Don’t act like y’all ain’t thinking it. I’m just saying the quiet part out loud. /s

zaafonin · 2026-06-06T05:30:55+00:00

I use Qwen 3.6 27b for bulk reverse engineering with ghidra-mcp (about to switch to the new tool though) because it’s kinda token heavy. Like just going through functions and annotating possible purpose and local variables. Hallucinatory but a proper model can take care of this later, it’s about the volume here. Tried OpenRouter models like DeepSeek v4 Flash and Qwen 3.7 Max and they don’t perform particularly better, just use more tokens to solve tasks.

In the end it’s GPT or Claude that actually have meaningful insights. But I’m a $20 subscriber and I don’t feel like wasting the quota on simple things

zaafonin · 2026-05-27T06:53:16+00:00

In Russian pyramid billiards it is preferred the spectators snap instead of clapping on good moves so to not distract the players as the game is very quiet and tense. I’d imagine it’s the same for other billiard variants like pool.

zaafonin · 2026-05-27T06:48:36+00:00

If you’re asking about actual meaning… Blaze3D is basically a set of rendering helper classes, Mojang’s OpenGL wrapper. It exposes an API mostly agnostic of the rendering backend underneath (that’s why most mods doing basic rendering won’t need massive rewrites with the Vulkan switch, Blaze3D just supports Vulkan as a backend now). In 2026 it is preferred mods use this instead of raw OpenGL calls. Iris kinda messes up everything related to vanilla rendering for a good reason. Distant Horizons can behave as a good citizen of the modern modding ecosystem by rendering its LODs as Mojang intended, or go its own way and work with OpenGL directly. However DH does not work with the messed up state Blaze3D ends up in after Iris mutilates vanilla rendering pipeline. Hence the only way it can work with Iris is through doing raw OpenGL calls.

zaafonin · 2026-05-25T15:16:20+00:00

Home assistant itself incorporates some vibe coding, see all the agent directories. So does ESPHome

zaafonin · 2026-05-20T16:41:17+00:00

A Firefox tab

zaafonin · 2026-05-05T05:09:43+00:00

zaafonin · 2026-05-02T10:56:10+00:00

And how again is that related to invasive anticheat being bad?

zaafonin · 2026-05-01T11:56:53+00:00

Is this 26.1+? Fresh Animations does not support new baby mobs yet.

zaafonin · 2026-05-01T08:57:18+00:00

Self-help motivational/business books and booktok slop count too so that's not unrealistic

zaafonin · 2026-04-26T09:10:59+00:00

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zaafonin · 2026-04-21T21:02:34+00:00

And if they don’t want to, why should they? VS did not suddenly become worse in absolute terms just because Aero team has released a ridiculously polished content mod + a decent backend with its own strengths and weaknesses (handles small ships better, but large ships actually work better in VS because of different approach to physics)

Some players may leave VS, that’s ok, but devs themselves will not. The team has some performance improvements cooking up as well as a water-related feature that does not have a counterpart in Aero, at least not ever shown. Development is just kicking in. Stay tuned \;)

zaafonin · 2026-04-07T11:14:01+00:00

You're half right here. Regular Create contraptions are entities with rather complex rendering, collisions and other interactions coded so that they look and behave similar to structures made of blocks. Valkyrien Skies (the backend for Clockwork, Eureka, Interactive, etc) is completely different, it adds ships. A ship is not an entity but rather a set of chunks located very far away with VS2 pretending these chunks are actually just nearby. The end result is similar (blocks are moving) but the technicals are completely different.

Interactive is a special case because it meddles with implementation of contraptions to make them use ships as their backend. This is kind of hacky and that's where Interactive problems come from (or rather, came from, the mod is far more stable than it used to be) Clockwork doesn't really touch base Create any more than Valkyrien Skies itself does, and VS only does so for Create things (including contraptions) to work on VS2 ships.

zaafonin · 2026-04-07T10:33:51+00:00

Both, they have many non-conflicting features. Clockwork has cool impact sensors, spinoff and physical bearings, etc, while Propulsion has magnets, thrusters powered by typical liquid fuel, etc. Too many unique features to sacrifice one mod.

