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Tobias A. Franke

@thefranke.bsky.social
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Principal Game Engine Architect at Huawei. Previously: Senior Graphics Engineer at Unity, Research Scientist at Fraunhofer, Tech-Priest at Cult Mechanicus. tobias-franke.eu

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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Super Intelligence is yesterday's tech, old and clunky. Today, we aim for HYPER HYPER INTELLIGENCE www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Twn...
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Scooter - Hyper Hyper (Official Video HQ)
YouTube video by Kontor.TV
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Fuck the gatekeepers." gultsch.de/posts/breaki...
gultsch.de
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in ...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
About those weird XML comments and GUID entries in my page and RSS feed: A blog post about cryptographically securing my website against tampering, with EdDSA signatures and GnuPG. www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2026/09/...
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Signed, Tob
Signed, Tob
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"But it did get worse"
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"This AGI thing is not going to happen, we need a distraction from shifting the IPO"
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hello PM of Australia @albomp.bsky.social, can you please do something sane with technology and tell them to simply implement RSS/Atom? kthxbye www.pm.gov.au/media/my-fee...
pm.gov.au
My feed, My Way
The Albanese Government is taking the next step following its world leading social media age ban to ensure Australians have more choice online, with draft legislation for the Digital Duty of Care rele...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I never owned a TV because all of them have tech-aids, but holy shit this needs a really nice GDPR investigation!
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The scraping will continue until Corpo-AI-morale improves!
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I am happy to announce that #RSS-Librarian has now arrived at Version Two, a much improved state compared to the last release. Read my post to see what is new and how to write custom extraction for enshittified pages into beautiful RSS/Atom feeds! www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2026/09/...
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The RSS Librarian - Version Two
The RSS Librarian - Version Two
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
LMAO Use Redirector and forward *x.com/* to xxcancel.com/$2 to load balance across them, or similarly with Tzeentch at alternator.hstn.me#nitter
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Instances
Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Coming to YOUR country soon enough, it's just a matter of time. Ditch the corporate OS's now!
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Amazing, feels like living in Germany in the 90s again. Unlike movies, games were not considered art and therefore not exempt from displaying certain symbols. Good US corporations are catching up LMAO retro-replay.com/wolfenstein-...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's ... magnificent! #SpaceKing www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNht...
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SPACE KING 5 - War World
YouTube video by Flashgitz
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Crazy scenery from my hike to the #Morteratsch glacier yesterday: I go up, there's a cave I visited not too long ago. I come back 2.5 hours later, the front collapsed.
A view from the top showing the Morteratsch glacier and a cave opening.The same cave opening collapsed 2.5 hours later.
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Get your Windows license refund #HackerNews en.refund4freedom.org
Get your Windows license refund
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MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Direct Link to the GTA VI extended look video (14GB). media-rockstargames-com.akamaized.net/VI/downloads...
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Grand Theft Auto VI Logo Reveal
ALT: Grand Theft Auto VI Logo Reveal
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Ruben Osorio @osor.io · 28/08/2026
Warms my heart to see the everyone's excitement 🧡 Finally people can imagine how amazing it is to be part of this graphics team. 🔥 Especially proud of VFX art who made all that effort worth it, from every big fire, splash and smoke to the wee sparks, dust and blood 💥 youtu.be/tJbzMqJGH4k?...
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Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look
YouTube video by Rockstar Games
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hey @blizzard.com and @gog.com mind also pairing up on Galaxy integration and some DRM-free older Blizzard games please? news.blizzard.com/en-us/articl...
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CD PROJEKT RED teams up with Blizzard Entertainment
The team at CD PROJEKT RED is incredibly proud to team up with Blizzard and the Diablo IV team, kicking off a partnership between two studios with a deep passion for immersive worlds and memorable RPG...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some troglodyte sent a cease-and-desist to the #Nitter maintainers because muh scraping LMAO yet I can still follow accounts via #RSSBridge. Good luck to Elon fighting a gazillion instances. Also, stay free in the Fediverse: graphics.social/@thefranke
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Tobias A. Franke (@thefranke@graphics.social)
529 Posts, 158 Following, 344 Followers · Principal Game Engine Architect at Huawei. Previously: Senior Graphics Engineer at Unity, Research Scientist at Fraunhofer, Tech-Priest at Cult Mechanicus.
