Garoo

Hi! Do you remember blogs? Well, this used to be one. Now it just serves as an archive for my multiple Twitter accounts.

1 January 2018

# 2018/01/01 - 00:18 — published on @garoo

@year_progress:

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# 2018/01/01 - 01:16 — original tweet by @year_progress

@year_progress:

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# 2018/01/01 - 01:17 — original tweet by @year_progress

@beeple:

#everyday #cinema4d - IT’S GONNA BE OK

# 2018/01/01 - 01:18 — original tweet by @beeple

RemindMe! 360 days

# 2018/01/01 - 01:31 — published on @garoo

L’enceinte Bluetooth qui me réveille à cinq heures du matin avec une sonnerie de téléphone pour me dire que le fil de l’alimentation électrique est mal branché

# 2018/01/01 - 11:14 — published on @garoo

@_MG_:

HID attacks via USB drives have become too suspicious. What about embedding the attack inside a USB cable?

Just a quick test for a few things I’m hoping to make over the next month.

# 2018/01/01 - 14:35 — original tweet by @_MG_

I remember when “just plug this gizmo into the target’s computer and way for thirty seconds” was an unrealistic cliché in schlocky spy fiction.

# 2018/01/01 - 14:39 — published on @cedricbozzi

The Norwood Suite is an inspiring study of how much you can get away with while making an exploration FPS with limited resources. The cheap assets, the written dialogue — it totally works because this place is intriguing.

# 2018/01/01 - 14:40 — published on @commandergaroo

@kadybat:

Happy 2018 y’all!! Let’s make it a good one!

# 2018/01/01 - 15:41 — original tweet by @kadybat

Black Mirror 4x02 — Arkangel — 6/10

# 2018/01/01 - 16:00

@ultrabrilliant:

Trying to figure out how they even shot this. [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/01 - 22:27 — original tweet by @ultrabrilliant

Black Mirror 4x03 — Crocodile — 6/10

This would be terribly boring if it weren’t for Andrea Riseborough’s performance in the second half of the episode. Also, it’s terribly boring.

# 2018/01/01 - 22:39

2 January

@stroughtonsmith:

Invisibly fingerprinting text with Zero-Width Characters [zachaysan.com]

# 2018/01/02 - 01:53 — original tweet by @stroughtonsmith

@thereaIbanksy:

People nowadays…

# 2018/01/02 - 15:46 — original tweet by @thereaIbanksy

I wasn’t going to watch 😠

# 2018/01/02 - 16:30 — published on @garoo

Est-ce qu’on peut aller faire des courses le 2 janvier sans se faire souhaiter une bonne année, ou je me contente de repas en poudre pendant encore quelques jours ?

# 2018/01/02 - 16:31 — published on @garoo

@OwensDamien:

You, normal: ‘Good riddance, 2017! Here’s to a fresh start!’

Me, a wreck: ‘This is the bit in Alien where they all celebrate because the thing fell off John Hurt’s face.’

# 2018/01/02 - 16:40 — original tweet by @OwensDamien

@sarahkendzior:

FBI’s ‘Gamergate’ file says prosecutors didn’t charge men who sent death threats to female video game fans — even when suspects confessed [businessinsider.com]

# 2018/01/02 - 19:22 — original tweet by @sarahkendzior

@GameGriffin:

Learn a new skill in 2018.

# 2018/01/02 - 19:23 — original tweet by @GameGriffin

Problem: Viewers often don’t realize when there are several photos in a single Instagram post.

Solution: Randomly start by showing the second or third photo instead of the one the poster selected to appear first.

# 2018/01/02 - 20:39 — published on @cedricbozzi

# 2018/01/02 - 22:39 — published on @garooscreens

I’ve finally managed to model something close to what I had in mind with Gravity Sketch, and it was one hell of a fight with the uncooperative UI

# 2018/01/02 - 22:40 — published on @commandergaroo

Also gave Oculus Medium another shot and I’m no sculptor but I have no idea how people manage to create anything with this.

# 2018/01/02 - 22:43 — published on @commandergaroo

@matoo:

Les illuminations de la cathédrale Saint Corentin de Quimper - Iliz-Veur #Finistere #Bretagne

# 2018/01/02 - 23:03 — original tweet by @matoo

@sobore:

Artist Evgeny Ches from Moscow, Russia spray-paints animals on plastic wrap in the forest, a new brand of public / street #art

# 2018/01/02 - 23:55 — original tweet by @sobore

3 January

Happy new year! Please enjoy a complimentary 30% slowdown of your Intel CPU

# 2018/01/03 - 00:12 — published on @cedricbozzi

@PenelopeB:

Qu’est-ce que la masculinité toxique ? C’est préférer un sac plastique au supermarché plutôt qu’en tissu parce que ça fait plus viril, et chercher comment marketer l’écologie avec des typos noires et des têtes de loup pour faire moins « féminin » 🤦‍♀️ [scientificamerican.com]

# 2018/01/03 - 00:31 — original tweet by @PenelopeB

The modern world is literally owned by idiots

# 2018/01/03 - 01:14 — published on @cedricbozzi

Oh no, I encouraged the algorithm

# 2018/01/03 - 01:39 — published on @cedricbozzi

@Kantrowitz:

Black Mirror should do an episode featuring a clearly destructive technology — like a robot that kills your whole family or something — and make it entirely about the people who defend it on Twitter.

