Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

If you're around LA, California, you can see the teaser for "The Flight of the Quirky Owl" on the big screen!
So thrilled to be included! 😍🔥

D.I.Y. Film Fest
Art Theatre of Long Beach
This Saturday evening (August 9th), Block K at 9:15 pm

If you can go, send me photos pls as I can't be there in person 😭

#mastoart #losangeles #diy

By the way, with just a one-line change (commenting out mp4mux/filesink, uncommenting flvmux/rtmpsink and adjusting the URL) you can stream online rather than to a local file 😎

(fwiw this screenshot is from before autofocus, white balance and most of image processing stuff was there)

#linuxmobile #mobilelinux #linuxphones #camera #librem5 #shotonlibrem5

If you're near Los Angeles County next week, I invite you to visit Long Beach and attend DIY Film Fest, where @holypangolin's short "The Flight of the Quirky Owl" is going to be screened on Sat, Aug 9th ☺️ https://www.diyfilmfest.life/

Progress on dEQP-GLES3.functional.transform_feedback! Down to just 7 failures without MESA_GLSL_DISABLE_IO_OPT=true - a huge improvement!

But the real breakthrough? We now have hardware-based transform feedback working 🎉

#etnaviv #mesa3d

This NYT quote about “AI” in 80s Pac-Man is comically bad.

But rather than dwelling on that, the way the ghosts work to make it feel like they were “thinking” is a really cool example of the exact opposite. It's a series of really simple deterministic rules:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191107021951/https://gameinternals.com/understanding-pac-man-ghost-behavior

Take a few things happening in parallel in a highly specified way, throw in a little randomness (no more complicated than rolling dice), and we start assigning agency to the ghosts in the game.

This happens because 1) our brains love to anthropomorphize, and 2) we don't perceive the rules immediately.

And that's today's AI in a nutshell… More simple rules, more rolling dice—just massively scaled up!

Now you can do 10,000x more in the same time, so the result is again indistinguishable from magic, and we trick ourselves into assigning agency and even “intelligence” to the outputs.

(“Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior” is a favorite article from some years ago, so it's fun to have an excuse to share it again. My thanks to the author and his original sources; most of the originals seem to be offline, but thank god for archive.org…)

Just opened my new shop with magical botanical and mushroomy items :)

https://holymojoshop.com/

#mastoart #mosstodon #mushroom

@janvlug Can be much nicer as long as you don't care about the framerate 😂 #shotonlibrem5

We obtained a mysterious box of 1960s electronics. I reverse-engineered it and with much effort, we got it running. It turns out to be a test unit for testing NASA's Up-Data Link, a system from the Apollo moon landing to control the spacecraft from the ground. Let's take a look inside... 1/n

My 128bit format emulation - needed for GLES3 - is starting to pass the first CTS.

#etnaviv #mesa #Librem5