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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 02, 2026

Replying to @traecer@techhub.social

@traecer@techhub.social @tiesselune@fedi.tiesselune.com @gairdeachas@mastodon.social @jvschrag@hachyderm.io I am totally imagining this interaction like the "you have my axe" "and my bow" scene. And I totally love it!

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 11, 2026

Replying to @delta@a.tela.moe

@delta@a.tela.moe @jjacobsson@mastodon.gamedev.place @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot I saw a post the other day about someone using unicode to have exponents and math notation in their identifier names. I'm still flabbergasted...

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 11, 2026

Replying to @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space @tithonium@clacks.link @foone@digipres.club Doo wop, doot doo dee doo wop!

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 07, 2026

Replying to @DevteamLife@mastodon.gamedev.place

@DevteamLife@mastodon.gamedev.place Graphics programmer: "You can use 4 bones. Any more and we won't have enough memory to ship the game on console."

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 04, 2026

Re: @OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social

Canadian friends, please sign. We have to stop this.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 02, 2026

Replying to @Oregon_Pacifist@retro-gaiden.com

@Oregon_Pacifist@retro-gaiden.com When I don't know what to say I often say "..." as well.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place

@StompyRobot @tojiro I didn't think the original post was talking about what you or me are paid to do... I'll just end the discussion here because I feel we're on vastly different ends of the spectrum. Have a nice day!

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place

@StompyRobot @tojiro Not wanting to put words in Brandon's mouth, but I think the crucial part is, he's not saying he wants AI to do the second list instead of the first. AI could just not do either of them. Speaking for myself: I enjoy the same things and dislike the same things, but I will gladly continue doing the things I dislike (in part because as you say, there are positive things to be gained from doing them) but why on Earth would I want AI to do the things I enjoy the most?

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place

@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place 10/10 doggo side-eye and blep. No notes.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @fxchip@hachyderm.io

@fxchip @aeva @britown 30-50 small wild hogs the size of large wild hogs? 😁

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 05, 2026

Replying to @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org

@argv_minus_one @pfsmet This other picture posted elsewhere in the thread shows what it looks like at an exposure closer to human vision. If you zoom in you will see city lights too. But I think the areas that are visible (Spain and Portugal near Africa, and Brazil on the other side) are not the most illuminated cities on Earth... https://defcon.social/@das_robin/116348566588039704

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @rysiek@mstdn.social

@rysiek Thanks for this analysis. I saw the BrowserGate thing earlier and it seemed bad but also way overblown, but I was not sure if I was missing something.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 24, 2026

Replying to @mariafarrell@mastodon.social

@mariafarrell@mastodon.social @jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social @_elena@mastodon.social Chiming in to say, there's a "no ai" version of DuckDuckGo. How long they'll keep it, no one knows, but you can set it up as a custom search engine and use it by default then. Search string URL: https: // noai.duckduckgo.com /%s Search suggestion API (optional): https: // ac.duckduckgo.com /ac/?q==%s&type=list (remove spaces)

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 21, 2026

Replying to @fossdd@chaos.social

@fossdd

Remember that was posted by myself before I deleted my Reddit account.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 18, 2026

Replying to @kleptones@mastodon.social

@kleptones@mastodon.social I did the quiz with my 17 year old. He correctly guessed all of them... 😭

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 17, 2026

Replying to @chainq@mastodon.social

@chainq Still remember the satire response to these in another demo... "Larusse pixel" with one red pixel on a black screen hahaha

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place

@ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place Merci de m'avoir fait commencer à 2:30, ça m'a permis de voir la perle qui est le discours du présentateur! Wow! Ça sonnait presque comme le speech de "bonne ou mauvaise situation" de Papyrus dans Mission Cléopâtre... "Même pour un petit speech comme ça, il faut se préparer un petit peu à l'avance, faut pas monter sur scène en disant "Je vais dire un truc intelligent" " ... ça sonne comme une confession, non? Hahaha Merci beaucoup pour tout ton travail, et bravo encore une fois!

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place

@ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place Wow super, bien mérité! Félicitations! Est-ce qu'il y a une vidéo de la cérémonie en ligne? J'aurais voulu écouter ton speech 😁

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 07, 2026

Replying to @vie@hachyderm.io

@vie@hachyderm.io I think you probably see another crowd than I do, or I'm in a bubble that resembles my own views, or something. Because what I see (and my own position) is that software engineers of experience recognize them as tech debt accelerators and a massive security risk, and want as little to do with them as possible. For my part, I am already saying that if things really do go the way of more LLMs everywhere, I will be considering a very early retirement. I do not want to pick up that mess.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 17, 2026

Replying to @soaproot@sfba.social

@soaproot@sfba.social @callisto@disabled.social @harald@mementomori.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social Also if you want the search suggestions to work with noai.duckduckgo.com too, this user found what you need to put in the Search suggestion API field: https://mastodon.social/@NickAnEngineer/115907242831363914

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 16, 2026

Replying to @NickAnEngineer@mastodon.social

@NickAnEngineer@mastodon.social @harald@mementomori.social @callisto@disabled.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social thanks!