# 2018/01/03 - 01:47 — original tweet by @Kantrowitz

# 2018/01/03 - 14:31 — published on @garooscreens

@Antwhat:

Extreme cold has turned Niagara Falls into an icy winter wonderland [blogto.com]

# 2018/01/03 - 16:40 — original tweet by @Antwhat

“Ducking Autocorrect”

# 2018/01/03 - 17:10 — published on @cedricbozzi

@dodo:

Bubba the pit bull has always been obsessed with kittens. So when his mom adopted him a kitten of his own, he was pretty much in heaven 🐶❤️😻

# 2018/01/03 - 22:27 — original tweet by @dodo

@stroughtonsmith:

AWS customers may or may not be seeing the results of the Intel KPTI exploit mitigation, but that certainly seems like somewhere that would be visibly (and monetarily) impacted by slower database ops or I/O [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/03 - 23:25 — original tweet by @stroughtonsmith

@dinabass:

So for those keeping score, AMD says they are not impacted. Google, which discovered the issue, says they are. And MSFT says its patch fixes AMD systems too (which would seem to imply they think AMD was impacted)

# 2018/01/03 - 23:29 — original tweet by @dinabass

@WithinRafael:

Google: Android Devices with the latest security update are protected.

Translation: All Android devices are and will remain vulnerable. Just like KRACK.

# 2018/01/03 - 23:53 — original tweet by @WithinRafael

4 January

@internetofshit:

Apple: we’re slowing down processors cause your battery might be bad

Intel:

# 2018/01/04 - 00:30 — original tweet by @internetofshit

@stroughtonsmith:

This makes me wish voice-based AIs responded to input more like animals than robotic assistants 😂 We’d be far more forgiving of mistakes [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/04 - 02:12 — original tweet by @stroughtonsmith

Black Mirror 4x04 — Hang the DJ — 8/10

# 2018/01/04 - 02:23

@aallan:

So if you’re running a #cryptocurrency exchange you must be shaking with fear right now. Think about the implications of #meltdown and #spectre and all those wallet private keys going through memory. Target rich environment. If we see exploits, that’s where it’ll start.

# 2018/01/04 - 13:07 — original tweet by @aallan

Interesting trying to defend The Last Jedi on that angle when Rian Johnson had never written anything but cis straight white males until the Star Wars franchise forced him to diversify (funny how the writer conveniently forgets to defend the worst offender: Rose’s last scene)

# 2018/01/04 - 14:08 — published on @garoo

@alexhern:

what a payoff [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/04 - 15:36 — original tweet by @alexhern

If Apple doesn’t patch Sierra for Meltdown even though everyone complains about High Sierra’s reliability, that might be the last straw for me

# 2018/01/04 - 17:14 — published on @cedricbozzi

Fair. I guess. Harrumph.

# 2018/01/04 - 17:25 — published on @cedricbozzi

@kwiens:

Crazy: Apple’s iPhone battery waiting lists are already thousands of people long at some stores [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/04 - 18:53 — original tweet by @kwiens

@kwiens:

What’s crazy is that Apple has spent years lobbying to put the independent shops out of business. [motherboard.vice.com] And now those independents are going to save them.

# 2018/01/04 - 18:53 — original tweet by @kwiens

@bratterz:

# 2018/01/04 - 19:42 — original tweet by @bratterz

Kaamelott S1 Tome 1 — 7/10

# 2018/01/04 - 23:21

5 January

The X-Files 11x01 — 1/10

# 2018/01/05 - 00:28

@jwz:

YouTube’s Content-ID system is, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error. @littlescale:”My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims!” [jwz.org]

# 2018/01/05 - 01:23 — original tweet by @jwz

@erinbiba:

Super common thing reporters see:

Women: “I’m not an expert, here’s someone who is for you to talk to.”

Men: “I’m not an expert, but here are all my thoughts on the topic anyway feel free to quote me.”

# 2018/01/05 - 18:25 — original tweet by @erinbiba

@mikeymikey:

HEADS UP #macadmins : Apple JUST updated [support.apple.com] today (Jan 5th) and REMOVED mention of 10.12 and 10.11 being fixed for CVE-2017-5754 aka #Meltdown

Only 10.13.2 contains the fix.

# 2018/01/05 - 20:23 — original tweet by @mikeymikey

La torture d’essayer d’acheter des fringues après deux mois d’hiver.

Je ne mange plus avant mars.

Je ne mets plus le nez dehors avant mars.

# 2018/01/05 - 21:31 — published on @garoo

Apple doesn’t show any sign of planning to patch Sierra against Meltdown, so…

Yeah.

# 2018/01/05 - 22:16 — published on @garoocomplains

@leroncier:

Le jour d’après. [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/05 - 22:16 — original tweet by @leroncier

@marcoarment:

I think the lesson to learn here isn’t that highly polished productivity apps can’t succeed on iOS — it’s that the same types of apps don’t necessarily succeed on both platforms. [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/05 - 23:08 — original tweet by @marcoarment

6 January

At Home With Amy Sedaris 1x01 — 6/10

# 2018/01/06 - 12:58

@stroughtonsmith:

Meltdown mitigation looks like it’s tripling CPU usage for some cloud services, like Epic’s Fortnite back-end. This has a real and immediate impact on multiplayer games — server issues for players, and potentially ballooning costs for games companies [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/06 - 13:23 — original tweet by @stroughtonsmith

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 3x08 — 8/10

# 2018/01/06 - 13:40

@Cafeine:

“Michael Wolff Did What Every Other White House Reporter Is Too Cowardly to Do” [gq.com]

# 2018/01/06 - 13:54 — original tweet by @Cafeine

Updated to High Sierra last night. Thought I was going crazy trying to pinpoint why text in Tweetbot felt weird, but no: it’s randomly using subpixel antialiasing for half the tweets. What the actual fuck?

# 2018/01/06 - 15:13 — published on @garoocomplains

Yay, I’m not the only one; boo, it’s not just Tweetbot

In Tweetbot it seems to happen mostly when there’s no embedded media nor mention; in Finder it’s when there’s an accent in the file name.

# 2018/01/06 - 15:15 — published on @garoocomplains

I knew I didn’t want to upgrade to High Sierra but HOLY SHIT THIS IS GONNA DRIVE ME CRAZY VERY QUICKLY.

# 2018/01/06 - 15:15 — published on @garoocomplains

No choice but to enable LCD Font Smoothing so that at least everything is consistently a bit blurry and it’s a good thing my bank account is empty or I’d be ordering a Surface Book right this second.

