I've always been amazed by what can be achieved with just shaders.

There are probably better examples for artwork created with shaders, but here are a couple 3d graphics channels I like:

https://youtube.com/@acerola_t

https://youtube.com/@sebastianlague

What did valve do?

Goku: 5 (counting alternate realities, but not counting GT 🤮)

Dean Winchester: 111

Discover is ok... If you limit it to only managing Flatpaks.

I'm not sure I'd ever trust a GUI to manage pacman/apt/dnf

I don't like politicians that support billionaires or holy wars either, but isn't this ideology partially responsible for the situation we're in now?

I understand that voting for someone who is not just the lesser of two evils but also directly opposed to our fundamental values might perpetuate a broken system... but couldn't there be a way to change the political zeitgeist without killing our own citizens in the streets and threatening to glass a country of millions?

I want the systems of oppression to fall as much as the next guy, but allowing the Trump administration to concentrate power as fast as possible doesn't seem like a fair trade to get there.

I wanted to look up the statistics for myself and see what the numbers are, given a room size scaled around 1 person dying from firearm related injury. I chose people dying from firearm injuries because I had a hard time finding a statistic for all people who were shot. If you are aware of better sources for my numbers (or a math error on my part), please let me know. I primarily used sources from the US government, but I recognize that those sources might not be completely transparent right now. Also, I don't mean for this to undermine the intention of the author here. Every issue mentioned is absolutely a problem in america, regardless of arbitrary comparisons. Also also, transgender people are valid and deserve rights regardless of how many people are shot per year.

Say you're in a room with 2,584,401 people. 206,752 don't have insurance. 273,947 live in poverty. 542,724 are illiterate. 596,996 suffer from mental illness. And every day at least 1 person dies from firearm related injury. But 21,192 are trans so you decided ruining their lives is a priority.

The population of the US was 341,140,964 on 12/31/24.

92% had health insurance in 2024.

10.6% lived in poverty in 2024.

79% were literate in 2013. (Hopefully there is a more recent source for this somewhere)

23.1% suffered from mental illness in 2022.

132 died from firearm-related injury daily in 2022. This is the number from the CDC, which is more generous than gunviolencearchive.

The number of injuries (including deaths) from the gunviolencearchive puts the daily count at 87 (I am rounding up despite 2024 being a 366 day leap year).

0.82% identified as transgender.

I only saw a couple episodes, but it seems that making you feel gross is the point...

I've seen a lot of media that glorifies smoking, but little that makes cigarettes look as disgusting as chainsmoker cat.

For that reason, I kinda feel like banning it on the basis that it encourages smoking is misguided.

I see a lot of comments dismissing the nuanced difference between a magazine and a clip, and I agree that from a linguistic perspective it doesn't matter...

But it may be relevant here. A clip is used to load a magazine. In the case of the M1 Garand and the new Kel-Tek PR57, the clips are used to load an internal (integral) magazine. This gun uses conventional magazines, and the magazine can be dropped (the ICE agent in the video must have pressed the magazine release button while scrambling for his weapon) while there is still a round in the chamber.

TL;DR he was probably waving around a loaded gun at those people.

Distrobox is just a set of shell scripts that controlls Podman under the hood. Not only is it like docker, it literally uses the same container format (ContainerD).

There are alternatives like mesh networks and radio, but recently in Afghanistan they cut off the internet... Literally. They severed the lines and made the entire country dark.

This is pedantic... but that isn't semi-automatic.

It would be semi-automatic if shooting the bb also pushed that button automatically.

This device works more like a single action only non-semi-auto device.

I've had matrix and element set up on my personal domain for a while, but I've only used them for evaluation so far. The system and network resources used are HUGE...