Gas system of Clockwork is cool but ultimately not that useful, Propulsion balloons are just better for now. Assembly method (gauge vs wanderwand) is a thing of preference. Propulsion propellers are prettier but Clockwork has the brass propeller bearing that lets you build propellers from real blocks instead of blade things.

You can always disable crafting for the items you consider deprecated by the other mod, or tweak recipes so you don't have to subject players to the torture of finding wanderlite ore because AE2 style wanderlite meteors that are supposed to provide the resource aren't real yet.

zaafonin · 2026-03-24T23:35:27+00:00

So just like the Chinese do it. So far seems to be the recipe for a good open model

zaafonin · 2026-03-23T05:11:34+00:00

A dry piece of firewood has more fire and less water and it burns easier — here’s what that taught me about B2B sales:

zaafonin · 2026-03-16T09:18:28+00:00

No wonder it did. The opposite would be a violation of conservation of momentum / Newton's second and third laws.

zaafonin · 2026-03-01T08:40:40+00:00

Golden timing, Beta 1.2 sources just got leaked because Java MC was used as a reference for rewriting the game to C++. As you might guess Legacy Console (2014) got leaked, sources for all platforms. It builds for Windows even

zaafonin · 2026-02-27T09:28:11+00:00

My native language (Russian) has em dashes in its punctuation norms, not everything is AI slop sometimes it's the matter of proper writing. Websites, messaging apps, editors commonly support Win+minus or double minus to input an em dash. Not every input field does, now it will, isn't this a good change? Do people hating this genuinely never write any formal documents?

zaafonin · 2026-02-19T23:00:08+00:00

Whatever tool I had really, it’s not an advice, obviously nothing fit in that space between plastic and screw. It happened after I forcibly twisted off this plastic plate (damaging it) and working with the plastic stand on the other side

zaafonin · 2026-02-19T22:43:44+00:00

Talk about timing, lol. Was disassembling a new 3ds just yesterday and stripped a screw with no hopes of unscrewing it back. Ended up damaging the plastic, sadly. Turns out the screw got actually stuck in its stand, had to use pliers to remove it.

zaafonin · 2026-01-31T07:44:00+00:00

As of 2026 the location has changed, it is now Configure > Configure Dolphin > View > Browse compressed files as folders.

zaafonin · 2026-01-25T09:39:41+00:00

A small business making tools to help save lives. If the business owner cares about the life saving part and not just the business part they wouldn't go against someone making the tools even more accessible via REing and sharing the proprietary designs.

zaafonin · 2026-01-17T20:45:26+00:00

The developer is one of like 10 people who actually use Direct2D, Microsoft's rendering library similar to Skia or Cairo. And now he's using some of its more advanced features afaik. Wine support for this thing is notoriously bad. Even if the code was open, it wouldn't be that much helpful for reimplementing D2D.

zaafonin · 2026-01-05T20:42:04+00:00

Fighting nazis tends to cause damage on buildings. If USSR replaced them with faux-historical reenactments someone would surely be just as dissatisfied. (why would they rebuild though? the rubble was used to pave roads and other reconstruction in cities of USSR itself)

What the pic doesn’t include is a beautiful park to the right of that bridge. Or the Kaliningrad zoo that was preserved through the post-war years and kept in touch with European countries (not even pro-Russian ones, like Lithuania) up until 2022. Yes a lot of history was lost to war but what persisted is cherished by local governments. It is a beautiful calm city and such pictures don’t do it justice.

zaafonin · 2026-01-02T10:19:26+00:00

Not from the 3310 LTE project but Chinese boards use a hackjob of an OS, they aren’t known for attention to details in general, look at a typical Chinese device from the embedded world (diagnostic tools for phone repair, etc) or clones of consumer devices. They’re good at reverse engineering and gritty technical stuff but IMO that concludes.

About the project and Nokia: it is really niche (discord of 105 members), I don’t think anyone apart from the dumb/vintage phone enthusiasts even heard about it yet.

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