They don’t necessarily have to be for games, in fact we are trying to expand the site’s horizons past games.

I’ll see if I can find anything else then!

Signal was funded by the CIA

So I looked into this back when that article came out, and the first part was very misleading. I worry that bad actors keep spreading that in order to push people towards dangerous alternatives. The source pushing that claim was also saying that TOR was a honeypot, without offering much evidence for it. Journalists around the world rely on TOR to communicate with vulnerable sources, and scaring people away from TOR is dangerous.

The past discussion is here, and I’ve copied some of it below: https://lemmy.ca/post/16397504/7661724

CIA → RFA → OTF → Signal

My understanding is that the CIA operated a news agency in the 50s, then decades later the 2012 president of the news agency started the Open Technology Fund to “help better protect reporters and sources for the news organization with enhanced digital security technology”. That organization made (publicly documented) investments in projects including the Tor Project and Signal. Even if someone thinks the OTF is sinister, the total amount over 5 years was $3M.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia_(Committee_for_a_Free_Asia)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Technology_Fund

used the platform’s users as cover for their communications of operations in foreign countries

This part is possible, and since I haven’t heard that claim before I don’t have anything on hand to comment on it directly.

I would argue that even if the CIA benefited from the presence of encrypted communication in the past, Signal does more than enough good in the world protecting people from surveillance, oppression, and censorship that it is worth recommending.

Since the app is open source and constantly scrutinized, I trust that any shady changes to the code will be caught and called out quickly.

Some more guidance or examples might help, since ‘tools’ and even ‘software tools’ is a bit broad. Looking at the site, is it game creation tools that you are looking for?

Some that come to mind

• Krita for art / design (also Gimp, Inkscape, etc.)
• Blender for 3D
• LibreSprite for “for creating and animating your sprites” (I haven’t tried it but I’ve heard of it)
• Makehuman for character creation (I haven’t tried it but I’ve heard of it)
• OBS Studio for screen recording / streaming
• KDenlive for video editing
• Audacity for audio editing
• Upscayl for local AI image upscaling
• Various tools for development (ex. vs codium)

There are also various free websites for collecting assets, images, videos, audio, playing around with colour palettes. Then there are also non-game development related tools (ex. Signal for messaging, LocalSend for local file sharing) etc.

You can also try asking in !opensource@programming.dev :)

We need a version of this for Lemmy

Let’s pretend say we invented memes.

In all seriousness, this was the conclusion:

In conclusion, the electrospinning of wheat flour is possible from formic acid solutions, after ageing at 32 °C and cooling, forming mats of nanofibers with diameters of 372 (±138) nm. The formed mats are hydrophilic, and ideally positioned as a cheaper, greener replacement for starch in biodegradable, biosourced nanofiber applications, such as next generation bandaging, or carbonized supercapacitor electrodes. Additionally, as the newly developed material consists of fibers formed from the extrusion and drying of flour, it may be defined as pasta, dramatically undercutting the previous record for the thinnest pasta lunga by approximately a thousand times.

Too much for me, I’m out 🏳️

I think they should sell it to me.