julienbarnoin

julienbarnoin, 15 hours ago to security

Being able to remotely lock a phone you don't have credentials for using just a phone number? What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.wired.com/story/android-15-theft-detection-lock/

#security #android #google

julienbarnoin, 15 hours ago to programming

Nowadays terminals and other text views can get rendered with GPU acceleration support, like the kitty terminal that I use.

🤔 That means we could get bloom, chromatic aberration, distortion, depth of field and other post process effects into our terminals, what are we waiting for?

#programming #linux #terminal #cli #bash #vfx

jake4480, 16 hours ago to random

Revolutionary new Google feature 'Web' (hidden under the 'More' tab) shows just links to web pages (can you even imagine) 😂 https://www.404media.co/google-search-web-filter-ai-overview

julienbarnoin, 19 hours ago to gamedev

Getting more interesting now, though still not exactly perfect, but it's pretty neat to play with. It's quite heavy performance wise though, I'll have to see if I can get this down to a reasonable cost while retaining the fun.

#gamedev #programming #solodev

Gameplay of Bioplanet Kamaryn with a character getting pushed around as water gushes out of a hole. The water particles come together with a blobby texture.

julienbarnoin, 19 hours ago to gamedev

Trying something different... But not working as expected ! (yet) 🤔

#bugs #gamedev

Buggy gameplay of my game Bioplanet Kamaryn, water is flowing out of a hole while the character is being pushed around by it. The display of the water is buggy, it's being split at regular grid intervals.

sinbad, 22 hours ago to unrealengine

I'm investigating the best way to analyse a (Win64, C++, #ue5) minidump these days. Rider doesn't do it (barring .Net), which is a shame. WinDbg is super unfriendly and I hate it. VS works quite well, but I'd rather not rely on it - I only really use the compilers as a back-end these days so don't pay for it.

I feel like a new debug tool was discussed around here recently but I can't remember it for the life of me what it was called or whether it was suited to minidump analysis. Any tips?

julienbarnoin, 1 day ago to programming

Not many people know about bleh debugging.
It's a technique I use when I want to check whether a certain piece of code is being compiled at all, such as if it's been ifdef'd out.

It works by inserting the following keyword in the piece of code you're looking at:

bleh

This is a special word that triggers an error in compilers of all programming languages, resulting in a message like "error: 'bleh' undeclared" if the code gets compiled. If not, the code is compiled out.

#programming #gamedev

BartWronski, 1 day ago to random

I am excited to finally share our recent paper "Filtering After Shading With Stochastic Texture Filtering" (with Matt Pharr, @marcosalvi, and Marcos Fajardo), published at ACM I3D'24 / PACM CGIT, where we won the best paper award! 1/N

demofox, 3 days ago to random

hey @acegikmo , the ML people have learned about splines. You could make an ML paper now if you wanted, i think 😆
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkCijaXqAOM

julienbarnoin, 3 days ago to cpp

All this time I've been using the return value of snprintf as the number of characters actually written, when it's in fact the number of characters that would be written if the max size passed in were large enough.

In fact: "If the resulting string would be longer than n-1 characters, the remaining characters are discarded and not stored, but counted for the value returned by the function."

BRB, got a bunch of files to go back over... 😓

#c #cpp #programming #gamedev

jake4480, 3 days ago to random

Starting to see the ai-generated item descriptions on eBay listings and they're weeeeird. They're like these overly wordy crappy little technical manuals 😂

julienbarnoin, 3 days ago to programming

Sometimes when tweaking things that are very sensitive, such as audio generation or physics systems, I just play around with parameters for a while, sometimes getting cool results, sometimes screwing up, quickly saving and testing as I go.

Then I feel like going back to something I had earlier, but it's hard to reproduce it. I don't have a great solution for that yet, maybe I should just have a mode where I commit every save to git or something?
Does anyone else do that?

#programming #gamedev

julienbarnoin, 14 days ago to random

Actually the license bait and switch tactic (see https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@julienbarnoin/112372223926226868) just reminded me of a case that happened to me in real life.

Back around 2002, as a student, I enrolled for driving lessons at a cheap driving school near my university. It was called "Omega driving school", and basically there was no instruction, just a room with a few computers with some software and they just invited me to sit on the computer to read and practice on my own, and I had access to the place for a year.
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julienbarnoin, 14 days ago to legal

This is some dodgy license shenanigans.

Basically, Synergy (cross-platform keyboard and mouse sharing software) once was a one-time purchase, then moved to a subscription model. They took great pains to specify the new maintenance license did not apply to existing early adopters - see email below.

And then today I get this message saying my license is about to expire !

Is it even legal to pull something like this? In any case it's not a great way to treat early adopters !

#licensing #legal

Screenshot from Synergy software with a pop-up saying: "Your maintenance license expires in 28 days. After your maintenance license expires, you'll still be able to use this version of Synergy, but you'll no longer have access to technical support and software updates. Renew today to continue receiving technical support and updates."

julienbarnoin, 16 days ago to gamedev

I figured adding particles that interact with the gameplay and environment would be neat, so I made a quick test in my game Kamaryn.

Having the environment defined as an implicit surface on the GPU side makes it quite efficient to do collisions, I'm pretty happy with the results for a quick prototype that took a day or two.

The snow is just for testing the system, I'm not actually making a christmas themed game !

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #gaming #programming

Top down 3D gameplay of my upcoming game Bioplanet Kamaryn. The character is running around, punching and defeating enemies. There's a lot of snow particles falling on the ground and reacting to movement, punches, and shockwaves when things get hit or die.

julienbarnoin, 20 days ago to random

This is what I like about spring here... Time to stock up for the year 😁🦀

A large pot with lots of snow crab cooking in it

sascha, 27 days ago to random German

Interviewer: How many image formats do you want?
Vulkan: Yes!
Interviewer: How many letters do you need at most?
Vulkan: Yes (looking at VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_2_SAMPLED_IMAGE_YCBCR_CONVERSION_CHROMA_RECONSTRUCTION_EXPLICIT_FORCEABLE_BIT_KHR)

On a more serious note I finally started working on adding support for VkFormatFeatureFlagBits2 to the caps viewer and database. Not sure yet how to present that information in a nice-to-look-at way.