Claudia Doppioslash

ahem: who called it the eye candy window manager of choice for neo reactionaries and not the dark enlightenment

I’ve written to my MP. Please consider writing to yours to extend the covid 19 booster to all who get the flu vaccine, as per previous years.

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

"We won't store the data used to verify you once verification is completed" Oh really

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

Linux on PC, GrapheneOS or other Android alternative on phone, that's how you do it.

Is there a field of psychology that helps people pushed into bad decisions escape the commitment-bias trap?

I.e. finding a way out for people who have done real harm, and keep doing more because the cognitive dissonance of facing what they've already done is too much to bear?

#MedSky

There's a direct line between this and the "don't worry, bad stuff only happens to the vulnerable (aka 'people who are not you - yet')" strategy public health and infection control leaders are using to cover up their ongoing mismanagement of the COVID pandemic.

Animating geometry with AMD DGF - AMD GPUOpen The AMD DGF SDK has been updated with improvements and new features, including the addition of an animation-aware encoding pipeline.

Exciting news for developers working with our AMD DGF geometry compression technology!

🗜️ The DGF SDK has been updated with a new animation-aware encoding pipeline, bug fixes, and improvements.

👉 Learn more and download: gpuopen.com/learn/animat...

half-remembering that thing about how most Roman citizens experienced the fall of Rome as simply one day their local bridge went out and nobody came around to repair it

Trying to get some files from an Android phone to an old Macbook, via an USB cable, and finding out this has been "deprecated" by Google in favour of... upload to Google Drive??
What. The. Fuck. Google.

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment?

If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com.

Please spread the word

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”

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New blog post: "Realtime Raytracing in Bevy 0.17 (Solari)"
jms55.github.io/posts/2025-0...

Well, well. Better late than never I guess...

Anyway, the operator also mentioned that the system to cancel Disney+ subscriptions is down.

So if you think you canceled, double check. The process involves multiple confirmation emails. If you only received one, you might be stuck halfway.

I got off academia dot edu 5 or so years ago, when I discovered it was sending automatically-generated emails in my name without even telling me - I found out when a very senior member of the profession replied to one. It's only gone further and further done this path since, as far as I can tell.

Between the direct and indirect support of fascism and the uncritical embrace of LLMs and the overwhelming majority of the dev sites in my feed reader have turned to an undifferentiated puddle of nonsense…

Schwarzschild black holes now work, with plausible Einstein and photon rings and temp test accretion disk. Next up: Kerr black holes.

Wacky part of this project: this is RenderMan integrator that extends PxrPathTracer even though I don't have the source for PxrPathTracer.

Maybe the real CISC architecture was the friends we made along the way.

Business Insider and the Bots The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

and clearly visually demonstrating why pure MSE or MAP are not enough, but also discusses formally why it is at odds with the "perception" or "realism" of the reconstruction and the inherent trade-off. It was an eye-opener for me and changed the way I think about any inverse problems. 3/

English Roundabouts   They’re making the roundabouts great again by painting the flag of St George to keep our circular road systems safe from the dark, satanic hordes. What do they want? Patriotic junctions! When do they want them? Before it’s too late. Good old-fashioned English roundabouts, as decreed by Alfred the Great. Behold the sacred intersection, this blessed plot, this septic isle. English roundabouts for English people, draped in red and white and bile. St George is cross, as well he may be – whipped-up hate, he’s seen before. Give way to the right, the road signs rage, and the far right most of all. Brian Bilston

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

‘“your dad paints roundabouts” is now one of the funniest ways to insult people’ - an English friend I just sent that poem in the last repost to

We have a united and coherent message emerging from a broad spectrum of the media blaming LGBTQ and allies, a shift in social media moderation blocking mild criticism from one side but allowing calls for large-scale violence on the other, and a crackdown on individual speech (people getting fired) …

Been working on a fun little hobby experiment recently with relativistic ray tracing. Don't have everything working just yet, but I do have some really neat debug visuals:

The number of people who will go through a media tab on a site like this to see a more complete body of your work is basicly zero, new followers will not see your older work so just go into that tab and self share them old posts. Not every follower sees every post any way it’s new to thousands.

color npm package compromised Note: the situation is still unfolding, I’ll update this article as more comes in. On September 8 2025, around 13:00 UTC, someone compromised Josh Junon’s npm account (qix) and started publishing b...

The 'color' npm package has been compromised: fasterthanli.me/articles/col...

From the 2D openings by chinese FLiiiP Design studio for "I am What I am" & "I am What I am 2" CG animated feature films.
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