ailepet @hellpe@mastodon.social

Splash is novel method to serialize pixels of an image/video.
It combines row/column scanning weights from the fractal zoomer with an adaptive paintbrush for colouring pixels with transparency.
In traditional terms, fast changing areas have a localised high FPS, lesser changing areas have a localised low FPS.
This could greatly benefit the communication between video card and monitor, relaxing bandwidth limitations.
Splash can also be used as a filter to isolate essence of movement, demonstrated by extreme high PixelsPerFrame ratios with other demos.

Splash could effectively turn a 60Hz into a 360Hz responsive monitor by sacrificing a bit of quality.
This is illustrated by the demo below, original video is 24fps and slowed down 6x:
top: 4fps full frame with traditional scan-lines, bottom: 1/6 PixelsPerFrame with scan-rows/cols and paint-brush.
Yes... both are using the same number of pixels (uncompressed bandwidth).

Project Page: https://rockingship.github.io/splash/README.html

here's a MASSIVE post with a great collection of telemetry guidelines in Free/Open Source Software:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835#issuecomment-835513964

Is literally nobody using (knockoff) PS3 controllers on Linux? The right joystick only recognizes one axis and nothing I search brings usable results. I have two controllers and both of them have the same error, so it's not a hardware thing as far as I can tell.

Fantasy Interactive Scenarios by Telephone (or F.I.S.T.) was a Steve Jackson RPG you called on the phone in 1988. Featuring radio drama combat scenarios, saving your game and calling again later, and a "tavern" where you can chat with other players.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Interactive_Scenarios_by_Telephone

my self-driving car got hit with ransomware and it refuses to stop going until i pay up :/ i'm already halfway to nevada. i just wanted to go the drug store :/

thinking about how myspace tom is just chilling and not having to give congressional hearings or grapple with how his website is now a rotting open infected sore on society

i don't fuck horses. my parents just really liked philip k dick, alright??

Tiled wallpapers from Windows NT 4.0

about 4 days ago i had this incredibly stupid musical idea and it keep hearing it in my head. it won't go away

so i've had to actually create it

i present to you: the
ELEANOR RIGBY BATTLE THEME

Boosts appreciated.
I'm close to moving back to Windows. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to hold oneself back, deny oneself better and easier accessibility in the name of open source, when many open source developers don't give a crap about accessibility, and/or don't educate themselves on it. KDE connect, GSConnect, all were inaccessible for one reason or another, not the least because of Gnome-shell's terrible accessibility issues. That was just the last straw. With the only thing holding me to Linux being Emacs+Emacspeak, I think its time to quit Linux and just use what actually works. It's interesting how being "free" just means being under the power and whim of other people, a mass of developers who have no insentive for accessibility, rather than a cohesive company who does. This is serious, and I want every developer to understand this, understand my deep frustration with FOSS.

#FOSS #Linux #KDE #a11y #accessibility #Windows #comunism #capitalism #software #developers

There's also the fact that all subsequent libre messaging platforms inevitably have their UX measured against Signal. Is it as easy to use as Signal?

The gap is closing but I still don't think the UX of Matrix and XMPP are quite there yet.

For example, if you told your grandmother (who we assume to be less technical with all due respect to the hacker grannies), can you ask them to get setup with Matrix or to get setup with XMPP. What do you think is going to happen? I propose and I'm happy to be proved wrong by an actual UX study that it won't be as smooth as on boarding process as Signal.

I think the libre hacker community are right to critique Signal but we should also remember to critique ourselves and the alternatives we propose with the same rigour.

i've tagged out 600+ open source, experimental and tiny tools by their qualities and built a new website for sorting through them!

these are all tools towards joyful digital creation, with the goal of enabling working entirely outside of proprietary systems- moving instead from one hand-made software to another.

(the list takes submissions if it is missing yours >:))

http://tinytools.directory

When running TLoZ: Twilight Princess under Dolphin, you have to enable the Hyrule Field Speed Hack cheat so that the game doesn't slow down horribly. Are there other games that need manual tweaks like this?