nOps, which helps companies optimize AWS spend, raised a $30M Series A led by Headlight Partners and says its customer base grew 450% over the past 18 months (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Release notes for the Android 14 downgrade OTA confirm Google delays Android 15 roll out to Pixel devices from September to October, possibly around 15th (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
Restarting Highscore thread since it’s getting too long. End of the previous thread quoted. —- Hmm I'm still undecided on which shaders I want - currently I use basicaly github.com/libretro/glsl-shade… with adjust colors, and github.com/libretro/glsl-shade… with adjust+darken colors. I may tweak them a bit, since VBA one is rather too much, while GBA one is still darker than the original, tho not as dark as it needs to be here. The main problem is GB - GBC obviously needs the same treatment, but what do we do for GB games with GBC palettes... I mean those can be affected too, sure, but then we have custom palettes based on GBC ones - do we still do it there?
And landed, and there's also GBC and DS support. All opt-in in properties, so per-game.
Meanwhile GBC palettes are now also color-corrected too, this time unconditionally - I mean most of them looked garish and generally awful, just compare the colors on Kirby's Dream Land screenshots. So I don't think many people will want the raw colors for those palettes.
(also yes, GBC games running as GBA get (non-darkened) GBA color correction instead, as they usually use different palettes anyway)
And added Clean filter now (AANN), and it's now the default too.
Additionally, about dialog shows attribution for filters now (except for nearest/none, as that one is trivial and not based on anything), since the AANN shader is licensed under MIT ^^
Also fixed edges with the smooth filter, it was using the wrong texture wrap mode. Meanwhile Interframe Blending is now Blend Frames instead, and has an explanation in the UI for what it does.
And more filter work: there's a smoothing/upscale shader now, specifically xBRZ - there is a single pass freescale shader, so that was fairly simple to integrate.
This caused some trouble with attribution, as it has a dual license and AdwAboutDialog doesn't handle that very nicely... so I had to resort to a wall of text, oh well.
I also renamed filters to less generic and more technical names - it was honestly getting more confusing than helpful. Is "smooth" bicubic or xBRZ? Well, kinda both... So now it's just:
In Nodezator's dev branch: changed the magnetic sockets feature to make it closer to what I envisioned originally: the nodes had hands and would help you by grabbing the new connection for you.
The hands are CC0 assets from the excellent @kenneynl
No guys, hear me out, we might be onto something here! What about tracking eyes that become happy when the connection is reached out? (also in Nodezator's dev branch)
Okay, you asked, and now there's a hand near the mouse to meet the one on the nearby socket as well. Thank you all for the suggestions so far. (already on Nodezator's dev branch as well). #Python #nodeeditor
In case you didn't know, Nodezator is a generalist Python node editor. Open-source proudly dedicated to the public domain. It is a serious project but still has a long way to go (it is quite useable already though). github.com/IndiePython/nodezat…
And, of course, if you wish to support my work on it, I have a patreon for recurrent donations, Github sponsors for one-time donations and other options that you can find here: indiepython.com/donate.html
I even went and made a website for it upon its release a couple years ago. It is not much, but it is honest work. Nodezator is a project that is truly near and dear to my heart ❤️ nodezator.com
Also to the people scared of the nodes/grabby hands: don't worry users will be able to fully customize this behaviour, including the ability to get rid of them, leaving only the socket proximity detection. After all, they may be distracting to some.
Final version is very similar, but decided to hide the cursor. Now I use the hand that extends from the 1st socket like a cursor, instead of having it offset behind the cursor as before.
Thank you all for the feedback, specially mechadense & lisa44Yes (handles from X). Feels and looks better. #Python #nodeeditor
The Python core team has started discussing changes to its governance model. I do think it is time for change, and worth rethinking and tweaking the current model.
As mentioned in my #PyOhio keynote, it is one of the "changelongs" I want to see. I don't know how it should be changed, maybe someone else in the community can figure it out.
I just think we should continue to adjust and evolve the model, so I'm glad to see that the team has started such discussion.
MY LATEST ESSAY: "Why Does 'Transvestigation' Happen? On Gendering, Ungendering, and (Mis)Perceiving Trans People." In this long-read, I unpack the phenomenon of so-called #transvestigation, explain why & how it happens, plus explore more mundane (yet nevertheless fucked up) ways in which we perceive and interpret gender and sexual minorities. No-paywall link, please give it lots of "claps" & share widely! juliaserano.medium.com/why-doe… #trans #transgender #LGBTQ #lgbtqia #gender #transvestigation
I published a new report that shows how today's cybersecurity and risk profiling systems are turning into employee mass surveillance and predictive policing tools.
Based on log, device and network data, they let companies monitor almost everything employees do or say.
We need a serious debate about what is necessary and proportionate for what purpose and about safeguards that prevent misuse.
I haven't reminded people in a while. I really recommend that people regularly download all their CSV files on their Mastodon profile in case their instance goes down (see the screenshot).
This is particularly suggested to everyone on an instance (especially big ones) for which the admin isn't transparent with finances and backup plans.
Better have a backup of your follows than suddenly losing everything!
Go to Preferences => Import/Export => Data Export => Download all CSV files you're interested in keeping
I think Mono was one of the first cases of "we can actually have nice things" after only having used traditional tooling and languages since antediluvian times. I have very fond memories of you showing me the compiler's source code in your apartment in Copilco! Thank you for such a fantastic project!
