<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> looks like SFDC is clamping down across the board: the local tech slack (sub-5k users) also got one of these (and can confirm this isn&#39;t hearsay, have seen the mail myself) </p><p>has a 5-figure (USD) &quot;for your billable monthly active users&quot; proposition to that org</p><p>(org was, to date, on the nonprofit-freebie golden path)</p>

<p>Challenging inventory management auto-battler Backpack Battles 1.0 is out now <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/challenging-inventory-management-auto-battler-backpack-battles-1-0-is-out-now/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/chal</span><span class="invisible">lenging-inventory-management-auto-battler-backpack-battles-1-0-is-out-now/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BackpackBattles" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BackpackBattles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndieGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Godot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Godot</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>Some years ago, a giant squid happened to be hauled in by a Norwegian trawler just as there was a marine biology conference in one of the Scandinavian port cities. The marine biologists took the opportunity to add Architeuthis to the menu at their banquet (as palaeontologists have been known to add mammoth from Siberian recoveries). The comment was that it was exceedingly unpalatable owing to the ammoniacal flavour.</p>

<p>In the arcade Football game GOAL3, nature is very much your enemy <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/in-the-arcade-football-game-goal3-nature-is-very-much-your-enemy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/in-t</span><span class="invisible">he-arcade-football-game-goal3-nature-is-very-much-your-enemy/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOAL3" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GOAL3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaming</span></a></p>

<p>Diablo 2-inspired auto-battler Skull Horde gets a demo <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/diablo-2-inspired-auto-battler-skull-horde-gets-a-demo/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/diab</span><span class="invisible">lo-2-inspired-auto-battler-skull-horde-gets-a-demo/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SkullHorde" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SkullHorde</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndieGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a></p>

<p>Overall, I think the Ray Tracer project is a good Rust &quot;nuts and bolts&quot; project. You have to write code spanning multiple files. There&#39;s refactoring and debugging. You have to translate some C++ specific idioms into Rust idioms. And you get to look at pretty pictures. </p><p>Not sure if I&#39;ll continue to run this course in the future, but you can join me for me the last one of the summer this Weds/Thurs. <a href="https://dabeaz.com/raytrace.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dabeaz.com/raytrace.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p>Welp, I&#39;m pretty happy with my effort on this project. First, I completed the entire Ray Tracer project in two days (as advertised). I wrote what I consider to be non-clever Rust and didn&#39;t think at all about optimization or anything too sneaky. I also I didn&#39;t type `.clone()` once and used Rust idioms such as `Option&lt;T&gt;` when it made sense. The final project ran about 4-5% faster than the original C++ code when I measured it at the end. Win!</p>

<p>SteamOS, Steam Deck and Steam Desktop had multiple updates over the weekend - here&#39;s what <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steamos-steam-deck-and-steam-desktop-had-multiple-updates-over-the-weekend-heres-what/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea</span><span class="invisible">mos-steam-deck-and-steam-desktop-had-multiple-updates-over-the-weekend-heres-what/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Steam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PCGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaming</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I would rather play <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/TuxKart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TuxKart</span></a></p>