{"title": "Huge! Speed Dreams is Now on Git", "timestamp": 1735663394.4247284, "description": "And I'm happy to tell you that Speed Dreams [announced today](https://mastodon.social/@speed_dreams_official/113747048283798620) that they are finally moving to [Git](https://forge.a-lec.org/speed-dreams). This is huge!", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. 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Another win for Free Software! \r\nBut on thinking big that might be not the way where that project goes. they are the free competitor of iRacing", "username": "cptbichez"}, {"text": "c:2\r\n\r\n@cptbichez It is true that Speed Dreams is trying to be this very serious thing. But think about it. It is Free Software. It can be forked into different directions. And there will not be anything terrible with having a city traffic simulator, for example, with the physics and handling of Speed Dreams. Or something. ", "username": "blenderdumbass"}, {"text": "c:3\r\n\r\n@blenderdumbass \r\nThats very true! as some kind of Forza Horizon/Motorsport but entirely Free Software! That would be SO COOL, hope Speed Dreams will gain more visibility and people in their community. so we could have Speed Dreams -Open Map- too someday", "username": "cptbichez"}, {"text": "c:4\r\n\r\n@cptbichez \r\n\r\n> Open Map\r\n\r\nHm... Now think what kind of a mental thing it could be if they actually do OpenStreetMap based map generation for Open World. Like you could drive around the entire globe! On real streets!", "username": "blenderdumbass"}, {"text": "c:4\r\n\r\n@cptbichez Just testing that multiple replies will work.", "username": "blenderdumbass"}, {"text": "c:6\r\n\r\n@blenderdumbass It does.", "username": "blenderdumbass"}, {"text": "Thank you very much for your article and nice words! \u2764 We have been working very hard to reach this goal. Unfortunately, this was not only about running `git svn` and calling it for a day! We had to fix several underlying design issues in the engine that were blocking us from a clean and efficient transition to Git. \ud83d\ude30\r\n\r\nBut now we are truly excited to see that this is finally becoming a reality. \ud83c\udf89 We hope that this ultimately attracts new users, developers and packagers to our community!", "username": "Xavi"}, {"text": "c:8\r\n\r\n@Xavi It would have been great to know the intricate details about the struggles of moving over. Maybe material for another article. ", "username": "blenderdumbass"}, {"text": "c:9\r\n\r\n@blenderdumbass our latest article [https://www.speed-dreams.net/en/blog/saying-goodbye-to-2024](https://www.speed-dreams.net/en/blog/saying-goodbye-to-2024) explains some of these details (have a look at \"Reducing the repository size\", specifically), but there was so much stuff going on that the article would had become excruciatingly long and boring for readers otherwise. \ud83d\ude05\r\n\r\nThat said, explaining them more interactively (podcast? Livestreaming?) might be more interesting for developers.", "username": "Xavi"}, {"text": "c:10\r\n\r\n@Xavi Hm... interesting idea. ", "username": "blenderdumbass"}, {"text": "c:10\r\n\r\n@Xavi I'm trying to reach Franzo from OpenSourceGaming. This is his kind of stream-content. 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