Notices by Stefan Ihringer (compfu@mograph.social)

@lydiaconwell @steter "too many things at the same time" is a good thought! In a way, multi-tasking on a computer is a mirage. It's just running multiple programs in tiny steps, one at a time. When the computer comes around to continue with a task it interrupted a millisecond ago it expects memory and variables to be "as it left it". If that is not true it might wait for a thing to happen that is now be impossible and never complete its task. That might look like the program froze.

@captainarcee @freedosproject Thanks for mentioning Jazz Jackrabbit! I had totally forgotten about it but I remember that I've played it a lot.

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@yiningkarlli/116444169352779312

Really cool effort. Resurrecting such old pipeline is like moving back to your childhood home and tailor your old clothes, just to recreate an old photograph 😅

Even for the original version of those songs the animators probably had real choreography references to base their work on. So the workflow itself is "standard". But doing these remakes in the first place is such a wonderful thing.

#disney #bruno #animation

Seriously, what's better than indie electronic music videos on a picture-in-picture video in the corner of your computer screen at 9pm, knowing that exactly 12 other people in the world are bopping their head at the same time.

https://tv.theindiebeat.fm

#IndieMusic #MusicVideos

@riffreporter Diese KI, die uns von bullshit jobs befreit aber den befreiten ArbeitnehmerInnen weiterhin Geld zum Leben lässt… ist sie mit uns gerade im Raum?

Short documentary about the evolution of car chase scenes in movies. I didn't know that "The French Connection" shows an actual traffic accident with a civilian car that wasn't involved in the shoot! The film team hadn't even acquired a permission to film their chase scenes.

The video mentions CGI for set extensions but unfortunately it doesn't cover the full CG cars and environments that we're seeing nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSRjoUtAVik

#MovieMagic #StuntDriving

RE: https://fnordon.de/@Gemueseturnir/115557537930711642

There's a German vegetable tournament bracket on Mastodon and I can't believe spinach is winning against chili peppers.

#Gemüseturnier

German has a unique problem: the default noun for any job is male. Every effort to include the female or neutral form is fought tooth and nail by conservative parties. So when a mayor was forced to remove the mention of both genders in the statute for firefighters.... he kept just the female form of every job title 😈
"That's not what we meant!" the city council is now crying. "Not every person is female, after all!" they lament without noticing the irony.

https://hessen.social/@fahrradfalko/115430338440123127

#ChaoticGood

@anildash Thanks for your article. Shortly after reading it I found a fawning piece by VOX. "ChatGPT’s new mission is to fix the broken web" 🤮

https://www.vox.com/technology/465795/chatgpt-atlas-google-chrome-gemini-perplexity-comet

@Natasha_Jay The painting is cool but I don’t think I get it. Does it imply that a book for girls is a rare thing or an outlier (in 1957)? Or that it‘s somehow dangerous? 🤔

Behold, the famous GHIBLI engine 😉

#PorcoRosso #Ghibli #anime #EasterEgg

@libreoffice Hi, maybe it has something to do with theming support, but on MacOS I can’t set a fully bright UI style. While the icons and so on are light the background around the page stays dark gray. Can’t do a screenshot right now….

@seanbala I have seen Earthsea because it was on Netflix, but to be honest I don't remember a single thing about it except that the thumbnail had a big dragon on it. Are the books it's based on a manga series or are they actual novels?

What’s the worst #Ghibli movie and why is it „The boy and the heron“?

@glynmoody Reading the book „A city on Mars“ right now and it argues that all these fancy CGI pictures of Mars bases are ridiculous: Due to the radiation there they would have to be underground. Some of these images show solar panels smaller than people have on their balconies but on Mars there’s just 30% of solar energy due to the distance. And the list goes on.

@MattMerk @LillyHerself Saw this on a German satire site similar to what the onion is in the US. I‘m assuming they made did.

https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/12/musk-sprung.html

@glynmoody Or the UK could get their energy from the EU‘s grid (while Morocco feeds it into the EU on the southern end)? Brexit can’t be the obstacle, can it?

@libreoffice The now abandoned #NeoOffice fork was my go-to office suite on MacOS even though I‘ve installed Libreoffice on any Windows PC I got my hands on 😀 Is there any way or plans to make LibreOffice feel more native on MacS? Is the work that NeoOffice did lost to closed source or could it be salvaged?

@seanbala Hey Sean, thanks for your thoughts. I've watched the dubbed version (German in my case). I'll try the Japanese version with subtitles!

I just re-watched "Howl's Moving Castle" because I had forgotten what exactly it was about. I nodded off towards the end, and I'm sure that in a few months I will once again be unable to recount the exact plot.

But it looks so gorgeous. I love the depiction of early 20th century European cities. The "airplanes" are a nod to Nausicaä or Laputa but are animated much more fluently. The quality holds up all the way to the end. But the plot just feels so obtuse to me.

#Ghibli #Miyazaki