Gareth Owen
@theanswers42.bsky.social
Refugee from the dying world of Unicode X. Ex-physicist, software engineer, enjoys bad movies, and occasionally ranting.
@gallaethamatt.bsky.social found this posted over on the other place, thought you might be interested!
March 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
@gallaethamatt.bsky.social found this posted over on the other place, thought you might be interested!
I've been working on a #rustlang gamedev series on my blog! So far we're three parts in:
Part 1: theanswers42.com/2025/03/11/r...
Part 2: theanswers42.com/2025/03/13/r...
Part 3: theanswers42.com/2025/03/16/r...
Part 4 is on the way soon!
Part 1: theanswers42.com/2025/03/11/r...
Part 2: theanswers42.com/2025/03/13/r...
Part 3: theanswers42.com/2025/03/16/r...
Part 4 is on the way soon!
rust breakout part 1 – macroquad and you!
Ever dreamed of building your own game? In this Rust game development series, we’ll use the games development library Macroquad to create a classic Breakout game – step by step, from a …
theanswers42.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I've been working on a #rustlang gamedev series on my blog! So far we're three parts in:
Part 1: theanswers42.com/2025/03/11/r...
Part 2: theanswers42.com/2025/03/13/r...
Part 3: theanswers42.com/2025/03/16/r...
Part 4 is on the way soon!
Part 1: theanswers42.com/2025/03/11/r...
Part 2: theanswers42.com/2025/03/13/r...
Part 3: theanswers42.com/2025/03/16/r...
Part 4 is on the way soon!
@mattmcmuscles.bsky.social I have a new competitor for the worst fighting game for you!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIbw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIbw...
Procryon - Battle of the Eras - 1995
YouTube video by Nap'n'Retrogaming
www.youtube.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
@mattmcmuscles.bsky.social I have a new competitor for the worst fighting game for you!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIbw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIbw...
I love graffiti discussions on subways. I think my favourite is on a subway near Fountain Park in Edinburgh:
"If art is a crime, may God forgive me"
"Art is not a crime, being a pretentious tosser should be"
"If art is a crime, may God forgive me"
"Art is not a crime, being a pretentious tosser should be"
February 12, 2024 at 11:20 AM
I love graffiti discussions on subways. I think my favourite is on a subway near Fountain Park in Edinburgh:
"If art is a crime, may God forgive me"
"Art is not a crime, being a pretentious tosser should be"
"If art is a crime, may God forgive me"
"Art is not a crime, being a pretentious tosser should be"
I know movie studios are recycling failed plots to try and avoid the effort of creativity, but do we really need to recycle failed politicians?
After lobbying Sunak in the Greensill scandal, Cameron re-enters politics under close scrutiny
Cameron’s appointment as foreign secretary gives No 10 new political clout
inews.co.uk
November 13, 2023 at 1:46 PM
I know movie studios are recycling failed plots to try and avoid the effort of creativity, but do we really need to recycle failed politicians?
Dear writers: I am here to tell you that despite the hype, AI cannot write good fiction. It sucks. It often makes no sense and despite MASSIVE prompting, will often wander off down random paths that do not know of logic or coherence.
You don't need to worry.
You don't need to worry.
November 7, 2023 at 1:42 AM
Dear writers: I am here to tell you that despite the hype, AI cannot write good fiction. It sucks. It often makes no sense and despite MASSIVE prompting, will often wander off down random paths that do not know of logic or coherence.
You don't need to worry.
You don't need to worry.
There is one thing I am very angry about right now, but I'll post about that on Twitter. It helps to work through it there. Maybe not here.
October 9, 2023 at 9:01 PM
There is one thing I am very angry about right now, but I'll post about that on Twitter. It helps to work through it there. Maybe not here.
I know there's uh... lots of other stuff going on, but here's one other shitty thing: execs using ChatGPT to write mealy mouthed apologies while laying off developers.
Report Claims Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Publisher Used AI To Write Apology
This accompanies allegations of crunch and difficult working conditions at developer Daedalic
kotaku.com
October 9, 2023 at 8:59 PM
I know there's uh... lots of other stuff going on, but here's one other shitty thing: execs using ChatGPT to write mealy mouthed apologies while laying off developers.
Amusingly, the Scottish Tories lost their deposit after tubthumping that only they could beat the SNP.
October 6, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Amusingly, the Scottish Tories lost their deposit after tubthumping that only they could beat the SNP.
Today in nonsense train notices
October 6, 2023 at 6:02 PM
Today in nonsense train notices
Twitter: still useful for contacting ScotRail about broken toilets. I think that is a good description.
October 6, 2023 at 11:50 AM
Twitter: still useful for contacting ScotRail about broken toilets. I think that is a good description.
Beautiful North Queensferry in Fife, taken from a train going over the Forth bridge on the way to Edinburgh.
October 6, 2023 at 11:24 AM
Beautiful North Queensferry in Fife, taken from a train going over the Forth bridge on the way to Edinburgh.
Tonight I'm doing an experiment: what if I try and make new york style pizza dough with Peroni beer? We'll find out tomorrow...
October 4, 2023 at 8:33 PM
Tonight I'm doing an experiment: what if I try and make new york style pizza dough with Peroni beer? We'll find out tomorrow...
The Tories now appear to be applauding Liz Truss, worst PM in UK history. An authority on how to win the public over by giving them shitty high interest rates via unfunded tax cuts.
