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Bringing Vulkan Raytracing to older AMD hardware (Vega and below) by Joshua AshtonJoshua Ashton (Frog Blog)
As soon as Bas Nieuwenhuizen [https://www.basnieuwenhuizen.nl/] mentioned that he was working on support for Vulkan Raytracing in RADV, my curiosity as to whether this feature could be brought to older generations of AMD hardware was peaked. Yesteryesterday and yesterday I decided to implement some of the missing pieces for exposing Vulkan Raytracing on older generations of AMD hardware, such as Vega, Polaris and the original Navi. The work is currently available here if you wish to try it at

Wow. Most of this went right over my head but I get excited just from reading about this sort of stuff

I mean I did play with ray tracing to some extend with Wings3D and the POV-Ray and YafaRay ray tracing programs back than and I still use it for some speed modelling. In fact the last time I touched this was this very year and I was so happy that at least YafaRay did Just Workℱ on my Fedora Linux PC.

Shows how the APC unit was modelled starting out as just a bunch of blocks getting shaped up over time until the final render as game asset for the MAXR game.
APC unit made for the MAXR game in Wings3D

I re-used a scene that I created over a decade ago and while the result had slightly different lightning it isn’t really noticeable after converting and compression of the rendered files.

So yeah people, please do keep this stuff alive, k thanks 😀

Book Review: Professional Practice in Engineering and Computing: Preparing for Future Careers by Riadh Habash by @edent@edent (shkspr.mobi)
Book cover showing the ascent of man. Unreadable. Full of grammatical errors and run on sentences. Just incredibly difficult to read. There may be some useful information in here, but I'll be damned if I can find it. Seriously needs to be edited down by someone with a strong grasp of the English lan...

Haha, damn it @edent, I almost snorted my coffee all over the place at “I hacked my blog’s theme just so I could rate it with zero stars” đŸ€ŁđŸ€Ł

Craig Federighi (Apple): Sideloading is a cybercriminal's best friend by an author (Sindastra's info dump)
In today’s article, I’d like to talk about the pros and cons of sideloading, playing devil’s advocate, offering a counter-argument and finally a possible solution to allow it in a secure fashion. Craig Federighi, Apple’s current Senior Vice President of Software Engineering said in the Web Summit 2021: “Sideloading is [
],In today's article, I'd like to talk about the pros and cons of sideloading, playing devil's advocate, offering a counter-argument and finally a possible solution to allow it in a secure fashion. Craig Federighi, Apple's current Senior Vice President of Software Engineering said in the Web Summit 2021: "Sideloading is
PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack | Christian F.K. Schaller (blogs.gnome.org)

Some great insight on – found while trying to find out what causes audio crackling and high CPU load. It may be a bug but I still think I’m doing something wrong here.

Also very curious about the V4L2 proposals. That is a very important daily driver of mine. Especially the loopback device. Any improvements on this are in theory great.

Say Cheese?

October Update! by Valheru Rides!Valheru Rides! (valheruride.travel.blog)
Not to be confused with Red October, the Soviet nuclear submarine at the heart of the Tom Clancy novel. No dodgy Russian accents and all gun battles fully cinematic. Anywho

 Back in the proverbial saddle at last after what seems like forever. No real saddle action yet but that will shortly be e...