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thetoon··on Meta VR Glasses
The one that needed it the most. Very excited to see what's going to grow out of this hack
thetoon··on Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]
Nope, they integrated their sister project, ResidualVM, that does 3d
thetoon··on Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows
Certainly not those where you need to reimplement everything yourself, at least ;)
thetoon··on QGIS 4.0
I remember, 10 to twenty years ago, when GIS was still a huge part of my job. QGIS then went from being the "cheap opensource contender" to being my main tool... How much better it was than the previous ones...
thetoon··on Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting
Great news. Haven't played UO in forever. What kind of client are people using on modern systems, these days? Is there a client working well on linux?
thetoon··on Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
> look up the term in French

Wasn't that also called SneakerNet, back in the time? We used it in western Europe as well (both term and distribution method)

thetoon··on Marble by World Labs: Multimodal world model to create and edit 3D worlds
Not to belittle this or anything (it does look good and show promise), it feels like they somehow generate several consistent (but discrete) views of a given world, then feed all that to the good old pose estimation + gaussian splatting workflow. Whenever you leave the generated area (which isn't exactly huge on the few I tested) you get tell-tale signs of GS.
thetoon··on Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
It does work in Chrome with Amazon Luna, IIRC.
thetoon··on EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
This, but with something oddly french about it, at least in the way it sounds.

As a native french speaker, no other language gives me that "why don't I understand what they say... oh, right, that's not my language!" feeling. Something with frequencies used, I suppose, but it always puzzles me.

thetoon··on $912 energy independence without red tape
Does that mean all of your appliances, which should supposedly each run on a separate line, now are all plugged on a big single-line powerstrip? Sure, this single-line is only used when battery and sun are out, but when it happens...
thetoon··on FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing
What amount of VRAM is this supposed to work with?
thetoon··on AI video you can watch and interact with, in real-time
Could probably be (semi?)automated to run on 3d models of places that doesn't exist. Even ai-built 3d models.
thetoon··on Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
Naive question here : how do we expect to collect thermal energy from it if we can't allow it to cool even a little ?
thetoon··on Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code
Maybe that's where a project like Nuclide could step in? I'm always a bit confused between their projects' names, but I've read somewhere they had progress on the HL2 front.
thetoon··on It is time to ban email
Some people would very much want us to do that, though
thetoon··on Sony ends production of Blu-ray Disc, recordable MiniDisc, and MiniDV media
Is this true for the Millenial Disks as well? Would somewhat defeat their purpose...
thetoon··on Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life and Morrowind Engines
That would call for a Wii port ;)
thetoon··on INFP: Audio-Driven Interactive Head Generation in Dyadic Conversations
Nothing, unless you're french-speaking (basically reads as "I just farted")
thetoon··on Introducing Our New Name
VoxeLibre is trying to be less of a Minecraft replica, now. Mineclonia still is, though.
thetoon··on LÖVR – A simple Lua framework for rapidly building VR experiences
For what it's worth, after years of (occasionally) trying to get ALVR working, I've had a surprisingly fast success with WiVRn.
thetoon··on LÖVR – A simple Lua framework for rapidly building VR experiences
Sounds fair, though I had hopes for such a client (at least something to just check out on the virtual world state without spinning up a whole desktop client).

Since you seem rather active with the project, do you know whether openxr is on the roadmap, or if you're stuck with openvr for the foreseeable future?

thetoon··on LÖVR – A simple Lua framework for rapidly building VR experiences
Great news! Do you know if overte also intends to fork the (upcoming) web client?
thetoon··on LÖVR – A simple Lua framework for rapidly building VR experiences
Wasn't Vircadia also derived from High Fidelity?
thetoon··on Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation from Single Images
What you could do with WebODM is already quite impressive
thetoon··on Spot the Drowning Child (2015)
What is it always?
thetoon··on The Forth Deck mini: a portable Forth computer with a discrete CPU
What do you mean by implicitly? Last time I checked, most of button/coin-like batteries (CR2032 and the such) aren't know to be rechargeable, unless you specifically get rechargeable ones.
thetoon··on What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal
There is loneliness in marriage, sometimes.
thetoon··on New gel breaks down alcohol in the body
So is water, btw.
thetoon··on Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware
An esphome thingy that allows my Home Assistant to control my VP without it's ir remote
thetoon··on What is a pig butchering scam? (2023)
As I've been told long enough "be strict in what you give, be liberal in what you accept". We're all welcome to apply (arbitrary) strict rules to what we say, but we ought to live with the fact not every does (or, anyway, have the same set of rules to start with)
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