resisting the social media restriction

Unknown — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

On the 10th of December, many services will be required to restrict access to Australians under 16 years of age, or face punishments. This is a huge breach of anonymity, privacy, and security, as we are being asked to trust corporations with our personal documents to verify that we are over the age of 16, providing them information that can be easily sold, or used to target us with advertisements. Luckily, zero thought has been put into the implementation (if you could not tell by the privacy issues), and it will be incredibly easy to circumvent.

Everyone will be affected by this, this is not just for under 16s wanting to access restricted sites, this is for anyone who does not want serve their personal data on a platter to a corporation, which I would hope is most people!

some terminology</a></h2>
I will use some terms that could be unfamiliar to you, I will quickly explain what you need to know, and link extra resources for them.
An IP address is the identifier for machines on the internet, they take the form of `xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</code> for IPv4 and 0123:4567:89:abcd:efgh:ijkl</code> for IPv6`
`https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address</a>`
`A DNS Server is a server that tells your computer what IP address to go to when you put in the domain name of a service, for example, example.com</code> may evaluate to 23.215.0.136</code>.`
`https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System</a>`
what services will be affected</a></h2> According to the ABC</a>, the following services will either need to put restrictions in place, or be blocked: Facebook</li> Instagram</li> Snapchat</li> Threads</li> TikTok</li> X (Formerly Twitter)</li> YouTube</li> Kick</li> Reddit</li> Twitch</li> </ul> This list will almost certainly expand. The following services will not be affected Discord</li> GitHub</li> Google Classroom</li> LEGO Play</li> Messenger</li> Pinterest</li> Roblox1</a></li> Steam and Steam Chat</li> WhatsApp</li> YouTube Kids</li> Linkedin</li> </ul> how will it be implemented</a></h2> Services need to take steps to verify identities, in practice this means sending things like licences, face scans, or other info to them. If a service does not want to do those things, they may just block access to Australians, and if they don't want to do that, the government may take action against them, such as legal challenge, or just trying to block them using means they control. We actually have a good example, the government already blocks lots of sites! they even made us a nice list: https://www.teqsa.gov.au/blocked-illegal-cheating-websites</a> If you go to those sites, you may be redirected to that page. This is implemented using DNS blocking and is very very easily circumvented. DNS blocking</a></h2> Normally, when you ask a DNS server to resolve and IP for you, it sends you the correct one, however if the government asked your ISP to block a site, it sends you to a access blocked page (for example on my phone where I have not bothered fixing this, I cant go to piracy websites). Fortunately, this is super easy to get around, just do not use your ISP's DNS server, I use 1.1.1.1</code> (dont put that in your browser it redirects to an ad for Cloudflares VPN, which we will get to later). Look up the instructions for your operating system, it is generally super simple. geoblocking</a></h2> Since it is on services to implement the restrictions, unless they simply don't (again, stellar planning from the government), almost all the restrictions will be done like this. Geoblocking works by trying to determine the location of your device. The first method is simply by your devices IP address, each country is assigned a range of IP addresses, so a service can just check the address, then block it, or restrict it if it is from Australia. Another method is using the ping (the time taken for a connection to reach the server from your device), ping is very predictable, so can be used to estimate the location of a device, I don't think this is use too much, but I cant be sure, you could definitely figure out if it is an Australian connected as we are so big and separated from other countries, especially if you have servers all over the world. You may have used this method yourself if you play online multiplayer games! For example if I see someone with a ping of around 70ms I know they are probably in Singapore. The least likely method is just using your devices GPS, just don't give things location permissions :P, though this could become a problem when more countries start implementing restrictions, but not yet. circumventing</a></h3> Both the IP based blocking, and ping based can be circumvented by a VPN or a proxy. However both do put your information in the hands of potentially untrustworthy people. VPN</a></h4> A VPN creates a virtual network between you and some other network, in this case the wider internet, A VPN passes your traffic though their server, then to the internet, meaning both your ping and IP have changed! However some services opt to simply block VPN servers from accessing their service. As for which one to pick, just pick Mullvad, not nord, not proton, not cloudflares, just use Mullvad ABSOLUTELY DO NOT USE A FREE VPN You are passing all of your traffic to them, a free VPN service is almost definitely selling your data. https://mullvad.net/en</a> proxies</a></h4> Proxies are similar to VPNs with 2 major differences You ask the proxy to make the request for you, rather than it just passing it on to the destination. </li> You can probably trust proxy providers a bit less </li> </ol> If VPN services end up required to block Australia, we are left with just proxies to freely access the internet, lets hope we never get to that point My friend Alisa has a great post on setting up proxies! https://axlefublr.github.io/proxies/</a> If I made a mistake, or there is some other reason you would like to contact me, please email me! zie@skoove.dev</a> what the hell???? why restrict everything else but not notorious pedo haven roblox?? ↩</a> </li> </ol> </section>

