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ManiaDrive - Personal favourite and Rare recommendation for a ' game '

(long since out of my vocab but...)

http://maniadrive.raydium.org/

ManiaDrive is a free clone of Trackmania, the great game from Nadéo studio, and is an arcade car game on acrobatic tracks, with a quick and nervous gameplay (tracks almost never exceed one minute), and features a network mode, as the original.

Features:

Complex car physics
LAN and Internet mode
Live internet scores (fastest completed tracks)
Track editor
Dedicated server with HTTP interface
Full soundtrack or play your own mp3s!

Can be played on new or old systems... (new games are pure bloat!)... check the picture out at least!

#3D #Games #Engine

More screenshots and info on website.

Trusting 1 person highly / intensely might be more measurably quicker to getting answers / answering doubts about their ability or ideas.

This is about seeing and testing a person's ideas and proposals, helping people with it, get it out and over and done with!
Being direct and honest in this way show about our personal + and - points, temperament, and then other peoples doubts etc all which have to be dealt with at some point!... inescapable.
(this could be a server thing or wider if it's not flooded)

I feel it hurts us to lock ourselves in just static users or not test our own ideas and dreams... because for me (even just me) to be shot down after stepping up is helpful... and then letting the proper ideas stand / get stronger / recycle the weak parts.

Rather than not testing people out and giving everyone mediocre access and perhaps not getting as far in trust (and even enjoyment) many things stagnate also... it's kind of a good foot forward...

We already have each others info, we're on the same server for similar reasons (perhaps reasoning itself) amd now is really the time for those that want to test each other's thing out, even theoretically.

I'd personally like to see a measured approach 1 by 1 on this server, and something supported and giving stage for people to test their 'school' of thought or advancement (sharing more) here... like meeting every single person who wants while keeping an eye on me making sure it's not for nefarious purposes.
More permissions or stamps of approvals suddenly allows people to get 'what they always dreamed' of and then get the yes/no if it works or real talk about it... Server-backed support really helps people like governments who can rally for anything as long as people believe system has it covered too somewhat.
And then regressing permissions, ending tests more measurable also... ! Rotating people. I don't see too many so I think this can really let people use others with time.

Right now the many tests have mostly all come up with same human breaking point

"If it's not one thing then it's other".
And this means the human hidden things or or clearly triggered things always come up.., I can even list them now as the stages people go through meeting and end up disconnecting because "one thing or another", their own politenesses or doubts, insecurities, not disclosing their feelings, etc etc (list goes on)
Often from a person just being themself people feel rather attacked on uncertain so this is what I'm tackling here... so basic but hurts so many processes... which are important towards, well everything!

So by doing things openly or with support of server (even between admins accepting a new proposition and keeping eye on someone) then everything comes out into the open... and it's commonality is similar to what we are lacking in government so we create culture in this way... because gov also doesn't want to talk about these things or manage it... but by defaults and de-facto's does end up managing it... (upto if you think it's done well or with you participation!). So this is my answer to that also,
DIY

We already trust each other being here (shallow and deep / personally or as a set system with set privileges) and this way further can unlock the one or two people's potentials and energy for perpetuating life and soon shows what is wrong also (with behaviour or proposal) which is 100% valuable and often doesn't need much cost / time (we do the talking once we see backing of 'system' or start steps theoretically)...

Getting everything out into the open and scrutinised (for those that like to step up like me) is great. Shuts me up too real fast as measurably I can see a problem with myself and ideas! And my hope is others can relaz and see that too! Real progress!

For me, my good-will is undoubtedly constant and measurable so really I encourage willing participants and people to step-up and get their game on and make something nice of one another and let dynamics happen and be given test space... and if you don't encourage yourself and others then well it doesn't happen much.
The other government is not going to let that culture grow...

...so this is something quite imperative to us all as the new culture, which I hope are not 'dead fish'.

And if you believe we all operate in one humanity (species / larger colony), then not much better than to share it / tweak / mod / optimise as soon as possible and even re-adjust / reprogram massive errors on the logic or emotional plane for what we're all really dealing with (again on an individual level and as a whole (undoubtedly)... and important not all our fault.

So give yourself a break but.. [and I don't know how to end this sentence....something like; don't let things get out of hand or... Do seek help... or even the unlikely random person can and is willing sometimes to take shit on; do talk the bull by the horn occasionally or show you're helpless to yourself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ]

Humanity.... for better, for worse, until death do us part.

