Interested in science, geopolitics and pretty much everything in between. Amateur writer
As good as a boss as I can, I design & maintain complex online infrastructures, for instance for multiplayer games .
La garde à vue de l'auteur des attaques terroristes de Trappes a repris hier après-midi.
La conf de presse du Procureur du PNAT a donné des précisions : 128 munitions tirées, au moins 14 cibles (dont 2 petites filles) et un bilan non définitif le pronostic vital d'un des blessés est encore engagé.
1/ Russian commentators are divided about what the defeat of Serbia's President Alexander Vučić means for Russia. Some mourn the loss of a leader they see as a pro-Russian ally. Others, however, criticise him as a fake friend who quietly helped Ukraine against Russia. ⬇️
I know I said I’m closing commissions but I’m going to open TWO LAST Full Body Character Art Commissions ✍️✨
- $65usd each
- OCs and DND Characters only
- DM here or Discord to claim!
*note these won’t start until mid November
Shares are greatly appreciated 🙏💜
Loi Casseurs payeurs : le gouvernement veut limiter aux seuls journalistes professionnels (au sens de l’article L. 7111-3 du code du travail) le fait de ne pas être sanctionné pour s'être maintenu dans un attroupement
www.senat.fr/amendements/...
The difficulty being that, currently, no competing telecom solution offers the same characteristics in the areas of mobility, jamming resistance and latency. We need at least a much better regulatory framework and ideally an European competing solution.
The EU is fighting Elon Musk's Starlink on at least five fronts.
From blocking access and boosting rivals to drafting new rules aimed at undermining the tech mogul's growing dominance in the space business.
That's from a purely industrial/defense pov. Because the answer "yet another constellation, but European" raises a bunch of difficult questions : environmental impact of deorbiting, astronomy, international loe traffic collaboration, and just "how do we launch them" ?
The EU is fighting Elon Musk's Starlink on at least five fronts.
From blocking access and boosting rivals to drafting new rules aimed at undermining the tech mogul's growing dominance in the space business.
"On ne pouvait pas diriger une cité en fonction de ce qui plaisait au Guet. Ce qui devait plaire au Guet, c'était que tout le monde passe son temps à la maison, les mains sur la table, là où on peut les voir."
Terry Pratchett, La Vérité.
www.huffingtonpost.fr/politique/vi...
Ah apparemment le sas arrière de Zvezda est définitivement clos (des microfissures y créent depuis des années une fuite d'air dans l'espace, à un rythme qui s'accélère).
La fermeture du sas règle le problème, en un sens. Mais les cargos russes devront s'amarrer ailleurs.
An unstoppable air leak on the ISS' Zvezda module forces permanent closure of its compartment, in turn requiring redocking of all future Russian cargo ships between two ports for cargo delivery and orbit corrections.
DETAILS: russianspaceweb.com/2026.html#36
LLMs don't think, they detect patterns and generate answers from these. When human coders do it, it has a name: cargo culting. (thank you @falanwe.bsky.social for that). Cargo cult is classic in development, but you can't go very far without understanding what you're building, how and why.
Un homme raciste qui lit Mein Kampf (je vous laisse deviner le bord politique de l'auteur) commet un attentat raciste en visant exclusivement des personnes racisées.
Et on me demande à moi si je ne suis pas responsable de la violence ?
Mais on est où là ?
Got a little annoyed at a tool again - a lot of blender addons trying to add WASD style movement were 1,500+ lines and getting it wrong.
Unreal-like movement with panning, WASD nav and camera smoothing. controls configurable.
GPL.💖
#blender#unrealengine#gamedev
🔗 codeberg.org/shaderwitch/...
L’extrême droite annonce qu’elle « purgera » le pays des éléments qu’elle juge indésirables car hostiles.
Le plus inquiétant est que cette purge commence déjà en fait.
Listening to the Behind the Bastards on Elizabeth Holmes to refresh myself on how she’s a delusional narcissist and a pathological liar who successfully conned a lot of people who thought they were smart, which I think will be useful going into You Can See Everything tomorrow.
🏋️ La Fédération internationale d'haltérophilie (IWF) a annoncé dimanche qu'elle organiserait ses championnats du monde à Moscou en 2030, devenant le premier sport olympique à organiser ses Mondiaux en Russie depuis 2022 et le début de la guerre en Ukraine.
So here we have far-right militia attacking protestors and when the protestors defend themselves, the police charges them...
Montpellier. These images are crazy and show where France is at regarding its fascist turn.
Les militants fascistes ont attaqués des manifestants rue de la Loge sous les yeux de la police, quand les manifestants ont répliqués, la police a chargé pour les protéger et les miliciens ont frappés les gens à terre !
