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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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thelinuxEXP, to GNOME
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Today, I learned that diversity, equality and inclusivity is apparently a bad thing, and will kill a project? (From the comments under my latest news talking about #GNOME’s 5 year plan).

So, wanting people to feel comfortable contributing to a project is bad and woke now? Serisouly, what do they put in these people’s water? They’re going insane.

AngryAnt,
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@thelinuxEXP Turning it off without an actually helpful alternative in place would definitelty mean losing something more than just the targeted garbage.

AngryAnt,
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@thelinuxEXP Direct video comments belong on the naive internet of last century. Data gobbling services on the naive internet of the first ten years of this one.

The availability of bypasses is blessed.

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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Linux gamers, which one? 🐧 🎮

AngryAnt,
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@ocl4s0s @itsfoss For gaming. And game development, incidentally.

The latter is my workstation. The former is a VM on a home server with a GPU passed through and Steam Remote play streaming to whatever potato device on our LAN (or on WAN if it makes sense for the title & device).

It plays Steam, Heroic, PS3, and PS2 titles for the household.

AngryAnt,
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@itsfoss NixOS gives me easy access to applying deep tweaks & patches to the setup, with continuous updates, everything managed in the same central file or however I decide to subdivide it.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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if you’ve written code to interact with a USB device (in userspace, not in the kernel), what tools/learning resources did you use?

right now I’m thinking gousb (and Wireshark to spy on USB traffic) but I’ve never done this before

the USB device in question is a USB-to-Ethernet adapter on a Mac

AngryAnt,
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@b0rk Ah and the resource I used at the time was just Swift API docs.

AngryAnt,
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@b0rk I worked on a small utility in Swift to send active application context to a keyboard.

Needing to probe that context made the high level approach desirable and from there I also had easy access to a higher level than straight USB interaction: Custom HID device interaction.

If I were to attack a problem like the one you describe, this background would drive me to see if engaging at a similar higher level again would be doable.

LexGear, to linux
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Hey does any / expert know where player preferences are saved for each game? I've created a file "save_data.fly" but I can't find where it has been placed and it does not come up in a system-wide search.

AngryAnt,
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@LexGear @tracefree In case you did like the flatpak install aside from this issue, note that you can grant flatpaks access to the real file system (vs. the default sandbox they're restricted to).

Flatseal is a nice GUI app for this task. You can break the sandbox completely or give access to specific parts of your file system for example.

NanoRaptor, to random
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The iMac cube was not a success.

AngryAnt,
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@NanoRaptor The push to ship a desktop mac with full day battery and water cooling really was odd.

A non-compromise product for sure, but quite understandable that later models were pushed more in the form direction than this function-over-all-else product.

Fangh, (edited ) to unity
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I will soon change my job to become an independant teacher and I will open a YouTube channel + insta + tiktok + twitch to show some content like tutorials.
Do you think I also should open a Twitter account ?

AngryAnt,
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@bamboy @Fangh Worth mentioning that confirmation bias is strong - especially on the fediverse.

Unity has a serious bit of reputation & trust reconstruction to do after taking very real & deserved hits, but that does not negate the absolutely massive market share - let alone when compared to Godot.

Nothing wrong with opting to address the Unity-based market these days - lots of opportunity there.

vyoma, to ubuntu
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Good bye #WSL and hello #RemoteDevelopmentMachine

For quite a while now, I have relied on terminal into my Windows Subsystem for Linux on my main workstation, as my daily driver. While it works all right for most cases, there are certain compatibility issues that requires a "... in WSL" search term for documentations/issues.

Close to a month now I have been using a #Ubuntu #terminal only VM on my #homelab #Proxmox cluster. For ones who can roll this out, this seems the best approach.

AngryAnt,
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@elan @vyoma What sort of issues are you concerned about?

I migrated my multi-monitor setup from macOS to Linux in 2018 (incidentally I also daily drive .net dev). Perhaps I've come across what you're concerned about.

AngryAnt,
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@vyoma @elan Oh, sorry I intended to ask Elan abut his multi-monitor concerns :)

jakehamilton, to NixOS
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The latest edition of nixpkgs.news is out to Patrons!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/nixpkgs-news-05-104932077?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Supporters also got a surprise today: the Audio Companion!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/audio-nixpkgs-05-104932986?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

AngryAnt,
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@jakehamilton @isabel I already subscribe to too many podcasts, but congrats on making that move :)

runevision, to random
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Huh, I just learned that "foldout" is not an established term for UI controls that expand/collapse display of sub elements in a tree hierarchy. Apparently that's just in Unity it's called that.

Instead it's called overly specific things tied to the visual presentation, like "rotating arrows" or cryptic/technical general terms like "progressive disclosure controls" or "disclosure widgets". 🤯

https://superuser.com/questions/638139/whats-the-proper-name-of-that-symbol-to-collapse-expand-nodes-in-a-directory-tr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure_widget

AngryAnt,
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@runevision What the hell, Humanity? This is just embarassing...

nobodyinperson, to NixOS
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Man, the longer I have :nixos: and :manjaro: running in parallel, the more annoyed I am by the :archlinux: way, e.g.:

· Python update ⇒ all python-based packages must be rebuilt. -installed packages also need reinstallation.
· separation between distro repos and AUR is anoying. 'yay -Syu' (or whatever) never really works in one go (be it some stupid sudo prompt later)
· so many AUR packages don't build reliably or at all.
...

AngryAnt,
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@hasnep @nobodyinperson When I moved to Linux I would maintain markdown files with notes & instructions on what I'd done and how to repeat. Nix let me skip the human step in executing my instructions.

AngryAnt,
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@adnan @nobodyinperson Certainly. And consequently the resulting images will be a lot more lean than what you would otherwise end up with.

Ex: https://nix.dev/tutorials/nixos/building-and-running-docker-images.html

maralorn, to NixOS
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Something extremly awesome happened. After switching to -24.05 my system just feels … more snappy?

I don’t know exactly why. I think it might be the update to 0.3.0.

\cc @ifreund

AngryAnt,
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@athas @maralorn @ifreund Security fixes will hit the active branches, yes.

Using master is very unreccomended as you're running without any test- or cache coverage.

planettimmy, to random
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Whoops I hosed my Windows install trying to convert it from Legacy to UEFI

AngryAnt,
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@planettimmy Maybe a bridging solution could be to set up a VM in your Linux env, set to boot the Windows partition and that way be able to actually get into the thing and apply fixes?

AngryAnt,
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@planettimmy Obligatory "Do you really want to reinstall Windows?"

boab, to random Danish
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For at gøre DR TVs ondemand oplevelse bedre for brugerne tvinger DR brugerne til at benytte login: https://www.dr.dk/om-dr/nyheder/over-en-million-dr-logins-er-oprettet-nu-bliver-det-obligatorisk
Det er ikke sådan virker

AngryAnt,
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@boab Ahr du... det der med bruger valg og konfiguration, det ved jeg nu ikke helt. Hvordan skulle folk dog vide hvad de helst selv vil have? ;)

aleksana, to random zh-CN
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Last Thursday (May 16), we made the largest number of commits into Nixpkgs in the past year, and possibly the largest number of commits in history!

AngryAnt,
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@aleksana @Pol Probably that you often get peaks around release times? During the zero-failure push.

fabs, to random
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Weird question: I've been working outside game development for a few years in automotive, but I've not seen, even in our OOP C++ code, the deeply inherited class hierarchies of computer games.

I think the deepest I've seen is three layers. Otherwise, it's all composition.

In games, I saw up to 9 layers of public inheritance in some places.

What kind of depth of inheritance are you aware of in your industry(ies)? Is the 9-layer-deep-hierarchy a game dev oddity?

AngryAnt,
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@rhm @fabs We tend to do the same: Heavy interface use, sometimes the odd abstract class.

That said, we have a preference for dependency injection, which ofc. skews results fairly heavily.

fabraz, to random
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I'm curious: Do we have any data showing a bump in sales AFTER adding anti-piracy measures to an already released game?

It feels like the negative reception & loss of platform compatibility eclipses any possible benefits.

AngryAnt,
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@BreoganHackett @fabraz That's a good point. If stats showing such a bump exist, you'd think those middleware companies have them?

secana, to random
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A lot of booking.com phishing is going on today. Did I miss something? #threatintel #itsec

AngryAnt,
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@secana Seasonal? Opportunity to run a campaign centered on late cancellation opportunistic travel?

glukozavr, to ai
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Am I the only one skeptical about modern developers focusing so much on making AI look and sound like humans? Is it god’s syndrome “create them to reflect their image” kind of thing? Because what I need from AI as an individual is do the mundane tasks and be recognizable. I don’t need it to be able to impersonate a virtual friend or anything.

AngryAnt,
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@glukozavr Your described needs align with mine, but that may not necessarily generalize as widely as we could be lead to believe.

AngryAnt, to gamedev
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After a long break from conferencing, working on our next piece of tech, I am back this week - attending .

@nulldiver & I will be at the venue and surrounding events all week.

We are open for consulting in the immediate term, as well as talking longer term game/interactive tech & -services soon ready to roll out of the bunker.

Do reach out if either sounds interesting to you or you just want to catch up :)

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