No 1 person has all the pieces of the puzzle. That's the advantage of humans who are able to communicate.

Arguably nobody else is going to do that for you or should. In the modern day it does help to band together (but people they have their own shit to deal with which then becomes everyone's shit).

So that's why I advocate sharing your shit because it's one and the same humanity or copy and paste template happening to us everywhere. Even the negative we can turn to positive.

Or they are going to do it in worse ways... like more army / military / primitive-clever fighting.

Also not a good way to fight (for reasoning or justice on any level it still doesn't achieve that end goal).

So if you expect others to help AS PART OF A TIGHT SYSTEM.... THINK AGAIN. Those types are only going to 'help' if they can perpetuate their own 'maximum' money % out of others or their 'unfortunate situation' AND ONLY if the system instigates and reinforcing such things.

This message to say there is no easy win other than you doing it yourself and accepting we were born into bad equations and to increment talking to me and others... it does require a lot of humility and accepting the bad from the past.

Podcast release - Adrian Cochrane [Audio Interview]

DRM Media + Browsers + WWW Redesign + Other Technology...

http://freeschool.0id.org/drm-media-adrian-cochrane-www-browsers-text-audio/

#Podcast #Tech #Audio #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Decentralised #Software #FSF #Design #DefectiveByDesign
#LibrePlanet #2022 #Talk #Artificial #Scarcity

You have to really be against BigTech sometimes to go more towards HomeGrownTech - because HomeGrown code isn't 1:1 or exactly the same
- in speed
- in size and storage of gigbytes
- in the expectation by users perhaps to have compared to what took almost criminal-like behaviour to make / legal thieves / conspiracy to take over...

Expectation shows their uncaring attitude / unknowingness the same shit goes on with anything fuelled with money and not realising why Small Tech is shitty sometimes and to be happy with that, is the win itself....because "at least it isn't BigTech!"

How much you believe in that is by how much you don't use Google to search and even 4 other search engines or even whip yourself to understand that it's niformation-overload.
Use 0 search engines because most of what you do is distraction anyway.... Just don't use Google. It's a long-term loser...
and I'm not saying the other team is an alternative or 'better', it's just like saying don't take steroids... just stay your shitty self and make best with that or other people / geeks / friends with better morals....

Luxury has also become normalised as a normal itself when it is really costing the planet BIG and bigger each time we use and consume more, or for every small thing use even more things.

Paying others to do the damage for you is something of a minor point to the above. Using less is => allowing others to abuse less
because as you know through more products and all that chain, more toxic $hit happens.

Thank you for your attention.

#job advert on #Mastodon - "Dedicated match-maker"
I need someone to put each other in touch with other people!
Not just directly about the same thing (we do that also) but really scooping people who have time and using them because they interested in learning the same things or some group / satellite stuff. Something like that! (this is not really a #jobs post but I am serious!
More active meetings.
Something less one way and not text.
Feels like that's a good idea...

Mastodon posts and people need a warm meeting space daily or weekly... with the many.
Anyone else interested>?
Boost please ^_^ and see what we can do here with our time...
ViVa Le Mastodon (and everything people love that we need to be active in kicking arse in) <3 <--- that's a heart not an arse! So worth boosting!

Privacy Redirect (browser extension)...

Redirects:
Twitter ----> Nitter
YouTube ----> Invidious
Instagram ----> Bibliogram
Google Maps ---> OpenStreetMap.

Great examples of better everyday links---->less their link$ and redirect$ to them, less tracking etc
(less money and control to them).

Might not be compatible with all browser / version but modelling from this is possible and a great start (code on github
https:////github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect)

Allows toggling all redirects on/off and more.

★ More Info of filters: ℹ️

Nitter
Invidious
Bibliogram
OpenStreetMap

Thank you nature! A few times today I've opened the window and the wasp has let itself out (I also like wasps and don't feel danger by them or feel need to wave my hands). I've also tested their temperament and they are not aggressive.
I also seem to have a knack of opening the door or window at the right time and they let themselves out. They are actually very calm flying object...

When you are calm, they are calm...
If you are scared or over-active it doesn't help their interpretation.

You can test this by them letting them investigate and it's a great test of trust. Much like humans (without putting them in the same category) but it's a great way to say "it's not gong to kill me so let's see if what other people say about is correct and just hold my nerve... and just love nature. Stings and all ! Because it's all full of wonder / wonderment and diversity rescues humanity.

