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 — originally published on @garoo

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#everyday #cinema4d - IT’S GONNA BE OK

# 2018/01/01 - 01:18

RemindMe! 360 days

# 2018/01/01 - 01:31 — originally 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 — originally 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

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 — originally 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 — originally published on @commandergaroo

@kadybat:

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

# 2018/01/01 - 15:41

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

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

@thereaIbanksy:

People nowadays…

# 2018/01/02 - 15:46

I wasn’t going to watch 😠

# 2018/01/02 - 16:30 — originally 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 — originally 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

@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

@GameGriffin:

Learn a new skill in 2018.

# 2018/01/02 - 19:23

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 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

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

@matoo:

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

# 2018/01/02 - 23:03

@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

3 January

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

# 2018/01/03 - 00:12 — originally 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

The modern world is literally owned by idiots

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

Oh no, I encouraged the algorithm

# 2018/01/03 - 01:39 — originally 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

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

@Antwhat:

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

# 2018/01/03 - 16:40

“Ducking Autocorrect”

# 2018/01/03 - 17:10 — originally 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

@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

@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

@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

4 January

@internetofshit:

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

Intel:

# 2018/01/04 - 00:30

@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

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

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 — originally published on @garoo

@alexhern:

what a payoff [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/04 - 15:36

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 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Fair. I guess. Harrumph.

# 2018/01/04 - 17:25 — originally 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

@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

@bratterz:

# 2018/01/04 - 19:42

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

@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

@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

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 — originally published on @garoo

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

Yeah.

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

@leroncier:

Le jour d’après. [twitter.com]

# 2018/01/05 - 22:16

@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

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

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

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 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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

“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 — originally 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

# 2018/01/07 - 14:53 — originally 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 — originally 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

8 January

Have you ever googled “Lykoi”?

# 2018/01/08 - 01:42 — originally 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

Treating tinnitus by rebooting auditory nerve cells with external electrodes

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

On the difficulty of patching a devastating security vulnerability in public

# 2018/01/08 - 17:22 — originally 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

“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 — originally 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

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 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@videocats:

How do you do, fellow cats?

# 2018/01/09 - 17:04

“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 — originally 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

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 — originally 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

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 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

10 January

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

# 2018/01/10 - 00:29 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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

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 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

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

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

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

# 2018/01/10 - 12:18 — originally 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

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 — originally published on @garoo

Testosterone goals — with flashing LEDs

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

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

# 2018/01/10 - 17:59 — originally 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

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 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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

@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

@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

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 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally published on @garoo

The X-Files 11x02 — 3/10

shithole

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

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

# 2018/01/12 - 10:42 — originally 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

WTF 😍

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

@ShedworksGreg:

Ranganathaswamy Temple in Tamil Nadu, India

# 2018/01/12 - 17:16

@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

@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

13 January

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

# 2018/01/13 - 12:05 — originally 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

@SusiMJK:

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

# 2018/01/13 - 13:36

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

14 January

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

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

# 2018/01/14 - 02:18 — originally 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 — originally 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

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

@Bouletcorp:

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

# 2018/01/14 - 17:51

Woo

# 2018/01/14 - 19:21 — originally 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

# 2018/01/14 - 23:50 — originally 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

@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

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 — originally published on @garoocomplains

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

# 2018/01/15 - 18:30 — originally 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 — originally 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

@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

16 January

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

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

@BNFC13:

Comment voyage la lumière dans une fibre optique - illustration.

# 2018/01/16 - 13:47

@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

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 — originally 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

@gamasutra:

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

# 2018/01/17 - 13:02

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 — originally 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 — originally 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

@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

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

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 — originally published on @garoocomplains

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

# 2018/01/18 - 18:19 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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

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 — originally 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

@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

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 — originally published on @garooscreens

Woohoo, democracy is saved

# 2018/01/20 - 00:17 — originally 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 — originally 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

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

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

@attn:

The real history behind tipping is surprisingly racist.

# 2018/01/21 - 15:41

@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

@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

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 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

22 January

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

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

@WorldAndScience:

Tulip fields in Holland

# 2018/01/22 - 12:44

@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

Yes, please, and thank you

# 2018/01/22 - 18:21 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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

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 — originally 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

@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

@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

@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

@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

Designing Gorogoa

I particularly like this bit:

# 2018/01/23 - 23:02 — originally 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

@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

@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

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 — originally published on @commandergaroo

@davemakes:

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

# 2018/01/24 - 23:22

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

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 — originally 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 — originally 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

Photo

# 2018/01/26 - 16:55 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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

@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

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 — originally published on @garoo

@garrynewman:

Procedural Generation [garry.tv]

# 2018/01/27 - 14:00

@siracusa:

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

# 2018/01/27 - 15:23

Amy Hennig and Sean Vanaman talk about game development

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

Also this is terribly smart and never occurred to me

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

Official Childish Gambino animoji karaoke 🦄 🤩

# 2018/01/27 - 16:58 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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

@guardian:

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

# 2018/01/28 - 20:42

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 — originally published on @garoo

29 January

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

# 2018/01/29 - 00:58 — originally 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

@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

Computers were a mistake

# 2018/01/29 - 13:54 — originally 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 — originally 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 — originally 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

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 — originally 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 — originally published on @garoo

@pleatedjeans:

SO THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE SPICE GIRLS BREAK UP

# 2018/01/30 - 13:57

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

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 — originally 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

@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

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

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

@Redsof1:

Quand ça fait 5 ans que tu es sur Twitter .