Microsoft backports AMD branch prediction improvement to Windows 11 23H2, update available now — more users will see Ryzen performance improvements tomshardware.com/software/wind…
The AI bloatware era has begun, courtesy of the Google Pixel 9 (personally this really began with the S24, but hey, let's blame the newest thing for the rest of our problems, because that's the trendyest thing to do right now.) androidpolice.com/welcome-to-t…
This was decided earlier this year, a few months ago: Court Rules That Cars Can Be For Kids ("...chief operating officer of Kars4Kids, applauded the ruling. “While we respect Cars for Kids in Texas for its charitable work, we are thrilled the court recognized that we can continue to use all the goodwill and brand recognition we have built up in our name in Texas just as we do in every other state,” she said." thenonprofittimes.com/npt_arti…
I am so fucking sick of this "organization." All I hear are stupid advertisements. Do they do any real honest work, or spend all their money on stupid kids singing?
@remixman lol Some of it might go to kids, but "Most of Kars 4 Kids profits go to Oorah, a nonprofit serving Orthodox Jewish kids in New Jersey and upstate New York, with the same CEO, Rabbi Eliyohu Mintz, as Kars4Kids. " Which is certainly a bit odd along with the other practices like the Minnesota AG saying that "less than 1 percent of the money Kars4Kids raised actually went to kids in Minnesota." All of that is just not convincing to me, but they won the case in the end.
Holy cow, #Transitous-based #publictransit routing has just landed in the nightly version of #GNOMEMaps, and therefore the number of cities you can get transit directions in… has gone waaaay up! It can even route through a mess like Los Angeles' multiple transit authorities, or calculate long-distance trains!
On my second one, "Bile", I tried to add emphasis to "you was mean to me" using the "em" tag. It doesn't seem to do anything for the screen reader I was using, though. theawkwardyeti.com/comic/bile/
@blindbat84 That is so cool, thank you for doing this! And don’t worry about the comma pauses. I’m not sure which extension you’re using specifically, but generally extensions designed to read a page will do so pretty slowly kind of like an audiobook narrator. Screen readers do still pause for punctuation, but that pause is generally short and will get even shorter if the user increases the speech rate. This is how that comic was read out by my screen reader as an example and I actually slowed it down for this demonstration, I usually read faster than this.
@pitermach @blindbat84 Thank you! I have heard friends' screen readers before, but wasn't sure if the cadence would still be off at speed. I appreciate hearing the recording! I'm also going to download a proper screen reader too, per someone else's suggestion - the extension is obviously not a good imitation.
Did you know when using JAWS 2024, when focused within the list of running applications (JAWS Key+F10), you can find an app and press Delete. This will close down the application. Very useful if an app is running and you are having difficulty closing it.
You can also use the delete key whilst holding alt down when pressing alt+tab to close a window, rather than releasing alt to activate it. Not in JAWS of course because of it already using Alt+del as a hotkey.
Nothing appears to be working on a new pair of 'Ear Open' earbuds. What an absolutely fantastic headline! If you didn't know the company was called 'Nothing', you might think someone is complaining that absolutely no part of their new earbuds works as expected! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Source: 9to5google.com/2024/08/27/noth…
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“Exciting news is on the horizon for AppleVis! We’re in the process of transitioning to a new home on Mastodon. Be sure to unfollow our older AppleVis account and welcome the new AppleVis on Mastodon . Stay tuned for updates—we’ll have some news to share in the coming days!
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
McDonald's Instagram account, as well as the Twitter account of a McDonald's marketing director, began promoting a memecoin called $GRIMACE (named for the restaurant chain's blobby purple mascot). The posts to McDonald's 5.
I finally got around to linking @lloydi’s post “Context is king: long live the king!” from my own (which he references). Anyway, his post: tpgi.com/context-is-king-long-…
He also covers a couple variations where you can stack techniques for… an effect.
And he has a mini-tool (buried in a disclosure widget at the end) in there to generate the HTML/CSS for each scenario if you provide it the words.
Want to provide extra context in accessible names for buttons, links and other controls while retaining design integrity? Ian Lloyd shares some techniques.
Alice
in reply to Alice • • •And landed, and there's also GBC and DS support. All opt-in in properties, so per-game.
Meanwhile GBC palettes are now also color-corrected too, this time unconditionally - I mean most of them looked garish and generally awful, just compare the colors on Kirby's Dream Land screenshots. So I don't think many people will want the raw colors for those palettes.
(also yes, GBC games running as GBA get (non-darkened) GBA color correction instead, as they usually use different palettes anyway)
Alice
in reply to Alice • • •And added Clean filter now (AANN), and it's now the default too.
Additionally, about dialog shows attribution for filters now (except for nearest/none, as that one is trivial and not based on anything), since the AANN shader is licensed under MIT ^^
Also fixed edges with the smooth filter, it was using the wrong texture wrap mode. Meanwhile Interframe Blending is now Blend Frames instead, and has an explanation in the UI for what it does.
Alice
in reply to Alice • • •And more filter work: there's a smoothing/upscale shader now, specifically xBRZ - there is a single pass freescale shader, so that was fairly simple to integrate.
This caused some trouble with attribution, as it has a dual license and AdwAboutDialog doesn't handle that very nicely... so I had to resort to a wall of text, oh well.
I also renamed filters to less generic and more technical names - it was honestly getting more confusing than helpful. Is "smooth" bicubic or xBRZ? Well, kinda both... So now it's just:
- Nearest (previously None or Sharp)
- Anti-Aliased (previously Clean)
- Bicubic (Previously Smooth)
- Smooth (Previously HD)
Maybe there are better names, but for now doesn't seem worth it.