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2026-07-11 00:58:25 UTC

Two white whales! Thank you, Dan!
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/898/624/945/057/841/original/2b78b0238584b90b.jpg

2026-07-03 13:56:11 UTC

Google starting some shit.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/856/379/898/248/130/original/390a3494c242c5f0.jpeg

2026-07-03 04:11:41 UTC

RE: https://freeradical.zone/@bitartbot/116853702217657324
Vim
#note16l2…9ep9

2026-06-18 19:44:45 UTC

Boom, roasted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9iRDPXvT4

2026-06-09 23:28:35 UTC

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It was almost certainly blown away in a Cavorite mishap.

2026-06-08 10:01:32 UTC

"RetroPad is a ‘full-feature-parity version of Notepad from XP’ in just 2,749 bytes — x86 assembly coded apps comes from Windows legend Dave W Plummer"
Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/retropad-is-a-full-feature-parity-version-of-notepad-from-xp-in-just-2-749-bytes-x86-assembly-coded-apps-comes-from-windows-legend-dave-w-plummer

2026-06-05 06:16:20 UTC

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YES! I had the same one in high school and LOVED IT! Programming it was a lot of fun. The bitwise stuff is a little inconvenient but still very nice. I like that the CM-100 makes bitwise ops the primary interface.

2026-06-05 06:07:54 UTC

"Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about."
https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

2026-06-04 23:20:09 UTC

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How silly of me. Thank you.

2026-06-04 14:59:28 UTC

The HP 16C is back, baby! The price isn't insane either. I really WANT one, but I do not NEED one. The JRPN 16C app is not a bad way to scratch the itch.
https://hpcalcs.com/product/hp-16c-collectors-edition/

2026-06-04 14:22:48 UTC

I didn't have an Amiga, but I was enraptured by a crude version of this animation on my Atari ST.
"Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Juggler raytracer source code"
Chris Hanson
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/692/275/879/464/782/original/f2038966214cc5c7.png

2026-06-02 18:27:39 UTC

"AI companies have actively conspired to mislead the world about the true costs of AI, and it was working great right up until they decided to try charging what it actually cost ... enterprises are freaking the fuck out"
"AI Doesn't Have ROI"
Ed Zitron
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

2026-06-02 11:24:02 UTC

"It’s bad. Really, really bad."
Talk is Cheap — What the data says about the operational impacts of LLM use in the software industry
https://unessays.substack.com/p/talk-is-cheap

2026-05-30 16:47:47 UTC

"Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine"
Radosław Skupnik
https://myzopotamia.dev/navier-stokes-fluid-simulation-explained-with-godot

2026-05-25 12:12:51 UTC

Just what the heck is a zork?
"Solving the 'Zork' Mystery"
David Polakovic
https://www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-part2
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/635/150/012/480/926/original/6211fbc337262110.jpeg

2026-05-25 00:26:33 UTC

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Maybe not willy-nilly, but vibration will cause an IC to unseat from a dual-wipe socket faster than a machined socket. Another problem I've noticed with wiper-style sockets is that the contacts are flimsy and can be crushed if the registration between the pin and wiper is off. There will be a weak or no connection, the socket is ruined, and the fault isn't immediately visible. I'm not arguing for machined sockets. They are often a pain in the ass.

2026-05-25 00:09:25 UTC

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Their point is they provide a much more secure connection than dual- or single-wipers. But because they deform, they aren't great for chip reinsertion. Breaking pins is just a bonus.

2026-05-21 16:56:18 UTC

We are cooked.
“Who has shipped a pull request in the last week that was completely written by Claude?”
Half raise hand.
“Who has shipped a pull request that was completely written by Claude where they did not read the code at all?”
Most hands stay up.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/21/1137735/anthropics-code-with-claude-showed-off-codings-future-whether-you-like-it-or-not/

2026-05-10 20:20:15 UTC

The GOAT ... er ... YAK.
"YOU SHOULD GO WATCH Heart of Neon! Seriously!"
Behind The Scanlines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXmv_h5d0zM

2026-05-08 20:55:26 UTC

The dereliction of RSS is like the ground zero of enshittification.
"YouTube, your feeds are broken"
Open RSS
https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken

2026-05-08 20:54:06 UTC

Your browser's got a big mouth.
See everything your browser discloses before even being asked.
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

2026-05-07 18:59:12 UTC

"NVIDIA’s Shadow Library Scripts ‘Have No Other Purpose’ Than Infringement, Judge Rules"
TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/nvidias-shadow-library-scripts-have-no-other-purpose-than-infringement-judge-rules/

2026-05-01 22:17:32 UTC

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Well, nothing's easy, is it?

