We're also looking to expand our team! If you would like to check out our openings, you can head over to fluxer.app/careers

at everyone

It's finally time, we're going to start letting in traffic slowly to keep an eye on the infrastructure - see you all soon!

The Two Weeks When Luigi Died Last timestamp of a file (gfxmain.c) that has Luigi's code active as part of the program: February 6, 1996 Earliest timestamp of a file (shade.c) that has Luigi's code commented out, signifying he is no longer being developed: February 20, 1996 This means that the idea of including Luigi in Super Mario 64 was abandoned in these two weeks. -By the way, what happened to Luigi? Miyamoto: Well... until February, he was in the game. (laughs) This is also completely consistent with a statement by Shigeru Miyamoto in a June 1996 interview. Source: x.com user @Alieneer_TF2, shmuplations.com/mario64

According to internal files and interviews, Luigi has been part of Super Mario 64 for 85% of its development time. New insights from development data allow us to narrow down when exactly he was abandoned, being the two weeks between February 6, 1996 and February 20, 1996.

It's only a matter of time now until someone (prolly Lyra Rebane) gets Doom running with only CSS.

Part of a status page showing status indicator histories of Fluxer API, Fluxer Gateway, Fluxer Static, Fluxer Usercontent, and Fluxer Web/Client. Fluxer API, and Fluxer Gateway, and Fluxer Web/Client are shown as being in Unhealthy states having a lot of red indicator lines compared to green indicator lines. Fluxer Static and Fluxer Usercontent are shown in Healthy states having all green indicator lines.

Ok so um, I might've ***accidentally*** DDoSed the main @fluxer.app instance by @'ing an entire Discord community with an invite link.

*oops*

That's a lotta red:
status.starlightnet.work

#fluxer

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

Okay so I finally got around to reading the @fluxer.app dev's (long!) blog post and... his take on federation is literally the exact same thing I independently suggested.

10/10 this guy knows what he's doing. This is going to work.

Looks like Fluxer is removing the CLA!! 🎉

www.reddit.com/r/FluxerApp/...

KDE Free Qt Foundation The KDE Free Qt Foundation has the purpose of securing the availability of the Qt toolkit

Also wondering if a solution similar to what The Qt Group (and its predecessors) and KDE have could work for Fluxer in the long-term:

kde.org/community/wh...

@w8l: My best-faith assumption is that Hampus thought it was necessary for monetisation. Hampus: it's necessary to be able to provide a commercial license for internal use only at companies who cannot use copyleft licenses due to legal requirements

Hampus: it's necessary to be able to provide a commercial license for internal use only at companies who cannot use copyleft licenses due to legal requirements Hampus [continued]: I'm being very clear about this in the upcoming refactor and that I've chosen the most contributor-friendly CLA possible that preserves all your rights, gives a guarantee that if your patch is distributed in Fluxer that it will remain distributed under the AGPLv3, in addition to any commercial licence that Fluxer may provide — and I'm also going to be very clear about the fact that companies who may receive such a commercial licence must use it for internal use only and they cannot redistribute the software under any licence

Hampus [continued]: choosing a CLA is not me misunderstanding anything here, it's the only option I have if I want to retain the ability to provide a for-internal-use-only version of Fluxer to companies who cannot use copyleft licenses for some reason and are willing to pay for it, which only benefits the continued FOSS development of Fluxer and does not strip contributors of any of their rights

I was the original person who asked the @fluxer.app main dev about the AGPL + CLA licensing and these were the responses from them:

State of the Budgie: 2025 In Review and Cranking Budgie Up To 11 2025 was a year of significant progress for Budgie Desktop, as we finalized much of our efforts in our Wayland migration, to bring Budgie 10 to a close and enable us to focus our efforts on Budgie 11....

Right, the one you really have been waiting for. Let's talk #Budgie 11 and how we plan on improving communication going forwards.

buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/state-o...

Looking forward to the next one!

beeg mouse

my wife is sold on linux since she found out in kde if you waggle the cursor it starts getting bigger to help you find it but there's no apparent limit to how big it can get

Steam Hardware The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.

Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:

Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame. 

Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware

fork-in-the-road meme, with "HOMEST-" at the start, "-ar runner" at the happy castle side, and "-UCK" toward the evil scary house, in their respective logos' styles.

OH: "oh yeah, that flash webcomic... HOME-something?"

Housebound

Purafied audio plugin bundle normally $238

Checkout for purafied audio everything bundle for $2.64

Do you want $473 in audio plugins for literally less than $3 because guitar center pissed off Sam Pura? If you use the discount code FUCKUADANDGUITARCENTER to get his everything bundle you can live this dream.

To echo others: that MasterCard is proactively reaching out to its advertising partners to try and blunt the impact of the pressure campaign is one of the surest signs the pressure campaign is having an effect (and after just two weeks, too!) Don't let up! Call/mail their asses!! #SaveSpeech

We're excited and proud to announce that Digital Foundry is now fully independent, having parted ways amicably with IGN. In this DF Direct Special, we share our thoughts and aspirations for the future of the channel: youtu.be/tl7bIJ2yu4I

Top text reading: "The European Citizens' Initiative is OPEN!" A speedometer showing progress on the Stop Killing Games Initiative, with the dial showing 1.401503 million signatures, a filled blue bar for the 1 million signature threshold, and 4 filled smaller yellow bars representing 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 million signatures passed. A button below reads "Sign the EU Petition"

1 million to 1.4 million in 17 days! Incredible! Push for 1.5-1.6 million to have politicians pay more attention to us and build our buffer!: eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public

Come on gamers, gamer allies and relatives of gamers! Let's fight against "own nothing and be happy" and #StopKillingGames !

Google seems to be in the process of splitting up Android and Pixels along with moving towards treating other Android-based platforms as their competitors instead of their partners. Pixels retain first class alternate OS support with Android 16 firmware so it's not about that.

In May, we began preparing to port to Android 16 despite our most active senior developer responsible for leading OS development being unavailable (bsky.app/profile/grap...). Android 16 launched today and porting is going to be significantly more difficult than we were expecting.

Unfortunately, Android has made changes which will make it much harder for us to port to Android 16 and future releases. It will also make adding support for new Pixels much more difficult. We're likely going to need to focus on making GrapheneOS devices sooner than we expected.

Yeah uh, think that raisin bread you ate earlier became magical (read: expired).

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

That's a bio-worthy quote, if I've ever seen one!

Getting the feeling that if someone likes a place when it's winter, they'll prolly love it in any other season.

Haters will say that yellow snow is coloured by piss, but True and Real Snow Enjoyers KNOW that it is actually just spilled mango juice with milk. Don't believe their lies!

*brain freezes from frigid mountain air*

We have *NOT* paid for an advertisement for The Real Game Awards.

I've never even heard of it until an hour ago.