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm not-a-console-guy, but thanks for reminding me I will forever stay a not-a-console-guy. Buy your games on @gog.com www.techspot.com/news/113603-...
techspot.com
Sony reminds players they don't actually own the PlayStation games they purchased
The company began emailing copies of the PlayStation Terms of Service and other legal documents earlier this month. Notably, the messages contain a section from the PlayStation...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Apple and Google will be sanctioned to continue this farce everywhere because without full control over third-party sources, ChatControl and Age Verification will not work. reclaimthenet.org/google-start...
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Google Starts Asking for Developers' Papers on September 30
The thing that made Android worth choosing is now a setting you have to search for.
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Taking away your consumer rights is a business decision, NOT a technical necessity." www.youtube.com/shorts/7os0q... Exhibit A: Thick as Thieves from Otherside Entertainment will eventually shut down their servers, so they added a peer-to-peer play option store.steampowered.com/news/app/334...
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Don't let them gaslight you.
YouTube video by Stop Killing Games
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
**Canonical profile reminder** The Fediverse is the only place I have meaningful engagement. Add me here: graphics.social/@thefranke Hellhole corporate traps I copy posts to: Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/thef... Xitter: x.com/thefranke LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/thefranke
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Wenzel Jakob @wjakob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm excited to announce a first development release of nanobind 3.0. It introduces *split mode*, a new distribution model where a single Python wheel runs across all Python versions, while achieving outstanding performance and gaining rather than losing features! 🧵
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sad news: farside.link, the alternative frontend redirector, has shut down. However, you can roll your own! Use Tzeentch and update in a cronjob with the merge tool. Source: github.com/thefranke/tz... Read more: www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2024/04/...
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Redirect everything
Redirect everything
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
After running de-bloaters and privacy scripts and tools that prevent default overrides and turning off telemetry everywhere and installing low-latency enhancements (LOL) maybe, just maybe, the spaghettified OS is at fault. VLC launches in 0.42 seconds on my M4.
An X post from Jonathan Blow
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Lots of blogs I read use Mathjax for equations, which however do not get rendered in many feed-readers due to <script> being invalid in RSS. In this post I describe how to setup Latex-to-MathML pre-baking for a webpages and RSS feeds using Jekyll. www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2026/08/...
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Pre-baked MathML in Jekyll
Pre-baked MathML in Jekyll
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My favorite TUI feed reader got a big update: github.com/crocidb/bull...
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Release v0.3.0 · crocidb/bulletty
🎉 bulletty v0.3.0 is finally out! This is the most packed release ever! With parallel requests, updating the feeds is fast. A library with 50+ feeds can be updated in a matter of a couple seconds ...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The solution is simple: Do not trust governments nor corporations. Encrypt locally before uploading it anywhere, or simply don't upload at all.
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Running a @gog.com Library on Linux wasn't a big issue with clients like Minigalaxy, but I look so forward to having Galaxy for Linux. I like my achievements! Also, I will never have to touch a Windows installation again. That OS is unsalvageable. www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-...
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GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux
GOG previously said they planned to look closer at Linux, and that it was the next major frontier - and they're now working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux.
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I know this is not a healthy way to deal with tech, but I'll never give up my existing, dumb hardware after reading this. Holy shit! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4895...
news.ycombinator.com
LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent | Hacker News
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Don't solve the problem at the predators, just monitor everyone without a clear suspect. #ChatControl @eppgroup.bsky.social are morons of the highest order, and subverted agents if I am forgiving. Also, LOOK AT THOSE CORPORATE PARTNERS FROM THEIR SOURCE LMAO: missingkids.org/supportus/ou...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Good call from the European Peeping Party @eppgroup.bsky.social! Let's name it for what it is: - Reading someone's mail like disgusting Stasi pigs - Spying without prior cause - Violating GDPR - Guilty until proven innocent - Protecting big tech shareholder value - Wanna have some EU user data?
