The video series “No CGI is really just invisible CGI” is absolutely great. I highly recommend it if you have any passing interest for SFX, VFX, or filmmaking in general.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
It’s funny, I could swear most of you voted for a Liberal Prime Minister, and yet it seems we got a Conservative one.
This website blew my mind: Frame of Preference, a history of the macOS system settings panel. And no, these aren’t just screenshots of old Macs on the side of the text. Click on them. Enjoy.
Yay! Clouds! Thank you weather manipulating lizard people.
Hahahahahaha: “McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’”
“Stop Killing Games’ proposals would make online-only games “prohibitively expensive to create”, argue EU lobby group”: imagine that, a way to bring online games from “corporate monetization schemes” back to “entertaining piece of art to be enjoyed with friends”.
It’s time to eat some homemade rhubarb pie! Of course it is ALWAYS time to eat some homemade rhubarb pie. But I’m told I can’t just eat homemade rhubarb pie every day. Which is bullshit.
I knew there were beavers around Deer Lake but it’s our first time meeting one so up-close! This valiant guy was standing up to a coyote who fled when we arrived. Good luck to the brave beaver — the coyote came back around when we left.
Cabinet ministers asked to find ‘ambitious’ spending cuts as Carney government prepares first budget: sure we could cut things… but how about we tax the rich first?
I was there in the early 2000s when companies sent code to be written in India. A few years later, problems started piling up because Indian teams moved on from contract work, and nobody here knew the codebase anymore. Anyway, now code is written by genAI, but that will always be there, at the same price, right?
