Julian Adams

Game developer and co-founder of Hardball Games. mastodon dot gamedev dot place @joolsadams

[rands @rands]

Brexit has hobbled the UK economy, which remains the only member of the G7 — the group of advanced economies that also includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States — with an economy smaller than it was before the pandemic : https://t.co/9mH9Aps6ro

[Julian Adams @JoolsAdams]

I posted the previous due to Elon’s Twitter banning critical journalists and blocking links to Mastodon instances.

[Julian Adams @JoolsAdams]

If you’re interested you can get me as joolsadams on mastodon dot gamedev dot place.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The Good Friday Agreement has brought us unprecedented decades of peace and prosperity.

As we mark 24 years since its signing let us ensure this remarkable achievement of diplomacy and compromise remains the framework we build our shared future upon.

[LibreOffice @LibreOffice]

@seattletimes Hi! In the article it says "There is no official consumer support for LibreOffice". It's true that the community that makes LibreOffice doesn't provide technical support. But there are professional support options here: https://t.co/1MIauME1d4

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

Earth on track to be unlivable. Story, page 3.

You can’t make this up

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

I hadn’t heard this but you have to marvel at the absolute shitshow. As well as crashing the economy, floundering in a crisis and a humiliating defeat, we now have to add “consorts with foreign spooks” to the list of claims hurled at the opposition that the Tories actually did.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

He was boozing at that drinks party for twenty-five minutes.

Please RT if you want him gone.

[Digiconomist @DigiEconomist]

“NFTs will be minted on the Polygon blockchain, which is an environmentally friendly.”

This is false. First of all Polygon leverages Ethereum’s proof-of-work for its security. Second, as a layer two for ETH it contributes to the value (and environmental impact) of the base layer

[Brendan May @bmay]

Time for my review of the year.

I’m delegating it to Isaac Asimov, who wrote this in 1980. I can’t think of a better depiction of 2021.

In 2022 we need to redress the balance, as the right wing contrarian cult is absolutely deadly to the planet, the economy, and our health.

[Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes]

This is really true and it’s a feature not a bug https://t.co/7Xr2b0P8Nq

[Dave Bradshaw 🇺🇦 🐑 🗿 @djbradshaw64]

Hero 👇

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Things that didn’t exist on Christmas 20 years ago:

iPhone
Facebook
YouTube
Instagram
Twitter
TikTok
Android
Bitcoin
Tesla
iPad
Gmail
Netflix streaming
Amazon Prime
SpaceX
Slack
Reddit
WhatsApp
Messenger
Google Maps
Snapchat
LinkedIn
Pinterest
Chrome
Skype
Spotify
Airbnb
Uber

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

Accidentally bought Xmas wraith. Everyone dead.

[Peter Kyle @peterkyle]

If you’re enjoying a glass of champagne this Christmas spare a thought for the businesses who got it into the country despite increased costs, a two month wait and reams of needless paperwork - cheers @BorisJohnson and @michaelgove 🥂

From today’s @brightonargus 👇

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

mechanisms would all be public and mirrored. There would be great temptation to keep "one critical piece" off of the public infrastructure, but being "certified pure" might be valuable to consumers as a sign that it won't just disappear.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

something like this could combine with a blockchain style technology to make internet applications that could outlive companies. A niche multiuser game that couldn't meet company revenue goals could still be "fed" by anyone that wanted to push resources at it, since the \

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

is archived-by-default in a heavily bandwidth restricted way, but your customers are served through conventional commercial means. I could imagine a CDN giving a nice rate for the "public good" of a continuously archived and mirrored service. I have a vague feeling that \

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

The Internet Archive struggles mightily to save content when services shut down, but it is often a panicky reactive process. I wonder if there could be a world where the IA acts as a default host-of-record for startups, with a super-easy CDN relationship such that the content \

[Peter Kyle @peterkyle]

It’s got to the point where you have trick the prime minister into a SAGE or COBRA meeting by telling him there’s cheese and wine there 🤦🏻‍♂️