Humble Tech Book Bundle: Linux, the Good Stuff by No Starch Unlock new levels of freedom and creativity when you use Linux—master the ins and outs of Linux today and help support charity!

Always wanted to go deeper with Linux? Now’s your chance with this @nostarchpress.bsky.social book bundle! You’ll also support EFF’s work when you pay what you want for this bundle 💸 www.humblebundle.com/books/linux...

How One Playwright is Using Theatre to Expose the Surveillance State Creator of DATA discusses how his play about the companies fueling the government's mass surveillance apparatus mirrors our current world.

Matthew Libby's play "DATA" is a response to Big Tech companies partnering with the U.S. government to spy on us.

He says our humanity is central to resisting mass surveillance.

BUG5Y - M4TTBIT's Digital Detective Chat with BUG5Y, the hard-boiled digital detective squashing glitch-mobs in the Bitverse.

I've been developing an AI agent that chats like a film-noire detective in my Bitverse. I'm building it for my high school students to get coding assistance and research retro tech during class. If interested, you can request to give it a try on my site. #CSEd #Education
bug5y.m4ttbit.dev

Meta, Google under attack as court cases bypass 30-year-old legal shield Internet platforms have long been able to rely on special protections to avoid liability for what takes place on their sites. But that may be changing.

“Just labeling something as a design feature means nothing,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @cnbc.com. “If it’s speech, it’s speech and it gets both First Amendment protection and potentially Section 230 protection as well.”

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now? EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many

What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they try to guess your age or take your ID for age verification? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Article from the El Paso Times' March 14, 1982 edition, where an analyst indicates 7.9 million Pac-Man carts are expected to be sold

There also is contemporary news reporting that Atari anticipated selling between 7-8 million copies of Pac-Man in 1982, which tracks pretty closely with their actual sales figures (the fall off in 83 was likely because starting in January that year it became their 2600 pack-in title)

Your options for preloading images with JavaScript There are a number of ways to preload an image on demand with JavaScript — each with their own strengths & drawbacks. Let's explore them.

I needed this article a few months back! Your options for preloading images with JavaScript! macarthur.me/posts/preloa...

Dear pen plotters: toSVG({ occlusion: true }). That's it. Heerich now removes hidden faces from your SVG so your plotter only draws what's actually visible. (check the readme: github.com/meodai/heeri... for more info)

My free #Godot cheatsheet viewer plugin along with all +14 free cheatsheets are now available!!

You can optionally buy the Ready-To-Go collection to support me and download all free cheatsheets in one go!

qaqelol.itch.io/cheatsheet-v...

#GameDev #Indie #GodotEngine #Free #Addon

Mildly enthusiastic #confetti
@pixeldailies.bsky.social #Pixel_Dailies #PixelArt #PICO8
(2956x Streak!)

Illinois and Iowa US Senators back ending law that offers protections for internet platform providers, claiming companies are negatively impacting children Senators including Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin support legislation that would sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which protects internet providers from liability for content posted on their platforms. Communication professors and legal experts say the removal could stifle information sharing, as providers would face a deluge of lawsuits.

Doing away with Section 230 “and really removing a fundamental piece of architecture from the Internet is a really ham-handed blunderbuss way” of trying to address online child exploitation, EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told WVIK. www.wvik.org/wvik-top-st...

Supreme Court Agrees With EFF: ISPs Don't Have To Be Copyright If your ISP can be liable for huge amounts of money for not terminating your access to the internet because of accusations that you—or someone in your household or college network—has committed

The Supreme Court just sent a clear message: ISPs are NOT copyright police. That’s a win for internet access, online speech, and creativity. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I have over 600 Atari 2600 cartridges. Most I collected more than 25 years ago when they were dirt cheap. Plan to thin the collection by 50% this year. Here is my complete collection of Activision carts #atari #atari2600

Traffic Violation! License Plate Reader Mission Creep Is Already Here A new report from 404 Media sheds light on how automated license plate readers (ALPRs) could be used beyond the press releases and glossy marketing materials put out by law enforcement agencies and AL...

Flock’s website says their License Plate Readers are “not used to enforce traffic violations.” Apparently their customers didn’t get the memo.

Tips for Using AI—and for Talking to Students About It Here are a few ways teachers can use AI-enhanced tools and prepare to talk about the technology with students.

In recognition of AI Literacy Day, "Tips for Using #AI—and for Talking to Students About It" www.edutopia.org/article/ai-r... #education #edchat #teaching #K12 #school @briskteaching.bsky.social @schoolai.com @diffitapp.bsky.social @snorklapp.bsky.social @magicschoolai.bsky.social @schoolai.com \

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From Code to Creation: Physical Computing With Micro:bit, a project from Mr. Matt Help me give my students the chance to bridge the gap between abstract Python code and the real world using interactive micro:bit microcontroller kits. My students are the next generation of proble...

Today only --> Use the code BIRTHDAY and DonorsChoose will match your contribution to purchase micro:bits for my computer science classes! Please consider donating today! #CSEd #Education #ComputerScience
www.donorschoose.org/project/from...

I play video games to escape realism. Why would I ever want my graphics to look more realistic? #AbstractGameArt #DLSS5Off #PixelArt #IndieGames

🚩 Announcing: STACKROBATS 🚩

Grab the trophy by performing fantastic feats of puzzle-y prowess!

30 levels, playable in browser #pico8 #thinkygames #puzzlegames

Let the show begin: beepyeah.itch.io/stackrobats

experimenting with a new enemy in City of None with @liamberry.ca

(haven't done the creature art yet, not sure what it's gonna look like)

PicoCAD 2 is so SO much fun!!! and so approachable even if you dont know a crazy amount about 3D modeling

#picoCAD2
So much fun.

Say no to slop filters. Say yes to crunchy pixels.

Pond Tileset 🐸

Theme: #tileset based on the theme #water. Restriction: 16x16px per tile

@pixeldailies.bsky.social

#Pixel_Dailies
PD #253

Pixel art of a bird's eye view of water. There are four different bodies of water that have different colors.

Pixel dailies: 16x16 #Tileset based on #water
#pixelart #pixel_dailies #ドット絵 #aseprite #Procreate

NES - Water Temple (Edited)
pixel_dailies : water tileset : Restriction - 16x16px : 3/17/26
Tiles used are on the right side.
#pixelart #animation #tileset #water #NES #pixel_dailies
@pixeldailies.bsky.social

been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype

is this anything

A picture of a hardback book on a washed blue background. The title is Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves, by Mike Cook.

I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it.

Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮

ok, i coded this and i am about to test the basic projectile effects! here goes.

this will be primarily a graphics mode game, i think, but i do want a nice text mode!

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...

Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.