I have nuanced opinions about AI and, personally, I don’t really care how you make your memes if they’re interesting – though I will strongly discourage you from paying anyone for AI as a service to do it…

The “in 10 seconds” bit makes it really easy to flood communities with slop though, and that’s one of a number of reasons why people push back on it. There is a lot of boring AI generated stuff out there. Repetitive, same-y content is not fun – novelty is fun. If you can figure out how to push AI to do something unusual or amusing, I say have at it… but the haters are going to hate here regardless.

We had a subculture here for a while back in 2023 or so that played with AI memes. Someone would come up with an amusing idea – like Sailor Moon as a giant insect – post an AI generated picture of it, and then people would riff off it with variations of the idea until it became stale. I think those comms are basically dead at this point – and if you tried to revive them back you might get shouted off the platform given the amount of toxicity around AI now 😔️ – but there was some genuinely entertaining stuff in there occasionally!

I’ve seen the word “shimeji” around a bit recently (e.g. fanart of Shimeji Simulation) but it hadn’t connected in my head that shimeji is a mushroom until just now. Do these things pop up like mushrooms?

The narwhal bacons at midnight; the lemming beans at dawn.

Factorio - Every so often I still get a craving for this even if the space age release really took a lot of the shine off it for me personally.

I played it about six months ago and sometimes get the craving too. Does Satisfactory scratch that itch or is it too different? (Haven’t played it but was thinking of picking it up next time it’s on sale – or the itch gets itchy enough…)

Tornado-kun, no! I’m not ready to go to Oz yet! 🌪️

I believe the intention of DMs is that they are supposed to be accessible only to the sending/receiving server admins and sending/receiving users – but given the many ways that distributed systems which are not built specifically for secure comms can go wrong, you should simply assume anything you transmit through Lemmy is or will eventually be public, period.

If you are concerned that some information you transmit through Lemmy may be exposed the correct security stance is simply: DO NOT SEND IT.

I usually make quick sauces with my pasta and use whole canned peeled tomatoes. To alter for fresh, I’d score the tomatoes with a knife, then blanch and peel the skin off as the first step.

My default tomato-based sauce is:

• olive oil
• a few whole tomatoes (peeled) – maybe about ~3 decently sized ones?
• garlic (either fresh minced or garlic powder)
• dried basil
• salt
• 1/4 tsp or so of capers
• a few kalamata olives
• pinch of MSG
• pinch of cayenne pepper

When using fresh garlic, I add it to the pan first – with garlic powder I add it with the other seasonings. I basically just combine everything, break up the tomatoes with a spatula, and let it cook down on medium heat (stirring occasionally) while I boil my spaghetti – then finish the spaghetti in the sauce.

I usually make this just for myself and eyeball the ingredients – so unfortunately, I don’t have exact measurements for most of it.

This is basically a variant of spaghetti puttanesca without anchovies – feel free to add those instead of (or in addition to) the MSG if you’d prefer.

On 196, there’s a rule to post before you leave (see the sidebar/community description depending on which UI you’re using). “rule” means they couldn’t think of a good title; i.e. they’re just following the “post something” rule. It’s popular to come up with something punny though involving “rule” if you can.

Personally, I think it’s particularly stupid that you can’t use it for GLSL shaders from external files…

Microsoft had a Visual Basic variant (VBScript) in IE that got some attention back in the 90s; it’s probably just as well that JS won instead of that…

In modern webdev type="module" is used to indicate an ES6 module and type="importmap" to include a JSON table of paths to modules. Still basically JS, but the parameter is still used in a meaningful way.

while ( const std::optional event = window.pollEvent() )

Try passing -std=c++23 to g++ – that code doesn’t look like valid C++ from when I was regularly programming in C++, but the standards committee has fucked around with the language a lot in the last few years and I suspect this is something from one of the very recent standards.

OK. I think I see what you’re getting at. If you can figure out how to get it to the point of an outline, there are triangulation libraries that can fill in the mesh for you (I think I’ve mentioned one to you before a long time ago) if you want flat end caps on the extrusion. I’m not sure off the top of my head how you’d get to an outline from that star example though – a few ideas come to mind, but they’re very much half-baked ideas… :p

Best of luck!

Edit: the triangulation library I was thinking of: https://github.com/mapbox/earcut

I’m not sure I quite get it, but if I’m following correctly, you’re using the numbers to indicate a sequence of vertices for a triangle fan here (with @ indicating the central vertex), right? If so, the vertices are used in more than one triangle; (0, 1, 2) and (0, 2, 3) are triangles that reuse vertex 0 (@) and vertex 2.

If that’s what’s going on then it should be fairly straightforward to turn shapes defined like this into extrusions; for the simplest case you duplicate and offset the triangle fan for the other end and then generate quads/pairs of triangles for the extruded faces of the prism – and for more complicated cases you can repeat that (with planar alignment if needed) following a curve in small increments.

I might not be following though since I don’t know what you mean by color index face hints.

fan vs strip

Why not just work with a collection of triangles directly? It uses more memory, yes, but it’s simpler to reason about and can also have parallelism benefits (since each triangle is independent).

It can still be useful to track shared vertices (and reference them by index) though.

Well, I’ve seen Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Zero and a few of the other spin offs but I’ve kind of lost track of the Fate/Word Salad series at this point… 🙃️

For you, maybe, but for me it’s my desktop’s clock – with my microwave as the fallback (e.g. when I’m playing a fullscreen game).

I basically only check the time on my phone if I’m out and about (which is… rare) or when I’m getting up/going to bed – which also serves as a check for messages (since I have my phone on Do Not Disturb 24/7).

I actually bought a physical wall clock earlier this year thinking that I could stick it somewhere more convenient to read than the microwave, but the ticking was too damned annoying.

I’ve been reading a fair bit of old, out of copyright fiction over the last couple years. I recently finished Carry On, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse which was amusing. You can find a copy here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65974

Honestly not sure. I wouldn’t be surprised if it breaks something with D-Bus based on skimming the man pages, but I’ve never dug into it. Its not exposed in containers I run though, and I haven’t run into anything that broke there as a result… 🤷️

Well, there is /etc/machine-id on Linux…