Ivo Pačnik

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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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A throwback to one of the most innovative and memorable slovenian marketing campaigns. SKB Papi game was all the rage between children 20 years ago. Now you can relieve it:

marko.muzej.si/cnc/papi/ (author: Dušan Kastelic)
#slovenianeldermillenialcore

I don't say this enough, but I really, really, really want you to succeed and to be happy.

when i have to do something i dont want to i imagine a little hand clicking on me from the sky like in a real time strategy game then i say "yes milord" and go do it

i think, on a fundamental level, my biggest issue with *any* corporate LLM solution is that it's built to destroys community. It rips up everything that various communities of people have built together and repackages it all -uncredited- as a shiny, new thing.

Srečna trinajstka

I'm really happy always being the GM in Brindlewood Bay or in some OSR games

A composite image of parrots calling each other on tablets. Image from Kleinberger et al., 2023.

Pet parrots were taught to do video calls, and it was a hit.

The birds not only made friends with each other, and selected who they wanted to call and when, but also picked up new skills from fellow parrots.
Good enrichment option for improving captive parrot welfare.
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The Indie Game Reading Club Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

www.indiegamereadingclub.com also this

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💿💿 The first version of a system for mass archiving CDs and DVDs has been built using old optical drives! 💪

🧐🕶️ We're proud that our museum hosts numerous events, meetups, and gatherings of diverse tech communities every month. 🗓️ Event calendar: www.racunalniski-muzej.si/ev...

I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now.

C code from this URL https://godbolt.org/z/b6We3oYoo which will allow a screenreader to better read the code aloud.

Been a minute since I got to do anything cursed in C. Helped a friend using C23 out to make a `string()` macro that can take a string literal or a ptr + len to construct a bounded string struct.

I'm very pleased with myself on this one. godbolt.org/z/b6We3oYoo

FINALLY, I can talk about REALIS, the tabletop game that I've been working on since spring of 2021.

What did you use to track/plot this?

🔑🔓 The kiosk for validating health cards is alive! Although the screen is quite dim, the XP operating system is up and running.💪

🐧💿 The internet has already forgotten them (read: .iso files are nowhere to be found), so it's time for us to revive them: Pingo Linux 4.0, Slo-Tech Linux 2.0, and FeriX 2.1... 3 successful Slovenian Linux distributions. Attention: We are still searching for Pingo 4.1 ⚠, slix, Slobuntu, and Slonix!

Description of a painted pair of carbide boots in Caves of Qud: "This item is painted with a scene from the life of the ancient sultan Artaxer-Seh I: In 3460 BR, Artaxer-Seh won a decisive victory against the combined forces of Qarqappar at the bloody Battle of Hanip Tangle, though she lost her prized Rhythmicuca Rootsbane during the course of the conflict. As a result of the battle, Hanip Tangle was so rife with stray portals to other places and times that it was renamed the Periodic Wreck."

This is an example of how the randomly-generated histories matter

After reading this history, I found the location described here and sure enough, I found the axe Rhythmicuca Rootsbane there. There were no portals to other times, but equipping the axe gives me Temporal warping powers. #Qudposting

Shucks it feels good to move quickly

#7dfps #godot #gamedev

A gentle reminder that Johnathon Selstad has compiled one of the best libraries of mathematical tools for Unity. 📊

Inverse kinematics, Bézier functions, Kalman filters, soft bodies, and much more.

If you are a game developer, this is a game-changer!

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github.com/zalo/MathUti...

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

Depiction of the advent of code day 6 ASCII symbols used in the puzzle. It's a room depicting a guard (represented as >), boxes (the # symbol), floor (the . symbol) and the path the guard has already traversed (the X symbol). The guard is stuck in a 2 square infinite loop.

Finally found the edge case for AOC day 6 part 2 that's not handled correctly by my code.

I just completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/5

Street sign pointing to the museum

To make it easier to find us... 😍😍 (We'll be adding 4 more signs at existing locations nearby... 💪)

It's official: Wehrlegig's next major project will be Hell Raisers in Kanawha County, a brilliant asymmetric Pax-style game designed by Matilda Simonsson and Luke Evison developed by Joe Schmidt and Drew Wehrle. www.kickstarter.com/projects/124...

definitely one of the all-time great games in general. amazing how much a game from 1998 can run laps around so many contemporary AAA games in so many ways. check out my big piece i wrote for the 20th anniversary back in 2018 medium.com/mammon-machi...

at children's festival

Children often make amusing remarks. At Pika's children's festival, some memorable ones included: 'That's only worth 1 €' (ouch!), 'There are newer computers, you know' (no need to live like that 😂) and 'Grandpa/grandma have phones like this' (which don't work anymore).

#computermuseum #slovenija

For Love of God, Make Your Own Website - Aftermath The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now I usually end up at the same three or four websites.

the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...