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Marc

@mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

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🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇳🇴 he/him
I post gaming, linux, tech, cooking, space etc.
Principal DevOps @ Frontier.
Prev. Unity, Feral Interactive and a bit of Valve.
Creator of GameMode and other stuff.
Opinions are my own. We all lift Together.

504 Followers

150 Following

50 Posts

Joined August 15, 2019

Personal Website:

https://blog.mdiluz.io/

Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

From the Unity 7 announcement: "If your studio has committed to keeping AI out of your creative work—you're not on the sidelines of this release". This is quite disingenuous. From what I've been made aware, Unity internally is going super hard on AI in developing the engine itself - with things like explicitly making devs include how they're using AI in their personal development goals. If you're truly committed to keeping AI "out of your creative work", I think you'd want to know that.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 1mo ago

We'll do the time warp again with you some day

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

Context: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.core.msotristate Note that there are actually 5 values, not three. Also True is -1, and the value that equals 1 isn't supported.

learn.microsoft.com

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 1mo ago

Thanks Reddit, requiring a login for old.reddit.com has finally freed me from the horrible absent-minded impulse to check what the heck is going on over there.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

I just need a third reply here to say how much I appreciate the sheer simplicity and insanity of this documentation page - almost every single word provided ask more questions than it answers

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

My team at Frontier is hiring! Looking for a mid-level DevOps Engineer. Must be within commute distance of Cambridge (or willing to relocate).

https://jobs.eu.lever.co/frontier/478e9414-7f0a-4537-8518-a44db6df7af6

FWIW the job title can be a bit misleading as we're not looking for people with a purely AWS/Azure/GCP cloud devops backround. This kind of DevOps needs people with relevant experience to building, testing and shipping games at scale.

jobs.eu.lever.co

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 1mo ago

Uh oh I think I need to start deleting some code

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 1mo ago

@ThePlant@mastodon.social baseline perf these days is shocking yeah, but you should see these monstrosities a few months before release. No amount of careful optimisation will fix the push from above to avoid screenshots and YouTube videos at 30fps looking even remotely last-gen.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 1mo ago

@ThePlant@mastodon.social aubergine

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

My team at Frontier is hiring! Looking for a mid-level DevOps Engineer. Must be within commute distance of Cambridge (or willing to relocate).

https://jobs.eu.lever.co/frontier/478e9414-7f0a-4537-8518-a44db6df7af6

FWIW the job title can be a bit misleading as we're not looking for people with a purely AWS/Azure/GCP cloud devops backround. This kind of DevOps needs people with relevant experience to building, testing and shipping games at scale.

jobs.eu.lever.co

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 1mo ago

#HotTake but Privacy is a right, not a virtue or panacea.

Providing entirely private spaces to anyone who asks, for free, while controlling the content of that space without any accountability because of that privacy? That's what's feeding so many of our problems these days, political or otherwise.

I guess what I'm getting at is that community and openness is also good. It's healthy to give up some privacy and let others look out for you, while you do the same in return.

mastodon.gamedev.place

Gamedev Mastodon

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 1mo ago

I don't think fish care about the rain

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 4mo ago

Fell down a hole and woke up in a hospital, got shot by an officer in the elevator on the way out and now I'm in prison

mastodon.gamedev.place

Gamedev Mastodon

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

For others reaching the end of this thread I want to call out the wonderful and similar work over on this blog post: https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/ Goes into a bunch more detail and has different priorities to me so may well fit your needs better.

Discord Alternatives, Ranked

taggart-tech.com

Discord Alternatives, Ranked

Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Quite a novel way to close a bug...

https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/13594

"Copilot tried to solve this but it got too complicated so what you did (that we recommend you do) is now not supported"

Nodes are reused between builds with different temp directories · Issue #13594 · dotnet/msbuild

Issue Description Two separately invoked builds with different temporary directories in their environment can share their nodes and therefore each other's temporary directory locations, causing une...

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@austinkelmore.com one can dislike art, but that doesn't stop it being art.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@ThePlant@mastodon.social these games seem too young for a 60th birthday

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

Don't worry, discord are investgating

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place not just you. Realtime yassification isn't something I ever wanted.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place Hugely deserved, bravo!

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@sinbad "open source"

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

I frikking love tests

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange it's an interesting point for sure. I think the management of multiple channels (most of the time 10+) is quite key. That's kind of what separates these tools out from Signal, Telegram, Threema, etc.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@adamshostack@infosec.exchange honestly I probably should have! Thanks for the reminder, will tag it onto the end once I've had another tinker after 15 years of being away.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@paco@infosec.exchange oh right, let me edit. I couldn't find any mention of a web app when researching!

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@hardpenguin13 oooh thought that was a ways off

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@hardpenguin13 @fluxer.app it's open source tho so much hope is that's different

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@richlv@mastodon.social yeah thanks, worth highlighting for sure. Not my choice I'm afraid! Many of the team work fully remote, so I would have rather have been able to offer more flex.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se I'm kind of surprised a fork hasn't popped up tbh. Anyway yeah thanks for the info?

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club love it, thanks. Will absolutely be getting to know draupnir

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@roguefoam@polymaths.social IIRC free tier users also can't store full history, which makes Searchable Log Of All Company Knowledge a bit of a misnomer

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@Mehrad@fosstodon.org @movim@piaille.fr excellent thanks, this is exactly the type of suggestion I knew I would have missed. I will give it a spin and append it to the thread

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@chanakya@social.screamingatmyscreen.com honestly agreed - I don't think I'd ever recommend Matrix for actual company work. There's better solutions in this list for those kinds of users. That's not to disparage Matrix. Different tools for different jobs.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@steve@discuss.systems yeah, can't argue there

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@chanakya@social.screamingatmyscreen.com ah yup that explains it. The whole thing had the stench of "open source but not really open at all"

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 1mo ago

Air is blue and the Sun is white

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se oh interesting - I didn't discover this when looking into it - what're the limitations?

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@acb@mastodon.social many languages have a nullable bool, I spose

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@coffeegm@dice.camp nice, first I've heard. I'll.check it out and add to the thread

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@sschoener@mastodon.gamedev.place @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place honestly fair call out, the strength of what I wrote is way more than what I felt! The feeling there is more that I've been unconvinced style transfer is going to produce much interesting art, given it exists elsewhere and has seen quite limited use.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@Mehrad@fosstodon.org updated, I couldn't find it :)

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 1mo ago

Goddamnit I knew I miscounted buying those freddos

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@coffeegm@dice.camp well I have to say this is one of the most fishy things a website has ever asked me

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 1mo ago

@ThePlant@mastodon.social watch out for the cats, my dog has had a green cheek for two months

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@sschoener@mastodon.gamedev.place @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place given re-stylising 2D animation is already entirely possible and I don't think I've seen a single meaningful use of that (other than upscaling some low-res anime!) I don't have the same excitement :(

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club thanks a ton! Yeah so that's fair on homeservers. I had to over-simplify for sure. It's more that the responsibility is bigger than some might expect - though as you say not quite as big as it might first seem. For moderation - I've heard power levels to givee some of what I need, though without particularly good UX. It slightly feels like a bodge though and I haven't found solid docs on how to use them as you've described. Could you point me in the right direction?

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@xurizaemon@toot.cafe oh good point, I should really have been looking into which ones were european too!

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@xurizaemon@toot.cafe haha you're on the money tho for real!

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