I used to write such bloated graphics code, but when I saw how much can be achieved in just a few kilobytes I underwent a Demoscene conversion

Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch

"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"

(via SiteJamesons | TW)

Detroit has unveiled their statue honoring RoboCop
www.metrotimes.com/arts/detroit...

Bluesky is kinda neat, and I get that this behaviour is a form of cathartic healing, but my timeline is full of USA Fascism stuff. On the other hand, how come I hear none of this in my country’s news? _that‘s_ concerning.

Michael Burry (The Big Short) is betting against AI companies as well. He reckons they’ll change how they report depreciation to hide up how much they’ve spent on chips and data centres to inflate profits. What could go wrong?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The greatest lie the 80s told young computer users is that programming would be as magical an experience as the programming textbooks of the 80s promised.

@rob-sheridan.com my freesat PVR glitched and I thought of you

@rob-sheridan.com my freesat PVR glitched and I thought of you

please ENJOY this clip of Mark Zuckerberg *just trying to answer a video call* with the new 'neural band' Meta is shilling and failing miserably during a live demo

You get a prize if you can withstand all 1:42 of this

youtu.be/D97ILdUbYww?...

First success at 8x Sun Hα mosaic: 5.7K disk in good detail (downsampled here). Coronado PST is a visual instrument, so brightness is not uniform across the field, which gives lots of trouble with compositing. But it almost works, if you are very patient!

@jmtd.bsky.social
documents how to deploy slimmer Java application containers on OpenShift
developers.redhat.com/articles/202...

Framing this comment

I wonder if I should invest more time over here. I’m happy with the Fediverse, although I’m not convinced it will ever get mainstream appeal. Certainly “X” is done for.

@rob-sheridan.com there's a local saying where I live, "shy baerns get nowt". So here I go: given the Fragile anniversary, thinking about live song performances: are you sitting on the Open Source Resistance show footage? would you consider putting it up? TIA!

While I was out of town, our 2yo wanted to get a skeleton out of my office to play with. He made it sit with him, insisted on its inclusion in family photos (much to my mother’s chagrin), started dressing like the Skelly, and then formed a skeleton gang with his friends. So proud of my goth son 🥹

Apparently I’ve never posted to Bsky. Ok. Hello