Farfalk
@farfalk.bsky.social
Freelancer Information Engineer, trying my best in building sustainable ways for humans and machines to cooperate... yadda yadda linkedin grade stuff.
Also enjoying silly games :)
Also enjoying silly games :)
My wife's smartphone failed yesterday, so I got my trusty, completely modded, unbelievably abused 2013 LG Nexus One and tried to turn it on. Not a stutter, it just worked. I'm in awe at the sheer willpower of this majestic mf
December 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
My wife's smartphone failed yesterday, so I got my trusty, completely modded, unbelievably abused 2013 LG Nexus One and tried to turn it on. Not a stutter, it just worked. I'm in awe at the sheer willpower of this majestic mf
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SoftBank is genuinely destroying itself trying to afford to pay OpenAI $22.5bn. There isn’t enough money to fund this company!
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com/business/med...
December 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
SoftBank is genuinely destroying itself trying to afford to pay OpenAI $22.5bn. There isn’t enough money to fund this company!
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com/business/med...
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another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
December 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)
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Working on Multimesh+ for my game, a simple multimesh editor in #GodotEngine.
Add, delete, scale, and paint. MM+ is designed to facilitate the editing of multimesh instances and divide them on a grid for 3D culling.
All available on GitHub :)
Add, delete, scale, and paint. MM+ is designed to facilitate the editing of multimesh instances and divide them on a grid for 3D culling.
All available on GitHub :)
December 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Working on Multimesh+ for my game, a simple multimesh editor in #GodotEngine.
Add, delete, scale, and paint. MM+ is designed to facilitate the editing of multimesh instances and divide them on a grid for 3D culling.
All available on GitHub :)
Add, delete, scale, and paint. MM+ is designed to facilitate the editing of multimesh instances and divide them on a grid for 3D culling.
All available on GitHub :)
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look I’m not an evangelical but “a guy calling himself the Beast wants control of your earthly wealth” feels like some kind of sign, no?
oh that’s good. not enough of every aspect of our lives were financialized quite yet
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
look I’m not an evangelical but “a guy calling himself the Beast wants control of your earthly wealth” feels like some kind of sign, no?
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when I was at google, their class on licenses basically said "we can't use any license that's funny"
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
when I was at google, their class on licenses basically said "we can't use any license that's funny"
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
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For a fraction of the cost, I can make placeholders for you that are guaranteed to slip through to final build and far beyond.
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
For a fraction of the cost, I can make placeholders for you that are guaranteed to slip through to final build and far beyond.
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
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Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty
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Made some updates to my control proxies Godot addon, which lets you represent 2D Controls in 3D. Added some basic 3D anchoring features, and an examples scene. You can get it here: codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/...
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Made some updates to my control proxies Godot addon, which lets you represent 2D Controls in 3D. Added some basic 3D anchoring features, and an examples scene. You can get it here: codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/...
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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big inspector improvement for arrays
October 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
big inspector improvement for arrays
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SIGNALIS was released 3 years ago today.
It still feels like a dream that people still play,
discuss and create fanart of our game today ✨
Thank you for your support throughout the years!
It still feels like a dream that people still play,
discuss and create fanart of our game today ✨
Thank you for your support throughout the years!
October 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
SIGNALIS was released 3 years ago today.
It still feels like a dream that people still play,
discuss and create fanart of our game today ✨
Thank you for your support throughout the years!
It still feels like a dream that people still play,
discuss and create fanart of our game today ✨
Thank you for your support throughout the years!
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I'm also a a philosopher trained in ethics and epistemology which is why I can tell you that "containing knowledge" and "knowing things" are different propositions. For instance, an encyclopedia contains knowledge, and knows nothing.
June 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I'm also a a philosopher trained in ethics and epistemology which is why I can tell you that "containing knowledge" and "knowing things" are different propositions. For instance, an encyclopedia contains knowledge, and knows nothing.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.
Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.
They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.
Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.
They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.
October 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.
Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.
They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.
Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.
They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.
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Humanities majors know that they don't have the knowledge base to do engineering; but engineers don't know that they don't know enough to do humanities.
Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.
Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.
They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.
Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.
They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Humanities majors know that they don't have the knowledge base to do engineering; but engineers don't know that they don't know enough to do humanities.
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There is no second marshmallow.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
There is no second marshmallow.
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Enhance the quality of your scientific research!
Poolpo is the web and mobile platform that supports your work by simplifying participant recruitment and the registration of studies and data.
A tool designed specifically for researchers!
Poolpo is the web and mobile platform that supports your work by simplifying participant recruitment and the registration of studies and data.
A tool designed specifically for researchers!
October 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Enhance the quality of your scientific research!
Poolpo is the web and mobile platform that supports your work by simplifying participant recruitment and the registration of studies and data.
A tool designed specifically for researchers!
Poolpo is the web and mobile platform that supports your work by simplifying participant recruitment and the registration of studies and data.
A tool designed specifically for researchers!
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Poolpo: a whole new way of doing research!
September 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Poolpo: a whole new way of doing research!
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La malattia di Huntington è una delle malattie genetiche neurodegenerative più difficili e finora era senza cura. Dopo decenni di ricerche, una prima terapia per rallentarne l’avanzamento ha dato risultati positivi, riducendo di circa il 75 per cento il progredire dei sintomi
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C'è un primo trattamento promettente contro la malattia di Huntington - Il Post
Una delle malattie genetiche neurodegenerative più difficili e finora senza cura
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September 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
La malattia di Huntington è una delle malattie genetiche neurodegenerative più difficili e finora era senza cura. Dopo decenni di ricerche, una prima terapia per rallentarne l’avanzamento ha dato risultati positivi, riducendo di circa il 75 per cento il progredire dei sintomi
ilpost.link/HtFTXlZEGV
ilpost.link/HtFTXlZEGV
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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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September 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM