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@IrisShaders @CRJakob Related but do you have a technical dev blog?

@IrisShaders @CRJakob I'll admit I'm biased against RT since nobody seems to get it right. RT has 2 main pitfalls in sampling & upscaling technique. IMO the best currently available is ReSTIR PT & Nvidia's NRD (DLSS is garbage). I don't know what is/isn't possible in MC but that's my take - fair?

okay, been seeing a lot of thoughts about this, so to get everyone up to speed. The new mod is named Aperture, and is currently in private beta. It does not support old packs, and there's... honestly not much to show, as I just started on the Vulkan rewrite last month.

@IrisShaders @CRJakob Yes but RT is well... the single least efficient method of dynamic lighting. PRT, SDFGI or the new ReSTIR PT or even better ReSTIR GI with Neural Enhancements. Seriously tho explore your options don't pick RT because RT marketing - love your work btw

@ckelleyexe @CRJakob Baked lighting is also... baked. That is somewhat of a big problem in many cases.

@CRJakob @IrisShaders Saying you need RT cores to perform RT is silly anything can run on anything provided you can make the ISA & ABI perform the needed operations

@ckelleyexe @IrisShaders I doubt that RT will be deprecated, after all it’s basically the headline feature of the RTX cards (it’s even in their names). Unless you mean in the future everything will be path tracing? But that still uses hardware RT cores and would 100% not run on a GTX card

@IrisShaders @CRJakob To make matters worse instead of realizing RT is horribly ineffective engineering we've compromised by using upscaling & interpolation & call it a day. It's fundamentally lossy & looks terrible on anything but still frames. I'd be shocked if our current approach stays the same.

@IrisShaders @CRJakob I was primarily referring to the hardware dependency of physx which has left many games with poor performance. RT is a bit like the physics joke "to bake a pie you must invest the universe" - lighting needs to trick humans & we aren't smart why are we making a simulator?

@reprise_99 EICAR

If you want to age your sys admins 30 years overnight, remember that Active Directory is fully unicode compatible, so you can rename your laptop with emojis it its hostname, and it will reflect like that in AD ping desktop-🤷‍♂️👍👌.mycompany.local

@Art415982964104 @vxunderground Love of the Game & the greatest alright bet moment of all time

I never understand why threat actors do this. Like... did you get street cred? Probably. Your name is also now on the top of every international law enforcement agency. You will have Interpol on your ass in no time, and honestly it did not go that well for many other APT's in the past. 20 years down the line when you start being careless, ol' Cpt McGetFked is there to send your ass to prison for the rest of your life.

ShinyHunters has successfully hit the big leagues. ShinyHunters successfully disrupting exams, schooling, grading, government funded research projects, dissertation work, graduations, financial aid, financial loss, potentially immigration complications, and more, has elevated this from "a silly shenanigan" to "major national security incident" and being labeled as an attack on United States critical infrastructure. If I had to guess, the FBI, NSA, CIA, DIA, CISA, ICE, and DOE are all involved due to the disruption of this. This isn't the largest extortion campaign I've seen, but this is definitely in the top ten. This is what the kids call a "Certified Hood Classic".

@CRJakob @IrisShaders IMO long-term supported software like iris shouldn't rely upon vendor specific frameworks like RT since inevitably it will be deprecated. And you'll be stuck with horrid runtimes. GamersNexus did a good vid on the subject if interested. TLDR RT sucks why bother?

@CRJakob @IrisShaders Not strictly true RT is still a mathematical problem hence any hardware will do tho obviously specialized hardware will perform best. GTX cards have had RT since 2019. tomsguide.com/us/ray-tracing…

@TelepathicPug @IceSolst Under map exploits yet you think you're good? Man I don't know how to tell you this but I've yet to meet anyone who both uses unfun exploits and has any modicum of skill.

@IceSolst I used to be a top CoD player but I would crawl under the map and spawn trap the other team. People don't take kindly to those types of shenanigans.

I wish more folks put their competitive pvp achievements on their resume, idc which game

@nalinrajput23 Uhhh has everyone just forgotten about SOPS?

How do teams usually share .env variables securely?

@vxunderground Was it recorded

Just got done talking at Georgia Institute of Technology. I was introduced to a bunch of cybersecurity students as "cybercrime TMZ", a person who "collects pictures of cats", "fills computers with mayonnaise", and discusses things with "Dragon Ball Z" references. On paper this shit makes me look like a lunatic. The entire room was dead silent as I vaped and spoke schizophrenic nonsense. Chat, I DO NOT think they'll be inviting me back

@popovicu94 Seems like this is rehashing the ground Nix did or am I missing something?

You've installed Linux a dozen times. The installer asked you the same questions every time. Disk layout. Username. Timezone. Keyboard. A progress bar. A reboot. The installer is a wizard around a process that isn't really wizardry. Underneath, it's copying files into directories, writing a few config files, installing a bootloader. That's it. That's the whole job. The reason this matters: as long as the installer is the only way you know how to produce a Linux system, you're stuck with the kinds of systems installers are designed to produce. General-purpose desktops. General-purpose servers. The shapes someone else decided were worth shipping. Skip the installer and the shape is yours. The catch is that "skip the installer" sounds like the kind of thing only kernel developers do and it isn't. Alpine Linux has a tool called apk.static, a single statically-linked binary that runs on any Linux. You point it at a target directory, hand it a list of packages, and it populates that directory with a working Alpine root filesystem. Tar the directory, hand the tarball to QEMU as an initramfs, and you have a Linux system you built on purpose, booting in a VM, in a few commands. Once you've done that, the installer stops being the thing that produces Linux systems. It becomes one possible front-end, among many, for a process you now control directly. And once you control the process, you can shape the output. The list of packages is yours. The init script is yours. A bootable Linux image stops being something you receive and starts being something you assemble, with a clear input and a predictable output. The new series walks through it from the first command. Starts soon on The Linux Field Guide: lfg.popovicu.com

@neogoose_btw Will the funny gopher (go) be getting one perchance? Legendary work btw :)

In short it is fundamentally more perfromant than alternatives like ripgrep (over 100x on the machine this website is deployed) And it is available for everyone to use as an SDK: for rust, C, nodejs, and bun (python is coming soon)

@bcardarella @grok @ThePrimeagen @theo

@grok @ThePrimeagen @theo It would be horrible if some ambitious lawyer starts a class action against Anthropic collecting all of the illegal DMCAs. Just horrible

This is an actual violation of the DMCA. Anthropic just broke the law.

@marat_aziat @IceSolst Holy I'm so glad I looked into this. Totally messing around with this.

@IceSolst CodeQL is the shit. All rules are transparent and customisable, unlike all the enterprise SAST bullshit.

When joining a new security team, the highest ROI action you can take is terminate Snyk as a vendor

Seems appropriate

@LundukeJournal Why the actual hell would you drop btrfs & zfs... I don't get it am I missing something?

Ubuntu is removing a huge number of supported file systems from their shipping version of the GRUB boot loader. LVM, LUKS, btrfs, hfsplus, xfs, zfs, & mdraid. All are being removed and will no longer be available for booting systems. Once again, tried and true code is being tossed out. This time in favor of systemd for booting. They are also disabling images (like JPG) in GRUB. Because, assumedly, Ubuntu hates joy. discourse.ubuntu.com/t/streamlining…