2026-05-01 21:29:30 UTC

Fabulously deep and interactive look at blending and compositing. Somewhat focused on the web browser but applicable to any graphics system.
"Compositing & Blending — Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes in the browser"
https://nik.digital/posts/compositing-blending

2026-04-30 17:59:58 UTC

SONIC: playable on real Amiga hardware for the first time (somewhat)
reassembler68k - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWqK44j0Zps

2026-04-30 04:37:24 UTC

"Why Model Collapse in LLMs is Inevitable With Self-Learning"
Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/why-model-collapse-in-llms-is-inevitable-with-self-learning/

2026-04-30 04:35:01 UTC

Uh-huh.
"Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models"
Arxiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20957
GitHub
https://github.com/cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code

2026-04-18 17:23:33 UTC

One of my favorite bits from the pages of Creative Computing (June 1981) is this article about how Alan Sutcliffe created the computer display for the Nostromo landing sequence in the film Alien.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/426/851/229/351/108/original/b70c7421e9dea2bd.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/426/851/977/350/935/original/bafe6397cd123173.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/426/852/529/217/178/original/a2f555c8c4477c06.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/426/853/213/465/770/original/919f2a403cd90ee3.jpg

2026-04-18 03:26:53 UTC

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Ha! That's supposed to be a jukebox.

2026-04-16 17:19:42 UTC

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GOD. DAMMIT. Not again! Get out of my head!

2026-04-16 17:15:01 UTC

A weird sense memory triggered this image in my mind. This is the first thing I drew in a drawing program I wrote for my Apple II Plus back in the day. I think I was brainstorming a zoomed drawing feature on the left. Call MoMA!
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/415/494/753/803/697/original/1b0ef887e2fdc7f0.png

2026-04-16 16:39:35 UTC

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I used code just like this to confirm that the color burst could be suppressed for graphics modes, or enabled for text modes, in legacy Apple II machines.

2026-04-16 15:24:17 UTC

The number one thing I use phone voice commands for is setting timers. I do it almost every day. Today, Gemini took the wheel, spammed AI hype all over my screen, and talked back at me saying it set the timer. Just do what I ask and STFU. But, no, it mouthed off and it didn't even set the timer.

2026-04-16 01:04:47 UTC

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No space toilet discussion is complete without Heywood Floyd examining the perilously long instructions for the zero gravity toilet in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick's comedy is underrated.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/411/690/959/771/575/original/a5e8629b2fbdbf66.jpg

2026-04-16 01:02:49 UTC

This is actually quite fascinating. 💩
"Let's talk space toilets!"
Maciej Cegłowski
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/lets-talk-space-toilets

2026-04-15 20:08:15 UTC

"Friday Archaeology: A Communist Apple II and Fourteen Years of Not Knowing What You’re Testing"
Alexander Feldman
https://llama.gs/blog/index.php/2026/04/10/friday-archaeology-a-communist-apple-ii-and-fourteen-years-of-not-knowing-what-youre-testing/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/410/525/331/757/208/original/d4d2da1c13a571d6.jpg

2026-04-15 19:53:08 UTC

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I also do not feel like I learn enough in these sessions, unless I'm asking specifically about how something works. Now we'll see what the withdrawal is like.
15/15

2026-04-15 19:53:00 UTC

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That said, my reservations about AI use have only increased in the last 30 days. I saw a study that suggested that using AI makes people want to give up on tasks more easily, which aligns with my own feelings.
14/15

2026-04-15 19:52:53 UTC

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(cont) What it didn't do was make me feel like I had accomplished much and it made me feel less confident about my design. Maybe that's warranted but I didn't enjoy it.
13/15

2026-04-15 19:52:47 UTC

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cont) We honed in on what was important and rounded out the game's features. Then it offered a mock playthrough of the game that was helpful to get a feel for it. It also never failed to tell me I was a good boy.
12/15

2026-04-15 19:52:36 UTC

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* Last night, I had an extensive chat with it about a videogame concept I've been thinking about. It was great for surfacing some reference material. It asked some good questions about how the game should work mechanically and thematically.
11/15

2026-04-15 19:52:30 UTC

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* I asked it to create a batch file to launch scrcpy, making sure only one instance of it was running at a time. It did so.
10/15

2026-04-15 19:52:24 UTC

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* I asked it to help me write part of an HLSL shader that would sample four texels in 4-texel groups, something simple I was failing to do right. It supplied a good solution.
9/15

