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Recent blog posts by contrarian physicians have tried to defend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr) as someone who will improve public health if confirmed as Health and Human Services Secretary. They claim United States COVID19 policies and the mainstream media created the poor public health situation in the US, including vaccine hesitancy. These authors seem to think antivaccine sentiment did not exist before 2020, and that vaccine hesitancy has nothing to do with RFK Jr’s antivaccine nonprofit, which grew significantly during the pandemic.

On Sensible Medicine Dr. Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, a Danish vaccine researcher, states that the high US mortality compared to other wealthy

We have a brand new PlayStation2 core, LRPS2. It’s a heavily modified version of PCSX2 custom made for the Libretro API, and it currently runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

The core code is modern and up-to-date unlike the old core and it no longer suffers from the serious drawbacks the older core had.

It supports nearly all the rendering backends for the GSdx renderer: Vulkan on Windows/macOS/Linux, Direct3D 11 and 12 on Windows, and OpenGL on Windows/Linux.

For those interested, you can also read our compendium article here posted earlier today.

All the screenshots below were taken with the paraLLEl-GS renderer and the following settings: 16x SSAA, paraLLEl experimental high-res scanout turned on. Shader preset used is: presets/fsr/fsr-aa-lv2-bspline-4taps.slangp.

[Blog] Jalons pour une analyse de la réforme du RSA

@france
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OP : @michaelzemmour

La réforme ne va vraisemblablement pas obliger la plupart des allocataires du RSA à travailler gratuitement (même si le cas n’est pas exclu), mais elle va faire par défaut considérer tout allocataire du RSA comme un chômeur, inscrit à France travail, et passible de sanction s’il ne se conforme pas aux injonctions qui lui seront faite.

france #rsa #franceTravail #Macron #Précarité

[Blog] How To Finish Your Indie Visual Novel - by Arimia

Read the blog post here

@renpy@discuss.tchncs.de

VNDev #VisualNovels #VisualNovel #IndieDev #GameDev

Another cross-post from my blog.

There is much ado about fancy mics among musicians and engineers, just as there is much ado about fancy guitars among guitarists. And don’t get me wrong, these instruments can certainly sound inspiring. However, any guitarist worth trusting will tell you that so long as the instrument isn’t unplayable, you can make great music with it (and some have written and even recorded with beater guitars).

It’s not so much about the mic as it is the engineer. Having been through a handful of mics so far, I have not been rid of my “touch” with a microphone. It always sounds like me, whether I like it or not. I’m choosing to let myself like it.

I once heard Tina Weymouth share at a Q&A, “If you have ears, you can make anything sound good, if you’re enjoying it.”

Cross-posting this from my blog. You can hear an audio demo of the technique there.

I've been thinking a lot about the importance of silence in music, and I dreamed up this technique, using a sequencer to more-or-less randomly mute a signal. The idea was to program a beat but then have the sequence be periodically interrupted by silence. I was partly inspired by this tai hirose track.

Now you could just as well make cuts by hand, in post, with the mouse. But where's the fun in that? As the title suggests, I wanted something more generative.

In Reaper, we can use Gerraint Luff's MIDI Gate plugin to trigger mutes or gates. Insert it on a track, feed it some MIDI, and depending on the mode, it will mute the channel whenever it receives MIDI information (or whenever it doesn't, if it's in gate mode).

To set this up, I followed Reaper Blog's [MIDI Gate tutoria

If this is the way to superintelligence, it remains a bizarre one. “This is back to a million monkeys typing for a million years generating the works of Shakespeare,” Emily Bender told me. But OpenAI’s technology effectively crunches those years down to seconds. A company blog boasts that an o1 model scored better than most humans on a recent coding test that allowed participants to submit 50 possible solutions to each problem—but only when o1 was allowed 10,000 submissions instead. No human could come up with that many possibilities in a reasonable length of time, which is exactly the point. To OpenAI, unlimited time and resources are an advantage that its hardware-grounded models have over biology. Not even two weeks after the launch of the o1 preview, the start-up [presented](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-24/openai-pitched-white-house-on-unprecedented-data-center-buildout?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJ

I would like to introduce you lovely OpenSource Lovers to a GIT-Alternative called FOSSIL that I also stumbled upon because of this Blog.

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• Bug-tracker
• Ticketting-system
• Forum
• Wiki-system
• even a Chat-functionality
• Has built-in GUI
• Also has a Web-Server
• Self-Hostable like Gitea/Forgejo

& the best part it's all in ONE STANDALONE FILE!!! which is extremely lightweight which you can copy to your $PATH & works even in crappy internet. how cool is that!!

However this tool supports a completely different style of development in FOSS called the "Cathedral-Style" whereas GIT suports a "Bazaar-Style"

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[Blog] I played another 50+ visual novels in 1 month and here’s my advice to devs. by Arimia

Useful tips by Arimia from her experiences judging the Spooktober Game Jam 2024 entries.