Music scene revival.... Calling all #oldskool #Music people -
shifting this world into dance fuelled work!!....

Enjoy a sample of what is to come!
If you have your own made remixes let me know

#pirateradio #remixes #dj #dnb #drumandbass #jungle

Bismarck compared Germany and England as an elephant and a whale... each formidable in it's own element but no danger to each other.

- A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952) @4.50sec of video

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=xL_sMXfzzyA

I think this PDF was supposed to have images but maybe my particular reader couldn't render the PDF, but means I got the text version so even though I could try another viewer I just wanted to paste the talks slide and output as it's interest and you can test out the PDF yourself !(each line break . paragraph is a new slide)

Enjoy!

The Net beyond the Web (slides) by Amin Bandali
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/the-net-beyond-the-web-slides/

the net beyond the web
libreplanet 2022
bandali@gnu.org

goal: share some thoughts, spark discussion

net ?= web

[inter]net: interconnected network of networks
where
the networks and the devices comprising them
use tcp/ip to communicate with each other

web: is part of the internet
consists of websites, like
https://www.gnu.org
which consist of webpages, like
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/about-gnu.html
which are written in html

html + css
... + javascript

web initially a method/protocol for sharing
documents, information, media, ...
example: the first website (still accessible):
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

aside: shout out and thanks to
wayback machine - https://web.archive.org

early on:
small websites consisting entirely of text
and a bit later images/photos as well

joan stark (jgs)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Stark
Veronica Karlsson (vk)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160319004113/http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/

javascript

[before] javascript:
webpages were fully static
this was not desired by web developers

netscape decided to add a scripting language
to their web browser, netscape navigator
netscape hired Brendan Eich to embed the
scheme language into their browser

yay!!
right?
... right??

nestscape collaborated with sun microsystems
to embed java into their browser

netscape management decided the new scripting
language must have a syntax similar to java
rather than scheme
Eich designed and implemented javascript in 10 days

no shortage of interesting takes and/or criticisms
of javascript as a language, and its impacts
"the birth & death of javascript" and "wat"
talks by Gary Bernhardt
other interesting reads, such as
https://wiki.haskell.org/The_JavaScript_Problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_security
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=javascript

text --> multimedia --> ... programs that run on your machine
... and they are virtually everywhere!

the wwworst app store
by Alexandre Oliva
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/wwworst-app-store.html

why are we okay with this, when we know we can do better?

how gnu/linux (and other unix-like) distributions
handle distributing of software to their users

we need similar control/trust/consent in the browser
and a shift in the norms and status quo among web developers
for instance by creating and documenting publicly-accessible
api endpoints, so that anyone could write and use a custom
application for communicating with their website/service

"taking back the web with haketilo"
libreplanet 2022 (day 1) talk
by Nicholas Johnson and Wojciech Kosior
https://libreplanet.org/2022/speakers/#5790
https://hydrillabugs.koszko.org/projects/haketilo

what about other protocols?
gopher, gemini, spartan, ...

http(s)

one idea:
plain text + some rules + convenience (via extension)
some *bold* text, _emphasized_ text,
a dashed title
--------------
[ image-filename.png ]
and a simple caption
a link to the <contact.txt> page
> a tiny block of
> quoted text
(message "and a 4-space indented code block")
(call-interactively #'butterfly) ; M-x butterfly
(eqn "sqrt(b^2-4ac)")
(eqn
(sqrt (- (expt b 2) (* 4 a c))))
\sqrt{b^2-4ac}

do we want a programming language?
maybe, maybe not. if we do,
1. be used only when really needed
2. code blocks be clearly & freely licensed
3. any code executed only with user's consent,
potentially along with a permission system
that gives the user fine control over what
functions can execute for each site

user should have ultimate control
over how documents look

http does not have to be the only transport
people have been thinking about or experimenting
with other transport methods/protocols
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2022-02-08_NNCP_distributed_text
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/low-budget-p2p-conte \
nt-distribution-with-git.txt
https://gopher.tildeverse.org/zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog \
/low-budget-p2p-content-distribution-with-git.txt

what to do? how to help?