2026-04-15 19:52:17 UTC

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* I asked it to explain the advantages and tradeoffs of using the #nullable declaration in a C# file or project, which it seemed to do well.
8/15

2026-04-15 19:52:10 UTC

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* I asked it to supply an ffmpeg command to crop and resize a video and it did so and clearly explained what each part did. It also offered information about specifying the compression method, which I used. It worked perfectly.
7/15

2026-04-15 19:52:02 UTC

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* I asked it to split part of my Apple II emulator's MMU into an independent bus device and it did a reasonable job. It wasn't a difficult problem (actually simpler than I imagined), and I made some modifications. It will need some extensions in the future but I'm happy with the result.
6/15

2026-04-15 19:51:51 UTC

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* I asked it to interpret a small part of a large C++ code base to explain what it was doing. Then I implemented its specification in another language. It worked.
5/15

2026-04-15 19:51:42 UTC

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* I asked it to suggest ways to modernize the look of the website. I liked what it suggested in its mockup, though it was too verbose and needed major changes to really work. A few days later, I realized that all it had done was copy GitHub. That was annoying and felt like a waste of my time.
4/15

2026-04-15 19:51:32 UTC

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* I asked it to add pagination to the news section of my static website generator (Python). It followed my detailed specification well and I'm happy with the results.
I also used it to fix a class of bug that was surfaced by those changes.
3/15

2026-04-15 19:51:17 UTC

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* I asked it to extend my GUI layout system with a couple of alignment features and do some cleanup. That went OK. That system itself was mostly coded by GPT-5 mini quite some time ago, but I think it needs to be rethought.
2/15

2026-04-15 19:50:52 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@xot/116240336770226214
So, I did end up subscribing to Claude Pro and after 30 days, I've cancelled it. I did not get much value out of it but that's mostly because I didn't want to use it. This thread is a chronicle of my crimes. I just want to be open in case you need to hate me or something. 🧵
1/15
#note18dx…hcvj

2026-04-14 20:42:25 UTC

Beautiful stuff.
"Ascending into the Realm of Japanese Charts"
https://www.chartography.net/p/ascending-into-the-realm-of-japanese

2026-04-12 18:41:44 UTC

This is a pretty neat algorithm. It selects a random subset of size k from the set of integers [1, n]. I'd normally do this by shuffling the set and selecting the first k values, but this is more efficient ... and not remotely intuitive.
Floyd's Sampling Algorithm
https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/floyds-sampling-algorithm/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/393/199/704/506/736/original/0b25a437ac8087c6.png

2026-04-07 13:54:47 UTC

Thinking about The Real Texas again. Nobody ever talks about this surreal adventure in a cursed dimension and the peculiar folks going through it (literally and metaphorically). Charming graphics, fun writing, superb music ... I found it all deeply affecting.
https://kittylambda.itch.io/the-real-texas

2026-04-05 14:37:53 UTC

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Oops. I failed to consider the keyboard encoder circuit. So add 20 microseconds to latch the key, and a whopping 10 ms for the switch debounce circuit.

2026-04-05 14:06:55 UTC

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Yeah, that seems very wrong. Apple II should be about 8.3 ms on average, strictly based on the time it takes an NTSC signal to paint the CRT. The time it takes for a key press to put a character into display RAM is about 10 microseconds (10 cycles at 1.023 MHz).

2026-04-04 13:42:57 UTC

Look, I don't know what this is, but I aspire to publish a research paper with the words "embarrassingly simple" in the title.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01193

2026-04-01 04:04:33 UTC

Project Hail Mary is just fine, in the ways you expect a Lord & Miller just fine movie to be. Production design was great and executed very well. Ryan Gosling and James Ortiz (and team) give good performances. A bit goofy, handwavy, and overlong, but just fine. See it. Or don't. I'm not your mom.

2026-03-30 23:07:00 UTC

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That is Hi-Vision, one of the early HDTV standards for analog broadcasts. Japan was unable to globalize it.

2026-03-30 19:46:02 UTC

One of the better looks at Gaussian Splatting I've seen. Clear explanation and great demos.
"THIS is the Biggest Thing Since CGI"
Corridor Crew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8yRlA7jqEQ

2026-03-29 22:13:54 UTC

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You have much more faith in what qualifies as Copilot usage than I do, and Microsoft's ability to resist dark patterns that might subvert one's intentions with Copilot, or take advantage of one's misunderstanding of it.