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 16, 2026

Replying to @lexfeathers@tenforward.social

@lexfeathers@tenforward.social @vaporeon_@glaceon.social @IntrepidVector@glaceon.social you can set it up as a custom search engine and then select it by default, that way all searches go to noai search. Even those from the address bar. Instructions below for FireFox and forks thereof. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@skylark13/115905866049449231

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 16, 2026

Replying to @callisto@disabled.social

@callisto@disabled.social @harald@mementomori.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social You need to go to Settings - Search. Then at the bottom you have "search shortcuts", there you can click "Add" to add a new one. Name it "NoAI DDG" or whatever and paste https://noai.duckduckgo.com/%s In the URL field. (Right-click copy that since Mastodon sometimes hides the https part) Then you can go to the top where it says "Default search engine" and select the new one you just created. It's a bit different in the mobile version but similar enough.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 16, 2026

Replying to @harald@mementomori.social

@harald@mementomori.social @callisto@disabled.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social or https://noai.duckduckgo.com/%s

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 16, 2026

Replying to @callisto@disabled.social

@callisto@disabled.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social You can add a custom search engine and then select it as default in Firefox (and forks thereof). Pretty painless.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 16, 2026

Replying to @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com I was looking for the rick roll... Did I miss it? Is it more subtle than what I expect?

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 09, 2026

Replying to @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net

@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net Thanks for reposting this (I missed it the first time). It was purchased in a flash! This is right up my alley, I have so many great memories of those times and those games/platforms. Excited to read about yours!

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 09, 2026

Replying to @rysiek@mstdn.social

@rysiek@mstdn.social same same...

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 06, 2026

Replying to @teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe

@teajaygrey @stefano You mean BSD code itself? I hope there are strong policies to prevent it (for contributors to follow), otherwise sooner or later it will happen. Related: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@skylark13/115842600214466205 But even if it doesn't affect (infect) the code, it is a huge net-negative for users trying to find information to troubleshoot issues by themselves.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 06, 2026

Replying to @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@stefano I know you know this, just reiterating to further depress myself and others I guess: This is sadly not specific to BSD or any one piece of knowledge. AI models don't 'get' anything. They have no concept of knowing anything, and SEO pages generated by AI containing incorrect information are polluting the training sets of AI models, so nothing good can come of it. The video linked from this thread eloquently makes that point, among many others. https://akkoma.xn--pikabl-0xa.se/objects/34faab37-a455-44f7-abeb-d0b937cd479a

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Nov 14, 2025

Replying to @apollo@nrw.social

@apollo @thibaultamartin I am with you, but check the other replies, there might be a few alternatives to try.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Nov 14, 2025

Replying to @xyhhx@social.treehouse.systems

@xyhhx @shine @paoloredaelli @thibaultamartin Thanks, I'll check it out!

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Nov 14, 2025

Replying to @shine@gts.churanova.eu

@shine @paoloredaelli @thibaultamartin Interesting! Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like I looked at it a while back (the site was a visited link) but didn't try it for some reason. I'll give it a try! Do they remove the AI stuff? I didn't see specific mention of that but maybe I missed it. I'd love for FireFox to just not add this stuff or make it easy for us to opt out, so we wouldn't need to look for alternatives, but this looks very interesting regardless.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Nov 14, 2025

Replying to @paoloredaelli@mastodon.uno

@paoloredaelli @thibaultamartin People suggest LibreWolf all the time. But it tends to lag behind a lot and they're not super consistent in what they remove / change from base FireFox.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Nov 14, 2025

Replying to @thibaultamartin@mamot.fr

@thibaultamartin Agreed, I am still using FF because it's still the least bad and most maintained browser but this will be what makes me jump ship eventually. Lots of people are less tolerant than me and already have. If at least they had one master switch to disable all that, but no, it's like 7 settings at this point and they tend to reset when it updates...

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Aug 28, 2025

Replying to @joshbressers@infosec.exchange

@joshbressers@infosec.exchange I'd also say lots of single maintainer projects are probably abandoned. This is just my impression, but in the last year, the PRs I've sent to single maintainer repos have generally been unanswered. I really wonder how a project can survive that. Sure I can fork it and add my bug fixes and features, but the official web page still points to the old abandoned repo. New users will go there. If the maintainer doesn't even reply to posts about passing maintainership, what can you do?

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Aug 21, 2025

Replying to @rootcompute@mastodon.social

@rootcompute@mastodon.social @digitalkrampus@mastodon.social Yep, and for games it should be a version that has all online requirements and copy protection removed.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 05, 2025

Replying to @denschub@mastodon.schub.social

@denschub@mastodon.schub.social Thank you. After reading your message, I migrated all my personal repos from github to codeberg (including my website since codeberg has pages too, and it's even simpler than github pages since there's no deploy job that needs to run! -- not that I have anything interesting there for now 😅). Codeberg's migration tool works very well, and it migrates the repo's wiki, issues, releases and more. I was impressed. Going forward I will only use github to work on PRs of other forked repos.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay @skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place · Aug 11, 2024

Replying to @acegikmo@mastodon.social

@acegikmo@mastodon.social 😍 In our engine we can printf from shaders, with extended format specifier syntax for vectors and matrices. We can also create debug primitives from shaders. Extremely helpful. It's often the first thing I implement when I start using a new engine, along with shader hot recompliation if it's not already there. Iteration time and ease of debugging are super important in my opinion.

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