@renpy@discuss.tchncs.de

RenPy #VNDev #IndieDev #GameDev

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/3179293

Install instructions for OpenSuse Tumbleweed/ MicroOs using Full Disk Encryption secured by a TPM2 chip and measured boot or a FIDO2 key.

Nice to see OpenSuse pushing forward on securing the Linux Desktop with FDE and measured boot. Hope to see other distros following.

Install instructions for OpenSuse Tumbleweed/ MicroOs using Full Disk Encryption secured by a TPM2 chip and measured boot or a FIDO2 key.

Nice to see OpenSuse pushing forward on securing the Linux Desktop with FDE and measured boot. Hope to see other distros following.

La 1ère partie de mon roman d’anticipation SF est enfin terminée : 73000 mots / 442000 sec. Les 6 chapitres sont lisibles en ligne, et sur un dépôt GIT avec les matériaux pour reprendre ce cadre de création ouvert en licences libres (synopsis, personnages, schéma).

j’ai opté pour deux licences libres différentes suivant la forme du contenu, que j’ai différencié comme ceci :

– d’une part le roman dans sa forme littéraire, c’est à dire la forme la plus aboutie de mon travail constituée par le corps de texte, que j’ai placé sous licence libre Creative Commons BY-SA (permissions complètes accordées sur l’œuvre à la condition de redistribuer avec la même licence et de citer l’auteur)

– d’autre part les matériaux. Il s’agit de la synthèse des idées qui servent à ce roman : synopsis détaillé, fiches de personnages, schémas temporel, etc. Pour ces documents j’ai choisi la licence la plus ouverte possible, la CC0 (équivalent du domaine public), qui permet de détacher mes i

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• Stability AI’s text-to-image models (Stable Image Ultra, Stable Diffusion 3 Large and Stable Image Core) are now live in Amazon Bedrock (BLOG)
• MiniMax:&nbsp;NEW Chinese text2video model (), they also do free music generation (https://hailuoai.com/music)
• LumaLabsAI released V 6.1&nbsp;of Dream Machine which now features camera controls
• RB-Modulation&nbsp;(IP-Adapter alternative by Google): training-free personalization of diffusion models using stochastic optimal control ([HUGGING FACE DEMO](https://hu

[Blog] Valve just took away a valuable visibility tool

Blog post by Chris Zukowski (How to Market A Game)

https://howtomarketagame.com/2024/08/21/valve-just-took-away-a-valuable-visibility-tool/

@gamedev

GameDev #GameMarketing #Steam

Einerseits werden soziale Belange (auch) bei der Klimaschutz-Politik oft mißachtet, andererseits wird variantenreich Stimmung gemacht mit unterstellten Unvereinbarkeiten. Im Begriff der sozial-ökologischen Transformation ist der Prozess einer gestalteten Veränderung zumindest mal sprachlich an beides gekoppelt. Wie kann das konkret aussehen? Eine noch recht frische Quelle zum Thema ist die Denkfabrik Sozial-Klimarat, die "klimapolitische Maßnahmen auf ihre unterschiedlichen sozialen Wirkungen überprüfen und da, wo nötig, Veränderungen anstoßen" will.

Personen

Von der Auftaktveranstaltung gibt es auf dem eigenen YT-Kanal nur ein kurzes Video. Die 'Über uns'-Sektion des Online-Auftritts bleibt bei der inhaltlichen Ausrichtung, aber auch wenn eine überparteiliche Plattform für verschiedenste Stakeholder geschaffen werden soll (laut Video), ist ja nicht uninteressant, wer das initiiert. Thomas Losse-Mü

OpenAI has expanded its leadership team by welcoming Paul M. Nakasone, a retired US Army general and former director of the National Security Agency, as its latest board member.

The organization highlighted Nakasone’s role on its blog, stating, “Mr. Nakasone’s insights will also contribute to OpenAI’s efforts to better understand how AI can be used to strengthen cybersecurity by quickly detecting and responding to cybersecurity threats.”

The inclusion of Nakasone on OpenAI’s board is a decision that warrants a critical examination and will likely raise eyebrows. Nakasone’s extensive background in cybersecurity, including his leadership roles in the US Cyber Command and the Central Security Service, undoubtedly brings a wealth of experience and expertise to OpenAI. However, his association with the NSA, an agency often scrutinized for its[ surveillance practices and controve

This film I regard as a bit of a classic and I reviewed it quite recently on my blog. Not sure how I feel about this one.

Not 100% SHMUP related but hopefully of interest - someone wrote a blog entry on their journey building an arcade cabinet from second hand materials

https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/arcade-cabinet-built-from-secondhand-materials-vA0m3u