2026-03-29 21:49:28 UTC

In case you've missed it, if you use GitHub, you've been opted in for Copilot AI training.
"On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out. Review this update and manage your preferences in your GitHub account settings."
https://gh.io/AAzfaht

2026-03-27 09:09:20 UTC

Not just a loss for the plaintiffs, Justice Sotomayor says this precedent effectively kills the DMCA safe harbor provision, and ISPs have no incentive to go after pirates.
"Supreme Court Wipes Out Record Labels’ $1 Billion Piracy Judgment Against Cox"
TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/supreme-court-wipes-out-record-labels-1-billion-piracy-judgment-against-cox/

2026-03-26 20:31:37 UTC

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You probably know this, but if you don't, Any Austin has a bunch of well-researched videos on infrastructure in videogames.
https://www.youtube.com/@any_austin

2026-03-23 06:54:22 UTC

Jensen Huang is upsetti-spaghetti that people don't understand DLSS 5 and that it is"not post-processing at the frame level", but Nvidia's Jacob Freeman, fielding questions about it, says "DLSS5 takes a 2D frame plus motion vectors as an input". So which is it, boys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EM1vKt36s

2026-03-22 07:19:33 UTC

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Whoa! 👀

2026-03-18 01:56:28 UTC

"I'm having a lovely time coding our next game in Godot"
Pentadact (Tom Francis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj56ssAD9P0

2026-03-17 23:51:33 UTC

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Thank you!

2026-03-17 23:20:51 UTC

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Ah, of course. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of hardware is required to run a model like that?

2026-03-17 21:52:43 UTC

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Impeccable timing. Claude is having a bad day.
https://status.claude.com/

2026-03-17 21:46:53 UTC

The internet really went to shit when browsers stopped putting a little RSS icon on the address bar, didn't it?
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/246/707/184/320/939/original/708818ebc0b7c682.png

2026-03-16 18:46:19 UTC

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Full disclosure: I'm an AI hater on the streets; AI degenerate in the sheets. I was gifted a one-week trial of Claude Pro. I have 3 days left before I have to send Anthropic $20. I probably won't. I enjoy using it, but I don't think I can accept it, knowing how bad it is across multiple dimensions.

2026-03-16 18:46:02 UTC

Even putting aside the enormous ethical concerns surrounding AI coding, this all seems very dire for users. Once I sensed their Skinner box effects, I became very wary of these tools.
"Will AI Bring 'the End of Computer Programming As We Know It'?"
Slashdot
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/03/14/2137238/will-ai-bring-the-end-of-computer-programming-as-we-know-it

2026-03-16 18:18:31 UTC

Those maniacs actually did it.
"385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been '100% backed up' and validated, torrents being generated"
Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/385tb-video-game-archive-saved-by-fans-myrient-has-been-100-percent-backed-up-and-validated-torrents-being-generated

2026-03-16 18:13:46 UTC

This is incredible. I expected maybe seeing an identifiable video signal, which you can on a CAV disc—but no, actual, fully constructed rectangular frames of video are clearly visible on a CED disc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuR-772cks

2026-03-16 05:47:30 UTC

This is a charming video essay on Robotron: 2084, its design, its engineering, and its psychophysiological effects. Only about two minutes are directly about AI.
"Robotron Was Supposed to Be Humanly Impossible. So I Built an AI to Break It."
Dave's Garage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZozyGTlKA

2026-03-14 03:58:20 UTC

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On real hardware connected to a color TV, it's technically possible to suppress the color burst signal, but it is not designed to do that. You have to synchronize continuously running code to the video signal's horizontal blanking interval. During the front porch or breezeway (before the color reference burst), switch to text mode for a few cycles, then switch back to graphics mode during the back porch (before the HBL ends). Getting in sync is the tricky part.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/225/483/017/588/267/original/ac874fcd155dd4ff.jpg

2026-03-11 02:52:49 UTC

This is actually pretty impressive and was attacked in a very smart way. CorridorKey is open-source and licensed CC BY-NC-SA. Good job, Niko.
"It Took Me 30 Years to Solve this VFX Problem"
Corridor Crew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4
CorridorKey (GitHub)
https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey

2026-03-08 06:55:20 UTC

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I think you are 100% correct. It's such an insane argument.

