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motorpixel··on Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Is there a good self-hostable FOSS version of Canvas/Blackboard?
motorpixel··on Modern Rendering Culling Techniques
Roblox just gave a talk at this exact intersection of topics (user generated content and high performance culling) last month at GDC.

https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/optimizing-a-large-time-...

motorpixel··on The AI Industry Is Lying to You
Someone please correct my math.

The article says 240 Gigawatts of capacity is allocated for AI datacenters.

New York City draws about 10 Gigawatts in the hottest months of the year due to extra load from AC use.

So am I understanding correctly that these people want to foist upon the power grid 24 NYCs?

motorpixel··on Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
If I have to deal with even the mention of another package manager in the cross-platform dev ecosystem I am going to snap
motorpixel··on I hate: Programming Wayland applications
Writing 1300 lines of non-cross-platform windowing code sounds like masochism. GLFW is right there.
motorpixel··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
I am too lazy and not enough of a snob to write several paragraphs on why Aeropress is objectively better and different from French Press, but it is, and I hope someone can step up and do that here.
motorpixel··on My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed
It's just the "dev kit". Snapdragon for the laptop form factor is alive and well. You don't need a devkit for a laptop running Windows and QCOM easily figured that out.