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rezmason
·21 days ago·discuss
Very creative!

Does anyone else besides me suspect X11 will outlive visionOS?
rezmason
·27 days ago·discuss
These are fun to say out loud in the voice of the Kai Lentit's Perl programmer

https://youtu.be/0jK0ytvjv-E?t=43

https://youtu.be/xE9W9Ghe4Jk?t=238
rezmason
·last month·discuss
A great writeup of excellent work!

The flight simulator / magic carpet easter egg in Microsoft Excel 97 used that same shaded-colormap palette trick, plus some dithering:

https://rezmason.github.io/excel_97_egg https://rezmason.github.io/excel_97_egg/about.html

I'm impressed by your sprite pipeline and gibs animations. Your attention to detail and navigation of constraints have really paid off, I can't wait to play this sometime
rezmason
·2 months ago·discuss
> If Meta is liable for when someone underage uses their service, then Meta is going to require proof of age—

Let's be clear what this means, "Meta is going to require" something. They'll require it to continue to do something, which is namely to be a bad company, running bad services, without pivoting to something else.

Of course, no one requires Meta to continue to be Meta. We'd protect people by requiring companies like Meta to request PII outright, because then the user is explicitly prompted to decide whether using Meta's services is worth surrendering their privacy. And if consumer sentiment and market forces mean anything anymore, that will incentivize Meta to replace their bad services with better ones, ones that don't cause them tricky liability issues.

In other words, forcing operating systems to demand PII from users from the get-go, regardless of the quality of that signal, and to broadcast that to any website, is not, as you put it, "the way to do it with the least impact on privacy and anonymity possible", etc etc. The "way to do it" is to phase out this rotten era of surveillance apparatus disguised as social media companies.

Sorry for being irate, it just feels like so many people these days arrive too quickly (for my taste) at conclusions without testing certain popular assumptions about the inevitability of tech oligarchy.
rezmason
·2 months ago·discuss
Y'all have got to check out the color palette widget wizardry of David Aerne. Seriously, the guy's prolific. The first link is similar to OP's, an image color palette extractor:

https://okpalette.color.pizza

https://meodai.github.io/RYBitten

https://rybitten.space
rezmason
·3 months ago·discuss
Ah! Sorry, I misunderstood, I thought the above comment was saying Meta was behind the open source exemption
rezmason
·3 months ago·discuss
[citation requested]
rezmason
·3 months ago·discuss
Were fonts always able to do "texture healing"? Has no one tried this before?
rezmason
·4 months ago·discuss
In case anyone's wondering, this website's syntax highlighting color scheme is called "gruvbox", which I quite like but took an embarrassingly long time to track down

https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox
rezmason
·4 months ago·discuss
Since Apple turns 50 this year, I went looking for a graphic that symbolizes what I always liked about Apple and the Mac, without implying I condone anything I dislike about them.

Here's my vector reproduction of the logo for MacAddict's and Guy Kawasaki's "EvangeList", circa 1997 :

https://rezmason.net/evangelist.svg
rezmason
·5 months ago·discuss
It begins!
rezmason
·6 months ago·discuss
We also typically value things that are not tied to productivity/output, like product quality/reliability, security, and our own agency.

I want to be free to read, write, run, and share code, now and in the future. Relying on centralized services to do it for me (by extracting knowledge from countless other people) is certainly not a resilient strategy.
rezmason
·6 months ago·discuss
This article's from 2021. Does anyone know if there are elements (no pun intended) of this classification of element origins that's impacted by those JWST observations of complex early galaxies?
rezmason
·6 months ago·discuss
Nicely done!

Related projects:

https://wakaba.c3.cx/s/games/swear

https://milksnake.c3.cx
rezmason
·7 months ago·discuss
I contributed one earlier this year! The community's a great bunch and I learned a lot.

Always remember, folks: the best feature request is a pull request ;)
rezmason
·7 months ago·discuss
Sorry, I was cracking a joke about the browser in a shader.

The GLSL I originally posted is from the "cursed mode" of my side project, and I use it to produce a data URI of every frame, 15 times per second, as a twisted homage to old hardware. (No, I didn't use AI :P )

https://github.com/Rezmason/excel_97_egg

That said, is `pow(vec4(2),-vec4(2,4,6,0))` really so bad? I figured it'd be replaced with `vec4(0.25, 0.0625, 0.015625, 1.0)`.
rezmason
·7 months ago·discuss
Don't make me upload my web-browser-in-a-GLSL-shader snippet
rezmason
·7 months ago·discuss
base64 is embarrassingly parallel. So just pipe it to the GPU:

  precision highp float;
  uniform vec2 size;
  uniform sampler2D src,tab;
  void main(){
    vec4 a=(gl_FragCoord-.5)*3.,i=vec4(0,1,2,0)+a.y*size.x+a.x,y=floor(i/size.x),x=i-y*size.x;
    #define s(n)texture2D(src,vec2(x[n],y[n])/size)[0]
    #define e(n)texture2D(tab,vec2(a[n],0))[0]
    a=vec4(s(0),s(1),s(2),0)*255.*pow(vec4(2),-vec4(2,4,6,0)),a=fract(a).wxyz+floor(a)/64.,gl_FragColor=vec4(e(0),e(1),e(2),e(3));
  }
rezmason
·7 months ago·discuss
There goes my evening.
rezmason
·8 months ago·discuss
Just as long as we don't observe it reeeeally closely, I imagine.