# 2018/01/06 - 15:19 — published on @garoocomplains

@MattCheetham:

iOS 11 tip: After you take a screenshot you can long press on the little preview to go straight to the share menu.

# 2018/01/06 - 15:21 — original tweet by @MattCheetham

“I’ll just play AC:Origins for a couple hours and then work” is a lie. On the plus side, I can strike the Great Pyramids off my bucket list.

# 2018/01/06 - 21:04 — published on @commandergaroo

7 January

@Jay_Moschella:

Desperate times. Had to shovel a formula 1 track through the back yard for the greyhounds.

# 2018/01/07 - 01:39 — original tweet by @Jay_Moschella

# 2018/01/07 - 02:47 — published on @garooscreens

# 2018/01/07 - 02:48 — published on @garooscreens

# 2018/01/07 - 02:49 — published on @garooscreens

# 2018/01/07 - 02:50 — published on @garooscreens

Ca n’existe pas, les ramens au café ? 🤔

# 2018/01/07 - 14:42 — published on @garoo

On pensait être préparés, et puis la définition a changé en cours de route

# 2018/01/07 - 14:53 — published on @garoo

At the risk of sounding obsessed, I’ve just reached Egypt in Talos Principle VR and I’m almost jumping up and down with joy (even though it’s a far cry from AC:Origins’ living world).

# 2018/01/07 - 23:50 — published on @commandergaroo

@Drianis_A:

- Dis, France Gall a gagné l’Eurovision, elle jouait Cristal dans Starmania, elle avait plus de 30 ans de carrières, elle collectionne les prix, elle a vécu de nombreux drames, on fait un article sur quoi ?

- ⬇️

# 2018/01/07 - 23:51 — original tweet by @Drianis_A

8 January

Have you ever googled “Lykoi”?

# 2018/01/08 - 01:42 — published on @garoo

@SwiftOnSecurity:

40,100 retweets of a quote tweet of a news article link that doesn’t exist, from an account with 80 followers.

Consider how much of the world narrative you injest and accept from passing glance alone.

# 2018/01/08 - 12:10 — original tweet by @SwiftOnSecurity

Treating tinnitus by rebooting auditory nerve cells with external electrodes

# 2018/01/08 - 14:25 — published on @garoo

On the difficulty of patching a devastating security vulnerability in public

# 2018/01/08 - 17:22 — published on @cedricbozzi

@AlanMCole:

This map is a brilliant data visualization. Here’s a brief thread on why it’s so much better than past efforts. [xkcd.com]

# 2018/01/08 - 18:41 — original tweet by @AlanMCole

“Nanoleaf made a 12-sided Apple HomeKit remote”

I’d actually want something like this. And $50 is even somewhat reasonable.

# 2018/01/08 - 18:52 — published on @cedricbozzi

@chetfaliszek:

Complain about the open market of Steam - I get the issues - but this week walled curation is really showing why it fails.

Having to wait for curators to “get it” for a game is not a good answer either. Really surprised by GOG here.

[gamesindustry.biz]

# 2018/01/08 - 20:54 — original tweet by @chetfaliszek

Kaamelott S1 Tome 2 — 7/10

L’aspect gender politics a légèrement mal vieilli, quand même.

# 2018/01/08 - 21:43

9 January

Kaamelott S2 Tome 1 — 7/10

# 2018/01/09 - 00:51

January 2: My next CPU will be an AMD

January 9: I guess I’m glad I don’t have an AMD

# 2018/01/09 - 12:30 — published on @cedricbozzi

Imagine having $20,000 to spend in Nanoleaf lights for your living room (* actual price not announced yet)

# 2018/01/09 - 15:55 — published on @cedricbozzi

Been discussing with a friend the possibility of DIY Nanoleafs since seeing that picture; turns out the real thing has rather neat engineering for a somewhat reasonable price

# 2018/01/09 - 15:59 — published on @cedricbozzi

@videocats:

How do you do, fellow cats?

# 2018/01/09 - 17:04 — original tweet by @videocats

“Razer’s Project Linda is the smartest take on the dockable phone we’ve ever seen”

Shame that the whole idea has been obsoleted by “let’s put all your files in the cloud” and I doubt we’ll ever manage to back away from that.

# 2018/01/09 - 18:26 — published on @cedricbozzi

@LSpun:

Johnny Hallyday non plus n’écrivait pas ses chansons et pourtant le jour de sa mort on ne s’est pas souvenu de lui par le prisme de ses auteurs, étonnant n’est-ce pas ?

# 2018/01/09 - 18:27 — original tweet by @LSpun

The Iron Giant never fails to be cool

But the experience isn’t improved by half a dozen of creepily silent avatars ambling around, nor by Sansar’s pretty bad UX.

# 2018/01/09 - 20:00 — published on @commandergaroo

@kylebrussell:

This is 2 years after the launch of consumer VR for PCs. Now imagine the rig that could power that tier of VR in another two years. And it won’t need a cable tethering you to your desk or media center. [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/09 - 20:02 — original tweet by @kylebrussell

Astérix : Le domaine des dieux — 5/10

# 2018/01/09 - 23:21

Somehow my Mac mini managed to install 10.13 but is stuck in a loop of failure to update to 10.13.2. Anyone know how to make it stop trying?

# 2018/01/09 - 23:41 — published on @cedricbozzi

10 January

“The more we study dolphins, the brighter they turn out to be”

# 2018/01/10 - 00:29 — published on @garoo

According to the internets there’s a good chance my problems come from having upgraded the RAM years ago, and I can’t help but wonder if Apple’s intentionally fucking up my install because it thinks I might have a Hackintosh.

# 2018/01/10 - 00:38 — published on @cedricbozzi

How do you make a *nix kernel — which is running on a whole lot of different configurations — incompatible with third-party RAM, if not intentionally?

# 2018/01/10 - 00:42 — published on @cedricbozzi

@MedievalPhDemon:

Natalie Portman’s “here are the all male nominees” moment is basically what anyone introducing an all male anything should do. e.g. “Here is the all male panel.” “Here is the all male bibliography.”