I wish we could do animated gifs here, because right now a Raul Julia "Of course!" gif is what I want to post here.
I wish we could do animated gifs here, because right now a Raul Julia "Of course!" gif is what I want to post here.
October 2, 2023 at 7:08 PM
The Tories now appear to be applauding Liz Truss, worst PM in UK history. An authority on how to win the public over by giving them shitty high interest rates via unfunded tax cuts.
I wish we could do animated gifs here, because right now a Raul Julia "Of course!" gif is what I want to post here.
I wish we could do animated gifs here, because right now a Raul Julia "Of course!" gif is what I want to post here.
Tax cuts and making the benefits system suck even more than it already does. You can tell the Tories are knackered.
Time to withhold benefits from those who won’t look for work, says Jeremy Hunt
Cash-strapped chancellor to pledge changes to welfare system in speech at Tory conference on Monday
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2023 at 7:50 AM
Tax cuts and making the benefits system suck even more than it already does. You can tell the Tories are knackered.
If you're lucky enough to have the opportunity to journey from Fife into Edinburgh, do so. It has some of the most beautiful sights in the UK.
October 1, 2023 at 4:11 PM
If you're lucky enough to have the opportunity to journey from Fife into Edinburgh, do so. It has some of the most beautiful sights in the UK.
The funny thing is that actually sitting down with pens and pencils and actually trying to copy that art style would have taught the folk celebrating their AI plagiarism how to actually draw and develop a talent.
A revolution for people without talent, discipline, originality, intelligence, or insight to make hideous mimeographs ✊🏼❤️
October 1, 2023 at 1:28 PM
The funny thing is that actually sitting down with pens and pencils and actually trying to copy that art style would have taught the folk celebrating their AI plagiarism how to actually draw and develop a talent.
While cookies are a necessity for many websites to function, they can also make it suck. The power of deleting cookies for many websites is magical, suddenly everything is new and I don't get paywalls shooting up at me for the umpteenth time.
September 29, 2023 at 1:05 PM
While cookies are a necessity for many websites to function, they can also make it suck. The power of deleting cookies for many websites is magical, suddenly everything is new and I don't get paywalls shooting up at me for the umpteenth time.
When the name Roger Waters appears in the news, I just do a big, long sigh. Just like Clapton and Van Morrison, he had a great career in music and now in his later years has become an angry weirdo who likes to indulge in conspiracy theories.
September 29, 2023 at 10:51 AM
When the name Roger Waters appears in the news, I just do a big, long sigh. Just like Clapton and Van Morrison, he had a great career in music and now in his later years has become an angry weirdo who likes to indulge in conspiracy theories.
This is, in effect, an argument for laziness. It says "It's unfair that you can do something I can't because you put in the effort and I didn't", and also is calling for us to exist on remixes forever more, with generative AI feeding on art that is made by generative AI.
September 28, 2023 at 12:26 PM
This is, in effect, an argument for laziness. It says "It's unfair that you can do something I can't because you put in the effort and I didn't", and also is calling for us to exist on remixes forever more, with generative AI feeding on art that is made by generative AI.
@mattmcmuscles.bsky.social at some point you should cover an Amiga CD32 game called Dangerous Streets for The Worst Fighting Game. I think it never made it to the US, but it was a stinker. Worth looking up, as I think it could dethrone Expect No Mercy!
September 27, 2023 at 6:33 PM
@mattmcmuscles.bsky.social at some point you should cover an Amiga CD32 game called Dangerous Streets for The Worst Fighting Game. I think it never made it to the US, but it was a stinker. Worth looking up, as I think it could dethrone Expect No Mercy!
If the various firms desperately trying to develop LLMs agreed to pay authors, they would avoid this. Then again, the entire point for many of them is that they think they've found a way not to.
Hello #Bluesky #authors #writers. You have been an amazing support of the SAG-AFTRA strike, & against AI misuse. Perhaps you might lend your signature to the letter against Data3, which unlawfully used thousands of books (including mine) to train AI. (Link to open letter in article)
9,000 authors rebuke AI companies, saying they exploited books as 'food' for chatbots
A letter signed by 9,000 authors calls out AI companies for allegedly using the writers' books to train chatbots without consent, credit or compensation.
www.latimes.com
September 26, 2023 at 4:11 PM
If the various firms desperately trying to develop LLMs agreed to pay authors, they would avoid this. Then again, the entire point for many of them is that they think they've found a way not to.
If there's not enough reasons I don't post much on Twitter nowadays already, soon they will be using your data as AI training sets. I mean a Twitter bot of me is pretty lame, but the fact there's no opt-out just annoys me.
A reminder that you have about a week before the new Twitter TOS, which is... pretty brutal.
ESPECIALLY if you're someone that doesn't want things like art and images immediately provided for generative AI: in a totally above-board, legal, zero-recourse, they-will-do-whatever-they-want kind of way.
ESPECIALLY if you're someone that doesn't want things like art and images immediately provided for generative AI: in a totally above-board, legal, zero-recourse, they-will-do-whatever-they-want kind of way.
This is the 29 Sept. ToS - they can take your stuff, give it to others, etc. with zero compensation. And it's all content you submit.
September 25, 2023 at 7:31 PM
If there's not enough reasons I don't post much on Twitter nowadays already, soon they will be using your data as AI training sets. I mean a Twitter bot of me is pretty lame, but the fact there's no opt-out just annoys me.