Murrax

Murrax

@murrax.dev

Distributed Systems Fanatic | Digital Privacy | Student | Metaverse Hopeful https://murrax.dev

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Final render for my ray-tracing Computer Graphics coursework! Featuring: - Refraction - Mirrors - Metals - Texture Mapping - Normal Mapping - Environment Mapping - Soft Shadows - Axis-aligned collisions and rigid-body physics - Animation - Flat, Gouraud, and Phong shading

I have been waiting for this game for SEVEN YEARS and it is finally coming out 🔥🔥🔥

Claymatic@claymatic.games

Seven years in the making. Knuckle Creek finally launches on Steam on 29 October for $5.99 / £4.79 / €5.79. We wanted a price that makes getting your mates involved easier. Wishlist it now. Round up your mates for launch. store.steampowered.com/news/app/465...

Wishlist this most amazing game coming out in two weeks 💥💥💥

Claymatic@claymatic.games

🥊 Party brawler 👥 Up to 8 players 🎨 Monsters, freaks & boomers 💣 Bombs, chickens & kicking 👊Knuckle Creek launches 29 October on Steam!👊 Buy it and save us from starting a band, launching a podcast or becoming LinkedIn thought leaders.👇 store.steampowered.com/app/4652930/...

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It’s a very minor point amongst the far greater injustices of the situation, but the Cornell case has also just reminded me how much all of society seems to have just accepted the fact that big tech won’t allow people to use the word “rape”. (Or at least people *believe* so — nobody knows!)

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See, this is good. This is how you do it. It's not Glonzo; it's addressing a real problem with real regulations.

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers above 25MW of peak demand to bring their own power and meet 100% of demand with clean energy (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Funniest thing about the replies to this is people talking about how it requires logging in via oauth as being suspicious because they think they're providing their credentials to the website 😭

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Also funny to see people say they shouldn't have to login at all like it's possible to run an anonymous poll on the internet without the results immediately becoming invalid

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i am anti-anti-data-center in a broad sense but i also think that if you build out a bunch of illegal and unpermitted gas generation instead of drawing from renewable sources you should be sued into dissipated interstellar atomic dust

Emily Johnston@enjohnston.bsky.social

Data center builders are clearly not nervous enough about public opposition to actually...obey the law. This one article is a case study on why never to trust them.

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pro or anti data-center is a stupid thing to be. each dc buildout is wildly different from the next. you'd probably enjoy having several more level3s in your downtown buying up disused office towers. in turn, colossus is abhorrent and should be destroyed. please have some sense

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there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

In Germany buying a sim card for EU roaming and lowkey insane that you need to provide ID and verify your identity to get one?? Like damn ok surveillance state

The universe has to be trolling because wdym my ISP decides to put me behind a CGNAT the morning that I go on holiday

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NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

ms.nowTaylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

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I can’t describe the feeling I get when I watch someone interact with something I’ve built and it makes them smile. Outweighs 1000 mean comments from sweaty nerds on the internet.

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Laws restricting social media access based on age are spreading across the globe—from Australia and the UK to Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and the EU. These policies create serious risks for privacy, free expression, and access to information. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

eff.orgInternet Age-Gates Are a Growing Global ThreatThe internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the

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For @aftermath.site: Bambu Lab, a giant in the 3D printing space, threatened a developer for trying to restore their product's functionality using their own open source code. The blowback was enormous and may have exposed something far more consequential. aftermath.site/bambu-lab-ag...

aftermath.siteThe Battle Over 3D Printer Software Licensing Matters For EveryoneBambu Lab, a giant in the 3D printing space, took a swing at a smaller developer over open source code. The fallout may have exposed an ancient violation.

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in case you were wondering how the EU's regulation of Big Tech is going

Laurens@laurenshof.online

New from me, on the decision by the @ec.europa.eu to not extend the DMA interoperability requirements to social media, and how this closes off a pathway for mass adoption of open social networks. connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

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We can’t rely on tech oligarchs, especially when these same companies and governments are the ones to sever our access to the internet and telecommunications. Here’s a guide for preparing to stay connected to the services you need and people you love during a shutdown. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

eff.orgA Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns Internet shutdowns are devastating for human rights. We can’t rely on tech oligarchs to save us, especially when these same companies and governments are the ones to sever our access to the internet

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A cause for national shame. This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe. Until 2015, the UK was top. We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe. We're now near Albania.

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When people are disconnected from the internet, it can impact everything — access to essential info, how they receive medical care, or communication with loved ones. Whether it’s from the government or natural disasters, you can prep in advance to limit the impact of such shutdowns. 🧵 (1/9)

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Remote attestation is a heavily underdiscussed threat to computing freedom. People often mistakenly dismiss it with "I will run my own fork (of the OS or browser) / Magisk", not understanding that with hardware attestation, you're literally unable to 1/

GrapheneOS@grapheneos.org

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

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Microsoft losing the plot to the extent that games running on Linux through a compatibility layer are now not only faster but *assumed to be faster* than games running natively on Windows should be an even bigger story than it already is

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happy trans day of visibility to all of the incredible trans people in my life. the world is better with you in it and I'm never going to stop fighting for you, because your fight is my fight. we're in this together.

People always doom about the internet being Bad now, and yes, it is worse - but the Good things still exist and you can still use them! People are making more Good things!

Tyler Lawson@tyler.fun

my 2026 internet: RSS, ATProto apps, private email, self-hosting things, Signal chat, Wikipedia, Kagi....

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I'm deadly serious with this. A huge reason we're in the mess we're in is because the media treats evidenced policy like housing the homeless and decriminalising drugs as absurd, outrageous nonsense, and "you can't even say blackboard any more because of woke" as serious and meaningful.

Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social

Why don't we report that this is plainly absolute fucking bollocks on stilts though? Why does every Winterval and "baa baa rainbow sheep" story have to be treated as if the freaks have a point of view worth considering?

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Today I asked ministers to deny* that the number of jury acquittals in protest cases was a factor in the Government’s dangerous attack on jury trials. *They did not do this