# 2018/01/10 - 01:18 — original tweet by @MedievalPhDemon

Recovery partition allowed me to reinstall 10.13.2 in one click without losing anything, so at least macOS is still good for something.

# 2018/01/10 - 01:46 — published on @cedricbozzi

See? We’re not the only species using our intelligence to destroy the environment for profit

# 2018/01/10 - 02:01 — published on @garoo

“A rusty spotted cat, the world’s smallest cat, explores his forest home in Sri Lanka”

# 2018/01/10 - 12:18 — published on @garoo

@SilverBD:

Lol. Le showrunner d’une série basée sur une histoire vraie décide de rendre le perso principal hétéro parce qu’il n’arrivait pas à s’identifier sinon. Ça va la médiocrité artistique ? [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/10 - 12:47 — original tweet by @SilverBD

Ca n’arrête pas de m’épater que tout le monde ait accepté le glissement de “réfugiés” à “migrants” — même ceux qui parlent en leur défense.

# 2018/01/10 - 14:11 — published on @garoo

Testosterone goals — with flashing LEDs

# 2018/01/10 - 17:28 — published on @garoo

Maybe Philips could release one good app instead of revamping it completely every year

# 2018/01/10 - 17:59 — published on @cedricbozzi

@bequelin:

Alt title: Apple hands over to the Chinese government all the private data of its China-based users. [bbc.com]

# 2018/01/10 - 21:28 — original tweet by @bequelin

Started Hellblade: great prologue, and then it veered into psychological torture porn and I got stuck for ten minutes on a broken door.

# 2018/01/10 - 23:21 — published on @commandergaroo

So far it definitely feels much more “torture teenage Lara Croft to make the player want to protect her” than “strong female protagonist.”

# 2018/01/10 - 23:22 — published on @commandergaroo

Anyway the game made me want to 𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔞 𝔭𝔬𝔡𝔠𝔞𝔰𝔱 𝒷𝓎 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓇𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓻𝔂 𝔀𝓱𝓲𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓼 ιηтσ α вιηαυяαℓ мι¢яσρнσηє.

# 2018/01/10 - 23:42 — published on @commandergaroo

11 January

If Apple’s repair workers are now so rushed they start puncturing batteries, it’s no wonder there’s been a few complaints on Reddit from people getting their phone returned with the old battery accidentally reinstalled

# 2018/01/11 - 00:30 — published on @cedricbozzi

@ggreenwald:

This is awesome. Portland’s city officials - police, judges, mayor - insisted they have the right to search people’s trash with no warrants. So local alt-weekly (@wweek) went through their trash and published the contents (via @bartongellman) [wweek.com]

# 2018/01/11 - 10:46 — original tweet by @ggreenwald

@JoaoGwadloup:

Sinon est-ce que le “droit d’importuner” implique la possibilité pour les hommes bi et homo de frotter leur genou sur d’autres hommes, les “harceler un peu” (car on sait jamais t’as vu) car ça “peut déboucher sur de belles histoires” et pr pas empêcher la “liberté sexuelle” ?

# 2018/01/11 - 11:42 — original tweet by @JoaoGwadloup

@innesmck:

FUCK THIS.

The excuses in this are disgraceful, and people telling a woman to “just keep pushing” while explicitly discriminating against her are both awful, and nothing new.

[compete.kotaku.com]

# 2018/01/11 - 15:34 — original tweet by @innesmck

Oh hey, while I was away from iOS development Xcode has somehow managed to become even dumber and more annoying at auto-balancing brackets while modifying code.

# 2018/01/11 - 22:34 — published on @garoocomplains

I turned off auto-balancing brackets and do you think Xcode would let that stop it? Ha!

# 2018/01/11 - 22:43 — published on @garoocomplains

12 January

Bon, ben si l’épisode de cette semaine est censé être emblématique du retour en force des X-Files, je peux arrêter de regarder pour de bon ?

# 2018/01/12 - 00:32 — published on @garoo

The X-Files 11x02 — 3/10

# 2018/01/12 - 00:32

@NYT_first_said:

shithole

# 2018/01/12 - 01:09 — original tweet by @NYT_first_said

@Numerama:

Oubliez les robots tueurs et les IA conversationnelles : au #CES, ce jouet pour chat incarne le futur de la chatontech. 🐱

# 2018/01/12 - 01:31 — original tweet by @Numerama

Backups are disabled but I can’t seem to get rid of this damn warning.

# 2018/01/12 - 10:42 — published on @garoocomplains

@pheeldoulap:

Au final Catherine Millet prouve encore une fois ce matin sur Inter qu’elle est incapable de parler d’autre chose que d’elle-même et de voir au delà de sa propre personne. C’est LE point commun des signataires de cette tribune.

# 2018/01/12 - 11:17 — original tweet by @pheeldoulap

WTF 😍

# 2018/01/12 - 11:23 — published on @garoo

Le ciel est gris et la Seine kaki, quelle belle petite promenade. Tu m’etonnes que j’aie pris deux kilos parce que je ne sors pas.

# 2018/01/12 - 14:38 — published on @garoo

@ShedworksGreg:

Ranganathaswamy Temple in Tamil Nadu, India

# 2018/01/12 - 17:16 — original tweet by @ShedworksGreg

@EnFeeTamine:

-D’où vous est venue l’inspiration pour cette architecture?

-J’aime observer la nature, les animaux, mon connard de chat…

# 2018/01/12 - 20:47 — original tweet by @EnFeeTamine

@atlasobscura:

The culprits seem to have been a group of jovial young males, who, not unlike their human equivalents, seem to enjoy goofing around with traffic cones

# 2018/01/12 - 21:07 — original tweet by @atlasobscura

13 January

Wait, does Arkane use a completely different engine for every single game? WTF?

