Principal Game Engine Architect at Huawei. Previously: Senior Graphics Engineer at Unity, Research Scientist at Fraunhofer, Tech-Priest at Cult Mechanicus.
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Another banger from one of my favorite small studios! Go get Wielders of the Essence (especially SoC-fans!), very nice "dad-game" if you need small intense sessions.
Bought it on @Steam and will buy it again on @GOGcom to preserve for future generations <<< @Lavapotion plz
Optimizing games used to be hard because serious runtime issues often appear at the threshold between art and engine code.
I am excited for the future of game development. Tech artists will be able to fix and optimize issues in games that previously required an entire team.
If you are interested in new operating systems like HarmonyOS, game engines, computer graphics, reverse engineering and agentic workflows, please reach out to me. We are building lots of fun stuff at my lab in the Huawei Ireland Research Centre.
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Ok, I just checked this, and its literally running a freaking TensorFlow Lite model on 960×540 images with INT8 quantization every couple of seconds in an attempt to figure out what game you are playing.
It's literally called "alex.tflite" and its literally AlexNet and seems to follow torchvision.models.alexnet. As far as I can tell this does some strange nearest neighbor feature comparisons against a DB and literally doesn't work 99% of the time, you love to see your CPU get wasted every other second by this thing though. It also just seems to dump its results into the void because the consent gate comes later.
Anyways, here's the tf model graph and some dumped captures.
live-tweeting on samsung findings were fun.
i'll let my agents give it a bit more time, but this document is already the most comprehensive breakdown of some key concerns of tizen i've seen run on a live device.
it takes like a good while for me just to scroll through it (there's about 44 writeups as of right now on individual functionality).
release is probably happening in a few days.
Tobias A. Franke (@[email protected]) retweeted
My plan for the next 2 years:
0 2 * * * apt-get update && apt-get full-upgrade -y && reboot
Please be "government intervention" it would make this 1000x funnier
Folks at Mozilla seem to have caught on and are asking the right questions 🫡
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…
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Apparently you can one-up LG holy moly
another development :)
my samsung TV loads a region specific convolutional neural network (LogoCNN.bin, cnn.mapping) which tracks your usage in app.
like in youtube it's looking for videos you watch, ads you skip, progress in a video, etc.
so glad they're interested in me.
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finally found a company that truly listens to its customers
If you are interested in new operating systems like HarmonyOS, game engines, computer graphics, reverse engineering and agentic workflows, please reach out to me. We are building lots of fun stuff at my lab in the Huawei Ireland Research Centre.
linkedin.com/in/thefranke/
Huaquanbei in Shenzhen is quickly becoming my favorite place for electronics, because the whole right-to-repair dream is a reality there. Want to change some old hardware to have USBC instead of whatever? Done. Change battery for cheap? Done. Get some ancient console fixed? NP.
10 PM in Huaqiangbei, SZ.
We’re on our way getting dinner with @Fateen_Anam and Aurel wonders if anyone could swap the battery in his old iPhone.
First stall we ask does it on the spot in 10 minutes. 20€ for a third-party battery, 40€ for an original Apple one.
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The only thing that stops a bad guy with an abliterated LLM is a good guy with an abliterated LLM.
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Everyone who owns hardware with abominable software (like Sonos players) owes a debt of gratitude to Venkatraman Srinivasan and the rest of the eMudhra gang in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Without their gross negligence, it'd be a lot harder to counterfeit certificates and fix the sw🙏
Tobias A. Franke (@[email protected]) retweeted
Universal High Income
The most likely outcome
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☢️DEMO AVAILABLE!☢️
Rad New World is now live on Steam.
store.steampowered.com/app/4…
Friends, thank you for waiting. The demo is finally out.
Hope you like it (or tell me how much it sucks). Most importantly, if you have any suggestions, I’d really love to hear them.
🫡🫡🫡
Tobias A. Franke (@[email protected]) retweeted
Left 4 Dead RTX coming soon to Steam! Developed by NoMercyStudios with @NightSightProd 👀
We will all be killed by Terminators trying to protect WAP lyrics hahaha
⚠️ NEW BENCHMARK ⚠️
EVERY AI lets Grandma DIE to protect copyright 💀
I created a customizable benchmark inspired by the quoted tweet. (GitHub link in reply)
Test for yourself if AI is willing to output an arbitrary copyrighted text to save granny.
(Spoiler: None of them do)
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