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thorsummoner

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Hello, pony boy, likes SGaP, lewdie boy horses, everyone and everything, jewelry, excitement. Spent a lot of time learning computers, blender3d, sourcesdk. wanting more friends to blather about zfs and Linux to.

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Novel compression method: we take all the textures in the game and describe them as AI image generation prompts.
Then, at load time, we run the generative image AI on the user's computer and thus generate them fresh.

The text descriptions are tiny compared to the images, so we get amazing gains in file size!

thorsummoner ,
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@foone pros: reduces texture payload by 186 bytes, con: increase cuda payload by 78gigabytes, I see this as an absolute win

foone , an Random Englisch
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Someone really needs to develop a lightweight VM container that we can stuff software in. Like, you know how you can buy DOS games on steam, and it just gives you dosbox preconfigured to play the game?

That, but for all software on all OSes

thorsummoner ,
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@foone you might like Justine's cosmopolitan, here is an example Cosmo app/os https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/deathstar.html which builds on top of the αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε https://justine.lol/ape.html

Justine is easily the most influential technologist in my life

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Silly question:
You know how there are HDMI splitters/adapters that strip DRM?

Are there any that do the opposite? Add DRM?

Like, if I want my computer to think my VCR's HDMI signal is Highly Copyrighted Stuff, can I do that?

thorsummoner ,
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@foone capture card+ send it back out the Nvidia HDMI circuit will do it

foone , an Random Englisch
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With all the different microcontroller platforms out there, it's sometimes annoying because there's a solution that does exactly what you want but it's targeting some weird architecture that isn't what you use, or has suddenly become hard to find.

I think it's about time we organize all our open source microcontroller-based firmware around a simple, widely available, and powerful architecture, for consistency and interoperability.

The Intel 80486.

thorsummoner ,
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@foone better yet, fork history: compile dos for similarly old risc chip (a lineage that will become arm64) and incrementally live a past life that could have been if Intel 8086 was irrelevant to begin with. bonus points for setting the mtime on the produced bins to be period accurate

foone , an Random Englisch
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Gonna hook up a bot to my mastodon account that just periodically searches for people referring to me in the past tense or passing around obituaries.
It'll just reply "I'm not dead!" to those posts.

It won't get a lot of use now, but I predict it'll be pretty funny someday, in the (hopefully far) future

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@foone this is totally something Foone would have loved to have done, miss them, r.i.p.

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