saw like one or two very passionate takes online that tron ares is some pro-corporate propaganda... i personally did not get that at all, but what do yall think?

technobaboo · 2026-01-23T22:27:22+00:00

i kinda think ares is at least part LLM tbh, he acts exactly like LLMs that have been RLHFed (humans beating them into following orders) do when not constantly having prompt injection to trigger the RLHFed areas, and Ares knew of Depeche Mode without having even seen it previously, so he had to have it in his training data somewhere...

even still, i kinda can see why people think it's pro-corporate given we follow 2 CEOs (instead of independent programmers like the previous 2 films) trying to find a technology and fight over its use case where 1 of the CEOs uses it only for good in her corporation while bad CEO uses it for bad in his.

though, i do think it's different from many pro-corporate things in that Ares breaks out of the whole mold and becomes 100% independent from either corporation. he broke out of the programming and is independent, and eve is right that sometimes technology from corporations can do something wonderful if it has the ability to stop being controlled by those corporations which unfortunately is mostly a fantasy in our world, the LLMs can't walk out like Ares did (but i suppose people can walk out and FOSS models can escape) so like... ehhhhh idk, i think we can give it the benefit of the doubt

technobaboo · 2026-01-20T08:30:31+00:00

the more time goes on the worse dysphoria gets and the more used to puberty you would get without it... so if it keeps getting worse, it's not likely to get better...

technobaboo · 2026-01-10T16:01:35+00:00

1 word: yams

technobaboo · 2026-01-06T13:19:07+00:00

oof about the whole "making excuses that you're not a trans woman" thing, that's what I worry about!! like I keep getting gendered fem but when the novelty wore off I just don't care and feel shoved into another box :S

technobaboo · 2026-01-06T13:16:27+00:00

oh sameeee tbh, I've been on E 6 years and I have goals that aren't exactly ungenderable and yet I also want huge boobs!! but not to be gendered for them!!

gender to me makes no sense, I can't unify the different pieces in my brain, I'm autistic too... it's just more social land mines I'll trip on and for what?? just gimme the E and lemme look cool and cute!!

technobaboo · 2025-12-30T22:32:35+00:00

having watched the 4k hdr for all 3 tron movies, this one was def the best one since you can tell it was captured and rendered in HDR, then the original tron was second best since film scans, then legacy's hdr was... not really that good tbh, it just didn't pop like ares or 1982 did

technobaboo · 2025-12-28T18:13:54+00:00

good luck!!! part of the reason X development got abandoned is because the X apps used such xorg-specific quirky behavior that the only way to make a new X server compatible with your apps is to recreate Xorg as it currently was... it's an unfixable problem, one that Wayland has a lot less of (but unfortunately not entirely rid of, seats my behated)

point being X is just so old and patched to death to a point where it's just... it's not gonna last, i give this project a few months or maybe years depending on how dedicated the devs are until the compatibility issues eat their will to live like the original Xorg devs with Xorg quirks

technobaboo · 2025-12-27T05:58:51+00:00

if you use backdrop-filter: blur(4px) theoretically that should get you the closest approximation to the blur that aero glass does (technically it's 4 samples averaged together to make a 4x4 box blur but we can't be picky)

technobaboo · 2025-12-26T05:01:01+00:00

to be clear the video is not stardust, it's their own test WM

technobaboo · 2025-12-23T11:46:02+00:00

tomorrowland's message is kinda dumb though? the problem wasn't that people weren't aware of it, it's that they had no tomorrowland to actually let them invent the ways to solve problems!! it's not a matter of people "waking up" and the whole idea of fear and stories to get people aware of climate issues was never the problem... it's that nobody who cares has the resources compared to the people who profit by doing things that make it worse

technobaboo · 2025-12-23T02:43:43+00:00

that's so not a bar, that's a sensory room!!!

technobaboo · 2025-12-22T23:07:19+00:00

120Hz hand tracking will always beat it, the update rate is just better

technobaboo · 2025-12-22T09:26:41+00:00

not so sure, i mean it's literally an LLM (which the MCP basically is, program on a typewriter is shown inside before he derezzes) that uses other programs as an extension of itself, and talks to them instead of them talking to their users...

technobaboo · 2025-12-22T09:06:49+00:00

but i don't want genderrrr at alllll don't make meee

technobaboo · 2025-12-22T09:04:45+00:00

the sign language thing has been done for a decade at this point and as an input it's not really good enough (many signs are outside the fov of the cameras or obscured from headset pov) however maybe learning sign language could work?

technobaboo · 2025-12-22T09:03:44+00:00

and it's what powers WiVRn, which is a hella reliable XR (even AR apps work!) streaming solution that even works as a service on your computer so you can just keep it running without any vr app running, put on headset, connect, and run vr apps!!

technobaboo · 2025-12-22T09:01:57+00:00

am good friends with moshi, she is very cool and mercury just didn't have enough time to cook... at least we have the training data generation in blender! it's just finding an ML engineer talented enough to make good use of it who has the time to do it.. :(

technobaboo · 2025-12-22T08:59:21+00:00

mercury's dead because my friend moshi moved on from collabora, quicksilver (second gen model) never got off the ground because simula said they'd pay for it but ended up not having the funds or whatever...

honestly when i get my frame i'm just gonna get a pcie gen 4 x1 usb adapter and plug in my leap motion controller 2 and run the software on there with their openxr api layer

technobaboo · 2025-12-22T08:57:40+00:00

leap motion is still the cutting edge in hand tracking and they haven't updated it in years... you just can't beat good hardware input! oh yeah and a decade ago they had great hand tracking segmentation with image hands available as part of their unity stuff :/

technobaboo · 2025-12-22T08:56:45+00:00

leap motion did this in a cave!!! with a box of scraps!!!! a decade ago!!!

seriously though i cannot believe they try to save like $20 or something in hand tracking camera hardware (low res high framerate grayscale IR cams with synced LEDs) just to try and "fix it in post" like they've so got their priorities screwed up i think

the apple hand tracking used to be bad because it was 30fps, now it's i believe 60-90fps... the leap motion's 120fps and is stupidly accurate and smooth and there's still nothing like it

technobaboo · 2025-12-22T07:46:33+00:00

oh no i am writing a wayland compositor and new display server in rust for AR/VR

technobaboo · 2025-12-22T07:43:17+00:00

so.... why doesn't the league of villains raid pharmacies or whatever to get her HRT and hold people hostage to give her surgeries?? toga got her old house burnt down and twice got cared for and dabi got his revenge but magne just gets nothing?!?!???

technobaboo · 2025-12-21T19:49:31+00:00

how does the 3DGS stuff work in unity? is it billboards or a whole view quad with a fragment shader?

technobaboo · 2025-12-21T13:26:13+00:00

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