The internet really went to shit when browsers stopped putting a little RSS icon on the address bar, didn't it?
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"This site contains the original illustrations and text from the 21st edition of [Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements by Henry T. Brow], published in 1908. It also includes animated versions of the illustrations and occasional notes by the webmaster."
It's hard to overstate how exciting Dark Castle was on the Mac. Beautiful, innovative, and moreish despite being occasionally infuriating.
"The Story of Dark Castle"
Classic Mac Gaming
The Story of Dark Castle
Nobody asked you, Copilot!
Neat!
The Legend of Zelda: Z for 2 - Two Player Simultaneous Co-Op
"Player 2 takes on the role of Link’s Shadow. Either player can pick up and use any item, and each player can select their active item independently of the other. Players share resources and health."
"This article outlines a derivation for a simple way to cast a ray in world space through a mouse position on the screen, allowing for mouse picking, shooting gameplay, etc."
by Kevin Moran
https://kevinmoran.github.io/posts/mouse_raycasting_derivation.html
Forty years after he stumbled upon a tiny accounting error that became a big deal, Cliff Stoll recounts events in his chronicle _The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage_.
What a lovable freak.
DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0
DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff Stoll
Damn. We lost a real one. RIP Queen.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social I've been at this game for 28 years, and reliving the horrors in prose aged me another 28 years. 💀
"Why French games have always been way ahead of their time"
by Simone de Rochefort for Polygon
"France is the second-biggest producer of video games in the world. So France has had a huge influence on gaming, globally. But what you might not know is how weird and counter-cultural some of France’s early games are! In the 1980s, French game developers were going wild, making games that would fit right in on itch.io today."
https://www.polygon.com/video/why-french-games-have-always-been-way-ahead-of-their-time/
"The Last Surviving Stop-Motion Puppet from a Special Effects Masterpiece"
Adam Savage's Tested
What X-Rays of this Legendary Stop-Motion Puppet Revealed
The GOAT ... er ... YAK.
"YOU SHOULD GO WATCH Heart of Neon! Seriously!"
Behind The Scanlines
YOU SHOULD GO WATCH Heart of Neon! Seriously!
The dereliction of RSS is like the ground zero of enshittification.
"YouTube, your feeds are broken"
Open RSS
https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken
Big Tech defeated by cartoon-grade deception. 🥸
"Children demonstrated a clear awareness of how to bypass age checks ... One technique brought up was children drawing facial hair on themselves so that the tools verifying them would think they were older”
Your browser's got a big mouth.
See everything your browser discloses before even being asked.
In case you've missed it, if you use GitHub, you've been opted in for Copilot AI training.
"On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out. Review this update and manage your preferences in your GitHub account settings."
"NVIDIA’s Shadow Library Scripts ‘Have No Other Purpose’ Than Infringement, Judge Rules"
TorrentFreak
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@kenney You probably know this, but if you don't, Any Austin has a bunch of well-researched videos on infrastructure in videogames.
https://www.youtube.com/@any_austin
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@jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com Yeah, the worst experience makes the most money. They won't even give you headlines without making you load X number of pages. I hate it.
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I just saw this pop up in my GitHub feed. This might be a good addition to @baldengineer@qoto.org's Bit Preserve.
Pretty neat! Would have liked to hear more about getting RenderDoc to launch recalcitrant games.
"How is this frame of Animal Well rendered?"
FibbWare
How is this frame of Animal Well rendered?
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@JetSetIlly@mastodon.gamedev.place Impeccable timing. Claude is having a bad day.
https://status.claude.com/
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@JetSetIlly@mastodon.gamedev.place Ah, of course. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of hardware is required to run a model like that?