as a user:
- use freedom- and privacy-enhancing
browser extensions such as:
gnu.org/s/librejs, jshelter.org,
haketilo, and ublock origin
(see "taking back the web with haketilo"
by Nicholas and Wojciech for a list of
even more such extensions)
- say no to nonfree javascript
"saying no even once helps"
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html
- check out and participate in
small web or small net initiatives,
as well as tilde or pubnix communities
like tilde.team and sdf.org

as a developer:
- release and label your javascript as free software
https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/free-your-javascript.html
- check out protocols like gopher and gemini,
see what they have to offer, and think about
what an http-based approach could look like
- contribute:
- other browsers like luakit, netsurf, and visurf
- help maintain liberated and privacy-enhanced
versions of firefox like gnu icecat and abrowser
- don't use javascript unless you really need to.
when you do, please license it freely, and follow
principles like 'progressive enhancement' to make
sure your website works without javascript and css

if you happen to work on either side of the
current web browser duopoly, or work on web
standards, please consider:
do we really *need* all the new complexity?
12 years ago, mozilla removed support for
gopher on the grounds of reducing complexity
and attack vectors. do the current web and
its browsers resemble anything but complexity?
firefox and chromium are now each more than
30 million lines of code, on the same order
of magnitude and in fact currently larger than
the kernel linux. new code and complexity
keeps being added, while at the same time,
user freedom, control, and often privacy seem
to be gradually lessened and eroded.

the net I'd like to see beyond the current web
1. does not facilitate tracking users;
2. has freedom, control, and consent built in; and
3. is in many ways simpler, has a reasonable and
finite scope, and has several server and client
implementations.
thanks!
bandali@gnu.org
kelar.org/~bandali

references
----------
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
https://web.archive.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Stark
https://web.archive.org/web/20160319004113/http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/
https://wiki.haskell.org/The_JavaScript_Problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_security
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=javascript
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/wwworst-app-store.html
https://libreplanet.org/2022/speakers/#5790
https://hydrillabugs.koszko.org/projects/haketilo
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/freejs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
https://gopher.floodgap.com
https://gemini.circumlunar.space
https://spartan.mozz.us
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000574
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss30
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-12-01_Thinking_about_the_real_RSS_3.0
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2022-02-08_NNCP_distributed_text
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/low-budget-p2p-content-distribution-with-git.txt
https://gopher.tildeverse.org/zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/low-budget-p2p-content-distribution-with-git.txt
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html
https://tilde.team
https://sdf.org
https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/free-your-javascript.html
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388195
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html
https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/11/visurf-announcement.html
https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/27/Let-distros-do-their-job.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement

https://kelar.org/~bandali/talks/libreplanet-2022-net-beyond-web.html
gopher://kelar.org/0/~bandali/talks/libreplanet-2022-net-beyond-web.txt
marked with cc0 and dedicated to the public domain

bandali@gnu.org
kelar.org/~bandali

Private blogs are a better for privacy in many ways than massive public social internet....

5mins Lightning talk by Matthew Wise (mic is terrible but audio clips / notes below are good reminders / my take away points)

https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/lightning-talk-private-blogs-are-a-better-social-internet/

******************
My notes

- Facebook does a 100 unwanted or bad things measurably * at the same time as 'just' sending messages * @40secs

- FB are not optimising for accurate reality but what incites an emotional reaction and to keep you scrolling (engaged as engagement / tied up continuously)
How they can get you to stay on Facebook... (misleading focus, making people dumber / hedonistic as result?)

(- I Didn't like the stat $60 as maybe it's not clear or pulled from average... or I just don't know why I have feelings about any stats now and feel maths without knowing how maths was done just abusive stats and abused maths as it misrepresents well many things to falsely present a 'measurable' number!)

- Making things for friends but not always public... something within family? (private Mastodon?)
(Maybe maintenance issues with self-hosting or people don't want control so they give it to US BigTech to deal with even if abused?)

- Not complaining about Facebook or dragnet surveillance, Just simply doing things differently...

- Solution using RSS / Atom of WebFeeds- aggregating from websites so you can see them in central locations
(simple and robust existing thing / everything uses it already / Aaron Schwartz etc).
https://havenweb.org/screenshots.html

- Private blog + Feed reader = most of Facebook - is simply said and as equation clear (Haven software link above makes it clearer).

So basically like Mastodon maybe though more for own server blogging (guess it's micro-blogging here with a few people expanding that)

Basically like some of the 'newer' takes of what is usually bashing or emotional. Good to hear it again too a bit differently or even as reminder.