Stephen Smith

I propose replacing all AI with children paid to browse the internet and then argue with each other as to what the answer is, and then responding. Far cheaper and probably more accurate than AI.

This is not an Asteroids remake, honest.

YouTube to pay $24.5m to settle Trump lawsuit over Capitol riot The streaming giant is the last company to settle with the president after suspending his account in the wake of the 6 January attack in 2021.

I wonder if anyone not rich enough to take YouTube to court will also get a payout if their account has been incorrectly suspended? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Adjusting the image isn't a problem (I used Gimp), it's just finding some nice, appropriate and consistent images of faces that I can use in the game. Any ideas where I could get these from?

WIP of some kind of modern Asteroids remake I'm working on, including black holes. As with most software projects, there is no spec.

Thanks for the offer. Ideally I'm looking to replace them completely with something non-AI generated.

I've recently been browsing The Home Computer Course on archive. org. What a great magazine this was, really well laid out, interesting and informative.

That's correct! There are 10 people in the game, each with their own image.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

Please sign this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I'm slowly removing all the AI generated images from my games. Only one game left, which unfortunately uses quite a few for the faces of people (it's a murder mystery).

In Stellar Forces (a Laser Squad remake) you can watch the playback of all your missions. Here's a playback of the classic The Assassins mission. Sterner is the big yellow circle! www.stellarforces.com

Sometimes the internet is great. I was reminiscing about an old very basic dungeon crawler I played from the early 90's, so I googled "msdos freeware dungeon", and it was among the first images. Dungeons of Drakklor!

Tesco Mobile:-

1. Send a message to all customers telling them their phone won't work soon because 3G is being turned off, even though their phones will work perfectly fine.

2. Profit!

Very suspicious why Google are constantly asking Android users to backup their photos to their cloud. It's almost like they want to use them to feed their AI machine.

Fame at last!

Top tip for being thought of as the best developer at your workplace: give very long time estimates and then complete your work sooner than expected.

And heads should roll!

You're right in both respects, and Horizon should never have happened. But we've become far too accepting of bugs in software, even when it's a critical system in society,

So it looks like the C# ASP.Net annotation "DisableRequestSizeLimit" doesn't disable the request size limit. Great. I might start a blog on all the ways modern tech is rubbish.

Courts service accused of covering up IT bug that caused evidence to go missing Sources say judges in courts and tribunals will have made rulings when evidence was incomplete.

What with Fujitsu Horizon, now this, and generally most IT systems being buggy, maybe we should go back to using pen and paper. Or call out crap when we see it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And Windows as well I hope?

I wish every programming language had built-in signals just like Godot's GDScript does. Having to go back to C# and pass references around from class to class is becoming tedious.

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

I generally only follow retro and gamedev accounts on Bluesky, and that's all I usually see. So why is my Popular With Friends tab full of American politics?

I'm having a go at recreating the text adventure "Inca Curse" as a roguelike. #zxspectrum #textadventure #indiegame

A 42Gb Overwatch update? Seriously??

GTA1 and 2 had LAN multiplayer. To save bandwidth, they only sent keypresses between machines — assuming the game state was 100% deterministic. That meant every game had to run in perfect sync, at the framerate of the slowest PC.

Nintendo could give tips to Apple on how to scrape as much money as possible from customers.

Pinterest has been around for years but I've still no idea what it is. Just a load of pictures?

Working on adding grenades to my secret-agent themed game The Hard. #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame