Photo of a green fox-dragon sitting on a step, wearing an inflatable black latex dragon hood, a green plush collar with a facsimile of a bell hanging from it, a hip pouch, and a pair of shorts.
Yo.
🐾: @toy-grr.bsky.social
🐉: @kariwanz.bsky.social
collar: @limeythecheetah.bsky.social (was a good panel at Furlingame!)
body: @forfunbangkok.bsky.social
have fun! <3
It is worth noting, however, that we *don't know anything* about this particular bug, and it may not be related to image/video parsing: bsky.app/profile/tech...
If the image/video/audio/etc. parsing code has no bugs, then everything is fine. Unfortunately, these types of file formats tend to have a lot of surface area for bugs to surface, and files can be crafted to intentionally exploit those bugs to cause undesired effects.
TIL that the original pokemon opening got partially reused in a later season, with ~half the lines cut.
Just something to keep in mind when doing spontaneous group karaoke, i guess -- not everyone might be thinking of the same version!
this might explain some past occasions...
... though it really makes me wonder how pokemon language works in the PMD universe, and if it's the same as the rest of pokemon media.
if all pokemon understand each other, how do "lyrics from another language that you don't actually know" work?
do a concert: caramelldansen, dragostea din tei (numa numa, if you prefer), never gonna give you up, still alive, etc.
popular songs in general might do it. relying on any one song *will* miss some people. (I've had to introduce several college students to the concept of rickrolling)
The Bestboi avatars are all available for free, if you're looking for something to test with.
i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)
you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS
lyra.horse/x86css/
Don't worry, I don't know anything about Bestboi lore either, haha.
And yeah, I exist here! Even if I'm not all that active.
What fox type am I?
The IRC server Ergo implements the draft/chathistory extension (and has at least one other mechanism for this) so you can use it without a bouncer/the server as a bouncer.
(i still have a bouncer, but that's because of other servers, not my friend's instance of Ergo).
A four panel cartoon of a small bird on a branch; the original images are from falseknees.com Panel 1: "mov rax, rbx" Panel 2: "add rax, rcx" Another speech bubble appears, covering that one that says: "HELLO IT'S ME THE KEYBOARD" Panel 3: A corvid appears next to the small bird; the new speech bubbles belong to it. It says "I HAVE AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE" Panel 4: A closeup of the small bird with a frustrated look on its face. The corvid's speech bubble behind it reads, simply, "E".
Saw this on Mastodon, never don't repost.
Wow, that was unhelpful.
Hey, it worked. Time for testing.
The smart thing to do would be to compile the linux kernel on my fast machine(s), then transfer it to the slow machine. Or distcc. Or something.
Instead, I'm running 3 builds in parallel on the slow machine, and just letting it go overnight.
*shrug*
Looks like there's already progress on this front. proton-cachyos, at the least, includes umu.exe, which is a version of the steam.exe with steam client dependent stuff stripped out, which means that vrreg.exe from my repo is unnecessary.
(firefox, 1password, discord, steam, vs code... that's 5 different instances of webtech that i was commonly running at the same time. i've replaced vs code, and steam is now optional, which just leaves 1password and discord, but i'm not sure either of those are going anywhere any time soon.)
Dug into why people were having trouble with VR & umu-launcher, and created some tiny wrappers to maybe help with that. (github.com/kitlith/less...)
So now I can run VRChat w/o the steam client, because it's nice to have one less thing that embeds a web-browser running in the background I guess.
Anyway, stuff I've been doing!
Ran my Valve Index off of my M1 on linux. (relevant mesa patch: gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/...)
Made a PoC that might eventually help with steamvr or monado running inside of a flatpak (and steamvr on nixos).
It's always fun how I seem to jump between "coasting, not doing much of anything" to "being somewhat productive in 3 different (new) areas at once."
And yet the backlog of "things that should be worked on" remains untouched. *sigh*
I've done this with one of the pooltoy avatars I have with texture based expressions, taking the Quest version from "completely static expressions" to "has complete PC parity"
(Avatar base creators are in the best place to do this in the first place, but it's not impossible to retrofit it!)
This technique can also be used to help replace duplicate geometry that is transparent or cutout so that you can display an expression on top of the base texture.
Instead of creating duplicate geometry, you can create a secondary UV map for the expressions, and use a decal/detail map with it.
Decals are good. The detail map in quest shaders can, with care, be treated as a single non-rotatable decal. Just set the UV wrap mode to clamp, so that it doesn't repeat!
Toon Standard makes this really easy with the "Alpha Blended" detail blending mode. (I would like a threshold/cutout mode, too)
this spec was hell to get through the w3c committee but at least the hacker news comments on chrome integration were mostly just “meow”
As always, firefox still refuses to implement
Do I truly keep (almost) nothing irreplaceable on there?
Feels like I'm missing something.
I'm losing one of my VRChat avatar projects. "Oh well, my texture customizations are minimal, and the material/UV map changes I talk about at every relevant opportunity and can therefore rebuild." Inconvienent, but not "fuck, gotta scour the drive for the FBX/blend so I don't lose it."
Wonder what it says about me that my windows partition got wildly corrupted and there was only one file that I have concern over.
Like, I'm absolutely going to lose stuff. photorec can pull things out, but it largely seems not worth sorting through a grab bag of random files.
The only legitimate software development methodology:
1. Think very hard about an implementation
2. Don't do anything
