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AngryAnt

@AngryAnt@mastodon.gamedev.place

Systemic Tinkerer, Logic Juggler.

#GameDev, #GameAI, #dkgame
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@framebunker, ex https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@GameAINorth, ex @unity. Occasional @nixos_org contributor.

Phrases opinions badly, blocks dumb shit.

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NanoRaptor, to random
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5.25" vs 5.5" floppy disks.

KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

AngryAnt,
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@juandesant @tj @NanoRaptor 8.13" were a mistake though and we are all still paying for it.

AngryAnt,
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@phranck @NanoRaptor International Machine Bosses launched them as part of project Deep Teal. Unfortunately they never really took off outside of public libraries and horse tracks.

As per usual, the porn industry preferring 5.25 for distribution of their steamy novels settled that format war as well.

djlink, to random
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Recall is being rushed out the window(s) and storing everything in plain text, what a surprise! https://doublepulsar.com/recall-stealing-everything-youve-ever-typed-or-viewed-on-your-own-windows-pc-is-now-possible-da3e12e9465e

AngryAnt,
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@arzi @djlink That's a pretty long conversation I'm not really up for, but suffice to say I don't fully agree :)

AngryAnt,
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@djlink That's very true for a value of "most" inside lots of proffessions, but not inside public/gov office work, education, and more.

AngryAnt,
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@arzi @djlink Certainly - the majority of systems I'm seeing are cloud one way or the other. Which is a strong argument for being flexible on the OS hosting the browser connecting to those services.

AngryAnt,
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@djlink Fingers crossed MS sticks to their guns. It would be an extremely effective catalyst for purging Windows from public & commercial systems accross EU countries.

aras, to random
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Regular day in game dev: “a livestock farm has caused a traffic jam because all these citizens want to commit a crime specifically there”

AngryAnt,
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@neilhenning @dougbinks @aras I was visiting an open zoo here where you drive around the park and from the road observe the animals roaming. Sometimes they block the road, so you wait.

Except this one genius who thought it brilliant to exit his vehicle when buffalo were blocking, and then go try to push a calf out of the way...

He survived, so hopefully he took the right lesson and shares it with people around him.

boab, to random Danish
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Der er regler om man ikke må bruge sprøjtemidler op af skel on vandløb ikke?https://troet.cafe/@Kuestentroete/112545566964665305

AngryAnt,
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@boab Vi plejede at have fuldt ud forbud mod brug af jorden et par meter fra begge.

Heldigvis redede vores grønne regeringer os fra det pjat. Den der DDT undtagelse skal jo udnyttes maksimalt.

AngryAnt,
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@boab I Landbrugs Danmark? Den slags tankegang forlod vi i starten af 10-erne. Mere grøn frihed du ved.

AngryAnt,
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@boab Studehandler og beskåret kontrol? Da vel ikke i Danmark?!

electrona, to NixOS
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I tried as a daily driver. It's a bit too adventurous for me yet. I'm going to keep playing with it in a VM. will remain for now.

AngryAnt,
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@electrona Ah yea that specifically will unfortunately have to happen on device.

I would recommend aiming for having your first on-device build not do anything nvidia at all - so you have an established base which will just boot & run - without GPU acceleration. Then you can do your nvidia config iterations based on that - able to return to this base build when a test of yours doesn't boot properly.

AngryAnt,
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@electrona Working with it in a VM first, taking your time to expore and tweak, is really nice - worked well for me as an entry as well.

AngryAnt,
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@electrona @wraptile Five years in and well rested in my choice to not use flakes in any of the 20-30 installs we run ;)

LexGear, to random
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Who pays for all the mastodon storage we're all using?

AngryAnt,
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@LexGear @playmedusa I obv. can not speak for Aras, but it would seem this is something he decided he wanted to spend his Unity monies on.

As an aside, he's mentioned he doesn't want the hazzle of setting up and operating an entity to receive funds, pay expenses, and log taxes. That one I can certainly relate to.