emacs week 1 Unknown — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 I decided to try using emacs, because I had heard about it a lot and it seems like it can do a lot of things that my editor (helix) cannot. I have been very very pleasantly surprised about how it has been! packages</a></h1> I use nix, so I would like nix to also manage my packages. The nixos wiki page for emacs</a> page details some ways to do this. One way is to use the community overlay and have it read your config, find use-package</code> calls then install, but that would mean rebuilding my system for every emacs config change, which is a 1min + operation and I would like to be able to iterate and change little things a bit faster than that. That solution also felt more oriented to people who were already using emacs with an existing configuration that they just want to work and configure how they are used to configuration it. I chose to let nix do all of the package management. programs.emacs = { enable = true; package = with pkgs; ( (emacsPackagesFor emacs).emacsWithPackages ( epkgs: with epkgs; [ # this is not all packages i have, # just what i had when i was taking notes on this vertico orderless marginalia direnv ] ) ); };</code></pre> Neat! now I only need to rebuild when I add a new package instead of for every config change. I just use home-manager to make an out of store symlink from my dotfiles to ~/.emacs</code> so that I do not need to rebuild for that either. home.file.".emacs".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink home/zie/.dotfiles/home-modules/emacs/emacs.el;</code></pre> One last thing is to stop use-package</code> trying to download anything, because that is nix's job, but I do want to use use-package</code> to configure packages. (setq use-package-always-ensure nil)</code></pre> Now that we have packages, I want to talk about everything I enjoy so far. enjoy</a></h1> meow (mrrp)</a></h2> meow</a> is really really good. I come from helix, so it feels very familiar to me. I was going to build everything for actually editing from scratch but I am glad I gave up on that pretty quickly and just used meow</code>. org</a></h2> Holy shit. I have been trying to replace obsidian for so long, it is slow, not open source and just a bit yucky to use sometimes. I had heard of org before and is part of the reason I am trying emacs in the first place. I am still not quite sure how I want to use it, I am used to atomic notes for everything, but org seems like it may be more powerful with larger notes. I so far have used it to take notes for and draft 2 blog posts (this one and the clippy one</a>. font face things</a></h3> Since I use emacs as the gui application, I can do some fun stuff with org font faces, like making headings bigger. I actually did this in the markdown mode too since I still write the posts in markdown. Something I would like to play with is a kind of live preview like obsidian has, as I really like that feature. typst math</a></h3> I love typst, I am not a big fan of latex / mathjax. I can do typst maths using org-typst-preview.el</a>. It is a bit more clunky to use than I am used to with obsidian (i need to manually turn on and off rendering and had to write my own function to toggle the whole buffer) but it is worth it for being able to write AND preview maths in a solid modal editor and with a sensible markup language like typst. Working out how to install it with nix took a little learning but I realised that it is not a package and in fact just a single elisp file so I just used fetchFromGithub</code> and symlinked it into my .emacs.d/lisp/</code> folder and then import it to the lisp config! multiple os windows (frames) for one editor</a></h2> This one is great for me, I have a window manager I love (niri) so I want it to do the work of managing my windows. Since emacs can have mutliple os windows (called frames) I can let it do that. I just made a hotkey to make a new frame and I am set! custom git commit message editing mode</a></h2> I like having some fancy things for my git commit message editing so that I can keep the header to 50 and wrap the body, I could not find anything to do this in emacs (except magit i think can do it, but i just use the cli for everything) so I made my own major mode for it. It warns me when I go over 50 characters in the first line and hard wraps at 76 characters. (define-derived-mode zie-git-commit-mode text-mode "ziegitcommit" "majour mode for git commit messages" (setq-local fill-column 72) (auto-fill-mode 1) (setq-local comment-start "#") (defun zie/git-header-warning (limit) "highlight header longer than 50 chars" (and (<= (line-number-at-pos) 1) (re-search-forward (format "^.\\{%d\\}\\(.*\\)$" (1+ 50)) limit t))) (font-lock-add-keywords nil `((zie/git-header-warning 0 font-lock-warning-face prepend))) (let ((map zie-git-commit-mode-map)) (define-key map (kbd "C-c C-c") (lambda () (interactive) (save-buffer) (kill-buffer))))) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("/\\.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG\\'" . zie-git-commit-mode))</code></pre> It is kind of shitty and barely works, In helix I just set 2 rulers but I could not find a nice way to do that in emacs :(. It is something I need to look at further. things i do not like</a></h1> There are some things I do not like that much so far slow</a></h2> Emacs is slow, this is the trade off for it's power, but it takes 700 ms to launch the client even when running in the client-server mode. Not much I can do about this :(.</del> edit 2025-08-18: This was a misunderstanding of what the dashboard was telling me, it was actually showing that the daemon took 700 ms to launch, launching new frames is significantly faster, though there is still a noticble slowness, for example when opening an org buffer. window and buffer management feels clunky</a></h2> This is mostly because I am not used to it and because the default hotkeys suck a bit, I need to make something to just save and kill the open buffer, and find a nicer way to cleanup my buffer list without C-x k</code> every time. Window management was helped greatly by not using windows and only using frames instead, it feels so good, I love it so much. need to restart emacs.service</code> on many config changes</a></h2> Sometimes I change something and need to restart the service, minor issue but probably something I can fix, I am thinking a function that evaluates a default config, then evaluates mine to essentially reset the config state. direnv switches enviroment