I've been setting up movim and a seperate xmpp server for a little while, and I have some initial opinions:

• xmpp (prosody) appears to be much better optimised than matrix (synapse)
• matrix and element are much easier to set up
• movim is a huge PITA to deploy yourself (especially in a container... you're basically on your own at the moment)
• xmpp requires tcp ports and ssl certs that should be easy to set up... unless you're on a cgnat network. Matrix can be set up through a cloudflare tunnel with https no problem, but xmpp requires some networking elbow grease.
• the mandatory certificates probably make the xmpp network safer?
• Even with the mautrix discord bridge copying the exact layout of discord channels into element, movim seems more familiar to me. I haven't really had enough time to evaluate movim, but it seems like it's trying to appeal to discord users, and element is clearly not. Element feels like a well funded enterprise tool that is doing its own thing.
• commet (with 2 m's) chat is a very faithful discord clone for matrix, but it's very barebones.

Either way, I am gonna deploy both and let my friends/discord channel users decide what works best.

I'm rooting for xmpp at the moment, but I will be happy with anything that is self hosted, encrypted and federated.

Hopefully I don't end up having to maintain both protocols with a bridge!

And they used the Naomi (arcade dreamcast) as the starting point for the main board

Idk I haven't seen an AI that writes acceptable C/C++ yet (to be honest I haven't looked that hard)... So as long as my projects focus is low level, thin, maintainable code, I can still do things AI won't be able to for a long time.

I recognize that being free to write code however I want makes me privileged, and others don't have that freedom.

Despite that, I am afraid of what will happen to the open source tools I depend on. None of us write our code alone.

Is that actually what he's trying to say?

It sounds like he's talking about what Russia thinks they are doing, not the reality of the situation.

Idk what the rest of the context is, and I've never watched Hasan.

A 1w laser will permanently blind you instantly. You can buy/build them very cheaply and easily, but a class 4 laser isn't a toy.

For perspective, the regular red laser pointers from your local store are like 5mW at most.

A 44w laser is probably an IR fiber laser used for tattoo removal or some industrial application. You can get them cheap, but they are not handheld. Also lasers that powerful tend to be pulsed.

Nichia makes 5w+ 445nm diodes that are small enough to fit in a flashlight

He's in the Epstein files

Edit: Just because someone is mentioned in the Epstein files doesn't mean they are a pedophile. The premise of OPs post is based on the fact that Hawking is somehow associated with Epstein, which has spawned rumors (from dubious sources) about some kind of impropriety.

What a day to have a functioning phantasia

In America, the only part that most people would want to print is the serialized part of the firearm. In a Glock it's the frame (which is polymer in OEM Glocks), and in an AR, it's the lower receiver.

You can buy a Glock slide assembly, barrel, frame rails, trigger, etc anonymously and without any paperwork.

The same is true of ARs, you can get all of the parts except the lower receiver anonymously and without paperwork.

Also, unless you live in a state where the local laws explicitly prohibit it (like WA), it's perfectly legal to make your own firearms. You can even serialize and register them with the ATF if you want (but you are not legally obligated to do so). You don't need an FFL/SOT to do it.

I wouldn't do it if you don't know your local laws though... If you break the law or violate ATF policy, they'll shoot your dog and send you to prison forever.

I also use my steam deck as my daily driver (dockcase 10 in 1 with peripherals etc).

I had been using arch for years before I got the steam deck, and for the first 8 months or so I unlocked the btrfs partition and installed everything I needed normally (kvm/qemu, devel libraries and Linux headers for c++ development, etc)... But every update from valve would destroy my environment and I had to run custom scripts to fill my etc directory back in...

For the past many months I've been using distrobox (which I believe comes pre-installed on the latest steamdeck updates) with a rootless arch environment inside, and flatpaks for everything that requires systemd.

You can symlink things like xdg-open from inside the container to your host, and end up with a pretty seamlessly integrated experience (distrobox does a lot of this for you anyway, and comes with utilities which make this pretty easy.)

If you want direct control of the system, this is not going to be a convenient setup, but if you're interested in treating it like an immutable OS, there are userspace ways of getting around it's limitations.

SteamOS has inspired me to make future installs immutable (and atomic/declarative using containers?), because it can be kinda nice once you get used to it.

I hope this helps or was interesting!

Edit: This is specifically what I meant by symlinking xdg-open.

Idk if this is done by default now, but if link handling is broken this is how you fix it