Ooh, I have a really good answer! Go check out the shadertoy website and see all sorts of OpenGL wizardry running smoothly on your GPU! Shadertoy.com

Oof, I really don’t want this resource to disappear

Huh, I hadn’t heard about this. I hope Rossman doesn’t think he’s above criticism.

I’m pretty sure it does

Just got the popup on FF with Unlock Origin

I stayed at a place last year that had a RokuTV, YouTube was practically unusable on it due to the absurd number of ads that would play. Even more infuriating was that they were often the same ad, repeated.

While I admire your optimism I think that AI will snuff out journalists/writers/artists regardless of the merit of their work. While that is possibly beneficial when looking for some factual data I think we will face a crisis when it comes to creative, investigative and critical content. Like garden hose of original work spraying against a tsunami of undisclosed generative media.

I think you make some valid points about server and network ownership but I think the mid to late 2000s had an interesting blend of corporate and personal internet spaces. Yes there were some leviathans MySpace and Facebook, but a lot of the places that had relevancy were forums, portals or imageboards. Hell, YTMND was an early example of a individual hosting and building a massive site out of complete nonsense. That landscape has certainly changed significantly since.

Even a lot of CG professional users are locked into NVIDIA due to software using CUDA. It sucks.

Yanko design is a name I haven’t seen in quite some time. Some of the dumbest, impractical, and downright impossible concepts have been featured on this blog.

Two memorable examples were the “magnetic” exercise weight set that would have to violate physics in order to function and a refrigerator made of green goo that would somehow preserve food.

Oh and “hubless wheels” anything that rolls needs hubless wheels.