2026-03-07 23:50:53 UTC

What a farce.
"Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"
TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

2026-03-06 18:08:21 UTC

This new series, Wading Through AI, with Casey Muratori and Demetri Spanos, promises to be good. The first episode is very interesting, if somewhat bleak. However, the incessant and indiscriminate intrusion of automated ads sometimes makes it difficult to follow and enjoy.
https://youtu.be/RJyPVLMyyuA?si=oGaRIU4ytCTgU4mE

2026-03-06 13:46:08 UTC

Metallica — Battery (YM2612 + SN76489)
Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Cover
by MetallicOrwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhYb8eZm6Fg
write-up:
https://metallicorwell.neocities.org/metallica_battery

2026-03-05 21:46:21 UTC

"Don Daglow and Rebecca Ann Heineman to be honored at 2026 Game Developers Choice Awards"
Game Developer
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/don-daglow-and-rebecca-heineman-to-be-honored-at-2026-game-developers-choice-awards

2026-03-05 05:02:02 UTC

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"You own your AI-generated output" is in serious doubt now.

2026-03-04 19:31:16 UTC

Peaches' "What's In My Bag?"
Amoeba Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL2b-4PkjZ0

2026-03-04 14:32:09 UTC

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/116171265318221121
How insidious is this? At first I thought "glaze" was sort of funny, because we see so much AI worship. Then I realized it co-opts the name of a tool used by artists to make their work poisonous to genAI data sets.
#note1nzp…a4vw

2026-03-03 18:41:20 UTC

This is huge. The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to take up an appeal regarding generative AI. This upholds the findings of multiple lower courts and affirms that AI-generated content cannot be copyrighted. This is good news for actual creatives and bad news for commercial AI use.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

2026-03-03 00:51:30 UTC

Fascinating postmortem of QUOD, a stunning 64KB FPS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qht68vFaa1M

2026-03-02 04:16:47 UTC

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Zip-A-Tone had been around since the 30s and Letraset's Letratone would have also been available in the 70s.

2026-02-24 15:25:18 UTC

Whoever designed this Avid logo wasn't paid enough.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/126/297/761/463/789/original/7d8c3d1d7e44c99c.png

2026-02-24 15:10:16 UTC

I understand their fascination with AI: They're fucking morons.
"AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data"
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openclaw-wipes-inbox-of-meta-ai-alignment-director-executive-finds-out-the-hard-way-how-spectacularly-efficient-ai-tool-is-at-maintaining-her-inbox

2026-02-23 15:57:58 UTC

I don't get it. Maybe you won't as well.
"Texel Splatting"
IndividualKex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlTMsPoaJw

2026-02-22 23:23:29 UTC

I was initially taken aback by what appeared to be Pin-Bot on the NES in this thumbnail. I'm the first to admit that I have a major blind spot with that console. But I was knocked out to learn that the impressive Rad Racer was coded by Apple II legend Nasir Gebelli.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfJzJOQqsDk

2026-02-22 15:21:13 UTC

Laura Dern did not waste her time in the Criterion Closet. What a cinemaphile, eager, almost desperate, to share her love of the craft. She does not miss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs

2026-02-22 13:49:28 UTC

Aww, man. Gamedev City is over. I get it, though. I tried to do something like this in 2008. Building it was fun, but running it was exhausting.
https://gamedev.city/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/114/595/058/677/445/original/6f6be5ec51ea572e.png

2026-02-21 14:43:57 UTC

This visualization is part of a Tiny Tapeout project to clone an entire Atari 2600 on a community ASIC. Amazing!
"‘Mad scientist’ visualizes Atari 2600 fetching data from ROM for mesmerizing light show — signal propagation through the 8-bit circuits animated"
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/mad-scientist-visualizes-atari-2600-fetching-data-from-rom-for-mesmerizing-light-show-signal-propagation-through-the-circuits-animated

2026-02-21 01:05:00 UTC

An absolute thing of beauty.
"Half-Life TAS in 18:13"
zimmeri
https://youtu.be/wUxaza92Q2g?si=vDhXQibjkqLFOXD0

2026-02-19 22:59:38 UTC

This is a good and inexpensive 2D lighting trick.
"Make Reactive Rim Lighting in GameMaker"
GameMaker
https://youtu.be/l1sehS90CIs?si=q5Nc9KNA9seUK9n-

2026-02-19 15:43:08 UTC

"Fire Physics Was Broken. Not Anymore"
Two Minute Papers
https://youtu.be/B6GJjvR6txg?si=iFXz3BPAXQcAqBvx

2026-02-18 17:30:26 UTC

A judge has rejected a fair-use exception claim to the DMCA anti-circumvention provision in a case revolving around a defendant downloading a YouTube video for purposes of criticism.
"The DMCA might be about to destroy Fair Use"
Leonard French
https://youtu.be/dxqm0iQuSXM?si=1bPuZS50f_D7-y11