First pass on a slightly more evocative Torpedo VFX #modding #scifi

GitHub Actions charging per build minute for *self-hosted-runners*? Shit's about to hit the fan lol

It's been a productive weekend for models, got all 4 of these modelled, animated and ingame between Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. Feels great to get a flow going with this sort of thing.

#modding #scifi #blender

Me: "I wish this RAM bullshit got devs to care about memory usage again"
*The monkey's paw curls*
"Microsoft tries to fix slow Windows 11 Explorer by preloading it instead of solving the underlying problem"

Been working with tools from this project a lot lately: Librelancer is a really fantastic open-source engine reimplemntation of the 2003 game Freelancer written in C#. The source for the original game was never released, so it's great to have projects like […]

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When I was young, the Independent was the best designed newspaper on the stands. This is what it looks like now: a par of text sandwiched between two ads, an auto-play video and a pointless and intrusive swipe function. It's as if it hates the work of its own writers.

someone had to do it

in UNIX, everything is a file except for the beating heart of the serpent, which is an ioctl

"I asked chatgpt and..." without wishing to be rude, I cannot now take anything else you say remotely seriously

Someone asked me to hand-translate a publicly posted Chinese technical report about NSA shenanigans on the Chinese Center for Time-Keeping network. It took me a while, because it turns out translating technical corporatese from your third language is very hard when chronically sleep deprived […]

watching a video about private equity buying everything in pro audio (native instruments, etc)

i think over a long enough timescale (over than five years) the only tools that remain are FOSS ones.

it doesn't matter that you think they're janky compared to professional-grade ones (sometimes […]

The whole MIT / @GossiTheDog malware study saga is so funny, because aside from the paper absolutely being crazy AI marketing FUD, there’s a crack of accidental admission about the fact that what the industry been hyping this whole time as 📣✨AI✨📣 is just sparkling ML and polymorphism.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum - a week of absolute scenes has left the organisation in limbo. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it all means iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened...

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cybersecurity was always political.
You can’t escape effects on defense, intelligence, and even the increasingly flooded industry job market by closing your eyes really hard and sticking your fingers in your ears. You can’t escape cybersecurity being political by being, “not really into politics”.

I'm not even talking open source. I get it, folks think that's nerd shit and glaze over. I'm talking "can you run software in devices you own, even when the manufacturer of said device doesn't want you to?"

I see so much gaslighting of people who are struggling to find jobs at junior and mid-level cybersecurity by folks who got their last job or first job before 2023. It's unreal and uncalled for. The market and the automation in the hiring processes have gone to hell […]

#Discord age verification going about as well as was to be expected i see.

all your passport are belong to darkweb.

https://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack

#infosec #cybersecurity #ageverification #ukpol #eupol #uspol #hacking #socialmedia