There's certainly always been fantastic software available for Mac. However, it was almost never built by Apple. It sort of felt like someone one day needed a FireWire port, so they bought a Macintosh. Then they must have told a close friend working at Macromedia they needed some software - and it was all just inertia from then on.

Apple make so so much wonderful hardware! They always have. Their software on the other hand is near universally awful. I love my Macbook, but my gosh, I do not love whatever the latest flavour of macOS is that Apple have decided to throw on their update servers this year. It just so happens that I also enjoy Unix, so I spend a lot of my time in a terminal - but Apple don't get to claim credit for that!

EDIT: OK. It just refreshed and is now showing Mac OS X as 36th over all. Crisis of faith averted.

I was able to reverse engineer the PS4 edition of "New Game!: The Challenge Stage", which was never released in English. I've now fully translated it, added proper text wrapping and additional text boxes where text would now overflow. Along the way I've fully decompiled (with byte exact recompilation) the Squirrel scripts for the entire game, built atop the game engine of a now largely defunct game studio. Prior to this I hadn't even heard of Squirrel scripting language. I had most of this done in under 24 hours.

I'm not in any way a part of the visual novel community. I just did this because I enjoyed the New Game! anime way more than a near(?) middle aged man probably ought to.

P.S. My condolences to Yorhel's friends and family.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Eric's work, he's basically the Fabrice Bellard of computer graphics.

Breaka Club is still very early days. Current focus is in person, but the plan is to offer an online club experience also. I'm not quite sure what that will look like just yet. Ideally yes, I'd love to make this available to others.

We're also currently building Breaka Club's own game, which is where the majority of development efforts are focused. However, since we already have the Overcooked coding experience, we haven't prioritized the visual script layer for this game just yet - it's on our roadmap.

Presently, our game is more of a cozy farming RPG / world building sandbox, with a no-code solution for world building:

https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids

https://youtu.be/ITWSL5lTLig

This is part of a club to teach kids coding, creativity and digital literacy.

Obviously a bit more work. But it'd be pretty neat to have live reactions. "So close!", "Nearly there", "You can do it!", "Perfect" etc.

https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids

The recent Netflix Games edition of Overcooked with K-Pop Demon Hunters is cool, but not nearly as cool as kids coding and playing their way through Overcooked levels in our custom educational mod for Overcooked:

https://youtu.be/ITWSL5lTLig

I'm also maintaining GodotJS, strongly typed TypeScript bindings for Godot, which is used to build the Breaka Club RPG (see first link):

https://github.com/godotjs/GodotJS

And last week I also put together the first release of MoonSharp in ~10 years; Lua runtime for Unity. That's not for Breaka Club though, I also consult for Berserk Games on Tabletop Simulator:

https://github.com/moonsharp-devs/moonsharp/releases

https://github.com/moonsharp-devs/moonsharp/releases

I'm not the creator of MoonSharp, just a maintainer on Github (who has honestly done very little). However, I consult for Berserk Games, and we have use MoonSharp as the scripting runtime for Tabletop Simulator.

Currently supports RPG mechanics, with digital card game support coming soon. Plan is to keep expanding what's offered.

Bits and pieces are already open source with more to come: https://github.com/BreakaClub and https://github.com/godotjs/godotjs/

* GodotJS — https://github.com/godotjs/GodotJS — TypeScript for Godot

* Consulting for companies using GodotJS (and Unity).

BiRefNet 2 seems to do a much better job of correctly removing backgrounds in between the contents outline. So like hands on hips, that region that's fully enclosed but you want removed. It's not just that though, some other models will remove this, but they'll be overly aggressive and remove white areas where kids haven't coloured in perfectly — or like the intentionally left blank whites of eyes for example.

I'm putting these images in a game world once they're cut out, so if things are too transparent, they look very odd.

SAM3 seems to less precisely trace the images — it'll discard kids drawing out the lines a bit, which is okay, but then it also seems to struggle around sharp corners and includes a bit of the white page that I'd like cut out.

Of course, SAM3 is significantly more powerful in that it does much more than simply cut out images. It seems to be able to identify what these kids' drawings represent. That's very impressive, AI models are typically trained on photos and adult illustrations — they struggle with children's drawings. So I could perhaps still use this for identifying content, giving kids more freedom to draw what they like, but then unprompted attach appropriate behavior to their drawings in-game.

So, yeah, I should really give it a shot. Thanks for the reminder.

Don't get me wrong, I'm aware V8 wasn't designed with games in mind. QuickJS (which is also supported by GodotJS) is probably the safer bet. Or you know, not JavaScript at all. However, I'm building tooling specifically for kids to make games, and TypeScript is leagues ahead in terms of usability:

https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids

Before I make the swap to QuickJS out of necessity, I was hoping to try my hand at tuning V8's GC for my use case. I wasn't expecting this to be easy, but the article doesn't exactly instill me with confidence:

> Simply tuning the system appears to involve a dose of science, a dose of flailing around and trying things, and a whole cauldron of witchcraft. There appears to be one person whose full-time job it is to implement and monitor metrics on V8 memory performance and implement appropriate tweaks. Good grief!

If anyone reading this has experience with tuning V8's GC to minimize stop-the-world GC duration (at the cost of overall memory use, or runtime performance etc.) I'd greatly appreciate any advice that can be offered.

> The crux of the question here was about whether GDPR obligates us to email all 5,000 people signed up for this program about this vulnerability.

You are just not going to be able to control the narrative like this. Trying to tell someone else what the "crux of the issue is" will not allow you to shift the goal posts. The article described a pattern of issues, and in my previous comment I specifically raised one. No determined individual is going to just leave that thread dangling for you.

> Is there something else we should be doing?

Yes. Obviously. That's the point.

> The crux of the question here was about whether GDPR obligates us to email all 5,000 people signed up for this program about this vulnerability. The two lawyers we have consulted on this have both said no. One of them specifically specializes in privacy compliance.

It's not a great look for the leader of a children's organization to so blatantly flout that they lack a moral compass. You're currently interacting with the public, not the legal system. Sure, whether or not you're legally required to inform your kids is relevant. However, the law is quite literally the bare minimum of what you're obligated to do.

No-ones reading this thinking. "Oh great, they've done the bare minimum legally required of them." They're thinking, "Wait. Companies notify people of breaches all the time. You apologise, and explain what you're doing to rectify the situation. What have they got to hide? Are they worried they'll get an influx of outrage because this lack of care was something people in the community were already concerned about?" With the context given from the odd parent in this thread, it certainly comes across as the latter.

> It's not a complicated legal question, the answer is just no.

This detracts so much credibility from your communication. There is no lawyer on Earth that will describe this as "not a complicated legal question". No adult that's ever had any communication with a lawyer is going to believe this for a second. Lawyers are notorious for their non-committal attitude toward providing legal advice. Nothing is black and white — it's all grey. So this comes across as:

a. You've never interacted with a lawyer in your life. Or, b. You're telling porkies, or at the very least, are way too flippant with hyperbole.

> - The author was ultimately banned from the community not for their opinions on this matter, but because of a long streak of unrelated conduct issues that culminated in a spree of saying horribly abusive things to multiple other members of the community.

> — They have been pursuing a grudge against the organization ever since. They are not a reliable narrator, this post is a fantasy version of events that casts them as a martyred hero.

Someone who has been acting maliciously against your organization accessed that data. And you think it's fine? They're a teenager. An angry teenager, who is acting out. You honestly believe you can trust they didn't distribute this data or tell anyone else about the problem before you found out about it?

When I was a teenager, someone in my year level gained access to a lot of personal data about a bunch of people in our year level. This was a smart individual who at least somewhat understood the gravity of the situation. But they were also a kid, of course they distributed some of the data — bragging rights and what not.

What about the section titled "the surveillance infrastructure (orpheus engine)" where the teenager claims children's data was intentionally being sent out to third parties, specifically to profile kids? What's that all about?

Look, no-one read this article and thought "Wow, this is well written article by a super mature well-adjusted individual. I'm taking this as gospel." The article is clearly written by an angry teenager. I feel far more invested in this now that I've seen your responses. The way you're handling this, and yourself, is just downright absurd. Stop.