Presumably, this only covers the operation of an instance, not the project and development of the project itself?

Open source can have just as many dumb things in it. The difference is you can fork it and remove those things.

In the '90s we used to put public info there, kind of like a blog. The .project and .plan files (what we were working on and what we planned to work on, work or life-related), PGP key, geek code, etc.

Some people put their work contact information (not many), but the '90s were a very different time, specially before the Eternal September, and publishing contact info like a phone or email was not too big of a deal back then (remember the white pages).

Of course, finger is now just a curiosity from the past, considering its security issues and that the most healthy way of using the internet now is not to show yourself but to hide yourself the best you can.

I see Sourcehut, I upvote.

I've never heard of that before, that's near, thanks

They're getting spammed with the AI stuff.

Corps who would rather have AI looking images instead of using stock photos love the AI stuff.

I've been pushing everyone else to photopea.com which is photoshop sans-ai in the browser.

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Anecdote: one thing my current partner of multiple years liked on my dating app profile was that I hid the face of my friends on my pictures with big bell peppers. She didn't know it came from Gimp of course, but I showed her later and we've been together since.

I draw cartoon porn mostly but the SFW comic artists I know all abandoned Photoshop, too. I wonder if Loish still does? She was huge on deviant art back in the day.

what kind if work? seriously, i hate dealing with photodhop files but every freelance artist i hire uses Photoshop

I don't know about actually retouching photos, but I don't know any digital artists that have used Photoshop in a long, long time! There are a TON of alternatives for art.

there really is no reason. even corporate owned free affinity can read all photoshopnfiles. gimp is finally getting better but not there yet.

Live me some Gimp

So true, I wonder how people still clinging to Photoshop are holding up

I mean, you can if you want. But the finger spec doesn’t actually specify a format for the returned data, so anything can be in there. Fingies just reads data from a text file and returns that. So finger foo@server would just have fingies read the file named <data_dir>/foo and respond with whatever is in that file. It could be a real name, address, and phone number, or just a silly greeting.

I mean, you can if you want. But the finger spec doesn't actually specify a format for the returned data, so anything can be in there. Fingies just reads da

So wait, you're sending anyone who asks your real name, office address and your email status?

Fuck musk and fuck anyone that is still posting on that website

I think more devs making and hosting tools like this need to get into the type of layered defensive hosting infrastructure that pirate sites use. Hard to get a c&d if they can't track you down.

Oh that just changed, that's not good! It was working when I made my original post.

On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now. Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.

xcancel is down

Yeah, Veloren has the significant advantage that they already have a source code project to join and contribute to.

Without that to point us to, I think the announcement of an empty Bazaar Initiative project is rather premature.

I miss that world when XMPP was king and almost everyone was just using whatever frontend for it and there were no "we're moving to our own privative, closed source protocol because security and features" cheap excuses so everyone could message everyone :(

It seems... a little vague?

Whats the gameplay plan? Swordplay? Magic? Multiplayer, companions? Roguelike?

The setting? Like, what kind of fantasy? Are there any lore details? Will there be a lore standard?

What kind of graphics? Voxel, retro, modern? Top down? 1st, third person?

Which engine? What language? Scripting?

I get much of this is probably in planning, but I feel the basics are pretty important. Many devs, for instance, may want a Morrowind-like, others may want a top down retro game. Those images look like modern graphics, I suppose, but that raises more questions than it answers.

I'd be interested in this. What is your stance on AI?

I would recommend contributing to Veloren, which is already much closer to what you have in mind than this project likely will ever get. Seriously, Veloren is a nice project to contribute to 👍