Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 21/11/2025That’s really shitty. These things happen mercifully infrequently, but it’s always a big deal. I distinctly recall collecting cash for Ghostown’s bus back to Poland (I think) when their stuff was stolen at Revision 2016 100
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 21/11/2025That’s very cool. We barely have any Amigas here, so I’ve never seen an original accelerator. Ended up buying mine fresh from Individual Computers, since Blizzards go for many hundreds these days 100
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Well, that’s fair enough (and I share your angst), but it’s not about the demo scene per se… 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Because a good demo is more than the sum of its assets, and a bad/dull demo is bad regardless of its assets. I’m not saying you should watch boring demos, I’m saying you shouldn’t discount great demos because they include (or even entirely based on) generated assets. My opinion, of course 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Mind you, I’m not advocating for gen AI, I’m trying to point out that it’s just another tool. It lowers the barrier of entry, sure, but it doesn’t fundamentally change the art form. 200
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Arguably the scene was always about standing out creatively. Even skilled artists/musicians put out crap; slop is slop, no matter the tool. If AI becomes “creative enough” that a simple prompt is all you need, perhaps the scene (or any art form) doesn’t matter, but I don’t believe that’s the case. 100
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 14/10/2025If you manage to integrate off the shelf assets into something unique and exciting, that’s worthwhile in an of itself (as a creative endeavor). If you don’t, then it’s boring and will be relegated to compo filler at best. Put another way: there’s no difference between a riptro and crap AI slop 000
Reposted by Tomer Gabelbleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 13/10/2025If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies. 1504235934816
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 14/10/2025I wouldn’t advise it nor intend to change mine. I’m gritting my teeth in preparation for the next 2-5 years where this will be a point of contention, is all 🤦♂️ 010
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 14/10/2025As with everything, it just becomes a rule of the game. Word/grammar nerds will just have to adjust, unfortunately - and until this becomes a court issue, there’s nothing to be done about it 🤷 100
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Respectfully disagree. I’m not a fan of the current tech and how it’s used, but I’m old enough to remember similar arguments about 3D acceleration and streaming music (I.e. MP3s). As with everything, it’s not the tool the counts but how you use it; if the result is boring it’ll go away naturally. 200
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 14/10/2025I hear you, been there myself. Some days just suck, hope your tomorrow will be better than you expect… 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 24/09/2025סתם כמה תזכורות: Beyond good and evil Wolfenstein: New Order Tron 2.0 Undertale 020
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 25/08/2025The worst thing - professionally - about the AI craze is that it gives everyone in the industry an excuse to ignore the hard-earned lessons of how software engineering works and fails. The Mythical Man-Month comes to mind 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Too lazy to set up OBS or whatever, but between the EVA suit puzzle in SQ5 (just, no), the duck puzzle in The Longest Journey and the topsy turvy acid trip world in Chronomaster, my cup runneth over 031
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 27/07/202512 hours in, Azure is incredibly high-friction. Obtuse security model (EntraID App, AD SP, Graph permissions... oh my), problematic availability (East US is nigh unusable), broken ecosystem with e.g. Terraform provider bugs... The only selling point is that customers demand it. 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Ah. Our respective countries’ curriculum differs somewhat 😅 is it worth watching for a non-US liberal? (From a strict “is it any good” standpoint) 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Well. I can think of several things that happened then, so I’ll leave it at that 😅 010
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 21/05/20251971 could be a few things… probably not the size of a certain FC intro? 100
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Should is the operative keyword there. Plenty of executives make decisions arbitrarily - that’s very much part of the job - and decisions of the “for security/compliance/future” variety are easy to justify when you’re the high authority. Doesn’t make them good (or bad!) decisions, mind 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Look at it this way: if CTOs are happy to dunk a ton of resources on K8s unnecessarily, why expect more from the often-even-worse-informed CISOs? 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 19/03/2025You lost me on the first part of that sentence. Yes, they absolutely are; a sufficiently inept CEO/CTO/CISO may very well preemptively decide on invasive security measures because “they heard it was good,” and those are more common than not. 110
Reposted by Tomer GabelTrixter @oldskool.org · 17/03/2025After months of work, I'm happy to release my documentary featurette on a very rare DOS sound card (how's that for niche?): youtu.be/Eeo4INoGyRY If you have any friends who are into DOS sound cards, the Apple II, music on personal computers in the 1980s, forward this to them; they might like it.youtu.beDo you own the rarest PC sound card in the world?YouTube video by The Oldskool PC 915754
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 16/03/2025My point is you don’t always NEED these tools. Not every company is in a space where compliance matters, yet they persist in implementing arbitrary policies that don’t even matter in their case. The ones that have these requirements built in have a pretty diverse set of options, too. 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Guess what? That, too, is a trade off. If each of your 500 engineers is wasting 5 minutes a day on this stuff, that cost starts adding up REAL fast. 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 16/03/2025That very much depends on the company, policy isn’t the same as implementation, and there’s ample opportunity to push back on harmful policies that department heads (including IT!) can avail themselves of. 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Dear overzealous IT departments: stop dicking around with developer laptops. Your JAMF, DNS filters, antivirus software and machine enrollments don't do much beyond ruin our productivity. Signed, people who use their machines for more than just web browsing. 020
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Worth a look. Free point and click adventure game, pretty unusual and creepy 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 16/03/2025If you see this, quote a game with a 10/10 soundtrack. 000
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 16/03/2025On a related theme, have you played The White Chamber (by Trophis Studios if I remember correctly)? 100
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Meh, I have Just Shapes and Beats for that (highly recommended by the way) 010
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Totally with you on that, but bear in mind that almost all of the normies have no idea what you’re even talking about, so statistically I guess it works 🤷 010
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 09/02/2025If anything in my life is likely to get me in shape, it’s Beat Saber 110
Reposted by Tomer GabelGuy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Oh really, Mr. McTechRecruiter? You were really impressed with the work I did at my current company that has nothing to do with the job you're offering me? Well isn't that something. 021
Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I need to tap someone for expertise and am happy to pay for it. Specifically I'm looking for working experience integrating a C++ and Python (cmake+pybind11) with a proper local setup (Python project depending on bindings built from local repo). LLVM experience a bonus. Takers? 012
