i think this is kinda not exactly true, its more like corporations struggling to cover liability, which is caused by a reactionary project by politicians and their constituents

might retire and spend my time hunting through telescope data for dyson spheres arxiv.org/abs/2602.23270

Dyson spheres on H-R diagram

The construction of Dyson spheres, megastructures designed to capture the total radiative output of stars, can be one of the most compelling techno-signature scenarios for advanced extraterrestrial ci...

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Very happy to announce that @chatto.run, the amazing little team chat app you can self-host from your own infrastructure (and quite easily so), is now available & Open Source. ✨

Chatto is now Open Source!

The snappiest chat application you've ever used is now available for self-hosting.

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Things are looking good pairing the terrain-diffusion model output with hello-terrain!

work-in-progress Donut worlds with atmospheric scattering. The dawn/dusk terminators are gorgeous #HelloTerrain #threejs #r3f

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This is too much fun #HelloTerrain #threejs #r3f

Late night terrainposting

Software engineers don't need engineering demands like legal constraints and certifications, we need priestly demands like ritual purity and mandatory contemplation.

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What is a program but a bridge between the world of forms and the hard world of silicon and copper? They're literally demons, treat with them as they are.

inverted torus world

Refactoring #HelloTerrain (hello-terrain.kenny.wtf) so you can create arbitrary topologies. Here's a torus-world example. I can't wait to try out a planet-scale example of this with atmospheric scattering! #theejs #r3f

its not a zero sum game, you idiots

audible sucks because you can only get very bad voice actors for the audio books that are region locked. the good name of the wind narrator is barred from you. I feel sad for the the Americans who dont know the good audiobook version

Kiel is an interesting german city and I miss it

I've implemented better fog (atmospheric perspective) in my shaders, so distance fades not just towards a single color (like classic fog), but a color which itself gets paler with distance. This adds so much depth to distant parts of the view and I feel it makes the landscape "breathe". #GameDev

I made an interactive "poster" for next week's creative coding meetup! ccnyc.space inspired by doom metal album covers~

stylized foliage

Aurora@auroraplz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

how i create foliage in 3D (part 1)

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This is amazing. First page of how to build worlds. "Games don't need REALISM with unnecessary details! That's just excessive. No, something simpler will suffice. Here we model air currents as they flow around a planet at various degrees from the equator..." 🥰 #worldbuilding #procgen

Still at awe that a relatively simple algorithm can produce such gorgeous rivers 😍 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

this is making me want to try again to finish up and release my space game...

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Currently trying to figure out how to do some medieval land use simulation, but I'm having trouble thinking about the "substrate" or like basic node primitives are. Perhaps subdividing voronoi?

If anyone thought LLMs would actually get to AGI this clause would still exist, just sayin www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead

The long-famed AGI clause, which has for years dictated the future of the Microsoft-OpenAI deal, is officially dead.

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Ok I'm pretty sure I have something I can make a first implementation of, which supports the following: new_entity = spawn(humanoid, goblin, leader, mountainous) No paths, no resources, just tags for spawning a totally custom procgenned data driven entity with awesome design salt-bae control.

Anders Elfgren 🏹 Tides of Revival RPG@srekel.net · 4mo ago

I'm really hyped for the way I want tags to work from a content design/production/resource/streaming/scaling perspective but it's gonna require a lot of bigbraining to figure out how to make it actually work in the code. Really hope I'm smart enough!

in our world, in many ways "tech" companies are actually anti-technology. they're more interested in austerity, devaluing labor, squeezing more surveillance out of existing systems. consumer available tech is only dubiously increasing. moore's law died.

I've published my first pass at a React API for #HelloTerrain, available now on npm. It's a lot easier to use when developing a react-three/fiber scene. Try it out! #r3f #threejs hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/docs/react

React Overview

Build Hello Terrain scenes in react-three/fiber with the @hello-terrain/react package

hello-terrain.kenny.wtf

I've uploaded a small example of a world you can walk around in, using the raycast and terrain query API of the terrain library to power a simple character controller. Go have a stroll! #threejs #r3f #HelloTerrain hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/examples/ray...

Raycasting character controller + terrain heightmap stamps (from github.com/Roland09/Ter... ) #threejs #r3f #helloterrain