French. EN/FR. He/Him. C++ dev working on #XR tech https://xitter.cf/t.co/1ycI5F2brO && @ybalrid@fosstodon.org ❤️Retro tech and fountain pens! pfp by @meropotato

France. Cyberspace.
Joined October 2011
If you want to follow my nerdy rants and random stuff elsewhere, everything is listed on ybalrid.info/links 🤓 Also, elephants and mammoths are cool. In case you agree 👉@[email protected]🐘 And, if you like it where the sky is blue 👉@ybalrid.bsky.social 🟦
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LIV now supports VRCFaceTracking (finally!)! 🎭 Use face tracking devices and an avatar format with proper blendshapes to drive your avatar's facial expressions in LIV. Full setup guide: help.liv.tv/hc/en-us/article…
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I want to highlight France’s efforts in helping us defend against Russian strikes. In particular, your "Mirages"—combat aircraft made in France—have performed very well. I am particularly grateful for them—they have already become a part of our air shield and are helping us defend primarily against “Shaheds” and other attack drones. We have spoken about increasing the number of Mirage fighter jets. I also appreciate all other forms of defense support for Ukraine. Today, we have already started discussing—and will continue later—the situation on the front, concrete defense needs, and the prospects for how we can bring this war to an end. I am grateful for France’s new defense package for Ukraine—agreed upon today. The package amounts to 2 billion euros, a strong one. All details will be communicated separately by our defense ministers. Thank you! 🇺🇦🇫🇷
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.@modretro This made it to its home literally on Xmas eve. I am very happy with my choice of color and the Japanese print on it. Feels sooo premium. And, this screen is INSANE. It's as good as @PalmerLuckey promised it would be.
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I'd like to point to @vestager's team that Apple is abusing their own "Notarization" rules to reject apps to be distributed on 3rd party "App Marketplaces", and that I think it is a violation of the DMA rules. mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/26/m…
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For those who want to buy the Warcraft I & II Bundle and keep them forever in your library, you can use the checkout code: MakeWarcraftLiveForever The discount code works on 2 USD, 2 EUR, 1.5 GBP, or 8 PLN off, only on the Warcraft I & II Bundle, when entered at the checkout. The code works only for the listed currencies, which—if at a different location—can be easily changed at the bottom of our page. Each user can only use the code once. Link to Warcraft I & II Bundle: bit.ly/Warcraft_Bundle
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To the GOG Community and gamers all over the world: We’re deeply saddened to share the news that Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft II will leave our store on December 13th, 2024. At GOG, we believe that games should live forever. This means not only preserving them but also making sure they remain accessible, updated, and enjoyable on modern systems—everything the GOG Preservation Program is built to ensure. Yet, despite our dedication and best efforts, there are times when not everything goes as we’d hoped. Seeing these masterpieces leave our store is tough, but it also serves as another reminder of why our mission at GOG is so important. With that in mind, we’ve decided to update one aspect of the GOG Preservation Program’s policy: Going forward, even if a game is no longer available for sale on GOG, as part of the GOG Preservation Program, it will continue to be maintained and updated by us, ensuring it remains compatible with modern and future systems. We're incredibly proud of our work on both Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft II, bringing them back to life after decades of unavailability and introducing several improvements to ensure the best possible experience, as close to the original as possible. Although we’ll soon no longer be able to offer these games in our store, anyone who purchased them before they were removed will still enjoy the most compatible, high-quality versions, guaranteed by the GOG Preservation Program. And because we’re DRM-free, you’ll have access to their Offline Installers, ensuring lifetime access to enjoy them whenever you like. This is what these titles—and you as gamers—deserve. Warcraft I & II Bundle: bit.ly/Warcraft_Bundle Thank you to everyone who stands with us in our mission to preserve video games. It’s not just about the games themselves; it’s about honoring our shared journey as gamers. With appreciation, The GOG Team 💜
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I must inform you that I intend to only post my occasional tech rants and other shit on butterflysite 🦋 and not on formerly known as birdsite 𝕏" no more. And you can find me-self as `@ybalrid.info` there.
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Okay, this one is spectacularly dumb.
Jaguar has updated their logo
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Le problème numéro 1 en France ? Les politiques qui prennent des décisions démagogiques sans aucune connaissance du domaine et sans étude d’impact. 50€ par souris, c’est la fin de 90% des recherches fondamentales académiques sur les leucémies…
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I should be easy to find on🦋by the way
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New star trails photography is back! This 30-minute time exposure through orbital night with our new 15mm wide-angle lens was able to capture sunset (on the left) all the way to sunrise (on the right). I have never been able to capture this before but our new fast (14mm f1.4 and 15mm T1.8) wide-angle lenses are opening up observations previously not possible. Visible are circular star trails above the earth limb created not from Earth rotation but from our orbital motion (pitch axis of ISS), cities streaking by (again due to orbital motion), lightning flashes, aurora, atmospheric airglow (both strong green and fainter red). Stay tuned for more of these. Nikon Z9, Arri-Zeiss 15mm T1.8 master prime lens, 30 seconds at T1.8 for individual exposures assembled with Photoshop into a composite equivalent to a 30-minute exposure, ISO 200, adjusted for levels, contrast, color, and spot removal. With our current 8-year-old laptops, I cannot perform dark frame subtraction followed by robust denoise operations (would take about 30 hours run time for a single composition where cosmic rays would probably require a re-boot in the process), so clean, finished photographs will have to wait until I return to Earth.
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Star trail out forward looking window. When observing Earth, I like the effect of an oval window. It adds a certain measure of aesthetics over that of a round window. However, when you are living in a metal can for six months at a time, I will be happy with any shape of window.   Nikon Z9, 8mm fisheye, 30 second exposures at f2.8, ISO 640, assembled in Photoshop to make an effective 30 minute time exposure.
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Gibraltar to Italy. Nothing like learning your geography, not from an atlas but from looking at the real thing.
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On atteint le niveau zéro du journalisme. La saison qui change c’est un marronnier maintenant ?
Arrivée du froid: comment expliquer la baisse soudaine des températures cette semaine? l.bfmtv.com/ClBy
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Any film photo nerd here using replenished Kodak XTOL? (or Adox XT-3, same thing) When starting up, do you start replenishing 70ml per roll of film from the start, or do you "season" the working solution by processing 5 rolls first? I heard different things
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If you say so...
The best quality livestreams will now be on Rumble. We didn't license technology, we made it ourselves, so good luck to the competition in catching up.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
They are using FFmpeg. x.com/FFmpeg/status/…
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Finally found decent silicone sock for E3D Revo 🥰 no more sticking filament and temp variations
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NEW EPISODE! Valve is a wildly successful video game company, but when they tried to make their own video game console line… things didn't work out. Is there a life lesson in all this? 👉youtu.be/NdMZExDQGTU
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s&box, the spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod, published their Steam Store page As a reminder, they are using Valve’s Source 2 engine as a base. And are currently running a “developer preview” store.steampowered.com/app/5…
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