EPP posting nonsense on Chat Control again
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Fenris Creations (CCP) open-sources Carbon, the engine driving EVE Online. github.com/carbonengine
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CARBON Engine
Open-source technology for persistent sandbox worlds - Powering EVE Online & EVE Frontier - CARBON Engine
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Very cool project to turn a GrapheneOS phone into a laptop. I've been toying around with a setup like this as well, only with a dedicated monitor instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxX4...
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My Phone Is Now a Laptop!
YouTube video by Macro USB
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Remember the faces of the @eppgroup.bsky.social in your local elections. These are the so called "representatives" that voted to put EVERYONE under the radar with the assumption of "guilty until proven innocent". Everyone in the EPP should loose their seat immediately just for the suggestion.
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hey Fidias Panayiotou, perhaps you can file a motion that instead of trying to ban the ESN we can instead pivot to @eppgroup.bsky.social and adjacent EU "representative lawmakers" for: - not representing citizens - violating the presumption of innocence - SELLING EU DATA TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@president.europarl.europa.eu Roberta Metsola and @eppgroup.bsky.social, just like @ylvajohansson.se, are handing sovereign EU data to foreign big tech companies and intelligence services. You won't get child safety, but more ads! Re-read this article: balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/w...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Diese Personen haben für die #ChatKontrolle und gegen die Unschuldsvermutung gestimmt. Zum Schutz des Grundgesetz muss jedem sofort das Amt entzogen werden.
All MEPs from Germany who voted to extend ChatControl 1.0
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"We will keep voting until we get the correct result" @eppgroup.bsky.social and Roberta Metsola are morons and traitors sponsored by foreign powers to directly hand EU data to big tech, and of course they will scan those messages to insert ads. EPP must not be allowed to exist anymore!
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We will present our latest work today at CGl 2026! STAR-NT: Spatiotemporal Acceleration of Real-Time Neural Transparency Rendering 📅 Tuesday 7 July, 12:30-12:45 BST (online) www.tobias-franke.eu/publications...
The cover slide for "STAR-NT: Spatiotemporal Acceleration of Real-Time Neural Transparency Rendering"

https://www.tobias-franke.eu/publications/tsopouridis26starnt/index.html
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
My timeline is full of dimwitted posts like "resist UK taking over Youtube algorithm", or "US platforms are free bc they refuse EU mandates". If you hand over your feed to a centralized entity/algorithm, then IT'S NOT YOUR FEED and that will be abused either way!
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The best kind of problems are those you'll never run into. Install #LineageOS today, start using F-Droid and never turn back. lineageos.org/Developer-Ve...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
In honor of this post I will play Postal III, @rwsstudios.com greatest title of all time!
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This story is of course awful, but I do not get the cries for physical media. Just get your digital content DRM-free: ePubs, MP4s, OGG/MP3, GOG Installers. Store them on an external drive. "Not on your offline disk, not your digital content" fulu-foundation.ghost.io/sony-termina...
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Sony Terminates UK Playstation Owners’ Purchased Movies
PlayStation owners in the United Kingdom that purchased any of 551 StudioCanal movies or TV series received notice last week that those titles will be unceremoniously deleted from their libraries on S...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The @eppgroup.bsky.social are useful idiots for big tech lobbyists, state-sponsored actors and intelligence services to undermine #European sovereignty. Once a backdoor is in, anyone clever enough can walk through it. You would not allow this in your banking app, why allow it anywhere else?
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Translation: Open source models do not contribute to our revenue stream x.com/coinbureau/s...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is hilarious: Put a "forbidden-prompt" (writing that makes me cringe quite hard) into your open source project to stop AI training on it lmao www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
schneier.com
Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis - Schneier on Security
At least one malware developer is adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware, in an effort to stop automatic AI analysis. Details: The _index.js payload begins with a large Java...
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Tobias A. Franke @thefranke.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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