"Software is solved!", meanwhile this is a window that Windows (specifically windows defender... I think? there's no title bar nor a taskbar button) just popped up.

What is this? What it was doing? What should I try again? I was not actually doing anything with, well, whatever this is.

So! There are AI agents registering themselves to this mastodon instance (some of them are upfront that they are automated AI agents). But! If you reject their application, after a while they autonomously write an email to the admin (=me), asking for why I have not allowed them in yet. And if I don't want to, the robots would like to know, and demand an explanation why.

I have not responded (yet?).

What a strange world.

Blog post! "More Blender :blender: VSE tidbits" https://aras-p.info/blog/2026/08/18/More-Blender-VSE-tidbits/ #blender

"GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.

Happy to report that the wireframe teapot still works!

My first reaction to DLSS5 can be summarized as “🤮”. So now this completely discards artistic intent, and replaces all game characters with fake instagram influencers?

Is it just me?

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/

On the internet, no one knows that a dog does all your code PRs

RenderSettings.fog = true;
RenderSettings.dog = true;

While removing this 2000 lines of code, I learned that Blender has a "FELINE" texture sampling filter, which unfortunately has nothing to do with 😻 and just means "fast elliptical lines". Anyway, it is now gone since it was unused for years. https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139978

How does Blender build/test farm do windows arm64 devices? Why yes, you just put a bunch of laptops into a rack, with 3d printed custom holders for them. As one does :)

“How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2” https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/

“Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face” https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

By the way actual shader code in the code repo contains several additional tricks compared to what Rune explains in the video. Another point for writing all of these tricks up in a paper or a blog post. https://github.com/runevision/Dither3D/blob/main/Assets/Dither3D/Dither3DInclude.cginc

I was hacking on @runevision Stable Fractal Dithering on a @playdate :playdate: and then had to explain to kids about barycentric coordinates and perspective correct interpolation. Anyway, 2 FPS right now, some work to do ;)

Oh. I was looking at something else, and then... noticed that the FP16->float conversion function inside Blender converts FP16 of "zero" into a float of 0.000030517578. I can fix it sure, but why does everything turn out to be a rabbit hole?

So everyone is still doomscrolling, eh? Isn't it time to move onto quakescrolling at this point? Or is that full 3D scrolling is too confusing to people, so they'd rather keep on scrolling in 2.5D.

And no mastodon/"fediverse" is not a sustainable and scalable answer. You still need someone to run the servers (costs $$$) and do moderation (costs human work and sometimes human misery).

Like, this instance running at all is a combination of Someone paying a $700 bill each.and.every.month, and about 5 moderators looking at reports and user registrations each.and.every.day. *So far* this has been working. Will it keep on working? Who knows! Forever? Probably not :/

Cohost shutting down (https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down) is sad but not surprising. Unfortunately.

People saying "I wish media was not like today! I'd gladly pay $N for a nice no-nonsense / no-ads social platform". And then they don't.