Progress in the (tech) art departament.
Rendered with 4xMSAA (no TAA etc.).
I found that Screen-Space Roughness limiter can introduce blocky artifacts. I suppose it's because derivatives work in quads (4 pixel groups).
It's probably content-specific but the effect is ON by default, and so you might have had stairsteppy artifacts and not known where do they come from.
This is Godot 4.5.1 stable on Arch Linux. Haven't tested in 4.6 beta yet.
@godotengine WDYT?
- unfa
i can't believe how many people are flocking to closed source chrome forks like Vivaldi in the light of Firefox's AI stuff, when stuff like Waterfox is right there
For the record, Waterfox has said not to use AI: waterfox.com/support/ai-chatboโฆ
"Waterfox does not include a builtโin AI chatbot integration. If you want AI assistance in the browser, you can install a compatible extension from Firefox Add-ons."
if you want to actually keep using Firefox and not some closed source Chrome fork, try Waterfox
I notice people posting about trying to get a job, so here's hoping that an appropriate candidate reads this.
My employer is looking for someone with devops skills (Linux, databses, networking and development) who's willing to work in Singapore.
The job involves supporting customers (mostly banks) running financial software.
Let me know if you want to know more.
Not sure what hashtag to use for this, so feel free to boost.
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WOW! Facebook is testing limiting the number a links people can share without a Meta Verified subscription.
Some users will be limited to sharing just TWO links per month in organic posts, without a Mera Verified account!
Meta confirmed the following to me:
โThis is a limited test to understand whether the ability to publish an increased volume of posts with links add additional value for Meta Verified subscribers.โ
#Facebook
Monster-catching RPG 'EvoCreo' arrives on PC on January 7, 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/monsโฆ
Monster-catching RPG 'EvoCreo' arrives on PC on January 7, 2026
After amassing around 2.5 million downloads on mobile, the first EvoCreo is arriving on Steam with Linux support on January 7th, 2026.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
This holiday season, make a donation to a privacy organization โ๏ธ @torproject @eff @privacyint @noybeu @edri @EngageMedia @fight @openrightsgroup @calyxinstitute
theprivacycloud.substack.com/pโฆ
Support Privacy This Holiday Season
Now more than ever do they need our supportMonique Barrow (The Privacy Cloud ๐โ๏ธ)
The Home Sweet Home update for Palworld with the ULTRAKILL crossover is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-โฆ
The Home Sweet Home update for Palworld with the ULTRAKILL crossover is out now
Palworld just levelled up with a big new free Home Sweet Home update as Pocketpair work towards finishing up the game for a full release next year.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl just got a huge free Stories Untold upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/stalโฆ
#Stalker2 #Gaming #PCGaming #FPS
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl just got a huge free Stories Untold upgrade
Stories Untold brings a whole lot new to the world of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl with hours of new content for you to play through.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
What it takes to run a sub 3:30 Marathon?
The last running plan that I finished this year was a 22 weeks Marathon plan, below are some stats:
Total distance: 1,388 km
Total time: 136:45:16
Strength training: 1,027 sets total
Fastest avg pace: 4:29 /km
Longest run (not race): 32 km
PBs: 5k @ 20:10
I finished the race strong in 3:29:38 as planned with 1.5% negative splits. I was very happy with how the entire race went, my fueling strategy, and everything in between ๐
I'm now chasing a sub 3 hrs PB. Do you think it's realistic?
What is your next race / running goal?
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The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+!
Negotiations for the United Kingdomโs association to Erasmus+ in 2027 have been concluded.
It will offer significant opportunities across education, training, sports, and youth, giving people the chance to connect across borders once again.
This follows the EU-UK Strategic Partnership agreed at the first ever Summit in May.
A step forward for youth, education, and cooperation, together again. ๐ค
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Palm Oil Threatens Ancient Noken Weaving in West Papua
Colonial palm oil and sugarcane causing the loss of West Papuansโ cultural identity. Land grabs force communities from forests, threatening Noken weavingPalm Oil Detectives
This terminal text editor will make you rethink your choice. ๐ผ
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Easier Than Nano! Fresh is a Fresh New Rust-based Terminal Editor for Linux
Rust-based editor combines fast performance with GUI-style shortcuts that just work.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
But fresy will be useful when I edit some multi files script
Enough people have taken this premise apart that I don't have to do a whole thread on it.
