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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.

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.

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.

eliasp, to proxmox
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#Proxmox just generates a #UUIDv4 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."

#ITSecurity

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.

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

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 🤣
#nixos

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

18+ wildrikku, to random
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Oh no. Parents on the rage against egoshooters again: Parents of children killed in the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde sue, among others, Activision, stating Call of Duty makes it more likely for children to get a gun. I like the Activision statement: They specifically mention that while videogames of this type are spread similarly in other parts of the world, it's only the US that has such a problem with gun violence.

AngryAnt,
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@wildrikku That dissonance - when presented with this data and still stubbornly refusing that easy access to mass-people-murder-tools has anything to do with it - leaving the unspoken conclusion of "ok, so then USAians are just consistently raised to be murderers?"...

"We are a sick and dangerous people by design" is really the preferable conclusion because "oh no mah guns!"?

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.

shivoa, to random
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I feel like "I did not realise the genocidal space fascists were the bad side until the head of the company told me you're the 'Storm Trooper' bad guys in an interview" is a particularly concerning viewpoint (for players having media literacy & understanding the basic structure of satirical narrative in their games). Even just through cultural osmosis, people understand what Starship Troopers (1997) was about right? And WH40K (& on & on)?

AngryAnt,
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@shivoa No. A depressing majority did not get the intent of Starship Troopers.

kilof, to homelab
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I think I've accidentally gone down a giant rabbit hole with setting up a #homelab on #proxmox.

So far I've made zero progress in migrating #Jellyfin and the #arr suite over, but I've learned a lot of other neat stuff with virtualization.

AngryAnt,
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@kilof Welcome. Enjoy your stay - the tools are great :)

memoriesin8bit, to random
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Today I finished a big feature on Marble Game that... may not make sense until you play it, but I want to share it anyway.

In Marble Game, parts are placed on a (configurable) grid, making positioning easy.

They also have "joints" you can grab and connect them to other parts.
However, depending on angle and position, this may knock the part off grid.

If you were then to grab the part, it may just snap to grid again - not the previously connected joint.

THIS IS NOW FIXED!

video/mp4

AngryAnt,
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@memoriesin8bit Good enough tolerances to avoid flickering / platform-specific behaviour on floating point values?

wraptile, to KDE
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Really dig my current desktop environment:

Anyone runs something similar? Feels like I finally found a perfect sweet spot between productivity and freedom.

AngryAnt,
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@wraptile Still on Plasma 5 on the setup where I use tiling, so still on Bismuth there. Otherwise same deal.

AngryAnt,
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@maltimore @wraptile Plasma 6 shipped a number of improvements for it. Worth checking out again.

AngryAnt,
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@wraptile I'm aware of the project - it's the intended transition target once I move to Plasma 6. No reason to replace Bismuth before that though :)

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 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.

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.

crft, to NixOS
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Is it a hostile takeover at #NixOS? The actions of the leadership muting people who don't agree with their actions is documented here. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/why-was-jon-ringer-banned-from-github/44114

AngryAnt,
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@crft Personally I no longer have the energy to pour into the Nix community and have taken a step back from it.

I am hopeful for the path they're on, but I can not affort to spend more on it.

AngryAnt,
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@crft That saga is very straight forward execution of this: https://mastodon.social/@crft/112426152997763275

No takeover - just a moderation team responding extremely slowly to repeat offenders.

Eventually this is leading to a hand over informed by a constitutional assembly formed extremely openly and under very clear & well-supported rules.

I think it is possible, if you FF through it all really fast and squint hard, to see it in a negative light. But that takes guided effort.

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?!

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