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Screenshot of mastodon.gamedev.place: Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month

Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month (mastodon.gamedev.place)

417 points by AshleysBrain 6 days ago | 406 comments

A Mastodon post by Ashley Gullen reporting that Facebook Pages now require a paid subscription to post more than two links per month; the page returned a 429 error.

facebook meta social-media paid-subscription

Screenshot of mastodon.gamedev.place: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”(mastodon.gamedev.place)

181 points by luu 2 months ago | 315 comments

Screenshot of mastodon.gamedev.place: Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits

Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits (mastodon.gamedev.place)

54 points by fooker 4 months ago | 37 comments

Screenshot of mastodon.gamedev.place: Google Antigravity Deletes D Drive

Google Antigravity Deletes D Drive (mastodon.gamedev.place)

22 points by jay_kyburz 10 months ago | 10 comments

Screenshot of mastodon.gamedev.place: A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2

A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2 (mastodon.gamedev.place)

470 points by AshleysBrain 11 months ago | 68 comments

A Mastodon thread by Tom Forsyth recounting a time-travelling bug caused by a door in Half-Life 2 during development.

half-life-2 game-development bugs valve

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Sunsonic 986-II – A Thai Famicom clone with keyboard and mini CRT built-in (mastodon.gamedev.place)

76 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 12 comments

Screenshot of mastodon.gamedev.place: What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++

What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++(mastodon.gamedev.place)

132 points by AshleysBrain 3 years ago | 140 comments

Screenshot of mastodon.gamedev.place: Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites

Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites (mastodon.gamedev.place)

596 points by boffbowsh 3 years ago | 131 comments

Mastodon thread by Mario Zechner explaining his project scraping Austrian grocery chain websites to track food prices amid high inflation.

web-scraping grocery-prices austria inflation

Screenshot of mastodon.gamedev.place: Inflation in Austria

Inflation in Austria (mastodon.gamedev.place)

221 points by luu 3 years ago | 120 comments

Screenshot of mastodon.gamedev.place: When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option

When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option (mastodon.gamedev.place)

926 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 357 comments

A Mastodon post arguing that OS permission prompts should offer an option to feed apps fake data such as generated contacts, ambient sounds, or fake location.

privacy app-permissions mobile-os fake-data

Screenshot of mastodon.gamedev.place: The least interesting part about AVX-512 is the 512 bits vector width

The least interesting part about AVX-512 is the 512 bits vector width (mastodon.gamedev.place)

176 points by luu 3 years ago | 90 comments