# 2018/01/13 - 12:05 — published on @commandergaroo

@jjtokyo:

This blows my mind - a three-part chorale generated by reading out a space-filling curve on a triangular grid. [win.tue.nl] via @goodmachine & @beausievers

# 2018/01/13 - 13:09 — original tweet by @jjtokyo

@SusiMJK:

I have now seen everything I need to see in life. Bye.

# 2018/01/13 - 13:36 — original tweet by @SusiMJK

The Good Place 2x09 — 9/10

# 2018/01/13 - 14:10

Counterpart 1x01 — 8/10

# 2018/01/13 - 15:23

@ramez:

Wonderful thread about the immense progress being made in Africa. [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/13 - 17:28 — original tweet by @ramez

14 January

# 2018/01/14 - 02:16 — published on @garooscreens

# 2018/01/14 - 02:17 — published on @garooscreens

# 2018/01/14 - 02:18 — published on @garooscreens

Someone designed and programmed a specific pose for Bayek when he is walking slowly through reeds, putting out his hand to brush against the tips 💜

# 2018/01/14 - 02:25 — published on @garooscreens

@Yakkafo:

Quantic Dream avait déjà une salle réputation dans le milieu, mais c’est encore pire que je le pensais. Il y a de quoi vous occuper tout votre dimanche aprem :

Médiapart : [mediapart.fr]

Le Monde : [lemonde.fr]

Canard PC : [canardpc.com]

# 2018/01/14 - 13:53 — original tweet by @Yakkafo

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 3x09 — 6/10

# 2018/01/14 - 14:36

@GameDesignDan:

The “judge my work” excuse is always BS, but especially when your work has consistently been poorly written problematic shit since forever. [resetera.com]

# 2018/01/14 - 15:38 — original tweet by @GameDesignDan

@Bouletcorp:

Le truc de SF qui me rend dingue et qu’il faut arrêter de foutre partout. #BlackMirror #TheExpanse

# 2018/01/14 - 17:51 — original tweet by @Bouletcorp

Woo

# 2018/01/14 - 19:21 — published on @garooscreens

Black Mirror 4x05 — Metalhead — 7/10

# 2018/01/14 - 22:12

Black Mirror 4x06 — Black Museum — 8/10

# 2018/01/14 - 23:26

@zekjur:

This soldering reference card from @adafruit is the most to-the-point explanation of good soldering practices I have ever seen:

# 2018/01/14 - 23:40 — original tweet by @zekjur

# 2018/01/14 - 23:50 — published on @garoo

15 January

@exserv85:

Ce qui me rend fou avec les réactions autour des articles sur quantic dream, c’est qu’on retrouve toute la rhétorique anti presse de l’alt right américaine et ça fait même pas 24h que les articles sont dispos.

# 2018/01/15 - 15:23 — original tweet by @exserv85

@alexhern:

A side point, but as a fascinating example of where we are as a society: this advice doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of phone calls. [theguardian.com]

# 2018/01/15 - 15:26 — original tweet by @alexhern

Those damn cross-platform apps and games making a mess of the Documents folder because that’s how it’s done on Windows.

# 2018/01/15 - 18:19 — published on @garoocomplains

BRB je vais me bouffer un pot de crème anti-rides

# 2018/01/15 - 18:30 — published on @garoo

Right, because there weren’t enough regions in AC:Origins alread—oh it has the Valley of Kings, need!

# 2018/01/15 - 19:00 — published on @commandergaroo

@henoss_t:

Shoes worth hundreds of dollars, made by low wage laborers, advertised as necessities to low income Black and Brown youth and sold in a capitalist, war mongering nation is not at all the dream Dr. King had [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/15 - 21:45 — original tweet by @henoss_t

@patrickc:

Why can’t you easily search all of the text you read on any screen (desktop + mobile) over the past day?

It’s strange how much obvious, low-hanging fruit of this form still exists.

# 2018/01/15 - 23:29 — original tweet by @patrickc

16 January

“Blind in the Mind: Why Some People Can’t See Pictures in their Imagination”

# 2018/01/16 - 13:39 — published on @garoo

@BNFC13:

Comment voyage la lumière dans une fibre optique - illustration.

# 2018/01/16 - 13:47 — original tweet by @BNFC13

@uhh_kate:

Logan Paul: Here’s a dead body

Youtube: Let’s put it on trending

Chelsea Manning: I’m running for senate

Youtube: We can’t have this

More proof youtube is a mess [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/16 - 20:16 — original tweet by @uhh_kate

Kaamelott S2 Tome 2 — 7/10

# 2018/01/16 - 22:29

17 January

Kaamelott S3 Tome 1 — 6/10

# 2018/01/17 - 01:36

Les deux coups de perceuse dans ma fenêtre à 08:30 et plus un bruit de la matinée, faudra pas s’étonner quand il y aura un meurtre.

# 2018/01/17 - 11:54 — published on @garoo

@DandumontP:

Donc les gens mettent le Nexus 5X dans de l’eau glacée avec du sel (pour la rendre bien froide) pour espérer récupérer les données parce que le SoC meurt souvent après ~1 an. Bonne affaire le Nexus 5X. [hackaday.com]

# 2018/01/17 - 12:42 — original tweet by @DandumontP

@gamasutra:

Adding depth to 2D with hand-drawn normal maps in The Siege and the Sandfox [ubm.io]

# 2018/01/17 - 13:02 — original tweet by @gamasutra

As much as I’d like to visit the Valley of the Kings in AC:Origins, I’m not enthusiastic about buying an expansion that sounds dedicated to boss fights

# 2018/01/17 - 18:36 — published on @commandergaroo

The Alien universe arguably includes Predator, and the xenomorph itself can provide infinite enemy variety, so as far as Destiny wannabes go that’s not such a bad idea — the atmosphere should be different enough from the others to warrant its existence

# 2018/01/17 - 18:58 — published on @commandergaroo

@lemondefr:

La vie de Dolores O’Riordan a été rongée par un passé sombre, rempli de démons, qu’elle a portés en elle pendant des années sans pouvoir en parler. [lemde.fr]

# 2018/01/17 - 21:14 — original tweet by @lemondefr

@dhh:

Apple can surely do their part. @fmanjoo is spot on here. Letting people set limits on their usage (like, gimme a warning if I exceed 30mins/day on Insta!) or awareness of that usage would be wonderful.