every time i switch buffer</a></h2> I use direnv to automatically use my nix dev environments, but when I switch between buffers it switches environment. I would prefer the environment be loaded locally for just that buffer but I do not know if that is possible. I will need to look into it. conclusion</a></h1> I will probably keep using emacs for quite a while. It is a very good editor (when you download install and configure a good editor :p) but almost every default value feels very outdated, which is to be expected. I am loving how I can do seemingly everything I have wanted to do in helix but couldn't for whatever reason, and I am excited to keep using it. If you use emacs and have advice, please let me know somewhere. Especially org-mode related, I am very excited to get more into that! My config is available at: https://github.com/skoove/dotfiles/tree/main/home-modules/emacs</a> just wanting to help Unknown — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 If you interact with the open source community or any community with similar vibes, you have probably either watched the recent video by Louis Rossmann</a>, or seen a lot of images of the old Microsoft mascot clippy. Essentially the point is that people want corporations to make products that are just there to help you, like clippy was just there to help. The idea is to criticise bad and invasive software as a group, but before the second video</a> came out, which outlines real action people can take against corporations making software that exploits people for profit, I was thinking about the point of the movement at all, but not for the reasons of "changing a profile picture won't make any real change". It was because the core thesis of the video is that corporations used to make things that just wanted to help you, like clippy. Clippy did not spy on you, sell your data, manipulate you into voting a particular way or constantly track every bit of useful information about you, clippy just wanted to help! but there are still people that just want to help</a></h1> The ""issue"" 1</a> I have with Louis' presentation is that it does not really highlight the fact that there are people that still want nothing more than to help, and instead seems to say that the only option is to regulate corporations so they make good software again. corporations used to ""care""</a></h2> It did used to look like the mega corps of today cared for their users and the software they released (this will all focus on software, because I like software), this is because they needed to seem that way. No one willingly using bad software today, they do it either because they have no other option, or because they do not know how bad it is. For a corporation to get to the point where people have no other option than to use their product, they need to get a huge amount of market dominance, embed themselves into the structures of schools, other cooperation's, government agencies and the military. The only way to do this? make good software! This is very reminiscent of modern day venture capital, but done for slightly different reasons. Most modern startups will make a.. 'good' product and then get a user base hooked on it, and since we are in the era of fucking-everything-as-a-service this usually involves a monthly subscription. During the first phase, they ** money and they make it up with venture capital funding, all while getting more and more people on the service, and also selling data on the side. When the investors and shareholders inevitably start asking questions about when a profit will be made, the company switches to the second phase. They start sucking as much money in as many ways possible, they raise prices, make new subscription theirs, collect and sell more data, personalise advertisements to make people more angry, add advertisements to an already paid service. And then they die. All the space to embed into existing structures and governments has been taken by the giants like Microsoft and Google, so modern startups just die. So it is pretty clear that the cause of terrible software (and all products) that exploit the consumer is the profit motive, and we live under capitalism, that will not change for a while. I just wish there was a dedicated group of people making good software with no profit motive... open source</a></h2> Open source is the answer to bad software, hardware and services. Putting the tools that people use in control of the people that use them is the only real way to keep having good tools. Anything else, and someone will see a chance to make money, and do so. In my experience, open source developers generally do it for a few reasons: To make software for themselves</li> To make software for others</li> To make software for fun</li> </ol> Most probably do it for a combination of all, I know that I do. The important part is that the software is free and not just in price. Free to distribute, free to modify and redistribute and free forever. Not many people make a living, or any money at all from contributing and maintaining open source projects, and most who do make it through optional donations, which they almost certainly would loose if they revoked the open source licence and stopped distributing the source. They are only motivated by making their software good for themselves and for others, they have no reason to spy on users, sell their data, manipulate them or raise the subscription prices, because there are no subscriptions and if they did start spying and selling data, it would be noticed. what people can do</a></h3> start using more open source!