Just a random fediverse user who likes making games.

My Itch io page https://gamersmate.itch.io/

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  • All I really understood was it starts in the bottom right going up and changes direction whenever it reaches the end in a snake like pattern. I think from doing that but with every square being a hex/RGB pixel the amount of information that could be stored could be huge. The video also mentioned if you made a random pattern its likely it would mean nothing. Using some of the patterns that don’t translate to anything and having them mean their own thing could add even more information. I might be getting ahead of myself but this could be useful for stuff like peertube storing videos using less storage and then decoding them. The main problem is I would need to find someone who knows how to make qr hexcode/hybrid a reality since I have no idea how I would go about it.


  • Gamers_mate@beehaw.orgtoChat@beehaw.orghow's your week going, Beehaw
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    25 days ago

    My week is going well, I was watching a Veritasium video about QR codes. About 20 minutes in he talks about some sort of complicated maths that I do not understand but the idea behind QR codes is cool. It actually got me thinking about how archive.org went down and how cool it would be to have a code that holds lots of information for preservation. I was thinking each square could represent a single character based on its hex colour once all characters are used other hex colours could be used to store combinations of characters. Idk how practical it would be but if the size of the .png/.webp size can get smaller than the size of the information stored it would be really useful for data preservation.




  • Nice I am looking into places that do 3d printing since 3d printers are expensive plus you need somewhere to store it and some of the models are really big. Though I might end up just looking for used dvd cases since I am planning on only using the printer to print cases for dvds. If any dvds no longer work I can always take the cover out and use for ones that still work.


  • I have been playing ps2 games via emulation and have been looking into 3d printing dvd cases so I can properly store all my dvds. I am also burning them into a backup so I don’t have to plug in my external optical drive every time I want to watch a dvd. It is also better for preservation purposes. I am looking forword to your new social media platform especially if it part of the fediverse. I would love to join when its up.





  • The OS that comes preinstalled will always have the largest market share unfortunately. The average person is not going to install a linux iso to a usb and disable bitlocker and whatever else windows adds to make it harder to change the OS. That is before even setting it up and making sure everything works. It helps if you are friends with someone that is into installing operating systems that can help you but not everyone has that friend. The best linux can do is try and keep microsoft in line. Valve has been doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that regard. It is also why user friendly distros are so important. Somebody who thinks emails and the internet is the same thing is not going to go for Arch.


  • I do think linux needs some tools that automate that sort of thing so the 18 steps becomes like 3. It doesn’t even need to be by the distro itself but scripts made for it. I managed to make a script that does the same thing as robocopy does on windows to replace a certain rundata file for gamemaker 8.1 since it had that glitch that caused the the rundata to become invalid. I did share that script on my magazine in kbin.run and kbin.social unfortunately both are defunct but I could always share it somewhere else or make a community where people ask for help with installing stuff and people make a script for it like /c/makemeascript or something. I will have a look at the affinity suite and see what steps it takes to see if It is something I am skilled enough to automate.