AngryAnt,
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@playmedusa @LexGear Not on gamedev.place - a means of contributing has been requested and it was declined. If that changes, it'll be announced.

eliasp, to proxmox
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just generates a like
3b7d2d2c-3732-41db-a678-8bc4aeaf9155 as a secret for auth tokens? 😱
This looks a lot like a bad security practice to me, especially when RFC4122 says:

"Do not assume that UUIDs are hard to guess; they should not be used as security capabilities (identifiers whose mere possession grants access), for example. A predictable random number source will exacerbate the situation."

AngryAnt,
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@eliasp @pid_eins Also worth noting you can share the pve RNG with guests in order to further deepen your randomness - assuming those guests don't boot and behave fully deterministically.

quentinsf, to NixOS
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If you're already familiar with Linux, then is great, and all you need is a good degree in computer science to be able to write the configuration files. If you have one of those, you can learn it in about six months. If you haven't? Well, then it'll be about three years and six months.

AngryAnt,
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@quentinsf Being able to reapply as much know-how as possible is most definitely the preferred learning experience.

I don't really see how that angle is all that possible in the specific scenario though. Mostly it just looks like yet another docs challenge: making it aboundantly clear that NixOS is a very different Linux experience.

IMO my primary advantage was not computer science, but that I came in with the clear mindset that I was about to learn something very different.

AngryAnt,
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@quentinsf I don't actually think the Linux experience is a positive factor in that setup.

I came in from macOS, but with the computer science, and took to NixOS quite quickly. Conversely I've seen many people bounce off it because they expected to be able to more directly apply their Linux know-how and got frustrated.

andy_warb, to homeassistant
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My wife bought this fancy light for our living room thinking we would just be able to put our usual brand of smart bulb inside only to find it came with an LED bar. Luckily it came with a dimmer box in the ceiling mount so I was able to bodge a Shelly Dimmer inside and hook it up to . Kudos for Shelly for allowing this to be done without additional apps or cloud services! I wish all smart home companies could be like this!

AngryAnt,
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@andy_warb There really are a ton of companies out there offering great Zigbee products with flexibility like that. It's just that the ones with the largest marketing budgets tend not to.

AngryAnt,
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@andy_warb It is massively frustrating. When I can't immediately find what I need in my usual local market, my trick is to start from the compatibility list of random Zigbee projects / antennas.

I find that generally something supported by one is supported by the others as well, meaning the lists are more "this is what we could test" and less "only these work".

That gives a nice "which options exist?" base to then look up in misc stores.

anthony, to NixOS
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Installed Nixos on my old 2011 MacBook Air that was running Ubuntu. I was using Ubuntu because the WiFi drivers worked oob. Nixos had no problems and works perfectly. I shall name it nixbook air. Gnome always looks great on Mac hardware 🤣

AngryAnt,
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@anthony @powerllama We have quite a few old macs running NixOS or Proxmox at home - the oldest actually being a macbook air as well :)

It's 1st gen and runs like champ, but unfortunately its nvidia card does not have any driver support in modern Linux, so graphics-wise it's fairly limited today.

logicalerror, to random
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talked to some filipino people who work on a cruise ship and they work 9 months a year straight, 7 days a week, 11 hours a day for 500-600 euro a month wtf
the cruise company even holds their passport so they don't disappear in some port of call
at least all the food, lodging and electricity is free
but man this is abusive

AngryAnt,
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@logicalerror It is not just a tax dodge when commercial shipping flies the flags of seemingly random nations.

playmedusa, to random
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Is there a quick but satisfying game you keep coming back to? Like crosswords in a newspaper, or sudokus.

AngryAnt,
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@playmedusa Mahjong.

britter, to homelab
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Current status: I‘m making progress very slowly. The server is assembled and up and running Proxmox 8. Yesterday I‘ve build a custom NixOS installiert that has my SSH key pre-loaded. That way I can boot a VM and set it up using nix-anywhere. Tonight I‘m planning to try this out the first time.

AngryAnt,
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@britter Very interested to see how this goes.

DevteamLife, to gamedev
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Pretty heavy!

AngryAnt,
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@DevteamLife Nice shader. I think we have frame budget for it on the credits screen.

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