But I did want to point out this paragraph, that is one of the most Anti-African things I've read recently.
This long-termism and great replacement nonsense is seeping into brains and cooking them.
vox.com/future-perfect/471918/โฆ
Weโre running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
Scientific progress is slowing just as we need it most. New AI tools that speed up discovery could help restart productivity growth and make life more affordable.Bryan Walsh (Vox)
Actualizaciรณn 2026 โ Directorio de personas y colectivas que hacen diseรฑo con #SoftwareLibre
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El directorio puede consultarse en este enlace. Regresamos un aรฑo mรกs (ยฟya serรญa tradiciรณn?) con la convocatoria para actualizar nuestro Directorio deโฆsursiendo (Sursiendo)
Cosplayer at #winter #Toguchi #cosplay #festival (February 2nd, 2025).
#ToguchiWinter #Toguchi2025
#photo #photography
#cosplayer #portrait #people
#darktable
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Vegan Palm Oil Free Christmas Recipes
Boycott palm oil this Christmas ๐ ๐ with 10 yummy, #palmoilfree and #Veganย #recipes ๐ฆง๐ฆ๐๐๐ and your #health ๐ฅฆ๐ #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4WildlifePalm Oil Detectives
I was taking apart my robot vacuum to try and figure out why it thought the suction fan wasn't running when it in fact was running.
I dunno if this had anything to do with it but glad I found it and that I had a spare on hand.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II to release in Spring 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/warhโฆ
#Warhammer #MechanicusII #Gaming #PCGaming
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II to release in Spring 2026
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II from Bulwark Studios and Kasedo Games has a release window now set for sometime in Spring 2026.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Open Fodder, an open source port of the classic Cannon Fodder v2.0 released gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/openโฆ
#OpenFodder #OpenSource #Retro #CannonFodder
Open Fodder, an open source port of the classic Cannon Fodder v2.0 released
Cannon Fodder is a retro action-strategy gem from 1993 that was originally released on my old love the Amiga, and the modern open source port just got upgraded.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
MicroProse announce a revival of the retro Geoff Crammond Racing series gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/micrโฆ
#Racing #RetroGames #PCGaming #Gaming #GeoffCrammond
MicroProse announce a revival of the retro Geoff Crammond Racing series
First released in the '90s, the retro racing series designed by Geoff Crammond is making a return under new names with publisher MicroProse.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases (title corrected) gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/steaโฆ
Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases
Valve have released Steam Replay for 2025, showing off some interesting stats about your gaming and how it stacks up against everyone on Steam.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
โจ Steam Replay 2025: Only 14% Playtime for New Releases
- Steam Replay 2025 displays user statistics.
- Only 14% of all users' playtime for 2025 games.
- Decrease by one percentage point from 2024.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Still on Firefox here (despite the increasingly bad news), albeit it with the Betterfox user.js file, to limit much of the damage.
Another option for the Mac crowd is the Orion browser, which uses Safariโs guts, but actually makes that browser useful by allowing for most of Chrome and Firefoxโs extensions.
Vile Lasagna
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I'm still on Vivaldi and love it but they have said more than once already that they do plan to drop support for manifest v2. Once they do I'll be spinning the Firefork roulette so... Maybe don't get too attached?
We cannot, in fact, have nice things
canleaf08 โ โ ๅ ๆฟๅคง่ๅญ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Frdl
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Or you can use Librewolf.
librewolf.net
LibreWolf Browser
librewolf.netinfinite love โดณ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Bart Champagne ON6BC
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •If memory serves me well, my first browser was Netscape - guess my age ๐
Briefly used Mozilla and Opera but Firefox has been my dominant browser after Netscape ever since.
I'm not liking certain decisions within the Mozilla group, including the AI hype, but so far I'm sticking to it.
ppw
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •The question is how much longer browsers dependent on Chromium upstream will still be able to support uBlock Origin against Google's will.
