Wolfgang Josef Lughofer

@mathemetica Almost ! — Almost there 🤘🏼

"What I cannot create I do not understand" - This is Feynman's last blackboard

@DudespostingWs „Pangaea shrugged“ 🫠

The British explorer gene is still alive. In 1998, Karl Bushby set out to walk from the southern tip of Chile all the way back home to England. He thought it might take 12 years. It’s been 27. Since then, he’s crossed jungles, deserts, frozen seas, and some of the harshest places on Earth. He made it through the Darién Gap, crossed shifting ice in the Bering Strait, dealt with arrests and visa issues, and somehow just kept going. Now, after more than two decades on the road, he’s finally closing in on the finish, with England expected in 2026.

@Lolamoon A cat-sandwich with mustard and black olives

what should i eat today

@skdh Are we made of Hossenfields or Starfields ?

Biologists Say They Cracked One of Life’s Biggest Mysteries youtube.com/watch?v=4DYaWU…

@weiss_hadas truth never changes — I‘ve studied that

i'm not feeling great about the future of truth

@weiss_hadas How many slaves do You own, btw

taking a red pen to paul reitter's translation of marx's capital

@skdh @alluringmedia you both deserve massages of enlightenment and bliss ✨

@alluringmedia this is exactly how I walk when my back issue is acute

Take it from me, as someone who did COPIOUS amounts of Ketamine in my 20s, that is not all he is on.

@lauriewired Mouser ist ein Lauser 🫵🏻

The hardware in old Chinese cloud accelerator cards never fails to impress me. If you go on Chinese ebay (idlefish) you can get a Xilinix UltraScale FPGA for ~$50 USD. For perspective, the same raw chip is currently ~$2,100 on Mouser.

@lauriewired You should be in VM estate

Is your software is running in a simulation? Trust me, sometimes you really, really care. There used to be a really simple, single-instruction trick in x86 assembly, affectionally known as “the Red Pill”. SIDT is an (unprivileged!) instruction that tells you where the Interrupt Descriptor Table lives in memory. On bare metal, the IDT sits pretty low. Early VMware placed its virtualized IDT in a very high address, to avoid the guest colliding with the host. Very easy check, IDT high = you’re in a simulation! Most consider SIDT to be an actual flaw of x86 architecture design. In computer science terms, it fails the Popek-Goldberg test. Intel engineers didn’t anticipate the security risk in the 80s. The single instruction redpill doesn’t work anymore, hypervisors are way better now. We’ve got extra ring levels, multiple cores, KASLR, you can also trap + lie. But it was fun while it lasted! Of course, modern “red pills” are very advanced; anyone who’s worked in reverse engineering, malware, anti-cheat, DRM, (maybe timekeeping too?) is intimately familiar with VM detection. I’m curious if there are any other fields that very strictly check for emulation.

@AmigamagazineGA Na schon a Floschn‘

Rastan Amiga 500 Alpha 0.50 demo adds stage 2, fireballs and new enemies generationamiga.com/2026/05/18/ras… #Rastan #Taito #Amiga #commodore #retrogaming

@straceX So it‘s real-time anamnesis ?

the Linux kernel's most elegant hack.

@vintagemapstore He was clearly „inflanked“

How Napoleon Lost His Final Battle

@exQUIZitely That kind of carpet seems to render all the Mechas defensless 😭

Magic Carpet 2 by Bullfrog, from 1995. One reason I liked Bullfrog (and miss studios like them) was their willingness to take risks and try new concepts. Look at their track record: Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Theme Park, Syndicate - none were mainstream games. They dared to be different, and that’s why we still remember them today. Magic Carpet 2 fit right into that mold: it was a wonderfully weird mix of flight sim/shooter, exploration and strategy. Thank you, Bullfrog, for being epic during the golden era of gaming. You are missed!

@ID_AA_Carmack @ankkala So you were in the right shape at the right time — right ?

@ankkala Axially aligned KD trees are generally a better choice for spatial partitioning today than arbitrary plane BSP trees. Quake was about the end of the times when rendering geometry usefully coincided with partitioning geometry.

why is binary space partitioning considered lost technology now

@exQUIZitely „Not even her name can sink this ship 😭“

And there goes the MS Unsinkable... Apparently, she was in an appalling condition. Pitiful. Most disappointing. Ports of Call (1989)

@skdh Omg, Lorenz is such a lucky one 🌈

I had the Lorenz attractor printed on a t-shirt and I quite like the result!

@TodayinHistory Nobody talks about Veteran Pilot Mike Mueller who stole an A-10 for a rampage, resulting in the destruction of the vehicle, the very same day.

Today in 1995, Veteran Shawn Nelson stole a tank from the armory in San Diego and went on a rampage through the streets of the city.

@Zongzi55 „Lauter niemand“ were still active then — look it up 🤘🏼

Any book or literature recommendations for the historical period between the 2008 financial crisis and 2018? Many thanks.

@randomcodingdud Most important part — the intro sequence where we see you cosplaying with your friends 🙌

Crap… I better get my game on steam to make my $2