I've always been amazed by what can be achieved with just shaders.

There are probably better examples for artwork created with shaders, but here are a couple 3d graphics channels I like:

https://youtube.com/@acerola_t

https://youtube.com/@sebastianlague

I only saw a couple episodes, but it seems that making you feel gross is the point...

I've seen a lot of media that glorifies smoking, but little that makes cigarettes look as disgusting as chainsmoker cat.

For that reason, I kinda feel like banning it on the basis that it encourages smoking is misguided.

What did valve do?

Discover is ok... If you limit it to only managing Flatpaks.

I'm not sure I'd ever trust a GUI to manage pacman/apt/dnf

I don't like politicians that support billionaires or holy wars either, but isn't this ideology partially responsible for the situation we're in now?

I understand that voting for someone who is not just the lesser of two evils but also directly opposed to our fundamental values might perpetuate a broken system... but couldn't there be a way to change the political zeitgeist without killing our own citizens in the streets and threatening to glass a country of millions?

I want the systems of oppression to fall as much as the next guy, but allowing the Trump administration to concentrate power as fast as possible doesn't seem like a fair trade to get there.

Goku: 5 (counting alternate realities, but not counting GT 🤮)

Dean Winchester: 111

I've had matrix and element set up on my personal domain for a while, but I've only used them for evaluation so far. The system and network resources used are HUGE...

I've been setting up movim and a seperate xmpp server for a little while, and I have some initial opinions:

• xmpp (prosody) appears to be much better optimised than matrix (synapse)
• matrix and element are much easier to set up
• movim is a huge PITA to deploy yourself (especially in a container... you're basically on your own at the moment)
• xmpp requires tcp ports and ssl certs that should be easy to set up... unless you're on a cgnat network. Matrix can be set up through a cloudflare tunnel with https no problem, but xmpp requires some networking elbow grease.
• the mandatory certificates probably make the xmpp network safer?
• Even with the mautrix discord bridge copying the exact layout of discord channels into element, movim seems more familiar to me. I haven't really had enough time to evaluate movim, but it seems like it's trying to appeal to discord users, and element is clearly not. Element feels like a well funded enterprise tool that is doing its own thing.
• commet (with 2 m's) chat is a very faithful discord clone for matrix, but it's very barebones.

Either way, I am gonna deploy both and let my friends/discord channel users decide what works best.

I'm rooting for xmpp at the moment, but I will be happy with anything that is self hosted, encrypted and federated.

Hopefully I don't end up having to maintain both protocols with a bridge!

There are alternatives like mesh networks and radio, but recently in Afghanistan they cut off the internet... Literally. They severed the lines and made the entire country dark.

I see a lot of comments dismissing the nuanced difference between a magazine and a clip, and I agree that from a linguistic perspective it doesn't matter...

But it may be relevant here. A clip is used to load a magazine. In the case of the M1 Garand and the new Kel-Tek PR57, the clips are used to load an internal (integral) magazine. This gun uses conventional magazines, and the magazine can be dropped (the ICE agent in the video must have pressed the magazine release button while scrambling for his weapon) while there is still a round in the chamber.

TL;DR he was probably waving around a loaded gun at those people.

I wanted to look up the statistics for myself and see what the numbers are, given a room size scaled around 1 person dying from firearm related injury. I chose people dying from firearm injuries because I had a hard time finding a statistic for all people who were shot. If you are aware of better sources for my numbers (or a math error on my part), please let me know. I primarily used sources from the US government, but I recognize that those sources might not be completely transparent right now. Also, I don't mean for this to undermine the intention of the author here. Every issue mentioned is absolutely a problem in america, regardless of arbitrary comparisons. Also also, transgender people are valid and deserve rights regardless of how many people are shot per year.

Say you're in a room with 2,584,401 people. 206,752 don't have insurance. 273,947 live in poverty. 542,724 are illiterate. 596,996 suffer from mental illness. And every day at least 1 person dies from firearm related injury. But 21,192 are trans so you decided ruining their lives is a priority.

The population of the US was 341,140,964 on 12/31/24.

92% had health insurance in 2024.

10.6% lived in poverty in 2024.

79% were literate in 2013. (Hopefully there is a more recent source for this somewhere)

23.1% suffered from mental illness in 2022.

132 died from firearm-related injury daily in 2022. This is the number from the CDC, which is more generous than gunviolencearchive.

The number of injuries (including deaths) from the gunviolencearchive puts the daily count at 87 (I am rounding up despite 2024 being a 366 day leap year).

0.82% identified as transgender.

Distrobox is just a set of shell scripts that controlls Podman under the hood. Not only is it like docker, it literally uses the same container format (ContainerD).

And they used the Naomi (arcade dreamcast) as the starting point for the main board