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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The windshield behind the wheel really does it

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Armenian kids are starting the school year with tung tung tung sahur themed notebooks

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is there some drama with the openai math advisory board thing?

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the updated visuals and music are very nice though!

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

so far only managed to beat 4 levels on easy (up to and including patchouli)... i used to be able to beat sakuya on normal back when i first tried eosd...

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

While reviewing the Steam Frame, I replayed all of Half Life: Alyx. It's still a singular game, and on the new hardware it sings. But to play it now is to be confronted with the possibility that nobody will be allowed to make a VR game of that scope ever again. aftermath.site/half-life-al...

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Will There Ever Be Another Half-Life: Alyx?

Half-Life: Alyx remains the big budget killer app of VR. But playing it again makes you wonder if anyone will match that ambition.

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Dude I feel this in my bones. Having to crouch to pick stuff from the floor felt like torture after playing alyx

if you find a way to do so, let me know. I'm being serious. The strongest argument I can muster, "you are hurting primarily yourself by allowing the stolen world's knowledge to be sold back to you" doesn't work. People don't care about themselves, let alone others.

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For-Profit (Creative) Software

It's frustrating because I see the industry speed running the commercial 3D packages story, but for programmers: youtu.be/I4mdMMu-3fc?...

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YouTube video by EndVertex

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Convincing people to not use it is a losing battle. I might be the only person in the entire office building who still types shit into an IDE :)

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm not even really sure if it's "refusing" to let go. This might be just straight up elder abuse. He looks taxidermied.

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(I misheard smth along the lines "as if your paper has anything to do with it")

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh actually she said "it somehow matters FOR your paper" which is considerably less spicy thing to say lol

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

about to see what zun cooked up this time. maybe i'll finally 1cc a tohou game...

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

oh shit oh fuck they did that thing from Lena by qntm youtu.be/BUkLWjcoBc0?...

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I Put A Fly's Conscious Brain into Minecraft

YouTube video by Ro0oney

Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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I've released my Tone Mapping Analysis tools for comparing tone mapping LUTs, implemented as a Unity project with custom editor windows. Compare how different tone mappers look when applied to HDR .exr images, with comparison sliders and a variety of overlays and graphs. github.com/runevision/T...

A table of different images, each row shown with different tone mappers. One cell shows a comparison slider.

Graphs are displayed for each tone mapper row and the Saturation Overlay is applied to the images.

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the OG singer of седая ночь died few years ago. so this is kind of a beautiful tribute to both him and chester.

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this one is more like that minutes to midnight era sound but still pretty good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec9p...

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Юрий Шатунов / Linkin Park - Седая Ночь (Cover by ROCK PRIVET)

YouTube video by ROCK PRIVET

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nicebyte @nicebyte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this was supposed to be a joke but turned out lowkey fire. the vocalist really does really evoke chester, assuming there weren't any editing tricks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv-Y...

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Михаил Шуфутинский / Linkin Park - 3 Сентября (Cover by ROCK PRIVET )

YouTube video by ROCK PRIVET

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

mcnett.org/bounding_sim... in this paper i question the primacy of the bounding box. if you like geometry stuff, give it a read and tell me how i can do better

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it's just a thing that persisted and adapted through history, swapping one thing (peppers) for another (salt) - or who knows maybe the other way around - to accomodate for a new host location and culture. we really are just conduits for memes. i find that endlessly fascinating.

the crazy thing is, someone's grandma burning salt doesn't know there is an indian grandma doing the same thing with peppers. it's just something her own grandma did, and her grandma, and so on, going back into the murky waters of time

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2/2 the "evil eye" thing seems to be super deep rooted. For example, in india you ward off the evil eye from a child by circling peppers over their head then burning them. in armenia there is the same exact ritual except with salt. how tf it made it made it all the way across the asia i have no idea

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