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Microsoft wins against FTC to buy Activision Blizzard
11 Jul 2023 at 5:40 pm UTC Likes: 11

The Judge's son works at Microsoft. Hopefully the appeals court can fix this
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/i/131506734/all-rise-a-conflicted-judge-gets-to-run-the-economy [External Link]

Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 thanks to Zink
6 Jul 2023 at 4:55 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: elmapulwhat company is that? they make gpus for companies or something like that?
Imagination Technologies makes PowerVR GPUs which are used in some ARM chipsets.

Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam (updated)
30 Jun 2023 at 7:39 pm UTC Likes: 1

Not a fan of this decision by Valve.
The limited legal precedent suggests ML art is uncopyrightable, and hence Public Domain, so it should be possible to include.

I wonder what specifically tripped Valve's alarm system.

Brotato 1.0 is out now and it's a damn good time
26 Jun 2023 at 8:16 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: grigiMy wife has started making disapproving noises when I play Brotato. A sure sign of a great game :whistle:
My wife likes it, since the 60s rounds mean I'm available on much shorter notice compared to ~15 min rounds in WarThunder

AMD reveals initial open source openSIL code to replace AGESA Firmware
15 Jun 2023 at 12:25 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'm confused. Why add Pluton to the same CPUs then? So you get open-source firmware with a backdoor?

vkd3d 1.7 is out now for the Wine translation layer
27 Mar 2023 at 11:40 am UTC

Quoting: whizse
Quoting: PikoloWTF is a case-insensitive float? Case sensitiveness would normally be a feature for text data types, not numbers
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d/-/commit/dd36215a00174a1db560021562bad84cd37e3071 [External Link]
AIUI, essentially it allows for declaring a variable using "float" or "FLOAT"?
Didn't expect that! :huh: So it means some shaders are wrongly cased, DirectX's HLSL parser does not care and Wine will just have to work with it for compatibility.

Thank you for indulging my curiosity.

Halls of Torment is classic Diablo meets Vampire Survivors
27 Mar 2023 at 11:34 am UTC

I have one complaint about the genre: Except for Brotato(happily purchased), all these games have horrible contrast between enemies and the environment. I don't want to tire my eyes, so I've been skipping them. Can we have more "aesthetically upbeat" or at least high contrast horde games? There is a reason 90s graphics look old...

vkd3d 1.7 is out now for the Wine translation layer
25 Mar 2023 at 9:27 am UTC

WTF is a case-insensitive float? Case sensitiveness would normally be a feature for text data types, not numbers

Canonical want help testing their Steam snap package for Ubuntu
18 Mar 2023 at 8:21 am UTC Likes: 1

If they do this, I'll have to change my mount points and backup procedures :(
I store my Steam games on a second drive. It's mounted on /opt, but in my experience snaps can't access stuff outside of /home unless installed in classic mode. I don't particularly want to change my mount to within /home - /home gets backed up, while the games shouldn't be

Victoria 3 is another clear hit for Paradox hitting half a million sales
1 Dec 2022 at 3:42 pm UTC Likes: 1

Turned Prussia yellow? Annexed by Austria, or am I missing something?