Posts by Michael Kister
My favourite Mastodon thing is being consistently able to drop news stories several months early as nobody can figure out how to use Mastodon 🤣
cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...
Framework: Laptop 13 Pro mit Core Ultra 300 (mit Arc B390) und LPCAMM2 (Update) #Framework
dark souls 2 now has pathtracing thanks to DS2LightingEngine's new pathtracing version! I made a video showing how to install it, and also a quick look at the pathtracing version of my Second Sin mod/preset, as well youtu.be/J5oax-iNgOY
I took a trip to see Lexar's flash memory manufacturing facilities in China and talk to them about the current AI-driven scarcity of RAM and SSDs. Here's what I learned:
www.digitalfoundry.net/features/lex...
Now that the new Super Mario Bros movie is out, come and read about the making of the original. I promise you it’s a hell of a ride!
www.theguardian.com/games/2018/m...
I first wanted to post "I'm in the army now" but that felt too sarcastic even by my standards.
youtu.be/_wI3tbBk1PA?...
Whether or not Bluesky is *actually* vibe-coded, it's fascinating to see how people attribute site instability to the practice. It puts *more* responsibility on Bluesky's hands, where before it felt like downtime was met with "running huge sites is hard and errors happen."
Creative Cloud Pro also now features new and vastly expanded capabilities exclusive to the Creative Cloud Pro plan that open creative possibilities for what you’re able to accomplish, including: Unlimited standard AI generations, such as image and vector generations using Generative Fill in Photoshop or Generative Shape Fill in Illustrator Access to premium AI generations, such as video and audio generations using Text to Video in Firefly and Generative Extend in Premiere Pro Choice of generation with partner models directly in the Firefly app, such as Google Imagen 3 and Veo 2, OpenAI image generation, and Flux 1.1 Pro Firefly Boards, our AI-first surface for collaborative mood boarding
cool yeah just go ahead and charge me for that big dog
Dear Patrick, At Adobe, our mission is to support your creativity. Over the last few years, we’ve added a lot of new technology, tools, and performance improvements that help you create more efficiently than ever in our core creative apps, like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro, explore new ideas with our Firefly generative AI technology, and exercise expanded creative control. Aligned with those improvements and ongoing innovation, we’re enhancing the current Creative Cloud All Apps with a new name, price, and benefits. Your Creative Cloud All Apps plan will be renamed Creative Cloud Pro and will include all your existing benefits, along with a wide range of new benefits explained below. This will happen at your upcoming renewal. Creative Cloud Pro will cost US$69.99/month (plus applicable taxes). Your subscription will automatically renew monthly on 05-May-2026 (PT) until you cancel. As always, you can manage or cancel your plan at any time via your Adobe Account or by contacting Customer Support.
How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email
Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for!
If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.
average Corinthian:
who could have guessed
Fthagn!
A statue of Siegmeyer from Dark Souls
Hmmmmmm
David Simon said it best
Du hast deine Identität bei LinkedIn verifizieren lassen für ein blaues Häkchen? Tut mir leid für dich.
Dein Pass, ID und biometrische Daten schlummern jetzt bei Peter Thiels finanziertem "Persona Identitites". And you're screwed. Here is why:
www.golem.de/news/linkedi...
i've been helping test the editor features for the private beta pathtracing version of @dslightingengine.bsky.social so what you see here is 4 WIP pics from the PT version of my Second Sin mod. PT allows me to fulfill the dream of a fully dynamically-lit Drangleic with no compromises at all
A whitewashed pub wall, with mortar standing proud of the stones.
When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)
Heute wieder dieser elende Tag, an dem man alles doppelt prüfen muss :/
Sorry, war nicht sicher, ob du quasi mitspielst 😅
May I recommend we replace April Fools Day with April Pets Day, where we all post pics of our pets and pamper them. Because fuck this world needs more kindness and support.
Remember that today is liars day, and this is like the Super Bowl for the unfunniest people on the planet.
einer der besseren
Darauf ein Song über Aristoteles
youtu.be/i4FqGPRQWFM
Technikquatsch #Podcast Folge 301!
@mike.technikquatsch.de und @madrevolver.bsky.social stellen sich die Frage: Soll man angesichts der Speicherkrise warten oder doch jetzt schon aufrüsten?
Außerdem Cache-Monster #AMD 9950X3D2, #Intel Arrow Lake Refresh und #Samsung #Exynos 2600 vs #Snapdragon.
did you ever wonder WHY western writers write samurai stories about "honor" but Japanese writers never seem to?
I was curious, so I decided to find out. It got weird.
More than a PDS. More in the coming weeks.
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i did not make this up. this is an actual screenshot, from right now.