David Jones
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@TheGingerBill @zuhaitz_dev They converged, borrowing ideas from the other approach over time. Making the distinction pointless now, but interesting from an historical perspective.
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RISC ISAs are low level.
CISC ISAs are high level.
(Relatively)
Chrinovic Mukanya@mu_chrinovic
every time i'm in the CPU mines. i'm reminded that assembly is a really high level language
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@Semoahui @Marxon1134x Did what on purpose? I thought they bought the license from a fraudulent reseller, which is a mistake.
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Remember, professional software companies despise you.
Wigmund / On Steam@TheScholastics
Autodesk’s fine has bankrupted our small studio. A few months ago, we made a serious mistake - we bought a Maya license from a fraudulent third-party seller. Autodesk hit us with a massive fine, far larger than the original error. Even after we explained our situation as a two-person indie team, they still enforced it in full. This has been incredibly tough and made us question everything. But after 7 years of hard work, we’re not ready to give up! To keep our studio going and fund the next game, we’re running our biggest discount ever: 87% off Wigmund. If you’ve wishlisted us, enjoyed our unique mouse-as-sword combat, or want to support a passionate two-person indie team, your help right now would mean the world to us. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. → Grab Wigmund at 87% off #Wigmund #IndieGame #IndieDev #SupportIndies #SteamSale
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Technically true, however a large corp. can bankrupt an indie with legal action. Just responding to a letter costs money from the blood sucking lawyers.
Yes, the amount owed is probably insanely disproportionate (esp. for an honest mistake). If argued in court it may well be reduced.
But because they admitted to infringement they would more than likely still have to pay their legal fees and potentially some of the plaintiffs (depending on jurisdiction).
It also adds massive risk and uncertainty for the business - sometimes better to just pay up and move on.
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Autodesk’s fine has bankrupted our small studio.
A few months ago, we made a serious mistake - we bought a Maya license from a fraudulent third-party seller. Autodesk hit us with a massive fine, far larger than the original error. Even after we explained our situation as a two-person indie team, they still enforced it in full.
This has been incredibly tough and made us question everything. But after 7 years of hard work, we’re not ready to give up!
To keep our studio going and fund the next game, we’re running our biggest discount ever: 87% off Wigmund.
If you’ve wishlisted us, enjoyed our unique mouse-as-sword combat, or want to support a passionate two-person indie team, your help right now would mean the world to us.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
→ Grab Wigmund at 87% off
#Wigmund #IndieGame #IndieDev #SupportIndies #SteamSale
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@JeremyVineOn5 We were never in the EU. We had a bespoke set of vetoes that no other nation enjoyed which means we never experienced the full control Brussels exerts on its member states.
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Would you swap the pound for the Euro in order to rejoin the EU?
It's a condition demanded by an EU chief after Labour challengers Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham put a return to the bloc back on the agenda.
Is scrapping sterling a price worth paying?
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Mediabunny is better than ffmpeg huh?
Looks inside: WebCodecs API
Looks inside: Chromium's Blink WebCodecs implementation
Looks inside: Chromium's fork of ffmpeg
chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/third…
GIF
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This guy built a local "video -> HLS -> R2" to pipeline, which is cool, but he uses an FFmpeg script to do it. The same task could've been achieved with Mediabunny in about ~10 lines of code, would not need a script, and would probably run 5x faster due to proper HW acceleration.
The thing is: it's not like he didn't use Mediabunny because he hated it. He probably just didn't know Mediabunny existed or that it could do this. Marketing really is hard!
Dev Ed@developedbyed
If you're building a video platform or course site, don't overpay for streaming. I put together a guide on how to handle video encoding locally using ffmpeg, then stream it directly out of @Cloudflare R2 (spoiler, it’s super cheap) Here’s how it works 👇
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@lauriewired The words C++, reflection and beautiful do not belong in the same sentence (unless there are way too many profanities along with them).
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the beautiful thing about C++ reflection is no matter what you did wrong, clang will swear it's a constexpr problem
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@djonesuk @rfleury It's a matter of ethics. "Author" only mentioned the "inspiration" only after being called out. I'm using a foss engine which also mirrors another API but its author gave credit right from the get go, wrote it from scratch in C, and it does a different thing from the original.
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Open source will be greatly diminished due to mass obfuscated license infringement. Your licenses may as well be letters to Santa. The path forward will be paywalls and codesharing within curated communities.
Ray@raysan5
Wow! It seems somebody already vibe-coded a game-engine with an extremely similar API to raylib... unfortunately no mention to raylib, at all... 😓
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@steipete "We don't want to have to deal with you vibe coded slop" is ideological.
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This seems more ideological than technical.
Herrington Darkholme@hd_nvim
yt-dlp plans to drop support for Bun Reason: it is vibe-coded
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@Mctoon27 I only saw a video (which I thought I had linked, sorry about that). I think his name was Ben Butler.
x.com/Matthardy_BR/s…
x.com/Matthardy_BR/s…
Matthardybladerunner@Matthardy_BR
Lad arrested in Cambridge for allegedly causing £60k of damage to phased array on compromised traffic crossings, he’s been legally defending himself from something which can cause harm ☠️🏴 PART 2
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@Mctoon27 One of Mark Steele's apparent disciples has got himself arrested for allegedly destroying a LiDAR obstacle detection system, causing £60,000 worth of damage.
This is no longer just a nutjob's grift - there will be very real consequences for someone who, presumably genuinely believes in this nonsense.
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you don’t get to call it an “AI-first agentic programming language” unless the keyword for evaluating a boolean expression is “grok is this true?”
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RIOT haven't "bricked" any devices. What's they have done is to enable Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity, a Windows security feature which prevents unauthorized drivers from running in the kernel.
This makes the DMA devices effectively useless, though not harmed in any way. Once HPCI is enabled the only solution is a complete OS reinstall.
If the cheaters can't bypass this latest trick then they will indeed have wasted their money on expensive hardware that doesn't do anything.
Anyone want to place a bet on whether the cheaters will succeed....?
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@ankkala I said this when people started to install Chinese kernel-level device drivers in their operating system to play a video game. It won't end well.
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I think PC game anti cheat solutions are becoming too invasive.
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