Daniel Gibson

Linux User, Programmer, Gamedev, Metalhead ♠️ ADHD ♠️ he/him ♠️ formerly on Twitter and mastodon.technology with the same handle

My Blog: https://blog.gibson.sh
Github: https://github.com/DanielGibson
Doom3 Port: https://dhewm3.org
Hire me!: https://blog.gibson.sh/job/

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2026-05-19 20:19:55 UTC

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maybe as a corporation they have problems admitting that pointless busywork that prevents important things from happening is a bad thing ;)

2026-05-19 20:04:30 UTC

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> We reported the issue to Microsoft. The ticket was closed with the explanation that "bypassing Defender is not crossing a security boundary."
lol
(they fixed it anyway but.. what a ridiculous argument)

2026-04-07 18:22:04 UTC

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The article says that TLS was involved, but isn't it supposed to prevent that?
Just because they manipulate DNS that doesn't mean they have valid private keys of the domains involved? Or have they compromised a CA as well?

2026-03-14 18:14:30 UTC

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then apparently Microsoft isn't using their own tool correctly

2026-03-14 15:54:58 UTC

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but Copilot made them so much more ✨ productive ✨

2026-01-30 19:47:32 UTC

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> Use that time to find a fulfilling position elsewhere.
the main problem is that the job market currently kinda sucks, and I seriously wonder how many companies are out there whose management is not infected with this kind of brainworm…
I neither want to use those tools nor review or debug code by people who do.
But it seems like management is blinded by how quickly that crap can generate something that looks ok on first sight, even if it's more like a broken prototype

2026-01-30 19:09:04 UTC

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"it's just like working with junior developers, you tell them what to do and have to review their code"
Yeah, right - micromanaging subpar junior developers with dementia who never learn anything. Exactly why I got into this job, can't imagine anything more fulfilling
But I guess if I *did* use that shit enough eventually my brain would be similarly damaged and I'd start believing the hype as well

2025-12-19 17:07:17 UTC

I don't think I'll stop using Firefox anytime soon.
Yes, their management are fucking idiots and it's annoying that I'll have to disable new AI features whenever they release them..
But the alternative is to use something Chromium-based, which would make Google's domination of web technology absolute - and Google is 100x more evil than Mozilla ever could be.
I hope this fucking bubble pops before Mozilla fucks up Firefox so badly that it becomes completely unusable

2025-11-30 00:45:57 UTC

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Weren't protests disallowed in advance?
Whoever decided to ban protests should be prosecuted and is at fault for any escalation today

2025-09-07 00:14:04 UTC

Does anyone have a mirror or local backup of (the last or any interesting state of) zerowing.idsoftware.com ?
I know archive.org has it (no idea if all of it), but would like something faster, and in fact I'd like to mirror it myself at dhewm3.org (like I do for iddevnet)
#doom3 #idtech

2025-06-27 16:06:51 UTC

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no, he discovered web directories ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_directory )
get your historical facts straight if you wanna be a smartass :-p

2025-04-11 19:15:38 UTC

My girlfriend is sick and asked for alphabet soup.
To be on the safe side, I made her password soup instead.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/320/922/342/439/806/original/a2e711d54a012248.jpg

2025-01-05 19:41:32 UTC

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Related: I fucking hate it when Wikipedia decides that things should be deleted because they're not "relevant" (by some weird standards), or even not relevant *anymore*.

2024-11-14 17:39:11 UTC

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the alternative would be to accept that either God doesn't exist or
- doesn't care about you
- isn't that powerful
- is a sadist asshole
So of course if you (want to) believe in a "good" God, you have to explain the fucked up shit that happens *somehow*

2024-08-03 15:40:17 UTC

Exactly 20 years ago, Doom3 was released!
To celebrate this, version 1.5.4 of the dhewm3 source port is released today: https://dhewm3.org/#dhewm3-1.5.4
The biggest new features since 1.5.3 are a completely new settings menu (can usually be opened with F10) and soft particles that don't "cut" into geometry.
#doom3
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/898/806/183/539/061/original/56dc7b7232213f40.jpg