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As Rasmussen says: “the world’s attention is now focused on something that does not represent a threat — namely Greenland, a friendly ally of the US — instead of focusing on what should be the focal point right now: namely, how can we force Putin to the negotiation table in Ukraine?”

Former Nato chief attacks Trum...

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My blog post about how software rendered depth based occlusion culling in Block Game functions is out now!

enikofox.com/posts/software-re

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Software occlusion culling in Block Game

My GPU is the integrated Radeon Vega 8 that comes with my AMD Ryzen 7 5700G CPU. I tell you this so you know that my workstation is not a graphical computing powerhouse. It is, in fact, quite weak. To its credit my integrated GPU shows up as 48% faster on UserBenchmark than the GPU in my low end hardware target; a laptop I bought in 2012.That, and the fact I want my game to run well even on a potato, is why I recently decided to try my hand at writing a software rendered occlusion culling solution for the Block Game (working title) I’m developing as I’ve always been interested in the idea. Blocks and chunks are axis aligned cubes, which makes things easier, and block games tend to have a ton of hidden geometry in the form of underground caves. There are other ways to cull these, but the algorithms tend to be fairly complex and this seemed like a good way to avoid that complexity and stick with something very conceptually simple.In this post I’ll be explaining the development process and the solution that I eventually landed on. If you like you can also read the development thread I posted on Mastodon and Bluesky.Before I start though I’d like to say that this came out quite well, better than I expected. It runs in half a frame at 60 FPS or less (threaded, of course) and generally culls at least 50% of the chunks that survive frustum culling. Above ground, looking straight ahead at the horizon it’ll cull around between 50 and 60% of chunks, but indoors and below ground in caves it can cull upwards of 95% of chunks, resulting in framerates of 400+ even on my weak system. All around a resounding success, though it has some cases where it breaks down which I’ll touch on at the very end of this post.Comparison of depth occlusion culling on/off, off on left, on on right.

enikofox.com · Eniko does bad things to code

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Es muss doch langsam allen klar sein, dass wir diesem Egomanen und Kriminellen nicht mal den kleinen FingerNAGEL geben dürfen - ganz bestimmt auch nicht wirtschaftlich. Der gebärt sich wie ein Teenage Bully, böse, nachtragend, zerstörerisch. Den kann kein Mensch in Verhandlungen besänftigen. Dem müssen Grenzen gesetzt werden. Auch durch Boykott.
Dazu müssen wir endlich und schnell raus aus den Abhängigkeiten mit den Tech-Giganten des Silicon Valley.

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「偽旗」陰謀論が急拡大──何もかもが“でっち上げ”になる時代 | WIRED.jp wired.jp/article/false-flag-co

> 現在、ほぼすべてのニュースが一部の陰謀論者によって、真実から目をそらすために仕組まれた陽動作戦──偽旗──であるとのレッテルを貼られてしまっている。

> 「偽旗」陰謀論は、実はインターネットの登場よりも、はるか以前から存在していた。多くの陰謀論と同様に、偽旗も現実に起きた出来事を土台に広がってきた側面がある。今回のケースでも、過去に軍や諜報機関が攻撃を偽装し、戦争の口実にしたという歴史的事実が、その背景にある。

> しかし、英シンクタンクの戦略対話研究所(ISD)が『WIRED』に独占提供した最新調査によると、SNS上で「偽旗(false flag)」という言葉が使われる投稿数が、これまでに例を見ない水準に達していることが明らかになった。いまや陰謀論が渦巻くネット空間では、あらゆる出来事が偽旗として扱われがちなのだ。

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the vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence.

ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval. And the noise has the added benefit of drawing large crowds of bystanders who can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon their activity altogether.
ms.now/opinion/minneapolis-ice

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[기간한정 퀘스트](←연장!!) 모카를 팝니다

연합우주 개인서버 Photon City 를 관리하고 있어요
본진으로 ​:kr_pso2_2:​ 이라는 게임을 해요
그 외 취급장르 : 소닉, 마호야쿠, 진여신 등
동인CP 언급도 하고 가끔 OC 얘기도 해요-!!

일상얘기만 하지않고 덕질얘기를 어느정도 하시는 분이면 좋겠구
서로의 마리모가아닌 맘찍/리액션으로라도 교류를 하실 분을 모시고 싶어요!

맘찍이나 리액션 주시면 살펴보고 찾아가겠습니다 ​:blobcat_mogumogu:
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[기간한정 퀘스트](←연장!!) 모카를 팝니다

연합우주 개인서버 Photon City 를 관리하고 있어요
본진으로 ​:kr_pso2_2:​ 이라는 게임을 해요
그 외 취급장르 : 소닉, 마호야쿠, 진여신 등
동인CP 언급도 하고 가끔 OC 얘기도 해요-!!

일상얘기만 하지않고 덕질얘기를 어느정도 하시는 분이면 좋겠구
서로의 마리모가아닌 맘찍/리액션으로라도 교류를 하실 분을 모시고 싶어요!

맘찍이나 리액션 주시면 살펴보고 찾아가겠습니다 ​:blobcat_mogumogu:
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