The better choice would have been a Firefox-based browser like Waterfox, which takes Firefox and strips it of all the annoying telemetry and AI nonsense
waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-rโฆ
No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
Alex Kontos (Waterfox)Miro Collas
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-uโฆ
which breaks uBlock origin. Only Lite will work.
Manifest v3 update: Vivaldi is future-proofed with its built-in functionality | Vivaldi Browser
Team Vivaldi (Vivaldi Technologies)Mike Smale
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Dan V Peterson
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Nu Modular
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Eugen Rochko
in reply to Nu Modular • • •CpyJx ๐
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •> Firefox being open-source isn't really doing much for me in this situation
Except it is. Firefox, being completely open source, has enabled a viable fork - #Waterfox - that addresses your primary concern.
You say you don't have any faith in Firefox forks and just give in to Google and move to a re-skinned Chrome browser? This reads like a paid ad. It's disappointing.
And privately owned just means it can be sold to the highest bidder whenever it makes financial sense to do so.
Xander
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Ernesto Acosta ๐
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •AskPippa๐จ๐ฆ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Alex Semัnov
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Vint Prox
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •donut
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •why not #waterfox
Its what Firefox should be open and extremely user-friendly ๐ฉต #noai
Ondrej Zizka
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •PcXT
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •What about Librewolf ?
Mikka
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •RE: mastodon.social/@Gargron/11573โฆ
@Gargron @Vivaldi I did the same. For a few weeks. Then I met Zen Browser.
Less is more.
Eugen Rochko
2025-12-17 23:24:01
Jon Koops ๐ช๐บ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •That seems like a step backwards to be very honest. Firefox is a truly open-source project, with its own nuts and bolts under the hood, whereas Vivaldi is just another Chromium fork with a bunch of proprietary bits strapped to it.
I don't agree with the choices from Mozilla, but if everything is opt-in, local, and respects user privacy, what is the problem? And if it does bother you, why not use something like LibeWolf?
Distante
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I think the problem is somewhat exaggerated until we see actual negative actions from Mozilla.
mastodon.social/@Distante/1157โฆ
Distante
2025-12-17 06:40:27
Tritโ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Kerplunk
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Unlike chrome UngoogledChromium also supports UBlock and it can be sideloaded.
Vivaldi sends a unique user ID to its servers every 24 hours.
UngoogledChromium sends
NOTHING home.
Goldmaster
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •GachaNoUta
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Bye AI crap ๐ฎ
D Ingram
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Derick
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Thomas Traynor
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •razze
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •jan
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Mobile...
Alex
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •wojtek
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •ah yesโฆ it doens't have AI (yet) but every now and then spams my toolbar with VPN offer ๐
Also: you can install uBlockOrigin *NOW* but at one point maintaining support may stop be feasible and surprise - you will endup with the same crappy chromium engineโฆ
Dan Hart
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Taffer ๐จ๐ฆ
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •MrGrumpyMonkey
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Manu
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Firefox's AI is entirely optional; it's not imposed on anyone. I don't think it's such a big deal to offer AI as an option to users, and in my opinion, it will always be better than using Chromium or any of its derivatives, such as Vivaldi.
If you don't trust Firefox's AI, you have the option of Librewolf or Waterfox, for example, but using a Chromium derivative means leaving the internet exclusively in Google's hands.
Ati
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Dizzy
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Tommaso Gagliardoni
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I'm not sure whether moving to Vivaldi makes sense or not, but this is a very wise sentence:
Seriously, recently I happened to browse random stuff from a "normie Chrome" and, fuck my life, how do people manage to live with that? No wonder everybody seems to be getting crazier by the day.
chad006
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Farhood
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •how long till chromiom chore absolutely gets in the way of the likes of Vivaldi threading around manifest 3?
Use waterfox or librefox instead. That way you wouldn't contribute to the chromium monopoly that is the fault of all this.
fedithom
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •doragasu
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •gbsills
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Demian
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Jens Johansson
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Welcome to the resistance
(BTW for me Vivaldi synchs bookmarks, open tabs, notes, reading list etc flawlessly between multiple mobile/pad/ desktop instances)
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •