checks would actually make Linux worse. More code paths, more dependencies, more data collection, more attack surface; all for something that doesn’t fit the architecture in the first place. You can regulate platforms and online services because they’re centralized. But infrastructure like Linux isn’t centralized. It’s decentralized software anyone can run, modify, or redistribute. Trying to regulate it at install time isn’t just difficult; it’s technically incompatible with how Linux is built.

One of my best decisions so far this year: configuring the following keyboard shortcuts in @code: - Alt+O: Switch between .h and .cpp. - Alt+U: Switch between normal and VCS diff views.

I spend too much of my online time accepting cookies.