#Montpellier#24octobre#ViolencesPolicieres@info.gouv.fr
«Neither ‹The Times› nor any of the other publications which amplified its inaccurate reporting have corrected their false claims, or acknowledged that, out of a total of four formal investigations into Arday, not one has substantiated the charges of plagiarism against him.»
Le télescope spatial Euclid cartographie la distrubution de matière noire dans l’amas de galaxies Abell 2390.
Il utilise le phénomène de lentille gravitationnelle faible et la légère déformation de l’image des galaxies situées derrière lui pour reconstituer la distribution de cette matière noire.
First example of dark matter structure from Euclid!
Scientists have put together pieces of evidence collected by Euclid, the #DarkUniverse detective 🕵️, to reveal the dark matter structure in the galaxy cluster Abell 2390 👉 www.euclid-ec.org/euclid-start...@ec-euclid.bsky.social
🔭 🧪 #cosmology
“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
— G. M Gilbert
New in PN: In defense of empathy
"Being aware of other people’s feelings, sensitive to them, and able to put yourself in another person’s shoes is pretty much essential for humans to function as a community. But the current conservative project has zero room for that sort of thing."
#Ukraine Un beau boulot de suivi de cette opération Vivaldi (l'Offensive UKR de dégagement du flanc Nord du front de Kramatorsk) par l'ami @cybart.eurosky.social
Encore un préfet en mode Yolo...
"Le maintien de l'ordre ne se gère pas avec un sourire et des bisous".
Et bien justement SI.
La désescalade et l'impartialité des FDO sont indispensables à un maintien de l'ordre.
Ce genre de propos est la preuve de la confusion entre MO et RO, qui est dramatique.
Le préfet de police à Paris : « Le maintien de l’ordre ne se
gère pas avec un sourire et un bisou » (🫠)
C'est un concours pour battre un record de condescendance & de mépris ?
(Au passage : La démocratie ne se gère pas non plus à coups d'interdictions générales & de LBD)
Beaucoup de réactions (et de malentendus) suite à ce post (sûrement rédigé un peu vite) :
Je ne viens pas de "découvrir" la dérive autoritaire de notre pays (et pas seulement son maintien de l'ordre policier). Je pense l'avoir suffisamment dénoncée (notamment les lois d'exception après les
Jusque-là j'ai souvent exprimé mon désaccord avec celles & ceux qui parlaient de dictature et/ou de régime autoritaire et/ou de guerre civile en France.
Aujourd'hui, je dois constater que je ne peux plus être en désaccord avec eux.
Ce pouvoir exécutif - illégitime - a complètement perdu la raison.
Le racisme tue car la violence des mots précède toujours la violence des actes.
Dans le contexte actuel, je pense que tout le monde serait donc bien inspiré de faire preuve de retenue dans le choix des mots, ce qui n'a pas été le cas ces derniers jours.
Loin s'en faut.
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Ukraine is far from perfect, but through their fight against authoritarism and the strength of their civil society they are giving us more than we can ever repay mickryan.substack.com/p/what-has-u...
So for all the big gamedev accounts here that made knee jerk statements exclaiming codev processes to somehow always be bad:
Congratulations, you have convinced the gamers to hate on innocent people! Yes, you do that too!
Complain about the journalist writing a bad headline instead, as many do.
Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...
The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot
A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead:
www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
I hope Democrats are ready to blow up the system with campaign finance and transparency reforms.
Trust is already at an all-time low. We don't get out of this mess without rebuilding trust.
Writing tie-ins is *a real fucking skill* and anyone who sneers at the people who do it can go piss up a rope. You think it's easy to write an entire novel to very specific order on an almost impossibly tight deadline? And have it be satisfying to read? Motherfucker, *you* try it. See how you do.
There is a doofus currently arguing here that no "creative talent" would choose to write tie-ins, and since I just did a panel this weekend on why creative talents choose to write IP, here are a few reasons. Non-financial reasons, for fun and because frankly it usually doesn't pay that well.
Free newsletter: In July, Apollo Economist Torsten Slok said that "AI better work out, or we have a problem."
Facing ever-growing high-interest debt, negative-EBITDA AI labs and $200bn+ in warehoused GPUs, that's exactly what the AI industry has.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-had-bette...
James SA Corey wrote the last book in the Star Wars expanded universe before Disney bought it and consigned the whole thing to Star Wars Legends.
It was a giggle.
There is a doofus currently arguing here that no "creative talent" would choose to write tie-ins, and since I just did a panel this weekend on why creative talents choose to write IP, here are a few reasons. Non-financial reasons, for fun and because frankly it usually doesn't pay that well.