</a></h4> Just using it will make it more popular, talking about it makes it more popular. If someone needs a tool to do something, recommend something open source. The whole clippy thing fits into this in a similar way as was said in the second video, people who know they are on the same page about this stuff can work together to start using it in their organisation. Use of open source software will increase and people will be better for it contribute to open source</a></h4> Contributing with code is great, but that is not the only way, issues feature requests and documentation are just as important! bug reports & feature requests A good bug report or a well outlined feature request takes load off the programmers and helps to focus their labour, and helps improve the software. It is impossible to make software better without identifying the problems and areas of enhancement. documentation Documentation can be one of the hardest part of maintaining an open source software, it is high effort and hard to get right, but anyone can write documentation. Notice an error in the docs? fix it! is something not mentioned that could be helpful? add it! closing</a></h1> Holding corporations accountable is important, but software written in the interest of endless profit will never be good software, and never be made in the interest of users over profit. This also goes for all products, until the working class has control over the products and tools they use, they will forever be exploited by those who control them. The best thing we can do for software right now is to use open source. It’s a corporation’s purpose to put profits over people Deny, defend, depose, how do you think that that’s not evil? Cheap Perfume - Woke Mind Virus</li> </ul> </blockquote> i do not really have an issue but i do not know how else to put it ↩</a> </li> </ol> </section> arma 3 on linux Unknown — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 how to get arma 3 running on linux with radio mods</a></h1> I use nixos, but this should work everywhere that steam can be installed. Install arma, and download the teamspeak 3 installer. Launch Arma until the launcher. Go to the mods tab and subscribe to a mod if you have not done so already, click the little arrow, then the three drops and select "Open folder in Windows Explorer". This will open a WINE explorer thing, you can launch executables that will run in the same wine instance, using the same wine server from here. Now, run the teamspeak 3 installer, install for all users and remember to uncheck the overwolf thing, once it finished, close Teamspeak. Now you should just be able to launch the game, and for ACERE2 at least, it will install the plugin automatically. I am unsure of what will happen if you use something else, but you can just follow it's guide for installing the plugin. To launch teamspeak again, open the explorer and run C:/Program Files/TeamSpeak 3 Client/ts3client_win64.exe</code> bonus performance things</a></h2> In the arma 3 launcher, under parameters, turn on the following: Basic Show static background in menu: true</li> Skip logos at startup: true</li> Force window mode: true</li> </ul> </li> Advanced Extra Threads: true File operations: true</li> Texture loading: true</li> Geometry loading: true</li> </ul> </li> No logs: true (this is probably really minimal on performance increase, so maybe don't bother because you may need the logs)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> bonus troubleshooting step</a></h2> The game may not lock your mouse to the window, if this is the case run protontricks</code>, select Arma, select the default wine prefix, and run winecfg</code>. In winecfg</code> enable "automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows". This should hopefully fix it for you, it did for me. bonus extra resources!</a></h2> Some people have had setting the game to borderless window fix the mouse exiting the window</li> arma-3-unix-launcher</a></li> Steam tinker launch</a> is a much better way to do this automatically, but is a bit jank so I do not tend to use it</li> </ul> nix functions Unknown — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 the basics</a></h1> let f = arg: arg + 1; in f 5 # evaluates to 6</code></pre> Basic function syntax is simple, we provide one argument and get one output, and a function can only have one input and output. But what if we wanted multiple armament? multiple arguments</a></h2> let add = num_1: num_2: num_1 + num_2; in add 1 3 # evaluates to 4</code></pre> Here add</code> can take in 2 numbers num_1</code> and num_2</code> and return the result of adding both. But wait, didn't I just say that a function can only have one input and output? Yes, but this function is two separate functions. The first function is add</code> this function takes num_1</code> and returns a function that takes num_2</code> as an input1</a>. We can follow this by going through the function step by step. add 1 3</code></li> (num_1: num_2: num_1 + num_2) 1 3</code> 2</a></li> (num_2: 1 + num_2) 3</code></li> 1 + 3</code></li> </ol> An alternative way of creating functions is attribute sets. In reality, we are actually only passing a single argument in — the attribute set. let add = { num_1 , num_2 }: num_1 + num_2; in add { num_1 = 1; num_2 = 6; } # evaluates to 7</code></pre> An attribute set is just a set of keys and values. To say that we want our function to take in an attribute set, we provide a comma-separated list of the keys we should have enclosed {}</code>, { num_1 , num_2 }:</code> followed by the function itself num_1 + num_2</code>. To call the function we need to construct an attribute set, done by providing the keys and values separated by ;</code> and enclosed with {}</code>. This is a more simple, but more verbose way of providing arguments, but is often the better choice for clarity when you have several arguments (in my opinion). example</a></h1> { ... }: { services.caddy = { enable = true; virtualHosts = let mkReverseProxy = {domain, ip}: { ${domain} = { extraConfig = '' tls internal reverse_proxy ${ip} { transport http { tls tls_insecure_skip_verify } } ''; }; }; proxies = [ { domain = "proxmox-1.home.com"; ip = "192.168.0.230:8006"; } { domain = "proxmox-2.home.com"; ip = "192.168.0.231:8006"; } { domain = "jellyfin.home.com"; ip = "localhost:8096"; } ]; in builtins.foldl' (acc: val: acc // mkReverseProxy val) {} proxies; }; }</code></pre> Here, we have a few things, we define a function mkReverseProxy</code> which takes in an attribute with keys domain</code> and ip</code> which simply does some string interpolation to generate the caddy</a> configuration for reverse proxies. In the proxies</code> array we create a few of the function inputs then use builtins.foldl'</code>. Let's look closer at the foldl'</code> call. foldl'</code> takes in 3 arguments: a function to apply to each member of the list, (acc: val: acc // mkReverseProxy val)</code> a starting state of the new value {}</code> and the list itself proxies</code>. The function we apply to the list simply appends the result of running mkReverseProxy</code> on the value from proxies</code> to the end of our accumulator (the attribute set with the starting state {}</code>) using the //</code> syntax for joining attribute sets. Hey... that syntax at the top that's in every single one of your configuration files for NixOS looks suspiciously like a function definition... Thank you u/ecco256</a> and u/C0V3RT_KN1GHT</a> for helping improve