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_benton Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?

How's it not capitalism? If your definition of capitalism requires governments to either not exist or not act to improve the conditions of their subjects (including companies), you have a definition of capitalism where basically none existing or only failed states have a capitalist system.

_benton Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG

https://mpai.community/standards/mpai-spg

This makes zero sense, right? Even if this was applicable, why would it need a standard? There is no interoperability between game servers of different games

_benton Itch.io seeks payment processors who work with with adult material

yeah, this I don't get. Maybe the issue is that you don't want to implement SEPA yourself, so you go through a payment processor -- which may then have the same guidelines as MasterCard?

SEPA flows typically have a more rough UX, maybe this would put off a lot of customers?

They could also just piggy back off of SEPA and just do the bog standard thing of asking the customer to transfer x amount of money with the reference abcxyz. If the customer then uses instant transfer in their banking app, they get to immediately confirm the purchase.

In case of Steam they could totally also just give immediate access and then revoke it if the payment doesn't happen within 36 hours.

_benton Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope

> it looks like it's causing more damage

what damage is it causing?

_benton Jujutsu for busy devs

I've been using jj for two weeks now and it's kinda exciting, because for the first time I'm comfortable with using version control just via the command line. With Git I always had to use a GUI (preferably Git Graph in VSCode) and launch all operations by right clicking items, but jj was simple and consistent enough that I could just start using it after reading Steve Klabniks tutorial.

The thing I'm running into right now is that I should really learn the revset language, so that I don't have to constantly copy paste ids from jj log

_benton Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1B web users

How do they want to measure traffic that by definition "cannot be measured"? As an adtech it's in their best interest to overestimate this anyways

_benton Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

they just have to implement Vulkan, enough for it to run Dawn or wgpu

_benton Blender 4.5 LTS

Custom mesh normals is huge, because this used to be a PITA.

Tugged away at the end is defining custom cameras through OSL, which is a very very interesting feature, because it allows more physically accurate lens emulation, with dramatically more interesting bokeh than the standard perspective camera model: https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/1kehtse/new_camera...

_benton Blender 4.5 LTS

It definitely does on macOS and I think also on Windows. You have to set the color management for the viewport to Display P3. In older versions this precluded you from using AGX or Filmic, but I think you can actually use AGX with Display P3 now.

_benton The JPEG XL Image Coding History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale

they did say "relevant". Though arguably Chromium will probably overthink their decision if both Safari and Firefox support it.

_benton Clashes between web and X11 colors in the CSS color scheme

No you have S, M and L cones in your eyes, which represent (roughly) blue, green and red. Your eyes are most sensitive to green and yellow because the spectrum of the M and L cones overlaps. This is why a lot of sRGB is green and why the Bayer pattern has one red, one blue and two green elements. Red, yellow and blue are the primary colors used in art education.

_benton The JPEG XL Image Coding History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale

This appears to be very well written and easy to understand even if you only know the basics of digital image encoding.

I found the parts about patching and frames with different blend modes very fascinating. I wonder if it would be possible to build a GUI DCC app that uses JpegXL as its project format. It seems that it could support layers, splines, symbols (transformed instances of layers), blend modes and animations without "baking" any of it to pixels

_benton C3 solved memory lifetimes with scopes

well there's MIRI

_benton Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

We've had kids accessing an Internet without any working age barriers for over 30 years now.

There have been problems, be that grooming, Facebook parties and maybe addiction to TikTok.

But being able to access adult content be that sexual or violent in nature doesn't really seem to have had much negative consequences.

Sure I wouldn't want my 10 year old to see 2 girls 1 cup - but I reckon it wouldn't be the end of the world if he did.

It's good that we have content recommendations. But we shouldn't try to actually enforce them.

Again: with all the options kids have had for accessing porn online in the last couple of decades, if it was actually THAT bad, we'd be having an epidemic. Yet we don't. The kids are alright

_benton Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

reading through the report, it's not unlikely to be a race condition

_benton RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

most importantly a RAW file hasn't been demosaiced, ie instead of pixels of colors, it's a grid of scalar sensor measurements that, depending on the pattern (eg Bayer) each represent either red, green or blue intensity. since we only know one for each position in the image, the other two have to be interpolated (which is demosaicing)

_benton NuxtLabs is joining Vercel

It's an aquihire

_benton When Figma starts designing us

those are layout grids and not grid layout (huge difference!)

_benton When Figma starts designing us

It doesn't play to the strengths of designers to have them think in terms of Flex layouts and it doesn't play to the strengths of developers to have them translate a design 100% specified to the layout-algorithm and hierarchy of components into code. Yet this is the workflow Figma encourages.

What the author encourages is that the designers work more free-flowing with sketches and wireframes and that the developers take over earlier to bring that into a workable structure. And that the collaboration between designer and developer doesn't stop at an async hand-off, but that they finalize the design together -- in code.

Some of the commenters here seem to be annoyed at designers that make "hard to implement designs" and therefore think they want designers to constrain everything with auto layout. But this doesn't address the cause of the issue, which is designs being made by designers in isolation, which are then being treated as gospel for developers to 100% match. This is the real problem.

In my opinion the gravest issue with Figma encouraging this workflow is actually the feature gap. Figmas feature set is extremely underpowered in comparison to CSS. Figma doesn't even have grids. If designers are now building stuff only with the tools that Figma allows, all the cool and creative ideas that developers could bring in, because they are actually pretty easy to implement on their platform (the designer just doesn't know about it) will go away.

I can only recommend you this talk by Matthias Ott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pq7VqNrtk4

_benton AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening

It's a bit frustrating that the footage is first shot, then denoised in post, then renoised in post, then denoised in encoding and then renoised at decoding.

_benton I Built the Torment Nexus (Political Podcast Edition)

Link to the actual podcast: https://134.209.21.148/public/poll_radio

The result is somewhere between dadaism and a biting satire of the current media landscape and ai hype vapor like notebookllm

_benton YouTube No Translation

The Reddit translations are so insanely terrible. They are so much harder to read the the original English posts. It's like every word has been translated independently

_benton Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game

here comes another chinese earthquake ebrrrbrbrrbrrbr

_benton I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

considering the Typst founders are German I wonder if this was one of their concerns with LaTex. Typing \ on QWERTZ is painful

_benton uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust

The resolution algorithm is the pubgrub algorithm from Darts package manager pub, implemented in Rust for Cargo https://youtu.be/LGXx5Bqcgq8

_benton YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

Ralf Schumacher?

_benton Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

Windows got worse

_benton Apple introduces a universal design across platforms

where do you see raytracing? it's just reading back the texture of the layer behind a bit distorted. honestly that's cheaper than a blur

_benton A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network

Apple does this for iOS 18 via the AccessorySetupKit

_benton Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

yeah slint, which is most similar to Qt

see https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-...