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bj-rn··on WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering
In case anyone is wondering: visualprogramming.net
bj-rn··on The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
Maybe check out www.foobar2000.org.
bj-rn··on Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro
Don't know about the volume difference. But haven't seen any yt ads in a long time thanks to SmartTube: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
bj-rn··on Inside Fukushima Daiichi
"The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is steadily being decommissioned with the cooperation of a great many people. An important part of the decommissioning process is conveying what conditions in the field are like to as many people as possible in an easy-to-understand manner. That is why we created INSIDE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI. This virtual tour allows anyone, anywhere to experience what it’s like to be on the front lines of decommissioning."
bj-rn··on Meta's new face camera heralds a new age of surveillance
"To inform people that they are being photographed, the Ray-Ban Meta glasses include a tiny LED light embedded in the right frame to indicate when the device is recording. When a photo is snapped, it flashes momentarily. When a video is recording, it is continuously illuminated."

"Albert Aydin, a Meta spokesman, said the company took privacy seriously and designed safety measures, including a tamper-detection technology, to prevent users from covering up the LED light with tape."

How long until someone figures out how to circumvent that?

bj-rn··on GIMP 3.0 has a release schedule
For a quick edit I am using Affinity Suite in bottles/wine: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/182758-aff...

If it gets more involved I boot into windows.

bj-rn··on New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft
The blog post mentions a Mastodon post by the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information[1]:

"The reports of suspected MS data collection via Outlook are alarming. At the meeting of European Data Protection Authorities on Tuesday, we will ask the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for a report."

[1]https://social.bund.de/@bfdi/111381793883035665

bj-rn··on Microsoft steals access data: Beware of the new Outlook
Google translated: https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/news/Microsoft-krallt-si...
bj-rn··on Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
Use IoT Enterprise LTSC. Comes without the bloat by default.
bj-rn··on CPU-Z's Inadequate Benchmark
Alternatively there is HWinFO (which also has a portable version).

https://www.hwinfo.com

bj-rn··on British sandwiches and walking 300km of Wainwright's coast to coast
Good bread is something you buy from a bakery. It's made from flour, water, salt and yeast. The stuff you get in supermarkets is full of additives to "keep it fresh" and a lot of it has added sugar.
bj-rn··on Visual Node Graph with ImGui
Check out Fuse[1/2]. It's an open source library for visually programming on the GPU. It is built for use in the visual programming environment vvvv[3].

VVVV itself is based on .Net and you can extend its functionality by either writing nodes in C# or importing just about every existing .Net library just by referencing it or installing it as nuget. No need for wrappers[4]. For rendering vvvv uses the Stride [5] game engine which comes with a really neat shader system / language which is basically a superset of HLSL [6]. In vvvv those shaders are represented as nodes and you can open them in your favorite text editor directly from the vvvv evironment, edit the code, save and the changed result will instantly be loaded in vvvv[7]. If you have any questions join the vvvv matrix chat:

https://matrix.to/#/#vvvv:matrix.org

[1]https://www.thefuselab.io

[2]https://github.com/TheFuseLab/VL.Fuse

[3]https://visualprogramming.net

[4]https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/extending/overview.ht...

[5]https://www.stride3d.net

[6]https://doc.stride3d.net/latest/en/manual/graphics/effects-a...

[7]https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/libraries/3d/shaders....

bj-rn··on Danish artist told to repay museum €67,000 after turning in blank canvasses
Found object maybe?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_object

bj-rn··on AMD’s Phoenix SoC
You could buy a framework mainboard and build one: https://frame.work/products/mainboard-kit-amd-ryzen-7040-ser...
bj-rn··on The Nix Phone and the end of Android [video]
We can replace the operating system of an Android phone when we have the necessary hardware drivers. Using NixOS as the operating system allows us to reliably recompile most of the modern software that we rely on for the mobile operating system to get the benefits of using real applications instead of just the limited capabilities of mobile apps. For example, programs like databases, webservices, CAD, compilers, image processing can run natively on the phone when you get rid of the Android barrier that makes these impossible to implement without a total rewrite. The size of the screen is not the problem because you can cast it to a monitor, and useful embedded computers often don't have their own screens.
bj-rn··on AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Performance Benchmarks on Linux
It's a genuine question though. I've got a ThinkPad P14s (gen2) sporting a AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U CPU. The fans start spinning under sustained workloads (compiling, watching 4K youtube in fullscreen) and that at a room temperature of about 22°C. + 15°C seems non trivial. Granted I could just go outside today and test it out but I am not _that_ curious.
bj-rn··on AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Performance Benchmarks on Linux
Idk if this is too OT but I wonder how it would fare with an ambient temp of 37°C (forecast for today).
bj-rn··on uBlock Origin 1.50.0
There is also sponsorblock (at least for YT):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock

bj-rn··on Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site
"The 'Tesla Files' comprise more than 23,000 files. Some documents apparently show salaries and home addresses of more than 100,000 current and former employees. Others list presumably private mail addresses and phone numbers of customers."

[...]

"Due to the sheer volume and structure of the data sets, the editorial team had to make a selection of which of the more than thousand Excel tables could be taken into account in the query tool. "

https://app.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/leseraufr...

bj-rn··on Tokyo’s trash-collecting samurai takes a fun approach to cleanup
IIRC the trash cans got removed after the Aum sect sarin gas attacks.
bj-rn··on Ditherpunk – The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (2021)
Blue noise dithering also gives some pretty nice results: https://momentsingraphics.de/BlueNoise.html
bj-rn··on I Still Use Windows 95 (2008)
Do you know if Hikari supports fractional scaling? A quick search didn't yield any answers.
bj-rn··on Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s exabyte-scale blob storage system
Thought it might have come from the bitmap brothers' game: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Pockets
bj-rn··on EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones
The population of Europe (continent/region) is ~750M. The EU (political/economic entity) has ~450M.
bj-rn··on The Nature of Code (2012)
If you like this book you might also like Generative Gestaltung / Generative Design:

http://www.generative-gestaltung.de

bj-rn··on Hexagony: A two-dimensional, hexagonal programming language
Made me think of Hexagrama a "sacred geometry inspired sequencer": https://www.aristidesgarcia.de/hexagrama
bj-rn··on Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
If you don't mind voiding your warranty, physically disconnect the BT module. There are "how to" videos on yt. Had to disconnect the WIFI module on mine (also Samsung) to make the remote work again...
bj-rn··on Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
If you want to stay in the browser check out cables[1]. If you are on windows and OK with a desktop app have a look at vvvv[2].

[1] https://cables.gl

[2] https://visualprogramming.net

bj-rn··on Stride – Open-source C# Game Engine
There is a fairly recent On .Net Live episode giving a nice introduction of Stride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6g5y8m26zs
bj-rn··on Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
Maybe "duales Studium" could be some kind of middle ground?
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