this! This is called currying. For more information see the Wikipedia article wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying</a> ↩</a> </li> You can write any function in parentheses like this, these are called anonymous functions, just meaning any function with no label. You only need to assign a function a name with the let in</code> syntax if it needs it, otherwise you can just omit the name completely, for example if you were using the function as an input to another function. ↩</a> </li> </ol> </section> undersea devlog #1 Unknown — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 It has been two days since I started working on undersea, and its going well! I have implemented the basics of the library, you can now add shows, retrive data about your shows and their episodes! I have started doing some basic work on learning ratatui to create the tui, which will now be developed along side the library. This allows me the focus in the scope of the library as I add the features that the tui provides. things missing from library (that i can think of)</a></h2> Retriving episode duration. This is quite hard! it is what most of the devlopment time was actually spent on for the past two days. It is shockingly difficult to get the duration of an episode, as you need to decode the mp3 file up until the point where things like images stop to get a frame to get the bitrate, and that is upwards of 3mb. For the hundreds and likely thousands of episodes in all podcasts someone would have added, that is multiple gigabytes of data transfer just to get the durations. I plan to work around this by having duration calculation just be something that app implementations call, probably when you attempt to play an episode, or if there is a resume duration stored, but no total duration.</li> </ul> </li> Saving to file This is a core feature, but not one I think is difficult, I will probably regret this</li> </ul> </li> Removing podcasts</li> Sorting podcasts Sorting will be done by sorting the vector that episodes are stored in. The vector will be ordered oldest first, and then app implementations can have a button that swaps the display order</li> </ul> </li> Marking episodes as finished</li> Setting resume duration of episodes</li> </ul> things missing from tui</a></h2> everything</li> </ul> i am making a new podcast program Unknown — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 If you want to listen to podcasts, you have a few options: Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or RSS. RSS is great, but it lacks the quality of life features that these other providers have. For me the biggest two things that are missing are ordering episodes in order of oldest to newest (I listen to alot of fiction podcasts) and being able to resume a podcast across devices. I am hoping to resolve this by making my own program that has everything I personally want, and maybe what alot of other people are missing. I want it to be super easy to make a new app for any platform, and to store all of its data in easy to parse files, so its not too hard to move to a different platform if it does not work for you. The basic idea is to store two things, Your list of subscribed podcasts, weather you have watched or not watched an episode, and the point where you left an episode off. This is to just give you a better idea of what I mean, this will change. #[derive(Debug)] pub struct Feed { url: String, name: String, episodes: Vec<Episode>, } #[derive(Debug)] pub struct Episode { url: String, media_url: String, title: String, date: DateTime<Utc>, duration: time::Duration, resume_time: time::Duration, }</code></pre> Initially, I will make a tui application, and an andriod app after that, maybe later I can make a gui and ios app, but thats only if I can make those first two into a useable program. If you are intrested, take a at the repo on github</a>, and considor contributing or giving it a star. how i made the psx style doughnut Unknown — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 </video> I want to clarify that when I say "ps1/psx style" I mean style, I am not going for a exact replica of the way those platforms looked, because that does not interest me, but I think that taking elements of that such as vertex wobble, and things that are not actually from those platforms, like colour compression and dithering and combining them with modern rendering techniques like reflection bloom and raytracing can have a very pretty result, and its something I want to experiment with much more in the future. I first got the idea to pursue this style from this video</a> by Retro Plus</a>. This video shows their workflow with shoebox texture ripper and a PSX vertex snapping addon by Lucas Roedel</a>. I took those two for this project, but the PSX vertex snapping addon had some issues that just would not work for my workflow so will not be used by me for most things in future. The addon can get a very very authentic effect, but it comes at a cost. The addon works with a 3d grid which it snaps all the vertices too, and you can choose how large the grid is. I did not think about this very hard, and definitely did not consider that the amount of vertices would be $n^3$ when I selected 400. $400^3$ is 64 000 000, which took up 12 gigabytes of memory and was very slow. I did not actually need a grid that large, 50 would have been plenty, but its still a lot more overhead than I was willing to have for an effect like that. I fumbled in geometry nodes for a while trying to round all the vertex positions to a set point but could not get that to work, and that would also not make the vertices to move when the object did not move, and that is realistic, but not what I want. I gave up for a bit until I received this reddit comment: "For performance sake, did you consider a displacement modifier with a noise texture attached to a constantly-rotating object? It wouldn't be quite as accurate, but it would perform about 200% better." - RatKingbutwithHumanChildren</a> </blockquote> So I now use that method, a noise texture on the object with an empty constantly moving. For the textures, as mentioned earlier I used shoebox texture ripper</a> and got this texture that I just painted a little to remove some harsh transitions. I also made a little shader for the doughnut to give the icing a little reflection That is pretty much it! It was a lot of fun to make and I learnt a lot about the eevee renderer and how powerful it is so I think I will try and use it for future photorealistic-ish things!