# 2018/01/17 - 23:19 — original tweet by @dhh

18 January

Reaper Man (Terry Pratchett) — 8/10

# 2018/01/18 - 01:22

@m_causse:

Et en français “ours mal léché” viendrait-il de là aussi ? [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/18 - 11:02 — original tweet by @m_causse

Even with a new battery my iPhone 6 lags when I skip a track as if it were spinning up a hard drive.

# 2018/01/18 - 13:29 — published on @garoocomplains

That bothered me as well (I think I didn’t retweet it)

# 2018/01/18 - 18:19 — published on @garoo

I had never really thought about just how much of a nature documentary needs to be foley work and sound banks

# 2018/01/18 - 18:43 — published on @garoo

I thought the beginning of AC:Origins had issues, but I was not prepared for the obnoxious mess of narrative and mission design that was the whole Taking of Alexandria sequence.

# 2018/01/18 - 23:33 — published on @commandergaroo

19 January

I am so glad I’m done with the story so I can focus on playing the game again.

# 2018/01/19 - 00:13 — published on @commandergaroo

The Good Place 2x10 — 9/10

# 2018/01/19 - 13:52

I like the “Prometheus reminded Ridley Scott how much he loves androids” theory

# 2018/01/19 - 15:18 — published on @garoo

@katienotopoulos:

I watched all 74 videos in Jake Paul’s course on how to become a social media star, and I have come away with the conclusion that he is a terrifying genius and we are all in serious danger. [buzzfeed.com]

# 2018/01/19 - 15:42 — original tweet by @katienotopoulos

The X-Files 11x03 — 6/10

# 2018/01/19 - 19:47

The Wiz (1978) — 7/10

The movie could hardly be called ‘good’, but it has some good moments, and I had no idea Diana Ross was such a great actress (with a modern, raw performance that was, of course, poorly received at the time).

# 2018/01/19 - 22:31

Quand Facebook met dans mon feed une vidéo d’araignée géante juste parce qu’un ami arachnophobe a écrit un commentaire dessus, J’ENGUEULE QUI, MOI 🤬

# 2018/01/19 - 22:36 — published on @garoo

@JosephScrimshaw:

Q: When aliens land on Earth, what is the one item you bring them to explain our civilization?

# 2018/01/19 - 22:40 — original tweet by @JosephScrimshaw

@palais_au:

“J’en ai vidé des gazeuses pour contaminer des couvertures. À calais, j’obéis aux ordres et je ne réfléchis pas (…) peut-être qu’un jour j’exposerai mes fautes devant le Seigneur”.

Témoignage terrifiant d’un CRS à Calais.

N’a t’on rien appris du passé ?

Quels garde-fous ? [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/19 - 23:12 — original tweet by @palais_au

20 January

I almost gave up, then got the notification email for my subscription renewal and decided that was not the time to drop a 95-day streak

# 2018/01/20 - 00:15 — published on @garooscreens

Woohoo, democracy is saved

# 2018/01/20 - 00:17 — published on @cedricbozzi

How to get rid of High Sierra’s stubborn “No backups for x days” Time Machine notification #UX

# 2018/01/20 - 13:02 — published on @cedricbozzi

21 January

@oneunderscore__:

Lot of this sort of thing going around today. Lack of fundamental understanding that Russian troll accounts would say almost entirely things you agree with!

Then, when the time was right, they’d tell you how, really, dead people in Aleppo were fake news, invented in Photoshop.

# 2018/01/21 - 01:13 — original tweet by @oneunderscore__

How did we let rampant capitalism destroy the pure, wholesome dream of buying drugs and murders on the internet

# 2018/01/21 - 14:05 — published on @cedricbozzi

@attn:

The real history behind tipping is surprisingly racist.

# 2018/01/21 - 15:41 — original tweet by @attn

@Split82:

Working on new levels for @BeatSaber. This one is one of my favorites! :) Use headphones. Music by @Sqeepo is excellent! #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev #VR

# 2018/01/21 - 16:58 — original tweet by @Split82

@peterc:

TIL that if you use Skype in a podcast or livestream, you have to give Skype credit at least every 15 minutes: [skype.com] .. I’ve heard this occur zero times ever 🤣

# 2018/01/21 - 17:43 — original tweet by @peterc

Aww. I don’t wanna complain that they’re finally optimizing for older devices, but I liked the proper blur transition and I don’t remember it having noticeable performance issues

# 2018/01/21 - 23:02 — published on @cedricbozzi

22 January

Pour les jeux du cirque, y’a du monde, mais alors le reste…

# 2018/01/22 - 11:53 — published on @garoo

@WorldAndScience:

Tulip fields in Holland

# 2018/01/22 - 12:44 — original tweet by @WorldAndScience

@Loopsidernews:

«Ma radio locale a lancé un décompte jusqu’au jour où coucher avec moi deviendrait légal». Natalie Portman, lors de la Marche des Femmes, à Los Angeles, a dénoncé la manière dont elle a été sexualisée dès son enfance:

# 2018/01/22 - 13:16 — original tweet by @Loopsidernews

Yes, please, and thank you

# 2018/01/22 - 18:21 — published on @commandergaroo

Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams — The Hood Maker — 8/10

# 2018/01/22 - 22:25

Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams — Impossible Planet — 7/10

# 2018/01/22 - 23:14

23 January

It took me a few minutes to realize the only reason Macon Heights looked so eerie was the total absence of cars #ElectricDreams

# 2018/01/23 - 00:24 — published on @garoo

Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams — The Commuter — 8/10

# 2018/01/23 - 00:32

Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams — Crazy Diamond — 5/10

# 2018/01/23 - 01:24

My domain name provider’s new site is so bad (months after its launch) the Logout button doesn’t work.

