- What do we want?

- Numerical stability!

- When do we want it?

- In -0.000000078524 days!

In case someone feels the itch to buy new gaming equipment, but can't because everything is expensive:

Have you considered getting a new monitor?

Prices have dropped like crazy, a basic 27" 2560x1440 180Hz model start out at $120 US.

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116628883021890325

Some people might think that this take is unhinged or not serious. And while it is certainly not a good solution in all cases, it is really easy to implement, and it turns out that a modern comuter can actually simulate quite a lot of complexity at say 1000 fps, as long as you don't do any other stupid thing that slows it down.

So, I was just casually checking my Gmail spam box, and i found an email from Google. Of course you would just think that this is some scammer impersonating Google, but everything checks out. It is from the google.com domain, SPF, DKIM and DMARC all pass.

The content of the email is telling me that "because EU" I get to configure whether or not particular Google services are linked.

I wonder how that made it to the spam folder.

#google #gmail #eu #regulation #antitrust

@djb I read your old post on key sizes, unfortunately still relevant: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20151120-batchattacks.html

I noted two points that it probably should mention, but doesn't:

1. That the issue also apply to random number generators, all cryptographic algorithms are vulnerable if their key stems from an RNG with 128 bits of state.

2. That mitigation is free. For most symmetric algorithms a change that increases key/state size does not have to increase computation.

RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/116358152590668509

I believe that this was actually a quite common opinion in occupied European countries during WWII.

The occupying force behave civilised, leave them to their business, don't cause any trouble, and they will generally return the favour.

Meanwhile those pesky resistance people run around and blow stuff up in the middle of the night, as if the wartime wasn't bad enough already.

Idea: Single use virtual memory.

Don't bother ever reusing the same virtual memory space, you always allocate in a new place, and once you free it is gone.

If you have a true 64 bit virtual memory space then this is surprisingly practical. There is no remotely realistic scenario where you are ever going to run out.

Upsides include a dead simple allocator, and a guarantee that use-after-free will result in a hardware exception. What is not to like?

The US has a real problem attracting tourists at the moment. This could be part of the solution. Not only would it be a massive tourist attraction, it would attract exactly the type of tourist that might not otherwise want to visit.

Trump would get exactly the funeral that he deserves.

Rest in piss.

It can't be too long before Trump either dies from eating too many Big Macs, or one of the approximately 8 billion people people who wish him dead finally get to him.

That leaves the question: What to do with the carcass?

I suggest constructing the "Donald J Trump Mausoleum and Public Toilet". A big public toilet building where part of the generated sewage is directed to the grave underneath it.

I imagine an exterior of Roman pillars made from concrete, completely gilded with brass.

Soft conjecture: There are so many practical ways of backdooring the subset sum problem, that for cryptographically desirable dimensions of number sets, all possible sets have at least one practical backdoor.

#math #maths #mathematics #cryptography

Gee DuckDuckGo, thanks for the explanation.

A heartfelt fuck you to Microsoft and Adobe. For some reason some Photoshop free/demo thing was installed on my computer. Okay whatever, I can just not open the program, big deal. Except this software hijacked the screenshot functionality, pressing Print Screen suddenly opens this program instead of just putting a screenshot in the clipboard.

Do all racing game developers have an aversion against key remapping?

#gamedev #accessibility

Does anybody know of an online linear equation solver that doesn't go tits up if you provide more than 5 equations and a bunch of variables that it should not solve for?

Pride moths for Pride Month! Did this happen because I just kept misspelling pride month as pride moth? Yes. Did I have a wonderful time interpreting these pride flags as moths? Very much yes!

#queerart #art #pridemonth #art

Current state of mind:

#gamedev

Please help testing a presumed shader compiler bug. Run this Shadertoy: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3fGSWD and report whether there is a thick non-aliased black border around some of the tiles (the bug), or if it all looks neat. Also please report OS, GPU and driver.

So the Switch 2 is out, with a staggering 25 release titles, a whopping 6 of them are new games, and there is an entire 1 of them that anybody seems to care about.

The scalpers don't seem to care, but I do wonder how being stingy with the dev kits will work out for Nintendo?

#Nintendo #Switch2

Esolang idea: A language where you have no variables, and no registers. All instructions operate directly on the source code, so if you want to change the input to an instruction, you have to modify the source in the immediate vicinity of that instruction.

A quick breakdown of the new Apple EU terms. Terms: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/ and https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu/

Developers are given the option to change to a new license. The new license lowers the cost-relative payment for using the App store, and lets developers completely forego using the App store, and thus paying this cost. Whether or not developers use the App store they also have to pay a Core Technology Fee of €0.50 per install.

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