meow (mrrp)</a></h2>
meow</a> is really really good. I come from helix, so it feels very familiar to me. I was going to build everything for actually editing from scratch but I am glad I gave up on that pretty quickly and just used `meow</code>.</p>`

`bonus extra resources!</a></h2> Some people have had setting the game to borderless window fix the mouse exiting the window</li> arma-3-unix-launcher</a></li> Steam tinker launch</a> is a much better way to do this automatically, but is a bit jank so I do not tend to use it</li> </ul>`

things missing from tui</a></h2>

everything</li> </ul>

resisting the social media restriction

emacs week 1

just wanting to help

arma 3 on linux

nix functions

undersea devlog #1

i am making a new podcast program

how i made the psx style doughnut

resisting the social media restriction

proxies</a></h4> Proxies are similar to VPNs with 2 major differences</p> You ask the proxy to make the request for you, rather than it just passing it on to the destination.</p> </li>

emacs week 1

just wanting to help

arma 3 on linux

bonus performance things</a></h2> In the arma 3 launcher, under parameters, turn on the following:</p> Basic Show static background in menu: true</li> Skip logos at startup: true</li> Force window mode: true</li> </ul> </li>

bonus extra resources!</a></h2> Some people have had setting the game to borderless window fix the mouse exiting the window</li>

nix functions

undersea devlog #1

i am making a new podcast program

how i made the psx style doughnut

`bonus extra resources!</a></h2> Some people have had setting the game to borderless window fix the mouse exiting the window</li> arma-3-unix-launcher</a></li> Steam tinker launch</a> is a much better way to do this automatically, but is a bit jank so I do not tend to use it</li> </ul>`