I used to get all my domains there — in spite of the higher cost — because their management UI was the best.

🤦🏻‍♂️

# 2018/01/23 - 16:09 — published on @garoocomplains

@u2elan:

OK, I think I figured out the secret to getting animated gifs to look awesome with Face AR.

Transparency!

I’m replacing all black color with clear and it totally changes the experience.

# 2018/01/23 - 16:51 — original tweet by @u2elan

I guess this looks pretty, but I feel like there was still room in the world for spinning around with chained blades and not having kids

# 2018/01/23 - 17:52 — published on @commandergaroo

@SarahTaber_bww:

“The California Farm Bureau was quoted by The News, saying that Japanese farmers were responsible for 40 percent of all vegetables grown in the state, including nearly 100 percent of all tomatoes, celery, strawberries and peppers.”

[sfmuseum.org]

# 2018/01/23 - 18:26 — original tweet by @SarahTaber_bww

@SarahTaber_bww:

The initial call for Japanese internment came mere hours after the Pearl Harbor bombing, from the Salinas Valley Vegetable Grower-Shipper Association.

AKA, Japanese internment was initiated by the California farm lobby.

[washingtonpost.com]

# 2018/01/23 - 18:26 — original tweet by @SarahTaber_bww

@thefingerspit:

Thread about waypoint’s article on our new game, The Red Strings Club and how it’s being acused of transphobia. This is my take being transgender myself and having worked closely in the development of the content of the game. We are a small team of three people.

# 2018/01/23 - 19:39 — original tweet by @thefingerspit

@argentumko:

CALayer on iOS 11 has a private “continuousCorners” property, which is what powers many rounded corners in SpringBoard – and likely more! Now I’m jealous.

# 2018/01/23 - 19:42 — original tweet by @argentumko

@MaxOfS2D:

1992 screenshots from Frédérick Raynal’s 3DESK tool which was used to make Alone in the Dark 1’s meshes (~250 tris)

# 2018/01/23 - 20:53 — original tweet by @MaxOfS2D

Designing Gorogoa

I particularly like this bit:

# 2018/01/23 - 23:02 — published on @commandergaroo

24 January

@RuffneckRefugee:

from The Left Hand of Darkness (which blew my teen girl mind away). thank you, Ursula K Le Guin.

# 2018/01/24 - 10:41 — original tweet by @RuffneckRefugee

@OmanReagan:

“Since I have a cat and a Time Machine, people naturally ask if the cat uses the Time Machine.” —Ursula K. Le Guin [bookviewcafe.com]

# 2018/01/24 - 11:14 — original tweet by @OmanReagan

@cdespinosa:

THIS is the Macintosh logic board, designed by Burrell Smith, Brian Howard, and Colette Askeland, and introduced on this day in 1984

# 2018/01/24 - 18:33 — original tweet by @cdespinosa

Have we forgotten that the developers of Mirror’s Edge 2 chose to model their villain after EA’s CEO?

# 2018/01/24 - 22:55 — published on @commandergaroo

@davemakes:

Ursula K. Le Guin’s take on the singular ‘they’ is my absolute favorite

# 2018/01/24 - 23:22 — original tweet by @davemakes

25 January

What We Do In The Shadows — 6/10

# 2018/01/25 - 01:42

@Fireproof_Games:

The Room: Old Sins is OUT NOW on the @AppStore – [apple.co] Trailer here – [youtu.be]

# 2018/01/25 - 11:48 — original tweet by @Fireproof_Games

26 January

Of course this was too good to be true and I had to reload my first mission from a checkpoint because the escort vehicles bugged out (they’re terrible at lane changes on highways)

# 2018/01/26 - 01:39 — published on @commandergaroo

It’s a shame the Special Transport DLC relies on the escort vehicles’ AI to negotiate lockups (which has never been ETS2’s strong suit), because there’s otherwise a lot of nice details and single-use mechanics for just $5.

# 2018/01/26 - 01:59 — published on @commandergaroo

@DShankar:

Interesting 🤔 To avoid false positives like braking for a highway road sign or overpass, self-driving cars are designed to ignore stationary cars and objects.

In this case, a Tesla rear-ended a stationary fire truck at 65mph instead of braking

[wired.com]

# 2018/01/26 - 13:51 — original tweet by @DShankar

Photo

# 2018/01/26 - 16:55 — published on Flickr

Lightroom on iPhone refusing to let you save or share an edited photo until you’ve added it to Creative Cloud 😡

# 2018/01/26 - 16:57 — published on @garoocomplains

The Good Place 2x11 — 7/10

# 2018/01/26 - 20:22

The X-Files 11x04 — 7/10

# 2018/01/26 - 21:10

Enfin un épisode de X-Files à propos du fait que X-Files est mort et n’aurait jamais dû revenir.

# 2018/01/26 - 22:03 — published on @garoo

La montaña sagrada (1973) — DNF

# 2018/01/26 - 22:38

27 January

@SwiftOnSecurity:

Google wants you to believe they can make self-driving cars but can’t figure out how to show you a picture in a box without running code from random citizens of former Soviet republics. No, this is not a hard fucking problem. [arstechnica.com]

# 2018/01/27 - 00:15 — original tweet by @SwiftOnSecurity

@SwiftOnSecurity:

Google: We helped find this terrible CPU bug that allows attackers to steal all your secrets if arbitrary code is run on your machine.

Google Ads: Hey, want to run some arbitrary code on hundreds of millions of computers? Get $140 in advertising credits if you sign up now.

# 2018/01/27 - 01:27 — original tweet by @SwiftOnSecurity

Behemoth (Peter Watts) — DNF

I am done with Watts’ sporadic bursts of toxic masculinity; I am done with his heavy reliance on deliberate obfuscation to add suspense. And that’s a shame, because the scientific credentials he brings to the story, and his unique specialty in marine biology, make for very interesting stories and universes.

# 2018/01/27 - 01:40

Aliens are interfering with satellite launches 😱 [arstechnica.com] [arstechnica.com]

# 2018/01/27 - 13:10 — published on @garoo

@garrynewman:

Procedural Generation [garry.tv]

# 2018/01/27 - 14:00 — original tweet by @garrynewman

@siracusa:

These people are doing good work. [youtu.be]

# 2018/01/27 - 15:23 — original tweet by @siracusa

Amy Hennig and Sean Vanaman talk about game development

# 2018/01/27 - 16:28 — published on @commandergaroo

Also this is terribly smart and never occurred to me

# 2018/01/27 - 16:29 — published on @commandergaroo

Official Childish Gambino animoji karaoke 🦄 🤩

# 2018/01/27 - 16:58 — published on @cedricbozzi

What are the odds that Steam might care about someone buying and refunding games in bad faith?

# 2018/01/27 - 17:08 — published on @commandergaroo

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 3x10 — 6/10

# 2018/01/27 - 20:43

Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams — Real Life — 6/10

# 2018/01/27 - 21:32

Sont chiants les organisateurs de soirée à jamais donner à l’avance les heures des DJ. Allez hop, ça me fait une bonne excuse pour ne pas y aller.

clique sur le bouton Afficher les discussions

Et merde…

# 2018/01/27 - 21:46 — published on @garoo

28 January

Trois mois que je n’étais pas sorti et la soirée est un cauchemar total. Si j’étais superstitieux, je… Ah, merde, mais je suis superstitieux, justement.

# 2018/01/28 - 06:12 — published on @garoo

The Room: Old Sins (iPad) — 7/10

# 2018/01/28 - 17:47

Pretty sure The Room Three came out while I had a 12-inch iPad Pro. Playing The Room: Old Sins on an old iPad mini isn’t quite as immersive — and it only emphasizes how much smaller Old Sins’ world feels.

# 2018/01/28 - 18:29 — published on @commandergaroo

@kirkhamilton:

SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS: This creature was beautiful, its death is sad

MONSTER HUNTER WORLD: ok now kill 5 more and you can make a hat

# 2018/01/28 - 20:33 — original tweet by @kirkhamilton

@guardian:

Fitness tracking app gives away location of secret US army bases [trib.al]

# 2018/01/28 - 20:42 — original tweet by @guardian

Je ne me suis jamais spécialement intéressé à la vie sous-marine mais l’épisode de Blue Planet II sur les barrières de corail 🤩🤩🤩

# 2018/01/28 - 22:33 — published on @garoo

29 January

“Growing apart and losing touch is human and healthy” (i.e., delete Facebook)

# 2018/01/29 - 00:58 — published on @cedricbozzi

@metkis:

Have you even seen Sea of Thieves’s water? It doesn’t even make sense how good it is.

# 2018/01/29 - 02:11 — original tweet by @metkis

@Greenspeak:

So, we’re the monsters in Monster Hunter World, right? Is that the idea? Cuz so far the “monsters” all seem chill, like they’re just grazing and shit. And we show up and kill ‘em all. What heroes we are!

# 2018/01/29 - 11:51 — original tweet by @Greenspeak

Computers were a mistake

# 2018/01/29 - 13:54 — published on @cedricbozzi

I don’t know exactly when they added the “Just play this one song then resume the queue” button but it’s only fair to point out when iTunes’ UI exceptionally changes for the better

# 2018/01/29 - 15:08 — published on @cedricbozzi

Self-motivation 2.0 : J’essaie de me convaincre que bosser sur mes projets d’apps ne serait pas plus une perte de temps que de passer la journée à regarder mon écran sans rien faire.

# 2018/01/29 - 19:23 — published on @garoo

@adoxography:

So all 3 major Dutch banks DDoS’d over the last 3 days. I’m sure that has nothing to do with the Dutch revealing the Russian hack of the State Dept and the Democrat’s HQ. Must be a coincidence.

# 2018/01/29 - 21:04 — original tweet by @adoxography

Google insists on sending me to PHP’s French online docs even though it knows I prefer to speak English.

# 2018/01/29 - 23:02 — published on @garoocomplains

30 January

Counterpart 1x02 — ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

# 2018/01/30 - 01:07

I’m afraid Counterpart lost me when they cast a 27-year-old actress (who looks 22) to play the part of a 40-year-old woman (her age being very relevant to the episode’s plot), presumably so she would look nicer shirtless.

Only a Harry Lloyd sex scene could save the show now.

# 2018/01/30 - 02:25 — published on @garoo

@pleatedjeans:

SO THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE SPICE GIRLS BREAK UP

# 2018/01/30 - 13:57 — original tweet by @pleatedjeans

Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams — Human Is — 6/10

# 2018/01/30 - 21:55

@jjtokyo:

Interesting stuff: among 29 patients with facial neuromuscular disorders, those who had most severe depression symptoms where also those who couldn’t smile [cs.cmu.edu]

# 2018/01/30 - 22:31 — original tweet by @jjtokyo

Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams — The Father Thing — 3/10

# 2018/01/30 - 22:43

31 January

The simplicity of manually adding a shortcut to WIndows 10’s Start menu

# 2018/01/31 - 01:53 — published on @garoocomplains

@ellle_em:

I think about Avatar: The Last Airbender a lot and how even though it dealt with incredibly serious concepts like imperialism, genocide, and trauma you never really felt like the characters were suffering all the damn time

# 2018/01/31 - 12:22 — original tweet by @ellle_em

@atlasobscura:

You might assume U.S. gun crimes are solved by police entering a weapon’s serial number into a computing system to find a perpetrator. Due to NRA lobbying, the data is instead stored among paper records of the low-tech, underfunded National Tracing Center [trib.al]

# 2018/01/31 - 13:09 — original tweet by @atlasobscura

I’m glad there still are people out there building web apps with the same mindset as me

# 2018/01/31 - 14:39 — published on @cedricbozzi

@Redsof1:

Quand ça fait 5 ans que tu es sur Twitter .